Wednesday, October 18, 2023

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

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18th. Moved on after breakfast. Passed through Jonesboro. Stopped and saw Dick Bail and Bishop. Both doing well. Camped about two miles west of town. The Batt. gave three cheers for Brough, 65,000 majority. At 3 P. M. Col. P., Lts. Hamlin, Houghton, Eggleston, McBride and self and 8 men started for Knoxville. Stopped three [...]

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

We marched through woods, fields and across branches, creeks and rivers as we came to them, only a few hours behind the Yankees all the time.

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ON MARCH NEAR RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, VA., October 18, 1863. My Dear Mother: I received your very welcome letter and did intend answering it last evening, but we were ordered to move, which prevented me from doing so. We left Rapidan about the 7th inst., and have been on the march ever since, and I believe [...]

Civil War Letters of Walter and George Battle

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.

OCTOBER 18th.—No authentic information of a battle near Manassas has been received at the War Department, although it is certain there has been some heavy skirmishing on the Rappahannock. We have several brigadier-generals wounded, and lost five guns; but, being reinforced, continued the pursuit of the enemy, picking up many prisoners—they say 1500. The pursuit [...]

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