698 Series I Volume XXIV-II Serial 37 - Vicksburg Part II
| Page 698 | Mississippi, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC. Chapter XXXVI.) |
June 29, 1863.
Major: I would respectfully report everything comparatively quiet int front of my lines yesterday; but little sharpshooting or cannonading. Two men deserted from Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, Loring's DIVISION, last evening. Two wounded, Mississippi States troops; one wounded, Sixty-first Tennessee.
Very respectfully,
JNumber C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General.
[Major J. G. DEVEREUX.]
June 30, 1863.
Major: I would respectfully report but little sharpshooting on my
front yesterday; some cannonading in the evening.
One wounded in Ward's Artillery Battalion.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNumber C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General.
Major J. G. DEVEREUX,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
July 1, 1863.
Major: I would respectfully report considerable sharpshooting and cannonading on the morning and evening of yesterday. A gentleman and lady attempted to pass the line under a flag, but the enemy would not allow them to enter their lines.
Very respectfully,
JNumber C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General.
Major J. G. DEVEREUX.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
July 2, 1863.
[Major:] Sharpshooting as usual along my line yesterday; some cannonading about 3 p. m.
No casualties.
Very respectfully,&c.,
JNumber C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General.
July 3, 1863.
Major: But little sharpshooting by the enemy in my front yesterday; some cannonading in the evening. One killed (accident), Sixty-SECOND Tennessee Regiment; one wounded, Sixty-first Tennessee.
Very respectfully,
JNumber C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General.
[Major J. G. DEVEREUX.]
| Page 698 | Mississippi, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC. Chapter XXXVI.) |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments