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Showing posts with label Dranesville VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dranesville VA. Show all posts
Monday, May 21, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, August 14, 1864

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Got into camp at noon. Lay all day near Dranesville. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney,  War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney , p. 127
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: October 28, 1861

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camp Near Seneca , October 28, 1861. I wish you could have looked in on our camp this morning. The stockings came last night. They wer...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 6, 1861

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It is rumored to-day, I know not on what authority, that the President mentioned the matter of the Drainsville disaster to the Secretary of...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 5, 1861

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The account of the Drainsville massacre was furnished me by an officer of the 6th S. C. Regiment, which suffered severely. The newspaper ac...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 4, 1861

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We are now tasting the bitter fruits of a too indulgent treatment of our enemies. Yesterday Gen. Stuart's cavalry and the 6th Regiment ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Official Report: Scout from Centreville to Aldie, Va., August 16-19, 1863: Report of Col. Charles R. Lowell, Jr., Second Massachusetts Cavalry.

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Report of Col. Charles R. Lowell, jr., Second Massachusetts Cavalry. CENTREVILLE, VA., August 20 , 1863 . COLONEL: Returned last...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: January 20, 1862

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Westwood, Hanover County . — I pass over the sad leave-taking of our kind friends in Clarke and Winchester. It was very sad, because we kne...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 10, 1862

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CAMP NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, May 10, 1862. The recent act of Congress in reference to command of troops is, I understand, construed by the...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 9, 1862

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., February 9, 1862. Is not the news from Tennessee glorious? l   It is very important in a strategical point of view...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 30, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 30, 1861. I intended yesterday (Sunday) to have written you a long letter, but just as I was getting ready...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 27, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 27, 1861. You have doubtless seen in the papers the enemy's account of the Dranesville fight. From the...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 22, 1861

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Sunday, December 22. We have nothing new since the Dranesville affair, of which the papers will give you a full account. It is said McC...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 21, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 21, 1861. It has been several days since I last wrote to you, owing to occupation, principally drilling m...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 8, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., Sunday, December 8, 1861. My last letter was written on Thursday evening. The next day I went, in command of my bri...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 5, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 5, 1861. Yesterday morning General McCall invited me to ride into town with him, he knowing I wished to go...