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Showing posts with label Blackberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackberries. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: August 2, 1861

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Jerrolaman went out this afternoon and picked nearly a peck of blackberries. Berries of various kinds are very abundant. The fox-grape is al...

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: August 8, 1861

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Major Wood, Fifteenth Indiana, thought he heard chopping last night, and imagined that the enemy was engaged in cutting a road to our rear. ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, June 18, 1863

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Haines Bluff, Miss. Once more on land, and glad are we of the change. We arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo at ten o'clock yesterday morn...

Diary of Musician David Lane, June 23, 1863

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Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 8, 1864

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Near Chaffin's Bluff, on James River, Va.,           August 8, 1864. The weather for the last few days has been intensely hot. It is v...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, July 21, 1863

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During the time we remain in camp, all seems monotonous and dull, scarcely anything happening to relieve it. Every day the boys are seen wen...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Captain Charles Wright Wills: August 8, 1864

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August 8, 1864. Never was army better cared for than this. No part of it has been on short rations during the campaign. Extra issues of...