Civil War Notebook

No. 21.

Reports of Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker, U.S. Army, commanding Second Brigade of operations November 30 and December 15-16, 1864.

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Monmouth, Oct. 17th, 1835.

To show you that I am not wasting the prime of life in ignoble ease, I may mention that I am a senator in the Legislature, President of the State Rights Association, President of the Anti-abolition Society, of the Anti-gambling Society, of the Anti-dueling Society, of the Mississippi Cotton...

Nacogdoches, Texas, Feb. 12th, 1836.

DEAR SIR,—It affords me peculiar pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter by Mr. H. C. M'Neill, and the present of a Polish yager which has once been employed in the cause of liberty.

By this personal compliment I feel flattered. But th...

Lay in the rifle pits all night. Could hear Smith in the night shelling the Reb transports during the night. Were relieved at 8. A M. & march the co to camp, have a chance to send out mail at 10. I write in a hurry a letter home. Alexander Moore, who has been guarding at the wharf was up today & reports the Monitor Milwakee to have been rais...

Get the co up at 2. A. M. to get their breakfasts. At 3 take them to the paralel & get our position before daylight, bullets & shell keep a continual screeching & whistling over our heads. About dark Co B which was on the skirmish line bring down a man wonded in the head, his name is William Harris, at 8. we are relieved & return to ...