Showing posts with label 55th NY INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 55th NY INF. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: August 7, 1861

Tomorrow it will be decided whether Dan Oakey can obtain a commission in de Trobriand's Regiment (55th). If he goes, I have promised to knit him a pair of stockings.

SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 14