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Showing posts with label Births. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Births. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: March 23, 1865

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Sun shines out in its fullness. Dreamed of being at home last night. It was Sunday and I at church. Mail came. Glorious news. A child born,...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Diary of Sarah Morgan: June 17, 1863

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I must write something somewhere, I don't care if dinner is ready, and Brother's “safe old Secesh” downstairs! Lydia has another bo...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 8, 1865

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Colonel Childs came with a letter from my husband and a newspaper containing a full account of Sherman 's cold-blooded brutality in Col...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, December 23, 1861

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Fayetteville, Virginia , December 23, 1861. Dear Uncle : — I have just heard by telegraph of the birth of my fourth son. In these times...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, December 23, 1861

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Camp Union , December 23, 1861. Dearest : — I am so happy to hear today by telegraph that your troubles are over (at least the worst, I...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, December 23, 1861

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Wet, cold, windy; sleet last night. Five companies of the Thirtieth came up last night. Little or no preparations to shelter them — all the...