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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
d gratifies the mules quite as much as licking them. Mr. Sargent accounts for his humanity by saying, It's the worst plan in the world licking niggers or mules, because the more you licks ‘em, the more they wants it. We reached or struck water at 5.30 P. M. ; but, in spite of its good reputation, it was so salt as to be scarcely drinkable. A number of cotton wagons, and three carriages belonging to Mr. Ward, were also encamped with us. We have only made sixteen miles to-day. 17th April, 1863 (Friday). Having spent last night in a Mexican saddle, our bullock-rug in the sand appeared to me a most luxurious bed. We hitched in at 5 A. M., and struck water at 9 A. M., which, though muddy in appearance, was not so bad to drink. I walked ahead with the Judge, who, when sober, is a well-informed and sensible man. Mr.Sargent and I are great friends, and, rough as he is, we get on capitally together. A Mr. Ward, with three vehicles — a rival of Mr. Sargent's — is trav<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, chapter 14 (search)
862; First Lt., Aug. 26, 1863. C. W. Hooper, N. Y. Vol. Eng., Feb. 17, 1863; First Lt., April 16, 1863. N. G. Parker, 1st Mass. Cavalry, March, 1863; First Lt., May 5, 1863. A. H. Tirrell, 1st Mass. Cav., March 6, 1863; Resigned, July 22, 1863. A. W. Jackson, 8th Me., March 6, 1863; First Lt., Aug. 26, 1863. Henry A. Beach, 48th N. Y., April 5, 1863; First Lt., April 30, 1864. E. W. Robbins, 8th Me., April 5, 1863; First Lt., April 30, 1864. A. B. Brown, Civil Life, April 17, 1863; Resigned, Nov. 27, 1863. F. M. Gould, 3d R. I. Battery, June 1, 1863; Resigned, June 8, 1864. Asa child, 8th Me., Aug. 7, 1863; First Lt., Sept., 1865. Jerome T. Furman, 52d Pa., Aug. 30, 1863; Killed at Walhalla, S. C., Aug. 26, 1865. John W. Selvage, 48th N. Y., Sept. 10, 1863; First Lt. 36th U. S. C. T., March, 1865. Mirand W. Saxton, Civil Life, Nov. 19, 1863; Captain 128th U. S. C. T., June 25, 1864 [now Second Lt. 38th U. S. Infantry]. Nelson S. White
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Appendix B: the First black soldiers. (search)
e regiment had unquestioned priority in muster over all but the Louisiana regiments. It had priority over those in the actual organization and term of service of one company. On the other hand, the Kansas regiment had the priority in average date of enlistment, according to the muster-rolls. The first detachment of the Second South Carolina Volunteers (Colonel Montgomery) went into camp at Port Royal Island, February 23, 1863, numbering one hundred and twenty men. I do not know the date of his muster; it was somewhat delayed, but was probably dated back to about that time. Recruiting for the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (colored) began on February 9, 1863, and the first squad went into camp at Readville, Massachusetts, on February 21, 1863, numbering twenty-five men. Colonel Shaw's commission (and probably his muster) was dated April 17, 1863. (Roport of Adjutant-General of Massachusetts for 1863, pp. 896--899.) These were the earliest colored regiments, so far as I know.
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1863. (search)
s down-trodden and lying in ruins. The old State has bared her breast to the destroyer, and borne the brunt of battle for the good of the Confederacy, and this too after long and vain efforts for peace. Her citizens, young and old, are doing what they can. Her sons have bled and died, and are still offering themselves willing sacrifices on the country's altar. Her daughters are striving in their vocation in this hallowed cause, all looking to God for his blessing upon our efforts. April 17th, 1863. On going to the hospital yesterday, I found that young Stansberry had died, surrounded by sympathizing friends, and having a bright hope of a blessed immortality. We are anxious about our armies everywhere, from the Mississippi to the seaboard. Rumours are rife about General Longstreet having thrown his forces between Norfolk and the Yankee army at Suffolk. In the mean time we must possess our souls in patience. April 18th, 1863. A letter from our son J. to-day; full of pl
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
d of the Department of Virginia [and North Carolina], with headquarters at Petersburg; of his corps 15,000 [12,000] were on the Blackwater, and 15,000 [12,000] between Petersburg and the river, near the railway. This distribution enabled him to concentrate in twenty-four hours within a few miles of Suffolk. . . . Early in April deserters reported troops moving to the Blackwater; that many bridges were being constructed; and that a pontoon-train had arrived from Petersburg. On the 17th of April, 1863, Longstreet wrote to the Secretary of War regarding his operations on the Blackwater as follows: I am very well convinced that we could reduce it [Suffolk] in two or three days, but doubt if we can afford to expend the powder and ball. To take it by assault would cost us three thousand men. . . The principal object of the expedition was to draw out supplies for our army. I shall confine myself to this unless I find a fair opportunity for something more. On the 30th of April L
