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Showing posts with label Christmas Eve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Eve. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 24, 1862

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Marched to Lumpkins Mills; weather very warm. Christmas eve I retired to my bed on the bare ground completely worn out with the day's ma...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Diary of Private Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Wednesday December 24, 1862

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Was transferred to Black's picket at Holt's and stood to-night. SOURCE: Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 24, 1864

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Christmas eve! Clear and cold. A dispatch from Hon. J. L. Orr and H. V.     (on their way home) informs the Secretary that from the delay ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

John Randolph Tucker to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, December 24, 1851

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WINCHESTER, [Va.], December 24, 1851. MY DEAR SIR: I thank you for putting Mr. Guyer in the trail of the facts I enquired for. Have you ...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, December 24, 1862

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Camp near Fredericksburg, Va.,           December 24, 1862. The Yankees seem loath to make another advance since the good whipping we gave...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Diary of Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, December 24, 1864

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A fine day; a pleasant chatty Christmas eve with the gentlemen of my staff in the hospital tent of the adjutant: viz., Captain Nye (R. L.), ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 24, 1864

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Called on the President to commute the punishment of a person condemned to be hung. He at once assented. Is always disposed to mitigate puni...