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Showing posts with label Confederate Conscription Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate Conscription Act. Show all posts
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 23, 1864

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Bright and frosty. From the United States papers we learn that a great victory is claimed over Gen. Early, with the capture of forty-three...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 27, 1864

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Slightly hazy and sunshine. Quiet, save aimless and bootless shelling and picket firing along the lines on the south side of the river. ...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 8, 1864

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An application of Capt. C. B. Duffield, for a lieutenant-colonelcy, recommended by Col. Preston, came back from the President to-day. It was...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, August 23, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                        August 23 , 1864 . Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR, Richmond: SIR: The subjec...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 15, 1864

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We have no news. But there is a feverish anxiety in the city on the question of subsistence, and there is fear of an outbreak. Congress is i...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 11, 1864

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The snow has nearly vanished—the weather bright and pleasant, for midwinter; but the basin is still frozen over. Gen. E. S. Jones has ca...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 12, 1864

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Hundreds were skating on the ice in the basin this morning; but it thawed all day, and now looks like rain. Yesterday the President veto...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress, May 2, 1864

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RICHMOND, May 2 , 1864 . THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: You are assembled under cir...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 17, 1863

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Averill (Federal) made a raid a day or two since to Salem (Roanoke County, Va.), cutting the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, destroying th...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: May 11, 1862

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Corinth and Hamburg Road, Miss., May 11, 1862. You remember that in my last I spoke of a reconnoisance our people made on the 8th inst....
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 22, 1862

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Back at the department at work, but not much to do yet. The mails are not heavy. We have Bragg's report of the battle of Perryville...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 20, 1862

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The news from Kentucky is very vague. It seems there has been a battle, which resulted favorably for us, so far as the casualties are conce...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 27, 1862

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The papers this morning contain accounts of the landing of Yankees at White House, York River; and of reinforcements at Williamsburg and Su...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 2, 1862

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An iniquitous looking prisoner was brought in to-day from Orange C. H., by the name of Robert Stewart. The evidence against him is as fol...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

General Joseph E. Johnston to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, January 4, 1864

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Dalton , Jan. 4th, 1864. My dear Wigfall: It is necessary to recruit this army promptly to enable it to hold its ground against Grant...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 28, 1862

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These calamities may be a wholesome chastening for us. We shall now go to work and raise troops enough to defend the country. Congress will...