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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1863. (search)
-- , you have no carpet! My boxes have just come from Montgomery, where I left them two years ago, filled with carpets and bedding. I have five, and I will lend you one. Don't say a word; I couldn't be comfortable, and think of you with this bare floor. Mr.--is too delicate for it, and you are both too old to begin now on an uncarpeted room. An hour after she left us a servant came with the carpet, which was soon tacked down, and gives a home-like, comfortable air to the room. November 11th, 1863. Just received a visit from my nephew, W. N., who is on his way to Fauquier to be married. I had not seen him since he lost his leg. He is still on crutches, and it made my heart bleed to see him walk with such difficulty. I believe that neither war, pestilence, nor famine could put an end to the marrying and giving in marriage which is constantly going on. Strange that these sons of Mars can so assiduously devote themselves to Cupid and Hymen; but every respite, every furlough,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
often, of depleting one command, not pressed, to reenforce another more actively engaged. I determined to stop this. To this end I regarded the Army of the Potomac as the center, and all west to Memphis, along the line described as our position at the time, and north of it, the right wing; the Army of the James, under General Butler, From December 17th, 1862, when he was superseded in command of the Gulf Department by General Banks, General Butler was not in active service until November 11th, 1863, when he assumed command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina (the Army of the James).--editors. as the left wing, and all the troops south as a force in rear of the enemy. Some of these last were occupying positions from which they could not render service proportionate to their numerical strength. All such were depleted to the minimum necessary to hold their positions as a guard against blockade-runners; when they could not do this, their positions were abandoned altog
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Butler's attack on Drewry's Bluff. (search)
een the rivers, and, taking into account only the ease with which this line could be defended, forgot certain elements of great importance in an offensive campaign. Major-General John A. Dix. From a photograph. General Dix took command at Fort Monroe on June 2, 1862, and was relieved by General John G. Foster, July 18, 1863, and sent to succeed General Wool at New York City, where the draft riots had been in progress. General Foster was relieved at Fort Monroe by General Butler, November 11, 1863. The James River will never again present such a scene as that of the 5th of May, 1864. An army of forty thousand men was afloat on its waters, convoyed by various vessels of the navy, then under command of Admiral Lee. It was a motley array of vessels. Coasters and river steamers, ferry-boats and tugs, screw and side-wheel steamers, sloops, schooners, barges, and canal-boats raced or crawled up the stream toward the designated landing. General Butler, to make his own command a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 10 (search)
Doc. 8.-fight at Rogersville, Tenn. A national account. Bull's Gap, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1863. More than a month since, the division of reenforcements, under General O. B. Willcox, entered East-Tennessee, and, with Shackleford's division, moved immediately on the rebels at Blue Spring. After a sharp engagement, the enemy was forced to retire, with severe loss, and our forces moved up the East-Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, Willcox's division stopping at Greenville, the former home of Andy Johnson, and Shackleford's occupying Jonesboro. Every thing remained quiet until the twenty-eighth ult., when Shackleford was flanked by the enemy, and forced to fall back on Greenville. Next day, however, the rebels retreated, and Shackleford moved up to his former position. The enemy's attitude remained threatening, and on the morning of the sixth instant, heavy firing was heard in the direction of Rogersville, a small town situated on the north bank of the Holston River. A detach
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 119 (search)
ng rear-admiral S. P. Lee. United States flag-ship Minnesota, off Lockwood's Folly Inlet, Jan. 11, 1864. sir: At daylight this morning a steamer was seen beached and burning one mile west of this inlet. Mr. O'Conner from this ship boarded her, with the loss of one man, shot under the fire from the enemy's sharp-shooters occupying riflepits on the sand-hills, which were high and near, and got her log-book, from which it appears that she is the Ranger; that she left Newcastle November eleventh, 1863, for Bermuda, where, after touching at Teneriffe, she arrived on the eighth of December; that she sailed from Bermuda January sixth, 1864, made our coast January tenth, about five miles north-east of Murrill's inlet, and landed her passengers. The next morning at daylight, intercepted by this ship, the Daylight, Governor Buckingham, and Aries, in her approach to Western bar, she was beached and fired by her crew as above mentioned. The attempts of the Governor Buckingham, aided by
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
