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Showing posts with label Burning of Columbia SC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burning of Columbia SC. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 11, 1865

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Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 16, 1865

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This morning we move our camp and shift around more to the left. Brisk skirmishing is now going on along the river, with some cannonading. I...

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 18, 1865—4 a.m.

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The Seventh cross Broad River and go into camp near the doomed city. We can now see the great conflagration. Oh! how terrible those sweeping...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, March 2, 1865

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Our department quarters here are not nearly so comfortable as those left behind in Columbia. They do well enough, however. I have not had a ...

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, March 4, 1865

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A letter from home! A letter from home! It reached me by hand through the department—is most reassuring and at the same time most delightful...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 20, 1865

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The adulation we receive in this city is enough to turn our heads completely. But for this dreadful suspense I believe it would. The most ap...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 2, 1866

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HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. Louis, Mo., April 2, 1866. Dear Brother: I know the rai...

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, probably April 6-7, 1866.

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HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           IN THE FIELD NEAR COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 16, 1865. Special Field Orders,} N...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, February 18, 1865

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Columbia was almost completely destroyed by fire last night. Only a few houses in the outskirts are left standing, and many people are with...

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, February 19, 1865

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We marched out on the railroad today and destroyed seven miles of track, then returned to camp, where we had left our knapsacks. We heard t...
Friday, January 8, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, February 17, 1865

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The Seventeenth Army Corps remained all day on the south bank of the Congaree river, near the Saluda cotton mills, while the Fifteenth Corp...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 27, 1865

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I have moved again, and now I am looking from a window high, with something more to see than the sky. We have the third story of Dr. Da Veg...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Lydia McLane Johnston to Louise Wigfall, Sunday, February 19, 1865

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charlotte, N. C, Feb. 19th, 1865. . . . I take advantage of this sweet, quiet Sunday afternoon for a little chat with you. It is so q...
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, November 4, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 5, 1865

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Is the sea drying up? Is it going up into mist and coming down on us in a water-spout? The rain, it raineth every day. The weather typifie...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: February 26, 1865

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Mrs. Munroe offered me religious books, which I declined, being already provided with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the Psalms of David, th...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: February 22, 1865

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Isabella has been reading my diaries. How we laugh because my sage divinations all come to naught. My famous “insight into character” is ut...