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Showing posts with label Chaffin's Bluff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chaffin's Bluff. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 31, 1865

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Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, July 6, 1864

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Near Chaffin's Bluff, Va.,           July 6, 1864. I have not written to you for several days because I knew a letter could not go Sou...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 8, 1864

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Near Chaffin's Bluff, on James River, Va.,           August 8, 1864. The weather for the last few days has been intensely hot. It is v...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

General Robert E Lee to Captain John K. Mitchell, October 24, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           October 24, 1864. Capt. J. K. MITCHELL,           Flag Officer, Commanding James River Squ...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, October 13, 1864

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CHAFFIN'S BLUFF, October 13 , 1864 . At 7 this morning enemy endeavored to advance between the Darbytown and Charles City roads, but ...

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, October 16, 1864

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CHAFFIN'S BLUFF, October 16 , 1864 . On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Duffield's; dest...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1864

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Raining and cold. Horrible for the troops in the trenches ! The battle, yesterday (on this side of the river), was an attempt of Gen. Lee ...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 4, 1864

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Foggy; then bright; then very warm. Gen. Lee is at Chaffin's Bluff. A dispatch from him this morning states that the enemy's infan...