February 1, 1943 - Monday - 80 years ago today

Status - John Skinner - USS Fullam: 

John was on duty at his new destroyer, the USS Fullam, at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.  

A Meeting

For some time now we have been foreshadowing a certain meeting.  It seems that it was about this time that it happened.  

Mary McLaughlin:

One night I was reading a paper after one of our dances and a tall good-looking blond man came up and hit the paper.  This was my introduction to John Skinner.  I had noticed him watching me for some time.  I danced with him at the dance we had a couple of days later.  I remember that we talked about two movies -  Casablanca and Random Harvest. I liked the first and he liked the second. 

More Information:

• Official Navy Chronology, pp. 303-304.
• The Struggle for Guadalcanal, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 316-337.

 

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February 1, 1863 - Sunday - 160 years ago today

Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade 

Little changes during this time for the army.  Most of the troops, 40th Indiana included, remain in the area around Murfreesboro.  General Rosecrans continues to request more arms, particularly what he calls revolving arms; repeating rifles and breech-loading guns.  General Halleck replies that no more of these are currently available and that Rosecrans' army is as well supplied as any other.

Franklin, TN is occupied by Union troops on February 1st. 

More Information:

• Link: War Operations, see Volume XXIII, Chapter XXXV, Part II, Correspondence,  pp. 20-33.
• The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 96.
• Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, pp. 166-174. 

 

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