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Showing posts with label Battle of Brandy Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Brandy Station. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 9, 1863

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We were ordered to Beverly Ford, to support Gen. Jeb Stewart, who is engaging the Yankees, and they are having a very hard cavalry fight: Go...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 29, 1863

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A letter of farewell from the Valley, written as the enemy's lines were closing around our loved ones there. It is painful to think of ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall to Charlotte Cross Wigfall, June 18, 1863

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Rector's X Road , June 18th, 1863. Dear Mama, I have written L. twice in the last two weeks and the reason I did not write you a...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: September 7, 1863

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Major Edward Johnston did not get into the Confederacy until after the first battle of Manassas. For some cause, before he could evade that...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 11, 1863

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Camp, June 11,1863. This army is weakened, and its morale not so good as at the last battle, and the enemy are undoubtedly stronger and...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

General Robert E. Lee to Charlotte Wickham Lee, June 11, 1863

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Culpeper, 11th June, 1863. I am so grieved, my dear daughter, to send Fitzhugh to you wounded. But I am so grateful that his wound is o...
Monday, December 23, 2013

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, June 11, 1863

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Culpeper, Va., June 11, 1863. My supplications continue to ascend for you, my children, and my country. When I last wrote I did not sup...