Knute Nelson

Found 10 thoughts of Knute Nelson

Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.

Knute Nelson

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Knute Nelson

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

Knute Nelson

I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim.

Knute Nelson

The army now lies inactive and will continue to do so until the start of autumn days; for it is now too hot to do anything in this line of work.

Knute Nelson

At present about a thousand men are quartered here. It is a beautiful sight to see so many men together drilling.

Knute Nelson

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

Knute Nelson

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

Knute Nelson

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Knute Nelson

I must of course die sometime and what does it matter whether I die today or tomorrow or twenty years from now?

Knute Nelson