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Showing posts with label Casualty Lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Casualty Lists. Show all posts
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 6, 1864

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The morning of the sixth dawns beautifully, but upon a field of death-a field of blood; but thanks be to God, it dawns with the old flag tri...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 8, 1864

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This morning we learn that Rome is in danger of an attack from Hood's northward bound column. We are early ordered into line, and soon w...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, October 4, 1862

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At two o'clock this morning the Second Division is huddled promiscuously around the headquarters of General Rosecrans, on the north side...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: July 4, 1863

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The terrible battle of Gettysburg brings to Canandaigua sad news of our soldier boys of the 126th Regiment. Colonel Sherrill was instantly ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 2, 1864

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  CAMP NEAR WOLFSVILLE, MARYLAND, August 2, 1864. MY DARLING:- We are having a jolly good time about sixteen miles north of Middletown, re...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, April 8, 1862

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Oh! what a terrible scene does Shiloh's field present this morning. It is a scene of death; its victims lay everywhere. The blood of abo...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, February 17, 1862

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This morning the boys in blue are everywhere in and around Fort Donelson, scattered among the boys in gray, rehearsing the scenes they have...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Thursday, May 19, 1864

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Meadow Bluff, May 19, 1864 Dearest: — We got safely to this point in our lines, two hours ago, after twenty-one days of constant marchi...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, Saturday, December 20, 1862

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New-York , Dec. 20th, 1862, Saturday. My own dear, dear Son: I have many times during the past week thought of writing you, but I c...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

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

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Norwich , Sept 16th, 1862. My own dear Son: I have very little reason to believe in the probability of your receiving my many letters...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Samuel W. Crawford, April 18, 1861

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Steamship Baltic, Thursday, April 18, 1861. general: I have the honor to submit to you the following report of killed and wounded ...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

John L. Motley to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., November 2, 1862

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Vienna, November 2, 1862. My Dear Holmes : More and more does it become difficult for me to write to you. I am greedier than ever for y...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 27, 1864

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In all this beautiful sunshine, in the stillness and shade of these long hours on this piazza, all comes back to me about little Joe; it ha...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 24, 1862

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Still no official account of the Sharpsburg fight, and no list of casualties. The Yankee loss in generals very great — they must have fough...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 2, 1862

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Lynchburg . – The papers to-day give glorious news of a victory to our arms on the plains of Manassas, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th. I will ...