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Showing posts with label Battle of the Wilderness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of the Wilderness. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop, Friday, May 6, 1864

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BEHIND THE ENEMY'S GUNS; LEE AND LONGSTREET. Up at earliest dawn. Feeling quite well. The sound of battle was in our ears. The ground ...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop, Thursday, May 5, 1864

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OPENING THE GREAT WILDERNESS BATTLES. Before day bugles blowed, drums beat; men get ready to march. At dawn troops were moving; at sunrise...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 5, 1864

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Moved this morning, feeling for the enemy, and came up to them at noon, five miles from the Run, in the Wilderness. It certainly is a wilder...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 6, 1864

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Fighting commenced at daylight, and lasted all day. So did it last with their everlasting reinforcements. If General Lee only had half their...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 14, 1864

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We are still camped here. Have been prisoners since the 5th of this month, and have drawn three and a half days' rations. On that kind o...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 7, 1864

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Wilderness, May 7, 1864. On the 5th we marched all day on the plank road from Orange Court House to this place. We got into a hard fight o...

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...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 17, 1864

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Field Hospital near Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 17, 1864. I received your letter of the 3d inst. this morning. You express regret...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 5, 1864

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Raining. The sudden booming of artillery, shelling our department boys, intrenching at Bottom's Bridge, was heard until bedtime. I hav...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 6, 1864

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Clear and hot, but with a fine breeze-southwest. All is quiet around the city. Saturday night the enemy  again  penetrated Gen. Breckinrid...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 7, 1864

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Rained in the night, clear and cool in the morning. Gen. Breckinridge’s division started toward the Valley early this morning. All is qu...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 3, 1864

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A cold, windy day, with sunshine and clouds. It is rumored that Grant's army is in motion, and the great battle is eagerly looked for....

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 5, 1864

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We have many rumors to-day, and nothing authentic, except that some of the enemy's transports are in the James River, and landing some t...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: [May] 6, 1864

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Bright, warm,beautiful. We have a sensation to-day, but really no excitement. A dispatch from Gen. Lee (dated last night) says the  enemy  o...

General Robert E. Lee to James Seddon, May 5, 1864—11 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           May 5, 1864—11 p.m. ( Received 6th. ) The enemy crossed the Rapidan yesterday at Ely'...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 7, 1864

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Bright and warm. The following is Gen. Lee's dispatch, received yesterday morning—the  italics  not his. HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VI...