Sunday, November 3. – We started at four o’clock this morning, and headed due west. We came in sight of land at about nine o’clock. I think it must have been Tybee Island at the entrance of Savannah River. The pilot will not say where we are. There is an island on the extreme right [...]
Camp Ewing, Virginia, November 3. Sunday. – Yesterday and today it has been rainy, stormy, and disagreeable. I came up to my regiment yesterday as lieutenant-colonel. The men and officers seem pleased with my promotion. All regret the loss of Colonel Matthews and say that if I go their interest in the regiment is gone. [...]
Explosion of a Shell in the Cutter of the United States Steamer ‘Niagara,’ November 3d, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) “Few incidents in the war displayed more courage and coolness than the action of Fog Boatswain A. [...]
November 3.–The ladies of Springfield, Mo., presented a flag to the Prairie Scouts, commanded by Major Frank J. White. They desired also to present one to Fremont’s body-guard, but it was declined, on behalf of the Guard, by Major Zagonyi in a letter, whose tenor is that the honor was rendered valueless to the Guard [...]
November 3, 1861 Rising of the Union men of East Tennessee, who in the following few days burn and break down several important railroad bridges.