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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 90 (search)
. The boys were allowed to sleep till three o'clock the next morning, when they were awakened, and as soon as it was daylight, we were on our way. We arrived at Decatur at half-past 6 o'clock A. M., bringing back every member of my regiment that went with us. I wish to say a word relative to the condition of these people. They are mostly poor, though many of them are, or rather have been, in good circumstances. They outnumber nearly three to one the secessionists in portions of Morgan, Blount, Winston, Marion, Walker, Fayette and Jefferson counties; but situated as they are, surrounded by a most relentless foe, mostly unarmed and destitute of ammunition, they are persecuted in every conceivable way, yet up to this time most of them have kept out of the way sufficiently to avoid being dragged off by the gangs that infest the country for the purpose of plunder and enforcing the provisions of the rebel conscription act, but their horses and cattle are driven off in vast numbers. Ev
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1864 (search)
EW YORK--178th Infantry. OHIO--72d and 95th Infantry. WISCONSIN--8th, 14th and 33d Infantry. UNITED STATES--Battery "I," 2d Colored Light Arty.; 59th, 61st and 68th Colored Infantry. Union loss, 77 killed, 559 wounded, 38 missing. Total, 674. July 7-9: Scout from Kingston to England CoveTENNESSEE--4th Infantry (Detachment). July 12-15: Scout in Lincoln CountyTENNESSEE--5th Cavalry. July 12-18: Scout from Kingston to England CoveTENNESSEE--4th Infantry (Detachment). July 20: Skirmish, Blount CountyTENNESSEE--2d Mounted Infantry. July 20-25: Scout from Pulaski to Florence, Ala.TENNESSEE--12th Cavalry (Detachment). July 22-23: Skirmishes, CliftonTENNESSEE--2d Mounted Infantry. July 24: Skirmish near ColliersvilleIOWA--46th Infantry (Detachment Co. "I"). Union loss, 3 wounded. July 26: Skirmish, White's Station(No Reports.) July 28: Skirmish, Long's Mill, near Mulberry GapTENNESSEE--10th Cavalry. July 30: Skirmish, CliftonTENNESSEE--2d Mounted Infantry. Aug. --: Skirmish, McMin
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Tennessee Volunteers. (search)
ashville, Clifton and Franklin, Tenn., October 2, 1863, to April 10, 1864. Attached to Defenses of Nashville & Louisville Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 2nd Brigade, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. Service. Duty at Clifton and on line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad till November, 1864. Stone's Mill December 19, 1863. Skirmish in Berry County April 29, 1864. Decatur County June 21. Centreville July. Blount County July 20. Skirmishes at Clifton July 22, 23, 30 and August 15-16. Marysville August 21. Clinton Road August 27. Clifton August 31 and September 1. Lobelville and Beardstown September 27. Centreville September 29. Moved to Johnsonville, Tenn., November, 1864, and duty on line of Duck River. Ordered to Gallatin December 9. Patrol river from Gallatin to Carthage. Duty at Clifton and on line of Louisville & Nashville Railroad till June. Mustered out June 27, 1
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 36. General Rousseau's expedition. (search)
ched was about thirty miles, and in the evening the command bivouacked on Sand Mountain, the dividing ridge which separates the waters flowing into the Tennessee river from those flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. The country was generally poor, and afforded but a scanty supply of forage for the horses. July 12th.--Descending Sand Mountain in the morning, the expedition forded Black Warrior river, a tributary of the Tombigbee, and at ten o'clock reached Blountsville, the county seat of Blount county. In the jail here were found two deserters from Johnston's army and four negroes, charged with the crime of seeking their liberty. All were released. A prisoner charged with murder was in confinement in the same jail, and was left to await his trial at the hands of the civil authorities. Beyond Blountsville the road crosses Strait Mountain, the descent of which is remarkably steep and rugged, but was passed without accident, and the command halted for the night in a fertile valley,
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
is native county and once more became a farmer. He was married in 1859 to Miss Elizabeth Miller Caldwell, daughter of James M. Caldwell, of Charleston. William W. F. Bright William W. F. Bright, of Pickens county, S. C., was born in Blount county, Tenn., December 19, 1840, and is the son of David and Jane (Key) Bright. His mother is a cousin of Judge D. M. Key, of Tennessee, and distantly related to Francis S. Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner. He was reared in Blount county and vBlount county and volunteered on August 13, 1861, as a private in Company E, Fifth Tennessee battalion of cavalry. Upon reorganization in 1862 his company became Company K, Second Tennessee cavalry, and in this he served to the end of the war. In the early part of the war he served in the department of East Tennessee, but from the battle of Chickamauga to the end his command belonged to Gen. Joe Wheeler's cavalry. He therefore served under that gallant leader from the fall of 1863 to the close of the war, taki
