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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop, Wednesday, July 29, 1864

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Had Job greater patience? Here are men of true mettle or we might see them knocking at the gate to swear fidelity to foes. To lie down is to...

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop, Thursday, July 30, 1864

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Breakfasted on half of a small biscuit and an onion. Prisoners arrive; a crowd gathered when a cannon was fired over the camp. SOURCE: Joh...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: November 18, 1862

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Orderly Holmes and myself have been on shore again. We went up the beach and found a soldiers' graveyard. We got breakfast at a darky hu...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 29, 1864

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Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 29, 1864. I suppose you have heard how we whipped the Yankees on both this side and the north side...
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