Friday, November 15, 2024

“Heavy cannonading west of us.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Near Jonesboro, November 15, 1864. The grand expeditionary force has commenced moving. Our regiment has the honor of leading our corps in the first day’s march. Made about 18 miles to-day, the first ten of which the two or three companies of cavalry who led us had quite lively skirmishing. At one point the Rebels [...]

Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills, (8th Illinois Infantry)

“…how little did they who tore down the old flag and raised the new realize the results that have ensued!”

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November 15, 1864. Went up to Covington to-day to pay the Confederate tax. Did not find the commissioners. Mid [a slave] drove me with Beck and the buggy. Got home about three o’clock. How very different is Covington from what it used to be! And how little did they who tore down the old flag [...]

Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge – A Woman’s Wartime Journal.

The system of roving or independent scouts he regards as detrimental, and should be abandoned.

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A scouting party

Headquarters Military Division of the West1 Tuscumbia, November 15, 1864. General Forrest, ……………..Commanding Cavalry, & c.: General: It is the direction of General Beauregard that you make to these headquarters, as early as practicable, a report of the number of scouts you have employed, where operating, how employed and organized and supplied with provisions, how [...]

Civil War Irregulars: Rangers, Scouts, Guerrillas, and Others, War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies