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Showing posts with label Baltimore and Ohio RR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baltimore and Ohio RR. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, March 27, 1863

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Louisville, Ky. We did not go to Suffolk as I anticipated. Third Division went in our stead, while we took another direction, and in eight d...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 10, 1862

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CAMP MILLINGTON. We were too tired last night to look about and see where we were. This morning we were ourselves again, and began to take s...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Sunday, July 28, 1861

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The Second Battery left Camp Clark by four o'clock P. M., for Harper's Ferry, to receive the guns of the First Battery, whose term o...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 3, 1864

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Very warm-clouds and sunshine, like April. Roger A. Pryor, who resigned his brigadiership, and has been acting as a scout (private), fell in...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

William Preston Smith to Major-General William B. Taliaferro, December 1, 1859

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Baltimore, December 1st, 1859. General Taliaferro,           Charlestown. We desire anxiously to learn from whom the dispatches were sent t...

S. Bassett French to Major-General William B. Taliaferro, December 1, 1859

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HEAD QUARTERS,           Charlestown, Dec. 1, 1859. W. P. Smith, Esq.:           Master of Trans:, B. & O. R. R. Co. Dear Sir: —I am in...

S. Colhoun to William Preston Smith, December 1, 1859

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Philadelphia, Dec. 1st, 1859. W. P. Smith, Esq. Dear Sir: I cut the enclosed slip from the editiorial of this afternoon's “Bulletin:” ...

William G. Allan to Thomas H. Parsons, Sunday, December 4, 1859—9 p.m.

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Harper's Ferry.           Sunday, Dec. 4, 9 o'clock, P. M. T. H. Parsons,           Agent Balto. & O. R. R., Washington. We want...

Andrew Hunter to John W. Garrett, December 10, 1859

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Charlestown, Dec. 10, 1859. John W. Garrett,           Pres't B. & O. R. R. Co. In a conference I have just had with Gen. Taliaferro...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 21, 1863

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Went through town at 5 this morning, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with Johnson's division and part of Hampton's Legion, to te...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, October 16, 1864

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CHAFFIN'S BLUFF, October 16 , 1864 . On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Duffield's; dest...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

John W. Garrett to Andrew Hunter, November 28, 1859

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BALT. & OHIO R. R. OFFICE,           28th November, 1859. Andrew Hunter, Esq. , Charlestown, Va. My desire and design are to meet fully...

George W. Mumford to John W. Garrett, November 28, 1859

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,           Richmond, 28th Nov., 1859. J. W. Garrett, Esq.,           President, &c. From information in the posses...

Josiah Perham to John W. Garrett, November 12, 1859

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Boston, Nov. 12th, 1859. President and Superintendent B. & O. Railroad Co., Gentlemen:— I wrote you a few days ago in regard to an exc...

Josiah Perham to John W. Garrett, November 21, 1859

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Boston, Nov. 21st, 1859. President or Superintendent Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Gentlemen:— My second letter had been sent to you before I...
Friday, February 25, 2022

William H. Richardson to John W. Garrett, November 9, 1859

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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,           Richmond, Va., 9th November, 1859. John W. Garrett, Esq.,           President of the B. & O. R....
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 19, 1864

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A steady, gentle rain from 8 A.M. till 4 P.M. A dispatch from Gen. Hood, who relieves Gen. Johnston, was received to-day. It was in cipher...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Major-General Robert Patterson, April 29, 1861

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Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 29th, 1861 Maj. Gen. PATTERSON SIR: I wrote to you by Major Porter on the 27th, and also ...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 4, 1861

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“Independence Day.” Fortunate to escape this great national festival in the large cities of the Union where it is celebrated with many days...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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

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Reached Bellaire at 2:30 A. M. and were ferried across the river. Took the Baltimore and Ohio road before daylight. In box cars — plenty of...