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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862. (search)
number of wagons, mules, stores, etc., and carried back 200 prisoners. The Yankees have been making vast preparations for surrounding them as they returned; but they were too wise to be caught in that trap. Their masked batteries will be of no avail this time. At New Kent Court-House our men refreshed themselves with all manner of good things, at the expense of the enemy, providing themselves with clothing, boots, etc., and taking the sleek proprietor of the establishment prisoner. June 21st, 1862. Yesterday we heard firing all day-heavy guns in the morning, and musketry during the day, and heavy guns again in the evening. Oh, that we could know the result! This morning is as calm and beautiful as though all was peace on the earth. O God, with whom all things are possible, dispel the dark clouds that surround us, and permit us once more to return to our homes, and collect the scattered members of our flock around our family altar in peace and safety! Not a word from my hus
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, June 21st, 1862. (search)
June 21st, 1862. Yesterday we heard firing all day-heavy guns in the morning, and musketry during the day, and heavy guns again in the evening. Oh, that we could know the result! This morning is as calm and beautiful as though all was peace on the earth. O God, with whom all things are possible, dispel the dark clouds that surround us, and permit us once more to return to our homes, and collect the scattered members of our flock around our family altar in peace and safety! Not a word from my husband or sons.
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 29: seven days battles around Richmond. (search)
eet, he had his trousers rolled up and was wading in the gutter; he looked something like Jeff, and when I persuaded him to get out of the water, he raised his sunny face and laughed, but denied my conclusion. Mrs. Greenhow is here. Madam looks much changed, and has the air of one whose nerves are shaken by mental torture. General Lee's wife has arrived, her servants left her, and she found it uncomfortable to live without them. From the President to Mrs. Davis. Richmond, Va., June 21, 1862. We are preparing and taking position for the struggle which must be at hand. The stake is too high to permit the pulse to keep its even beat, but our troops are in improved condition, and as confident as I am hopeful of success. A total defeat of McClellan will relieve the Confederacy of its embarrassments in the East, and then we must make a desperate effort to regain what Beauregard has abandoned in the West. From the President to Mrs. Davis. Richmond, Va., June 23, 18
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Drawing it mild in Memphis. (search)
ggers, and Slavery guaranteed by the Federal Government, will be more pleasant than the neatest and most impressive and historically correct suicide? What says The Avalanche man? Is he not ready to go on, letting slide innumerable and endless Avalanches, even under the accursed Federal banner? And if he, cream of Confederate cream — the guide, philosopher, Mentor and Palinurus of the Rebellion in those parts, is so submissive, why who can tell how many others will follow his loyal lead? What are we to do? If these great ones, when they are humbled and downcast-their pride wounded, etc.--are to betake themselves to a philosophy suited to their condition --must we forgive them for the sake of science? It is a question for jurists. Such clear evidence of a penitent disposition is certainly worthy, in these wicked times, of a charitable consideration. That impulse which we all feel to spare the sick and the sorry is one of the best feelings of our common nature. June 21, 1862
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 29-June 10, 1862.-advance upon and siege of Corinth, and pursuit of the Confederate forces to Guntown, Miss. (search)
T. D. Sedgewick, Colonel, Commanding Twenty-second Brigade Capt. J. M. Kendrick. No. 82.-report of Maj. Frank P. Cahill, First Kentucky Infantry, of operations, May 28. headquarters First Kentucky Volunteers, Camp near Iuka, Miss., June 21, 1862. General: I have the honor to report that on the 28th ultimo, while I was in command, this regiment was ordered to advance toward Corinth. Throwing out two companies as skirmishers, we drove back the enemy's pickets and occupied the wood e, as I am informed. [No signature.] No. 97.-report of Lieut. John S. Prather, Second Misissippi and Alabama Cavalry, Eighth Confederate Regiment. of burning of Cypress Creek Bridge, May 30. camp Brewer, Near Birmingham, Miss., June 21, 1862. Sir: In obedience to an order, this day received, I have the honor to offer the following report as to the burning of the railroad bridge over Cypress Creek, Tenn.: On the night of May 29 Capt. Jeff. Falkner, commanding at Cypress Bri
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
