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Showing posts with label Charles S Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles S Hamilton. Show all posts
Friday, March 15, 2019

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, January 2, 1863

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(Private) New Orleans , January 2nd, 1863. Dear Sir : Everything remains nearly as when I last wrote. Troops have been moving up to B...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Diary of John Hay: September 10, 1863

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. . . I dined to-night at Wormley’s with Hooker, Butterfield, Fox, Wise , and Col. Rush of Philad a . . . . Hooker says: — “Our war has de...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: March 15, 1862

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camp Near Winchester , March 15, 1862. Of all the platitudes and jingles that ever amused and deluded a chivalrous people, the asserti...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: March 13, 1862

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Camp Near Winchester , March 13, 1862. At last! My prophecy of yesterday found its fulfilment rapidly enough. Half an hour after my let...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: March 9, 1862

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Camp Near Charlestown, Virginia , March 9, 1862. After finishing my letter to you yesterday, as I came out of the Provost Marshal's...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: February 28, 1862

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Charlestown, VirgiNia , February 28, 1862. A story to tell, and no time to tell it in. That is my record. After tedious waiting in Fred...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: January 28, 1862

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Cantonment Hicks, Near Frederick , January 28, 1862. If I write you from my experience, I shall have little to tell of a soldier's ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: January 17, 1862

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Cantonment Hicks (so called), January 17, 1862. I had a corpulent little letter from you, — one actually swelling with agreeable impor...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: December 20, 1861

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camp Hicks, near Frederick , December 20, 1861. It was only the immediate pressure of another topic that crowded out the mention of th...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: December 16, 1861, Evening

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There is something gay, inspiriting, exciting, in a fine review. The brigade burnishes its equipments and perfects its uniform. It also put...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Saturday Evening, November 23, 1861

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Head-quarters Second Massachusetts Regiment, Camp near Seneca, Nov. 23, 1861, Saturday Evening. Yours of the 19th is in my pocket. Th...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Saturday Night, October 26, 1861

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Camp Near The Little Seneca , Saturday Night, 9 o'clock, P. M. He who predicts the morrow in this life has his labor for his pai...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Thursday Morning, October 24, 1861

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Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 24, 1861, Thursday Morning. The violation of every rule and maxim of military law, the exactio...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: October 21, 1861 – 7 p.m.

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pleasant Hill , October 21, 1861, 7 o'clock, p. m . Camp near Darnestown, for the last time! I have just time to write you a wor...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, March 2, 1862

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Headquarters Co. B, 2d Mass. Reg't, Charlestown, Va. , March 2, 1862. I wrote in my last that we had received marching orders and...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major General George B. McClellan, May 9, 1862

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FORT MONROE, VA. , May 9 , 1862 . Major-General McCLELLAN: MY DEAR SIR: I have just assisted the Secretary of War in framing the pa...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Gen. Banks Reinforced

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NEW YORK, May 28. – The Baltimore American of the 27 th says Gen. Banks has already received a reinforcement of at least 13,000 well discip...