Posted on 03/15/2022 5:01:23 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson























Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Don Carlos Buell, March 18, 1862 (“Move your forces by land to the Tennessee as rapidly as possible.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major_6.html
Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 18, 1862 (An insider’s view of Gen. McClellan.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_2.html
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862 (The story retold of a Union man prisoner of the rebels who made a daring and violent escape.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html
1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 18, 1862 (Fighting at New Madrid described. An earthquake along the fault line is remembered.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/near-point-pleasant-mo.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, March 18, 1862 (The 7th Illinois on a steamer at Pittsburg Landing, along with about 100 other steamers.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_25.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 18, 1862 (“A Mr. MacCubbin, of Maryland, has been appointed by Gen. Winder the Chief of Police. He is wholly illiterate, like the rest of the policemen under his command.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-18.html

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Major General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, March 19, 1862 (McClellan submits his plan for the Peninsula campaign.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_24.html
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: March 19, 1862 (“Captain Haven returned last night after an extensive scout; burned seven empty houses — occupants gone bushwhacking. Burned none with women in them.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_14.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, March 19, 1862 (“The troops are landing to-day at Pittsburg Landing. The Seventh is still compelled to remain crowded and jammed upon the Fairchild.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_80.html
Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, March 19, 1862 (A critique of McClellan’s address to his troops.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_16.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 19, 1862 (Provost-Marshal vs. Chief of Police.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-19.html
Today’s posts:
George Templeton Strong, reply #24
Letter from Lincoln, #25
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #26
Mary B. Chesnut, #27
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #28


Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Brigadier-General Schuyler Hamilton, March 20, 1862 (Regarding the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment – 2 items.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-brigadier_22.html
Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 20, 1862
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-major_24.html
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, March 20, 1862 (“Fremont at the head of our department, the Mountain District, western Virginia and east Tennessee. Good!”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_16.html
Major Wilder Dwight: March 20, 1862 (“We have had our seed-time and our harvest season, but no fruit.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-march-20-1862.html
1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 20, 1862 (“The Rebel battery across the .river has been trying to shell us this morning.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_19.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, March 20, 1862 (“The troops are still landing. It seems that this point is to be Grant’s base.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_33.html

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 21, 1862 (Grant’s assessment of the situation around the Tennessee River)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major.html
Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 21, 1862 (The 54th Ohio is at Pittsburg Landing
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_10.html
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, March 21, 1862 (“He (McClellan) ought not to have allowed them to steal away from him, but if he now crushes them he redeems it all and becomes the Nation’s idol.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html
Major Wilder Dwight: Monday, March 24, 1862 (“Jackson and Ashby are clever men. We are slow-w-w!”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-monday-march-24-1862.html
Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 21, 1862 (Day has a visit and a long, frank talk with a Newbern doctor.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-21.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, March 21, 1862 (“This morning, after having patiently waited their time, the Seventh is marched from the Fairchild and camped in the woods back from the landing.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_23.html
Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Colonel Samuel Bassett French, March 21, 1862 (Jackson plans to give noncombatant jobs to conscientious objectors.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to_12.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 21, 1862 (Not much chivalry shown by the secret police in Richmond.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-21.html
Forgot to ping the list to these links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook.
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