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Showing posts with label Abner Doubleday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abner Doubleday. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

George L. Stearns, August 7, 1862

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[Office of John Hopper, New York, New York, August 7, 1862] I am safely here, and have met General Doubleday. He is rather too lymphat...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Brigadier-General Robert Anderson to Edwin M. Stanton, December 1862

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New York , December, 1862. Hon. E. M. Stanton , Secretary of War. Sir : Although by the strict advice of my medical advisers I am pre...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 14

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Who but Sheridan, as at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, just a month to a day after his splendid victory at Opequan Creek, Sept. 19, 1864,...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Opinions of Various Officers on Resupplying and Reinforcing Fort Sumter: Probably Presented to Lincoln and his Cabinet March 15, 1861

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George W. Snyder, lieutenant of Engineers, February 28, 1861: 4 regiments, or 4,000 men; 4 vessels of war. R. K. Meade, jr., second lie...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: April 28, 1862

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People began to come into town for their property. Six prisoners were released. Somebody shot at them. I am tired of this barbarous way of ...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: April 22, 1862

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General Doubleday and bodyguard and a few officers came. In the evening a man came in saying Union man was shot by jayhawkers. Thirty men o...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, June 26, 1863

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Poolesville , June 26, 1863. We have come to Poolesville just at the right moment — the whole army is passing here. I have seen a great...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: July 31, 1861

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MARYLAND HEIGHTS, DEP’T OF THE SHENANDOAH, July 31, 1861, in Camp. Three letters?! Yes, one from you, one from father, one from C. Bl...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday, July 28, 1861

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Head-quarters, Harper's Ferry , Sunday, July 28, 1861. There is so much of drag and so little of incident in my present life that a...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, Saturday, July 16, 1861

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in Bivouac At Bunker Hill , July 16, 1861. We paused last evening, on our march toward Winchester, and lay down on the side of a hill i...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, Saturday, July 13, 1861

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in Camp, Martinsburg , Saturday, July 13, 1861. Voici que nous sommes arriv é s. I am in my tent, on the high ground, south of the town...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, November 9, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , November 9, 1864. The election passed off very quietly yesterday. About nineteen thousand votes, of...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 10, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 10, 1864. The storm in which I have been involved seems to be subsiding, as I note the Tribun...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 8, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 8, 1864. I am curious to see how you take the explosion of the conspiracy to have me relieved...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 6, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 6, 1864. I returned from Washington to-day. I went there Friday morning on business connected ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Major Generals Winfield Scott Hancock and Abner Doubleday, July 1, 1863 – 6 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 1 , 1863 – 6 p.m . Major-Generals HANCOCK and DOUBLEDAY: If General Slocum is on the field,...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock to Major-General Daniel A. Butterfield, July 1, 1863 – 5:25 p.m.

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5.25 [P.M., JULY 1 , 1863 .] GENERAL: When I arrived here an hour since, I found that our troops had given up the front of Gettysburg ...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 23, 1863

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CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., January 23, 1863. I have not written to you for several days, for the reasons that I have had no opportunity, ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Official Reports of the Battle of Gettysburg: No. 337 Report of Brig. Gen. John Buford, U.S. Army, commanding First Division.

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HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, August 27 , 1863 . COLONEL: I have the honor to make the following report of the operations of t...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

E. P. Halstead to Lieut. Col. John D. Shaul, April 6, 1862

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HDQRS. MILITARY DEFENSES NORTH OF THE POTOMAC, Washington, April 6 , 1862 .   Lieut. Col. JOHN   D. SHAUL, Commanding Seventy-sixth...