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Showing posts with label Annapolis MD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annapolis MD. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 22, 1862

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HUNTING A CHANNEL. The light-draught boats are engaged in finding and making a channel across the bar, or swash as it is called, of suf...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: December 20, 1861

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We are having cold weather; freezing quite hard at night, and making our lodgings in these little rag houses anything but comfortable. I h...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: December 10, 1861

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A WALK INTO THE COUNTRY. The weather holds warm and springlike. We have no need of overcoats, unless doing guard duty nights. The peopl...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, April 30, 1861

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Headquarters Department of Annapolis, April 30th, 1861 To Lieut. Gen’l. WINFIELD Scott, General in Chief U.S. Army, WASHINGTON, D.C. ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 20, 1861

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Yesterday, having a day to myself, I visited Annapolis. I was greatly interested in visiting the old State House on account of the historic...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 4, 1861

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Sunday morning in Baltimore, and a stiller or more quiet place I never saw. No sounds are heard, no people or carriages are seen in the str...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 15, 1861

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I need not speak much of the events of last night, which were not unimportant, perhaps to some of the insects which played a leading part i...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas: General Orders, No. 12, April 27, 1861

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General Orders , No. 12. WAR DEP’T, ADJT. GEN.'S OFFICE, Washington, April 27 , 1861 . 1. The Military Department of Washingt...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, April 13, 1864

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Matters press on the Department. Have been very busy. Some talk with Rice about Annapolis and the Naval School, League Island and the navy ...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Sarah Hildreth Butler, April 26, 1861

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ANNAPOLIs , April 26, 1861 DEAR SARAH: I am stationed here. All well. How would you like to come on here and live with me. Your hus...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor John A. Andrew, April 23, 1861

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Headquarters. Third Brigade Mass. Vol. Militia, ANNAPOLIS, Apr. 23, 1861 To His Excellency JoHN A. ANDREw , Com. in Chief DEAR SIR:...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 26, 1861

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Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 26th, 1861 General BUTLER The undersigned, General-in-Chief of the Army, has received fro...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 25, 1861

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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, April 25th, 1861 ORDERs BRIG. GEN’L. B. F. BUTLER, Commdg the Annapolis depot, will at once take measures, in co...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Brevet Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 9, 1861

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Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 25th, 1861 Brig’r. General B. F. BUTLER, Mass. Vols. SIR: If this letter should find yo...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: March 29, 1864

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Reached paroled camp at Annapolis before daylight. Passed the day in camp. No stores and no wood. Good time chatting, laughing and fooling....
Monday, March 19, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Friday, March 25, 1864

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Reached Cincinnati a little before daylight. Marched in the rain to barracks up town. Got breakfast at a restaurant. Telegram came ordering...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor John A. Andrew, May 9, 1861

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Department of Annapolis, Headquarters, ANNAPOLIS, May 9, 1861 To his Excellency, JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Governor John A. Andrew to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 25, 1861

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Department, Council Chamber, BosToN , Apr. 25, '61 Gen. B. F. BUTLER GENERAL: I have r...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Diary of John Hay: April 24, 1861

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. . . . This has been a day of gloom and doubt. Everybody seems filled with a vague distrust and recklessness. The idea seemed to be reache...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Diary of John Hay: Monday, April 23, 1861

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This morning Doug. Wallack came rushing into the office, looking for Seward with what he called important news. He said that the two ships ...