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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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| November 10, 1862 | "No man can tell how he will feel to be shot at untille he has the trial of it." Lieutenant A. J. Lacy, Eighth Tennessee cavalry, describes recent events in Williamson County to his wife Elizabeth in Jackson County |
Williamson Co Tenn November the 10th 62
My dear and most affec... read more |
| December 22, 1862 | Federal situation report for West Tennessee relative to Forrest's Raid |
COLUMBUS, KY., December 22, 1862—11 p. m.
(Received December 23, 4 p. m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Gen.-in-Chief, U. S. Army: Your dispatch received. Things are still unsettled. I had communicated them ... read more |
| December 24, 1862 | Skirmishes at Bolivar and environs |
Report of Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson, Sixth Illinois Cavalry, of operations, December 5-28, including skirmishes at Bolivar, Middleburg and Ripley, December 24-25.
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., December 29, 1862. COL. . . late on the afternoon of... read more |
| December 24, 1862 | Skirmish at Middleburg,Note 1 Hardeman County | •See November 3, 1862-December 31, 1862-Operations in West Tennessee, including action near Jackson, Tennessee on December 19, and skirmish at Middleburg, on December 24, 1862 ... read more |
| December 24, 1862 | Federal correspondence relative to the pursuit of Forrest in West |
Tennessee
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., December 24, 1862. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Oxford, Miss.: The following dispatch is just received. Send it to Col. Hatch by to-morrow morning if possible: NEAR BOLIVAR, D... read more |
| December 25, 1862 | Federal situation report, Forrest defeated at the Obion River and at |
Bolivar
JACKSON, December 25, 1862—4 p. m. Maj.-Gen. GRANT: The road to Columbus is not so badly hurt as supposed. I hold Trenton. My forces whipped Forrest yesterday at Obion. Gen. Brayman beat him off a... read more |
| December 25, 1862 | A Federal assessment of the impact of Forrest's raid in Tennessee |
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, December 25, 1862.
Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.: SIR: I have sent communications to you by way of Jackson by courier, and do not know whether you have received the... read more |
| December 26, 1862 | Federal situation report relative to Van Dorn's raid on Bolivar and |
pursuit of Forrest
HOLLY SPRINGS, December 26, 1862. Gen. SULLIVAN, Jackson, Tenn.: Van Dorn went to Bolivar pursued by our cavalry, then struck south-east through Saulsbury and Ripley. Our cavalry was sti... read more |
| December 27, 1862 | Federal situation report, Brownsville, Cherryville and Sheron's Ferry and pursuit of Forrest |
TRENTON, December 27, 1862.
Gen. SULLIVAN: I sent Capt. Silence yesterday to Brownsville. He has just come to me here and makes report as follows: I arrived at Humboldt at 5 o'cloc... read more |
| December 1, 1862 | Confederate guerrilla attack on MoscowNote 1 |
No circumstantial reports filed.
LAGRANGE, [December] 2, 1862. T. H. HARRIS, Assistant Adjutant-Gen., Jackson: A guerrilla force of about 200 were near Moscow yesterday afternoon. A small force entered Moscow and captured 6 conva... read more |
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