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Showing posts with label 3 Months Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3 Months Men. Show all posts
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: October 8, 1861

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COL. UPTON TAKES COMMAND Col. Upton assumed command of the regiment today, and will at once set about perfecting the organization an...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 13, 1861

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I have had a long day's ride through the camps of the various regiments across the Potomac, and at this side of it, which the weather d...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Israel Washburn Jr., May 26, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D.C., May 26 , 1862 . His Excellency Governor WASHBURN, Augusta, Me.: SIR: Send on the guards at...

Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas to Governor Israel Washburn Jr., May 26, 1862

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ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, May 26 , 1862 . Governor ISRAEL WASHBURN, Augusta, Me.: Enlist no more three-months’ m...

Congressman Samuel Hooper to Governor John A. Andrew, May 28, 1862

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WASHINGTON, May 28 , 1862 . Governor JOHN A. ANDREW, Boston, Mass.: I am authorized by the President to say, in reply to your tele...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills: July 27, 1861

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Cairo.  We number now about 60 and have 25 days in which to fill up to 100. Two hundred and fifty of our regiment of three-months’ men hav...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Major-General John A. Dix to Colonel Edward Davis Townsend, July 24, 1861

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Head-quarters, Deportment of Maryland. Fort McHenry, July 24,1861. Colonel E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-general, Head-quarters ...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday Morning, August 11, 1861

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I broke off, last night, at this point, and now it is Sunday morning, before breakfast. A bright, glowing morning, with mists rising from t...