JANUARY 1863
January 1, 1863: Skirmish near Clifton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
January 1, 1863: Skirmish at La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
January 1, 1863: Skirmish at Stewart's Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
January 1, 1863: The 15th Iowa Infantry stops in Lafayette; impressions by a private . . . . . . . 5
January 1, 1863: New Year's Day meditations by Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cavalry, in camp near
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
January 1, 1863: “A few little incidents of this nature have served to keep us alive as it were.”
Excerpts from George F. Cram's letter to his mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
January 1, 1863: An initial report on the battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
January 1, 1863: Confederate prisoners and Federal wounded arrive in Nashville from the battle
of Stones River; an entry in the diary of John Hill Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
January 2, 1863: Forrest's command withdraws and recrosses the Tennessee River, Clifton . . 8
January 2, 1863: Skirmish near Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
January 2, 1863: One Federal officer's impressions at the end of the second day of the Battle of
Stones River; an excerpt from the diary of Colonel John Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . 9
January 2, 1863: Federal activity in the Lafayette environs, an entry from the diary of Cyrus F.
Boyd, 15th Iowa Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
January 2, 1863: Report on the murder of “Poor Waggoner.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
January 2, 1863: Negro servants decide not to leave employment situations in Nashville . . . 11
January 3, 1863: Skirmish at Lexington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
January 3, 1863: Skirmish near Clifton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
January 3, 1863: Action at Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
January 3, 1863: Skirmish at Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
January 3, 1863: Skirmish at Insane Asylum [a.k.a. Blood's, or Cox's Hill-Nashville environs] .
16
January 3, 1863: Confederate disposition of free Negroes from Campbell County . . . . . . . . . 17
January 3, 1863: “. . . I have done a very foolish thing.” A skirmish at Stones River; an excerpt
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from the diary of Colonel Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
January 3, 1863: Occupation of Murfreesborough by Union forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ca. January 3, 1863: Scouting Expedition in Benton and Carroll County environs. . . . . . . . . 20
January 4, 1863: Skirmish at Monterey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
January 4, 1863: Skirmish on Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
January 4, 1863: Surgical operations after the Battle of Murfreesboro, excerpt from the diary of
John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
January 4, 1863: "Mr. Cap. Spurlock is killed and they are bringing his body up now." The War
Comes Home to McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
January 4, 1863: Questioning police sting operations in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
January 4, 1863: "I was one of those anxious to go over the field of our retreat and see the damage done to us and theirs. . . " Sergeant George G. Sinclair's visit to the Stones
River battlefield, January 4 and 5, 1863; an excerpt from his letter home, January 6, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
January 5, 1863: Construction of abatis ordered in Gallatin environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
January 5, 1863: Skirmish at Lytle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
January 5, 1863: Skirmish at Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
January 5, 1863: Confederate report on retreat from battle of Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . 28
January 5, 1863: A ride over the Stones River battlefield; an excerpt from Colonel Beatty's diary
29
January 5, 1863: Correspondence relative to prisoner-of-war issues raised by R. V. Richardson
29
January 5, 1863: Sergeant-Major Lyman Widney's account of activities in and around Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
January 5, 1863: Life in the Second Tennessee [U. S. ] Cavalry camp in Murfreesboro, as told by
John W. Andes, "Reminiscences of the Second Tennessee Cavalry." . . . . . . 32
January 5, 1863: General reminiscences of a member of the 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry of garrison duty in Murfreesboro, after the battle of Stones River and the beginning
of the Tullahoma campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
January 6, 1863: Action near Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
January 6, 1863: Murfreesboro in the aftermath of battle, an excerpt from the diary of John C.
Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
January 6, 1863: Memphis' "shinplaster" ordinance declared null and void . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
January 6, 1863: Report on Tennessee's failure to collect the Confederate war tax . . . . . . . . 36
January 6, 1863: Appropriation of buildings to serve as military hospitals in Nashville . . . . . 37
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cording to William A. McTeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
January 7, 1863: U. S. N. gunboat expedition on Cumberland River, Nashville to Carthage . 38
January 7, 1863: "I will give you a smawl sketch of our scout from the time I wrote you before
untill the present time." Lieutenant A. J. Lacy, 8th Tennessee Cavalry, writes to
his parents in Jackson County about his experiences during Forrest's raid into
West Tennessee, December 15, 1862-January 3, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
January 7, 1863: "I will go to my corn fodder bed wich is waiting for me, with the major already
there, wich his loud snoring fully testifies." Excerpts from the letter of Col. William L. Sanderson, 23rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with reference to activities
in the LaGrange, Collierville and Memphis environs from January 7 to January
31, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
January 8, 1863: Skirmish at Knob Creek, near Ripley, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
January 8, 1863: Federal soldiers ordered to cease depredations against civilian property . 46
January 8, 1863: Tow-boat Wild Cat set afire at by guerrillas above MemphisNOTE 1 . . . . . . 47
January 8, 1863: "I am not dead, wounded, or sick, but, on the contrary, never felt better in my
life." Albert Potter's letters home after the Battle of Stones River. . . . . . . . . 48
January 8, 1863: Wheeler's Raid, including affairs at Mill Creek, Harpeth Shoals, and Ashland.
Including affairs at Mill Creek, Harpeth Shoals and the destruction of two fullyladen hospital ships (U. S. S. Hastings and Porthenia onthe 13th), and affair at
Ashland.NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
January 9, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders No. 2 relative to depredations against civilians
49
January 9, 1863: Federal medical care for Confederate casualties consequent to the battle of
Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
January 9, 1863: Editorial on Memphis shinplaster ordinance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
January 9, 1863: Conditions in the Army of Tennessee in early winter retreat after the battle of
Stones River, a letter from Fayette McDowell in Tullahoma to his sister, Amanda, in White County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
January 9, 1863: "We were expecting an attack every moment as there was a large force of
Rebels. . . "Frank M. Guernsey's letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
January 9, 1863: Pollution prevention in Breckenridge's Division, excerpt from Special Order
No. 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
January 9, 1863: Report on the federal and rebel wounded at Murfreesboro and the burning of
LaVergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ca. January 9, 1863: Federal scouts in Gallatin environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
January 10, 1863: Skirmish at Clifton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
January 10, 1863: Certification of Congressional Election in Gibson County . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
January 10, 1863: Confederate forces occupy Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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January 10, 1863: One Confederate Officer's Opinion of General Braxton Bragg's Performance
at the Battle of Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
January 10, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate guerrillas stifle elections in U. S.
Congressional Districts in Gibson and Dyer Counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
January 10, 1863: "The negro was condemned to receive thirty-nine lashes, and to remain in the
work house until the property unlawfully taken be restored to its owner." . . 59
January 11, 1863: Skirmish at Lowry's Ferry, Hatchie River, defeat of R. V. Richardson's Confederate Partisan Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
January 11, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans seeks special authority to try and execute spies,
murderers, arsonists, rapists and deserters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
January 11, 1863: Capture and burning of Jacob Musselman and Grampus No. 2 by Arkansas
guerrillas in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
January 11, 1863: John M. Routt, Company B, 44th Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., describes the
Confederate withdrawal and combat at the Battle of Stones River in his letter to
his wife, Lou J., in Kelso, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
January 11, 1863: Scout to Nolensville, Triune and Eagleville and capture of Confederate soldiers by the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
January 11, 1863: Bragg Bashing in McMinnville; excerpts from the War Journal of Lucy Virginia French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
January 11, 1863: Hunting Confederate conscripts in Polk and Bradley Counties . . . . . . . . . 65
January 11, 1863: Orders to cease confiscating mules and horses from private citizens and policy towards a.w.o.l. Confederate cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
January 11, 1863: Elections for officers in the Army of Tennessee suspended by General Bragg
66
January 12, 1863: Affair at Ashland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
January 12, 1863: Letter to Mrs. U. G. Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
January 12, 1863: ". . . we have marched nearly three hundred and fifty miles. . . " Frank M.
Guernsey's letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
January 12, 1863: Mustering out procedures for officers in the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . 69
January 12, 1863: Egalitarian embalming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
January 13, 1863: Skirmish at Chambers Creek, near Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
January 13, 1863: Affair on Harpeth Shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
January13, 1863: Federal reconnaissance ordered, Murfreesborough to Salem, to Middleton, to
Shelbyville Pike, Wilkinson Pike and Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
January 13, 1863: "Some were wallowing in the streets dead drunk others were being loaded on
drays and into wagons and tied hand and foot and taken to the Calabose. . . "
Private Cyrus F. Boyd's first day in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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January 13, 1863: Tales of Security and Female Smuggling in the Middle Tennessee; an excerpt
from the War Journal of Lucy Virgnina French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
January 13, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough to Nolensville and Versailles . . . . . . . 75
January 13, 1863: Reconnaissance, Nashville-Harpeth at Cumberland River Shoals . . . . . . . 78
January 14, 1863: Skirmish at Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
January14, 1863: Burning of Webb's Mill, Salem environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
January14, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
January 14, 1863: "A detective police, properly organized, and conducted upon correct principles, might do some good. . . " Military Governor Andrew Johnson on the Army
of the Cumberland's police operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
ca. January 14, 1863: Anecdotes about life in Confederate occupied McMinnville; an entry from
the war journal of Lucy Virginia French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
January15, 1863: Skirmish at Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
January 15, 1863: Confederate depredations in Maury County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
January 15, 1863: A female victim of Federal depredations petitions Military Governor Andrew
Johnson for aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
January 15, 1863: A Kentucky woman asks Military Governor Andrew Johnson for assistance in
finding some of her slaves living in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
ca. January 15, 1863: Skirmish in Scott County near the New River settlement: the battle for the
baconNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
January 15, 1863: Correspondence relative to charges and countercharges of inhumanity and violations of flags of truce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
January 16, 1863: Expedition from Fort Henry to Waverly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
January 16, 1863: Bragg appoints Pillow as chief conscript officer of the Army of Tennessee 88
January 16, 1863: Notice concerning enforcement of Confederate Conscription in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
January 16, 1863: Special Orders, No. 16, establishing military commission in Memphis . . . 90
January 16, 1863: Federal expedition, Fort Henry to Waverly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
January 16, 1863: Testimony of Col. E. M. McCook, relative to the sniping death of one Federal
soldier, in September 1862, given before a military commission at Cincinnati,
Ohio, November 27, 1862, to investigate and report upon the operations of the
army under the command of Maj. Gen. D. C. Buell, U. S. Volunteers, in Kentucky and Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
January 16, 1863: Assessments for secret-service and hospital funds in Federally occupied Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
January 17, 1863: Major-General William S. Rosecrans defends the army's police system . . 93
January 17, 1863: Confederate Conscript Sweeps in Middle TennesseeNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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January 18, 1863: "General Grant and the Jews." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
January 18, 1863: A Farewell to Memphis; the inebriated exploits of the 15th and 16th Iowa Infantry on board the troop transport Minnehaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
January 18, 1863: Negroes and the law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
January 19, 1863: Skirmish near Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
January 19, 1863: Army of Tennessee foraging guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
January 19, 1863: The whipping of a Negro in Nashville; an excerpt from the diary of John Hill
Ferguson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
January 19, 1863: Assessment for secret-service fund at Henderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
January 20, 1863: General Orders, No. 7 issued in Memphis relative to Mississippi River traffic
restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
January 20, 1863: Skirmish at Chewalla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
January 20, 1863: Recollections and reflections on the death of Zollicoffer and the course of the
warNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
January 20, 1863: Investigation into depredations committed by the Seventh Kansas Cavalry in
Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
January 20, 1863: "We started from Oskosh with 986 able men for duty... " Frank M. Guernsey's
letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
January 21, 1863: Correspondence between Major-General Charles A. Dana and U. S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, relative to illegal cotton trade involving "Yankees and Jews" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
January 21, 1863: Capture of forage train near MurfreesboroughNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
January 21, 1863: Skirmish on Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
January 21, 1863: Boiler plate opinion in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
January 21, 1863: "Powder and Lead" a newspaper advertisement by W. D. Humphries, Confederate Post Ordnance Officer in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
January 21, 1863: The metropolitan gas works close in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
January 21, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough to Auburn, Liberty, and Cainsville . . 109
January 21, 1863: Naval action on the Cumberland River at Betsy Town Landing . . . . . . . . 111
January 21, 1863: Operations in Middle and East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
January 22, 1863: General J. E. Johnston ordered to inquire of General Braxton Bragg about the
Confederate defeat at the battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
January 22, 1863: Charity in Lincoln county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
January 22, 1863: Fixing the blame for the capture of a federal wagon train on the Liberty Pike
on January 21, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
January 22, 1863: "The Government should banish all such visitors from every place where rebel
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prisoners are confined." Editorial castigating rebel females in Nashville . 119
January 23, 1863: Confederate official complains to Richmond about failure of conscription in
East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
January 23, 1863: Skirmish at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
January 23, 1863: Skirmish on Bradyville Pike near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
January 23, 1863: Procedures and nominations for honoring gallantry in the Army of Tennessee
at the Battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
January 23, 1863: Federal anti-guerrilla expedition ordered from Murfreesborough through Nolensville Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
January 23, 1863: Daniel Ellis' account of the murders of James Taylor, Samuel Tatum, Alfred
Kite, Alexander Dugger, and David Shuffield, East Tennessee Unionists seeking
to escape Confederate East Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
January 24, 1863: Skirmish at WoodburyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
January 24, 1863: Anti-guerrilla sweep ordered from Clarksville, between the Tennessee River
and Murfreesborough, and the Cumberland and Duck Rivers . . . . . . . . . . 131
January 24, 1863: Report of murder of Negroes by Confederate forces at Harpeth Shoals and the
Murfreesboro road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
January 25, 1863: Capture of wagon train, AntiochNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
January 25, 1863: Skirmish near Mill Creek, near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
January 25, 1863: Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough to Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
January 25, 1863: West Tennessee Rebel guerrilla chief, R. V. Richardson, announces retaliatory policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
January 25, 1863: ". . . I can have the fun of shooting at Yankees. . . " a Texas Ranger's letter
home from Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
January 25, 1863: Confederate prisoners of war and female visitors in Nashville . . . . . . . . 140
January 25, 1863: Brigadier-General Gideon J. Pillow's report on Confederate conscript sweeps
in Lincoln, Bedford and Marshall, Franklin, Williams, Maury, and Giles counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
January 25, 1863: Counter-insurgency scout between Bolivar and Ripley Mississippi . . . . . 141
January 26, 1863: General Orders, No. 10 issued, Memphis, relative to spies, punishment, contraband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
January 26, 1863: Special Orders, No. 26, relative to prohibition of alcoholic beverages and
gambling by U. S. soldiers in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
January 26, 1863: Confederate Engineer's plans for the fortification of Chattanooga . . . . . 143
January 26, 1863: Description of Germantown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
January 27, 1863: Affair near GermantownNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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January 27, 1863: A Methodist circuit rider's encounter with a Confederate picket on the road to
Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
January27, 1863: Federal man power shortages to be alleviated by GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6,
allowing the hire of citizens and slaves as teamsters, laborers and hospital attendants in Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
January 27, 1863: Naval reconnaissance on the Cumberland River and skirmish between Confederate cavalry and U. S. S. Lexington at Harpeth Shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
January 27, 1863: An 89th Illinois Volunteer Sergeant's thinking about the Emancipation Proclamation; an excerpt from George G. Sinclair's letter home, from camp in the
Murfreesboro environs, January 27, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
January 27, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate conscription in Franklin . . . . 149
January 28, 1863: Skirmish near Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
January 28, 1863: Skirmish near Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
January 28, 1863: Skirmish near Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
January 28, 1863: Child killed playing with a pistol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
January 28, 1863: Religious services for the fallen at Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
January 28, 1863: Scout from LaGrange to Ripley Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
January 29, 1863: Report of Acting Rear-Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, responding to the Department's enquiry regarding the loss of
the U. S. gunboat Sidell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
January 29, 1863: "Memphis is a fine place to camp as we have more advantages there." Frank
M. Guernsey's Letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
January 29, 1863: "God pity the poor in our southern cities." An excerpt from the diary of Mary
L. Pearre of Williamson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
January 29, 1863: Loaning of passes forbidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
January 29, 1863: Female education in war-time Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
January 30, 1863: Newspaper report on the condition of the Confederate Army at Tullahoma after the Battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
January 30, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas at Dyersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
January 30, 1863: U. S. S. Lexington destroys storehouse used as a base by Confederates on
Cumberland River and intelligence report on strength of Confederates near
Harpeth Shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
January 30, 1863: William Lacy writes to his son, Lieutenant A. J. Lacy, 8th Tennessee Cavalry
159
January 31, 1863: On the Death of Zollicoffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
January 31, 1863: Guerrilla raid on railroad in the Richland Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
January 31, 1863: Cavalry expedition, Murfreesborough to Salem, Versailles, Unionville, Rover,
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January 31, 1863: Skirmish at Unionville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
January 31, 1863: Skirmish at Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
January 31, 1863: Skirmish on the Rover and Versailles road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
January 31, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
ca. January 31, 1863: Planning an opera for the benefit of a hospital for "Morgan's men" in McMinnville; one view from the upper rungs of the Tennessee-Confederate domestic front, an excerpt from the War Journal of Lucy Virginia French . . . . . 163
January 31, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
__, (January): Affair at Mill Creek [no date given] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
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February 1, 1863: Observations relative to the Federal presence and occupation of Murfreesboro and environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
February 1, 1863: Anti-slavery idealism and explanation for Federal confiscation amongst members of the 7th Kansas Cavalry in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
February 1, 1863: Brigadier-General Robert B. Mitchell harasses Confederate sympathizers in
Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
February 1, 1863: "It makes my Southern blood boil. . . " An excerpt from the Diary of Mary L.
Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
February 1, 1863: Nashville Police Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
February 1, 1863: Reconnaissance to Franklin and Brentwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
February 2, 1863: Expedition from Forts Henry, Heiman and Donelson to vicinity of Duck River,
and scout on Cumberland River to Palmyra environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
February 2, 1863: Federal scout from Clarksville across Cumberland River to Palmyra environs
6
February 2, 1863: Supplying the Army of Tennessee with Clothing, Shoes and Tents . . . . . . . . 6
February 2, 1863: Re-establishment of gaslight in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
February 2, 1863: Reconnaissance in the vicinity of Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
February 2, 1863: The 5th Iowa sent to Hardin County environs to stop Confederate conscription
sweeps and to Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
February 3, 1863: Confederate positions established near Chapel Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
February 3, 1863: Federal reconnaissance and Confederate demonstration prior to Confederate
attack on Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
February 3, 1863: Attack on Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
February 3, 1863: Skirmish at Cumberland Iron-Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
February 3, 1863: U. S. gunboats bombard and disperse Confederates surrounding Federal
force at Dover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
February 3, 1863: Confederate attack at Island No. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
February 3, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans protests pay arrangements made for the Army of
the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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February 3, 1863: Weekly convoys established from Smithland, Kentucky, to Fort Donelson,
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
February 3, 1863: Joint operations planned in the Triune and Harpeth environs . . . . . . . . . . 15
February 3, 1863: Federal cavalry push Confederate cavalry south of Duck River . . . . . . . . 16
February 3, 1863: Reduction in means of transportation for the Army of the Cumberland . . . 16
February 3, 1863: "I like to gather up those cowardly conscrips that is hiding out." Lieutenant A.
J. Lacy, 8th Tennessee cavalry, to his parents in Jackson County . . . . . . . . 17
February 3, 1863: Discriminating saloon closings in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
February 3, 1863: Federal commander Brigadier General Robert B. Mitchell commends secessionists families in Nashville for nursing Confederate wounded at the battle of
Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
February 3, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to Auburn, Liberty, Alexandria, Lebanon,
Carthage and Gallatin environsNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
February 4, 1863: Cavalry skirmish near Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
February 4, 1863: Foraging party and skirmish near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
February 4, 1863: Suitors, love, marriage and mortality, reflections of a young Cleveland woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
February 4, 1863: Hannibal Paine's letter to his sister in Washington, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . 25
February 4, 1863: An entry from the diary of Mary L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
February 4, 1863: Texan Generosity near McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
February 4, 1863: Report on Army of the Cumberland Police Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
February 4, 1863: Unsuccessful effort by General J. E. Johnston to furnish the Army of Tennessee with fresh pork from the Confederate Commissary Subsistence Department
in Richmond, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
February 5, 1863: Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon reassures General J. E.
Johnston concerning command of the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
February 5, 1863: Seizure at Island No. 10 of W. A. Knapp by U. S. S. New EraNOTE 1 . . . . . 31
February 5, 1863: Destruction of flour and mill machinery at New Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
February 5, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans requests power of summary hearing and punishment for officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
February 5, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans tightens security, enforcement of General Orders
No. 151, War Department, October 4, 1862 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
February 5, 1863: Federal cavalry conduct foraging missions in Franklin and Spring Hill environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
February 5, 1863: Report of Confederate cavalry and artillery at Island No. 10 revised-guerrilla
activity indicated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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February 5, 1863: A proposal to raise Federal refugee regiments in Wilson, Smith, DeKalb, Macon and Putnam Counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
February 5, 1863: Report on Army of the Cumberland Police Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
February 5, 1863: Capture of bushwhackers and Bradley County Confederate renegades in Scott
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
February 6, 1863: Scout in the vicinity of Fort Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
February 6, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders, No. 23, relative to suppression of absenteeism
in Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
February 6, 1863: Newspaper column opinion concerning chances for the success of the Confederacy, written from winter camp in Tullahoma: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
February 6, 1863: Confederate Conscription Circular in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
February 6, 1863: Confederate wounded assigned to the houses of Nashville citizens . . . . . . 38
February 6, 1863: A Kentuckian's change of heart toward the Negro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
February 7, 1863: Complaints in Chattanooga newspaper about careless Confederate soldiers
40
February 7, 1863: Skirmishing near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
February 7, 1863: A night at the McMinnville opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
February 7, 1863: Confederates confront bushwhackers in Campbell County . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
February 7, 1863: "My heart sickens when I think of it." Mary L. Pearre on the progress of the
war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
February 8, 1863: Letter of John F. Couts of Clarksville to his brother Cave Johnson Couts in
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
February 8, 1863: Depredations committed in Warren County environs by Morgan's command
45
February 8, 1863: "Circumstances have been such that I have been unable to write to you before
today." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
February 8, 1863: Federal reconnaissance and skirmish on the south side of the Cumberland
River near Clarksville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
February 8, 1863: Federal hospital improprieties exposed in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
February 8, 1863: Editorial relative to the deprived population of Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
February 9, 1863: "I had quite an adventure night before last. . . " An excerpt from Sergeant
George S. Sinclair's February 11, 1863 letter to his wife, relative to picket duty
in the Murfreesboro environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
February 9, 1863: "Cavalry are scouting all over the country, stealing money, clothes, foraging,
pressing horses and capturing 'Secesh' soldiers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
February 9, 1863: Affair near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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February 9, 1863: Federal reaction to reports of Confederate conscript sweeps and marauding
on both sides of the Obion River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
February 9, 1863: A visit from General and Mrs. John Hunt Morgan and planning for another
ball in McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
February 10, 1863: Major-General J. J. Reynolds' addendum to his report of February 8, 1863;
a sociological view of the inhabitants of Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
February 10, 1863: General Orders No. 16, relative to Confederates in Federal uniform, issued
by Major-General W. S. Rosecrans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
February 10, 1863: "Of course we had no cooking utensils, and we baked our bread and meat on
sticks before the fire." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
February 10, 1863: Newspaper report on the proceedings of the Army of the Cumberland's police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
February 11, 1863: Brigade commanders of Hardee's Corps ordered to equip commands with
any available arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
February 11, 1863: Request for U. S. Navy gunboat to be sent to mouth of Stones River to destroy
enemy ferries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
February 11, 1863: Lt. A. J. Lacy's letter home to his wife, father and mother . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
February 11, 1863: Dollar value of smuggled goods interdicted by the Army Police . . . . . . . 61
February 11, 1863: Army Police refuse to assist in the capture of a runaway slave . . . . . . . . 61
February 12, 1863: Scout from Murfreesborough, north of the East Fork of the Stones River and
between the Lebanon and Sparta pikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
February 12, 1863: Occupation of FranklinNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
February 12, 1863: Life in the Army of Tennessee's winter camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
February 12, 1863: Chattanooga newspaper editorial regarding the dangers of depreciation of
Confederate currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
February 12, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans proposes to arrest deserters from the Army of the
Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
February 12, 1863: General Joseph E. Johnston reports to President Jefferson Davis urging the
retention of General Braxton Bragg as Commander of the Army of Tennessee
65
February 12, 1863: Prose and poetry in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
February 12, 1863: A New York correspondent's view of life in Civil War Memphis. . . . . . . . 67
February 12, 1863: Comments from "BUSTAMENTE" regarding Bedford County and Wartrace
environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
February 12, 1863: Advertisements in the pages of the Chattanooga Daily Rebel: . . . . . . . . . 73
February 12, 1863: Encouragement of self-reliance in Lincoln county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
February 12, 1863: Seed Scarcity in Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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February 12, 1863: Report on the Army Police Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
February 13, 1863: Pursuit of Confederates on Las Casas Pike to Milton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
February 13, 1863: Skirmish at RoverNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
February 13, 1863: Report of U. S. Military Commission regarding corruption in Memphis . 74
February 13, 1863: Military Commission report on corruption of U. S. detectives in Memphis
75
February 13, 1863: The St. Valentine's Day ball at McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
February 13, 1863: "Though I know there is imminent danger of all our horses being taken, yet
there is much of the ludicrous in the hurry and confusion of men, women, children and horses that I cannot help laughing." An excerpt from the diary of Mary
L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
February 13, 1863: "Skirmishing." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
February 13, 1863: Forage expedition, Memphis to Nonconnah Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
February 13, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange, to Mt. Pleasant & Lamar, MississippiNOTE 1 78
February 14, 1863: Honor Roll Battalion, Army of the Cumberland, established . . . . . . . . . . 78
February 14, 1863: Skirmish at Moscow StationNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
February 14, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans suggests reforms in payment of wages to sick and
wounded soldiers in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
February 14, 1863: FROM GEN. MORGAN'S BRIGADE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
February 14, 1863: Unsuccessful hunt for a Union recruiting agent near Maynardsville . . . . 82
February 14, 1863: An account of railroad travel from Nashville to Murfreesboro—a Civil War
travelogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
February 15, 1863: Skirmishes near Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
February 15, 1863: Skirmish near Cainsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
February 15, 1863: Skirmish near Nolensville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
February 15, 1863: Conditions in Murfreesboro, the beginning of construction of Fortress Rosecrans, and condition of Confederate wounded, an excerpt from the diary of John
C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
February 15, 1863: "Street Miseries." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
February 15, 1863: "The Police." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
February 15, 1863: "Valentine's Day." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
February 15, 1863: Advance, amusements, Confederate cavalry victory, Hardee's marriage and
consolidating the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
February 15, 1863: Metallic coffins, fathers and sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ca. February 15, 1863: Confederate conscript sweeps about Carthage, Jamestown . . . . . . . . 93
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February 15, 1863: Joint navy gunboat, infantry and cavalry patrols, Cumberland to Caney Fork
River, against suspected Confederate gunboat manufacturing sites . . . . . . . 94
February 16, 1863: Skirmish at Bradyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
February 16, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders, No. 38, relative to depredations committed by
Army of Tennessee cavalry commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
February 16, 1863: Regulations governing wagon trains in the Army of the Cumberland . . . 96
February 16, 1863: Letter from Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk, in Shelbyville, to his wife,
Frances, at Ashwood in Maury county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
February 16, 1863: Colonel Beatty's second ride over the Stones River battlefield . . . . . . . . . 99
February 16, 1863: Request for establishment of state courts in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . 100
February 17, 1863: Expedition from Memphis against guerrillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
February 17, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans seeks power to promptly execute death penalty in
order to prevent desertion from the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . 102
February 17, 1863: Confederates escape from the penitentiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
February 17, 1863: Juvenile gang turf battles in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
February 17, 1863: ". . . these laws are about to be enforced in earnest. . . " State and local laws
regulating slaves and free persons of color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
February 17, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
February 17, 1863: Anti-guerrilla expedition from Lexington to Clifton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
February 18, 1863: Affair near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
February 18, 1863: U. S. Secretary of War E. M. Stanton explains to Major-General Rosecrans
why his request for summary execution of deserters cannot be granted . . . 111
February 18, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans disciplines cavalry officer for committing depredations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
February 18, 1863: Arrest and incarceration of wealthy Confederate sympathizers in Nashville
112
February 18, 1863: Federal depredations near Springfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
February 19, 1863: Skirmish near Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
February 19, 1863: "Stones's River" to be inscribed on national colors of each regiment in the
Army of the Cumberland that participated in that battle of Stones River . . 114
February 19, 1863: Colonel Beatty on John Hunt Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
February 19, 1863: ". . . the cuncussion is so greate that they cannot stand it. . . " Frank M.
Guernsey's letter home to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
February 19, 1863: Negro Laws relative to a slave's living arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
February 20, 1863: Skirmish on Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
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February 20, 1863: General Bragg issues General Orders No. 39, relative to health care for
white and black employees of the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
February 20, 1863: Andrew Johnson's Confiscation Proclamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
February 20, 1863: Skirmishing on the Sevierville road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
February 20, 1863: Anti-guerrilla gun control in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
February 20, 1863: Lewis county guerrilla chief Lewis Kirk's conscript sweep in Maury county
120
February 20, 1863: Nashville Fire Company No. 1 sells "Rough and Ready" to Cairo, Illinois
Fire Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
February 20, 1863: Juvenile gangs in Germantown, Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
February 21, 1863: "I proceeded on the Columbia road about 2 miles, and till within 11/4 miles
of Butler's Station, when my advance guard surprised and captured Surgeon
_____ of Colonel Wheeler's cavalry, just as he was in the act of taking a parting
kiss from a most beautiful girl, who had by her surpassing charms inveigled him
from the safety of his camp." Reconnaissance, Franklin, Lewisburg, Columbia
& Carter Creek Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
February 21, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 10, prohibiting the seizure of cotton and its conveyance in U. S. Army wagons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
February 21, 1863: Excerpt from the diary of Myra Adelaide Inman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
February 21, 1863: Thomas' Legion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
February 21, 1863: "I have often thought of you since I left you that Saturday morning when I left
you with tears in your eyes weeping about me having to part a way from you."
