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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, May 7, 1864
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At 1 o'clock last night we were aroused by guards shouting "Get out o'har, you'uns, in five minutes to take ca's for Ri...
Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: [Sunday], May 8, 1864
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VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas Clemson, July 23, 1848
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Washington 23d July 1848 MY DEAR SIR, I received in the regular course of the Steamer yours of the 27th of June, and Anna's to her mot...
Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas Clemson, August 11, 1848
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Washington 11th Augt. 1848 MY DEAR SIR, . . .Congress will adjourn on the 14th Inst, and I shall leave immediately after for home. Nothi...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Tuesday, September 16, 1862
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Very rainy in morning. We started on march at noon. Encamped at the Roman church at Richmond, a sod wall around, 30 mounted Indians near. ...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Wednesday, September 17, 1862
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We came to within 18 miles of Sauk Center. I stood on guard for the first time there. Good enough got me plenty of sugar and crackers from c...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Thusday, September 18, 1862
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We arrived at Sauk Center at 1 o'clock. I wrote to father. Butter, 10c. A poor fence of a fort. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lew...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Friday, September 19, 1862
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Osaco Lake. Cheese 25c. Came ̧ from Sauk Center to Alexandrian forest. Fuss about dinner. Attempt to arrest one of the Third—failure. We joi...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Saturday, September 20, 1862
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We journeyed 26 miles, passed through the Alexandrian forest, encamped late. Bank's company on guard, 48 men. Encamped at Chippewa stati...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Sunday, September 21, 1862
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We met ox train from St. Paul to Pembina. Six miles from our starting place we found headless body of Andrew Austin, having been exposed two...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Monday, September 22, 1862
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We were aroused at 3, started before sunrise, and encamped on the Otter Tail river, Indians prowling around. I put up a guard tent, ours and...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Tuesday, September 23, 1862
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Our oxen gone. Roll call at 1 a. m. After Indians. We arrived at Fort Abercrombie all right. Waded Red river. Left Ottertail river at daylig...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Wednesday, September 24, 1862
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Washing, 15c. I wrote to the Lake City Times and Bucks County Intelligencer. Emil A. Burger appointed commander of this post. William Pell a...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Thursday, September 25, 1862
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I wrote fifty certificates for Capt. Vander Horck for enlisted and discharged citizens. Hall and Caswell and Spencer, messengers, left for S...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Friday, September 26, 1862
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I fixed forms for books. Our camp moved into barracks. Attacked by Indians. John Wenseinger mortally wounded. Cavalry flank and burn Indian ...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Saturday, September 27, 1862
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John Wenseinger, teamester, died of wound in bowels received yesterday. He made a will and was buried. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of ...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Sunday, September 28, 1862
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I wrote to my father, Amos C. Paxson, New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, ...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Monday, September 29, 1862
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I wrote to Mr. Eno and copied dispatches for Gov. Ramsey. Indian attack again. Frederick Blazier wounded in the leg. Trouble with Third regi...
Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Tuesday, September 30, 1862
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Captain Smith, and some 220 all told, left for St. Paul, 60 women and children. One team backed off the ferry boat into the river. SOURCE:...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Colonel Jefferson Davis’ Memoranda of the Transactions in Connexion with the Capitulation of Monterey, Capital of Nueva Leon, Mexico, October 7, 1846
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By invitation of General Ampudia, commanding the Mexican army, General Taylor accompanied by a number of his officers, proceeded on the 24th...
Monday, April 15, 2024
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 1, 1862
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First day of winter; rained in torrents all night; we were without shelter and had to take the soaking. I kept one side of myself dry at a t...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 2, 1862
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Left camp at Lumpkins Mills at six o'clock this morning, the 72d in the advance. General Grant passed us while we were at a halt. I was ...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 3, 1862
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Encamped in the woods after a march of eight miles; roads terrible, marching very hard. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Br...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 4, 1862
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Did not march today. Got permission to go on to Sherman's army which was marching on our right flank to get in Price's rear, and com...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 5, 1862
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Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 12, 1862
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Was quite unwell for a day or so. Nothing of particular interest occurred. Foraging parties were sent out to gather all the provisions and v...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 16, 1862
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Still in camp. Went to see Nell Towner at Grant's headquarters. Tuned a piano for a sweet lady—first woman I have talked to for weeks, i...
Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 18, 1862
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In camp eight miles from Oxford. We cannot move our camps but a few miles distance from the railroad, as all our subsistence depends on our ...
Sunday, April 14, 2024
They Mean not only War but Subjugation
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Months ago, when we and others urged that Lincoln’s inaugural meant war, we were told by those who have since been “awakened,” that the Pre...
Northern Sentiment
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The following sweet morsel of her fierce defiance and blustering braggadocio appears in the Philadelphia Transcript , under the head of “Cru...
The New York “Tribune” has the following:
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“We hold traitors responsible for the work upon which they have precipitated us, and we warn them that they must abide the full penalty. Esp...
From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer
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“Let the levees on the Mississippi be at once prostrated in a hundred places, while the water is high, and let the Traitors and Rebels livin...
John Tyler to Julianna MacLachlan Gardiner,* May 2, 1861
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RICHMOND, May 2, 1861. MY DEAR MRS GARDINER: I have but a moment ago received your letter from the hands of Mrs. Pegram, and regret to per...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 22, 1861
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Arrived at Bellaire at 3 P. M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton. Have been ordered to that place. The Third is now on the V...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 23, 1861
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Reached Grafton at 1 P. M. All avowed secessionists have run away; but there are, doubtless, many persons here still who sympathize with the...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 24, 1861
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Colonel Marrow and I dined with Colonel Smith, member of the Virginia Legislature. He professes to be a Union man, but his sympathies are ev...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 26, 1861
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Arrived at Clarksburg about midnight, and remained on the cars until morning. We are now encamped on a hillside, and for the first time my b...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 28, 1861
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At twelve o'clock to-day our battalion left Clarksburg, followed a stream called Elk creek for eight miles, and then encamped for the ni...
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 29, 1861
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It is half-past eight o'clock, and we are still but eight miles from Clarksburg. We were informed this morning that the secession troops...
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Fifty-Third North Carolina Infantry
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FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT BY COLONEL JAMES T. MOREHEAD. The duty assigned to me to write a sketch-not a history—of the Fifty-third North Caro...
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