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Showing posts with label Burnside Expedition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burnside Expedition. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 25, 1862

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HUNTING FOR RELICS.   This being a warm, sunny day, a small party of us thought we would take a stroll up to the head of the island, a mil...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 28, 1862

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A STRANGER. Work is still going on, getting the boats off and getting them across the bar. The Eastern Queen is afloat and will be with ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 7, 1862

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A BOARD THE NEW YORK. Here we are, packed like sardines in a box; three companies of us, K, C and B, in the after cabin. The officers a...

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 9, 1862

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As bright and lovely a morning as ever dawned on Chesapeake bay. The expedition sails today. The harbor is full of life, tugboats are runni...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 28, 1862

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Headquarters Stevens' Div. Burnside's Expedition, July 28th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received no further news from y...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 20, 1862

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Headquarters Stevens's Div. Burnside's Expedition, Newport News, Va. July 20th, 1862. My dear Mother: I rode over yest...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 26, 1862

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Beaufort, S. C. Jan. 26th, 1862. My dear Mother: Another Sunday has come around, time slips quietly by — still nothing striking ha...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, March 8, 1862

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Boston, March 8, 1862. My Dear Motley : I have been debating with myself whether to wait for further news from Nashville, the Burnside...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 4, 1862

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Burnside has entered the Sound at Hatteras with his fleet of gun-boats and transports. The work will soon begin. SOURCE: John Beauch...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

John L. Motley to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., February 16, 1862

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Legation of the United States of America, Vienna, February 26, 1862. My Dear Holmes : You are the most generous and delightful of cor...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday Morning, January 19, 1862

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Fayetteville, Virginia. — It rained almost all night; still falling in torrents. A great freshet may be expected. . . . Great war news ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, January 26, 1862

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Washington, D. C ., January 26, 1862. My dear sister: I am still in Washington, engaged on the court, but hope to conclude in the cou...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, January 15, 1862

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Alexandria, Virginia, January 15, 1862. My dear sister: General Burnside has sailed with his expedition, but to what point is still...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: February 21, 1862

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A crowd collected here last night and there was a serenade. I am like Mrs. Nickleby, who never saw a horse coming full speed but she though...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, December 15, 1862

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New York , December 15, '62. I am at my mother's, — a house of mourning. On Saturday afternoon my brother Joe fell dead at the ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Diary of Edward Bates, January 10, 1862

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Disappointed in the S.[upreme] C.[ourt] by the postponement of the School cases, I hastened to C.[abinet] C.[ouncil] where we had a free co...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Diary of Edward Bates, December 31, 1861 – First Entry

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Ever since last date, the weather has been mild and beautiful. . . . I do wonder at the slowness of our military movements. Byrnside...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 11, 1862

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., February 11, 1862. To-night we have the good news that Roanoke Island has been taken by the Burnside fleet, and wh...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 24, 1862

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., January 24, 1862. The mysterious movements of the Burnside expedition puzzle me very much. It has now been about te...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 5, 1862

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., January 5, 1862. I fully expected before to-day we would have received the orders that we had hints about, but as y...