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 7: muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics. (search)
on furlough. Thirty-ninth Illinois, Company D:--John Hays; killed in a row, July 4, 1865. Second Ohio, Company B:--George D. Wilson; executed by the Rebels at Atlanta, Ga., June 18, 1862; charged with being a bridge-burner. （One of the famous party who captured a locomotive at Big Shanty, Ga.） Fifth New York Cavalry, Company H:--Edgar C. Shephard; drowned April 22, 1863, while en route home on furlough. One Hundred and Fifty-ninth New York, Company D:--A. W. Rackett; killed April 17, 1863, by a shot from a house while filling his canteen at a well near Vermillion Bayou, La. Fifth Ohio, Company H:--Thos. Kelly; murdered by a comrade. Eighth Tennessee (Union), Company C:--G. H. Houston; dropped to rear sick, and murdered by enemy on the Cumberland Mountains, August 25, 1863. Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, Company E:--John Long; died of poison at Wartrace, Tenn., April 18, 1862. Fifty-second Indiana, Company B:--William Tyler; frozen to death near Fort Pillow, December
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 179 (search)
Doc. 169.-the siege of Vicksburgh, Mississippi. Passage of the batteries, April 16. steamer sunny South, above Vicksburgh, Friday, April 17, 1863. the old canals and the Pass and Bayou expeditions having failed from various causes, we have an entire change of programme. To make the new system of intended operations understood, it may be briefly explained that the efforts hitherto made have had for their object the flanking of Vicksburgh from above the city, and from that direction reaching the rear and obtaining possession of its important railroad communications with Jackson. It was this object that made the Yazoo River so important a position. The Lake Providence project, now abandoned, had in view the same object as the new movement. This is, instead of gaining the rear of Vicksburgh from above, to do so from below. It is to abandon further attempts by the Yazoo Pass and the maze of bayous and rivers that have their origin in that direction, and seek in the grou
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 180 (search)
Doc. 170.-Colonel Grierson's raid. New-York times account. in obedience to orders of Colonel B. H. Grierson, commanding the First cavalry brigade, Colonel Edward Prince moved with his regiment, the Seventh Illinois cavalry volunteers--five hundred and forty-two officers and men — from La Grange, Tennessee, at ten o'clock A. M., on the seventeenth of April, 1863, on the Ripley road, and camped on the plantation of Dr. Ellis, four miles north-west of Ripley, Mississippi--distance about thirty miles. The order of march for this day was to be as follows: Sixth Illinois in advance, Lieutenant-Colonel Reuben Loomis commanding; followed by the Seventh Illinois and Second Iowa; but the Sixth Illinois taking the wrong road near La Grange, was thrown to the west, and did not rejoin the command till near camp. As the Seventh Illinois was just going into camp, Col. Prince discovered a party of five or six rebels crossing a field, and immediately sent a party in pursuit, who captured
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
ms of service, where all are mutually dependent and mutually interested, with functions differing in character, but not in importance. So far as my own and the conduct of my cavalry are concerned, I am content to rest their vindication and their defence with the generals under whom it has been my honor and pleasure to serve since the first gun of the war. Most respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. E. B. Stuart, Major-General. Statement of Surgeon Eliason. camp Pelham, April 17, 1863. General: In compliance with your request, I give you an account of the events of the night of August twenty-six, 1862, as I remember them. After General Jackson had taken complete possession of Bristoe Station, you started for Manassas, moving slowly at the head of the column, in order that the infantry might have time to come up. When the advanced guard got within a mile and a half of Manassas, they captured a sentinel standing on the railroad track, and, directly after, encounte
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 32 (search)
a Cavalry,11116 163515161041 Fifth Regiment Virginia Cavalry,1127  111613 29 Battery,            Total,381177133133718712170 Report of Brigadier-General W. H. F. Lee. headquarters Lee's cavalry brigade, near Culpeper Court-House, April 17, 1863. Major R. Channing Price, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Division Headquarters: Major: I have the honor, agreeably to instructions from division headquarters, to forward a report of the operations of my brigade on the four-teenth and flity to the command. I have the honor to remain, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, W. H. F. Lee, Brigadier-General, commanding Cavalry Brigade. Report of Colonel Chambliss. headquarters Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, April 17, 1863. Captain: In obedience to instructions, I have the honor to report the operations of my regiment with the enemy, on the fourteenth and fifteenth instants. On the fourteenth, under the direction of the General commanding brigade, m
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