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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 46 (search)
of private individuals-speculators. I drew my (State) salt to-day, 70 pounds, for 7 in family-20 cents per pound. It retails at a $1 per pound! Mr. Secretary--has sent (per Lieut.-Col. Bayne) some gold to Wilmington, to buy (in Nassau) loaf sugar for his family, to be brought in government steamers. My son Thomas could get no beef ration to-day-too scarce. December 21 Raining; rained all night. The following dispatch was received this morning: Wilmington, December 20th, 1864, 10 A. M. The head of the enemy's fleet arrived off this port during last night. Over thirty steamers are now assembling, and more are following.-Braxton Bragg. It may be hoped that Gen. Bragg will do something more than chronicle the successes of the enemy this time. He is nearer to him than when he remained at Augusta; and yet the press could be made reticent on arrivals, etc. Lieut.-Col. Sims, Assistant Quartermaster General, has contracted with the Southern Express Co
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 44: the lack of food and the prices in the Confederacy. (search)
et20.00 Sherry35.00 Liquors, per Drink. French brandy3.00 Rye whiskey2.00 Apple brandy2.00 Malt Liquors, per Bottle. Porter12.00 Ale12.00 Ale, one-half bottle6.00 Cigars. Fine Havana1.00 Game of all kinds in season. Terrapins served up in every style. Bill for a dinner for nine poor Confederates at the Oriental, January 17, 1864. Soup for nine$13 50Brought forward$132 50 Venison steak31 50Apples12 00 Fried potatoes9 005 bottles of Madeira250 00 Seven birds24 006 bottles of claret120 00 Baked potatoes9 00Urn cocktail65 00 Celery13 50Jelly20 00 Bread and butter14 00Cake20 00 Coffee18 001 dozen cigars12 00 $1132 50$631 50 Approximate value of gold and Confederate currency from January 1, 1862, to April 12, 1865. Date.Gold.Currency. January 1, 1862$100$120 December 20, 1862100300 December 20, 18631001,700 January 1, 18641001,800 December 20, 186410002,800 January 1, 18651003400 February 1, 18651005,000 March 1, 18651004,700 April 10, 18651005,500
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
P. Landry; Va. Battery, Capt. J. D. Moore; Va. Battery, Capt. C. R. Grandy; Va. Battery, Capt. Nathan Penick. Lane's Battalion, Maj. John Lane: Ga. Battery, Capt. J. T. Wingfield; Ga. Battery, Capt. G. M. Patterson; Ga. Battery, Capt. H. M. Ross. Owen's Battalion, Maj. W. M. Owen: Va. Battery, Capt. J. H. Chamberlayne; Va. Battery, Capt. Crispin Dickenson; Va. Battery, Capt. D. N. Walker. Anderson's Corps, Lieut.-Gen. R.:H. Anderson. Hoke's division (started for Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 20th, 1864), Maj.-Gen. R. F. Hoke. Hagood's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Hagood: 11th S. C., Col. F. H. Gantt; 21st S. C., Col. R. F. Graham; 25th S. C., Col. C. H. Simonton; 27th . C., Col. P. C. Gaillard; 7th S. C. Batt'n, Maj. J. H. Rion. Colquitt's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. A. H. Colquitt: 6th Ga., Lieut.-Col. S. W. Harris; 19th Ga., Col. J. H. Neal; 23d Ga., Col. M. R. Ballenger; 27th Ga., Capt. E. D. Graham; 28th Ga., Capt. J. A. Johnson. Clingman's Brigade: 8th N. C., Lieut.-Col. R. A. Barrier;
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Bentonville. (search)
forces, these disjecta membra, that General Joseph E. Johnston, who was assigned to the command of this department, February 23d, had to form the army with which he fought the battle of Bentonville, and his first task was to bring together these detached bodies of troops. Hoke's fine division from the Army of Northern Virginia also joined him before the fight, and rendered gallant and efficient service. Hoke's division left the Army of Northern Virginia for Wilmington, North Carolina, December 20-22, 1864, and bore a part, under Bragg, in the defense of that city during the second attack on Fort Fisher, and subsequently at Fort Anderson. Wilmington was evacuated February 22, 1865, and the division, after an engagement with Cox's command near Kinston, March 8-10 [see General Slocum's article, p. 754], joined Johnston's army in time to participate in the battle of Bentonville.--editors. General Johnston had united all his available infantry at Smithfield, North Carolina; and Sherma
s (which were eaten up while lying in the storm at Hampton Roads) and ten days other rations; there were no intrenching tools of any kind, no siege guns; the whole proceeding indicated that the general depended on the navy silencing the works, and he walking in and taking possession .... I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, David D. Porter, Rear-Admiral. Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, No. 6, p. 177. [no. 122. see page 790.] off Beaufort, N. C., Dec. 20, 1864, 10.30 A. M. Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant: General:--I have the honor to report that the troops under the command of Major-General Weitzel left Fortress Monroe, as I informed you, on Wednesday, the 14th, and got off Cape Henry at 4 P. M., and arrived the next afternoon at the place of rendezvous designated by Rear-Admiral Porter. Admiral Porter left with the naval squadron the day previous, and as soon as possible after the storm. We were exceedingly fortunate in our weather, and lay of