o report has been received) of one thousand and eighty-nine killed, six thousand five hundred and six wounded, and two hundred and seventy-two missing. Its strength on going into action on the twentieth was two thousand and three officers and twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-nine men. I have the honor to be, Colonel, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. Longstreet, Lieutenant-General. Report of Major-General S. B. Buckner. headquarters near Chattanooga, November 11, 1863. Colonel Sorrel, Assistant Adjutant-General Longstreet's Corps: Colonel: I have the honor to submit, in connection with the reports of my subordinate commanders, the following synopsis of the military movements of Buckner's corps on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth September, 1863: The corps consisted of the division of Major-General A. P. Stewart, which was composed of Johnson's, Brown's, Bate's, and Clayton's brigades, and of the division of Brigadier-General William P
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 66 (search)
s at the tete-de-pont, where much labor had been bestowed. I differ from Major-General Early as to the necessity for more artillery, the darkness and nature of the ground making what was there of but little use in the final attack, and I think the same would have been the case had there been more. I have the honor to be, Colonel, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. S. Ewell, Lieutenant-General. Report of Major-General Early. Headqucaters Early's division, November 11, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Pendleton, A. A. General Second Corps, A. N. Va.: Colonel: I submit the following report of the circumstances attending the storming of our advanced work across the Rappahannock, at Rappahannock Station, and the capture of a battery and a large portion of two brigades of this division, by the enemy, on the seventh instant. Having received, on the fifth, an order to relieve the brigade of Johnson's division which was on picket at Rappahannock Station, by
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Arkansas, 1863 (search)
y. Union loss, 2 killed. Nov. 9: Skirmish near HuntsvilleARKANSAS--1st Cavalry. Nov. 10: Skirmish near KingstonARKANSAS--1st Cavalry. Nov. 10-18: Expedition from Benton to Mt. IdaIOWA--3d Cavalry; 32d Infantry. MISSOURI--1st and 7th Cavalry. Nov. 11: Skirmish, Caddo GapMISSOURI--1st Cavalry. Union loss, 3 wounded. Nov. 11: Skirmish, Fourche le Aix MtsKANSAS--2d Cavalry. Nov. 12: Skirmish, RosevilleKANSAS--2d Cavalry (2 Cos.). Union loss, 1 killed, 5 missing. Total, 6. Nov. 13: Skirmish, Nov. 11: Skirmish, Fourche le Aix MtsKANSAS--2d Cavalry. Nov. 12: Skirmish, RosevilleKANSAS--2d Cavalry (2 Cos.). Union loss, 1 killed, 5 missing. Total, 6. Nov. 13: Skirmish, Mount IdaARKANSAS--1st Cavalry (Detachment). Nov. 14-17: Expedition from HelenaILLINOIS--10th Cavalry. Nov. 15: Skirmish, Newton CountyARKANSAS--1st Infantry. Nov. 19: Skirmish, DeGreen's Farm, near LawrencevilleMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). Nov. 21: Skirmish, JacksonportMISSOURI--3d Cavalry (Co. "E"). Nov. 24: Skirmish, ClarksvilleKANSAS--2d Cavalry. Nov. 25: Skirmish, Crawford CountyARKANSAS--2d Cavalry. Dec. 1: Skirmish near BentonIOWA--3d Cavalry (Detachment). MIS
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Louisiana, 1863 (search)
de Afrique Infantry. Nov. 9: Skirmish, Indian Bayou(No Reports.) Nov. 9: Mutiny at Fort JacksonUNITED STATES--4th Corps de Afrique Infantry. Nov. 9: Skirmish, Bayou SaraILLINOIS--118th Mounted Infantry. MASSACHUSETTS--2d Battery Light Arty. Nov. 11: Skirmish, Carrion Crow BayouILLINOIS--2d and 3d Cavalry. Nov. 11: Action, Bayou VermillionILLINOIS--2d and 3d Cavalry; 118th Mounted Infantry. MASSACHUSETTS--4th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. NEW YORK--110th, 162d, 165th and 173d Infantry. Nov. Nov. 11: Action, Bayou VermillionILLINOIS--2d and 3d Cavalry; 118th Mounted Infantry. MASSACHUSETTS--4th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. NEW YORK--110th, 162d, 165th and 173d Infantry. Nov. 12: Operations about St. MartinsvilleNEW YORK--175th Infantry. Nov. 15-16: Exp. from Vidalia to TrinityMISSISSIPPI--2d Colored Infantry (Detachment). MISSOURI--30th Infantry (Detachment). Nov. 18: Action, Carrion Crow BayouMISSOURI--6th Cavalry. Nov. 18-21: Operations at Hog Point, Miss. RiverConfederate attacks on U. S. Gunboats and Transports. Nov. 20: Action, Camp PrattILLINOIS--87th and 118th Mounted Infantry; 2d and 3d Cavalry. INDIANA--16th Mounted Infantry. LOUISIANA--1st Cavalry; 2d
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Mississippi, 1863 (search)
v. 3-5: Operations on Memphis and Charleston R. R.ALABAMA--1st Cavalry. ILLINOIS--3d, 6th, 7th and 9th Cavalry: Battery "K" 1st Light Arty. IOWA--2d Cavalry. KANSAS--7th Cavalry. MICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. TENNESSEE--6th Cavalry. Nov. 5: Skirmish, Holly SpringsTENNESSEE--6th Cavalry. Nov. 8-22: Exp. from Skipwith Landing to Roebuck Lake(No Reports.) Nov. 10-13: Exp. from Skipwith Landing to Tallulah Court HouseILLINOIS--4th Cavalry (Detachment). MISSISSIPPI--1st Colored Cavalry (Detachment). Nov. 11: Skirmish near NatchezILLINOIS--71st Infantry (Co. "H"). MISSISSIPPI--6th Colored Infantry (Detachment). Union loss, 4 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 10. Nov. 12: Skirmish, CorinthMICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. Nov. 14-15: Skirmishes, DanvilleMICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. Nov. 17: Skirmish, Bayou St. LouisUNITED STATES--20th Corps de Afrique Infantry (Co. "B"). Nov. 22: Skirmish, FayetteMISS, MARINE BRIGADE--1st Infantry. Nov. 22: Skirmish, Camp DaviesALABAMA--1st Cavalry (Detachment). Nov. 27: Skirmish, R
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