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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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| May 29, 1862 | Advice on how to make saltpeter |
To Manufacture Saltpeter.
Editors Appeal: All earths which have been kept perfectly dry, in our climate, as in caves, under gin-houses, stables and floors of negro houses, etc., for fifteen or twenty years, contain more or less nitrous salts, when co... read more |
| May 5, 1862 | Railroad destruction by Federals and skirmishing with Confederates at |
Farron's Mill and Purdy
BETHEL, May 5, 1862. Maj. GEORGE WILLIAMSON, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.: MAJ.: A party of the enemy's cavalry, 20 or 30 strong, came to the railroad this morning below where my pickets are... read more |
| May 5, 1862 | Skirmish and capture of Federal cavalry near DresdenNote 1 |
"FEDERAL CAVALRY SURPRISED AND "BAGGED."
The messenger of the express company, who came down on the train yesterday from Humboldt, reports that intelligence were received there on Wednesday [7th] that Cols. JACKSON and CLEBU... read more |
| May 10, 1862 | Confederate scouts, Bethel to Stantonville to Jackson environs |
HDQRS., Bethel, May 10, 1862.
Maj. GEORGE WILLIAMSON, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.: MAJ.: I have the honor to report that my scouts returned yesterday from the neighborhood of Stantonville, and report the enemy having move... read more |
| May 14, 1862 | Mrs. Sarah Johnston Estes's observations upon arriving home in Madison County | For two days we have been travelling mostly on a crowded train, crowded, with soldiers going to Corinth. At Jackson, Miss., we meet with some Yankee prisoners, our boys give them a cheer, they smile and see... read more |
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May 2, 1862 May 9, 1862 |
C. S. A. expedition, Trenton to Paris & Dresden |
MAY 2-9, 1862.- Expedition from Trenton to Paris and Dresden, Tenn., with skirmish, May 5, near Lockridge's Mill.
REPORTS. No. 1.- Col. Thomas Claiborne, Sixth Confederate Cavalry. No. 2.-Col. William W. Lowe, Fifth Io... read more |
| June 1, 1862 | Dragging the flag in Murfreesboro, and excerpt from the diary of John C. |
Spence
•See May 29, 1862--Kate Carney's opinion of "a grand parade" in Murfreesboro . . . It appears on the return of Col. P. [arkhurst], he captures a confederate flag on the road that some playful boys ha... read more |
| June 25, 1862 | Affair near La Fayette Station |
JUNE 25, 1862-Affair near La Fayette Station, Tenn.
REPORTS. No. 1.-Lieut. Col. William H. Raynor, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry. No. 2.-Gen. Orders, No. 93, Hdqrs. Department No. 2. No. 1. Report of Lieut. Col. William H. Raynor, Fifty-sixth Ohi... read more |
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June 25, 1862 January 16, 1863 |
Operations in West Tennessee |
June 25, 1862--January 16, 1863-OPERATIONS IN WEST TENNESSEE
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN TENNESSEE. June 25, 1862 Affair near La Fayette Station, Tenn. 30, 1862 Skirmish at Rising Sun, Tenn. July 13, 1862 Skirmish ... read more |
| June 27, 1862 | Prisoner of war Sallie Taylor, a Tennessee Fille du Regiment in Knoxville | A Female Prisoner.—Some excitement was created on Thursday by the arrival of a female prisoner, in the uniform of a Fille du Regiment. She is said to have been for some months following the Third Regiment of E... read more |
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