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Showing posts with label Antietam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antietam. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Tuesday, October 7, 1862

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On duty at a place called "Monitor Mills." Have three men with me. It is only a little way out of camp, and all we have to do is t...

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Friday, October 10, 1862

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The air is full of rumors to-day that we are to go somewhere, and that very soon, yet no one seems to be able to trace them. Experience has ...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 19, 1862

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Reports are that a great battle has been fought at Antietam, and a great victory won. Do they tell us this to keep up our courage, or has th...

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 30, 1862

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Battalion-drill to-day. It was just as hot as yesterday, and some say hotter. The lieutenant colonel, James Smith, came last night, and has ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 16, 1862

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Started at six A.M., and marched through Boonsborough and Petersborough to Antietam. Saw a squad of rebel prisoners on the road. Ten miles. ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 21, 1862

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Maryland Heights, Va., September 21st, 1862. Toward evening of the 13th we left Frederic City and marched out on the National Turnpike tow...

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 27, 1862

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Antietam, September 27th, 1862. We have had one week of rest; are encamped three miles from our last battlefields, with a prospect of stay...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 19, 1865

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CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, February 19, 1865. Dear Uncle:— Yours of [the] 17th received today. I will send you five hundred dollars by express ...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 [1862].

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Hon. Eli Thayer’s scheme for colonization by armed men of Southern States meets with much favor by the President, Secretary of war and other...
Friday, March 6, 2020

In The Review Queue: The Cornfield

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The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point by David A. Welker Antietam. For generations of Americans this word—the name...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: August 27, 1864

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Rained last night. Thunder heavy. Moved through Sharpsburg and over the Antietam battle ground. Turned towards Williamsport and camped thre...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 20, 1863

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79th Regiment,                   Camp Near Falmouth, Va.,    Jan. 20th, 1863. My dear Mother: Yesterday I wrote Walter and was no...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 7, 1862

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Camp Near Falmouth, Va . December 7th, 1862. My dear Mother: We are still lying quietly in camp — no signs of a move yet, but gener...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Official Reports of the Maryland Campaign, September 3-20, 1862: No. 138. – Report of Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, U. S. Army, commanding Ninth Corps, of the Battle of Antietam.

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HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, Mouth of Antietam, September 23 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the m...

Brigadier-General Jacob D. Cox’s Special Orders No. 8, September 28, 1862

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SPECIAL ORDERS No. 8. HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,          Mouth of Antietam Creek, Md., September 28 , 1862 . The following o...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Horace Barnard, September 28, 1862

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79th Regiment, Near Antietam Creek, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Horace: Here we are, still resting at the mouth of this muddy littl...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, September 18, 1862

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Address: Capt. W. T. Lusk, A. A. A. Gen. 1st. Brig. 1st. Div. 9th. A. C. Washington, D. C. (To be forwarded) Sept. 18th, 1862. ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Address of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to to the 23rd Ohio Infantry, January 4, 1863

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Comrades : — We have just closed an eventful year in our soldier life. During the year 1862 the Twenty-third Regiment has borne well its pa...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Rutherford B. Hayes: The Dead of South Mountain and Antietam

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Sergeant-Major Eugene L. Reynolds, of Bellefontaine. A bright, handsome, ambitious, soldierly youngster; brave as a lion; so game in appear...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, December 20, 1862

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Camp Maskell, Near Gauley Bridge , December 20, 1862. Dear Uncle :— Dr. Webb went home on a thirty-day furlough a few days ago. Our goo...