most respectfully to make the following report: I took command of the regiment in front of Savannah, Georgia, December twentieth, 1864. Nothing worthy of note transpired during the day. At four o'clock A. M. of the twenty-first, the Twenty-ninort of operations of the One Hundred and Second Illinois volunteers, from the second day of September to the twentieth day of December, 1864. When the city of Atlanta was first occupied by our forces, September second, the regiment was stationed g report was made: headquarters Second brigade, Third division, Twentieth army corps, near Savannah, Georgia, December 20, 1864. Captain: I have the honor to submit the following report for the information of the General commanding: This the time of our starting from Atlanta to our arrival at Savannah, should be recorded from November fifteenth to December twentieth, 1864, the latter date being that on which we issued the first rations. Since the twentieth instant we have received
of Huntingdon street, and parked with Lieutenant Scott's section; about seven o'clock P. M., the section under Lieutenant Freeman arrived, and parked with the rest of battery, where we now remain. Tabular Statement showing the expenditure of ammunition and casualties during the recent campaign just closed. expenditure of ammunition. Ten-Pounder. Case Shot.Fuse Shell.Perc. Shell.Total.Date. 294762138December 12, 1864. 13  13December 18, 1864. 3  3December 19, 1864. 10121032December 20, 1864. Thirty-Pounder.  9413December 21, 1864. Casualties, none. All of which is respectfully submitted. Charles E. Winegar, Captain First New-York Artillery. headquarters battery I, First New-York artillery, Savannah, Ga., December 25, 1864. Lieutenant W. H. Mickle, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Artillery Brigade, Twentieth Army Corps: Lieutenant: I have the honor to report the following list of captured animals and forage from the enemy during the recent campaign just c
the hip — all at Waynesboro, December fourth, 1864. Peter Runions, wounded and missing at Cypress Swamp, December seventh, 1864. Company M: Jacob Allemany, wounded in action at Waynesboro, December fourth, 1864. Killed, seven; wounded, thirteen; missing, twelve. George S. Acker, Colonel Commanding Regiment. Thomas E. Camburn, Acting Adjutant. Lieutenant Colonel Van Buskirk's Report. headquarters Ninety-Second Illinois volunteers, mounted infantry, near Savannah, Ga., December 20, 1864. H. J. Smith, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Brigade, Third Cavalry Division, Military Department of the Mississippi: Captain: I have the honor to make the following report of the part which my regiment took during the campaign from Atlanta to Georgia, through the centre of the State, to a point near Savannah, Georgia: We left Atlanta, Georgia, on the fifteenth day of November, but have nothing to record more than the usual duties of picketing and scouting
st. The joint resolution was passed without a division. In the Senate, on the first of March, Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which it had been referred, reported it back without amendment. The resolution was unanimously passed, and it was approved by the President on the twenty-second day of March, 1864. No. Lxxiv.--The Bill to increase the Number of Cadets in, and to raise the Standard of Admission to, the Military Academy. In the Senate, on the twentieth of December, 1864, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to increase the number of cadets in, and to raise the standard of admission to, the Military Academy, which was read twice and referred to the Military Committee. The bill provides: That the President of the United States may appoint, in addition to the number of cadets heretofore authorized by law, two cadets for each State represented in Congress, who shall be actual residents of the State for which they may be appointed, and fifty cadets to be appo
irginia, when it was created in May, 1863, being made lieutenant-general at the same time. He was killed April 2, 1865. Anderson's Corps—Army of Northern Virginia Organized late in 1864 to consist of the divisions of Major-Generals R. F. Hoke and Bushrod R. Johnson, and a battalion of artillery under Colonel H. P. Jones. It contained an aggregate strength of about fourteen thousand. Hoke's division served with the First Army Corps and was sent to Wilmington, North Carolina, on December, 20, 1864. Johnson's division remained with the Army of Northern Virginia until the surrender at Appomattox. Lieutenant-General Richard Herron Anderson (U. S.M. A. 1842) was born in South Carolina, October 27, 1821, and served with distinction in the Mexican War. He resigned from the army in March, 1861, to enter the Confederate service. As colonel, he commanded the First South Carolina Infantry in the attack on Fort Sumter, and became brigadier-general in July, 1861. He destroyed a Un