Lt. A. J. Lacy's letter to his wife in Jackson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
February 21, 1863: A celebrated woman Confederate spy in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
February 21, 1863: Federal expeditions in Liberty environs in search of Morgan . . . . . . . . 125
February 22, 1863: Testimony to the hospitality of citizens extended to Confederate soldiers in
Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
February 22, 1863: Press warning regarding conscription officer in the Chattanooga environs
126
February 22, 1863: Confederate editorial opinion regarding the fight at Fort Donelson . . 127
February 22, 1863: Skirmish on Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
February 22, 1863: U. S. N. gunboat reconnaissance up Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
February 22, 1863: Combined naval and cavalry expedition, Nashville to Jamestown, Fentress
County, along Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
February 22, 1863: "SUBSTITUTES WANTED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
February 22, 1863: Encouraging patriotism at the Washington Birthday memorial in Nashville
132
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February 22, 1863: John Hill Fergusson explains the Honor Roll Battalion in the Army of the
Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
February 22, 1863: Celebrating George Washington's birthday in Federally occupied Nashville
135
February 23, 1863: A boxing match and wagers in the Army of Tennessee in winter camp in Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
February 23, 1863: Federal Assistant Inspector General for the Army of the Cumberland, Major
James A. Connolly to his wife, relative to conditions in Nashville . . . . . . . 136
February 23, 1863: "The news from Johnson and Carter is quite gloomy." A report on Confederate anti-bushwhacker initiative in Carter and Johnson counties. . . . . . . . . 137
February 24, 1863: Special Orders No. 17, relative to murder of Confederate prisoner of war in
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
February 24, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans cracks down on desertions from the Army of the
Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
February 24, 1863: "Bragg, occasionally to break the tedious monotony of a dull camp life, has
a soldier for some unbecoming conduct shot." Camp life in the Army of Tennessee in Tullahoma; Hannibal Paine's letter to his sister Mary in Washington,
Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
February 24, 1863: Anxiety expressed relative to likely shortage of meat for the Army of Tennessee by June 1, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
February 25, 1863: Unsuccessful pursuit of Confederate cavalry responsible for destroying railroad tracks in La Vergne environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
February 25, 1863: General Rosecrans expresses pleasure at passage of Federal conscription
bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
February 25, 1863: Jesse P. Bates to his wife in Hickman County February . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
February 25, 1863: Letter of James Vascoy, 12th Indiana regiment, to his parents . . . . . . . 146
February 26, 1863: Nashville City Council acts to control Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
February 27, 1863: Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fanny relative to sickness . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
February 27, 1863: Skirmish near Bloomington, on the Hatchie River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
February 27, 1863: Expedition from Fort Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
February 27, 1863: A Concert at the Athenaeum, Columbia, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
February 27, 1863: Guerrilla harassment of U. S. N. patrol on Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . 151
February 28, 1863: Uncertainty on how to proceed with three female Federal prisoners . . . 151
February 28, 1863: "These sweet-smelling, kid-glovey, band-boxy, tea-cakey, ottar-of-rose exquisites, are as plentiful as gnats around a vinegar jug." A Confederate war
correspondent's observations on the Army of Tennessee in winter camp at Tullahoma and news of Williamson county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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February 28, 1863: "At every step I could see the ruins that followed upon the tracks of the infernal Yankees." An Alabama cavalryman's impressions of Middle Tennessee . .
153
February 1863: Expedition and skirmish on the Cumberland River [no date given] . . . . . . . 154
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MARCH 1863
March 1, 1863: Forage expedition and skirmishNOTE 1 at Bradyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
March 1, 1863: Skirmish near Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
March 1, 1863: Convoy arrives in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
March 1, 1863: Gunboat patrol, Nashville to Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
March 1, 1863: Prices for necessities in Confederate Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
March 1, 1863: Class-conscious observations on refugees in Murfreesboro and environs, an excerpt from the diary of John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
March 1, 1863: Punishment for desertion and the attempted murder of an officer in the Army of
the Cumberland in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
March 1, 1863: Report on the Army Police Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
March 2, 1863: Skirmish near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
March 2, 1863: Skirmish near Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
March 2, 1863: Confederate and Federal scouts in Gallatin and Carthage environs . . . . . . . 10
March 2, 1863: A Confederate boot ballad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
March 2, 1863: Scout from LaGrange, Tennessee, to Hudsonville and Salem, Miss., and Saulsbury, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
March 3, 1863: Chattanooga, Gen. Braxton Bragg forbids new recruits or conscripts for Army of
Tennessee to join cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
March 3, 1863: Skirmish near Bear Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
March 3, 1863: Police, Vaccination Bill and More Taxes; a Session of the Memphis Board of
Mayor, Common Council and Aldermen. Some municipal matters discussed at
the regular session of the Memphis City Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
March 3, 1863: Anxiety concerning change in Nashville's negro-church-going population . . 14
March 3, 1863: "The most faithful of their faithful cannot be trusted." The work of the Army Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
March 3, 1863: On the role of women in the war; an excerpt from a Confederate soldier's letter
15
March 3, 1863: Skirmish at Thompson's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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March 3, 1863: Expedition from Concord Church to Chapel Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
March 3, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
March 4, 1863: A visit to the Murfreesborough Battle Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
March 4, 1863: Skirmish at Unionville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
March 4, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
March 4, 1863: Reconnaissance from Franklin to Springfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
March 4, 1863: Skirmish (4th) near Franklin, Tenn., and engagement (5th) at Thompson's Station, or Spring Hill, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
March 4, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough toward Columbia, Tennessee, including skirmishes (4th) at Rover and Unionville, (5th) at Chapel Hill, (9th) at Thompson's
Station, and (10th-11th) at Rutherford Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
March 5, 1863: "A Touching Incident," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
March 5, 1863: Skirmish at Chapel Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
March 5, 1863: Solicitation for a Confederate Conscription Substitute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
March 5, 1863: Soiree and ball in Confederate Chattanooga at "la Chatteau Krouge" . . . . . 48
March 5, 1863: General H. W. Halleck to Major-General W. S. Rosecrans; approval of policy
suggested by Major-General J. J. Reynolds for dealing with disloyal inhabitants
in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
March 5, 1863: Federal situation report at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
March 5, 1863: Observations on Federal officers and courtesans in Murfreesboro, an excerpt
from the diary of John C. Spence [/see also April 17, 1864, War Journal of Lucy
Virginia French below] EXTREF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
March 5, 1863: The death and burial of a family hunting dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
March 5, 1863: "All farming implements are to be seized, all farmers found in a field are to be
arrested and all crops destroyed." Purported Federal Policy to End Farming in
Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
March 5, 1863: "City Hospital." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
March 5, 1863: "Frame Shanties." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
March 5, 1863: "Street Cleaning." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
March 5, 1863: The Battle for Public Health in Memphis; Collaboration between municipal and
military authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
March 5, 1863: Attack on Federal reconnaissance at Panther Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
March 5, 1863: A case of wife-beating in the Nashville Recorder's Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
March 6, 1863: Skirmish at Christiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
March 6, 1863: Skirmish at Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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March 6, 1863: Skirmish at Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
March 6, 1863: Skirmish at Methodist (a.k.a. Brick) Church, Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
March 6, 1863: Federal foraging and arrests of Confederate citizens in Rome and Carthage environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
March 6, 1863: Slave owners in Maury, Giles, Lincoln, counties, Tennessee, ordered to surrender slaves to Confederate forces for use as teamsters to increase strength of
Army of Tennessee by Brigadier-General Gideon J. Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
March 6, 1863: "Colored Church and Ball-Rooms" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
March 6, 1863: "FROM MIDDLE TENNESSEE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
March 6, 1863: Rules governing the Army of the Cumberland ambulance service . . . . . . . . . 63
March 6, 1863: "Heaven help me. I am strange enough as I am." Excerpts from the diary of Mary
L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
March 6, 1863: "Gayoso Block." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
March 6, 1863: "SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS." Editorial approval of street cleaning initiative
in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
March 6, 1863: General Joseph E. Johnston's opinion of R. V. Richardson's activities . . . . . . 66
March 6, 1863: Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough, including skirmishes near Christiana
and at Middleton, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ca. March 6, 1863: Fielding Hurst's Sixth Tennessee Cavalry [U. S. ] burn Jackson and Brownsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
March 7, 1863: Salt rations for soldiers in Army of Tennessee ordered diverted to horses by
Bragg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
March 7, 1863: Summary on Confederate forces firing upon Federal steamboats on the Cumberland river and conscript sweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
March 7, 1863: Letter from Mrs. John A. Rowan to Col. John A. RowanNOTE 1 [C. S. A. ] with
news from home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
March 7, 1863: "I feel very anxious about our future destination. . . " Federal troop movements
on the Cumberland River; excerpts from the letter of G. M. Barber to his wife
73
March 7, 1863: Federal Indignities Against Pro-Confederates in Rutherford County . . . . . . . 74
March 7, 1863: "To the stranger there can be no more interesting place to visit; to the citizen,
none more useful; for here he may see how degraded human nature may be elevated to the dignity of refined art, and made useful and even ornamental to society." A visit to the State Penitentiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
March 7, 1863: Two female soldiers honorably discharched in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
March 8, 1863: Confederate scout, College Grove, Murfreesborough, Salem, Overall Creek, Triune and Eagleville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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March 8, 1863: Two skirmishes and patrol on Harpeth River near Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
March 8, 1863: Capture of forage train at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
March 8, 1863: Skirmish at Spring Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
March 8, 1863: Skirmish near Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
March 8, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS No. 43, relative to exiling Confederate sympathizers south
of Federal lines in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
March 8, 1863: Expedition from Franklin to Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
March 8, 1863: Expedition from Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
March 8, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange and skirmishes near Covington on the 9th and 10th
86
March 9, 1863: Skirmish at Thompson's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
March 9, 1863: Skirmish at Spring Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
March 9, 1863: Skirmish near Covington (dispersal of Richardson's Partisan Rangers) . . . . 91
March 9, 1863: Skirmish-mistaken wounding of Union supporter and burning of houses near
Jackson's Mills on Loosahatachie River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
March 9, 1863: Confederate scouts, College Grove, Eagleville, Harpeth Creek vicinities . . . 91
March 9, 1863: Federal cavalry scout on the Manchester Pike near Murfreesborough . . . . . 92
March 9, 1863: Johnston ordered to order Bragg to Richmond "for conference." . . . . . . . . . . 92
March 9, 1863: Skirmish between bushwhackers and Confederate cavalry at Smokey Creek in
Scott County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
March 9, 1863: A case of mistaken identity during an expedition by the 7th Kansas and 4th Illinois Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
March 9, 1863: Federal report on the position of Confederate troops in Tennessee . . . . . . . . 94
March 9, 1863: Skirmish with R. V. Richardson's Partisan Rangers near Concordance and the
capture of Confederate Brigadier General Robert H. Looney, 7th Kansas and
6th Illinois cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
March 9, 1863: "These are all the facts in the case, and I earnestly hope that they will exonerate
me from all culpable neglect in the premises." Confederate problems in feeding
Federal prisoners taken at Thompson's Station, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
March 9, 1863: Reconnaissance from Salem to Versailles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
March 10, 1863: Skirmish near Covington (Concordia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
March 10, 1863: Skirmish at East Beaver Dam Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
March 10, 1863: Skirmish at Rutherford Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
March 10, 1863: Skirmish near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
March 10, 1863: Report on construction of Federal gunboat at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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March 10, 1863: Confederate scouts, Shelbyville to Caney Spring, Eagleville, Harpeth River,
Triune, Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
March 10, 1863: "A Skirmish near Jackson, Tennessee—A Federal Force Surrounded and
Captured."NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
March 10, 1863: "New Military Commission." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
March 10, 1863: "Street Improvement;" Public Health Initiative in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
March 10, 1863: "Wholesale Smuggling." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
March 10, 1863: "Do not my dear feel misery about me." Captain G. M. Barber's comments regarding Federal garrison duty in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
March 10, 1863: General Davis' pickets turned back by Confederate foreces at the forks of the
Versailles and Eagleville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
March 10, 1863: Complaints about Dispatch article of March 6, "Colored Churches and Balls.”
105
March 10, 1863: Confederate Colonel P. D. Roddey's paper shortage is relieved . . . . . . . . . 105
March 10, 1863: Skirmishes at Rutherford Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
March 10, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough to Salem, Versailles, Eagleville, Triune and
the Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
March 10, 1863: Scout to La Fayette and Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
March 11, 1863: Skirmish at Rutherford Creek [incidental to March 4-14, 1863, Expedition from
Murfreesborough toward Columbia, Tennessee, etc., above] . . . . . . . . . . . 110
March 11, 1863: Chattanooga, two poems, "Maid of the Mountain" and "Ode" . . . . . . . . . . 110
March 11, 1863: Burning of warehouse in Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
March 11, 1863: "In Canvass Bower." A sophisticated and satirical look at the Confederate soldier's life during winter camp at Tullahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
March 11, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 45, relative to organization and inspection of artillery units in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
March 11, 1863: J. A. Rogers, assistant surgeon, 28th Tennessee Regiment, in camp in the Tullahoma environs writes home to his father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
March 11, 1863: "There is nothing of importance to write—our Division took a trip to Woodbury,
20 miles east of here last week and routed Morgan's gang." Colonel John T.
Wilder's letter home to his wife in Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
March 11, 1863: An account of Ella V. Reno and Sarah E. Bradbury, Federal soldiers . . . . 114
March 11, 1863: Gender incognito and the cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
March 12, 1863: Reconnaissances near Columbia, Duck River, in search of Van Dorn . . . . 116
March 12, 1863: Repairs to Federal fort at Gallatin ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
March 12, 1863: Grand Festival in Confederate Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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March 12, 1863: A Texas Ranger's Letter from Fairfield, Bedford County, Middle Tennessee . .
120
March 12, 1863: "Women can in no way more conclusively give evidence of the devotion to the
cause of their country than in ministering to the wants of her suffering soldiers."
121
March 12, 1863: "Small Pox." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
March 12, 1863: "Tornado." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
March 12, 1863: Rosecrans orders Confederate devotees exiled South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
March 12, 1863: Holston Journal editorial calling for an end to partisan strife in East Tennessee
123
March 12, 1863: Confederate wounded and prisoners of war in Nashville: excerpts from the diary of John Hill Fergusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
March 13, 1863: Skirmish at Holt's Corners, Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
March 13, 1863: Running skirmish from Eagleville to Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
March 13, 1863: Burning of two houses in Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
March 13, 1863: Report on food supplies for Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
March 13, 1863: Confederate scouts in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
March 13, 1863: Confederate conscripts captured near CharlotteNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
March 13, 1863: "They are rank, vile Abolitionists and should be treated a men liable to incite
servile insurrection." News and rumors from Confederate occupied Shelbyville
130
March 14, 1863: Skirmish at Davis' Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
March 14, 1863: "Chattynoogy Rebel" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
March 14, 1863: "If we can't have our families protected, what have we to fight for?" Correspondence from a Soldier in co. A, 32nd Tennessee Regiment in the Tullahoma environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
March 14, 1863: Repulse of Confederate reconnoitering party near Morristown . . . . . . . . . 134
March 14, 1863: Army Navy expedition, Fort Heiman, Kentucky, to Perryville, Tennessee . 134
March 15, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
March 15, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
March 15, 1863: Skirmish near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
March 15, 1863: Confederate scout and skirmish near Versailles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
March 15, 1863: General Bragg forbids use of negro teamsters for Army of Tennessee ordnance
and ambulance trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
March 15, 1863: Measures by Federal forces to protect public health in Murfreesboro, an excerpt from the diary of John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
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March 15, 1863: Sol. Street's guerrilla band's activities near Grand Junction NOTE 1 . . . . . . 136
March 15, 1863: "Dead Animals" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
March 15, 1863: "No drilling is allowed on Sunday. . . " Excerpts from Gershom M. Barber's letter home from Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
ca. March 15, 1863: The fate of a Confederate Middle Tennessee guerrilla leader . . . . . . . 139
March 15, 1863: Witnessing a black religious service in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
March 16, 1863: Confederate stratagem to raid Murfreesborough and kidnap Major-General
RosecransNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
March 16, 1863: Skirmish at Holt's Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
March 16, 1863: A Confederate soldier's observations about his home place in the Cleveland environs while on furlough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
March 16, 1863: Sol Street's guerrilla attack on a Federal forage train foiled by U. S. Cavalry
between LaGrange and Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
March 16, 1863: Grand Review of the Army of the Cumberland in Murfreesboro; excerpts from
the letter of Albert Potter, Fourth Michigan cavalry, to his sister . . . . . . . 142
March 16, 1863: Punishment for disobedience of orders, 34th Illinois Infantry, Murfreesboro .
143
March 16, 1863: Expedition from Jackson to Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
March 17, 1863: A visit by a military poet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
March 17, 1863: Federal foraging east of the Harpeth River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
March 17, 1863: Confederate scout in Murfreesborough and Versailles environs . . . . . . . . 144
March 17, 1863: Confederate scout from Unionville to College Grove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
March 17, 1863: Running skirmish between Nashville and Carthage along Cumberland River between U. S. N. convoy and guerrillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
March 17, 1863: Army orders improvements to public sanitation in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . 145
March 17, 1863: Conditions in Middle Tennessee, excerpts from a letter to Mrs. U. G. Owen . .
146
March 17, 1863: Continued difficulties procuring meat and arms for the Army of Tennessee 147
March 17, 1863: Confederate scouts in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
March 17, 1863: Confederate guerrillas capture the Grampus No. 2 at mouth of Wolf River, at
Island Little Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
March 17, 1863: John Hunt Morgan entertains Lucy Virginia French with war stories . . . 151
March 17, 1863: Nashville newsboys become nuisances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
March 17, 1863: Smugglers, harboring guerrillas and female soldiers in Nashville . . . . . . . 154
March 17, 1863: Private Fergusson floats petition to remove company B's lieutenant . . . . . 155
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March 18, 1863: Federal occupation of Cainsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
March 18, 1863: Tobacco shortage in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
March 18, 1863: "By Grape-Vine and Otherwise" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
March 18, 1863: Confederate cavalry hunts Scott County bushwhackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
March 18, 1863: Dog tents; an excerpt from the diary of Colonel John Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . 156
March 18, 1863: ". . . we give them shot and shell on every sid untell the hole of them surrendered." Letter of W. J. Thompson, a private in H Company of the 4th Tennessee
(McClemore's) Cavalry, near Columbia, to his family in Marion County . 157
March 18, 1863: An Encounter with Guerrillas South of Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
March 18, 1863: "This place is quite dull now." News from McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
March 18, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
March 19, 1863: Confederate reconnaissance and skirmish near Readyville . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
March 19, 1863: Skirmish at Statesville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
March 19, 1863: Running skirmish from Prosperity Church to Auburn [today Auburntown] on
Auburn Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
March 19, 1863: Skirmish at Richland Station [today Portland, Tennessee] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
March 19, 1863: Skirmish at Spring Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
March 19, 1863: Skirmish at Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
March 19, 1863: Skirmish near College Grove, and destruction of Federal bridge over Harpeth
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
March 19, 1863: Confederate scout, Unionville to Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
March 19, 1863: Confederates capture passenger train near Mitchellville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
March 19, 1863: Confederate scouts in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
March 19, 1863: "The Adams Hospital." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
March 19, 1863: Street Lighting Problems in Memphis; Profit vs. the Public Good . . . . . . . 171
March 19, 1863: Skirmish with and capture of guerrillas near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
March 19, 1863: Assurances from Winchester Urging Crop Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
March 19, 1863: Marital difficulty in Lincoln county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
March 19, 1863: Barter economics in Lincoln County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
March 19, 1863: Confederate scout, Unionville to Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
March 20, 1863: Confederate scouts in Murfreesborough, Eagleville and College Grove environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
March 20, 1863: Scout and skirmish on Middleton-Salem Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
March 20, 1863: Skirmish three miles west of Murfreesboro, on the Salem Pike near the Stones
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River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
March 20, 1863: Attack on Union positions on Stones River, near Murfreesborough . . . . . . 177
March 20, 1863: Action at Vaught's Hill, near Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
March 20, 1863: "I would like two flannel shirts with flannel collars." Clothing and medicinal
needs in Murfreesboro, excerpts from Gershom M. Barber's letter from Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
March 20, 1863: "Juvenile Crime." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
March 20, 1863: ". . . I just wish you could see our camp. it is one of the most beautiful places you
ever saw;" Frank M. Guernsey's letter home to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
March 20, 1863: J. A. Rogers, assistant surgeon, 28th Tennessee Regiment, in Tullahoma environs, to his father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
March 20, 1863: The Public Debate on Sanitation in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
March 20, 1863: Sanitation measures taken by the Memphis Board of Mayor and Aldermen 192
March 20, 1863: "TENNESSEE BANK NOTES AND THEIR BROKERS." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
March 20, 1863: "Markets and Monopolies." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
March 20, 1863: A day in Recorder's Court, Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
March 20, 1863: Reconnaissance, Unionville environs, Wilkinson pike, and road between Murfreesborough and Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
March 20, 1863: J. G. M. Ramsey offers interest bearing bonds to fund the Confederate war debt
195
March 21, 1863: A Funeral, Confederate Attack and Incorrigibles; Excerpts from the letter of
Captain Gershom M. Barber from Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
March 21, 1863: General Joseph E. Johnston reports on food collection work for Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
March 21, 1863: Reconnaissance, Milton to Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
March 21, 1863: Scout, Milton to Cainsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
March 21, 1863: Scout, Milton to Statesville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
March 21, 1863: Scout, Milton to beyond Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
March 21, 1863: Scout from Milton to junction of Liberty and Las Casas pikes . . . . . . . . . . 197
March 21, 1863: Confederate scout, Unionville to Black's Ship, 7 miles from Murfreesborough
198
March 21, 1863: Cavalry skirmish with supply boats on the Cumberland River, near
CarthageNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
March 21, 1863: Skirmish near Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
March 21, 1863: Skirmish at Salem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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March 21, 1863: Skirmish near Federal picket lines at Murfreesboro; excerpt from the letter of
Albert Potter, 4th Michigan cavalry, to his father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
March 21, 1863: Scout, Middleburg toward Somerville as far as Whiteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
March 21, 1863: Unethical business practices in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
March 21, 1863: Guerrilla attack on railway train between Bolivar & Grand Junction . . . . 202
March 21, 1863: Federals ambush Confederates near College Grove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
March 21, 1863: Skirmishing near Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
March 21, 1863: "City Lighting." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
March 21, 1863: Fires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
March 21, 1863: "The Dust." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
March 21, 1863: "For the past three weeks I have been very sick with the fever." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
March 21, 1863: Scout from LaGrange to Saulsbury, and skirmish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
March 22, 1863: Confederate scout, College Hill, Harpeth River, Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
March 22, 1863: Skirmish near Murfreesborough, guerrillas attack train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
March 22, 1863: Confederate raid on Memphis & Charleston Railroad wood train at Grand
Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
March 22, 1863: J. A. Rogers, assistant surgeon, 28th Tennessee Regiment, in Tullahoma environs, to his father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
March 22, 1863: Lt. A. J. Lacy's letter to his wife in Jackson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
March 22, 1863: Women in McMinnville talk about the progress of the war in Middle Tennessee
211
March 22, 1863: Tragedy in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
March 22, 1863: Pegram's Raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
March 23, 1863: Ambush of Federals near Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
March 23, 1863: Skirmish near Thompson's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
March 23, 1863: Constant guerrilla attacks on Cumberland River shipping from Carthage 215
March 23, 1863: Confederate scout, Lebanon to near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
March 23, 1863: Amandus Silsby, in Murfreesboro, his letter to his father in Wisconsin . . . 216
March 23, 1863: Confederate scouts, Unionville to Murfreesborough and Triune . . . . . . . . 217
March 24, 1863: Skirmish at Davis Mill's Road, near LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
March 24, 1863: Skirmish at Pocahontas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
March 24, 1863: U. S. gunboats Robb and Silver Lake bombard Confederate conscripting party
in vicinity of Carrollville and Clifton on the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . 218
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March 24, 1863: Federal expeditions from Carthage to Rome and Hartsville . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
March 24, 1863: Major-General Granger's assessment of local support for the Confederacy . .
219
March 24, 1863: "SOL. STREET AND THE GRAND JUNCTION RAID;" a correction from Major Smith, First West Tennessee Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
March 24, 1863: "The Dirty Street Theory;" the pre-germ-theory debate on public health in occupied Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
March 24, 1863: "A Gentleman Robbed of his Pocket-Book While Asleep." . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
March 24, 1863: Cobblers sought in Confederate Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
March 25, 1863: Guerrillas Harass Federal gunboats on Cumberland River in Rome environs
224
March 25, 1863: Actions at Brentwood and on the Little Harpeth River, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . 224
March 25, 1863: Cavalry skirmish on Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
March 25, 1863: Counter-guerrilla skirmish near Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
March 25, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas at Rice's Mill on the Hatchie RiverNOTE 1 . . . . . . 246
March 25, 1863: SILVER BUGLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
March 25, 1863: "How a Memphian Lost Fifty Dollars." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
March 25, 1863: "The Conscription in Tennessee;" Rumors of drafting galvanized Rebels in the
Federal Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
March 25, 1863: "UNIONISM IN NASHVILLE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
March 25, 1863: General Rosecrans sends Confederate sympathizers south beyond Union lines
248
March 25, 1863: Report on Conditions in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
March 26, 1863: Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough to Bradyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
March 26, 1863: Scout and skirmish, Auburn environsNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
March 26, 1863: A private in the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Zeboim Cartter Patten, relates
his conversations with Confederate prisoners of war in Franklin environs 250
March 26, 1863: "SMALL POX HOSPITAL." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
March 26, 1863: "A CHALLENGE DRILL." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
March 26, 1863: Rumors of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
March 26, 1863: Mdme. Lizzie Phillips' Stand-up Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
March 26, 1863: "City Taxes." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
March 26, 1863: "I find it pretty hard work to write as my hand is very unsteady and I am quite
weak yet. . . " Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
March 26, 1863: Inflation and Confederate Currency in Lincoln County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
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March 26, 1863: Effect of Confederate depredations on crop development in Middle Tennessee
254
March 26, 1863: Federal occupation prevents gubernatorial election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
March 26, 1863: Pressing slaves to work on Fort Negley; an excerpt from the diary of John Hill
Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
March 27, 1863: Skirmish on the Woodbury Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
March 27, 1863: U. S. N. begins twice weekly supply convoys on Cumberland River to Nashville
257
March 27, 1863: Assault and battery in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
March 27, 1863: A West Tennessee-Confederate-soldier's letter home to his mother in occupied
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
March 27, 1863: "Not another pill will I swallow except opium. I rather like its effect." Excerpts
from the diary of Mary L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
March 27, 1863: "In my opinion in less than sixty days the rebellion will not be half as strong as
it now is." Excerpts from Captain Gershom M. Barber's letter home from Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
March 27, 1863: Expedition, U. S. N., Tennessee River-counterinsurgencyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . 261
March 28, 1863: Confederate scout, Unionville to Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
March 28, 1863NOTE 1: Skirmish at Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
March 28, 1863: A Negro teamster escapes execution during the battle of Stones River, an excerpt from the letter of Amandus Silsby to his parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
March 28, 1863: Expeditions from LaGrange to Moscow and Macon, and action near Belmont
263
March 29, 1863: Action at Belmont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
March 29, 1863: Affair at Moscow-attack on passenger train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
March 29, 1863: Confederate attack on carpenters at Savannah, and Union cavalry scouts 269
March 29, 1863: Special Orders No. 52, Memphis, providing for the exile of wealthy Confederate
sympathizers from Memphis as retaliation for a guerrilla attack on train passengers train near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
March 29, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 63, relative to banning use of Confederate scrip and
regulation of cotton purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
March 29, 1863: "Night before last we had an awful time." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie
270
March 29, 1863: "But I fear that I am giving way at last under this long, long pressure of anxiety
and tension upon the nerves." An entry from the War Journal of Lucy Virginia
French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
March 29, 1863: Bodyguards and the Buildup for the Middle Tennessee Campaign. Excerpts
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from the letter of Captain Gershom M. Barber in Murfreesboro to his wife 272
March 29, 1863: ". . . I can say to you that my arm is very sore from vaccination." The letter of
Corporal W. C. TrippNOTE 1, Company B, 44th Tennessee Infantry, in Tullahoma, to his wife Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
March 29, 1863: Confederates cross Cumberland River near Hartsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
March 30, 1863: Correspondence relative to enforcement of GENERAL ORDERS, No. 43 . 275
March 30, 1863: Arms shipments to Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
March 30, 1863: Confederate authorities in East Tennessee encourage emigration beyond Confederate lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
March 30, 1863: Punishing smugglers, fraud and treason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
March 30, 1863: Confederate scout from Unionville to Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
March 31, 1863: Confederate scout and skirmish near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
March 31, 1863: Skirmish near Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
March 31, 1863: Federal foraging along Cumberland River near Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
March 31, 1863: "UNION MEETING IN TENNESSEE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
March 31, 1863: Skirmishes near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
March 31, 1863: Action at Boyd's Landing, Tennessee River, U. S. N. amphibious assault and destruction of a cotton factoryNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
March 31, 1863: Scout from Lexington to mouth of Duck River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
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April 1, 1863: April Fool's joke played on General B. F. Cheatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
April 1, 1863: Skirmish near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
April 1, 1863: Skirmish at Germantown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
April 1, 1863: Skirmish on the Columbia Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
April 1, 1863: Gunboat expedition to the Duck River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
April 1, 1863: Skirmish on Carter Creek Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
April 1, 1863: Thoughts on the progress of the war and life in the camp of the 24th Wisconsin Infantry near Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
April 1, 1863: Francis Miller, Female Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
April 1, 1863: Foraging and fighting in Middle Tennessee. The letter of Col. John T. Wilder home
to his wife in Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
April 1, 1863: A description of change in Murfreesboro from August 1862 to April 1863 . . . . . 5
April 1, 1863: Federal scouts, Mt. Pleasant and Lawrenceburg, heavy skirmishing at Shelbyville
7
April 1, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to Lebanon, Carthage, & Liberty . . . . . . . . 7
April 1, 1863: Expedition from Jackson to the Hatchie River and skirmishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
April 2, 1863: Expedition from Readyville to Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
April 2, 1863: Skirmish on the Carter Creek Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
April 2, 1863: Guerrilla attack on U. S. ships at Palmyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
April 2, 1863: Occupation of Lebanon and Liberty by Federal forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
April 2, 1863: Skirmish at Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
April 2, 1863: Reports of Confederate foraging in the Mount Pleasant, Lawrenceburg, Lowryville and Waynesborough environs, and heavy skirmishing in front of Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
April 2, 1863: Inspection of Roddey's and Patterson's cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
April 2, 1863: Political re-education in Lexington, Henderson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
April 2, 1863: Children, songs and a war souvenir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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April 2, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough to Auburn, Lebanon, Carthage, Cherry; Valley, Statesville, Snow Hill & Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
April 2, 1863: Scout in Beaver Creek Swamp, West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
April 2, 1863: Federal Expeditionary forces on line from Bolivar to Covington, Tipton County,
all territory west of Covington and Beaver Creek to the Mississippi River and
back to Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
April 3, 1863: Skirmish at Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
April 3, 1863: Skirmish, Snow Hill (Smith's Ford) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
April 3, 1863: Skirmish near and burning of Confederate supplies at Taylorsville . . . . . . . . . 29
April 3, 1863: Attack upon US steamboats at Iron Pike Shoals, Cumberland River, near Palmyra
29
April 3, 1863: Capture of Federal soldiers near Taylorsville and amputation near Lebanon . 29
ca. April 3, 1863: Scout near Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
April 4, 1863: Skirmish on Nonconnah Creek, near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
April 4, 1863: Capture of Federal soldiers at Starnes' Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
April 4, 1863: Skirmish at Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
April 4, 1863: Skirmish on the Lewisburg Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
April 4, 1863: Report to President Jefferson's office regarding subsistence difficulties of Army of
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
April 4, 1863: False alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
April 4, 1863: U. S. policy toward recruiting contraband artillerists and trade restrictions in
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
April 4, 1863: Federal anti-guerrilla expedition and measures along the Cumberland River 36
April 4, 1863: Movement of Confederate cavalry, Unionville to McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
April 4, 1863: Confederate deserters in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
April 5, 1863: “Found a few stragglers in Palymyra; killed two or three; burned the town; not a
house left; a very bad hole; best to get rid of it and teach the rebels a lesson.”
