Saturday, August 26, 2017

Scouting in Murray County, Georgia: near Waterhouse's Farm and Sumac Creek, March 1864


Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 3 (Correspondence, etc.), 101.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152650/m1/110/

A.P. Campbell, 21 Mar. 1864, Cleveland, Tenn., to Brig.-Gen. William D. Whipple

"One of my scouts left Sumac Creek south of Waterhouse's farm at 12 o'clock last night, and reports having heard drums in a southwest direction from there in the evening."

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Citation:

United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 32, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc., book, 1891; Washington D.C.. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152650/m1/110/?q=Sumac%20creek%20south%20of%20Waterhouse%27s%20farm: accessed August 26, 2017), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

The following site has a text extract. The site references the Serial Set instead of the O.R. books, which makes it hard to find elsewhere; but it is searchable over a series of the official records.
https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/059/0101

Scouting, South of the Connesauga River - Murray County, Georgia, December 1863


(U.S. Scouting, Murray County, Georgia) "The country south of Connesauga River is infested by small parties driving off the stock and hunting conscripts."

15 Dec. 1863, Cleveland, Tenn., O.O. Howard to Major-General Sherman
Series 1, Vol. 31, Part 3 (Correspondence), p.416
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152608/m1/425/

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Citation: 

United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 31, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc., book, 1891; Washington D.C.. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152608/m1/425/?q=Connesauga%20River%20is%20infested: accessed August 26, 2017), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
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Note: The name of the river in modern times is Conasauga River.

Friday, August 25, 2017

Burning of Mr. Southerland's house, Spring Place, Georgia (Feb. 1864)

Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 32, Part 2, page 375 

Reference to burning of Mr. Southerland's house in Spring Place, Georgia. Also, problems at Red Clay (Georgia or Tennessee).

D.S. Stanley to W.D. Whipple
12 February 1864

Ref: Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia, 1864