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Showing posts with label Army of Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army of Virginia. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 24, 1862

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Culpeper County, Va . ,           August 24, 1862. Our army pursued Pope's to this place last week. We are now on the west side of Nor...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, September 9, 1862

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Norwich, Conn. September 9th, 1862. My own dear Son: I am half sick, very sad, grieved, and troubled on your account, yet very than...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Evening, August 18, 1862

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On Steamer Monitor, Kanawha River, August 18, [1862]. Evening. Dear Wif E: — I am four hard days' marching, and a few hours'...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: June 28, 1862

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Camp Jones. — . . . Spent the evening with General Cox. He gave me some curious items about the last campaign from the diary of an officer ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, June 27, 1862

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Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain . — Took the men to Glade Creek to wash. Water getting scarce in this quarter. The men danced to the fiddle, ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 20, 1862

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Lynchburg. — Mr. —— and myself arrived here last night, after a most fatiguing trip, by Clarksville, Buffalo Springs, then to Wolfs Trap S...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Monday, September 1, 1862

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This has been an anxious day. An Order appears declaring command of his corps in Burnside; of that portion of the Army of the Potomac not s...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday, August 29, 1862

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The Secretary of War called on me in reference to Genl. McClellan. He has long believed and so have I, that Genl. McClellan ought not to be...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: September 6, 1861

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“ The Briars .” — We returned home, as we are wont to call this sweet place, yesterday, and are just now taken up with family matters of de...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Assistant Adjutant-General E. D. Townsend to Major-General George B. McClellan, August 30, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT, August 30 , 1862 . The following are the commanders of the armies operating in Virginia: General Burnside command...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Friday, September 12, 1862

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Breakfasted alone. After breakfast went to Department, putting carelessly in my pocket a roll of papers, consisting, in part, of some sheet...

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 24, 1862

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WARRENTON, VA., August 24, 1862. I have not written you for several days, and now have only time to tell you in a few words that I am h...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 3, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS ALEXANDRIA AND LEESBURG ROAD, Near Dranesville, September 3 , 1862 . His Excellency President DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Major General John Pope to the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of Virginia, July 14, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, Washington, D.C., July 14 , 1862 . To the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of Virginia: By specia...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Major General George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 4, 1862 – 1 p.m.

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HARRISON'S BAR, JAMES RIVER, July 4 , 1862 – 1 p.m. (Received July 5 , 12 . 50 a.m.) The PRESIDENT: I have the honor to a...