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Showing posts with label Corduroy Roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corduroy Roads. Show all posts
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: January 25, 1864

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WILLIAMSBURG, VA. Leaving Newport News on the afternoon of the 21st, we made a march of about ten miles, reaching Little Bethel just befor...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 17, 1865

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Beaman's Cross Roads, March 17, 1865. About 12 miles, more than half of which had to be corduroyed. Roads awful. If a wagon pulls off ...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 9, 1865

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Four miles south of Montpelier, N. C., March 9, 1865. Rained nearly all last night and poured down all day. Our regiment had the advance of ...

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 10, 1865 - 12 p.m.

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Randallsville, N. C., March 10, 1865, 12 p. m. Ten miles to-day, most of which we had to corduroy. Our regiment in rear of the division an...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: March 30, 1865

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Rain continued. Lay in the mud till noon, then moved into the woods. Moved out just after getting fixed up comfortably. Moved 4 miles over ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Monday, March 20, 1865

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Regt in line to move at 6. Rec orders to wait. At 12. I am sent with a detail to corderoy the road. The train all stuck in the mud. men pul...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, April 11, 1865

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Weather quite pleasant. We started at 6 a. m. and marched twelve miles. Our march was very slow, the road being through one continuous swam...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, March 18, 1865

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We started at 8 a. m. and marched twelve miles, the Third Division being in the advance. We had to cross a swamp four miles wide and the wa...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, February 6, 1865

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The weather changed again, and we had a rather cold, drizzling rain nearly all day. We left our trenches at 7 o'clock this morning and ...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee, November 24, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, November 24 , 1864 . General R. E. LEE, Commanding: GENERAL: From the report of scouts received ye...