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The Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook is a searchable collection of over 7,000 articles chronicling the Civil War in Tennessee from September 1, 1861
through September 30, 1865.
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| Date | Title | Article |
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ca. October 26, 1862 October 27, 1862 |
Reconnaissance to Van Buren, Saulsbury, Grand Junction, New Castle and LaGrange |
JACKSON, October 27, 1862.
Gen. GRANT: The following dispatch has just been received from McPherson: BOLIVAR, [October] 27, 1862. Maj.-Gen. HURLBUT, Jackson: The recon... read more |
| October 2, 1862 | Notes from a Confederate hospital in Chattanooga; an excerpt from the |
journal of a volunteer Confederate nurse, Kate Cumming.
We are very busy, trying to get clothes made for the exchanged prisoners. They are in a dreadful state for want of them; many of them have not changed th... read more |
| October 29, 1862 | Order, counter-order, disorder; call back of a planned Federal reconnaissance, Jackson to Brownsville, Trenton, Hatchie River |
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF JACKSON, October 29, 1862.
Col. C. C. MARSH, Jackson, Tenn.: You will move at daylight in the morning; will be joined on the march ... read more |
| October 30, 1862 | Grant's orders to suppress guerrillas near Jackson and Hale's Landing |
JACKSON, TENN., October 30, 1862.
Gen. DAVIES, Columbus, Ky.: Where you can suppress guerrillas with the force at your command, do it. This one back of Hale's Landing should be broken up as soon as you can ... read more |
| October 30, 1862 | Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Lacy, Eighth Tennessee cavalry, letter to |
home in Jackson county
State of Tennessee Davidson Co October The 30th 1862 Dear Mother, Brother, and Sister Affectionate Wife This morning I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you know that I... read more |
| October 4, 1862 | Major-General William T. Sherman reports to Major-General U. S. Grant |
on military conditions in Memphis and West Tennessee
HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DIST. OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, October 4, 1862. Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Comdg. District of West Tennessee, Jackson: SIR: An ord... read more |
| October 5, 1862 | Engagement at Hatchie (or Davis') Bridge, Big Hatchie River, near |
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Reports of Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord, U. S. Army, commanding detachment Army of West Tennessee, of engagement at Hatchie Bridge. HOSPITAL NEAR DAVIS' BRIDGE, October 5, 1862-2. 10 p. m. We have... read more |
| October 9, 1862 | Major-General William T. Sherman's report to Major-General U. S. |
Grant on the situation in West Tennessee
HDQRS. DIVISION OF MEMPHIS, Memphis, October 9, 1862. Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Jackson, Tenn.: DEAR GEN.: You can well understand how glad I was to hear of the successes a... read more |
| October 17, 1862 | "The Abolitionists of West Tennessee" |
A letter from Oxford Miss written by a gentleman who left Jackson, Tenn. October 17, says:
"The Yankees have completely ruined the whole of West Tennessee. They have taken all the negroes and most of them [sent] North; they go from one plan... read more |
| October 19, 1862 | Concern for art, history and posterity in Confederate Knoxville |
KNOXVILLE ART ASSOCIATION.
The history of this war must be written, and the facts which shall fill its pages must now be collected; otherwise even their memory will be obliterated. Among savages, traditions might b... read more |
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