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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXII. January, 1863 (search)
wal and retirement from the field. Eight thousand men were taken from Bragg a few days before the battle. It was not done at the suggestion of Gen. Johnston; for I have seen an extract of a letter from Gen. J. to a Senator (Wigfall), deprecating the detachment of troops from Bragg, and expressing grave apprehensions of the probable consequences. A letter was received from R. R. Collier, Petersburg, to-day, in favor of civil liberty, and against the despotism of martial law. Senator Clark, of Missouri, informed me to-day that my nephew, R. H. Musser, has been made a colonel (under Hindman or Holmes), and has a fine regiment in the trans-Mississippi Department. Lewis E. Harvie, president of the railroad, sends a communication to the Secretary (I hope it will reach him) inclosing a request from Gen. Winder to permit liquors to be transported on his road to Clover Hill. Mr. Harvie objects to it, and asks instructions from the Secretary. He says Clover Hill is the point
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 27 (search)
herwise than in arms — as is practiced by the enemy. H. D. Bird, general superintendent of the railroad, writes from Petersburg that the movements of cars with ammunition, etc. are thrown into confusion by the neglect of telegraph agents in giving timely notice. This is an unfortunate time for confusion. I sent the letter to the Secretary, and know that it was not filed on the way to him. A communication came in to-day from the Committee of Safety at Mobile, Ala., charging that J. S. Clark, Wm. G. Ford, and -- Hurt, have been shipping cotton to New Orleans, after pretending to clear it for Nassau. It says Mr. Clarke was an intimate crony of Gen. Butler's speculating brother. It also intimates that the people believe the government here winks at these violations of the act of Congress of April, 1862. Very curiously, a letter came from the Assistant Secretary's room to-day for file, which was written April 22d, 1861, by R. H. Smith to Judge Campbell--a private letter-wa
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 32 (search)
y wanderings in search of a home. It consisted of Benjamin Potter, aged seventy-five; John S. Cave, aged fifty; William Hunter, aged forty-seven; David Hunter, aged thirty-five; William C. Tate, aged thirty; Andrew Owsley, aged seventeen; and Martin Rice and his son. While thus engaged in loading their wagons with such effects as they supposed would be most useful to them, a detachment of Kansas troops (said to be part of the Kansas 9th, though this may be a mistake), under command of Lieut.-Col. Clark and Capt. Coleman, came up and took them all prisoners. After a little parleying, Mr. Rice and his son were released and ordered to leave; which they did, of course. They had not gone much over three-fourths of a mile before they heard firing at the point at which they had left the soldiers with the remaining prisoners. In a short time the command moved on, and the wives and other relatives of the prisoners rushed up to ascertain their fate. It was a horrid spectacle. There
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXXII. November, 1863 (search)
War. November 19 Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac and Northampton Counties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of Baltimore. The Medical Purveyor's Guards have petitioned the Secretary for higher pay. They get now $1500 per annum, and say the city watchmen get $2300. Gens. Banks and Taylor in the West are corresponding and wrangling about the exchange of prisoners — and the cartel is to be abrogated, probably. The Governor of Mississippi (Clark) telegraphs the President that the Legislature (in session) is indignant at the military authorities for impressing slaves. The President telegraphs back that the order was to prevent them falling into the lines of the enemy, and none others were to be disturbed. November 20 We have reports of some successes to-day. Gen. Hampton, it appears, surprised and captured several companies of the enemy's cavalry, a day or two since, near Culpepper Court House. And Gen. Wheeler has captured
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXXV. February, 1864 (search)
g that it is to be attacked. If Sherman should go on, and succeed, it would be the most brilliant operation of the war. If he goes on and fails, it will be the most disastrous-and his surrender would be, probably, like the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. He ought certainly to be annihilated. I have advised Senator Johnson to let my nephew's purpose to bring Gen. Holmes before a court-martial lie over, and I have the papers in my drawer. The President will probably promote Col. Clark to a brigadiership, and then my nephew will succeed to the colonelcy; which will be a sufficient rebuke to Gen. H., and a cataplasm for my nephew's wounded honor. The Examiner has whipped Congress into a modification of the clause putting assistant editors and other employees of newspaper proprietors into the army. They want the press to give them the meed of praise for their bold measures, and to reconcile the people to the tax, militia, and currency acts. This is the year of crises
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 40 (search)