Sack of Palmyra by U. S. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
April 5, 1863: Skirmish at Davis Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
April 5, 1863: Confederate attack on Federal force near Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
April 5, 1863: Confederate scout Chapel Hill to College Grove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
April 5, 1863: Impressions of Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
April 5, 1863: "Our boys are still at work on the fortifications." Excerpts from the letter of Captain Gershom M. Barber in Murfreesboro to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
April 5, 1863: Scout between Chop Spring and Baird's Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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April 5, 1863: Scout from Grand Junction to Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
April 5, 1863: Scout from LaGrange, Tennessee, to Early Grove & Mt. Pleasant, Mississippi 43
April 6, 1863: Expedition, Nashville to Green Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
April 6, 1863: Skirmish near Green Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
April 6, 1863: Destruction of Confederate wheat and flour and sabotage of flour mill on Caney
Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
April 6, 1863: Skirmish at Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
April 6, 1863: Report of Confederate Chief Engineer regarding bridge defenses in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
April 6, 1863: Confederate scouts from Shelbyville to the Harpeth River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
April 6, 1863: Letter from Catherine Cooper in Columbia to her sons, James C. and Thomas
Cooper, Confederate soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
April 7, 1863: Railroad obstructed, Germantown, in reprisal rebel families sent south of Union
lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
April 7, 1863: Capture of Confederates near Snow Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
April 7, 1863: Skirmishing, Snow Hill to Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
April 7, 1863: Report on subversive civilian activities in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
April 7, 1863: Wheeler's raid on Louisville and Nashville and Nashville and Chattanooga Railroads, including affair (April 10) at Antioch Station, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
April 7, 1863: Arrest and release of Fannie Battle and Harriet Booker as Confederate spies . 60
April 8, 1863: "I want you to buy land or land certificates or a young Negro;" Jesse P. Bates to
his wife in Hickman County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
April 8, 1863: "Mrs. Smith is a very talkative woman and a regular rebel. I have lots of fun with
her." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
April 8, 1863: Confederate coney-catching near Wartrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
April 8, 1863: Brigadier-General George Maney expresses preferences for decorating gallantry
in the Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
April 9, 1863: Confederate attack on L&N train near Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
April 9, 1863: Skirmish near the Obion River and Confederate conscript sweep . . . . . . . . . . . 67
April 9, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders No. 76 forbidding intercourse with prisoners of war
68
April 9, 1863: A Fair Squabble" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
April 9, 1863: Scout to Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
April 9, 1863: Results of a Fourth Michigan cavalry scout; excerpts from the letter of Albert Potter to his family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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April 10, 1863: Skirmish near Waverly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
April 10, 1863: Confederate attack on a train near Hermitage, on Cumberland River . . . . . . 70
April 10, 1863: Engagement at Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
April 10, 1863: A trip from Fairmont to Lebanon; excerpt from a Confederate woman's diary .
72
April 10, 1863: AffairNOTE 1 at Antioch Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
April 10, 1863: Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk suggests stiffening security at military hospitals to decrease the desertion rate of the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
April 10, 1863: "I have never been able to see sufficient grounds for secession and war." Williamson Younger, Carroll county tailor, on the course of the war . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
April 10, 1863: Public notice identifying runaway slaves and calling for their return to masters
75
April 10, 1863: Scout, LaGrange, Hudsonville, Lockhart's Mills, Mt. Pleasant, Early Grove, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
April 11, 1863: Grand Review of the Army of Tennessee in Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
April 11, 1863: Scout from LaGrange to Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
April 11, 1863: Skirmish, Salisbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
April 11, 1863: An account of a the rescue of some Federal prisoners of war south of Spring Hill
78
April 11, 1863: Thoughts on de facto social suppression of free speech in White County . . . . 78
April 11, 1863: Military Governor Andrew Johnson requests that his son be placed in command
of four cavalry regiments from East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
April 11, 1863: Observations on the camp life of Confederate soldiers in Middle Tennessee . 79
April 11, 1863: ". . . I desire very much for you to be here. . . " Corporal William Calvin Tripp's
letter to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
April 11, 1863: Oak boards solicited in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
April 11, 1863: Scouts along the Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
April 11, 1863: Expedition, Nashville to Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
April 12, 1863: Skirmish at Stewartsborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
April 12, 1863: Confederate attack on a train near Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
April 12, 1863: Federal suppression of the press in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
April 12, 1863: Report on Confederate cavalry activity in "the Peninsula," from Liberty to Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
April 12, 1863: Major-General Gordon Granger's proposes strategy to combat Confederate Major-General Van Dorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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April 12, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 78, relative to tent allowance for the Army of the Cumberland while in active field service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
April 12, 1863: Major General W. S. Rosecrans' bad news for Andrew Johnson about his son
Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
April 12, 1863: Brigadier General John Beatty's confession and word of warning to historians of
the battle of Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
April 12, 1863: "Now Fannie Dear I will tell you of a scrape I got into which came very near costing me dear." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
April 12, 1863: "He vowed I was the meanest girl he ever saw & he would not tell me anything
else." An excerpt from the diary of Mary L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
April 13, 1863: Three Federal regiments sent to Rome to protect U. S. shipping on the Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
April 13, 1863: Skirmish near Chapel Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
April 13, 1863: Retaliatory actions against guerrillas and supporters, Franklin to Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
April 13, 1863: Plea to Confederate Secretary of War for release of prisoner of war from Maury
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
April 13, 1863: Letter from Lafayette McDowell in the Army of Tennessee at Tullahoma to his sister Amanda in White County, relating conditions in the army . . . . . . . . . . . 94
April 13, 1863: U. S. forces protect boats on Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
April 14, 1863: Lt. A. J. Lacy's letter to his father in Jackson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
April 14, 1863: "We have the medical supplies at the Purveyor's office, but can not have them distributed to the different commands without bottles." Confederate women provide bottles to the Eighth Tennessee Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers . . . 96
April 14, 1863: Bacon solicited in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
April 14, 1863: The John Waggoner murder trial, an example of civil justice in Civil War Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
April 15, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange to Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
April 15, 1863: Federal scouts along the Harpeth River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
April 15, 1863: Confederates destroy railroad track north of Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
April 15, 1863: Cumberland River expedition to recover remains of U. S. S. Sidell at Harpeth
Shoals and capture of guerrillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
April 15, 1863: Skirmish near Middleton] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
April 15, 1863: Secret Expedition, Carthage to Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
April 15, 1863: Scouts, Franklin on Hardin Pike near Harpeth, in search of Confederate cavalry
109
April 15, 1863: Captured letter to home giving information on the strength of Army of Tennessee
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April 15, 1863: Report to President Jefferson C. Davis on the condition of the Army of Tennessee
110
April 15, 1863: EXHIBIT C of Report to President Jefferson C. Davis on the condition of the
Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
April 15, 1863: EXHIBIT D of Report to President Jefferson C. Davis on the condition of the
Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
April 15, 1863: EXHIBIT G of Report to President Jefferson C. Davis on the condition of the
Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
April 15, 1863: Scouts on the Hardin Pike near Harpeth River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
April 15, 1863: Federal scout, Moscow across the Wolf River, east to LaGrange, to Grand Junction-ambush at Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
April 15, 1863: ". . . [T]he man in the moon must hold his nose;" an excerpt from a medical report
relative to the hygienic conditions of the Army of the Cumberland in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
ca. April 15, 1863: U. S. N. patrol on Tennessee River between Hamburg, Tennessee, and Eastport, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
April 16, 1863: Skirmish near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
April 16, 1863: Confederate conscript sweep between Liberty and Alexandria and poor morale
among Federals at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
April 16, 1863: Federal cavalry scout from Pocahontas to Bolivar environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
April 16, 1863: The provision question for Middle Tennessee farmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
April 16, 1863: A suggestion for recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
April 16, 1863: "Altogether it was the most dismal ride I ever took in my life, to say nothing of
being uncomfortable." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
April 17, 1863: An Orderly Sergeant gives birth in Nashville; women in the Civil War . . . . 126
April 17, 1863: "Just before our Regt quit the Col got us in line of battle across the old field and
told us he wanted us to make a charge just like we did when we charged the
Yanks." Letters of William D. Rogers, 1st Florida Infantry, Army of Tennessee,
to his family, describing camp life, a review and drill of Breckenridge's Division
near Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
April 17, 1863: "Lisa, there was one of the best jokes in Camp the other day you ever heard of."
T. H. Boles', 44th Tennessee, in Wartrace to wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
April 17, 1863: News from McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
April 17, 1863: Confederate scout, Centreville to Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
April 17, 1863: Federal initiative to drive Confederates from region between the Stones River,
Caney Fork, and Cumberland Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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April 17, 1863: Grierson's Raid from LaGrange, Tennessee, to Baton Rouge, LANOTE 1
April 18, 1863: Skirmish at HartsvilleNOTE 1
. . 132
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
April 18, 1863: Capture of wagon train and seventy Federal prisoners by Carter Scouts . . . 134
April 18, 1863: General Hurlbut justifies expulsion of Memphis citizens in fight against guerrillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
April 18, 1863: Andrew Johnson's orders for occupation of Tennessee from the U. S. War
DepartmentNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
April 18, 1863: Expedition from Memphis to Coldwater, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
April 18, 1863: Confederate conscription notice for Sevier county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
April 19, 1863: Skirmish at Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
April 19, 1863: Federal attack upon Celina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
April 19, 1863: "By this time a squad of Federal cavalry had surrounded the yard and four were
sitting on their horses at the gate." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
April 19, 1863: Observations on the Sabbath in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
April 20, 1863: Special Orders, No. 98, relative to transfer of Confederate prisoners from Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
April 20, 1863: Lt. Albert Potter's opinion of negro troops; an excerpt from his letter to his sister
141
April 20, 1863: Expedition from Murfreesborough to McMinnville, destruction of Manchester to
McMinnville railroad by Federal forces under Brigadier-General J. J.
ReynoldsNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
April 21, 1863: Capture of McMinnville by Federal forces; a woman's account . . . . . . . . . . 153
April 21, 1863: Federal orders indefinitely to keep cavalry on Lebanon Pike and Stones River .
159
April 21, 1863: Federal cavalry feint during attack upon McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
April 21, 1863: A sham battle at Tullahoma: R. D. Jamison's (49th Tennessee Infantry) letter to
his spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
April 21, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans issues GENERAL ORDERS, No. 87, relative to the observance of the national day of prayer and fasting, April 30, 1863 . . . . . . 161
April 21, 1863: Ellet's Marine Brigade destroy mills and commissary supplies near Savannah .
161
April 21, 1863: Consequences for Disloyalty in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
April 21, 1863: "Read this to them and If I live to get home safe and sound they may dread me and
my navy." Lieutenant A. J. Lacy's letter home to his parents in Jackson County
162
April 21, 1863: "Southern soldiers will visit their friends. . . " An excerpt from the diary of Mary
L. Pearre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
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April 21, 1863: The oath or exile in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
April 21, 1863: Correspondence between Major General W. S. Rosecrans and President Abraham Lincoln about an alleged conflict between the military police and civil authority in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
April 21, 1863: Federal reconnaissance and demonstration in force, Murfreesborough to Stones
River on Lebanon Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
April 21, 1863: Federal reconnaissance in force from Murfreesborough on Shelbyville Pike 165
April 21, 1863: Federal feint, from Murfreesborough on Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
April 21, 1863: Reconnaissance in force, Murfreesborough to Nashville to guard against enemy
passage over Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
April 21, 1863: The Third Tennessee [U. S. ] Cavalry in McMinnville and environs . . . . . . 167
April 22, 1863: Skirmish at Hartsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
April 22, 1863: Skirmish at McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
April 22, 1863: Coercing loyalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
April 22, 1863: A Traveler's Observations on the Life of Confederate Soldiers in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
April 23, 1863: Skirmish on Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
April 23, 1863: Guerrilla depredations near Richland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
April 23, 1863: Bragg orders ordnance officers of Army of Tennessee to remain with their trains
during battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
April 23, 1863: John Hunt Morgan's report on the fighting in McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
April 23, 1863: Lincoln county confederate tax assessors for 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
April 23, 1863: Public Health Problems in Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
April 24, 1863: Engagement at Green Bottom Bar, Tennessee River (U. S. N. ) . . . . . . . . . . 175
April 24, 1863: Federal foraging and reconnoitering expedition in College Hill, Bethesda,
Spring Hill environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
April 24, 1863: Change in decorations for valor in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . 177
April 24, 1863: Provost Orders—No. 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
April 25, 1863: General Orders No. 11 issued by Hardee at Wartrace, to repress depredations
178
April 25, 1863: Capture of seventy-five Federal prisoners by the Carter Scouts . . . . . . . . . . 178
April 25, 1863: General Braxton Bragg defines "detached service" designation to maintain administrative discipline in the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
April 25, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 91 changes in flag insignia and unit designations for
the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
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April 25, 1863: Planned Confederate demonstration on Murfreesborough countermanded by
General Bragg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
April 25, 1863: Order from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to allow for the demonstration of
Starr pistols within Federal lines in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
April 25, 1863: ". . . any failure to so report will be severely punished." William Truesdail, Chief
of the Army Police, to keep a list of new arrivals in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . 183
April 26, 1863: Affair near College GroveNOTE 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
April 26, 1863: Skirmish at Fort Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
April 26, 1863: Engagement, U. S. N. and Brigadier-General Alfred W. Ellet's Mississippi Marine Brigade at Duck River Island or Little Rock Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
April 26, 1863: Letter of Captain Thomas R. Mason to his wife, relative to camp life, local population, and hopes for the end of the war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
April 26, 1863: "River Guerrillas in the West." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
April 26, 1863: Confederate Newspaper Report on the McMinnville Raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
ca. April 26, 1863: Shooting at the Worsham House, Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
April 26, 1863: Streight's Raid begins at Palmyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
April 26, 1863: The Watuaga bridge incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
April 27, 1863: Skirmish on Carter Creek Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
April 27, 1863: Confederate scout with skirmish, Smithville to Liberty environs . . . . . . . . . . 191
April 27, 1863: Lieutenant-General Hardee issues contingency retreat orders . . . . . . . . . . . 191
April 27, 1863: Correspondence relative to an inventory of horses and mules used by the Army of
the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
April 27, 1863: One woman's complaint about war profiteering in White County . . . . . . . . . 193
April 27, 1863: The Fortune Telling Lady on Second street in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
April 27, 1863: "Confiscation." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
April 27, 1863: "A Smuggler Caught." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
April 28, 1863: Successful foraging expedition and capture of guerrillas in Middle Tennessee .
194
April 28, 1863: General Joseph E. Johnston's continued anxieties relative to procuring food for
the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
April 28, 1863: “Clairvoyance for One Week Only.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
April 28, 1863: "A Clergyman Before the Provost Marshal." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
April 28, 1863: New York Times War Dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
April 28, 1863: "DESERTED." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
April 28, 1863: Forge expedition in Murfreesboro environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
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April 29, 1863: Reconnaissance and skirmish on the Chapel Hill Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
April 29, 1863: Request for funds to pay negro laborers working on Federal fortifications at
Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
April 29, 1863: Confederate scouts, Woodbury to Liberty environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
April 29, 1863: Special Order, No. 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
April 29, 1863: "I rose up and fired one shot and fell back." J. M. Winn, Confederate soldier, to
his wife in Robertson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
April 29, 1863: Report on successful Federal feint in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
April 29, 1863: Scout from LaGrange to North Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
April 30, 1863: Near Gallatin, Confederate attack on supply convoy on the Cumberland River
bound for Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
April 30, 1863: Federal contingency plans anticipating Confederate attack in Middle Tennessee
203
April 30, 1863: The war against prostitution in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
April 30, 1863: "Latest Attractions." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
April 30, 1863: ". . . we had our shooting match a Tuesday. . . "Letter of Corporal W. C. Tripp,
Company B, 44th Tennessee Infantry, in camp near Wartrace, to his wife Martha Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
April 30, 1863: Political endorsement from the Eighth Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers . . 205
April 30, 1863: Orders to carry on anti-insurgent operations on the Obion river and report of the
capture of Confederate guerrilla leader Captain Cotter and 25 of his men near
Eaton, Gibson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
April 30, 1863: Favoritism in the execution of Confederate conscription in Union county . . 207
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May 1, 1863: Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough to Lizzard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
May 1, 1863: Strict provision control orders issued for the Confederate Department of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
May 1, 1863: Permission granted to destroy flour mill at Chapel Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
May 1, 1863: "Special Order, No. 13;" the fight against social evils; closing houses of prostitution in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
May 1, 1863: A Wisconsin soldier's description of Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
May 1, 1863: Federal foraging mission across the Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
May 2, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 near Thompson's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
May 2, 1863: Camp in Murfreesboro, a description by Bliss Morse, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
May 2, 1863: Expedition from Kentucky to Tennessee State Line, into Macon County . . . . . . . 5
May 3, 1863: ScoutNOTE 1 from Triune to Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
May 3, 1863: Loss of steamboat near Gallatin transporting medicine for Federal forces at
Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
May 3, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 99, relative to the reorganization of inspector general's
office in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
May 3, 1863: Confederate guerrilla attack on mail boat near Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
May 3, 1863: Special Orders, No. 103, orders to arrest various persons for treason . . . . . . . 11
May 3, 1863: Life in the Tullahoma Environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
May 3, 1863: "I am only a machine here and run when I am told to providing the Wheels are well
greased with Uncle Sam's bacon, hard bread and such luxuries." Frank M.
Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
May 3, 1863: On the role of women in the war; an excerpt from a Confederate soldier's letter .
14
May 3, 1863: Catholic, company, contraband and Presbyterian worship services in Nashville; an
entry from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry .
14
May 4, 1863: Affair near Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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May 4, 1863: ". . . we discovered a negro woman waving a rebel flag." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
May 4, 1863: "Rebel Sale of Confiscated Property—the Contrast." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
May 4, 1863: "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
May 4, 1863: "All that Gen. Reynolds got the credit of doing in the McMinnville expedition, was
done by me." Colonel John T. Wilder's letter home to his wife in Indiana . . 17
May 5, 1863: Excerpt from a letter by Edward Bradford, with the 20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (C. S. A.), stationed at Wartrace to his father Frederick Bradford, in
Tank, Tennessee, Davidson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
May 5, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
May 5, 1863: "The boys have flower pots and posy beds before their tents. . . " An excerpt from
the letter of Bliss Morse, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to his mother, concerning his camp at Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
May 5, 1863: "The Ladies of Nashville." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
May 6, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 102, relative to increase of wall tents for infantry and
cavalry regimental commanders in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . 20
May 6, 1863: "I knew nothing about reconnoitering, never did such a thing and didn't know how
to go about it. . . " Federal reconnoitering at La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
May 7, 1863: Affair at Obion Plank-Road Crossing, capture of guerrilla chief Captain Parks 22
May 7, 1863: Letter from William Henry Ruse of the 97th Ohio Volunteer Regiment to Maggie
Stewart of Adamsville, OhioNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
May 7, 1863: "Taking the Oath." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
May 7, 1863: "The Oath of Allegiance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
May 8, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 104, relative to baggage and clothing allotments for men
and officers in the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
May 9, 1863: Skirmish at Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
May 9, 1863: Skirmish at Schoeppe House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
May 9, 1863: Expedition up Caney Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
May 9, 1863: Affair near Caney Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
May 9, 1863: 'THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
May 9, 1863: Rosecrans' Retaliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
May 9, 1863: "NOTICE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
May 10, 1863: Observations on Federal forces in Murfreesboro, an excerpt from the diary of
John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
May 10, 1863: ". . . our Quartermaster to celebrate the occasion rolled out a barrel of whiskey
for the boys and the consequence is that many of them are somewhat elevated. . .
" Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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May 10, 1863: "Quite a feather in MY cap." Capture of Confederate cavalrymen near Murfreesboro by Lt. Albert Potter, Fourth Michigan cavalry picket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
May 10, 1863: An appraisal of future Confederate fortunes in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
May 11, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette (Macon County) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
May 11, 1863: Ground rules established for detention and trial of suspected Confederate spies
33
May 11, 1863: "Sale of Condemned Horses." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
May 11, 1863: A poetic story of unrequited love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
May 11, 1863: Nashville public health inspection reminder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
May 11, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange, Tennessee to Panola, MississippiNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . 38
May 11, 1863: A visit to the Stones River battlefield; an excerpt from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
May 12, 1863: Descent on Linden, razing courthouse and dispersal of conscriptsNOTE 1 . . . . . 39
May 12, 1863: Reconnaissance from La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
May 12, 1863: ". . . altogether our situation has been intolerable. . . " Letter to Military Governor
Andrew Johnson from M. Elizabeth Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
May 12, 1863: A new camp and the discharge of court martial sentence of Captain Sweet, 105th
Ohio Volunteers, at camp in Murfreesboro; an excerpt from Bliss Morse's letter
to his mother, May 13, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
May 12, 1863: Reconnaissance, Murfreesborough, Liberty & Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ca. May 12, 1863: Gunboats posted at mouth of Duck River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
May 13, 1863: "Pa, I think it would be the best to get along with them the best you can." Letter
from G. J. Balthrop [C. S. A.] to his father and mother in Montgomery County
44
May 13, 1863: Military news from Triune; skirmish, mule racing and chicken fighting . . . . . 45
May 13, 1863: Report of Undisciplined Carousing in the Bluff City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
May 14, 1863: "An Alleged Spy." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
May 14, 1863: "SMART BOY." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
May 14, 1863: "Amusements." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
May 14, 1863: "THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
May 14, 1863: "TOOK THEIR DEPARTURES." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
May 15, 1863: "Military Execution" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
May 15, 1863: A moralizing Federal editor's suggestions for peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
May 15, 1863: Exiled from Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
May 15, 1863: "The Oath of Allegiance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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May 15, 1863: "Insolence Rewarded." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
May 15, 1863: Banished from Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
May 15, 1863: "Military Execution" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
May 16, 1863: Excerpt from a letter by Edward Bradford to his mother describing life in an Army
of Tennessee camp in Middle Tennessee, near Fairfield in Bedford County 51
May 16, 1863: A wedding at the Stones River battlefield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
May 17, 1863: Skirmishes on the Bradyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
May 17, 1863: Scout from LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
May 17, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 113, relative to Army of the Cumberland cavalry command staff and instructions on communication with infantry commands and vedettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
May 17, 1863: ". . . I assure you that there is very little enjoyment in camp but I hope that this
cruel war will soon end that we may be turned loose and permitted to return to
our friends and relatives who are waiting so anxiously for our return." Confederate A. J. Rice, in Wartrace, to his cousin, Mary L. Paine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
May 17, 1863: Summer and Social Life in Confederate Camps in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . 55
May 17, 1863: "Fannie I commenced this thinking it would prove a very dull letter, and I think I
have succeeded in making it so beyond all my expectations. . . " Frank M.
Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
May 17, 1863: Report on Naval operations on the Tennessee River at Savannah and Clifton . 57
May 17, 1863: July 23, 1863, OPERATIONS IN WEST TENNESSEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
May 18, 1863: Action at Marrow Bone Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
May 18, 1863: Skirmish on Horn Lake Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
May 18, 1863: Captain John Connolley's letter home, his general impressions of Middle Tennessee and its inhabitants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
May 18, 1863: One White County woman's theological differences with Confederate preaching
63
May 18, 1863: "Even now women come to the very Guard line with their bodies strung round with
Whisky under their Clothes to sell themselves and a bottle of Liquor for a Dollar." A 39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment corporal's first impression of
Memphis; an excerpt from George Hovey Cadman's letter to his wife . . . . . 63
May 19, 1863: Scouts from LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
May 19, 1863: U. S. S. Robb fired into near Duck River shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
May 19, 1863: Special Orders, No. 131, relative to easing shortage of laborers and mechanics in
Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
May 19, 1863: A Chattanoogan announces his candidacy for the Confederate Congress. . . . 66
May 19, 1863: "For my part I think I would have killed all, and taken none. . . " Six Day Scout by
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the 5th Iowa Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
May 19, 1863: Clement L. Vallandigham, anti-war Democrat from Ohio, convicted of sedition
and sent south of Federal lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
May 20, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 at Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
May 20, 1863: Skirmish at Salem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
May 20, 1863: The imprisonment of Mollie Hyde as a Confederate spy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
May 20, 1863: ". . . they want a man spank in rank now and you no they will not let them come
home Martha. . . " Letter of Corporal W. C. Tripp, Company B, 44th Tennessee
Infantry, in camp near Wartrace, to Martha A. Tripp. [Enclosed in the same envelope was the poem, "The Soldier's Farewell"] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
May 20, 1863: Scout from Clarksville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
May 21, 1863: Destruction of railroad trestle near Clarksville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
May 21, 1863: Major-General S. B. Buckner's concerns about conscription and the civil condition of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
May 21, 1863: "Confederate Sympathizers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
May 21, 1863: Emigration from Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
May 21, 1863: Editorial on need to diminish tension between Confederate civilians and soldiers
during elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
May 21, 1863: “Having gone 1/2 miles, I looked back, and, to my surprise and indignation, saw
no one following.” Expedition from Murfreesborough to MiddletonNOTE 1. . 77
May 21, 1863: Editorial on need to diminish tension between Confederate civilians and soldiers
during elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ca. May 21, 1863: "Many have become disheartened and are almost ready to give over the struggle but I believe the Great Ruler of the Universe will yet give success to our army." John A. Matheny, in Jackson County, to his friend Lieutenant A. J. Lacy
82
May 21, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange to Senatobia, MississippiNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
May 22, 1863: Scout on Shelbyville Pike beyond Harpeth River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
May 22, 1863: Skirmish at Yellow Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
May 22, 1863: Skirmish, Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
May 22, 1863: Ambush near Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
May 22, 1863: Skirmish at GermantownNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
May 22, 1863: Confederate attack on Cumberland River near Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
May 22, 1863: Plea for dismissal of murder charges in the Confederate Third Judicial Circuit of
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
May 22, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 116, relative to telegraphic dispatches in the Army of
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the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
May 22, 1863: "Stampede at Overton's." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
May 22, 1863: A female soldier, veteran of Shiloh and Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
May 22, 1863: "Military Hospitals—Chap. XI." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
May 22, 1863: News from Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
May 23, 1863: "Military Hospitals Chap XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
May 23, 1863: Confederate attack on Cumberland River near Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
May 23, 1863: A Confederate Kisser's Court Martial in Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
May 23, 1863: "My Brigade has done a great deal of work since it has been here-among other
things built a fort called Fort Rains in honor of Brigadier General Rains who
was killed at Murfreesboro." H. D. Clayton in Tullahoma to his wife . . . . . 94
May 23, 1863: Expedition from Memphis to Hernando, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
May 24, 1863: Skirmish at Davis' Mill RoadNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
May 24, 1863: Skirmish at CliftonNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
May 24, 1863: Skirmish near Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
May 24, 1863: One Federal soldier's opinion of Memphis; excerpt from a letter home . . . . . . 96
May 24, 1863: Destruction of Confederate cotton and woolen factory at Savannah . . . . . . . . 97
May 24, 1863: "Military Hospitals. Chap. XIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
May 24, 1863: "The County Jail;" press description and defense of a public institution in Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
May 24, 1863: "The Rules of War."NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
May 24, 1863: "Murfreesboro' News and Rumors." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
May 24, 1863: M. E. Lacy, in Jackson County, to her husband, Lieutenant A. J. Lacy . . . . . 104
May 24, 1863: "The Yankees comes to our country every onste and a while and takes Negros and
horses. Where ever they go [they] burn mills and some citizens houses. . . "
Lieutenant A. J. Lacy's letter from his father in Jackson County . . . . . . . . 105
May 24, 1863: "I dont want to leave the service of my country until the Stars and Stripes float
from one end of our country to the other and until every Rebel knee shall bend
not only to the King of Kings, but to the Flag of Flags also." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
May 24, 1863: Parson Brownlow's address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
May 25, 1863: Skirmish near Woodbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
May 25, 1863: Scout and skirmish on Carter Creek Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
May 25, 1863: Vallandigham's trip through Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
May 25, 1863: A sister's assessment of her Confederate brother's optimism for the Confederacy,
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an excerpt from the journal of Amanda McDowell of White County . . . . . 111
May 25, 1863: Fear and loathing; watching Federal forces invade McMinnville from Beersheba
Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
May 25, 1863: Health and morale in the Army of the Cumberland in Murfreesboro; An Excerpt
from the letter of Captain Gershom M. Barber to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
May 25, 1863: An ex patriot in Atlanta complains about the oath in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . 112
May 25, 1863: A surgeon's murder in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
May 26, 1863: Expedition from Memphis toward Hernando, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
May 26, 1863: Expedition, Middle Tennessee to Northern Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
May 26, 1863: Federal gunboats move Federal cavalry and capture animals across Tennessee
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
May 26, 1863: General Orders No. 65 issued in Memphis: expulsion of Confederate sympathizers
116
May 26, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant's GENERAL ORDERS, No. 10, relative to appointment, powers, responsibilities and duties of district provost-marshals . . . . 117
May 26, 1863: Recaptured slaves' depot relocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
May 26, 1863: Expedition, Bolivar, Wesley Camp, Somerville, and Antioch Church and skirmishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
May 26, 1863: Anti-guerrilla scout from Fort Heiman, Kentucky, into Tennessee and skirmishes
121
May 27, 1863: Scout from Memphis to Hernando, MississippiNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
May 27, 1863: Report on Confederate guerrilla attack Federal mail near Carthage, anti-guerrilla expedition to Hartsville, increase in number of contraband women in
Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
May 27, 1863: Scout from Murfreesborough to Eagleville in search of Forrest . . . . . . . . . . 122
May 27, 1863: Complaints about the cost of living in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
May 27, 1863: Hannibal Paine's letter to his sister Mary in Washington, Tennessee . . . . . . 123
May 27, 1863: Reconnaissance from Murfreesborough on Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
May 28, 1863: Scout from Memphis to Hernando, Mississippi, skirmishing at Nonconah Creek
125
May 28, 1863: Female soldier in the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
May 28, 1863: On the cost of living in Nashville and the deleterious effect of the military pass system on the market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
May 28, 1863: ". . . if you kiss any you must kiss them all round. . . " John Fremantle's first impressions of Confederate Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
May 28, 1863: The price of flour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
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May 28, 1863: Juvenile Grand Larceny in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
May 29, 1863: Federal train derailed by Confederates at La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
May 29, 1863: Report of Federal spy on Confederate forces in Knoxville, Clinton, Kingston, Loudon, Cumberland Gap, Big Creek Gap, Chattanooga, Shelbyville, Farmington,
Lewisburg, Wartrace and Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
May 29, 1863: Skirmish at Hamburg Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
May 29, 1863: "Murfreesboro' News and Rumors." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
May 29, 1863: John Fremantle's observations on southern women and the Army of Tennessee .