2 25 27   11 11 141   H 3 22 25   10 10 139   I   20 20   11 11 132   K 1 14 15 1 27 28 106 Totals 17 169 186 1 133 134 1,341 186 killed == 13.8 per cent. Total killed and wounded, 721; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 27. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Skirmish, Va., Nov., 1861 1 Gettysburg, Pa. 3 Pohick Church, Va. 4 Auburn Mills, Va. 1 Yorktown, Va. 3 Kelly's Ford, Va. 2 Fair Oaks, Va. 37 Mine Run, Va. 1 Skirmish, Va., June 21, 1862 1 Wilderness, Va. 48 Oak Grove, Va. 3 Spotsylvania, Va. 5 Glendale, Va. 14 North Anna, Va. 4 Manassas, Va. 25 Cold Harbor, Va. 1 Fredericksburg, Va. 3 Petersburg, Va. 13 Chancellorsville, Va. 17     Present, also, at Seven Days; Chantilly; Totopotomoy. notes.--Seven companies were recruited in Pittsburg, or in its vicinity ; the others were from the western counties. The regiment was organized in August, 1861, joining the army in October of the same year, where
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 75 (search)
even or eight of their dead, and other dead and wounded are being brought in. The casualties among my own command are small, the only real loss being from the escaping steam in the Mound City. She will probably be repaired and ready to proceed with us up the river to-morrow. A full report will be made as early as possible. Very respectfully, G. N. Fitch, Colonel commanding Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. Account by a participant. St. Charles, White River, Arkansas, Saturday, June 21, 1862. my dear mother: I have not had time to write to you before about the battle that we had up here last Tuesday, of which you have doubtless heard by this time. When I went over the battle-field of Pittsburgh Landing, I thought I had seen as horrible a sight as it was possible to see, but the horrors of last Tuesday morning surpassed every thing. I had better give you a full account of the expedition up this river since it left Memphis. We left Memphis last Friday at five
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 76 (search)
Doc. 76.-Colonel Elliott's expedition. New-York Tribune account. General Pope's headquarters, six miles South of Corinth, June 21, 1862. on the evening of the twenty-seventh ultimo Col. Elliott received orders to get his brigade, consisting of the Second Iowa and Second Michigan cavalry, immediately in readiness and proceed, provided with three days cooked rations for the men and one day's for the animals, with as much secrecy as possible, from his camp in the vicinity of Farmington, across the Memphis and Charleston Railroad east of Iuka, to the head-waters of the Tombigbee, thence to bear north of west so as to strike the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at some point near Booneville, and destroy the track in the most effective possible manner, so as to prevent the passage of trains at least for days. He was directed after accomplishing the object of the expedition, to return over another road, but in the same direction he came, and in case he should find his return to Gen.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 148 (search)
Doc. 137.-operations of the Jacob Bell. Lieutenant McCrea's report. United States steamer Jacob Bell, James River, June 21, 1862. sir: I respectfully submit the following: Yesterday, in obedience to your orders, I proceeded with the despatches up the river to the Monitor. On passing the Red Bluff, known as Watkins's Bluff, I was opened upon by two batteries, three pieces, each of twelve-pounders, and about five hundred sharp-shooters. The channel being very narrow, being obliged to go within a few feet of the bluff, I suffered severely. The hail of bullets from the sharp-shooters prevented me for a time from responding, as having no covering for my men at the batteries, I would not expose them to the heavy fire. A shot, however, came and carried away my rudder-chain, and my vessel got ashore in front of the batteries. I was determined to go by, so manned my guns, steaming on and forced her over. The batteries were so masked that I could not see them until opene
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
's pay in advance, upon the mustering of his company into the service, or after he should have been mustered into and joined a regiment already in the service. It was considered and passed. In the House, on the seventeenth, the joint resolution, on motion of Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, was taken up, read twice, and referred to the Military Committee. On the eighteenth, it was reported back by Mr. Olin, of New-York, and, after debate, passed, and was approved by the President, on the twenty-first of June, 1862. No. Xxxiii.--Bill making Appropriations for the Support of the Army. The House, on the fourteenth of May, 1862, passed the bill making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, 1863. In the Senate, on the twenty-first of June, Mr. Fessenden, from the Finance Committee, to which it had been referred, reported it back with amendments. The Senate proceeded, on the first of July, to consider the bill and amendments. The House app
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