Box 1
Container
Contains 99 Results:
Letter signed Charles H. Abbott, headquarters, 30th Iowa Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Briggs Plantation, to Brigadier General Steele. “I have the honor to report that a large steamer without signals has just passed this landing and kept on without stopping until out of hearing. Three guns were fired at her....” (Includes note of General Sherman to Porter regarding the passage of the Indianola.) 2 pages, 1863 Feb 13
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02130
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Feb 13
Letter signed W.T. Sherman, headquarters, 15th Army Corps camp, to Porter. “I now send you a tracing of our map. Connecting our lines here with those of yours. I think it very correct. Our camps are almost afloat and the road worse than I can describe. We are literally mud bound. Should the river rise one foot now we will be almost forced to take to the levee and the trees. Our pickets report nothing new on the other shore on in the river below. I suppose we need not expect the Queen of the West for about five days.” (1 page), 1863 Feb 19
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02102
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Feb 19
Letter signed U.S. Grant to Porter. “Report from opposite side of the point says that Queen has just gone down the river, also that heavy guns have been heard far down the river. The firing this afternoon was at the dummy. So far as heard no damage was done.” (2 pages), 1863 Feb 24
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02103
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Feb 24
Letter signed Grant to Porter. “I send you my reply to the letter brought by ‘flag of truce’....” (2 pages), 1863 Mar 2
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02104
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 2
Letter signed Charles H. Abbott, headquarters, 30th Iowa Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Briggs Plantation, to Brigadier General [Steele?]. “This will be handed to you by a negro man who has just arrived and who represents himself as having been one of the ‘Indianola’ crew....” (Includes note of General Sherman.) (2 pages), 1863 Mar 3
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02105
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 3
Note signed W.T. Sherman, headquarters, 15th Army Corps, camp before Vicksburg, to General Grant. “I send the negro boy who came up this morning. He belongs to the Indianola and can tell his own tale....” (1 page), 1863 Mar 3
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02106
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 3
Letter signed U.S. Grant to Porter. “Will you be kind enough to furnish our dredging machines with one barrel of lubricating oil to last until some already sent for can be brought from Memphis....” Contemporary copy. (1 page), 1863 Mar 10
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02107
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 10
Letter signed J.H. Hammond, headquarters, 15th Army Corps, near Vicksburg, to Porter. Reports on the efforts of Captain Hefferman to clean the passage. (2 pages), 1863 Mar 10
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02108
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 10
Letter signed J.G. Klinck, Chief Quartermaster’s Office, 17th Army Corps, Lake Providence, to Captain A.K. Eddy. Regarding shipment of cotton on the steamboat Tigress belonging to W.C. Wagley. (1 page), 1863 Mar 22
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02109
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 22
Letter signed U.S. Grant to Porter. “Should twelve to fifteen small boats be required at the foot of the Canal tonight, to be taken below to be used in landing troops at Warrenton, can they be got from you?....” (3 pages), 1863 Mar 26
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02110
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 Mar 26