134
May 29, 1863: "Tried to Escape." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
May 30, 1863: Skirmish at Hamburg Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
May 30, 1863: Skirmish at Jordan's Store [Chapel Hill Pike] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
May 30, 1863: Federal cavalry capture stock in Savannah environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
May 30, 1863: Colonel Biffle's Confederate cavalry fail to take Savannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
May 30, 1863: Skirmish at TriuneNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
May 30, 1863: A West Tennessee Confederate soldier's letter home to Memphis . . . . . . . . . . 138
May 30, 1863: "6th of June Celebration." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
May 30, 1863: "Military Hospitals-Chap. XX." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
May 30, 1863: Fremantle's observations on the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
May 31, 1863: Heavy skirmishing at Hamburg as U. S. Navy conveys Federal cavalry across the
Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
May 31, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 124, relative to topographical engineers in the Army of
the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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JUNE 1863
June 1, 1863: Scouts from Forrest's cavalry in the Nashville, Murfreesborough and Franklin environs and release of civilian prisoners in Franklin by Federal authorities . . 1
June 1, 1863: Fremantle's observations on the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
June 1, 1863: Lincoln county voters choose delegates to the Tennessee state Confederate nominating convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
June 1, 1863: Artillery practice at Fort Negley and the State House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
June 2, 1863: Skirmish at Thompson's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
June 2, 1863: General Braxton Bragg joins the Protestant Episcopal Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
June 2, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders No. 18, relative to refugee policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
June 2, 1863: "Military Hospitals—Chap. XXI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
June 2, 1863: ". . . the only way in which an officer could acquire influence over the Confederate
soldiers was by his personal conduct under fire." Fremantle's observations on
the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
June 3, 1863: Federal scouts about Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
June 3, 1863: Skirmish near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
June 3, 1863: Mule drive captured on Gallatin Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
June 3, 1863: ". . . I experienced a disagreeable sensation, like screwing up my back. . . " Fremantle's observations on the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
June 3, 1863: Federal instructions relative to guarding the Charleston to Memphis railroad from
Collierville to Pocahontas, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
June 3, 1863: Confederate scout repulsed in Readyville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
June 3, 1863: Guard duty and dogs in Memphis: excerpts from Corporal George Hovey Cadman's letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
June 3, 1863: Confederate scout activity in Readyville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
June 3, 1863: Efforts by Provost Marshal for the Army of Tennessee to publish misleading information in the Chattanooga Daily Rebel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
June 4, 1863: Federal scout, Carthage environs to Trousdale Ferry on the Caney Fork River 17
June 4, 1863: Skirmish at Snow Hill, near Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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June 4, 1863: Skirmish at Stones River Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
June 4, 1863: Engagement (artillery) at Franklin; Forrest repulsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
June 4, 1863: Confederates rob stores in Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
June 4, 1863: Operations on the Shelbyville Pike near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
June 4, 1863: Skirmish at Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
June 4, 1863: Skirmish at Snow Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
June 4, 1863: Skirmish, Marshall Knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
June 4, 1863: Bragg issues General Orders, No. 19, relative to refugees from Union lines . . 24
June 4, 1863: Civilian anxieties expressed about Nashville as an army ammunition depot . . . 24
June 4, 1863: Gingerbread cakes and young ladies: letter from Major General S. B. Buckner to
E. C. & Lizzie Lillard, Lizzie & Emma King and Sallie McClain Vs Mrs. Buster
& Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
June 4, 1863: "A Rebel Mortally Bayoneted." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
June 4, 1863: "Sent South." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
June 4, 1863: "A SHARP ANSWER." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
June 4, 1863: A description of La Vergne, Tennessee; an excerpt from George F. Cram's letter to
his mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
June 4, 1863: "It was very curious to see three hundred horses suddenly emerge from the wood
just in front of us. . . " Fremantle's observations of the Army of Tennessee. 27
June 4, 1863: Truesdail reassigned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
June 4, 1863: "REBEL MARAUDERS." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
June 4, 1863: Editorial urging voter participation in the Confederate State elections . . . . . . . 30
June 4, 1863: On Van Dorn's demise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
June 4, 1863: Sermonizing in Lincoln county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
June 4, 1863: Petersburg Sharpshooters give thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
June 4, 1863: Death of a Confederate prisoner of war, prognostication about Vicksburg and fearless discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
June 4, 1863: Scout to Smithville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
June 4, 1863: Federal scout to Liberty environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
June 5, 1863: Skirmish at Smithville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
June 5, 1863: Confederate foraging expedition seeks corn after Federal cavalry pursuit . . . . 34
June 5, 1863: The cost of living in occupied-Nashville; ". . . the laboring classes have been
ground to the earth, almost, beneath the oppression." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
June 5, 1863: "New Building." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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June 5, 1863: The execution of three murderers in Murfreesboro as witnessed by a Wisconsin soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
June 5, 1863: ". . . a few of us had a little fun a few days ago, in the shape of a little scout after
the Rebs . . . " Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
June 5, 1863: Execution and a railroad fatality in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
June 6, 1863: Skirmish (artillery) on the Shelbyville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
June 6, 1863: Skirmish at Waitsborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
June 6, 1863: SPECIAL ORDERS, NO. 90 and refusal to obey orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
June 6, 1863: "The Cyprians in Trouble;" concern expressed for the plight of Nashville prostitutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
June 6, 1863: "The Anniversary Celebration." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
June 6, 1863: "TO-DAY AND TO-DAY TWELVE MONTHS." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
June 6, 1863: Juvenile Thieves in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
June 6, 1863: Night Life in Occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
June 6, 1863: Resolution of the Public School Predicament in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
June 7, 1863: Sergeant Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cavalry attends religious services for slaves in
Clarksville [Montgomery County] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
June 7, 1863: Nashville, according to the New York Tribune. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
June 7, 1863: "Amanda let me assure you that this place bears the marks of battle." Letter of Jacob W. Bartmess,NOTE 1 Co. C., 39th Indiana, in Murfreesboro, to his wife . 53
June __, 1863: Expedition from Jackson across Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
June 8, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 at Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
June 8, 1863: Care of the Insane in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
June 8, 1863: Expedition from Pocahontas, Tennessee to Ripley, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
June 8, 1863: Capture, trial and execution of Confederate spies at Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
June 9, 1863: Skirmish near Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
June 9, 1863: Assault and battery on a Memphis Housewife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
June 9, 1863: Complaints Relative to Order No. 65 in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
June 9, 1863: Activities of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, prior to and during the Tullahoma
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
June 10, 1863: ScoutNOTE 1 on Middleton Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
June 10, 1863: Scout on Eagleville Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
June 10, 1863: Letters to Lieutenant A. J. Lacy, Eighth Tennessee Cavalry, from his wife and parents in Jackson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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June 10, 1863: A Wisconsin soldier's opinion of the Emancipation Proclamation and copperheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
June 10, 1863: A Federal cavalryman's impressions of Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
June 10, 1863: The Charleston Mercury anticipates the Middle Tennessee campaign . . . . . . 66
June 10, 1863: Concern in Bolivar and Jackson regarding the withdrawal of Federal forces 66
June 10, 1863: "Complying With the Order." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
June 11, 1863: Action at TriuneNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
June 11, 1863: Skirmish at Strawberry Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
June 11, 1863: Members of the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry skirmish with Confederates near
the Shelbyville Pike-an account of a small-scale military action. . . . . . . . . . 68
June 11, 1863: "To the Citizens of Nashville;" a public health notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
June 11, 1863: Company C, 5th Iowa Cavalry, reaches Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
June 11, 1863: Incidents relating to Federal scout, Alexandria to Lebanon to Baird's Mill to Murfreesboro; skirmish on Alexandria Pike and skirmish outside Lebanon, the account of Lt. Albert Potter, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . 70
June 12, 1863: Scout on Salem Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
June 12, 1863: Scout on the Eagleville Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
June 12, 1863: "Juvenile Thieves." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
June 12, 1863: "A Female Warrior." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ca. June 12, 1863: Confederates capture Union spy Pauline Cushman near Franklin . . . . . . 73
June 12, 1863: Expedition from PocahontasNOTE 1 to New Albany & Ripley, Mississippi . . . . 76
June 13, 1863: Scout on Manchester Pike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
June 13, 1863: Scout on the Wartrace Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
June 13, 1863: "PROPOSITION TO HANG THE DUTCH SOLDIERS." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
June 13, 1863: Taking the Oath of Allegiance at Memphis City Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
June 13, 1863: A Report on the Memphis City Prison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
June 13, 1863: "AMUSING." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
June 14, 1863: Skirmish near Green Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
June 14, 1863: "I want to tell you about our milk scare. . . " letter of W. C. Tripp, Co. B, 44th Tennessee (C. S. A. ), to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
June 14, 1863: "THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
June 14, 1863: Engagement at Saltillo, U. S. N. disperses Rebels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
June 14, 1863: A trip on the Memphis to Charleston Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
June 14, 1863: "PADDY GO AISY'S PARTIALITY." Memphis political satire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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June 14, 1863: "The Oath of Allegiance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
June 14, 1863: "There are to be one man and two women hung next Friday at Murfreesboro." Excerpts from the letter of Jacob W. Bartmess to his wife in Indiana . . . . . . . . 84
June 14, 1863: Robbery and a reprieve from execution in Nashville: an entry from the diary of
John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
June 14, 1863: Sanders' RaidNOTE 1 in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
June 14, 1863: Counter insurgency expedition on the Tennessee RiverNOTE 1 by U. S. N. . . . 92
June 15, 1863: Affair near Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
June 15, 1863: C. S. A. occupation of Camden, Lexington, Jackson, Humboldt and Trenton reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
June 15, 1863: Letter from Major John S. Bransford [C. S. A. ] to Miss Josephine Hooke, a plea
for fresh vegetables (Hamilton County) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
June 15, 1863: Writer's block at Beersheba Springs; an excerpt from the journal of Lucy Virginia
French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
June 15, 1863: A soldier's prayer, and entry in the diary of Charles Alley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
June 15, 1863: General Orders, No. 67, crackdown on illegal searches of Memphis citizens'
houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
June 15, 1863: Brigadier General James C. Veatch Appointments Shelby County Sheriff and Coroner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
June 15, 1863: The Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau's Plea to Tennessee Women . . . . . 96
June 15, 1863: Lieutenant A. J. Lacy's letter to his parents and wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
June 15, 1863: Capture of guerrilla leaders and break up of guerrilla bands and an insurgent attack upon a locomotive in West Tennessee; excerpt from the report of Brigadier-General Alexander Asboth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
June 15, 1863: Kidnapping slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
June 15, 1863: Skirmish at Shop Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
June 15, 1863: Expedition to and skirmish near Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
ca. June 15, 1863: Confederate anti-guerrilla expedition in Sevier County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
June 16, 1863: Scout from Memphis to the Hatchie River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
June 16, 1863: Skirmish in Powell Valley, 15 miles from Jacksboro, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . 101
June 16, 1863: Execution of a Federal soldier for desertion near Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . 102
June 16, 1863: U. S. Treasury Agent William P. Mellan to Military Governor Andrew Johnson,
relative to the sale of cotton from Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
June 16, 1863: "I saw no use in it, and so I fired none at all." Federal cavalryman's account of a
lazy skirmishing on the Alexandria Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
June 16, 1863: "The Work-House." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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June 16, 1863: Corn, Rye, Wheat and Shoes; an excerpt from the letter of Corporal W. C. Tripp,
Company B, 44th Tennessee Infantry, in camp near Fairfield, to Martha A.
Tripp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
ca. June 16, 1863: Bridge burning by Federals in Henderson, Madison, and McNairy counties
106
June 16, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange, to Panola, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Engagement at Beech Island [a.k.a. Beech Creek Island], Tennessee River, U. S.
N. disperses Rebel force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Affair at Wartburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Affair at Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Skirmish on Obion River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Confederate State Convention, Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
June 17, 1863: Orders to sweep western Shelby County and capture guerrillas in Raleigh environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
June 17, 1863: Attack on transports, near MemphisNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
June 18, 1863: Major-General S. B. Buckner's Report on Confederate troops and defenses from
Clinton to Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
June 18, 1863: Heavy skirmishing at Big Creek Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
June 18, 1863: Occupation of Wartburg by Federal forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
June 18, 1863: Report on travel on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad between Wartrace,
Shelbyville and Chattanooga one week prior to the initiation of the Tullahoma
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
June 18, 1863: ". . . an odious distinction between classes of the human family has at last been
partially removed." One Tennessee Confederate soldier's reaction to the termination of the substitute system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
June 18, 1863: Advertisement for a Slave Auction in Lincoln County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
June 19, 1863: Skirmish at Triune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
June 19, 1863: Affair at Lenoir's StationNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
June 19, 1863: Amphibious engagement at Cerro Gordo, U. S. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
June 19, 1863: Lieutenant A. J. Lacy's letter to his wife, Margaret E. Lacy in Jackson County .
116
June 19, 1863: The value of digging holes, according to Sergeant Major Widney . . . . . . . . . 116
June 19, 1863: Federal forces repulsed from Knoxville and burn railroad bridges over Flat
Creek and at Strawberry Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
June 19, 1863: Engagement at Beech Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
June 20, 1863: Skirmish at Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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June 20, 1863: Skirmish at Strawberry Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
June 20, 1863: Skirmish at Rogers' Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
June 20, 1863: Skirmish at Dixon Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: Skirmish at Jack's Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: Federal forces burn bridge over Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: "City Morals." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: A wealthy planter's son eschews being drafted in the Confederate army . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: "Schools and Scholars;" some results of the 1862-1863 public school year in Civil
War Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
June 20, 1863: "I think it was too bad to shoot the poor fellow. The mistake was made in enlisting
him in the first place." A Wisconsin soldier witnesses an execution in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
June 20, 1863: Camp routine in the 5th Iowa Cavalry near Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
June 20, 1863: Rev. Reuben Burrow's escape from the Irving Block prison in Memphis . . . . 123
June 20, 1863: Call for a Union State convention in occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
June 20, 1863: Federal cavalry surpirsed and taken prisoner near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
ca. June 20, 1863: Scout from Jackson to Paris to Fort Heiman, Ky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
June 21, 1863: Skirmish at Powder Springs Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
June 21, 1863: Scout from Nashville to Silver Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
June 21, 1863: "I do say I never imagined people could live so." An aristocrat visits mountain folk
near Beersheba Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
June 21, 1863: Scout from Nashville to Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
June 21, 1863: An Altercation at Madame Miller's Bagnio in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
June 21, 1863: "Refugees Departed." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
June 21, 1863: "The Salary." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
June 21, 1863: Ellet's Marine Brigade destroy mills and commissary supplies near Savannah .
126
June 21, 1863: "To day a man drove up to the Picket with an old horse and wagon with two quite
pretty women in, and wanted to go through. . . " Frank M. Guernsey's letter to
Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
June 21, 1863: Alleged Confederate spy killed by Union pickets south of Nashville . . . . . . . 128
June 21, 1863: "Knocking" in Murfreesboro: an entry from the diary of John Hill Fergusson,
10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
June 22, 1863: Skirmish at Powell Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
June 22, 1863: Skirmish at William's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
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June 22, 1863: Action in Powell's Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
June 22, 1863: Capture of U. S. Mail by Morgan's forces near Dixon's Springs, between Gallatin
and Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
June 22, 1863: Scouts, Gallatin to Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
June 22, 1863: Confederate Governor Isham G. Harris' call to arms at the meeting of the Confederate Nominating Convention held in Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
June 22, 1863: "Martha I want you to come to see mee the first chance you have for I want to see
you and the children and talk with you come up to the meeting." The letter of
Corporal W. C. Tripp, Company B, 44th Tennessee Infantry, in camp near Fairfield, to Martha A. Tripp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
June 22, 1863: Anti-Confederate satire concerning the skirmish in Knoxville, June 19,
1863NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
ca. June 22, 1863: U. S. S. gunboat Robb with 150 refugees, fired upon by Rebel artillery on Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
June 22, 1863: Action, Powell's Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
ca. June 22, 1863: Ersatz designation as small pox hospital renders Nashville soldiers’ saloon incognito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
June 23, 1863: "The defense of this line consists more especially in a system of continual attacks
upon every head of column that shows itself." Federal reaction to Confederate
demonstrations upon the Charleston and Memphis railroad . . . . . . . . . . . 137
June 23, 1863: A candle-lit Federal cavalry camp near Murfreesboro on the eve of the Tullahoma
campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
June 23, 1863: Actions, Liberty Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
June 23, 1863: Tennessee or Tullahoma CampaignNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
June 23, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
June 23, 1863: Skirmish at Uniontown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
June 23, 1863: Federal termination of Confederate conscript sweeps in Henderson, Madison and
McNairy counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
June 23, 1863: A Wisconsin soldier's thoughts as the Tullahoma Campaign begins . . . . . . . 141
June 23, 1863: Skirmish near Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
June 23, 1863: Newspaper editor's reply to a Confederate soldier in Shelbyville concerned about
the value of Confederate money and bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
June 23, 1863: "The Negro Question-Hacks and Prostitutes;" the Nashville City Council's attempts to maintain social order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
June 23, 1863: Federal orders to arrest Confederate civilians in Lexington and Huntingdon as
guarantees of safety for Unionist hostages held by Confederates . . . . . . . . 146
June 23, 1863: " One of the most remarkable problems connected with our social condition is
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presented by the fact that while in every centre of two belligerent armies, liable
to all the real dangers and distracting fears consequent upon such a situation,
St. Cecilia's Academy has suffered little, if any, relaxation from its former high
degree of prosperity." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
ca. June 23, 1863: Guerrilla attack on U. S. S. Robb and Confederate conscript sweeps in Henderson, Madison and McNairy counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
June 23, 1863: Scouts from Huntingdon to Fort Heiman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
June 24, 1863: Skirmish at Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
June 24, 1863: Skirmish near Bradyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
June 24, 1863: Skirmish at ChristianaNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
June 24, 1863: Skirmish at Manchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
June 24, 1863: Skirmish at Big Spring Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
June 24, 1863: Report relative to condition of railroads in East Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, excerpts concerning East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
June 24, 1863: ". . . the sun shown brightly on the moving hosts, the arms glittered gaily in the
bright light and all was life and animation." The initiation of the Tullahoma
Campaign, as recorded by Sergeant Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cavalry . . . . 153
June 24, 1863: Tactical use of railroads recommended in the Obion region of West Tennessee .
153
June 24, 1863: Secret Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
June 24, 1863: Skirmishes at Hoover's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
June 24, 1863: Skirmishes at Liberty Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
June 24, 1863: Naval expedition up the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
June 25, 1863: U. S. N. begins anti-guerrilla patrol of Mississippi River, Fort Pillow to Memphis
161
June 25, 1863: Skirmish at (Old) Fosterville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
June 25, 1863: Skirmish at Guy's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
June 25, 1863: Reconnaissance, Versailles and Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
June 25, 1863: Bushwhacker attack in Bradley County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
June 25, 1863: One East Tennessean's concerns about Federal conscription . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
June 25, 1863: Combat near the Shelbyville Pike in Rutherford County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
June 25, 1863: "State Convention." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
June 25, 1863: "Supplies for the People." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
June 25, 1863: "Wool Wanted." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
June 25, 1863: Traitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
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June 25, 1863: Confederate cavalry attack train near LaVergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
June 26, 1863: Skirmish Beech Grove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
June 26, 1863: Governor Isham G. Harris's call to the citizens of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
June 26, 1863: "Richardson, the Guerrilla." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
June 26, 1863: "The Loyal of the Memphis Bar" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
June 26, 1863: "Fire Plug Leaks." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
June 26, 1863: "THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
June 26, 1863: General Orders No. 10; Federal army railroad security measures . . . . . . . . 173
June 26, 1863: "Female Smugglers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
June 26, 1863: Theater in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
June 26, 1863: The Memphis municipal election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
June 27, 1863: Action at and capture of Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
June 27, 1863: Skirmish at Fosterville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
June 27, 1863: Skirmish at Guy's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
June 27, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 at Fairfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
June 27, 1863: Occupation of Manchester by Union forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
June 27, 1863: "Facts and Rumors." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
June 27, 1863: Voting early and often in the Memphis municipal election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
June 27, 1863: Confederate forces retreat from Tullahoma to Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
June 28, 1863: "The Situation" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
June 28, 1863: "CONFEDERATE TAX COLLECTOR" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
June 28, 1863: Skirmish at Rover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
June 28, 1863: "DIXIE'S FAST DAY" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
June 28, 1863: "Daring Robberies" in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
June 28, 1863: Enforcement of General Orders No. 104 during the Tullahoma campaign . . 195
June 28, 1863: Final examination week at the Memphis junior male school . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
June 28, 1863: Confederate Civil War Poetry from Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
June 28, 1863: William G. Brownlow justifies the necessity for a state Union convention to be
held on July 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
June 28, 1863: Editorial comments on recent Federal raids in and around KnoxvilleNOTE 1 198
June 28, 1863: Newspaper report on harsh Federal rule in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
June 28, 1863: A call for home defense in Knoxville; a reaction to Sanders' Raid . . . . . . . . . 201
June 28, 1863: Drenched in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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June 28, 1863: Repair of railroad and bridges, Murfreesborough to Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . 203
June 29, 1863: Skirmish near Hillsborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
June 29, 1863: Skirmish at Decherd and destruction of railroad at Tracy City and Tantalon 204
June 29, 1863: Skirmish at Elm River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
June 29, 1863: Skirmish near Lexington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
June 29, 1863: Skirmishes near Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
June 29, 1863: Skirmish at Moscow Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
June 29, 1863: "Scene D'Afrique." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
June 29, 1863: Return to duty orders for Confederate prisoners of war in East Tennessee . . 210
June 29, 1863: Attacks and partial burning of Middleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
June 30, 1863: Reconnaissance from Manchester to Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
June 30, 1863: Skirmishes near Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
June 30, 1863: Skirmish with rebel guerrillas at Butler's Mill, near Buck Lodge . . . . . . . . . 211
June 30, 1863: Excerpt from a Federal soldier's letter home relative to his opinion of Elmwood
Cemetery in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
June 30, 1863: Correspondence from the field headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland Medical Directors Office relative to the medical aspects of the Tullahoma
campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
June 30, 1863: "A Negro Smuggler." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
June 30, 1863: Bad weather and picket guard duty in Memphis: an excerpt from George Hovey
Cadman's letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
June 30, 1863: A protest against inflation in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
June 30, 1863: Three days skirmishing in the Winchester environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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JULY 1863
July 1, 1863: Reconnaissance to Tullahoma on Lynchburg Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
July 1, 1863: Occupation of Tullahoma by Union forces [Tullahoma Campaign] . . . . . . . . . . . 1
July 1, 1863: Skirmish near Bethpage Bridge, Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
July 1, 1863: Skirmish near Bobo's Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
July 1, 1863: "I guess that on the whole there is as much sickness north as there is here." Frank
M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
July 1, 1863: First Day of the Nashville Union State Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
July 1, 1863: Lieutenant-General W. J. Hardee's confidential articulation of anxieties about the
Army of Tennessee and its leadership during the withdrawal to Chattanooga 7
ca. July 1, 1863: For the duration, U. S. N. patrols on the Tennessee River, Knoxville to Muscle
Shoals, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ca. July 1, 1863: Confederate conscript sweeps in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
July 2, 1863: Skirmish near Bethpage Bridge, Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Morris' Ford, Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
July 2, 1863: Slate for Tennessee Confederate State offices and for the Confederate Congress .
12
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Kelly's Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Rock Creek Ford, Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Jones' Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Estill Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
July 2, 1863: Skirmish at Pelham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
July 2, 1863: Skirmish, Elk River Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
July 2, 1863: Items in the pages of the Chattanooga Daily Rebel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
July 2, 1863: "Collector of Tax in Kind" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
July 2, 1863: "How Does It Happen?" A complaint about favoritism shown to Confederate supporters in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
July 2, 1863: Second Day of the Union State Convention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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July 3, 1863: Skirmish at Boiling Fork Creek, near Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
July 3, 1863: Winchester occupied by Federal forces under Sheridan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
July 3, 1863: Scouts from Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
July 3, 1863: "Ballooning." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
July 3, 1863: "Paroled." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
July 3, 1863: The remains of Union University in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
July 3, 1863: Third Day of the Union State Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
July 3, 1863: Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
July 3, 1863: Report on charity event in Madisonville in support of sick and wounded Confederate soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ca. July 3, 1863: Guerrilla attack trains near MurfreesboroNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
July 4, 1863: Fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
July 4, 1863: "A Superb Flower" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
July 4, 1863: Reconnaissance toward and engagement at University of the South . . . . . . . . . 30
July 4, 1863: Skirmish at Cowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
July 4, 1863: "Converts." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
July 4, 1863: Mrs. A. Shook's Confrontation with Major-General Jefferson C. Davis in Franklin
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
July 4, 1863: Grinding corn and foraging for the Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
ca. July 4, 1863: Shooting of a Confederate blacksmith at Lynchburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
July 4, 1863: One woman's experience in McMinnville during the Tullahoma Campaign . . . . 34
July 5, 1863: Skirmish at Yellow Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
July 5, 1863: Thoughts of a Rebel editor on the Fourth of July . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
July 5, 1863: Escape of prisoners from the state penitentiary in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
July 5, 1863: The Tullahoma Campaign from the view of a Wisconsin soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
July 5, 1863: Captain Alfred Tyler Fielder's trip to Nickajack Cave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
July 6, 1863: Excerpt from a letter describing the changes in Franklin and environs by "Grapeshot." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
July 6, 1863: Major-General Thomas cracks down on depredations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
July 6, 1863: Effect of the Tullahoma Campaign upon the civilian population of Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
July 6, 1863: Fourth Day of the Union State Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
July 6, 1863: "Battle of Smoky Row" in NashvilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
July 7, 1863: Army of Tennessee completes retreat to Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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July 7, 1863: Wheeler and Forrest patrol above and below Kelly's Ford on Tennessee River to
prevent desertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
July 7, 1863: E. M. Stanton urges Major-General Rosecrans to finish off the Confederacy and
Rosecrans' reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
July 7, 1863: Military intelligence indicating heavy losses and desertions from the retreating
Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
July 7, 1863: "The Cyprians Again." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
July 7, 1863: Excerpts from a Confederate soldier's letter home in White county from Chattanooga after the Tullahoma Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
July 7, 1863: "How do you Confiscate?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
July 7, 1863: Tennesseans desert the Army of Tennessee and the lack of a decisive victory over
Bragg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
July 7, 1863: "A Novel Fight." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
July 7, 1863: "Disgusting Spectacle." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
July 7, 1863: "We have good times here with the exception of rashons. There is a whore house not
25 yards from our front door. There is 6 women belong to it." One Federal soldier's remarks about Tullahoma soon after the Confederate withdrawalNOTE 1
53
July 7, 1863: Fifth and Concluding Day of the State Union Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
July 7, 1863: Patrol, Union City to Jackson and Trenton environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
July 7, 1863: Confederate conscript sweep in Trenton, Jackson environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
July 7, 1863: Expedition from Pocahontas to Pontotoc, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
July 8, 1863: Patrol from Union City to Gardner's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
July 8, 1863: Nashville prostitutes loaded on Idahoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
July 8, 1863: "Departed." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
July 8, 1863: Objections to the Oath of Allegiance in the Bluff City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
July 8, 1863: "But on the other hand, those men who let their feelings and prejudices induce them
to aid, abet, permit, or endorse, the insult or oppression of our people inside the
lines of the Rebel Government, have little grounds to expect to pass scathless
through our hands." An expatriate's warning to Confederates in East Tennessee
62
July 9, 1863: "The writ of habeas corpus, is a bulwark of liberties, and I will not vote, except in a
most extraordinary case, for its suspension. . . " William M. Cocke throws his
hat into the ring for the Second Confederate Congressional District of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
July 9, 1863: Major-General P. H. Sheridan cautioned to prevent "willful and needless depredations" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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July 9, 1863: "City Council-Public Health;" seeking a solution for the small pox and contraband
problems in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
July 9, 1863: "Departure of the Cyprians;" the expatriation of Nashville's prostitutes . . . . . . 66
July 9, 1863: "They had been celebrating or as they expressed themselves, taking Vicksburg."
Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
July 9, 1863: Dread of flagging morale in Confederate Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
July 10, 1863: One Federal soldier's opinion of church singing in Memphis; excerpt from a letter
home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
July 10, 1863: Capture of outpost at Union City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
July 10, 1863: Skirmish at Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
July 10, 1863: Skirmish in Cocke County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
July 10, 1863: Expedition up the Duck River to Centreville, Lynnville, Lawrenceburg . . . . . . 74
July 10, 1863: Expedition from Huntsville, Alabama, to Pulaski, Fayetteville, Tennessee . . . . 75
July 10, 1863: Black prostitutes replace white prostitutes in occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . 76
July 10, 1863: "Falling Off." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
July 10, 1863: "Extensive Furniture and Grocery Sale. By Geo. Shields & Co. Saturday, July 10."
77
July 10, 1863: "Common Council;" the fate of the bill preventing lewd women from riding in
hacks in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
July 10, 1863: All the wrong news; F. J. Paine at Sweetwater, to his sister, Mary, in Washington,
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
July 10, 1863: "I went out some 12 miles into the country, picked up all the corn I could find, then
went to killing cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens, wherever I could find them. Had
lots of fun. . . " Hiram Russell, 21st Wisconsin, to his wife and family . . . . . 78
July 10, 1863: Scout and skirmish near Brownsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
July 10, 1863: Correspondence from the First Tennessee Cavalry at Sweetwater Valley . . . . 79
July 10, 1863: Reconnaissance from Cowan toward Jasper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
July 11, 1863: "[N]early all that time we have had to live off the country;" Letter of Jacob W. Bartmess, co. C., 39th Indiana, at camp in Winchester, to his wife in Indiana, relative to the destruction caused by foraging during and after the Tullahoma
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
July 11, 1863: Assistant Special Treasury Agent William G. Brownlow on Federal Trade Policy
in occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
July 11, 1863: Reconnaissance from Cowan to Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
July 11, 1863: Federal cavalry expeditionNOTE 1 encompassing Shelbyville, Farmington, the occupation of Lewisburg, Columbia and Centreville; excerpts from a letter by Major James A. Connolly, 123rd Illinois Volunteers, to his wife, July 21, 1863 .
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July 12, 1863: Scout to Bolivar environs, skirmish with and dispersal of R. R. Whites' guerrillas
at Clover creek near Big Hatchie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
July 12, 1863: Political position announcement by John H. Savage, former Colonel of the 16th
Tennessee Infantry and candidate for the Confederate House of Representatives
for the Fifth Tennessee District (Smith, Macon, Wilson and DeKalb
counties)NOTE 1: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
July 12, 1863: Federal depredations following the Tullahoma Campaign, the observations of
Brigadier-General John Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
July 12, 1863: Temporary occupation of Lewisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
July 13, 1863: Federal Capture of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
July 13, 1863: "A Family Poisoned" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
July 13, 1863: Excerpt from the Report of Acting Rear-Admiral Porter, U. S. Navy, commending
the officers under his command and relative to skirmishing between gunboats
and guerillas on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
July 13, 1863: Resolutions from the State Union Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
July 13, 1863: Federal surprise descent upon, occupation and evacuation of Columbia . . . . . 92
July 13, 1863: SkirmishesNOTE 1 at Forked Deer River, occupation of Jackson and skirmish at
Spring Creek,NOTE 2 Madison County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
July 13, 1863: Federal foraging expedition, from Winchester, Tennessee, to Huntsville, Alabama,
via Fayetteville and Pulaski, Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
July 14, 1863: "Sulphur-Water Baths." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
July 14, 1863: "Here's Your Mule" NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
July 14, 1863: Merchants in Franklin seek recompense for losses sustained during Confederate
raid on Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
July 14, 1863: Brigadier-General Gideon J. Pillow proposes conscript sweeps in Middle and
West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
July 14, 1863: Complaints about poor discipline in the Army of Tennessee infantry and cavalry
units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
July 14, 1863: Domestic violence in occupied Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
July 14, 1863: "The Carter Scouts" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
July 14, 1863: "Hon. Neill S. Brown" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
July 14, 1863: "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
July 14, 1863: Letter of Captain Anthony Wayne Caldwell, 5th Tennessee Infantry in Chattanooga to his father, Col. R. D. Caldwell, relative to morale and prospects for the
Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
July 14, 1863: Aftermath of the attack on Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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July 14, 1863: "Captured by Guerrillas." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
July 14, 1863: "A House of Refuge." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
July 14, 1863: "Please tell me Governor, what to do?" Mildred A. Hall's plea for debt relief. . .
