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Showing posts with label "Damned Yankees". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Damned Yankees". Show all posts
Friday, May 10, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, September 6, 1861

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I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....
Thursday, April 18, 2024

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...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 13, 1863

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February 13, 1863. Tonight I have been talking with Cato Waring, one of my old nurses in the hospital. The attempt to give a report of his...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 26, 1863

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Iuka, Miss., October 26, 1863. Let your pocket ’kerchief float out on the breeze, halloo a little and throw up your bonnet. It's on...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 2, 1864

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A crazy man was shot dead by the guard an hour ago. The guard dropped a piece of bread on the inside of the stockade, and the fellow went i...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Diary of John Hay: January 2, 1864

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Point Lookout. The President and Secretary of War to-day (Jan. 2, 1864), commissioned me to go down to Point Lookout, and deliver to Gen. M...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Colonel George H. Gordon to Captain William D. Wilkins, May 28, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, Camp near Williamsport, Md. [May 28, 1862.] CAPTAIN: Agreeably to instructions received from headquarte...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 24, 1862

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Raleigh, Virginia , March 24, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter of the 14th came to hand the day before yesterday. We all feel pleased t...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Count Adam Gurowski to James S. Pike, Thursday [April 26], 1860

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Thursday. Damn Yankee : I lose with you all the cold blood in my veins and all patience. Why misuse, desecrate, the holiest words and c...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, March 28, 1862

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Camp South Of Strasburg , March 28, 1862. You must be expecting, by this time, to hear some account of what we have been up to for thes...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Bettie Smith, April 19, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines , Ala., April 19, 1865. My Dear Daughter Bettie: I have just returned from Mobi...