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Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): article 14
in the rear. There is a drill of the artillery every day in placing the guns and caissons in position. There are four guns to each fort. In Fort Beauregard there are three rifled guns pointing down the Fairfax road. There are two regiments of colored men at Centreville, under the command of Jordan, an old colored veteran of 1812, having been a drummer boy under Gen. Jackson. One of these numbers eleven hundred, and the other fourteen hundred. Two other colored regiments were sent to Missouri since the last battle there. These regiments are composed of both free and slave. They are not allowed to do picket duty, but are drilled and encamped separate from the white men. Their officers are all colored. This boy says there is much dissatisfaction among the private soldiers of the army; that great numbers are sick; that they have no salt nor salt meat, but live almost entirely on fresh beef and hard bread. The officers alone have salt, but neither tea nor coffee. That the c
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 14
Statement of a contraband. A colored boy, the servant of Captain Miller, of the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, now in the Confederate army in Virginia, having made his escape to the Federal lines, has made his "statement." He claims to have been at the battles of Bull Run and Ball's Bluff, and alleges that he left Centreville on Saturday, the 7th inst. We extract the following: He says that on Friday there was a grand review at Centreville of seventy-five or eighty thousand troops. He heard the list read by Major J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or t
Longstreet (search for this): article 14
Ball's Bluff, and alleges that he left Centreville on Saturday, the 7th inst. We extract the following: He says that on Friday there was a grand review at Centreville of seventy-five or eighty thousand troops. He heard the list read by Major J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earth work for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort called Beaurega
John Jackson (search for this): article 14
the embankments are so prepared that the field artillery can be wheeled into the embrasures, the caissons being disposed in the rear. There is a drill of the artillery every day in placing the guns and caissons in position. There are four guns to each fort. In Fort Beauregard there are three rifled guns pointing down the Fairfax road. There are two regiments of colored men at Centreville, under the command of Jordan, an old colored veteran of 1812, having been a drummer boy under Gen. Jackson. One of these numbers eleven hundred, and the other fourteen hundred. Two other colored regiments were sent to Missouri since the last battle there. These regiments are composed of both free and slave. They are not allowed to do picket duty, but are drilled and encamped separate from the white men. Their officers are all colored. This boy says there is much dissatisfaction among the private soldiers of the army; that great numbers are sick; that they have no salt nor salt meat, but
of Bull Run and Ball's Bluff, and alleges that he left Centreville on Saturday, the 7th inst. We extract the following: He says that on Friday there was a grand review at Centreville of seventy-five or eighty thousand troops. He heard the list read by Major J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earth work for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort
Jefferson Davis (search for this): article 14
ton Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earth work for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort called Beauregard, and one called Davis, besides another not yet finished, and unnamed. The forts are connected by rifle pits, and the embankments are so prepared that the field artillery can be wheeled into the embrasures, the caissons being disposed in the rear. There is a drill of the ar
and alleges that he left Centreville on Saturday, the 7th inst. We extract the following: He says that on Friday there was a grand review at Centreville of seventy-five or eighty thousand troops. He heard the list read by Major J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earth work for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort called Beauregard, and one ca
not yet finished, and unnamed. The forts are connected by rifle pits, and the embankments are so prepared that the field artillery can be wheeled into the embrasures, the caissons being disposed in the rear. There is a drill of the artillery every day in placing the guns and caissons in position. There are four guns to each fort. In Fort Beauregard there are three rifled guns pointing down the Fairfax road. There are two regiments of colored men at Centreville, under the command of Jordan, an old colored veteran of 1812, having been a drummer boy under Gen. Jackson. One of these numbers eleven hundred, and the other fourteen hundred. Two other colored regiments were sent to Missouri since the last battle there. These regiments are composed of both free and slave. They are not allowed to do picket duty, but are drilled and encamped separate from the white men. Their officers are all colored. This boy says there is much dissatisfaction among the private soldiers of the a
Statement of a contraband. A colored boy, the servant of Captain Miller, of the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, now in the Confederate army in Virginia, having made his escape to the Federal lines, has made his "statement." He claims to have been at the battles of Bull Run and Ball's Bluff, and alleges that he left Centreville on Saturday, the 7th inst. We extract the following: He says that on Friday there was a grand review at Centreville of seventy-five or eighty thousand troops. He heard the list read by Major J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or t
Beauregard (search for this): article 14
jor J. B. Walton, of the Washington Artillery. There were at the review, also, one hundred pieces of artillery — all light, except two 24-pound howitzers. General Beauregard commanded, and President Davis reviewed the troops. Generals Johnston, Longstreet, and Stewart were also there. On the 24th of November Gen. BeauregarGen. Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quarters, and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earth work for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort called Beauregard, and one called Davis, besides another not yet finished, and unnamed. The forts are connected by rifle pits, and the embankments are so prepared that the field artillery can be wheeled into the embrasures, the caissons being disposed in the
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