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Showing posts with label Brother vs Brother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brother vs Brother. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 20, 1863

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Went on to Tupper's Plains. Rebs got around and made for 8 Miles Island near the shore. Moved rapidly. At Harrisonville and Rutland the...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: December 31, 1863

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Still very cold and no news encouraging. Rebels very strict. One prisoner found a brother among the guards who had been living in the south...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 14, 1861

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Down to our yacht, the Diana, which is to be ready this afternoon, and saw her cleared out a little — a broad-beamed, flat-floored schooner...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, April 27, 1863

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Colonel Bankhead has given me letters of introduction to General Bragg, to General Leonidas Polk, and several others. At 2 P.M. I calle...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Friday Night, January 23, 1863

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I am particularly happy to-day, for we have just heard from Brother for the first time since last July. And he is well, and happy, and want...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: August 10, 1863

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Spent this morning in the house of mourning. Our neighbour Mrs. Stebbins has lost her eldest son. The disease was “that most fatal of Pando...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 13, 1864

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November 13, 1864 We had a Lieutenant-Colonel C––– , a Britisher, up for a visit; he is commander of the forces in that tropical climat...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Review: Of Blood and Brothers, Book One

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Of Blood and Brothers: Book One By E. Michael Helms  “Brother against brother” is a frequent theme often used in literature about the...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, March 5, 1862

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Company E had prayer meeting this evening in a vacant room close by their quarters. It is reported that we are to leave for the South in tw...
Friday, October 19, 2012

The Rebel Rout at Winchester

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WASHINGTON, March 25. – Gen. Shields last received a dispatch from Maj. Gen. Banks, dated five miles beyond Strasburg. The enemy is sti...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Further Particulars of the Naval Engagement

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BALTIMORE, March 12. – The Old Point boat has arrived.   We learn through Lieut. Hayward that a copy of the Norfolk Day Book has reached O...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Horrors Of Civil War

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During the hottest of the battle on the Saturday before the surrender of Fort Donelson, two Kentucky regiments were brought face to face, on...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Further Particulars of the Battle Near Winchester

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WASHINGTON, March 25. Gen. Shields has received a dispatch from Maj. Gen. Banks, dated 5 miles beyond Strasburg.   The enemy are still in r...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Confiscation of Slaves

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Amos Kendall, an old politician of the Andrew Jackson school, having been postmaster General under that distinguished man and caught someth...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Horrors Of Civil War

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During the hottest of the battle on the Saturday before the surrender of Fort Donelson, two Kentucky regiments were brought face to face – o...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

An Incident of the War

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We of the North can scarcely realize the hard struggles and bitter trials of feelings that the Union men of the Border States, fighting in t...