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Showing posts with label Capture of Richmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capture of Richmond. Show all posts
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: April 7, 1865

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Richmond has fallen and I have no heart to write about it. Grant broke through our lines and Sherman cut through them. Stoneman is this sid...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Reverend James Freeman Clarke to Anna Huidekoper Clarke, April 4, 1865

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New York , April 4, 1865. What good news! These things seem to come as apples fall when they are ripe; we pull at them in spring and su...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, April 24, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala., April 24, 1865. My Dear Mother: You must not feel vexed, as you say y...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith, April 11, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala ., April 11, 1865. I wrote you the day before yesterday , since which time t...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Diary of Corydon E. Fuller: Tuesday, April 4, 1865

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During the day great preparations had been made for the grand illumination to come off in the evening. About 7½ o'clock P. M., we rode...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Diary of Corydon E. Fuller: Monday, April 3, 1865

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Richmond has fallen! The flag of the Union waves in triumph over the rebel Capitol! The news reached the War Department about 11 o'cloc...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A Richmond Editor Alarmed

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FORTRESS MONROE, April 14. – A Richmond paper contains an editorial exhibiting considerable fear for the safety of that city. It intimates ...
Monday, December 15, 2008

The Capture Of Richmond

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The Richmond Examiner has the following editorial: The Northern mind has settled down upon the purpose of overrunning Virginia and capturing...