Wednesday, September 13, 2023

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

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Sunday, 13th. Most of the boys wet, and orders to move before breakfast. Then stopped at noon and hurried off before boys had time to swallow coffee. Straggling. Things don’t seem to have been managed well for two days. Into and through Knoxville, then through again to our old camp north of town. C. G. [...]

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

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Sunday, 13th–There was regimental inspection this morning with accouterments on and in full dress. Some of the companies have the appearance of a “corporal’s guard.” Company E, being on picket, was not on inspection, but later they were relieved. The Thirteenth Iowa went down town to act as a provost guard. Our chaplain having resigned, [...]

Diary of Alexander G. Downing; Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

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A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

SEPTEMBER 13th.—A letter from Gen. J. E. Johnston, Atlanta—whither he had repaired to attend a Court of Inquiry relating to Pemberton’s operations, but which has been postponed under the present peril—repels indignantly the charge which seems to have been made in a letter from the Secretary of War, that in executing the law of conscription [...]

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones