8th. Before noon detailed for picket with the company and part of Co. E. Went on Rogersville road, relieving Co. “B.” Got forage and some provisions. Posted pickets. About 7 P. M. Lieut. Newton came out and relieved me. Found at H. Quarters an order to report to Col. Garrard for duty.
Sunday, 8th–No work today, only picket duty, and all is very quiet here. General Tuttle’s division left Vicksburg this morning for Memphis.
NOVEMBER 8th.—At this late day the Secretary of War is informed by Col. Gorgas that, in consequence of the enemy’s possessing the coal mines in Tennessee, he shall not be able to supply orders for heavy shot, etc., for the defense of Charleston harbor, if the fleet of monitors were to pass the forts. Why, [...]
November 8, 1863, The New York Herald A report reached Philadelphia yesterday by the steamer Salvor, which left Hilton Head on last Monday, the 2d. inst., that Fort Sumter had surrendered, that the Stars and Stripes were flying over the dismantled ramparts, and the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Pennsylvania regiment of Volunteers were then [...]