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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 138 (search)
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128.-fight at Bradyville, Tenn.
Cincinnati Gazette account.
Murfreesboro, Tenn., March 4, 1863.
the expedition which gained so brilliant an advantage over the enemy near Bradyville, on the first instant, deserves a more extended notice than that which I was able to send you by telegraph.
It was well known to our leading officers that a body of rebel cavalry were infesting the country around that town, foraging, plundering, and conscripting.
As Bradyville is only a little more than a dozen miles from Murfreesboro, this insolence could not be patiently borne; and accordingly, Generals Stanley and Negley formed a plan for beating up their quarters.
General Stanley took command of the expedition, which consisted of about one thousand six hundred picked men from all the brigades of General Negley's division; a portion of the First Tennessee cavalry, under command of Major Murphy; and parts of each of the Third and Fourth Ohio cavalry, under command of Colonel J. W
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 139 (search)
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129.-battle of Genesis point, Ga.
this action is also known as the bombardment of Fort McAllister.
Baltimore American account.
steamship Ericsson, Ossabaw Sound, mouth of Ogeechee River, March 4, 1863.
we left Port Royal harbor again at noon on Monday, the second inst., in our splendid floating home, the steamship Ericsson, Captain Lowber, bound for the coast of Georgia, with instructions to report to Commandant Drayton, in Ossabaw Sound.
Previous to leaving Port Royal, the whole fleet of iron-clads were in motion for the same destination.
It was therefore just the place to which we were anxious to go, and had Admiral Du Pont consulted us as to our destination, Ossabaw Sound would have been the unanimous choice of Capt. Lowber and his little family party.
It was a bright and beautiful day, and we enjoyed the trip along the coast immensely, the atmosphere being as warm as would be experienced in a sail on the Chesapeake in the month of June.
On our way down