Box 1 [1M-H-4A]
Contains 110 Results:
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Washington, D.C., 1863-05-06
Celebration on June 6 to mark the “anniversary of the Yankee ‘advent’”; federal rule becoming stronger; trouble for sympathizers; fate of a Southern minister applying for a pass to go north; other war news; Jennie’s role as a minister’s wife
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Washington, D.C., 1863-05-24
News of Haines Bluff and Vicksburg being taken; success on the lower Mississippi; campaign strategy similar to designing a garden based on plans for Garden of Eden; hospital expecting to receive a large number of patients; wish to go home and benefit from a change of scenery
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow , 1863-06-24
Left home for Cincinnati, en route for Memphis; news of Milton Scudder; visit with Salome and Albert Longley; news of home; a few days before his journey down the Mississippi, a boat was shot at by guerrillas
R.N. John to J.C. Snow , 1863-07-06
Cincinnati, Lawrenceburgh, & Indianapolis Railroad Company’s purchase of canal from Harrison to Cincinnati; surveying for new railroad; Gen. Lee’s defeat
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Portland, Maine, 1863-07-09
Union victory at Vicksburg; African-American troops
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Washington, D.C., 1863-07-28
News of the war, including Morgan’s visit to Harrison; Vicksburg & Port Hudson prisoners; “Rebs” in hospital; use of mules in the war, including for meat
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Auburn, Maine, 1863-08-10
J.C. Snow Auburn, Maine
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow, 1863-09-08
Received notice of his marriage to Jennie; working on muster rolls and post returns; description of attending a Union party given by Unionists in Memphis; reading confined to newspapers; work with the company in the coming winter; war prospects in the South
David B. Snow Memphis, Tennessee to J.C. Snow Auburn, Maine, 1863-09-15
Payday for soldiers in Grant’s army who are in the hospital and its effect on the patients; news of reports about Rosecrans and Bragg; prejudice towards Yankees in Memphis; safeness of loyalty; decision to leave the hospital and go into the field
David B. Snow Carrollton, Louisiana to J.C. Snow, 1863-09-24
Regiment part of the 15th Corps under Gen. Ord; description of country; visit to Lake Ponchatrain and New Orleans; promotion in regiment