5th. Went over to the house and learned the damage. Very pleasant people. How these people are suffering and will suffer during the year. Whole Brigade and 103rd made heavy reconnoissance. Several killed, wounded and prisoners. Seven of the 103rd missing. Relieved after dark by Lt. Lough, Co. A and M. All in camp supposed [...]
Monday, 5th.—Cannonading towards Chattanooga. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Monday, 5th–Everything is very quiet here, although as the health of the men is improving our duties become more laborious. Every regiment that can be taken from Vicksburg is being sent to reinforce the armies at other posts. General Sherman has been ordered to proceed to Chattanooga and thus all of the Fifteenth Army Corps [...]
CAMP NEAR MORTON’S FORD, ON RAPIDAN RIVER, October 5th, 1863. My Dear Mother: I received your letter of the 23rd yesterday while on picket duty and it seems to me from the way in which you write that you did not receive my last letter. I don’t think that it has been two weeks since [...]
Monday Oct 5th 1863 Perhaps I might have made it interesting to have continued my diary. But I have been absent some time since my last date, and important events it is true have occured, great Battles have been fought, and great Victories have been won by our arms. The month of July saw our [...]
October 1, 1863—Visit Hoke’s Brigade. Bro. Rumple preaches for us. October 2—Rain, get wet. October 3—Dr. Rosser preaches for us twice. October 4—Bro. Kilpatrick preaches a. m. end Bro. Rumple p. m. Fifty or more conscripts arrive for our Regiment. October 5—Preach for Battle’s Brigade at night.
OCTOBER 5th.—It is now said that Meade’s army has not retired, and that two corps of it have not been sent to Rosecrans. Well, we shall know more soon, for Lee is preparing for a movement. It may occur this week. In the West it is said Gen. Johnston is working his way, with a [...]