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
treight, who was advancing on Rome. Then followed one of the most thrilling and brilliant campaigns of the war. The Federals were overtaken in the lower part of Morgan county, and after a desperate fight of three hours, were driven back into Blount county with a heavy loss of men and baggage. The pursuit was continued and the retreat of the Federals became a rout. They made several desperate stands but were unable to rally their demoralized columns. On, through Blount and Etowah counties, rBlount and Etowah counties, rushed pursuers and pursued, scarcely stopping for food or rest until on May 2d, they rested for the night near Turkeytown, Cherokee county. Forrest, who had only 500 men, by his skillful maneuvers so magnified the appearance of his forces as to secure the surrender of Streight's whole command, numbering 1,466, besides a detachment of 230 men on their way to destroy Rome. In January, 1864, the condition in northern Alabama was such as to evoke an appeal to the war department by the congressi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Johnson's Island. (search)
-third Virginia Infantry (or Twenty-third Arkansas). F. G. W. Coleman, Lieutenant Seventh Mississippi Artillery. J. E. Threadgill, Lieutenant Twelfth Arkansas Infantry. J. G. Shuler, Captain Fifth Florida Infantry. B. J. Blount, Lieutenant Fifty-fifth North Carolina Infantry. J. D. Arrington, Lieutenant Thirty-second North Carolina Infantry. Joseph Lawske, Lieutenant Eighteenth Mississippi Cavalry. John C. Holt, Lieutenant Sixty-first Tennessee Infantry. Samuel Chormley, Blount county, Tennessee. J. W. Moore, Lieutenant Twenty-fifth Alabama Infantry. D. L. Scott, Second Lieutenant Third Missouri Cavalry. William Peel, Lieutenant Eleventh Mississippi. J. L. Land, Lieutenant Twenty-fourth Georgia Infantry. N. T. Barnes, Captain Tenth Confederate Cavalry. John F. McElroy, Lieutenant Twenty-fourth Georgia Infantry. John Q. High, Lieutenant First Arkansas Battalion Infantry. J. C. Long, Lieutenant Sixty-second North Carolina Infantry. B. C. Harp, Lieutenant Twenty-f
The Daily Dispatch: October 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia.--a Proclamation. (search)
Apples for the ladies. --We learn that an old gentleman, from Blount county, with a load of fine apples, in going by the Baptist Church yesterday evening, and on seeing (as is always the case) a large number of our patriotic and benevolent ladies busily engaged sewing, supposed it to be a tailor's shop, and went in and endeavored to sell them his apples. The ladies informed him that they were working for the soldiers, and they had no money to buy his apples. The old gentleman studied awhile, asked if they did not get paid for the work they were doing. They, of course, told him they did not; that they were working for our brave soldiers in the field, and that their object was purely a benevolent and charitable one. Whereupon the old man said, "Well, I suppose you want the apples, and as you are working for the soldiers, you can have lem for nothing," and he generously donated his whole load of fine apples to the ladies.-- Montgomery Mail.
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
om the Memphis Avalanche, that "Parson Brownlow had left Knoxville with thirteen guns, and was a sympathizer in the Union movement in that quarter," as an act of justice we copy the following disclaimer, which he has lately had published: I have never, at any time, left Knoxville or elsewhere with any guns, nor have I had any guns to furnish to others. I left Knoxville about three weeks ago, on horseback, to try and collect some fees due me for advertising in the adjoining counties of Blount and Sevier, and stated to different persons where I was going and what my business was. As it regards the bridge burning, I have no knowledge of the guilty parties, and I never had any intimation from any quarter of any such purpose until I heard the next day that the outrage had been perpetrated. I condemn the burning most unqualifiedly, as an unadvised measure, and I am not a sympathize in any such movement. And had a knowledge of any such purpose come to me, I would have felt bound
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], [Correspondence of the Dispatch.] (search)
in order to suppress all treason and secure to the people immunities from civil war in their midst. The Knoxville Register of the 7th instant, says: Forty-eight tories were sent off yesterday morning to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to be held there till the end of the war. These are part of the disaffected East Tennesseeans, who have been arrested in the last few weeks by the military authorities. Among these prisoners was Samuel Pickens, State Senator from Greene, Cocke, Sevier, and Blount counties. Capt. Monsarrat, with a portion of Gen. Carroll's brigade, recently detailed against the tory force of Cocke county, returned last night, on the train from above, bringing 31 prisoners. Among them, we learn, several of the bridge-burners. They wee escorted to jail, and lodged there to await a trial. Later from Columbus — our gun-boats after the Federals--another capture, &c. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 4th inst., has the following in relation to which we have already
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