Sunday, November 24, 2024

“In resolutions they declared that Sherman’s army must be stopped in its mad career..,”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Irwinton, November 24, 1864. Made 12 miles to-day over a rolling but well settled country. This is a nice little 700 county town. I hear that the troops that were at Macon are passing us on our right. Suppose they want to get in our front to annoy us again. They had better keep out [...]

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

November 24th.–Clear and frosty. Ice half an inch thick this morning. All quiet below. Col. St. John, Niter and Mining Bureau, required 13,000 men to furnish ammunition, etc. Col. Northrop, Commissary-General, reports only 15 days’ bread rations in Richmond for 100,000 men, and that we must rely upon supplies hereafter from the Carolinas and Virginia [...]

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

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

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24th. Thursday. After breakfast went on picket on middle road, on reserve post. Very quiet but cold–little sleep. Many prayers have gone up today for the welfare of the soldiers and the salvation of the country. May God soon bring the rebs to their senses and bring an honorable peace with freedom to all men.

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.