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Showing posts with label Cadmus M Wilcox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cadmus M Wilcox. Show all posts
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 29, 1863

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Lenoir.   Another letter from home last night, dated October 16th. Only four letters in two months; I find, too, my letters are quite as irr...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 9, 1863

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At daylight yesterday we were ordered to be ready to march at 9 o'clock. It had been rumored for several days the Rebels had possession ...

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 14, 1863

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Our part in this expedition is done, and we are on our way back to Knoxville. Wilcox's "baby brigade," as our boys call them, ...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 17, 1862

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Pleasant Valley, October 17th, 1862. Being in a wakeful mood, I will try and compose my mind by writing a few lines in my diary, for we ha...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 29, 1864

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Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 29, 1864. I suppose you have heard how we whipped the Yankees on both this side and the north side...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 10, 1863

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Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...
Monday, July 25, 2022

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, August 24, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS,            August 26, 1864. (Via Petersburg.) General A. P. Hill attacked the enemy in his intrenchments at Reams' Stat...
Friday, July 23, 2021

General Robert E. Lee to James Seddon, May 5, 1864—11 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           May 5, 1864—11 p.m. ( Received 6th. ) The enemy crossed the Rapidan yesterday at Ely'...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, August 16, 1864—1:30 p.m.

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CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: May 5, 1864

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Orders to march at 4 o'clock. Got up in time for breakfast. Today our forces seem to abandon Brandy Station, and the railroad. Most of ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 16, 1862

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Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 16th, 1862. My dear Mother: Back again once more in the old camp, sound as a dollar. Would that 10,000...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 – 1:30 p.m.

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CITY POINT, VA., March 25 , 1865 — 1 . 30 p.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: The following dispatch of General Parke is ...

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant to Colonel Theodore S. Bowers

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BOYDTON ROAD, NEAR PETERSBURG,           April 2 , 1865 — 4 . 40 . Col. T. S. BOWERS, City Point: We are now up, and have a con...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Friday, July 3, 1863

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At 6 A.M. I rode to the field with Colonel Manning, and went over that portion of the ground which, after a fierce contest, had been won fr...