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Showing posts with label Battle of New Orleans (1815). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of New Orleans (1815). Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, Monday, January 5, 1863

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CHALMETTE.   Said to be just below the city of New Orleans. We left quarantine about 11 P. M. and reached here about 8 this morning. Many we...
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Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, January 8, 1863

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To-day is the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans and is celebrated here like the Fourth of July at home. Drill has been attempted, but...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Speech of Jefferson Davis, January 3, 1844

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Speech of Jefferson Davis before the State Democratic Convention held in Jackson Mississippi January 3, 1844, for the purpose of sending del...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Brigadier-General Thomas Benton Smith.

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General Thomas Benton Smith, who was the youngest general in the Confederate army and enjoys the further distinction of being the only on...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

John A. Quitman to John F. H. Claiborne, August 6, 1831

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Continued from: John A. Quitman to John F. H. Claiborne, July 31, 1831 Aug. 6th.   Since writing the above I have been in motion about...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, May 25, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 25 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR : In matters pertai...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 30, 1861

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Wrote in the heat of the day, enlivened by my neighbor, a wonderful mocking-bird, whose songs and imitations would make his fortune in any ...