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Showing posts with label Discharges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discharges. Show all posts
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 23, 1866

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HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1866. Dear Brother: The political aspec...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 2, 1863—Evening

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March 2, Evening. John Quincy (Co. G) came and asked me today if I would “send up North” for a pair of spectacles for him, “for common eye...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, October 30, 1861

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L. V. Kennedy and Dr. Monroe Knight, having received an honorable discharge from the service on account of ill health, started home. We regr...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 2, 1865

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CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 2, 1865. DEAR UNCLE:— It is a rainy, dismal day. General Hancock is in command of this Department. Sheridan ha...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: April 28, 1863

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GOOD SENSIBLE TALK. I was out in the country yesterday, doing picket duty, and fell in with an old gentleman with whom I had a good sensib...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Diary of Private Louis Leon: October 1862

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This month passed off with nothing new, except Katz returned on the 7th, and Donau was discharged. We are still on our old camp. SOURCE: L...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: July 11, 1865

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In the morning read “ Christian's Mistake ” by Miss Muloch. A good story. In P. M. mail. Discharge came. Happy. Went to city. Saw Will ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: June 18, 1865

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Letter from Cousin Minnie, also from home. Have made application for about a dozen furloughs and sent as many men to hospital for examinati...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, January 22, 1865

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Storm continues. Some snow on the ground. Worked on shelters for horses out of pine brush. Bosworth and Robinson discharged. Ordered to wri...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Request of William C. H. Waddell, John J. Cisco, and Colonel A. Farnsworth, that Capt. William T. Lusk of the 79th Highlanders Be Granted Leave of Absence with a View of His Attaining Command of Col. Allen's Regiment, January 31, 1863

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New-York, Jan. 31st, 1863. Governor desires that General Sprague will reply to this note. *           *           *           *   ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 16, 1863

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Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., January 16, 1862. It commenced raining early the morning of the 14th and did not cease u...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 14, 1863

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The President called a special Cabinet council this morning at eleven. The course pursued by certain judges is, he says, defeating the draf...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: August 16, 1863

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After a breakfast of boiled corn, bread and bacon, boys went after horses and I, in company with Eggleston, started for Stanford. Several t...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, December 13, 1864

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Not quite so cold. Captain A. W. Chilton and Lieut. Wheeler came off picket this morning; no orders to put up quarters; wonder if some of ...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday Evening, December 21, 1862

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Log Cabin Camp , December 21, 1862. Sunday evening. Dearest : — Dr. Jim got his proper resignation papers today and will leave in the ...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: July 12, 1865

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Discharged on account of expiration of term of service. Got discharge papers made out, and regiment disbanded on the 17th. Got my pay on th...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Sunday, April 30, 1865

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Inspection & Muster at 7. A. M. Major Boydston is appointed Provost Marshal on Genl Bentons staff, in place of Lt Col Smith 35" Wi...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 29, 1863

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The [1st] Louisiana was again ordered to garrison Fort Butler. The twenty-eighth Maine having served out its time was discharged. General B...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: July 6, 1865

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Returned to Hartford to receive our final discharge. Waiting. Reported we must pass one more night in camp. We won't mind a little thin...

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: July 7, 1865

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Up early this morning. Waiting for our turn to come for our pay and discharge. The Eighteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, disb...