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Showing posts with label Cartridge Boxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cartridge Boxes. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Private John C. West to Stark West, July 8, 1863

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HAGERSTOWN, MD., JULY 8TH, 1863. To  Master  Stark  West,  four years old: MY DEAR LITTLE MAN: I wrote to mamma from our camp near Chamber...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 13, 1863

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News came to us to-day that Vicksburg had fallen on the 4th. Heavy skirmishing, fighting all day. Our brigade again acted as the rear of our...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 1, 1863

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 Left here on the Little Washington dirt road at 7 this morning. Marched seventeen miles and halted three miles from Washington. This is a Y...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, April 17, 1863

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This morning as soon as it is light, we take up the line of march towards Bear River, where it is expected our advance will be disputed. We ...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 6, 1862

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Hoisted anchor and steamed to within a short distance of the light house, and in full view of the island. Here we again dropped anchor and ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 8, 1862

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Camp Green Meadows, Mercer County, Virginia, August 8, 1862. Dear Uncle: — . . . . I have not yet decided as to the Seventy-ninth Re...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Thursday, September 3, 1863

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Orders at daylight for 3d division to move at 6. A. M. with blanket and 2 days ration. 40 ronds in boxes one team to regt to convey ammunit...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, April 26, 1864

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We stopped at Centralia this morning for breakfast, and arrived at Cairo about 5 o'clock in the evening. Our regiment received new tent...