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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, List of regiments in the Union Armies , with total number of deaths in each. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 30 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
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31. the occupation of Paducah, Ky., by Gen. N. S. Grant, September 6.
Cairo, Ill., September 11. t movements.
Your correspondent has been absent at Paducah, which must be my apology for not writing sooner.
received orders to convoy a large body of troops to Paducah.
The Ninth Illinois regiment, formerly commanded b med majestically up La Belle Riviere.
We reached Paducah about eight o'clock Friday morning. The disembarkat ake quarters in it.
The report became current in Paducah that a large force of rebels from Tennessee were mo everal large coils of telegraph wire were seized at Paducah by our troops.
The stampede of the inhabitants from Paducah was astonishing and immense, and ere this scarcely a hundred families are left here, out of a popul Union City and Columbus, and no immediate attack on Paducah is apprehended.
Gen. C. F. Smith is now commanding at Paducah.
At Cairo the greatest military activity prevails.
A very large force is being rapidly formed i
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 115 (search)
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111. fight on the Tennessee River.
Captain Foote's report.
St. Louis, October 30, 1861.
sir: The Conestoga, Lieut. Corn.
Phelps, has again been up the Tennessee River as far as Eddyville, sixty-two miles distant from Paducah, with three companies of the Illinois regiment, under command of Major Phillips, and conjointly they have had a handsome and successful skirmish, in which the rebels broke and fled in every direction, leaving seven dead on the field.
Our casualties cons Chicago Tribune gives the following account of this affair:
On board Steamer Lake Erie No. 2. Eddyville, Ky., Oct. 26, 1861.
Last evening, Major Phillips, with three hundred of the Ninth Illinois regiment, started on an expedition from Paducah.
Stopping at Smithland, your correspondent determined to make one of the party.
After getting a pilot and guide, and steaming up the Ohio a short distance, we returned and went up to what is called the Old Forge, where we left the boats for
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 121 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 137 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 190 . affair at Paducah, Ky. (search)
Doc. 190. affair at Paducah, Ky.
General Smith's order.
Headquarters United States forces, Paducah, Ky., Nov. 27, 1861. General Orders No. 36.
On the afternoon of the 25th inst., a grave breach of discipline was committed by a part of this command, chiefly, if not altogether, by officers and soldiers of the Eleventh Indiana regiment, in the raising of a flag over the house of a resident of this city; not, certainly, by the act of raising our flag, but by the manner of proceeding — tPaducah, Ky., Nov. 27, 1861. General Orders No. 36.
On the afternoon of the 25th inst., a grave breach of discipline was committed by a part of this command, chiefly, if not altogether, by officers and soldiers of the Eleventh Indiana regiment, in the raising of a flag over the house of a resident of this city; not, certainly, by the act of raising our flag, but by the manner of proceeding — the attendant circumstances.
The commanding General desires to address those engaged in this proceeding in a kindly spirit.
He is aware they have subjected themselves to prosecution under the Articles of War. He is compelled to denounce the transaction as a great violation of good order and military discipline; but he is inclined to the belief that those engaged in it will, upon reflection, come to regard it in that light themselves.
Had it been possible for him to have anticipated its occur
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 161 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 162 (search)
John Milliken, who was formerly the Postmaster at Paducah, has met a deserved fate.
Since secession was first planned in Kentucky he has been among the foremost in the rebellion, and when the Federal troops were about to oocupy his town he left for Mayfield, and has since then been unscrupulous and unsparing in his persecution of every one who was loyal to his country.
On Tuesday of last week he entered a house where he found two Union men, and commenced in the most vituperative language d, have the effect to deter others from the commission of similar outrages.
While the Union men in that vicinity are disposed to be peaceable, the secessionists are violent, turbulent, and aggressive.
Our friends are extremely anxious to reach Paducah, that they may join Col. Williams' regiment, but the rebels will not permit them to leave their homes, and they subject them to all kinds of indignities.
The Colonel has four or five complete companies, and they are a terror to the secessionist
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8 : from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah --Kentucky and Missouri . 1861 -1862 . (search)
Chapter 8: from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah--Kentucky and Missouri. 1861-1862.
And now neral Grant had moved from Cairo and occupied Paducah in force on the 6th.
Many of the rebel famil reas I, the centre, had from the Big Sandy to Paducah, over three hundred miles of frontier; that M ingfield, Missouri. General Grant was then at Paducah, and General Curtis was under orders for Roll the district, was collecting a large force at Paducah, Cairo, and Bird's Point. General Halleck had racks:
You will immediately repair to Paducah, Kentucky, and assume command of that post.
Briga W. Halleok, Major-General.
I started for Paducah the same day, and think that General Cullum w nessee River with unusual vigor.
On reaching Paducah, I found this dispatch:
headquarters De ary 15, 1862. Brigadier-General Sherman, Paducah, Kentucky:
Send General Grant every thing you can spare from Paducah and Smith land; also General Hurlbut.
Bowling Green has been evacuated ent