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Showing posts with label Appomattox Court House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Appomattox Court House. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, December 10, 1864

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PETERSBURG, December 10, 1864. About noon yesterday the First Division of Second Corps of enemy, supporting their cavalry, forced back ou...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 12, 1864

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Clear and cold. Ice half an inch thick. Gen. Longstreet is again in the old lines on this side of the river. The reconnoissance, however, ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Brevet Major-General George Armstrong Custer to the Soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry Division, April 9, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION,         Appomattox Court-House, Va., April 9 , 1865 . SOLDIERS OF THE THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION: ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: April 8, 1865

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Moved out early and met the 2nd Div., Crook's, at Prospect Station on R. R. A beautiful day. Troops all cheer for Custer. Captured at A...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 16

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But Lee never in war arose to such sublime heights if indeed ever in a military sense. Even Longstreet's Chief of Artillery, Genera...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Parole of Louis T. Wigfall, alias J. A. White, April 10, 1865

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appomattox Court House, Va., April 10th, 1865. The Bearer, pri. J. A. White, of Co. M. First Regt. of Texas Vols., a paroled Prisoner...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 10, 1865

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News has come that Lee's army has surrendered! We are struck dumb with astonishment! Why then all these four years of suffering — of se...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 23, 1865

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On Board River Queen In Potomac River April 23, 1865 I think I must write you a letter, though it may get to you not much before the ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 9, 1865

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April 9, 1865 We all were up, according to habit, about daylight, with horses saddled, having staid near Stute's house for the nigh...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to The Army of the Potomac, June 28, 1865

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , June 28, 1865. Soldiers: This day, two years, I assumed command of you, under the order of the Pre...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 10, 1865

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, Appomattox Court House , April 10, 1865. The telegram will have announced to you the surrender of L...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Special Orders, No. –, Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865

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SPECIAL ORDERS No. –. HDQRS. ARMY OF NORTHERN VA., April 10 , 1865 . The following order is published for the information of all par...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Special Orders, No. 73, Headquarters Armies of the United States, April 10, 1865

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SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 73.} HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, In the Field, April 10 , 1865 . I. All officers and men of the Confeder...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee, June 20, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, June 20 , 1865 . General R. E. LEE, Richmond, Va.: Your communications of d...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9 , 1865 . Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: GENERAL:...
Friday, May 9, 2014

General Robert E. Lee, April 2, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 2 , 1865 . Generals Longstreet's and Hill's corps will cross the pontoon bridge...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Review: Grant vs. Lee, The Graphic History of the Civil War’s Greatest Rivals During the Last Year of the War

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Grant vs. Lee: The Graphic History of the Civil War’s Greatest Rivals During the Last Year of the War by Wayne Vansant On Wedne...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, April 11, 1865

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[Ohio, April 11, 1865] The news from Grant is so glorious that the whole country is wild with joy. SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndik...