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Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, December 2, 1861

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Our General took up four pieces of artillery and soon shelled Col. Haskins' Kentuckians out of their encampment, causing them to strike ...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Brigadier-General Elias S. Dennis to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 22, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA,           Young's Point, June 22, 1863. Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Comdg. Department of the Te...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 30, 1862

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Our canteens are again filled with the contraband water, so we shall be all right today as far as that is concerned. Some of the boys made a...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, July 19, 1862

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New Orleans , July 19th, 1862. Dear Sir : I venture to refer to the name of J. L. Riddell (formerly Confederate Postmaster) because he ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Brigadier General John W. Phelps, May 23, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 23 , 1862 . Brigadier-General PHELPS, Commanding Camp Parapet: GENERAL: You...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Diary of 1st Sergeant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, January 25, 1865

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Cold. off at daylight. road tolerable in Pine Bluffs at 12. camp at 1.30 ½ mile from town 40th Ia reported at the Rocks, and boats captured...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes To Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon, May 9, 1862 - Morning

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Camp Number 6, Giles Court-house, May 9, 1862. A. M. Sir : — Your dispatch of yesterday reached me about 10:30 o'clock P. M. Its ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: July 4, 1862

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A beautiful, glorious day, and one which the Yankees expected confidently to spend triumphantly in Richmond. Last Fourth of July old Genera...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Boats For Government

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It is reported among steamboatmen, that Government wants fifty more boats.   The old steamers City Belle, Alhambra and Golden Era, belongin...