. It is suspected that Sherman will be ordered from Georgia to reinforce Grant It seems Lincoln would give up his hopes of heaven, and plunge into hell, for the Presidency. The Commissary General says Lee must beat Grant before the latter is reinforced, or we are gone; for their destruction of the railroads, north and northwest, will ruin us — the southern roads being insufficient to transport stores for the army. My nephew, Col. R. H. Musser, trans-Mississippi, I am told by Senator Clark, was complimented on the field of victory by Gen. Taylor. His brigadier-general having fallen, Col. M. commanded the brigade. Last evening, about 6 P. M., a cloud nearly overhead assumed the shape of a section of our fortifications, the segment of a circle, with the triangle penetrating through from the north. These shapes were distinctly defined. Could the operations beneath have produced this phenomenon? was it accidental? or a portent of the future? God knows! June 5 R
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
strangers to him, presented to Lieutenant Morris, at the house of R. W. Leaming, an elegant sword, saying, in a letter to him, that it could have no worthier recipient than the brave sailor who fought his ship while a plank floated, fired his last broadside in sinking, and went down with his flag flying at the peak. On the sword was the motto in Latin, I sink, but never surrender. The citizens who presented the sword were Joseph R. Ingersoll, Charles D. Meigs, M. D., Horace Binney, Jr., J. S. Clark Hare, Thomas A. Biddle, J. Fisher Leaming, Ellwood Wilson, Lewis A. Scott, Clement Biddle, George W. Norris, J. Forsyth Meigs, Robert W. Leading. The writer saw that spar, yet above the water, near Newport-Newce, in the spring of 1865, when on his way to Richmond, just after its evacuation by the Confederate troops. While the Merrimack was destroying the Cumberland, her assistant gun-boats were assailing the Congress. That vessel fought her foes right gallantly until the Cumberland wen
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 23: destruction of the ram Arkansas.--capture of Galveston.--capture of the Harriet Lane.--sinking of the Hatteras.--attack on Baton Rouge.--Miscellaneous engagements of the gun-boats. (search)
J. G. Crocker; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, E. C. Bowman. Bark Kuhn. Acting-Masters, R. G. Lee, J. T. Harden and W. F. Hunt; Acting-Masters' Mate, Wm. Edgar; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, J B. Hazelton. Store-ship Fearnot. Acting-Masters, Daniel S. Murphy and T. W. Williams; Acting-Masters' Mates, Fred. Furbish and G. H. Benson; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Augustus Esenwein. Sloop-of-war Preble. Acting-Master, Wm. F. Shankland; Acting-Ensigns, B. B. Knowlton, L. B. King and J. S. Clark; Assistant Surgeon, J. S. Knight; Acting-Master's Mate, F. P. Parks; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, W. J. Hoodless; Boatswain, John Bates; Acting-Gunner, J. A. Cummins; Carpenter, J. McFarlane; Sailmaker, G. W. Giet. Yacht Corypheus. Acting-Master, A. T. Spear. Schooner Oliver H. Lee. (bomb.) Acting-Master, Washington Godfrey; Acting-Master's Mates, A. T. Parsons, J. A. Chadwick and T. G. Hall. Schooner Sam Houston. Acting-Master, Geo. W. Ward; Acting-Ensign, J. J. Kane.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 44: battle of Mobile Bay. (search)
tenant-Commander, Wm. H. Dana; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, J. E. Parsons; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, J. N. Whiffen; Acting-Masters, E. D. Percy and John Hanscom; Acting-Master's Mates, F. P. Stevens, R. O. Longfare and I. A. Abbott; Engineers: Second-Assistant, J. M. Harris; Third-Assistants, W. A. H. Allen, J. C. Chaffee and Ralph Aston. Steamer Calhoun. Lieutenant-Commander, Geo. A. Bigelow; Assistant Surgeon, D. M. Skinner; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, D. W. Riddle; Acting-Ensigns, J. S. Clark and J. M. Chadwick; Acting-Master's Mates, J. L. Blauvelt, J. P. Sturgin and J. Mayo; Engineers: Acting-Third-Assistants, W. H. Brown, F. D. Stuart, Lucius Harlow and Richard Dwyer. Steamer Estrella. Lieutenant-Commander, A. P. Cooke; Assistant Surgeon, Thomas Hiland; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, F. J. Painter; Acting-Master, G. P. Pomeroy; Acting-Ensign, W. X. Duley; Acting-Master's Mates, W. H. Wetmore and Thomas Kelly; Engineers: Acting-Second Assistant, R. G. Pope; Acting-Third-A
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
. Barnum; Acting-Second-Assistant, B. Wilson; Acting-Third-Assistants, S. Hart, G. V. Payton, J. E. Edwards and J. W. Smith. *Monticello--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant, W. B. Cushing; Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, D. A. Campbell: Acting-Masters, C. A. Pettit and E. A. Elliott; Acting-Ensigns, W. H. Gibson, D. W. Lakin, T. B. Huntington, J. H. Puckett and J. B. Edwards; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, J. F. Billard; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, John Furey; Acting-Master's Mates, Charles Croton and J. S. Clark; Engineers: Second-Assistant, H. Missiner; Acting-Second-Assistants, C. A. Martin and F. McKinley; Acting-Third-Assistants, W. R. Call, and J. McCallum. *Gettysburg--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant, R. H. Lamson; Acting-Master, C. B. Dahlgren; Acting-Ensigns, A. S. Leighton, F. P. B. Sands, F. A. Gross, M. C. Keith and Charles Miller; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, G. S. Eddy; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, R. H. Gillette; Acting-Master's Mate, H. J. Derbyshire and T. H. P. Gross; Engineers: Acting
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