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Showing posts with label Battle of Fisher's Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Fisher's Hill. Show all posts
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 23, 1864

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Raining. Our loss, killed, wounded, and taken in the battle near Winchester, is estimated by our people at 2500. The enemy say they got 25...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 24, 1864

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Raining alternate hours and warm. Had a chill this morning, and afterward several spells of blindness, from rushes of blood to the head. Cam...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Diary of Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, January 3, 1865

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Bright day. Walked up Wills Creek to the Narrows. Received appointment as brigadier-general, dated November 30, to rank from October 19, ...

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, January 6, 1865

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CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, January 6, 1865. Dear UNCLE: – We are getting into very pleasant quarters. The town is a fine one, plenty of parties...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Birchard Austin Hayes, November 4, 1864

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CAMP CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, November 4, 1864. MY DEAR SON;— This is your birthday — eleven years old today — almost a man. In less than el...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, September 26, 1864

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At camp near Harrisonburg. Receive Sheridan's telegraphic report of our last battle. Crook's command gets proper credit for once. ...

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 26, 1864

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HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, September 26, 1864. DEAREST:— Another victory and almost nobody hurt. The loss in my division (you know I now comm...

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 26, 1864

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HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, September 26, 1864. DEAR UNCLE:—You have heard enough about our great victories at Winchester and Fisher's Hil...

Dr. Joseph T. Webb, September 28, 1864.

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Camp nigh Harrisonburg, Virginia, September 28, 1864. [After the battle on the Opequon] the enemy fell back to Fisher's Hill, some eig...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 23, 1864

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WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, September 23, 1864. DEAREST:- We fought the enemy again (yesterday] at Fisher's Hill near Strasburg. They had for...

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, September 23, 1864

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WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, September 23, 1864. DEAR MOTHER:— We have gained two great victories this week. The first was after a fierce and long...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, September 28, 1864

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It has been an anxious morning for me; went over to Sandy Hook and waited until 11 o'clock a. m. when the clerk handed me my leave, and...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: September 25, 1864

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Atlanta, Ga. , September 25, 1864. It would surprise you, or any one else outside of the army, to see what an important military post ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 16, 1864

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November 16, 1864 They have made Sheridan a Major-General in the Regular Army. I think he deserves it for that remarkable battle of Ced...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, September 22, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , September 22, 1864. To-day we have Mr. Stanton's despatch announcing Sheridan's brilliant vi...