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Showing posts with label Battle of Antietam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Antietam. Show all posts
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 17, 1862

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Battle of Antietam. Fighting began at nine A.M. along the whole line, and ended in the afternoon, with defeat to the rebel forces. The batte...

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 20, 1862

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Went into battery on the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first division went across the river to reconnoitre...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

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

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Charlestown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,           September 24, 1862. I have not written to you in three or four weeks, because there has b...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 8, 1862

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Berkeley County, Va.,           October 8, 1862. When I left Charlestown yesterday morning the weather was delightful and I felt so buoyan...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: February 1863

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The members of our society sympathized with General McClellan when he was criticised by some and we wrote him the following letter:  CANAN...