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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
cinity. Buell disposed his army in a line stretching from Huntsville, in Alabama, to McMinnsville, in Warren County, Tennessee. His headquarters, late in August, were at Huntsville, and General Thomas commanded the left wing at McMinnsville. E. Kirby Smith. So lay the opposing armies when E. Kirby Smith left Knoxville, and passing through Big Creek Gap of the Cumberland Mountains, with about six thousand men and a train of one hundred and fifty wagons, penetrated Kentucky by way of Knox County. By this movement he so completely outflanked and imperiled General G. W. Morgan, at Cumberland Gap, See page 303. that the latter blew up the works there and fled toward the Ohio, harassed nearly all the way by seven hundred of John Morgan's guerrillas. Smith's troops marched rapidly with very little encumbrance, and subsisted most of the way over the mountain region upon green corn, with the anticipation of living on the fat of the land in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, and p
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 28 (search)
horized to hold the same or cause it to be done. The officer or other person holding said election shall certify the result to the President of this Convention, or to such officer as may have directed the same to be holden, at as early a day thereafter as practicable;,; and the officer to whom said returns may be made shall open and compare the polls, and issue certificates to the delegates elected. 6. That in said Convention the several counties shall be represented as follows : the county of Knox shall elect three delegates, the counties of Washington, Greene, and Jefferson, two delegates each, and the remaining counties shall elect each one delegate. In the afternoon session of the same day, Mr. Netherland, of Hawkins, offered the following: Resolved, That the members of the present Legislature of Tennessee, who sympathize with the purposes of this Convention, be, and are hereby, respectfully requested to resume their seats in the Legislature, at as early an hour as possib
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
nged, and the route for reading. Arbitrary words indicated names and persons, and certain blind (or useless) words were added, which can be easily detected. The message was sent as follows: Washington, D. C., July 15, 1863. A. H. Caldwell, Cipher-operator, General Meade's Headquarters: Blonde bless of who no optic to get an impression 1 madison-square Brown cammer Toby ax the have turnip me Harry bitch rustle silk adrian counsel locust you another only of children serenade flea Knox county for wood that awl ties get hound who was war him suicide on for was please village large bat Bunyan give sigh incubus heavy Norris on trammeled cat knit striven without if Madrid quail upright martyr Stewart man much bear since ass skeleton tell the oppressing Tyler monkey. Bates. Brilliant and conspicuous service was rendered by the cipher-operators of the War Department in translating One of Grant's field-telegraph stations in 1864 This photograph, taken at Wilcox Landing, nea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ramsey, James Gattys McGregor 1796-1884 (search)
Ramsey, James Gattys McGregor 1796-1884 Historian; born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1796. He published the Annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century. During the Civil War he acted as a financial agent for the Confederacy and also as an officer in its army. He died in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1884.
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee prisoners. (search)
ost despicable misrepresentations. They had a preliminary hearing before the Hon. West H. Humphreys, at Knoxville, and their guilt was so clear that he sent them before the Confederate States District Court for further trial, but the Sheriff of Knox county having refused to take an oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States, Judge Humphreys felt unwilling to commit them to his custody, as jailor of Knox county, and ordered that they be confined in the jail of Davidson county. ost despicable misrepresentations. They had a preliminary hearing before the Hon. West H. Humphreys, at Knoxville, and their guilt was so clear that he sent them before the Confederate States District Court for further trial, but the Sheriff of Knox county having refused to take an oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States, Judge Humphreys felt unwilling to commit them to his custody, as jailor of Knox county, and ordered that they be confined in the jail of Davidson county.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