115
July 14, 1863: "GUERRILLAS IN WEST TENNESSEE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
July 14, 1863: Federal Indignities in the Strawberry Plains Environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
July 14, 1863: Reports relative to Brigadier Gideon J. Pillow's threat in Macedonia, Carroll
CountyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
July 14, 1863: Newsprint shortage in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Add to 14-24: Sanders' RaidNOTE 1 in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
July 15, 1863: Skirmish at Pulaski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
July 15, 1863: Skirmish on Forked Deer CreekNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
July 15, 1863: "REBEL OUTRAGES IN EAST TENNESSEE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
July 15, 1863: Unsuccessful Pursuit of Guerrillas near Murfreesboro by Company C, 5th Iowa
Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
July 16, 1863: Prostitutes' progress, Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as Newport and Covington, Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
July 16, 1863: Action near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
July 16, 1863: "Court-Martialed." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
July 16, 1863: ". . . about the middle of April last there came a small band of men callin them
selves southern soldiers. . . " Rebel guerrillas impoverish an impoverished
Union loyalist in Dickson County. The Petition of F. M. Carter to Military Governor Andrew Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
July 16, 1863: The status of Federal soldiers in camp at Winchester, the letter of Jacob Bartmess
127
July 16, 1863: Confederate conscript sweeps at Morning Sun and Hickory Wythe . . . . . . . . 128
July 16, 1863: One Army of Tennessee private's account of the retreat to Chattanooga . . . . 128
ca. July 16, 1863: Expedition, Columbia and Centreville to Tullahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
July 16, 1863: Scout from Germantown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
July 17, 1863: Skirmish on Stones River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
July 17, 1863: General Orders, No. 75, relative to free Negroes and Mulattos in Memphis . 132
July 17, 1863: Governor Isham G. Harris's last proclamation to Confederates in
TennesseeNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
July 17, 1863: The Knoxville Daily Southern Chronicle endorses Colonel William M. Cocke for
the Second Confederate Congressional District Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
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July 18, 1863: Capture of Union pickets near Germantown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
July 18, 1863: Skirmish near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
July 18, 1863: One Federal cavalry officer's impression of Farmington (west of Shelbyville) 137
July 18, 1863: "Incident." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
July 18, 1863: A Maury County Confederate's confrontation with a Confederate guerrilla—a dispute about the oath of allegiance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
July 18, 1863: U. S. Army Circular, relative to the registration of Negroes in Memphis . . . . 139
July 18, 1863: The Daughter of the Confederate First Tennessee Regiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
July 18, 1863: James Jones, 57th Indiana Infantry, describes artillery practice, the interior of
Fortress Rosecrans and blackberries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
July 18, 1863: Representative William G. Swan's voting record scrutinized as August elections
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
July 18, 1863: Rules governing the acceptance of juveniles as Confederate conscript substitutes
142
July 18, 1863: Confederate Provost Marshals in East Tennessee ordered to cease violations of
citizens' liberties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
July 18, 1863: The execution of Private William Whitehead, Company K, 2nd Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
July 19, 1863: The Cyprians Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
July 19, 1863: Cleveland prepares for reception of sick soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
July 19, 1863: "Wounded Confederate Prisoners." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
July 19, 1863: "Females at the Recorder's Court" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
July 19, 1863: "Memphis Trade and the Guerrillas." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
July 19, 1863: Reward offered for a Monroe country runaway slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
July 19, 1863: Four missing Confederate mules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
July 19, 1863: Expedition, Raleigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
July 19, 1863: Operations, Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
July 20, 1863: "Don't Want Them." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
July 20, 1863: Letter of thanks from a convalescent Confederate soldier in Chattanooga, W. H.
Warren, to Mrs. Robert M. Hooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
July 20, 1863: "Prisoners." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
July 20, 1863: Scouts from MemphisNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
July 21, 1863: "This has been a hard day for me—harder even than was the 21st of April, when
the last Yankee raid was made upon our home." Conditions in occupied McMinnville, an excerpt from the war journal of one Middle Tennessee Confederate
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woman at Beersheba Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
July 21, 1863: The Gangs of Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
July 21, 1863: "Murder, Robbery, Cutting and Maiming;" the return of a crime wave and a call
for the return of a military police force in Civil War Nashville . . . . . . . . . 152
July 22, 1863: "Juvenile Depravity." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
July 22, 1863: "The Yankee Brigades in McMinnville" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
July 22, 1863: Confederate Recruiting Notice, Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
July 22, 1863: Confederate civilian resistance to Union forces near Fosterville; an excerpt from
the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . 154
July 22, 1863: Escorting a wagon train from Murfreesboro to Shelbyville to Tullahoma, as recorded by Sergeant Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
July 23, 1863: Escape of prisoners from Davidson County Jail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
July 23, 1863: "The City Council—Board of Education;" an editorial call to meet the needs of the
public school system in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
July 23, 1863: "News and Rumors at Clarksville." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
July 23, 1863: Rodent dilemma in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
July 23, 1863: "General Orders, No. 4." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
July 23, 1863: Requiring the Oath of Allegiance in Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
July 23, 1863: "I thought at one time I would have to cut my shoes and socks from my feet but they
were rotted and I tore them off and throwed them away they being rotten with
wet and heat and my feet was badly blistered and swollen." Thomas G. Taylor,
Sergeant, Co. B, 10th Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A., to his wife, illustrating his
experiences during the Tullahoma Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
July 23, 1863: ". . . all officers commanding troops in the field will conscript and employ such
able-bodied Negroes as are allowed within the lines. . . " Rosecrans' General
Orders, No. 172, the Origins of United States Colored Troop Recruitment in
Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
July 23, 1863: Bushwhackers as robbers and marriage guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
ca. July 23, 1863: Scout from Winchester through the Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
July 24, 1863: Soldier's certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
July 24, 1863: Skirmish in vicinity of Jasper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
July 24, 1863: Governor Isham G. Harris's Proclamation seeking volunteer recruits for local defense and special service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
July 24, 1863: Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill's message to Hardee's erstwhile corps . . . . . . 168
July 24, 1863: Special Orders, No. 356; military taxation in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
July 24, 1863: "Why does not Governor Johnson organize and arm the malatia of the State, for
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the purpose of clearing it of guerillas ?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
July 24 1863: Captured runaway slaves held for their masters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
July 24, 1863: Correspondence between General H. W. Halleck and Major-General Rosecrans
relative to moving on Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
July 25, 1863: Anti-guerrilla actions (cavalry) on Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
July 25, 1863: Federals ordered to occupy Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
July 25, 1863: Forrest's cavalry conducts foraging expedition in Sequatchie County . . . . . . 174
July 25, 1863: Army of Tennessee terminates retreat in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
July 25, 1863: Measures taken to decrease deaths of officers in the Army of the Cumberland from
Confederate sharpshooters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
July 25, 1863: One White County woman's observations about the war on the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
July 25, 1863: The case of Mrs. Judd, a Tennessee woman imprisoned for spying . . . . . . . . 176
July 25, 1863: Release of two female Tennessee Confederate spies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
July 25, 1863: "The Right Step." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
July 25, 1863: Report of Confederate atrocity in Roane County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
July 25, 1863: Skirmish near GallatinNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
July 25, 1863: Martial troubles in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
July 25, 1863: Confederate Conscription in Nashville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
July 26, 1863: The Sack of Beersheba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
July 26, 1863: Snapping a cap at Union pickets; Confederate civilian resistance near Fosterville;
an excerpt from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
July 26, 1863: Third Tennessee (U. S. ) Cavalry in Wilson County, "almost a constant skirmish"
182
July 27, 1863: The Union League in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
July 27, 1863: "DANGEROUSLY BEATEN AND STABBED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
July 27, 1863: "[I]f the hot-headed simpletons of this country had any sense, they might have
known that the other party might get the upper hand some time." Panic in
Cookeville environs as Federal troops arrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
July 27, 1863: "Excitement on the Square." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
July 27, 1863: General Orders, No. 19, relative to regulating traffic speed and saloon hours in
Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
July 27, 1863: "A Great Mistake." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
July 27, 1863: Conditions in the Decherd and Winchester and environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
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July 27, 1863: Federal scout Purdy to Lexington-capture of Confederate forcesNOTE 1 . . . . 186
July 27, 1863: A Federally Sanctioned Marriage License in Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
ca. July 27, 1863: Federal expedition, Wilson County environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
July 28, 1863: "By the favor of God you have expelled the insurgents from Middle Tennessee."
General William S. Rosecrans issues General Orders No. 175 . . . . . . . . . 187
July 28, 1863: Excerpt from a letter from Robert Jamison, with Company D, 49th Tennessee Infantry, to his wife Camilla, indicating the unhappiness he felt after the Army of
Tennessee had been pushed to Chattanooga by the Federal Tullahoma campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
July 28, 1863: Confederate deserter provides valuable maps to Major-General P. H. Sheridan
190
July 28, 1863: Major-General P. H. Sheridan derides management of railroad . . . . . . . . . . 190
July 28, 1863: Situation in Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
July 28, 1863: "Fight Near Gallatin-Four Rebels Killed and One wounded." . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
July 28, 1863: "Playing Soldier." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
July 28, 1863: Re-election of Rev. Mr. Hines as Memphis School Superintendent . . . . . . . . . 192
July 29, 1863: C. S. A. orders security precautions in Cocke County during August 6, 1863 elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
July 29, 1863: Skirmish at Lexington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
July 29, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas near Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
July 29, 1863: Reconnaissance ordered from Winchester to Bridgeport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
July 29, 1863: "Take a Drink" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
July 29, 1863: "East Tennessee Wheat Crop Going South." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
July 29, 1863: "Richardson About." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
July 29, 1863: General Orders, No. 101, relative to banishment from Memphis . . . . . . . . . . 195
July 29, 1863: "UNION LEAGUE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
July 29, 1863: All's fair in love and war in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
July 30, 1863: "Is There no Help for it?" Suggestions for protection from Confederate guerrillas
in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
July 30, 1863: Skirmish at Grand Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
July 30, 1863: "The Streets." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
July 30, 1863: "Richardson's Bloody Order" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
July 30, 1863: "Warn your messengers, pickets, and scouts to be very careful." Federal situation
report for West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
July 31, 1863: Letter to Mrs. G. U. Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
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July 31, 1863: "Safety of Col. Hurst." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
July 31, 1863: Social disorder in Bradley County; an entry from the diary of William E. Sloan .
201
July 31, 1863: Excerpt from a letter by a Norwegian-Canadian private, George H. Brunsted, in
the Union Army, to his sister in Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
July 31, 1863: In defense of Col. Cocke's sons' honor; election politics and character defamation
202
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August 1, 1863: Skirmish in Hawkins County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
August 1, 1863: Skirmish near Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
August 1, 1863: Report on North Carolina troops deserting Confederate army in East Tennessee
1
August 1, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 177, prescribing changes in flag designations and creation of the Army of the Cumberland Reserve Corps and its flag designations
2
August 1, 1863: Payment of Confederate railroad company dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
August 2, 1863: Civilians harassed by Colonel Robert Galbraith's First Middle Tennessee [U. S.
] cavalry in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ca. August 2, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas, Obion Middle Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
August 2, 1863: Scout from the LaGrange to Hardin CountyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
August 3, 1863: Scout from Fort PillowNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
August 3, 1863: Skirmish near Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
August 3, 1863: Skirmish at Swallow Bluff, Tennessee River, Hardin County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
August 3, 1863: Coffee County Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
August 3, 1863: Cracking down on Confederate soldiers in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
August 3, 1863: Civilian employees of the Confederate Quartermaster Corps liable to conscription in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
August 3, 1863: "I am unarmed and in your power, but you have mistaken your man; you can kill
me, but you can't make me draw off my own shirt." Federal atrocity at New Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
August 4, 1863: Anti-guerrilla initiative launched in the Union City, Trenton, Troy, Dyersburg
environs to stop August 6 Confederate elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
August 4, 1863: Scout to Bolivar environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
August 4, 1863: Condition of the Army of the Cumberland in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . 12
August 4, 1863: "Memphis and the Dogs." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
August 4, 1863: "Melancholy Accident." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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August 4, 1863: Reward for Confederate deserters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
August 4, 1863: Union bushwhackers murder a Confederate officer near Carter's Depot . . . 16
August 4, 1863: Stopping horse thieves in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
August 4, 1863: Reconnaissance Rock Island Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
August 5, 1863: General Orders, No. 105, relative to medical issuance of bitters to soldiers . 18
August 5, 1863: Railroad accident between Nashville and La Vergne on the N&C Railroad . 18
August 5, 1863: "What Tennessee Loyalists Have Done." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
August 5, 1863: A Chattanooga woman in Confederate uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
August 5, 1863: Skirmish on the north fork of White Oak Creek eight miles southeast of Jack's
Creek with Captain Stinnett's Confederate guerrillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
August 5, 1863: Expedition from Decherd to Nashville, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
August 6, 1863: Confederate soldiers' letters home, West Tennessee, Obion, Troy, Dancyville .
22
August 6, 1863: "Soldier Killed" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
August 6, 1863: Special Orders, No. 42, Stewart's Division, Hill's Corps, forbidding depredations by Confederate soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
August 6, 1863: Home Guards (Union) from Henderson County ordered to "use up the rebels"
25
August 6, 1863: Confederate tax collection in Confederate Hamilton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
August 6, 1863: Mrs. Clara Judd of Winchester released from prison on spy charges . . . . . . 26
August 6, 1863: "Returned." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
August 6, 1863: Capture of telegraph operator at Fort Henry by Henson's Guerrillas . . . . . . 33
August 6, 1863: "Can you imagine how these southerners feel seeing their homes and families destroyed?" Excerpt from the letter of Captain Thomas A. Cobb, 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to his cousin regarding his thoughts on the wastefulness of war
33
August 6, 1863: Reward for Army of Tennessee Conscription Deserters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
August 6, 1863: Poetry for a Grief-Stricken Confederate Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
August 6, 1863: ". . . his gladiatorial manifestations were unseen. . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
August 6, 1863: Confederate cavalryman held as hostage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
August 6, 1863: Newspaper report on Confederate conscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
August 6, 1863: Amnesty for Confederate soldiers absent without leave and deserters . . . . . . 38
August 6, 1863: Henson's Confederate guerillas raid and occupy a deserted Fort Henry . . . . 39
August 7, 1863: "Thanksgiving Day" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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August 7, 1863: Bigamist tried and convicted in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
August 7, 1863: "Col. Gibbs At LaGrange—A Loyal Speech made by a Middle Tennessean." 39
August 7, 1863: "I may endure." Life in the Confederate army in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . 40
August 7, 1863: "One of the Demoralized." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
August 7, 1863: "Foul Death of a Negro." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
August 7, 1863: Nashville's German Union League State Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
August 7, 1863: Changes in the Confederate Commissariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
August 7, 1863: Meat procurement and government prices in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
August 7, 1863: Expedition from Fayetteville, Tennessee, to Athens, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
August 7, 1863: Changes in the East Tennessee Confederate Commissariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
August 8, 1863: STATEMENT OF R. HENDERSON; the condition of the Army of Tennessee after
the Tullahoma Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
August 8, 1863: "The Darkey Registering." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
August 8, 1863: "Arrest of Rebel Soldiers in Memphis." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
August 8, 1863: "Family Difficulties." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
August 8, 1863: A day in the life of a member of the 9th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
August 8, 1863: Taking the oath en masse in Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ca. August 8, 1863: Anti-guerrilla scouts from Yellow Creek to the Tennessee River, 25 miles
south (i.e., Clarksville to Waverly environs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
August 9, 1863: Skirmish at Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
August 9, 1863: "Killed by Lightning" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
August 9, 1863: "FOR SALE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
August 9, 1863: Attack on the Rose Hamilton at Island No. 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
August 9, 1863: Losing faith in the Confederacy and taking the oath; an excerpt from the journal
of Lucy Virginia French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
August 9, 1863: Desertion from the ranks of the 9th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in Chattanooga; an excerpt from the Van Buren Oldham diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
August 10, 1863: "Guerrilla Killed" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
August 10, 1863: Slaves leave their masters in Maury County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
August 10, 1863: The irritation of war; an excerpt from the Van Buren Oldham diary . . . . . . 53
August 10, 1863: "The Pass Department." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
August 10, 1863: R. V. Richardson's report on Confederate conscript sweeps in West Tennessee
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August 10, 1863: "Rebels About." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
August 10, 1863: Some results of war in Rutherford county, Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . 56
August 10, 1863: Expedition from Memphis to Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
August 10, 1863: Companies C and H, 5th Iowa Cavalry, herd cattle from Murfreesboro to Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
August 10, 1863: Raid on the Mississippi Central Railroad, Big Black River, Mississippi, to
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
August 11, 1863: "A Crying Evil." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
August 11, 1863: "Meeting of the Merchants of Nashville" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
August 11, 1863: "Justly Punished." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
August 11, 1863: "Got Him" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
August 11, 1863: "Railroad Accident." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
August 11, 1863: Fear of loss of livestock and grain harvest due to anticipated Confederate raid
by Dibbrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
August 11, 1863: Capture of Confederate soldiers in Sequatchie County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
August 11, 1863: Defeat of Confederate guerrilla Sol. Street near Pocahontas . . . . . . . . . . . 61
August 11, 1863: Honest citizens turn to highway robbery in the Nonconnah environs . . . . . 61
August 11, 1863: Boils, bare feet and writing in Confederate Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
August 11, 1863: Puff piece on Nashville Provost Marshal Colonel George Spalding . . . . . . 61
August 11, 1863: Parolees in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
August 11, 1863: Army of the Cumberland's logistical difficulty in filling need for forage . . . 62
August 12, 1863: Federal scouts and cavalry skirmish near Pocahontas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
August 12, 1863: Confederate salt smuggling from Hickman County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
August 12, 1863: Officers ordered to prohibit soldiers from burning fence rails or take forage
without proper authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
August 12, 1863: "Refugees." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
August 12, 1863: "A Boy Robs a Woman of Eighty Dollars." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
August 12, 1863: Business in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
August 12, 1863: "The Young Thief-William Burk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
August 12, 1863: "A Great Change." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
August 12, 1863: The demographic distribution of prostitution in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
August 12, 1863: "A Hard Case." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
August 12, 1863: Oldham gets new shoes in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
August 12, 1863: Home manufacturing on small farms in Lincoln County, Tennessee. . . . . . . 66
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August 12, 1863: "A Heartless Villain;" The seduction of Miss Emma C. Tompkins . . . . . . . . 67
August 12, 1863: "Prisoners." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
August 12, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange to Grenada Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
August 13, 1863: Federal scout to Jasper discovers widespread Confederate conscript sweeps in
East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
August 13, 1863: Continued Confederate guerrilla atrocities near Germantown . . . . . . . . . . 68
August 13, 1863: "A Den of Infamy." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
August 13, 1863: A visit to the Memphis Provost Marshal's Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
August 13, 1863: "The Frail Ones." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
August 13, 1863: "They have a terrible state of things upon the Tennessee line particularly in Watauga [county];" trouble on the Tennessee and North Carolina line . . . . . . 72
August 13, 1863: "A Plucky Girl" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
August 14, 1863: Trade with Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
August 14, 1863: "Our State Currency and Trade" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
August 14, 1863: "More Juvenile Thieves." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
August 14, 1863: "Fire Last Night." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
August 14, 1863: "Thieves and Incendiaries at Work." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
August 14, 1863: "Difficulty near the Navy Yard." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
August 14, 1863: A Consequence of Civil War upon Juveniles in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
August 14, 1863: "The health of the neighborhood is very good at this time. Your sister Mar's
baby died. Ed Hughs is also dead." Letter from the Robertson County home
front; Mrs. P. J. Winn to her husband, J. M. Winn, Confederate prisoner of war
in Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
August 14, 1863: Private Reynolds gains a stay of execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
August 14, 1863: Citizen anti-guerrilla activity in Bedford and Lincoln County and request for
governmental assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
August 15, 1863: Nashville, U. S. Army Medical Corps institutes a system of licensed prostitution, complete with medical inspections fees and licenses. [see also September
10, 1864, Legalized prostitution established in Memphis by U. S. Army, below.]
79
August 15, 1863: "A 'Lincolnite' Getting After a Rebel." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
August 15, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS No. 199, warning against guerrilla activities in Middle
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
August 15, 1863: "Attempted Suicide." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
August 15, 1863: Discharged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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August 15, 1863: In the Penitentiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
ca. August 15, 1863: Guerrilla activity near Caney Fork River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
ca. August 15, 1863: Scout from Shelbyville to Marion County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
August 16, 1863: Coquetry and gossip in a White County community, excerpt from the journal of
Amanda McDowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
August 16, 1863: "Juvenile Thieves." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
August 16, 1863: "A House of Correction." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
August 16, 1863: Juvenile Cotton Thieves in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
August 16, 1863: "Dog Killing." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
August 16, 1863: Episodes on the march from Murfreesboro with Sergeant-Major Lyman S. Widney, 34th Indiana Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
August 16, 1863: Expedition from Memphis to Grenada Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
August 16, 1863: Operations of the First Division, U. S. Army, movement from Hillsborough to
Therman and Chattanooga, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
August 16, 1863: The role of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers in the fall of Chattanooga . 89
August 16, 1863: Chickamauga Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
August 16, 1863: East Tennessee Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
August 17, 1863: Wheeler ordered to increase vigilance to prevent desertions from Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
August 17, 1863: General Orders, No. 43, Hill's Corps (Chattanooga) relating to observance of
Confederate Fast Day and exhortation for continued loyalty to the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
August 17, 1863: Reconnaissance on the Tennessee River, Harrison's Landing to above Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
August 17, 1863: Cavalry action, Confederate cavalry routed from Yankeetown, pursued to
Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
August 17, 1863: "Soldier Hung" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
August 17, 1863: "Woman Run Over." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
August 17, 1863: Correspondence relative to an inventory of horses and mules used by the Army
of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
August 17, 1863: Contrabands relocated from Winchester to Gallatin to be employed in Federal
hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
August 17, 1863: Knoxville's Confederate garrison limits and intoxicating liquors . . . . . . . 102
August 17, 1863: Confederate conscription, guerrilla war and citizen retaliation in Tipton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
August 18, 1863: Cavalry skirmish near Kingston, Forrest defeatedNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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August 18, 1863: "A Steamboat Captain Heavily Fined." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
August 18, 1863: "The Dog Killed." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
August 18, 1863: "The Circus in a New Performance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
August 18, 1863: "The Latest from Nashville." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
August 18, 1863: Bad humor and hunger in Confederate Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
August 18, 1863: 'GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATES." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
August 18, 1863: "Arrest of a Notorious Character." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
August 19, 1863: "COOL." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
August 19, 1863: Construction of the Northwestern Railroad ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
August 19, 1863: "The Oath" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
August 19, 1863: Skirmish at Weem's Springs [Bon Aqua], capture of guerrilla Dick McCann .
107
August 19, 1863: Capture of Confederate scouts at Dunlap and five day reconnaissance to Harrison Ford planned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
August 19, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 136, placing all ferries over the Obion River under
Federal military control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
August 19, 1863: Capture of Confederates and release of Union prisoners about to be executed
by hanging at Therman, Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
August 19, 1863: F. J. Paine at Link [Lick?] Creek, Tennessee, to his sister, Mary, in Washington, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
August 19, 1863: "The Oath of Allegiance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
August 19, 1863: Desertion from the 9th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
August 19, 1863: "Tennessee Refugees in the Army." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
August 19, 1863: News from Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
August 19, 1863: Knoxville Editorial on Confederate tax in kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
August 19, 1863: Two skirmishes near Poe's Tavern or Cross-Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
August 19, 1863: Confederate steamer Paint Rock deserted at the Suck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
August 20, 1863: Reconnaissance, Pikeville to Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
August 20, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 116, prohibiting shipments of horses by private individuals to stop "a system of robbery and stealing" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
August 20, 1863: Federal situation report, Battle Creek, Walden's Ridge, Dunlap and before
Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
August 20, 1863: Capture of Confederates and release of Union prisoners about to be executed
by hanging at Poe's Tavern, Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
August 20, 1863: Skirmish near Poe's Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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August 20, 1863: "Arrest of a Modern Jack Sheppard."NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
August 20, 1863: "Sold." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
August 20, 1863: Military intelligence relative to the position of the Army of Tennessee provided
by William Duncan, deserter, Company H, Second Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . 122
August 20, 1863: Reconnaissance on the Tennessee, Harrison's Landing to Chattanooga and
above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
August 20, 1863: Federal reconnaissance in Poe's Tavern environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
August 20, 1863: Activities at the Chattanooga front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
August 21, 1863: Federal artillery sinks and disables two Confederate steamboats . . . . . . . 126
August 21, 1863: Action at Shellmound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
August 21, 1863: Skirmish at Harrison's Landing and shelling of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . 127
August 21, 1863: Artillery shelling of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
August 21, 1863: A PRAYER FOR THE CONFEDERACY [Chattanooga] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
August 21, 1863: Rumors of war, conditions in Confederate Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
August 21, 1863: A day in the life of a teenage schoolgirl in Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
August 21, 1863: One Army of Tennessee soldier's reaction to Federal bombardment of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
August 21, 1863: The news from Chattanooga; a page from the diary of Myra Inman . . . . . 132
August 21, 1863: A Confederate soldier's view of bombardment of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . 133
August 21, 1863: "NEGROES ABOUT NASHVILLE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
August 21, 1863: "The streets even surpass those of New-York in accumulated filth, dirt and garbage, and under this tropical sun, steam with odious exhalations." A description
of Nashville as occupied by Federal soldiers and contrabands. . . . . . . . . . 134
August 21, 1863: "I am the only officer in my Company at present so that I have everything to do
and all the responsibility, but I am good for it as long as I can keep my health."
Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
August 21, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas near Farmington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
August 21, 1863: Confederate forces under Buckner abandon Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
August 22, 1863: Running skirmish from Blythe's Ferry to Tennessee River and Washington . .
141
August 22, 1863: Artillery skirmish at Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
August 22, 1863: Intermittent Federal artillery bombardment of Chattanooga begins . . . . . 144
August 22, 1863: Myra Inman's thoughts on the war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
August 22, 1863: One Confederate soldier's comments about combat in the Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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August 22, 1863: "This last week things have been changing here considerably." The observations of Sergeant Charles Alley concerning Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
August 22, 1863: General Orders, No. 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
August 22, 1863: "Negro Soldiers in Tennessee." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
August 22, 1863: Scout, Smith's Cross-Roads to the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
August 22, 1863: The sack of the Marshall County Courthouse; an excerpt from the diary of John
Hill Fergusson, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
August 22, 1863: Guerrillas attempt to burn a bridge near Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
August 22, 1863: Scout, Smith’s Cross-Roads to the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
August 22, 1863: "my soul was much drawn out in prayer for myself and family Kindred friends
and Country." Alfred Tyler Fielder’s observations during the Federal bombardment of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
August 22, 1863: Expedition from Tracy City to the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
August 22, 1863: Federal scouts along Sale Creek and to Washington and Blythe's Ferry . . 150
August 22, 1863: Expedition from Tracy City to the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
August 22, 1863: Federal scouts along Sale Creek and to Washington and Blythe’s Ferry . 151
August 23, 1863: Confederate reconnaissance by boat on Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
August 23, 1863: Federals extricate Confederate steamer Paint Rock from the Suck and destroy
railroad bridge over the Tennessee River near Shellmound . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
August 23, 1863: Colonel Wilder's reconnaissance report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
August 23, 1863: Federal situation report and suggested strategy to attack Chattanooga . . 154
August 23, 1863: Problems with the municipal water system in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
August 23, 1863: ". . . crying women and dirty babies." Life in Chattanooga prior to the Federal
occupation; an entry in the Oldham diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
August 23, 1863: Pickets at Dowdy's and Blythe's Ferries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
August 23, 1863: Union troops pray with Negroes in Columbia; an excerpt from the diary of John
Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
August 23, 1863: Gossip on Gay street as Burnsides' army draws near Knoxville . . . . . . . . 157
August 23, 1863: Federal situation report, Northwestern Middle Tennessee, Fort Donelson to
Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
August 24, 1863: Scouts from Sale Creek Camp Ground to Washington and Blythe's Ferries . .
158
August 24, 1863: Difficulties with water resource management in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
August 24, 1863: Conditions in Coffee County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
August 24, 1863: "Theatre." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
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August 24, 1863: Observations on Middle Tennessee during a railroad journey from Nashville to
Stevenson, Alabama; excerpts from the letter of George F. Cram to his mother
161
August 24, 1863: Scout from Clarksville to Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
August 25, 1863: Restoration of waterworks service in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
August 25, 1863: Federal situation report relative to Confederate withdrawal from Chattanooga
163
August 25, 1863: Defeat of Nathan Bedford Forrest at Kingston by advance of Major-General
Burnside's force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
August 25, 1863: “Chatanooga Before the Evacuation.” From the Chattanooga Rebel of Aug.
25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
August 25, 1863: "THE TRUE MISSION OF WOMAN HERE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
August 25, 1863: "Gen. Bragg has fallen into a delusion." Morale and food supply in the Army of
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
August 26, 1863: Skirmish at Harrison's Landing and skirmish at Thatcher's Landing . . . . . 173
August 26, 1863: Accidental killing of a Union Lieutenant in occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . 174
August 27, 1863: Skirmish at Harrison's Landing, bombardment of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . 174
August 27, 1863: Reconnaissances from Poe's Tavern to Igou's and Harrison's Landings and
skirmishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
August 27, 1863: Major-General P. H. Sheridan offers to build bridge across Tennessee River
175
August 27, 1863: Regulations for Federal foraging, aimed at preventing depredations in Therman environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
August 27, 1863: Artillery duels across the Tennessee River, Chattanooga environs . . . . . . 176
August 27, 1863: "A SMUGGLER CAUGHT." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
August 27, 1863: Advertisements for schools in the Nashville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
August 27, 1863: "ANOTHER SOLDIER KILLED." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
August 27, 1863: Surveying and scouting expedition from Fort Donelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
August 27, 1863: Supply train from Rock Island to Pikeville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
August 27, 1863: " . . . he died a glorious death fighting for his country without a friend to aid
him." The discovery of the remains of an M. I. A. Federal soldier in the Columbia environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
August 28, 1863: Skirmish at Magnolia, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
August 28, 1863: Scout from Fort Donelson to White Oak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
August 28, 1863: Skirmish at JacksboroughNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
August 28, 1863: Skirmish at the Narrows, near Shellmound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
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August 28, 1863: "All Their Fun Spoiled," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
August 28, 1863: Scout (night) and skirmish near Jasper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
August 28, 1863: Skirmish and capture of Confederate soldiers at Jacksborough . . . . . . . . . 182
August 28, 1863: In Defense of the Fire Department in occupied Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
August 28, 1863: Taking the oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
August 28, 1863: Capture of guerrillas near Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
August 29, 1863: Federal assessment that Confederates south of the Duck River need to be
"Grangerized" and capture of a scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
August 29, 1863: “Guerrilla Raid into Brownsville.”NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
August 29, 1863: William G. Brownlow defends himself from charges of fraud . . . . . . . . . . 185
August 30, 1863: “Fooroom-BOOM! Ker-gip!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
August 30, 1863: “The Rebel lives.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
August 30, 1863: Skirmish near Montgomery, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
August 30, 1863: Steamboats and/or bridge over the Tennessee River burned by Confederates at
Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
August 30, 1863: Federal forces construct flatboats to cross men and supplies across the Tennessee River from Shellmound to Chattanooga and reconnaissance . . . . . . . . 188
August 30, 1863: Military Governor Andrew Johnson orders "pure Simple whiskey" . . . . . . 188
August 30, 1863: A Confederate cavalryman's letter to his mother in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . 188
August 30, 1863: News from Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
ca. August 30, 1863: Forrest falls back across Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
August 30, 1863: Reconnaissance by Second Brigade, Sixty-eighth Indiana infantry and Confederate withdrawal from ouposts on Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
August 31, 1863: Reconnaissance from Shellmound toward Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
August 31, 1863: Skirmish at Winter's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
August 31, 1863: Foraging and anti-guerrilla patrol in northern district of the Sequatchie Valley
192
August 31, 1863: Medical Report on Federal hospitals in the Department of the Cumberland . .
