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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 25 (search)
quarters Twenty-Third regiment Iowa volunteers, camp Patterson, Mo., Nov. 2, 1862. Colonel: In accordance with your order of the twenty-fourth ult., I left Camp Patterson at six o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the twenty-fifth, with three companies of my regiment, (Thirty-second Iowa volunteers,) under command of Lieut.-Colonel Kinsman, five companies of the Twenty-fifth Missouri volunteers, under Capt. O. P. Newbury, two companies of the First Missouri State militia, and a section of Strang's battery, under Major Jainsch, and eighteen men of the Twelfth Missouri volunteer cavalry, under Capt. Leper. At Morrison's, twelve miles from this place, I was joined by three companies of the Twenty-fourth Missouri volunteers, under Capt. Vaughn. My instructions were to march for Pittman's Ferry, on Current River, which place I was to reach by three o'clock P. M. on Sunday, twenty-sixth, and form a junctior with Lieut.-Col. Lazare, and attack any rebeforce at that point. You informed m
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Pensacola. (search)
would meet returns for their outlay, if the wires were unrestricted. The Government ought to pay this line something extra for the sacrifices they make, and the additional expenses incurred in keeping it always in order for the transmission of its messages. A boat, under a white flag, came over from Fort Pickens yesterday evening. The visit was of a private character. The officer, a lieutenant, was met by Lieut. Slaughter, to whom he delivered a letter from a lady to her husband, Colonel Strang, whom she supposed at Warrington. He left a few days before for the North. Many troops are thought to have been landed on the island this week. This morning, hundreds of them were in bathing on this side the island, cutting up terrible swells. If Billy Wilson's Zenaves, they needed washing. Their tents are stretched on the sandy beach, whoever they are. The Continentals, as well as the stationary batteries, were practicing with shot and shell this evening. There has be
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Charlottesville. (search)
d Dispatch.] Charlottesville, Nov. 9, 1861. I herewith send you the official vote of Albemarle county: For President and Vice President, 1,080, unanimous for Davis and Stephens. For Congress, James P. Holcombe 566, S. F. Leake 362, R. G. H. Kean 69. Holcombe's majority over Leake 204, do. over Kean 497. In the Everett Artillery, on the Peninsula, Holcombe received 56, and Leake 15; in the cavalry, at Leesburg, Holcombe 68, Leake 3, Kean 4, Nineteenth Virginia Regiment, Col. Strang's, including Latham's battery and some of Pendleton's battery, Holcombe had 240, Leake 48, Kean 96; in the Eleventh Regiment, Col. G r and, Holcombe 53, Leake 12, Kean 153. Mr. Holcombe received 100 more majority in Albemarle over Mr. Kean than the latter received over Mr. Holcombe in the counties of Nelson, Amherst, Campbell, an the city of Lynchburg. There are several other companies in Western Virginia and in the Army of the Potomac, to hear from which will add to the majority of Mr.