heets. 4 pillows, 61 slips. From Walnut Grove, Green county, Tenn.--6 blankets, 14 bed- quilts, 4 pillows. From New Canton, Hawkins county, Tenn.--30 blankets, 16 towels, 21 sheets, 17 comforts. From Mrs. Sarah E. Colloutry, Knox county, Tenn.--2 blankets, 3 quilts, 2 pillows. From Mrs. Donaldson and Mrs. Harton, Benton, Tenn.--8 bed-quilts, 4 blankets, 1 sheet. From Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. Hannah, and Mrs. Wallick, Benton, Tenn.--19 bed-quilts, 6 blankets, 3 sheets, 10 pillo 5 pillows. From ladies of Hawkins county, Tennessee--28 blankets, 10 bed quilts, 10 pillows. From Mrs. E. Moore, Mrs. Denton, and Mrs. Sally Mee, Bradley county, Tennessee--7 pillow, 7 sheets, 1 blanket. From Mrs. Russell, Knox county, Tennessee--5 blankets, 3 sheets. From ladies of Satsville, Southwestern Virginia--53 blankets. From ladies of Washington county Va.--86 blankets, 6 sheets. From Southwestern Virginia, persons unknown--30 blankets, 1 comfort, 58 pillo
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Note of the War (search)
ts of depredations on the inhabitants in the vicinity of Fort Henry. Mr. McCutchen, an old citizen, was found with a Lincoln soldier coat on, which they made him a prisoner, and afterwards treated his old wife with great indignity in her own house. The Knoxville Register, alluding to Gov Harris's eloquent proclamation calling out the whole militia force of Tennessee to take the field against the Yankee invaders — the Governor proposing to command in person-- says: We think that Knox county can turn out at least 2,000 men capable of bearing arms. The 15,000 Enfield rifles, received a few days since at New Orleans, have been ordered to Tennessee. The militia ordered out can bring, we believe, as many more rifles and shot guns with them. Tennessee is not subjugated, and cannot be, if her citizens will respond to the Governor's call. Spirit of the press. The New Orleans press is full of fight and defiance under the late adverse news. The Delis has a leader headed
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
stion did not hide their lights under a bushel, but were outspoken and demonstrative in their patriotism. We have heard their hold denunciation of Yankee wrongs and domestic treason and disloyalty, and their exhortations to their countrymen to exercise courage and perseverance in defence of their sacred rights and honor, fortune and families, their all. A just retribution awaits their persecutors, we fondly hope and believe. We regret to learn that sundry men, hither to regarded sound to the Southern question, have sought and obtained immunity from Yankee outrage, through the interposition and endorsement of John Williams, who once represented Knox county in the Legislature, and is, as has been from the first, a notorious Union man, who has never, we believe, professed to be anything else, or to surrender his allegiance to the Lincoln Government. And yet he, and others of the same class, have been suffered by our authorities to remain there in undisturbed peace and security.
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
science in Europe. A telegraph message was sent, a few days since, from City Point to Chattanooga, with but a single repetition, and that at Pittsburgh. The distance is about two thousand miles. The Kentucky Legislature has adopted resolutions in favor of emancipation, the consent of the owners being obtained, and compensation made. On Tuesday, the Union State Convention of Tennessee met in the capitol at Nashville, and organized by electing the Hon. Samuel R. Rodgers, of Knox county, president. Messrs. Mercer, Myers and Cone were chosen vice-presidents. The Missouri State Convention, on the 11th, passed the following ordinance by a vote of sixty to four: "Be it ordained by the people of the State of Missouri, in convention assembled, that hereafter in this State there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby d
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
own life, to wear my brass buttons and shoulder-straps. When I arrived at Knoxville I expected to have been met by a parcel of loyal ruffians, and to have been compelled to show my passport, countersigned by Governor Brownlow and approved by Andy Johnson. In this expectation I was disappointed. The truth is, I was rather chagrined at the careless treatment shown me. I did not see loaded pistols, nor did I hear of a dozen or two murders, as I did when I arrived at Nashville. Nobody attempted to steal my pocket-book, nobody asked me to have a hack; in truth, I was left "alone in my glory" to find my way to the best hotel in the city, if possible. I am now convinced that there is more of peace and quietude here than there is in Kentucky, and fewer robberies and murders than there is in any one of the loyal States. I have traveled in a buggy, behind a splendid horse, all over Anderson, Roane, Morgan, Cumberland and Knox counties, and never once had my horse locked up in a stable.