192
August 31, 1863: "Divine Worship." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
August 31, 1863: United States Tax Collectors in Memphis and Shelby County . . . . . . . . . . 196
ca. August 31, 1863: Travel itineraries for the Army of the Cumberland's march to Chattanooga,
prepared at the headquarters of Major-General George H. Thomas . . . . . 196
August 31, 1863: Federal scout from Smith's Cross Roads to Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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SEPTEMBER 1863
September 1, 1863: Confederate spy's report on Federal strength in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
September 1, 1863: Report on provisions for Union army before Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
September 1, 1863: Rumors of war in the White County Cherry Creek community, a day in the
life of Amanda McDowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
September 1, 1863: "Nashville Correspondence." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
September 1, 1863: "The Churches." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
September 1, 1863: A Case of mistaken identity and Burnsides' strict orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
September 1, 1863: Order, counter order, the capture of Federal pickets and one soldier's opinion of Middle Tennesseans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
September 1, 1863: "CIVIL LAW" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
September 1, 1863: "The Suspension Bridge." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
September 1, 1863: Tribulations of Georgia soldiers in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
September 1, 1863: The status of Sewanee Coal and Mining Co.NOTE 1 properties . . . . . . . . . 10
September 1, 1863: Federal troops begin occupation of Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
September 1, 1863: A Confederate woman's view of the Federal occupation of Knoxville, excerpts from the diary of Ellen Renshaw House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ca. September 1, 1863: Confederate conscript sweeps near Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
September 1, 1863: Expeditions from Paducah, Kentucky & Union City, Tennessee, to Conyersville, Tennessee, with a skirmish on the 5th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
September 2, 1863: Scout from Smith's Cross-Roads to Kingston, capture of Confederates, Forrest falls back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
September 2, 1863: Cavalry scout in Saulsbury environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
September 2, 1863: Report of Federal scout to Trenton, Humboldt environs in search of a Confederate conscript camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
September 2, 1863: Daily Federal scouts between Sulphur Springs, above Washington, and
Thatcher's Ferry, below Sale Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
September 2, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest destroys his own wagon train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
September 2, 1863: Federals take possession of Williams' Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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September 2, 1863: Major-General A. Burnside's forces occupy Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
September 2, 1863: Letter from Captain R. S. Van Dyke [C. S. A. ] to Lieutenant John A. Turly
relative to action to be taken in the event of Federal advancements in McMinn
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
September 2, 1863: A Bolivar schoolgirl's worries about the Confederacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
September 2, 1863: Destruction of Loudon bridge by Confederates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
September 2, 1863: "The Civil Commission." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
September 2, 1863: "Fiendish Outrage in South Memphis. An Attempt to Assassinate an Old Citizen." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
September 2, 1863: The junction of the Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama state lines, salt petre
mines, picket, potatoes, pies and chickens; Bliss Morse's letter home from Shellmound, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
September 2, 1863: News of Mrs. Clara Judd's Release from Federal Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
September 2, 1863: Operations of the First Division, U. S. Army, Chattanooga environs . . . 27
September 3, 1863: "Suddenly Vacated" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
September 3, 1863: Confederate reconnaissance, Bristol to Jonesborough environs . . . . . . . 32
September 3, 1863: Confederate report on conditions in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
September 3, 1863: Sixth and Third East Tennessee Volunteer Infantry officers (U. S. ) threaten
to resign rather than be under the command of Brigadier-General James G.
Spears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
September 3, 1863: Scouts and horse "thievery" at Jonesborough environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
September 3, 1863: Federal ambush at Wolf River in La Fayette environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
September 3, 1863: Occupation of Loudon by Federal forces and situation report . . . . . . . . 36
September 3, 1863: Anxieties about the war in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
September 3, 1863: "Collision between the Citizens and Guerrillas." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
September 3, 1863: Anti-Guerrilla Groups Form in West Tennessee Counties . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
September 3, 1863: Guerrilla activity in the Memphis environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
September 3, 1863: "WEST TENNESSEE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
September 3, 1863: "LATE FROM KNOXVILLE TENN." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
September 4, 1863: "Shall we be stunk to death?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
September 4, 1863: Execution of Captain J. R. Rhodes, 1st Confederate Infantry, Chattanooga
44
September 4, 1863: GEN. FIELD ORDERS, No. 12, regarding the appointment of BrigadierGeneral S. P. Carter as Provost Marshal General of East Tennessee . . . . . 44
September 4, 1863: Federal forces in East Tennessee ordered to hire local and reliable citizens
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to act as scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
September 4, 1863: Reconnaissance, Flat Lick to Cumberland Gap, and skirmish . . . . . . . . . 45
September 4, 1863: Federal expedition from Knoxville to Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
September 4, 1863: "To Soldiers" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
September 4, 1863: "Grundy County Moving." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
September 4, 1863: "Paying off the Soldiers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
September 4, 1863: "Turned in the Streets;" evicting the poor in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
September 4, 1863: Unofficial truce along the Tennessee River, Chattanooga environs . . . . 47
September 4, 1863: News of General Burnside in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
September 4, 1863: Federal expedition from Knoxville to Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
September 4, 1863: Trade and citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
September 4, 1863: Scouts daily on the Pigeon Roost, Hernando and Horn Lake Roads, West
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
September 5, 1863: Skirmish at Powell's River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
September 5, 1863: Skirmish at Tazewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
September 5, 1863: False alarm, excerpt from the Journal of Henry Campbell . . . . . . . . . . . 51
September 5, 1863: Skirmish at Conyersville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
September 5, 1863: Artillery skirmish at Friar's Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
September 5, 1863: Artillery duel at Driver's Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
September 5, 1863: Artillery action opposite Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
September 5, 1863: Federal forage expedition and reconnaissance, Athens environs . . . . . . 53
September 5, 1863: Skirmish on Clinch River near Tazewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
September 5, 1863: Nocturnal Confederate demonstration along Federal lines . . . . . . . . . . . 54
September 5, 1863: Forrest makes demonstrations at crossings of Tennessee River . . . . . . . . 54
September 5, 1863: Attorney James Trimble to Governor Johnson relative to rental of rooms to
a local MadameNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
September 5, 1863: "Guerrillas near Lafayette." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
September 5, 1863: "A Heroic Woman." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
September 5, 1863: One Federal soldier's observations of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
September 5, 1863: Fraternization with the enemy in the Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . 56
September 5, 1863: "TENNESSEE MONEY." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
September 5, 1863: "Show Your Colors." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
September 5, 1863: "Masonic Charitable Society." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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September 5, 1863: Rumors concerning Confederate desertions after the fall of Knoxville . . 57
September 6, 1863: Federal artillery fire into Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
September 6, 1863: Capture of Confederate locomotive train and rolling stock near Morristown
58
September 6, 1863: Skirmish near Sweet Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
September 6, 1863: Heavy skirmishing and reconnaisance at Powell's River . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
September 6, 1863: "Disgraceful Riot in South Nashville-Two Houses Fired." . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
September 6, 1863: "Religious." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
September 6, 1863: Federal feint in front of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
September 6, 1863: Inexact Federal Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
September 6, 1863: Forrest's feints at Igou's and Harrison's crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
September 6, 1863: Federal expedition on East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, Kingston to
Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
September 6, 1863: "Open the Churches." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
September 6, 1863: "This morning six of them attacked an officer and three men firing on them
from the brush. . . " Guerrillas in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
September 6, 1863: Pursuit of Confederates, Sweet Water to Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
September 7, 1863: "MARKET." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
September 7, 1863: South Side Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
September 7, 1863: Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga, skirmishing on Tennessee River, at
mouth of Lookout Valley and breastworks at Lookout Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
September 7, 1863: "Police Court." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
September 7, 1863: Federal situation report in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
September 7, 1863: Loudon and Hiawassee bridges burned by Confederates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
September 7, 1863: SPECIAL ORDERS No. 62, One-hundred and third Ohio sent by rail from
Knoxville to carry out an expedition in Jonesborough environs . . . . . . . . . . 73
September 7, 1863: Scout from Kingston to Athens, Smith's Cross-Roads Pikeville environs . 74
September 7, 1863: Confederate works shelled and skirmish before Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . 74
September 7, 1863: Skirmish on "the hill;" Federal Signal Corpsmen checked by Confederates
on Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
September 7, 1863: Co. C, 5th Iowa Cavalry, on the move from Murfreesboro to McMinnville .
75
September 7, 1863: Federal Provost Marshall seeks release of political prisoners in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
September 7, 1863: Confederate money and events in recently occupied Knoxville . . . . . . . . 76
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September 7, 1863: Some of the activities of the Federal provost Marshal in newly occupied
Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
September 7, 1863: Bombardment of Confederates, Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
September 7, 1863: Operations about and capture of Cumberland Gap; negotiating the Confederate capitulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
September 8, 1863: Continued Federal bombardment of Confederate works, and construction of
boats to ferry artillery across Tennessee River, Chattanooga environs . . . . 84
September 8, 1863: Confederate anti-guerrilla patrol, skirmish with "Tinker" Dave Beatty's
band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
September 8, 1863: Two reconnaissances ordered, to Lookout Mountain via Nickajack Trace,
and Lookout Mountain to Summertown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
September 8, 1863: Confederate evacuation of Chattanooga completed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
September 8, 1863: Action at Limestone stationNOTE 1 and skirmish at Telford's station . . . . 86
September 8, 1863: Capture of 100th Ohio at Limestone Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
September 8, 1863: Action at Telford's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
September 8, 1863: Reconnaissance, Knoxville to Sevierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
September 8, 1863: Pursuit of Indians in Sevierville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
September 8, 1863: Initiation of anti-guerrilla sweep in Sevierville, Greeneville environs . . . 92
September 8, 1863: "I took a good cry this eve about our fate." Anxieties about the war and fears
about the future in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
September 8, 1863: Federal reconnaissance, Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
September 8, 1863: Confederates burn the bridge at Charleston, TennesseeNOTE 1
. . . . . . . 93
September 8, 1863: "City Fumigation;" the fight against malaria in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
September 8, 1863: Report on general condition in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
September 8, 1863: Report on Forts Negley and Morton in Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
September 8, 1863: A member of the 9th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry comments on the Confederate evacuation of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
September 8, 1863: The 5th Iowa Cavalry reaches McMinnville, an entry from the diary of Sergeant Charles Alley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
September 8, 1863: A Report on Approach of the Union Army to Knoxville and Its Evacuation
96
September 8, 1863: Federal protection for miners at Tracy City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
September 8, 1863: Action at Telford's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
September 8, 1863: Federal scouts to mouth of Sale Creek and Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
September 9, 1863: Reconnaissance toward Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . 97
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September 9, 1863: Skirmish at Friar's Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
September 9, 1863: Chattanooga occupied by Federal forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
September 9, 1863: Skirmish at Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
September 9, 1863: Confederate surrender of Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
September 9, 1863: An account of the capture of the Cumberland Gap and Occupation of Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
September 9, 1863: Juvenile delinquents tried in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
September 9, 1863: A Federal soldier's impressions of Chattanooga and a rebel woman on Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
September 9, 1863: "Please write me what to do with our negroes ;" slave owners in Jasper seek
advice from Military Governor Andrew Johnson about what to do with their
slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
September 9, 1863: Confederate conscription in West Tennessee, a plea to Military Governor
Andrew Johnson for help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
September 9, 1863: "Coffee" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
September 9, 1863: "Sunday Walk Among the Churches." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
September 9, 1863: "Tennessee Money." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
September 9, 1863: "Important Arrest." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
September 9, 1863: General Orders, No. 82; Federal command cracks down on depredations .
114
September 9, 1863: "ARREST OF A BAD CHARACTER." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
September 9, 1863: "Disorderly." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
September 9, 1863: "A Little Fight." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
September 9, 1863: "More Dissatisfied Confederates." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
September 9, 1863: "Increased Travel." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
September 10, 1863: "NOTICE;" Special Orders, No. 216, payment of property taxes . . . . 116
September 10, 1863: Skirmish, Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
September 10, 1863: Occupation of Greeneville by Federal troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
September 10, 1863: Bridge over the Hiwassee to Charleston burned by Confederates . . . . 117
September 10, 1863: Federal situation report, Athens, Hiwassee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
September 10, 1863: Occupation of Greeneville by Federal troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
September 10, 1863: Federals ordered to hold Greeneville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
September 10, 1863: "The Sons of Temperance." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
September 10, 1863: "Dangerous Counterfeit." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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September 10, 1863: "Warning to Fast Young Men." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
September 10, 1863: "Refugees." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
September 10, 1863: "Condition of West Tennessee-Marauders and Guerrillas" . . . . . . . . . 120
September 10, 1863: "Where Are the Police?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
September 10, 1863: Federal courier line between Knoxville and Cumberland Gap to be established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
September 11, 1863: Recruitment Army of Tennessee deserters in the Army of the Cumberland
122
September 11, 1863: Confederate scouting parties and pickets at Henderson Station driven back
by Federal forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
September 11, 1863: "These are sad days for we secessionists," despondency in Cleveland 124
September 11, 1863: A schoolgirl's patriotic amusement in Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
September 11, 1863: Athens occupied by Federals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
September 11, 1863: "Memphis Gangrene Hospital." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
September 11, 1863: Memphis Board of School Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
September 11, 1863: "Knoxville and Chattanooga-Their Military Relations." . . . . . . . . . . . 127
September 11, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln lectures Military Governor Andrew Johnson
about reconstructing Tennessee state government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
September 11, 1863: A scout in Warren and Grundy counties; the observations of Sergeant
Charles Alley of the 5th Iowa Cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
September 11, 1863: Expedition from Corinth, Mississippi, to Henderson, Tennessee . . . . . 131
September 11, 1863: Expedition from LaGrange to Toone's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
September 12, 1863: Skirmish at Rheatown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
September 12, 1863: Skirmish at Jack's CreekNOTE 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
September 12, 1863: Federal cavalry in Cleveland, confusion of loyalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
September 12, 1863: "Suicide." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
September 12, 1863: "Those Who Dance Must Pay the Piper." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
September 12, 1863: Report relative to esprit de corps of Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . 136
September 12, 1863: Prisoner of war John Bachman, with Captain Tevitt's Local Defense
Troops (Confederate), in Knoxville to his wife Rachel in Sullivan County . 137
September 12, 1863: Negroes and Confederate property rights in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . 138
September 12, 1863: Correspondence between E. M. Stanton, Major George L. Stearns, Military
Governor Andrew Johnson and President Abraham Lincoln relative to the enlistment of the slaves of citizens loyal to the Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
September 13, 1863: Skirmish at Clark's Creek Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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September 13, 1863: Skirmish at Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
September 13, 1863: "The Public Schools;" education in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
September 13, 1863: Foraging in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
September 13, 1863: Circumstances in Chattanooga on the dawn of the Battle of Chickamauga;
Excerpts from the letter of Captain Gershom M. Barber to his wife . . . . . . 144
ca. September 13, 1863: Federal scout in Southwest TennesseeNOTE 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
September 14, 1863: General Orders, No. 129, relative to formation of "home guard" units as
armed police forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
September 14, 1863: Confederate raiding party robs Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
September 14, 1863: Confederates advance upon Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
September 14, 1863: Erstwhile Confederates join the Union Army at Athens and recruiting plans
for Benton and Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
September 14, 1863: Letter from John Bachman to his wife Rachel Bachmen in Sullivan County
148
September 14, 1863: Federal forces pass through Bolivar en route to Jackson . . . . . . . . . . 148
September 14, 1863: Solicitation of permission to raise Union home guard units in Carroll, Henry and Weakley counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
September 14, 1863: "The Enemy." Complaints about public health in Nashville . . . . . . . . . 149
September 14, 1863: "Depravity and Wretchedness;" inmates of the Shelby County jail . . . 151
September 15, 1863: Skirmish near Henderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
September 15, 1863: GENERAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 10, relative to formation of National
Guard of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
September 15, 1863: Confederate cavalry dash in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
September 15, 1863: Union meeting in Cleveland broken up by a Confederate raid . . . . . . 152
September 15, 1863: "That Little Coffin." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
September 15, 1863: "Juvenile Thieves." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
September 15, 1863: "Female Spy." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
September 15, 1863: "Those Who Buy It?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
September 15, 1863: "Those Holes on the Levee." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
September 15, 1863: General Field Orders No. 10, authorizing the formation of the National
Guard of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
September 15, 1863: African-American cotillion in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
September 16, 1863: Skirmish at Montezuma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
September 16, 1863: One Federal cavalry officer's complaint regarding generals and occupation assignments and illegal cotton trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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September 16, 1863: Major-General Rosecrans admonishes President of Louisville and Nashville Railroad that military transportation needs supersede those of the company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
September 16, 1863: Affair at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
September 16, 1863: "The Rebel Governor, Caruthers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
September 16, 1863: Desertions from the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
September 16, 1863: Martial punishment for burning the house of Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey . . . 159
September 16, 1863: Scouts daily between Memphis and White's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
September 17, 1863: 2d West Tennessee Infantry (African descent) moved from LaGrange to
Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
September 17, 1863: Confederate evacuation of Jonesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
September 17, 1863: Confederate Cavalry attack Second Indiana Cavalry at Chattanooga 161
September 17, 1863: GENERAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 13, regarding foraging regulations and
punishments for depredations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
September 17, 1863: Rumors of war, Federal arrest of newspaper editor in Cleveland . . . . 162
September 17, 1863: "VAGABOND NEGROES." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
September 17, 1863: Prohibition ordered in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
September 17, 1863: General Field Orders, No. 11 establishing a Federal claims commission in
East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
September 17, 1863: Initiation of recruitment of Negro laborers and soldiers in Tennessee 165
September 17, 1863: Expedition from Knoxville to Union and the East Tennessee & Virginia
Railroad between Carter's and Johnson's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
September 17, 1863: An excerpt from the Civil War Diary of Capt. William J. Robinson, 20th
Tennessee Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
September 18, 1863: Affair near Fort Donelson and death of guerrilla leader George Hinson .
167
September 18, 1863: Skirmish at Calhoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
September 18, 1863: Skirmish at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
September 18, 1863: Skirmish above Kingsport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
September 18, 1863: "Attention, Battalion." Looking for love in the Memphis want ads . . . 168
September 18, 1863: John Watkins' [19th Ohio Battery, 3d Division, 23rd AC] letter home to his
wife Sarah; marching to Knoxville and Cumberland Gap, prices, Confederate
excesses and punishment for depredations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
September 18, 1863: Plans for a preemptive strike on a guerrilla barbecue in the Shelbyville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
September 18, 1863: Federal initiative to curb guerrillas and disloyalty in Maury County . 171
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September 19, 1863: Skirmish at and occupation of Bristol by Federal troops . . . . . . . . . . . 171
September 19, 1863: Skirmish at Carter's Station, on bank of Watauga River . . . . . . . . . . . 172
September 19, 1863: Skirmish at Como . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
September 19, 1863: Skirmish at Zollicoffer [Bluff City] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
September 19, 1863: Confederate conscript sweep in Madison, Decatur, McNairy and Henderson counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
September 19, 1863: Sounds of war in the Cleveland environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
September 19, 1863: "Tennessee Money." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
September 19, 1863: "Female Smugulers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
September 19, 1863: A Contraband Funeral." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
September 19, 1863: Life in prison for Captain William J. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
September 19, 1863: "Plundering in the Market House." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
September 19, 1863: ". . . the chilly winds will continue to blow indefinitely." . . . . . . . . . . . 175
September 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln authorizes Military Governor Andrew Johnson
to establish state government in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
September 19, 1863: Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
September 19, 1863: Expedition from Fort Pillow to Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
September 20, 1863: Confederate Repulse of Union demonstration in force near Zollicoffer
[Bluff City] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
September 20, 1863: Skirmish at Beaver Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
September 20, 1863: Skirmish at Carter's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
September 20, 1863: Murder in a Cherry Creek church, White County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
September 20, 1863: "FEMALE INFLUENCE IN RESTORING PEACE TO THIS COUNTRY."
180
September 20, 1863: Confederate guerrilla raid on Brownsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
September 20, 1863: "Scene in Calvary Church" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
September 20, 1863: A Yankee attends a Southern Baptist service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
September 20, 1863: "Closing up the Saloons;" prohibition in Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
September 20, 1863: "ILLNESS OF GOVENOR JOHNSON." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
September 20, 1863: Action at Zollicoffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
September 20, 1863: Confederate raids and Federal pursuits between Paris, Tennessee, and
Mayfield, Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
September 20, 1863: Expedition from Paducah Kentucky to McLemoresville, Tenn. . . . . . . 186
September 21, 1863: Skirmish at Carter's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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September 21, 1863: Action at Jonesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
September 21, 1863: "THOSE BIG GUNS." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
September 21, 1863: Guerrilla attack on the steamer Gladiator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
September 21, 1863: Withdrawal to Chattanooga by Army of the Cumberland . . . . . . . . . . 190
September 21, 1863: Skirmishes at Watauga River Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
September 21, 1863: Federal Scout in Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
September 22, 1863: Rebel cavalry movement from Paris along the Tennessee River . . . . . 190
September 22, 1863: Skirmish at Hall's Ford, Watauga RiverNOTE 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
September 22, 1863: Skirmish at Carter's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
September 22, 1863: Engagement at and burning of Blountville [artillery duel] . . . . . . . . . 191
September 22, 1863: Skirmishes at Shallow Ford Gap, near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
September 22, 1863: Skirmish at the foot of Missionary Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
September 22, 1863: Skirmish at Johnson's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
September 22, 1863: Federal courier line established between Chattanooga and Friar's Island
199
September 22, 1863: Federal scout from Friar's Island to Sale Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
September 22, 1863: Confederate guerrilla activity in Tracy City environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
September 22, 1863: Reaction in Cleveland to news Federal forces were en route . . . . . . . . 201
September 22, 1863: "The Aldermanic Committee on Landings." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
September 22, 1863: Form blanks; record keeping by the Federal army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
ca. September 22, 1863: Reconnaissance and skirmishing, Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . 202
September 22, 1863: Reconnaissance and Skirmishes in front of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . 202
September 23, 1863: Excerpt from a letter of George H. Cadman, a soldier with the 39th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry and on occupation duty in the Bluff City, to his wife, relative
to female pulchritude in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
September 23, 1863: Skirmish at Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
September 23, 1863: Skirmish at Summertown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
September 23, 1863: Skirmish at Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
September 23, 1863: Confederates evacuate Carter's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
September 23, 1863: Federal artillery bombardment and dispersal of Confederate camps near
Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
September 23, 1863: Federal patrols, Williams' Island along Tennessee River in the direction of
Jasper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
September 23, 1863: Forrest demands surrender of U. S. forces on Lookout Mountain . . . . 205
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September 23, 1863: Major-General Burnside's situation report to President Abraham Lincoln
206
September 23, 1863: A Wisconsin soldier's account of the battle of Chickamauga . . . . . . . . 207
September 23, 1863: Stuck in the Middle Tennessee Mud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
September 23, 1863: Use of signal rockets by Federal army, Chattanooga environs . . . . . . 208
September 23, 1863: Legal notice of attachment in Knox county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
September 24, 1863: Federal reconnaissance in force, Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
September 24, 1863: Skirmish at Zollicoffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
September 24, 1863: Federal reconnoitering parties in search of Col. Forrest's and Richardson's
forces in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
September 24, 1863: Skirmishing near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
September 24, 1863: Federal reconnaissances and skirmishing in Chattanooga environs . . 211
September 24, 1863: Federal reconnaissance ordered in Harrison and Missionary Ridge environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
September 24, 1863: Federal recapture of ferry boat in Chattanooga environs, Confederates in
Federal uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
September 24, 1863: Confederate sharpshooters and artillery bombardment of Federal positions
in Chattanooga environs; need for picks, spades and axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
September 24, 1863: Federal reconnaissance and skirmish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
September 24, 1863: Nocturnal Confederate cavalry attack repulsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
September 24, 1863: Nocturnal skirmish near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
September 24, 1863: "Jubilation of the Secesh;" news of the battle of Chickamauga reaches
Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
September 24, 1863: Beginnings of the restoration of civil rule in Cheatham County . . . . . 218
September 24, 1863: “Love and Desertion.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
September 24, 1863: Skirmish and dispersal of guerrillas at Decherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
September 24, 1863: Guerrilla Activities in Hardeman County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
September 25, 1863: Skirmish at Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
September 25, 1863: Skirmish at Calhoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
September 25, 1863: Skirmish at Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
September 25, 1863: Frightened Federals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
September 25, 1863: Spousal abuse in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
September 25, 1863: Skirmish at Calhoun, Confederates retreat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
September 25, 1863: A Confederate cavalryman's letter to his mother in Memphis after the battle
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of Chickamauga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
September 25, 1863: Confederate depredations in Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
September 26, 1863: Skirmish at Calhoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
September 26, 1863: Skirmish near Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
September 26, 1863: Federal orders prohibiting quartering of troops in houses of loyal citizens
in Chattanooga without official permission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
September 26, 1863: Skirmish at Chattanooga: Federals repulse Confederate attack on pickets
224
September 26, 1863: Skirmish near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
September 26, 1863: Provost Marshal, Third Division, Twenty First Army Corps, to kill all
stragglers and skulkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
September 26, 1863: Federal forces raze bridge over the Watauga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
September 26, 1863: A Bolivar schoolgirl witnesses a skirmish between guerrillas and Federal
cavalry near "the Springs" NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
September 26, 1863: Foraging reconnaissance in Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
September 27, 1863: Skirmish at Locke's Mill, near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
September 27, 1863: Skirmish at Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
September 27, 1863: Skirmish near Philadelphia,capture of Federals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
September 27, 1863: Request by Colonel William B. Stokes, 5th Tennessee (U. S. ) Cavalry to
counter Confederate guerrilla activities in DeKalb, Warren, Smith and Wilson
counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
September 27, 1863: Increased Federal security at railroad bridges in West Tennessee . . . 230
September 27, 1863: "News from East Tennessee." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
September 27, 1863: Skirmishing for control of the railroad near Carter's Station . . . . . . . 233
September 27, 1863: Expedition from Corinth into West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
September 28, 1863: Skirmish at Buell's Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
September 28, 1863: Murder of Confederate recruiters in Macon County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
September 28, 1863: Conflict between Federal Corps of Topographical Engineers and Corps of
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
September 28, 1863: Confederate sharpshooters' targets near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
September 28, 1863: Federal need for upholsterers and tailors to make mattresses for the army's
sick and wounded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
September 28, 1863: "EXPLOSION OF AMMUNITION AT THE LEVEE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
September 28, 1863: Confederate cavalry driven in at Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
September 28, 1863: "A Scout Among the Guerrillas."NOTE 1
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September 29, 1863: "The Sultana." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
September 29, 1863: Skirmish at Leesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
September 29, 1863: "Our Police Force." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
September 29, 1863: Skirmish at Friendship Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
September 29, 1863: Skirmish along the Tennessee River near Harrison, Tennessee . . . . . . 240
September 29, 1863: Reconnaissance from Henderson on the main Jonesborough road, and reconnaissance on Snap's Ferry road to Babb's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
September 29, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
September 29, 1863: "TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT THE MAXWELL BARRACKS." . . . . . . . 241
September 29, 1863: A Polemic from LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
September 29, 1863: Skirmish at Jonesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
September 30, 1863: Patrols in the Sequatchie Valley above Therman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
September 30, 1863: Skirmish at Cotton Port Ford, Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
September 30, 1863: Skirmish at Swallow Bluffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
September 30, 1863: Scouting expedition, Chattanooga to Pikeville to Dunlap . . . . . . . . . . 245
September 30, 1863: Major-General A. E. Burnside's plan to end the war in East Tennessee . .
246
September 30, 1863: Appointment of Nashville Aldermen and Councilmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
September 30, 1863: Providing domestic services for Confederate soldiers in Cleveland . . 248
September 30, 1863: "RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN SHELBY COUNTY." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
September 30, 1863: "The Squirrels on the Square." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
September 30, 1863: "Female Smugglers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
September 30, 1863: "The Meeting of Business Men this Morning." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
September 30, 1863: "ANOTHER GUERRILLA OUTRAGE." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
September 30, 1863: "A FATAL SHOOTING AFFAIR." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
September 30, 1863: "Terrible Tragedy in Tipton County." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
ca. September 30, 1863: Capture of unauthorized Federal patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
September 30, 1863: Wheeler/Roddey's Raid on Rosecrans' communications: Reports of Maj.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, C. S. Army, and Brig. Gen. George Crook, U. S.
ArmyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
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OCTOBER 1863
October 1, 1863: Skirmish at Mountain (a.k.a. Anderson's) Gap, near Smith's Cross-Roads . . 1
October 1, 1863: Report that Hamilton County public records burned by Confederates . . . . . . 1
October 1, 1863: Federal Medical Report relative to the Battle of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
October 1, 1863: Military Governor Andrew Johnson commissions the raising of Union Guards
in Dickson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
October 1, 1863: Plea from to Military Governor Andrew Johnson for assistance in fighting Confederate guerrillas in Carroll and Henderson counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
October 1, 1863: "The Right Way to Do;" a private sector skirmish with and capture of guerrillas
5
October 1, 1863: "News from East Tennessee." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
October 1, 1863: "General Orders, No. 28;" enforcement of military liquor regulations in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
October 1, 1863: Movements of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry and associated combat events:
Wheeler’s cavalry attacked on Walden’s Ridge; recapture of mules; pursuit of
Confederates on McMinnville Road, October 4, temporary occupation of McMinnville; October 5; skirmish 15 miles from Murfreesboro, October 6. . . . 9
October 2, 1863: Skirmish at [Sequatchie] Valley Road (a.k.a. Pitt's Cross Roads), near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
October 2, 1863: Skirmish at Pitt's Cross Roads, Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
October 2, 1863: Capture of courier post and wagon train near Walden's Ridge . . . . . . . . . . 10
October 2, 1863: Skirmish near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
October 2, 1863: Skirmish near Dunlap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
October 2, 1863: Skirmish at Greeneville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
October 2, 1863: Capture of wagon train; skirmish at Anderson's Cross Roads; allegation of misconduct by Federal forces on Confederate prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
October 2, 1863: "Another Dashing Raid;" continuing anti-guerrilla action at Nonconnah Creek
near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
October 2, 1863: "Poor Mary Raymond;" suicide in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
October 2, 1863: The attempted assassination of Rev. Dr. Allen M. Scott."Vice, crime, and deeds
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of violence are becoming of daily occurrence. . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
October 2, 1863: Letter from Lila Tennessee Blackburn to her husband, John William Blackburn,
a prisoner of war held in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
October 2, 1863: Exaggerated intelligence from Tracy City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
October 2, 1863: Foraging and impressment mission and scout from Gallatin on Pikeville road
to Sparta environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
October 2, 1863: Confederates destroy Federal wagon train near Anderson's Cross-Roads . 20
October 3, 1863: Skirmish on Pikeville road near Gallatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
October 3, 1863: Affair at McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
October 3, 1863: Skirmish at Hill's Gap, near Beersheba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
October 3, 1863: Skirmish at Bear Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
October 3, 1863: Skirmish at Therman, Sequatchie County, capture of 200 mules . . . . . . . . . 27
October 3, 1863: Death of Major-General W. T. Sherman's son in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
October 3, 1863: ". . . we took and cleaned out the whole pile." Corporal George Hovey Cadman's experience at the Memphis Saturday night ball: an excerpt from a letter
home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
October 3, 1863: Accidental death of Private John Moon, Third Tennessee (U. S. ) Cavalry in
Wilson County, according to William A. McTeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
October 3, 1863: The Federal Army in Chattanooga after the battle of Chickamauga. The letter
of Captain Gershom M. Barber to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
October 3, 1863: "Our 'Native Women;'" A Nashville editor's opinion of a Chicago war correspondent's story about Tennessee women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
October 3, 1863: "Horrible State of Affairs in West Tennessee." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
October 3, 1863: "Gen. Hurlbut and the Guerrillas." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
October 3, 1863: Affair at McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
October 3, 1863: Confederate forces attacked and routed by Federal cavalry at Anderson's
Cross-Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
October 3, 1863: Cavalry skirmish at Walden's Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
October 4, 1863: Skirmish at Glass Cocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
October 4, 1863: "Affairs at LaGrange, Tennessee" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
October 4, 1863: "HIDDEN TREASURES. A LEGEND OF THE IRVING BLOCK." . . . . . . . 36
October 4, 1863: The Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga after Chickamauga, an excerpt
from the diary of Brigadier General John Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
October 4, 1863: Chalmers Raid in W. Tennessee & N. Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
October 5, 1863: Scout from the Tennessee River to Washington and Cotton Port . . . . . . . . . 38
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October 5, 1863: 2d Div., 17th Army Corps, starts from Memphis to Chattanooga to relieve Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
October 5, 1863: Skirmish at Blue SpringsNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
October 5, 1863: Murfreesborough escapes Confederate attack, skirmishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
October 5, 1863: Skirmish near Readyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
October 5, 1863: Shelbyville sacked by elements of Wheeler's command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
October 5, 1863: Skirmish at Stones River Railroad Bridge, near MurfreesboroughNOTE 1 . . . 41
October 5, 1863: Affair at ChristianaNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
October 5, 1863: "There, you d_____d fool, you see what you get by leaving your door open?"
Confederate bombardment of the Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga 45
October 5, 1863: Sergeant Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cavalry, on bridge construction and United
States Colored Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
October 5 1863: First Lieutenant Robert Cruikshank, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment, letter
home to his wife Mary concerning recent military operations in Middle Tennessee, October 5-10, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
October 6, 1863: Skirmish near Murfreesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
October 6, 1863: Murfreesborough attacked by Confederate forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
October 6, 1863: Skirmish at Readyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
October 6, 1863: Skirmish at Garrison's Creek, near Fosterville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
October 6, 1863: Skirmish at Wartrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
October 6, 1863: Skirmish at Christiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
October 6, 1863: Confederates burn Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
October 6, 1863: Idle moments in a school girl's life in Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
October 6, 1863: "Home Guards for the Suppression of Guerrillas." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
October 6, 1863: "Street Railroads;" hopes for a mass transit system in Nashville . . . . . . . . . 51
October 6, 1863: Federal policy of retribution against Rebel sympathizers in East Tennessee announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
October 6, 1863: A conversation in the Sequatchie valley relative to foraging near Anderson’s
Crossroad; an excerpt from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
October 6, 1863: A visit to the house of Parson William G. Brownlow by a member of the TwentySeventh Kentucky Regiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
October 6, 1863: Federal policy of retribution against Rebel sympathizers in East Tennessee announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
October 6, 1863: Events in Union occupied Knoxville, prices, a funeral and the tobacco habit
among native Tennesseans; excerpts from John Watkins' letter home . . . . . 55
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October 7, 1863: Action at Farmington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
October 7, 1863: Skirmish at Sims' farm near Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
October 7, 1863: Federal assessment of damage done to bridges in Middle Tennessee as a result
of Wheeler's raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
October 7, 1863: Patrol, Mt. Pleasant, Mississippi, to LaGrange, Pocahontas, Tennessee . . . 61
October 7, 1863: Pioneer Brigade report on construction of military road, Walden's Ridge to Sequatchie Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
October 7, 1863: "Only a Skirmish." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
October 7, 1863: "GEN. GRANT'S COTTON ORDER-AN OFFICIAL COPY." . . . . . . . . . . . 62
October 7, 1863: The peaceful picket line in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
October 7, 1863: "Queer Runaway." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
October 7, 1863: In pursuit of Wheeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
October 7, 1863: Confederate sharp shooting and skirmishing at Little Suck Creek and Walden
Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
October 8, 1863: Skirmish at Wartrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
October 8, 1863: Wheeler's forces capture companies of the 19th Michigan at Stones River and
85th Indiana at Christiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
October 8, 1863: Union depredations against civilian population in Grainger County . . . . . . 68
October 8, 1863: Skirmish near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
October 8, 1863: Skirmish on Walden's ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
October 8, 1863: “MADAM CORA JAMES. ” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
October 8, 1863: Confederate P. O. W. s "skirmish" on Deaderick and Cedar streets, Nashville
69
October 8, 1863: "There are some of them sadly need hanging, as much at least as those killed
yesterday needed shooting." Confederate supporters in Pulaski . . . . . . . . . 70
October 9, 1863: Affair at the Railroad Tunnel, Cowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
October 9, 1863: Skirmish at Sugar Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
October 9, 1863: Skirmish at Elk River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
October 9, 1863: Skirmish at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
October 9, 1863: Skirmish at Farmington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
October 9, 1863: "Rats, Rats, Rats;" public health difficulties in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
October 9, 1863: "A Subject for Our Authorities;" public health difficulties in Memphis . . . . 73
October 9, 1863: "An exploded cap caught in the cylinder and I could not get it out at once so I
had to depend on my sabre alone." A cavalry charge and skirmish with Wheeler's raiders at Sugar Creek, according to Sergeant Charles Alley, 5th Iowa Cav-
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October 9, 1863: Skirmish at Franklin, Shelbyville square burnedNOTE 1, capture of prisoners at
McMinnville, guerrillas harass the Louisville to Nashville Railroad line . . 75
October 9, 1863: "General Order No. 31;" gun control in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
October 9, 1863: Federal artillery at Fort WhitakerNOTE 1 harass Confederate positions on
Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
October 10, 1863: Mild skirmishing across the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
October 10, 1863: Skirmish near Hartsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
October 10, 1863: ActionNOTE 1 at Blue Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
October 10, 1863: Skirmish at Sweet Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
October 10, 1863: Action at Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
October 10, 1863: Occupation of Rheatown, Greene county, by Federal forces . . . . . . . . . . . 81
October 10, 1863: Unsuccessful shopping for apparel in Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
October 10, 1863: Skirmish between U. S. 3rd Cavalry and Confederate guerrillas near
LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
October 10, 1863: "But they are suffering the fate they have brought upon themselves." A U. S.
cavalry sergeant's thoughts on the end of Wheeler's raid and the destruction in
Middle Tennessee between Shelbyville and Pulaski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
October 10, 1863: Attack at GreenevilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
October 10, 1863: Expedition from Memphis to Hernando, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
October 10, 1863: Expedition from Carthage to Gallatin, with skirmish at Hartsville and skirmish at Rome NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
October 11, 1863: Action at Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
October 11, 1863: Skirmishes at Germantown and Mount Pleasant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
October 11, 1863: U. S. Army courier service impeded, Confederates fire into wagon train near
Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
October 11, 1863: Courier route established over Walden's Ridge, Cumberland Plateau . . . . 93
October 11, 1863: Skirmish at Henderson's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
October 11, 1863: Skirmish at Rheatown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
October 11, 1863: Union cavalry skirmish [i.e."dash"] through Columbia, pursuit of Wheeler's
raiders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
October 11, 1863: "Rats" in Murfreesborough, a letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
October 11, 1863: "Affairs in West Tennessee. Operations of Sol. Street and the Guerrillas." .
100
October 11, 1863: "Housewives." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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October 11, 1863: First Lieutenant Robert Cruikshank, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment, letter
home to his wife Mary, describing his work of guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
October 11, 1863: "Extensive Fire on Beal Street." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
October 11, 1863: "General Order No. 32;" disloyalty on High street and social control in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
October 11, 1863: Obion Bottom as guerrilla haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
October 11, 1863: Operations on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
October 12, 1863: Skirmish at Zollicoffer [Bluff City] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
October 12, 1863: Conducting business and prices in occupied Murfreesboro, an excerpt from
the diary of John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
October 12, 1863: "Stabbing on Main Street—A Negro Killed by a Newsboy." . . . . . . . . . . . 106
October 12, 1863: "We are in speaking distance or about fifty rods apart." An Ohio soldier's description of picket duty in the Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
October 12, 1863: "General Orders No. ___ ;" steps taken against Quartermaster fraud in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
October 12, 1863: ". . . God I trust will care for us and help us;" A Middle Tennessee Confederate
woman's comments on recent events in the course of the Civil War in Tennessee
107
October 12, 1863: Guerrilla attack at Durhamville by "Rhodes band." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
October 13, 1863: Skirmish at Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
October 13, 1863: Raising the black flag near Harrison's Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
October 13, 1863: Confederate depredations in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
October 13, 1863: 55th Article of War invoked by Union forces in Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
October 14, 1863: Skirmish at Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
October 14, 1863: Skirmish at BlountsvilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
October 14, 1863: Skirmish near Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
October 14, 1863: Attacks upon U. S. courier near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
October 14, 1863: Letter to Major-General Rosecrans describing depth of Union sentiment and
location of Confederate guerrillas in southwest Middle Tennessee . . . . . . 111
October 14, 1863: Report on Union foraging irregularities in Sequatchie Valley and Walden's
Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
October 14, 1863: Skirmish at Blountville, Confederate forces evacuate Zollicoffer [Bluff City]
117
October 14, 1863: "Conscripting in West Tennessee. Terror Among the People. Meditated Attack
on Fort Pillow." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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October 14, 1863: Skirmish with and capture of Confederate guerrillas at BrownsvilleNOTE 1 . .
118
October 14, 1863: "Hon. Emerson Etheridge." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
ca. October 14, 1863: Activities of Wheeler's Scouts in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
October 15, 1863: Skirmish at Bristol, expulsion of Confederate forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
October 15, 1863: Skirmish near Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
October 15, 1863: East Tennessee Unionists express support for Union forces . . . . . . . . . . . 122
October 16, 1863: Skirmish near Island No. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
October 16, 1863: "The Tax Commissioners and Tax Payers." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
October 16, 1863: "Whom Do You Serve?" Episcopalian disloyalty to the Union in Memphis . .
123
October 16, 1863: Description of Chattanooga Under Federal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
October 16, 1863: "As in the past, so at this time, I would address my appeal chiefly to the women
of the Confederacy." An appeal for blankets and socks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
ca. October 16, 1863: Resistance to Confederate conscript sweep in West Tennessee. . . . . . 125
October 17, 1863: Expedition from Blountville to Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
October 17, 1863: Corporal Cadman's description of Pulaski and environs; Richland and Little
Shoal Creek, Giles County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
October 17, 1863: A Bolivar school girl is confronted with the necessity of making her own
clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
October 17, 1863: First Lieutenant Robert Cruikshank, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment, letter
home to his wife Mary—short rations, quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
October 17, 1863: Action at Bull's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
October 17, 1863: "Tennessee Money." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
October 18, 1863: Enmity between Tennessee and Georgia troops in the Army of Tennessee 129
October 18, 1863: Forrest's cavalry violate the Sabbath in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
October 18, 1863: Order of the Provost Marshall of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
October 18, 1863: Letter to John W. Blackburn from his brother-in-law R. J. D. Baugh . . . 131
October 18, 1863: "I got home the Sabbath I left W. about dark after one of the most lonesome
rides I ever had." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie after returning to his
regiment from leave home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
October 19, 1863: Skirmish at Spurgeon's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
October 19, 1863: Skirmish at Zollicoffer [Bluff City]NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
October 19, 1863: The chaplain's tale of "a peculiar hardship and ill usage." The kidnapping and
beating of two former slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
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October 20, 1863: Action at Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
October 20, 1863: Scout from Waynesborough, Tennessee to Corinth, Mississippi . . . . . . . . 135
October 20, 1863: "Affairs in West Tennessee. Refugees in Memphis. Capture of Rebels at
Brownsville." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
October 20, 1863: U. S. Grant and Andrew Johnson in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
October 20, 1863: Edmund Cooper, Bedford County's Choice for Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
October 20, 1863: A Confederate newspaper report on the fighting in East Tennessee . . . . . 138
October 20, 1863: Operations on the Memphis & Charleston RailroadNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
October 20, 1863: Operations about Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
October 21, 1863: Skirmish at Sulphur Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
October 21, 1863: Women in men's clothing in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
October 21, 1863: Siege of Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
October 22, 1863: Skirmish at New Madrid BendNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
October 22, 1863: Confederate situation report relative to flour mill operation, pickets and
scouts on the Tennessee River, Igou's to Blythe's Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
October 22, 1863: Federal acquisition of a Murfreesboro Confederate woman's furniture . 142
October 22, 1863: Scout from Germantown to Chulahoma, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
October 23, 1863: Censorship of the press in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
October 23, 1863: Skirmish at Sweet Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
October 23, 1863: Brigadier-General Gideon J. Pillow's report on Confederate recruiting and
conscripting activity in West Tennessee and Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . 143
October 23, 1863: "Baptist Ladies' Fair." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
October 23, 1863: "A Visit to the Overton Hospital." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
October 23, 1863: Fraternization with the enemy and Federal camp life in the Chattanooga environs, excerpts from the letter of Bliss Morse to his mother . . . . . . . . . . . 147
October 24, 1863: "'Let the waters bring forth abundantly,' and it was done." Nashvillian S. R.
Cockrill's unusual memorandum relative to providing fish for Confederate
Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
October 24, 1863: ". . . in the mean time we annihilate their great Army of the Cumberland!"
Confederate States Senator from Tennessee Gustavus A. Henry's plan "for
winding up this campaign gloriously for our army." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
October 24, 1863: Scout, Union City to Dresden to Boydsville, Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
October 25, 1863: Skirmish at Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
October 25, 1863: Rest and relaxation for Army of the Cumberland's animals . . . . . . . . . . . 152
October 25, 1863: "ANOTHER RAID ON BROWNSVILLE. DISGRACEFUL ACTS OF THE
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October 25, 1863: Report relative to guerrilla activity in West Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
October 25, 1863: "We are so comfortably situated now that I should rather dislike going into the
field. . . " Frank M. Guernsey's letter home to Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
October 25, 1863: "Nashville Protestant School of Industry, for the Support and Education of
Destitute Girls;" maintenance of a gender-based charity in Civil War Nashville
155
October 25, 1863: Aspects of Federal garrison duty in Nashville, the letter of J. W. Bartmess to
his family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
October 26, 1863: Skirmish at Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
October 26, 1863: Skirmish at Jones' Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
October 26, 1863: Skirmish, Sweet Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
October 26, 1863: Guerrilla attack on train at Gallatin Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
October 26, 1863: Union anti-guerrilla and conscripting scouts ordered to Bolivar, Jackson environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
October 26, 1863: Reconnaissance from LaGrange to Brownsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
October 26, 1863: Harvest results and Confederate depredations at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . 161
October 26, 1863: Military Governor Andrew Johnson on relief for the poor in Nashville . . 162
October 26, 1863: Reopening of the Tennessee River,NOTE 1 Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . 162
October 27, 1863: Skirmish, Sweet Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
October 27, 1863: Skirmish at Brown's Ferry.NOTE 1 "The bayonet charge, made by the troops of
Gen. Howard, up a steep and difficult hill, over 200 feet high, completely routing the enemy and driving him from his barricades on its top, and the repulse,
by Gen. Geary's command, of greatly superior numbers, who attempted to surprise him, will rank among the most distinguished feats of arms of this war." .
168
October 27, 1863: Skirmish at Clinch Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
October 27, 1863: Scout from Columbia toward and skirmish near Pulaski . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
October 27, 1863: "ORDERS NO. 42." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
October 27, 1863: Engagement at Kelly's Ford and the Need for Socks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
October 27, 1863: Buying cornbread and chopping wood near Camp Iogu, Hamilton County; an
excerpt from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
175
October 27, 1863: Scouts, Sequatchie Valley, Walden's Ridge, capture of Confederates near Dallas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
October 28, 1863: Major-General W. T. Sherman's general guidelines for the Memphis Bulletin
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newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
October 28, 1863: Skirmish at Clarksville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
October 28, 1863: Skirmish at Leeper's Ferry, Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
October 28, 1863: Feminine Grace Under Fire at the Craven's House on Lookout Mountain . .
177
October 28, 1863: Federal artillery at Fort Whitaker impede Confederate troop movements in
Lookout Mountain environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
October 28, 1863: Engagement at Wauhatchie, Tenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
October 29, 1863: Skirmish at Centreville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
October 29, 1863: "Guerrilla Movements. Conscripting in Fayette County." . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
October 29, 1863: Plea for the release of a Confederate draft resisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
October 29, 1863: Scout from Winchester to Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
October 30, 1863: Skirmish at Leeper's Ferry on Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
October 30, 1863: Scout from Maryville to the Little Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
October 30, 1863: "MORE GUERRILLA OUTRAGES. HORSE STEALING AND CONSCRIPTING. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A MAN NAMED GRADY." . . . 193
October 30, 1863: Rate hikes at the Gayoso House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
October 30, 1863: "CONJUGALITY AND FORTUNE TELLING." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
October 30, 1863: "Negroes in Memphis." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
October 30, 1863: "Persons Who Don't Keep Step;" a didactic narrative by the editor of the Bulletin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
October 31, 1863: Foraging in Bledsoe county; an entry from the diary of John Hill Ferguson,
11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
October _____, 1863: Tinker Dave Beatty's secret hideout, near Montgomery (a.k.a. Morgan
Court House) in Morgan County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
ca. October __, 1863: A sabre duel on Smoky Row between Provost officer of the guard and a
drunken Pennsylvania cavalrymanNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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November 1, 1863: Skirmish at Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
November 1, 1863: General Bragg castigates Army of Tennessee cavalry relative to depredations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
November 1, 1863: Skirmish at Eastport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
November 1, 1863: Confederate cannon fire upon Federal forces east of Lookout Mountain . . 2
November 1, 1863: Federal situation report for Kingsport, Morrison's Gap, EstillvilleNOTE 1,
Holston River, Clinch mountain and Rogersville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
November 1, 1863: A loyal Shelbyville resident requests exemptions from Federal conscription
for Damascus and William, two slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
November 1, 1863: A Confederate soldier's letter home to his mother in occupied-Memphis . . 5
November 1, 1863: "Rebels and Blood Hounds." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
November 1, 1863: William Follet's letter home in Illinois, a description of hazardous duty in the
Federal army in East Tennessee during October 1863; ". . . our Reg figured the
most conspicuous by making a charge on the Rebs." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
November 1, 1863: Capture and imprisonment of Confederates in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
November 1, 1863: "The Poor;" a plea for a joint military and civilian welfare system in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
November 1, 1863: "Fannie there is a movement on foot in our Regt. to reinlist for three years
from the present date in order to give the men the benefit of the four hundred
dollars bounty." Excerpts from Frank M. Guernsey's letter home to Fannie . 9
November 1, 1863: Maneuvering a wagon train up Walden Ridge in Bledsoe county . . . . . . . 10
November 1, 1863: Confederate shelling of Federal positions around Chattanooga . . . . . . . 10
November 2, 1863: Confederate scout to bend of Little Tennessee River opposite Lenoir's Mill
11
November 2, 1863: Anti-guerrilla operations in Hickman County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
November 2, 1863: Random Confederate artillery fire into Federal entrenchments about Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
November 2, 1863: Federal Anti-guerrilla scouts along Little Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . 12
November 2, 1863: The case of a Union wife and an adulterous Confederate husband in Middle
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Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
November 2, 1863: Report regarding capture of Water Witch on the Obion River in October
1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
November 2, 1863: "Special Order[s,] No. 7;" U. S. army hires laborers in Chattanooga . . . 14
November 2, 1863: Skirmish at Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
November 2, 1863: Skirmish at Centreville, Piney Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
November 3, 1863: Confederate scouts on Little Tennessee River toward Maryville and Henry's
Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
November 3, 1863: Skirmish at Lawrenceburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
November 3, 1863: Action at Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
November 3, 1863: Skirmish at Pine Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
November 3, 1863: Confederates shell Federal positions in Chattanooga from Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
November 3, 1863: Federal cavalry scout to Trenton, GA, repulsed by Confederates . . . . . . 24
November 3, 1863: First Regiment of U. S. C. T. and Eighth Iowa Cavalry share guard duty on
the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
November 3, 1863: Report on Federal logistic problems for the relief of Chattanooga . . . . . 25
November 3, 1863: Confederate reaction to Federal scouts along Little Tennessee . . . . . . . . 26
November 3, 1863: Federal situation and military intelligence report, Morganton, Maryville,
Unitia, Loudon environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
November 3, 1863: Problems associated with the growth in the African-American population in
Nashville, and suggestions to improve the predicament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
November 3, 1863: A Confederate newspaper report on the situation in East Tennessee . . . . 29
November 3, 1863: Loathing the Parson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
November 3, 1863: Operations on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
November 4, 1863: A Plea to Military Governor Andrew Johnson to dismiss the Memphis Mayor
and Board of Aldermen with loyal Union men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
November 4, 1863: U. S. Grant orders use of pre-fabricated bridges for military railroads in
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
November 4, 1863: Skirmish at Motley's Ford, Little Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
November 4, 1863: Skirmish at Brick Mill on Maryville Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
November 4, 1863: Skirmish near Morganton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
November 4, 1863: Report of Federal scout on Lookout Mountain, by M. M. Phillips, October
23-November 4, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
November 4, 1863: Federal Scout, Maryville to Nile's Ferry road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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November 4, 1863: "MORE REBEL OUTRAGES IN WEST TENNESSEE. Gibson and Carroll
Counties the Scene of their Operations. Diabolical Outrage upon a Soldier of
1812. Stores Broken Open, Citizens Robbed and Sickly Men Conscripted." 36
November 4, 1863: Establishment of U. S. C. T. recruiting stations and regulations for compensation in Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
November 4, 1863: "Guerrillas About." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
November 4, 1863: Knoxville Campaign of Longstreet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
November 5, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette, Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
November 5, 1863: Skirmish in Loudon County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
November 5, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
November 5, 1863: Skirmish near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
November 5, 1863: Federal scout's intelligence report for Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . 42
November 5, 1863: Federal policy of remuneration for loyal Union families victimized by Confederate depredations in Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
November 5, 1863: "Eureka Club." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
November 5, 1863: "The Circus." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
November 6, 1863: Action near RogersvilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
November 6, 1863: Skirmish near Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
November 6, 1863: Skirmish and Confederate loss on the Little TennesseeNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . 59
November 6, 1863: A Winchester Confederate sympathizer requests a pass from Military Governor Andrew Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
November 6, 1863: Confederate deserters in Chattanooga, an excerpt from the letter of Bliss
Morse to his mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
November 6, 1863: A Confederate Miss Staves Off a Federal Officer's Advance in Knoxville 61
October 6, 1863: A conversation in the Sequatchie valley relative to foraging near Anderson's
Crossroad; an excerpt from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
November 7, 1863: Instructions sought by Major-General George H. Thomas for the control of
Confederate parolees in the Chattanooga environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
November 7, 1863: Federal report on construction of pontoon bridge across the Tennessee River
63
November 7, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 198, relative to new furlough system to maintain
strength of the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
November 7, 1863: Guerrilla threat in Van Buren, White and DeKalb counties . . . . . . . . . . . 65
November 7, 1863: Governor Johnson's travel permit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
November 7, 1863: Brigadier-General Gordon Granger provides for the protection of loyal cit-
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izens in Wilson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
November 7, 1863: Troop movements and deserted camps. Frank M. Guernsey's letter home to
Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
November 8, 1863: Railroad conditions in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
November 8, 1863: " . . . they have taken nearly every thing. . . . " An Iogu-Ferry Tennessee
mother's lament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
November 9, 1863: Major-General William T. Sherman's general guidelines for the Memphis
Bulletin newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
November 9, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant authorizes Major-General Hurlbut to press horses and mules in West Tennessee and North Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
November 9, 1863: Bureaucratic difficulties in sending U. S. N. gunboats to Cumberland River
71
November 9, 1863: Federal scout in southern Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
November 10, 1863: General Braxton Bragg issues GENERAL ORDERS, No. 200, relative to
correcting and penalizing depredations committed by soldiers of the Army of
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
November 10, 1863: Federal scouts and intelligence in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
November 10, 1863: SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 75, relative to the jurisdiction and authority of the Federal chief of the secret police in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . 76
November 10, 1863: Social change, recruiting Negro soldiers in Murfreesboro, an excerpt from
the diary of John C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
November 10, 1863: Federal situation report for the Union City and Obion River environs . 79
November 10, 1863: What's the matter with the mill? Draconian measures reported in Murfreesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
November 10, 1863: Federal scout, Louisville, Unitia, Little Tennessee and Morganton environs
80
November 11, 1863: "Stop the Niggers!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
November 11, 1863: Excerpt from a letter from John Kennerly Ferris, surgeon, Army of Tennessee, to his wife in Coffee County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
November 11, 1863: Deprivation in the Army of the Cumberland, the observations of a Brigadier
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
November 11, 1863: Federal cavalry authorized to cross Little Tennessee with intent of capturing Confederate soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
November 11, 1863: Confederate rational for confiscation of Unionist property in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
November 11, 1863: Repair of Nashville to Decatur Railroad by U. S. forces . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
November 12, 1863: Skirmish near Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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November 12, 1863: Confederate bombardment of Federal forces at Blythe's Ferry, Tennessee
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
November 12, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 67, Federal foraging and anti-guerrilla policy in
Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
November 12, 1863: Federal situation report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
November 12, 1863: Scout report relative to Sanders' initiative to cross the Little Tennessee 88
November 12, 1863: "Advance in Tennessee Money." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
November 12, 1863: Louisville Journal on Life in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
November 12, 1863: Tar Heels and hog wars in Cocke and Greene counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
November, 12, 1863: " . . . they feared a yankee trick." Mail, pickets and suspicion at Iogu's Ferry, Hamilton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
November 12, 1863: Scouts on the Morganton and Niles' Ferry roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
November 13, 1863: Skirmish at Blythe's Ferry, Little Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
November 13, 1863: Skirmish near Palmyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
November 13, 1863: Confederate conscript sweeps in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
November 13, 1863: Federal initiatives to prepare for Confederate attack on railroads in Middle
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
November 13, 1863: Of pumpkins, hard tack and ox steaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
November 14, 1863: Federal destruction of cotton factory at Lenoir's Station, Confederate construction of two railroad bridges at Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
November 14, 1863: Skirmish at RockfordNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
November 14, 1863: Skirmish at Huff's FerryNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
November 14, 1863: Skirmish at Maryville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
November 14, 1863: Report on Federal fortifications at Shellmound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
November 14, 1863: Skirmish and repulse of Confederates near Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
November 14, 1863: Skirmishing at Rockford, Maryville, Louisville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
November 14, 1863: General Bragg orders daily parade inspections for the Army of Tennessee
99
November 14, 1863: A plea to Military Governor Johnson "on behalf of poor orphans" . . . 100
November 14, 1863: Patrol and skirmish near Rockford, rockets and Confederates on the Sevierville road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
November 14, 1863: Action at Huff's FerryNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
November 14, 1863: Anti-guerrilla operations in Middle Tennessee, ". . . employ the division in
hunting up and exterminating these marauders." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
November 14, 1863: Knoxville CampaignNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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November 15, 1863: General Orders No. 157, relative to the impressment of Memphians into U.
S. Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
November 15, 1863: Skirmish at Pillowville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
November 15, 1863: Skirmish at Lenoir's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
November 15, 1863: Skirmish at Stock Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
November 15, 1863: Skirmish near Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
November 15, 1863: Federals initiate moves to protect railroads in Middle Tennessee . . . . 116
November 15, 1863: Federal picket report on Confederate positions, Lookout Mountain environs
116
November 15, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 206 relative to prohibiting publication of Army of
Tennessee orders in newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
November 15, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 207, relative to change in daily ration for soldiers
in the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
November 15, 1863: “The profits on every thing that is sold is heavy. May average a hundred pr
ct.” The economy in occupied Murfreesboro, an excerpt from the diary of John
C. Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
November 15, 1863: "General Order[s,] No. 43;" shut down of distilleries in Montgomery, Stewart, Robertson and Cheatham counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
November 15, 1863: Skirmishes at the Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
November 16, 1863: Skirmishing along Loudon and Knoxville road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
November 16, 1863: Engagement at Campbell's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
November 16, 1863: Anti-guerrilla scout, Gallatin to La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
November 16, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 70, providing death for committing depredations
124
November 16, 1863: Federal inspection report for railroad from Columbia, Tennessee, to Decatur, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
November 16, 1863: Skirmishes at Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
November 16, 1863: Skirmishes at Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
November 17, 1863: "Heavy and Daring Robberies." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
November 17, 1863: "Officers Dismissed from the Army of the Cumberland.-General Order[s,]
No. 253" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
November 17, 1863: Andrew Johnson's alcoholic son tenders his resignation . . . . . . . . . . . 130
November 17, 1863: Skirmishing on the Clinton and Loudon roads, an account from a member
of the Twenty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
November 17, 1863: Skirmishing at Little River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
November 17, 1863: Federal scout from Germantown to Hernando, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . 135
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November 17, 1863: Siege of Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
November 18, 1863: Long's raid behind Confederate lines at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
November 18, 1863: THE MAID OF THE HOLSTON, by Dr. S. Silsuee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
November 18, 1863: General Braxton Bragg issues GENERAL ORDERS, No. 212 relative to
depredations committed by soldiers in the Army of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . 138
November 18, 1863: Federal picket report on Confederate positions, Lookout Mountain environs
139
November 18, 1863: Federal situation report relative to the south side of the Tennessee River .
