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Showing posts with label Battle of Gettysburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Gettysburg. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Richard Brooke Garnett

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Nephew of James Mercer Garnett (q. v.), and Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.); born in Virginia, in 1819; graduated from the United States Milit...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Fifty-Third North Carolina Infantry

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FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT BY COLONEL JAMES T. MOREHEAD. The duty assigned to me to write a sketch-not a history—of the Fifty-third North Caro...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 17, 1864

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Saw Mack Sample, Will Stone and several of our company to-day that have been prisoners since the battle of Gettysburg. We get two meals a da...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, [July 1, 1866]

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WASHINGTON, D. C., [July 1, 1866]. MY DEAR ONE:— We missed you so much at Gettysburg [June 28-30]. It was cool, fine weather. The company ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 2, 1863

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Camp near Orange Court House, Va., August 2, 1863. In a recent letter I promised to write you more about our campaign in Pennsylvania. O...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, July 17, 1863

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Near Bunker Hill, Jefferson County, Va . ,           July 17, 1863. You will see by this letter that we have gotten back into “Old Virgini...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 1, 1863

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We left camp at 6 A.M., passed through Heidelsburg and Middleton. At the latter place we heard firing in the direction of Gettysburg. We wer...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 2, 1863

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Our division was in reserve until dark, but our regiment was supporting a battery all day. We lost several killed and wounded, although we h...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 3, 1863

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When under a very heavy fire, we were ordered on Culps Hill, to the support of Gen. A. Johnson. Here we stayed all day—no, here, I may say, ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 11, 1863

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VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

In The Review Queue: Hold at All Hazards (A Novel)

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Hold at All Hazards: Bigelow's Battery at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 By David H. Jones Captain John Bigelow's efforts to sharpen up a ...
Friday, October 22, 2021

In The Review Queue: The Horse at Gettysburg

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The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle By Chris Bagley Horses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. ...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: July 4, 1863

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The terrible battle of Gettysburg brings to Canandaigua sad news of our soldier boys of the 126th Regiment. Colonel Sherrill was instantly ...

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: July 26, 1863

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Charlie Wheeler was buried with military honors from the Congregational church to-day. Two companies of the 54th New York State National Gua...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Official Reports: The Gettysburg Campaign, June3 – August 1,1863: No. 195. Reports of Col. James C. Rice, Forty-fourth New York Infantry, commanding regiment and Third Brigade.

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No. 195. Reports of Col. James C. Rice, Forty-fourth New York Infantry, commanding regiment and Third Brigade. HDQRS. FORTY-FOURTH...