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Showing posts with label David A Russell. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, November 20, 1864

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CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, November 20, 1864. MY DARLING: – You see the Army of the Shenandoah has a name for its camp. Named after the Gener...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 14

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Who but Sheridan, as at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, just a month to a day after his splendid victory at Opequan Creek, Sept. 19, 1864,...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 13

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“At the critical moment General Wright, who was for the day in command of the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps, though (as he says) ‘it was too e...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 11

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The following pertaining to Sheridan's battle of Winchester has been discovered since writing the foregoing. It will be answered in det...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 10

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So far as this first assault is concerned it can be summed up quite briefly. The only considerable amount of the enemy's infantry in th...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 9

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As I entered the long broad avenue running between the great tents at the field hospital later in the day where there were hundreds of woun...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 8

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The Tenth Vermont, Fourteenth New Jersey and the rest of our brigade as usual, not only proudly led the Division at first by a good deal in...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 6

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The distance locally from where we crossed the Opequan to Winchester is called five miles; and to where we formed line of battle three mile...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 5

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The formation in front of the Nineteenth Corps which was our infantry right in the noon or first assault of the day was entirely different....
Friday, November 11, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, May 29, 1864

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Weather quite cool and comfortable; no fighting today; only twenty miles from Richmond —Hurrah! The negroes were much frightened when they ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, May 24, 1864

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The weather continues very warm, but thanks to the citizens along our line of march for their ice houses we are doing very well by helping ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Official Reports of the Advance of the Union Forces to the Line of the Rappahannock, Va., November 7-8, 1863: No. 17. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Right Column, of engagement at Rappahannock Station, with Congratulatory Orders.

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No. 17 Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Right Column, of engagement at Rappahannock Station, with congratulator...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick’s General Orders, No. 1, November 8, 1863

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 1. HDQRS. OF THE RIGHT COLUMN, November 8 , 1863 . The general commanding the Right Column congratulates the ...

Major-General George G. Meade’s General Orders, No. 101, November 9, 1863

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 101. HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, November 9 , 1863 . The commanding general congratulates the army upon the r...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Official Reports of the Battle of Gettysburg: No. 223. Reports of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps.

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No. 223. Reports of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps. HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS, Warrenton, Va...