140
November 18, 1863: Federal ambush and capture of Confederate mail-carriers on Somerville
road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
November 18, 1863: Federal scout from near Chattanooga on Nickajack trace . . . . . . . . . . 141
November 18, 1863: "Rebel Specimen of Integrity." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
November 18, 1863: Anatomy of heavy skirmishing on Loudon road; an account from a member
of the Twenty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
November 19, 1863: Skirmish at Meriwether's Ferry,NOTE 1 Obion River, near Union City . 143
November 19, 1863: Federal measures to clothe and feed contraband slaves in Middle Tennessee
143
November 19, 1863: Skirmish at Mulberry Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
November 19, 1863: Skirmish at Colwell's Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
November 19, 1863: Skirmishing around Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
November 19, 1863: Federal reconnaissance along Lookout Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
November 19, 1863: Report Spears'Brigade, East Tennessee (U. S. ) Vol. Infantry scout, Sales
Creek to the south side of the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
November 19, 1863: Federal reconnaissance to Armstrong's, Boyd's, and Ramsey's Ferries, on
the Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
November 19, 1863: General Braxton Bragg's solution to desertion in the Army of Tennessee .
147
November 19, 1863: SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 301, relative to reducing absentees from the Army
of Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
November 19, 1863: Confederate scouting activity, Lookout Mountain environs . . . . . . . . . 148
November 19, 1863: Confederate scout to gather information for possible attack upon Federal
"negroes and wagons" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
November 19, 1863: Lieutenant-General James Longstreet's tactical advice to Major-General
McLaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
November 19, 1863: "Depopulation;" the forced exile of pro-Confederates from Memphis . 150
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November 19, 1863: "Hide and Seek;" Negroes helping Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
November 19, 1863: "HORRIBLE AFFAIR AT POCAHONTAS. A Negro Commits a Brutal Outrage Upon a White Girl. He is Tried, Convicted and Shot." . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
November 19, 1863: "I have been in a bad humor;" Captain J. W. Harris in Chattanooga writes
to his mother in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
November 19, 1863: Continued skirmishing on the Loudon road; an account from a member of
the Twenty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
November 19, 1863: Artillery action near Kingston Road and at Fort Sanders . . . . . . . . . . 155
November 20, 1863: Skirmish at Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
November 20, 1863: Description of Sulphur Spring, a summer resort near Winchester . . . . 155
November 20, 1863: Federal intelligence report at Whitesides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
November 20, 1863: Federal scout in Knoxville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
November 20, 1863: Demonstration on Rogersville, advance to Tazewell, scouts from Jonesville
to Cumberland Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
November 20, 1863: Longstreet's situation report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
November 20, 1863: Small pox in occupied Murfreesboro, an excerpt from the diary of John C.
Spence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
November 20, 1863: "A Yankee Soldiers Profession," a Northern factory worker lectures an audience of Negroes, an excerpt from the diary of John C. Spence . . . . . . . . 158
November 20, 1863: "Our Reg. never looked better than it did today. . . " Frank M. Guernsey's
letter to Fannie about a brigade review in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
November 20, 1863: Federal scout from Cumberland Gap toward Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
November 21, 1863: Patrols from Auburn to Stones River and from Pikeville to Washington . .
160
November 21, 1863: Confederate scout to Maynardville environsNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
November 21, 1863: Anti-guerrilla expedition from Island No. 10 to Tiptonville . . . . . . . . . 161
November 21, 1863: Federal artilleryman's description of Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
November 21, 1863: Confederate earth-works constructed near Craven's house on Lookout
Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
November 21, 1863: Federal scouts to coal-banks on Island Creek and to Johnson's CreekNOTE 1
163
November 21, 1863: Confederate picketing from Lookout Mountain to Nickajack trace . . . 163
November 21, 1863: Federal report on condition of cavalry horses, munitions and clothing 163
November 21, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant orders quickened pace in railroad repair in
Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
November 21, 1863: Federal situation report, Alexandria environs, including scouts, patrols,
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foraging and use of cash vouchers for horses from loyal citizens . . . . . . . . 165
November 21, 1863: "General Order[s], No. 44NOTE 1;" military medical and civil authorities
order small pox vaccination in Nashville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
November 21, 1863: Andrew Johnson's reply to his son Robert's resignation of November 17 . .
166
November 21, 1863: Scout from Fort Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
November 22, 1863: Skirmish at Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
November 22, 1863: A letter from John Kennerly Ferris to his wife in Coffee County . . . . . 168
November 22, 1863: Federal Railroad Manager's report relative to difficulties encountered in
expediting logistic support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
November 22, 1863: Skirmishes at foot of Missionary Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
November 23, 1863: Skirmish at Orchard KnobNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
November 23, 1863: Skirmish at Indian Hill [a.k.a. Bushy Knob. See November 23, 1863, Skirmish at Orchard Knob above] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
November 23, 1863: Assault by Confederates upon Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
November 23, 1863: Military Governor Andrew Johnson testimony to the American Freedmen's
Inquiry Commission relative to the value of United State Colored Troops . 175
November 23, 1863: Brigadier-General G. M. Dodge's situation report for Middle Tennessee to
Major-General William T. Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
November 23, 1863: Report of results of anti-guerrilla reconnaissance below Troy, from Rutherford's Station, to Eaton and Yorkville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
November 23, 1863: Thirty-ninth Iowa Volunteers admonished for committing depredations . .
176
November 23, 1863: Impressions of Prospect, Giles County; excerpts from a letter home by
George Hovey Cadman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
November 23, 1863: "I was on Raccoon Mountain yesterday at the signal station which is
marked from there you have a grand view of both Armies." Observations of a
Michigan cavalryman from an excerpt of his letter to his father . . . . . . . . 178
November 23, 1863: Battle at Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
November 23, 1863: Censorship of the press in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
November 24, 1863: Skirmish at Chattanooga Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
November 24, 1863: Artillery bombardment of Summertown Road, Chattanooga . . . . . . . . 180
November 24, 1863: "Small Pox in Nashville;" military orders compelling vaccination . . . . 180
November 24, 1863: Action at Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
November 24, 1863: Skirmish near Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
November 24, 1863: Skirmishes near Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
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November 24, 1863: General Field Orders, No. 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
November 24, 1863: Battle of Lookout Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
November 24, 1863: Raid on East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
November 25, 1863: Battle of Missionary Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
November 25, 1863: Artillery fire to cover advance of 2nd Michigan upon Rebel rifle pits, Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
November 25, 1863: Skirmish near Yankeetown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
November 25, 1863: Skirmishing in Sparta environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
November 25, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant's assessment of the battle for Chattanooga 196
November 25, 1863: "We are under marching orders and are to leave tomorrow morning at six
oclock with ten days rations." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . 196
November 25, 1863: Skirmishing across Chattanooga Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
November 25, 1863: Scouts from Kentucky to south of the Cumberland River in Celina, Gainesborough and Lafayette environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
November 25, 1863: Daily skirmishing, Knoxville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
November 26, 1863: Scout on the Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
November 26, 1863: Skirmish at Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
November 26, 1863: Skirmish at Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
November 26, 1863: Destruction of Confederate salt works near Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
November 26, 1863: Skirmish at Pea Vine Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
November 26, 1863: Skirmish at Pigeon Hills [a.k.a. Pigeon Ridge] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
November 26, 1863: Federal orders to collect and bury the dead and to collect and preserve all
captured Confederate battle flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
November 26, 1863: Chief of Cavalry, Brig.-Gen., W. Sooy Smith's report relative to shoddy
equine status of the Federal Army in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
November 26, 1863: Report of Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster-Gen. U. S. Army, relative to the battle at Missionary Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
November 26, 1863: Federal raid on Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
November 26, 1863: "Colored Servants." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
November 26, 1863: Captain Gershom F. Barber on the battle of Missionary Ridge; Excerpts
from his Letter to his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
November 26, 1863: Fighting near Chickamauga Station; and entry from the diary of John Hill
Fergusson, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
November 26, 1863: Federal orders for a joint infantry and cavalry anti-guerrilla, impressment
and railroad deconstruction expedition, Somerville, Moscow, LaGrange and
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Hatchie River vicinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
November 27, 1863: Activation of National Guard in Morgan, Campbell and Scott counties 212
November 27, 1863: Skirmish at Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
November 27, 1863: Skirmish at Gillespie'sNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
November 27, 1863: Execution of Sam Davis as a spyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
November 27, 1863: Brigadier-General G. M. Dodge explains the rationale for army foraging
and anti-guerrilla activities in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
November 27, 1863: "Condition of the Contrabands at Nashville." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
November 27, 1863: "Row at the Circus;" members of the 5th Kentucky cavalry see the elephant
214
November 27, 1863: Assault on Fort Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
November 27, 1863: Small pox and vaccination, starving refugees, confederate prisoners of war,
cowards and African American troops: the news from Murfreesboro and Short
Mountain environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
November 27, 1863: March to the relief of KnoxvilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
November 28, 1863: Cannibalization of Winchester to Fayetteville Railroad iron to make repairs
on Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
November 28, 1863: Artillery support action at Knoxville, assault on earthworks by Confederates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
November 28, 1863: Operations against the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, in West Tennessee
222
November 29, 1863: Assault on Fort Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
November 29, 1863: Federal army descends on Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
November 29, 1863: "Marauders." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
November 29, 1863: The scene after the battle at Missionary Ridge; an excerpt from the letter of
Bliss Morse to his mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
November 29, 1863: "I have lived a life time since last Monday morning." Observations on the
battle of Chattanooga by Captain Gershom M. Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
November 29, 1863: Skirmish at Yankeetown [White County] NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
November 29, 1863: Northern scrutiny of the loss of East Tennessee to the Confederacy . . 231
November 30, 1863: Affair at Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
November 30, 1863: Action at Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
November 30, 1863: Federal army retires from Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
November 30, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 162, relative to illegal sale of Federal uniforms
in Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
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November 30, 1863: Federal scout, Trenton to Edmond's Ferry and across Obion River to the
edge of Dyer county to monitor Confederate movements and Federal conscription sweeps NOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
November 30, 1863: Federal conscription scouts from Island No. 10 to New Madrid Bend,
TennesseeNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
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DECEMBER 1863
December 1, 1863: Scouts from Pulaski and skirmishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
December 1, 1863: Scout to Blain's Cross Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
December 1, 1863: Skirmish at MaynardvilleNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
December 1, 1863: Skirmishing around Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
December 1, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant wishes conversion of civilian steamer to assist in
flanking Longstreet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
December 1, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant and U. S. Treasury Department agree upon new
enumerated list for sales of cotton goods, inspection of steam ships and responsibility for guerrilla outrages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
December 1, 1863: Conduct of Federal soldiers in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
December 1, 1863: Skirmishing in southern Hardeman County on the Pocahontas and Middleton
roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
December 1, 1863: Skirmish near LoudonNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
December 1, 1863: ". . . one continued line of citizens and wagons bringing in provisions for the
use of the Army." Supplying Federal soldiers in the Prospect, Giles county environs; an excerpt from the letter of George Hovey Cadman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ca. December 1, 1863: Conscript sweep in West Tennessee, Hatchie Bottom and Jackson environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
December 1, 1863: Unlawful foraging near Strawberry Plains by Union troops . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
December 2, 1863: Confederates captured after burning railroad rolling stock at Loudon . . . 9
December 2, 1863: Skirmish at Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
December 2, 1863: Cavalry attack on Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
December 2, 1863: Descent on Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
December 2, 1863: Skirmish near Eastport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
December 2, 1863: Action at Walker's Ford on the Clinch River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
December 2, 1863: Heavy skirmishing in Maynardville environs, Federals pushed to Clinch River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
December 2, 1863: Depression about the course of the war in Cleveland, and return of hogs 17
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December 2, 1863: Confederate forces burn Salsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
December 2, 1863: Reconnaissance from Blain's Cross Roads to Powder Springs Gap . . . . . 18
December 2, 1863: Artillery action, Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
December 2, 1863: Cavalry skirmishing along the Clinch River Valley environs . . . . . . . . . . 18
December 3, 1863: Skirmish at Log Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
December 3, 1863: Federal demonstration at Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
December 3, 1863: Cavalry skirmish at Tazewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
December 3, 1863: Report of Federal supply expedition to Sparta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
December 3, 1863: Federal plans for an anti-guerrilla expedition between the Hatchie and Tennessee Rivers down as far as Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
December 3, 1863: L. H. Rousseau, Maj.-Gen., Cmdg. District of Nashville, protests conflicts due
to lax enforcement of army policy protecting loyal citizens and their property
22
December 3, 1863: Skirmish near Sweetwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
December 3, 1863: Skirmish at Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
December 3, 1863: Miss Maxwell's gun permit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
December 3, 1863: Action at Wolf River Bridge, near Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
December 4, 1863: Expedition near Yankeetown [White County] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
December 4, 1863: Skirmish at and burning of La Fayette and Grissom Bridge by Confederates
32
December 4, 1863: Skirmish at Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
December 4, 1863: Action at Loudon, across Tennessee River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
December 4, 1863: Federal scouts in search of and skirmishing with Nathan Bedford Forrest's
cavalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
December 4, 1863: Skirmish near Mowcow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
December 5, 1863: Federal scout, LaGrange to Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
December 5, 1863: Skirmish at Loudon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
December 5, 1863: Skirmish at Crab Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
December 5, 1863: Skirmish at Walker's Ford on the Clinch River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
December 5, 1863: Longstreet begins retreat from Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
December 5, 1863: Scout to Powder Spring Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
December 5, 1863: Excerpt from W. H. Dawson's diary while at McGhee's farm, relative to impressment of food and animals by Federal and Confederate soldiers . . . . . 39
December 5, 1863: Confederate guerrillas near Somerville provide logistical support for Major-
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General Nathan Bedford Forrest's forces located in Jackson, Tennessee . . 39
December 5, 1863: "SCAN MAG."NOTE 1 A January-May marriage disintegrates in Memphis 40
December 5, 1863: In camp near Morganton, Loudon county, marching to the relief of Knoxville;
an entry from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
41
December 6, 1863: Affair near Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
December 6, 1863: Skirmish at Clinch Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
December 6, 1863: Pursuit of Confederate wagon train and skirmish near Maryville . . . . . . 42
December 6, 1863: "The Field of Chickamauga-Rebel Brutality and Barbarism." . . . . . . . . . 43
December 6, 1863: Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest's situation report to General Joseph E. Johnston from Jackson, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
December 6, 1863: Correcting depredations, advance and withdraw, hunger and cold; an entry
from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry . . . 46
December 7, 1863: Skirmish at Eagleville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
December 7, 1863: Skirmish near Rutledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
December 7, 1863: Cavalry skirmishing near Clinch River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
December 7, 1863: Operation of flour mills in Knoxville environs by U. S. Army . . . . . . . . . . 48
December 7, 1863: Federal anticipation of a raid by Nathan Bedford Forrest into West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
December 7, 1863: Admittance of cotton trade on railroad to Memphis, with possible military tax
49
December 7, 1863: Conditions in White County, an excerpt from the journal of Amanda McDowell of the Cherry Creek community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
December 7, 1863: "Merchant's Home Guard." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
December 7, 1863: Cavalry ordered to guard the Memphis to Charleston railroad from La
Grange to Corinth and to press draft animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
December 7, 1863: Funding the secret service fund with receipts from cotton transportation 50
December 7, 1863: "Some puked and heaved at an awful rate." Sick wheat flour in the 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Madisonville environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
December 8, 1863: Major-General O. O. Howard decries depredations committed against civilians by members of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Eleventh Corps, among
other units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
December 8, 1863: Major-GeneralNOTE 1 Nathan Bedford Forrest's situation report and strategic outline for raid in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
December 8, 1863: Letter by William S. Thomas, a wounded Confederate scout, to his wife at
Mulberry Gap, Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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December 8, 1863: A protest against Federal depredations in Dickson County . . . . . . . . . . . 56
December 8, 1863: "The Typographical Guards." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
December 8, 1863: Winter camp in Prospect, Giles County Tennessee; excerpts from George
Hovey Cadman's letter home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
December 8, 1863: A Report on Emerson Etheridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
ca. December 8, 1863: Conscript Sweep in West Tennessee by Forrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
December 9, 1863: Affair at Cumberland Mountain on road to Crossville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
December 9, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest's situation report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
December 9, 1863: "Ladies Union Benevolent Association." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
December 9, 1863: Conflict resolution between use of Negroes as labor force and recruiting officers for U. S. C. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
December 9, 1863: Federal arrest of Confederate partisan as hostage for release of a Union prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
December 9, 1863: The 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in camp near Columbus, NOTE 1 Polk
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
December 9, 1863: Skirmishing at the Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
December 9, 1863: Skirmishes at and near Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
December 10, 1863: Reconnaissance on Morristown Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
December 10, 1863: Reconnaissance on Rogersville Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
December 10, 1863: Skirmish on Rogersville Road, Mooresburg and Red Bridge environs . . 70
December 10, 1863: Scout from Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
December 10, 1863: Skirmish at Gatlinsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
December 10, 1863: Skirmish at Morristown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
December 10, 1863: Affair at Russellville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
December 10, 1863: Action at Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
December 10, 1863: Skirmish at flour mill at Rutledge, Confederate still near Clinch River and
surrender of Confederates at Knoxville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
December 10, 1863: Federal situation report, ColumbusNOTE 1 environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
December 10, 1863: Complaints of depredations by Federal soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
December 10, 1863: "Darkness." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
December 10, 1863: Skirmish at Long['s] Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
December 10, 1863: William Follet's letters his friends in Illinois relating his experiences in
Knoxville during November 1863; "We have skirmished with the enemy every
day Since I can remember." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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December 11, 1863: General Thomas, in Chattanooga, endorses U. S. Army Signal Corps . . 76
December 11, 1863: Federal reconnaissance ordered, Pulaski to Lexington, to protect Union
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
December 11, 1863: Bridge construction and scouts along the Ocoee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
December 11, 1863: ". . . oh my Dear parents you have a son buried beneath the sod of Tennessee
but He rests in Jesus. . . " The letter of James Vascoy, 12th Indiana regiment, to
his parents announcing the death of his brother JacobNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
December 11, 1863: Scout from Pulaski to Florence, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
December 11, 1863: Official designation of Federal positions during the siege of Knoxville . 81
December 11, 1863: Report on the conditions of Longstreet's Corps near Rogersville . . . . . . 83
December 12, 1863: Skirmish, Shoal Creek, near Wayland Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
December 12, 1863: Skirmish at Cheek's Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
December 12, 1863: Skirmishes at Russellville roadNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
December 12, 1863: Reconnaissance to Morristown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
December 12, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 10, relative to Confederate deserters and the oath
of allegiance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
December 12, 1863: Federal situation report for the Ocoee and Hiwassee River valleys, Benton,
Spring Place and Cleveland environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
December 12, 1863: Major-General Gordon Granger asks permission to return to Chattanooga
to feed and clothe his men after the Knoxville Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
December 12, 1863: Ban on use of fences for fuel for Army of the Ohio at Knoxville . . . . . . . 87
December 12, 1863: Federal intelligence report relative to Nathan Bedford Forrest in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
December 12, 1863: "Trouble in Camp;" a controversy about militia uniforms in Memphis . 88
December 12, 1863: "A Scene." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
December 13, 1863: Skirmishes at Russellville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
December 13, 1863: Confederate Scout on Bull's Gap road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
December 13, 1863: Scout from Kingston on north bank of the Little Tennessee River to Blount
County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
December 13, 1863: Scout from Gatlinburg to Dandridge via Sevierville to Smoky Mountains Rd.
91
December 13, 1863: Skirmish at Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
December 13, 1863: Skirmish at LaGrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
December 13, 1863: Skirmish near Dandridge's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
December 13, 1863: Skirmish near Farley's Mill, Holston River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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December 13, 1863: Counter-guerrilla actions between Cumberland and Duck Rivers end successfully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
December 13, 1863: Confederate foragers on the Sneedville road commit depredations . . . . 94
December 13, 1863: Citizens scout, 13 miles from Dandridge, "where the road from here to Bull's
Gap intersects the road leading from Morristown to Warm Springs, via mouth
of Chucky; at that point they were within half a mile of the rebel cavalry pickets." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
December 14, 1863: Capture of Union wagon train near Clinch Mountain GapNOTE 1 . . . . . . 95
December 14, 1863: Engagement at Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
December 14, 1863: Skirmish at Morristown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
December 14, 1863: Skirmish at Granger's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
December 14, 1863: Sanitary report for Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, Army of the Ohio
101
December 14, 1863: General scouts in Cleveland, Benton, Red Clay, Connesauga River and Red
Hill, NC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
December 14, 1863: Report on Federal military construction in Bean's Station environs . . . 103
December 14, 1863: Guerrilla attack at Boons Hill, west of Fayetteville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
December 14, 1863: Impressment of citizens into home guard companies, Memphis . . . . . . 104
December 15, 1863: Federal courier line established, Loudon to Kingston and Chattanooga . .
104
December 15, 1863: Skirmish near Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
December 15, 1863: Skirmish at Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
December 15, 1863: Affair near Pulaski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
December 15, 1863: Federal Medical Report relative to the Battle of Chattanooga . . . . . . . 106
December 15, 1863: U. S. C. T. recruiting difficulties in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
December 15, 1863: Situation report for Calhoun, Cleveland to Chattanooga line . . . . . . . . 109
December 15, 1863: Skirmish near Kingston and capture of Confederates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
December 15, 1863: Federal operations report for southern Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . 110
December 15, 1863: Guerrilla attack near Shelbyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
December 16, 1863: Skirmish at Rutledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
December 16, 1863: Skirmish at Blain's [today Blaine's] Cross Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
December 16, 1863: U. S. N. gunboat captures pig iron on Cumberland River . . . . . . . . . . . 113
December 16, 1863: Federal situation report relative to railroad line from Nashville to Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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December 16, 1863: Confederate sympathizers assessed by Federal authorities for depredations
committed against a Union citizen by Rebel guerrillas in Lewis County . . 114
December 16, 1863: "Sometimes I ride, sometimes I walk and sometimes I lie on my cot and so
day after day passes." Life in the Army of the Cumberland in the aftermath of
battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
ca. December 16, 1863: Report of Lieutenant-Commander Fitch, U. S. Navy, regarding the destruction of distilleries on the Cumberland River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
December 17, 1863: Skirmish at Blain's [today Blaine's] Cross Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
December 18, 1863: Skirmish at Rutledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
December 18, 1863: Skirmish at Blain'sNOTE 1 Cross Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
December 18, 1863: Skirmish at Kingsport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
December 18, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 at Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
December 18, 1863: Federal forces in West Tennessee warned against pillaging and straggling
119
December 18, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 3, relative to new foraging regulations in East
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
December 18, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest's situation reports prior to commencement of his
West Tennessee raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
December 18, 1863: Certificate of Loyalty for Mrs. Ann Wilkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
December 18, 1863: "We have lived on hard bread and pork until I can squeal after the most approved manner of hogs." Frank M. Guernsey's letter to Fannie . . . . . . . . . 122
December 18, 1863: Operations in West Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
December 19, 1863: Reconnaissance, New Market, Mossy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
December 19, 1863: Skirmish at Stone's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
December 19, 1863: Secretary of War E. M. Stanton directs Federal forces in Stevenson, Alabama, and Nashville, Tennessee, to furnish food, clothing and shelter to the
needy in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
December 19, 1863: Skirmish at Blain's Cross Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
December 19, 1863: Occupation of Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
December 19, 1863: Federal Provost-Marshal General of East Tennessee, Brigadier-General S.
P. Carter, complains of depredations committed against civilians . . . . . . . 129
December 19, 1863: Privations suffered by Federal troops in East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . 130
December 19, 1863: C. S. A. Major-General R. Ransom, Jr., requests abolishment of partisan
ranger organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
December 19, 1863: Confederate raid near Knoxville [Graveston] and scout . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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December 19, 1863: Federal reconnaissance from Corinth, Mississippi, to Hamburg Landing,
Gravel Hill and PurdyNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
December 20, 1863: Confederate cavalry cross Clinch River at Evans Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
December 20, 1863: Federal scout, Mulberry Gap to Sneedville, and reports of Confederate construction of earthworks at Flat and Union Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
December 20, 1863: Skirmish near Zollicoffer [Bluff City] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
December 20, 1863: Federal movements in Tazewell environs stifled by lack of bread . . . . 133
December 20, 1863: "During the day an incident occurred which shows how many things hard to
bear occur during war time." A letter from Prospect, Giles County, excerpts
from George Hovey Cadman's correspondence home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
December 20, 1863: Confederate impressment and thievery in Carroll County . . . . . . . . . . 135
December 21, 1863: One Yankee's opinion of East Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
December 21, 1863: Skirmishing near Carter's Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
December 21, 1863: Skirmish at Clinch River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
December 21, 1863: Skirmish near McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
December 21, 1863: Federal scout from Corinth to Purdy-skirmish with Federal gate
crashersNOTE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
December 22, 1863: Federal mail censorship in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
December 22, 1863: Skirmish at Cleveland-attack on US courier post near Cleveland . . . . . 138
December 22, 1863: Nathan Bedford Forrest's situation report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
December 22, 1863: Guerrilla attack on woodchoppers near Memphis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
December 22, 1863: Scout at Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
December 22, 1863: DEFIANT MEMPHIS WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
December 22, 1863: U. S. N. Expedition, Cumberland River to Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
December 23, 1863: Skirmish at Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
December 23, 1863: Reconnaissances Rutledge and River roads and Flat Creek to Powder
Spring Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
December 23, 1863: Action at Hay's Ferry, near Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
December 23, 1863: Skirmish with guerrillas, Mulberry Village, Lincoln CountyNOTE 1 . . . 151
December 23, 1863: Federal logistic and patrol difficulties on the N&C Railroad . . . . . . . . 156
December 23, 1863: Patrols, LaGrange, Bolivar, Brownsville, destruction of two flat boats at
Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Bull's Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Jack's Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Estenaula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Hay's Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at New Market environs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
December 24, 1863: Skirmish in front of New Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Mossy Creek Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
December 24, 1863: Skirmish at Peck's House near New Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
December 24, 1863: Major-General U. S. Grant vows to drive General Longstreet from Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
December 24, 1863: Federal expeditions, scouts and patrols, LaGrange to Bolivar, on the Hatchie to Brownsville and Saulsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
December 24, 1863: Christmas Eve in Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
December 24, 1863: Skirmish near Purdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
December 24, 1863: "WHO SHALL COMMAND THE MILITIA?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
December 24, 1863: “. . . 3 of them have been caught by our Cavalry and will probably hang.”
Daniel C. Miller's letter to his family in Cleveland Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
December 24, 1863: Federal reconnaissance, Rutledge, Dyer's Ferry, Spring Creek camp
ground, Turley's Mills, Maze's Ford on Morristown road, Carmichael's Ford
and above, Easley's Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
December 24, 1863: Federal force retreats to Somerville and patrols, Van Buren to Middleburg
and Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
December 24, 1863: Federal foraging near Massengale's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
December 24, 1863: Actions at Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
December 24, 1863: Operations near Mossy Creek and Dandridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
December 25, 1863: Skirmish near La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at Estenaula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette Bridge, Wolf River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: Skirmish at Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: "The Sthern girl with Homespun Dress:" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
December 25, 1863: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 296, relative to locating a national cemetery in
Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
December 25, 1863: Federal situation report for south central Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . 175
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December 25, 1863: Federal orders to destroy all bridges over the Wolf River . . . . . . . . . . 176
December 25, 1863: Confederate forces evacuate Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
December 25, 1863: Cavalry skirmishing near Morristown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
December 26, 1863: Skirmish at Somerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
December 26, 1863: Skirmish at Mossy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
December 26, 1863: Skirmish at New Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
December 26, 1863: Formation of Federal home guard at Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
December 27, 1863: Skirmish at Huntingdon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
December 27, 1863: Skirmish at Collierville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
December 27, 1863: Federal Medical Report relative to the Battle for Chattanooga . . . . . . 182
December 27, 1863: Patrols near and skirmish at Moscow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
December 27, 1863: Skirmish at La Fayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
December 27, 1863: Skirmish at Talbott's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
December 27, 1863: Skirmish at Grisson's Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
December 27, 1863: Scout (couriers) Grand Junction to Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
December 27, 1863: Patrols, LaGrange to Middleton and Bolivar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
December 27, 1863: Continuous patrols initiated, Germantown, White's Station to Wolf River .
188
December 27, 1863: Skirmish near Morristown road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
December 27, 1863: Apprehensions of a Confederate woman in McMinnville . . . . . . . . . . . 188
December 27, 1863: ". . . an order came for Company C to saddle up and return to the River. . .
" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
December 27, 1863: "Breaking the enemy's backbone is well enough, but I think it will do him
equal injury to break his belly." Skirmish and Federal reconnaissances near
Mossy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
December 27, 1863: Anecdotes of a Tennessee cavalryman's life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
December 28, 1863: C. S. A. attack on Federal wagon train between Knoxville and Chattanooga
191
December 28, 1863: Action at Calhoun (Confederate attack on convalescent train) . . . . . . . 193
December 28, 1863: Skirmish at US courier post, Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
December 28, 1863: Skirmish at Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
December 28, 1863: Situation report relative to Forrest's West Tennessee raid . . . . . . . . . . 195
December 28, 1863: Federal pursuit of Forrest, Grand Junction to La Fayette to Collierville . .
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December 28, 1863: Confederate dash upon Cumberland Gap ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
December 28, 1863: Skirmish at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
December 28, 1863: The tobacco question and a murder by guerrillas in the Hiwassee River region, an excerpt from the diary of Brigadier General John Beatty . . . . . . . 196
December 28, 1863: John W. Turner, 19th Indiana Infantry, in Shellmound, Tennessee, to his
Aunt, Catherine Hawk, in Blountville, Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
December 28, 1863: The Plight of Union Refugees in Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
December 28, 1863: Confederate Scouts Ordered to Sevier County, Maryville and Mossy Creek
198
December 28, 1863: Mildred A. Hall's Final Plea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
December 28, 1863: "I will promise you I will Ever Recolect you as my children is so small and
my wife very weakly." A Confederate Conscript's request for release from prisoner of war camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
December 28, 1863: Anti-guerrilla scout of Brigadier-General William S. Smith in Middle Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
December 28, 1863: Activities of Brigadier-General William Sooy Smith's Meridian Expedition
in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
December 29, 1863: Skirmish on the Cumberland River at Ray's Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
December 29, 1863: Skirmish on the Cumberland River at Flynn's Lick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
December 29, 1863: Skirmish on the Cumberland River at Gainesboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
December 29, 1863: Skirmish on the Cumberland River at Ferris wood yard . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
December 29, 1863: Skirmish at La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
December 29, 1863: Action at Mossy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
December 29, 1863: SkirmishNOTE 1 at Talbot's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
December 29, 1863: Skirmish at Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
December 29, 1863: Skirmish at La Vergne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
December 29, 1863: Confederate States Senator from Tennessee Gustavus A. Henry's advice to
General Joseph E. Johnston to "redeem Tennessee" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
December 29, 1863: Scout to Bean's Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
December 29, 1863: Correspondence relative to the claim of a British citizen that his blast furnace property in Chattanooga was a "'decisive strategical point of the highest
order' (perhaps equal to Ulm)" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
December 30, 1863: "Oh, that they were true and loving daughters of the old flag!" Confederate
Women in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
December 31, 1863: Skirmish on the Powell River near Stickleyville, VirginiaNOTE 1 . . . . . . 221
December 31, 1863: Changes in a Bolivar school girl's life as a result of the war . . . . . . . . 221
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