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Showing posts with label Battle of Spottsylvania Court House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Spottsylvania Court House. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 10, 1864

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Fighting to-day at Spottsylvania Court House. Prisoners still coming in, two more from my company. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Hee...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 12, 1864

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Raining hard all day, and fighting all last night. About 2 o'clock this afternoon about 2,000 prisoners came in, with them Major-General...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 15, 1864

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Still here. They are fighting very hard on the front. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 63
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman to Andrew Johnson, January 31, 1868

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CONFIDENTIAL. LIBRARY ROOM, WAR DEPARTMENT,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 31, 1868. TO THE PRESIDENT: Since our interview of yesterday I ...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 13, 1864

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Field Hospital near Spottsylvania Court House, Va . , May 13, 1864. When I wrote to you on the 7th instant I thought our fighting was ove...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 11, 1864

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Bright and pleasant-breezy. This has been a day of excitement. At midnight the Departmental Battalion were marched from the south side of ...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May [9], 1864

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A dispatch from Gen. Lee says the enemy is moving down toward Fredericksburg, and yesterday the advance of our army encountered his right wi...