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Showing posts with label Earthworks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earthworks. Show all posts
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, May 5, 1863

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In the afternoon, at five o'clock, it began to rain. Threw up earthworks for our guns. Started at night, and recrossed the river at Unit...

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, May 29, 1863

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Started from camp at Potomac Creek at six A.M., marched to the Rappahannock, and went into position at United States Ford. The rebel earthwo...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Diary of Private Seth J. Wells, December 18, 1862

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We arrived at the Tallahatchie Bottoms about noon. Bissell's engineer regiment is encamped here. It has just finished the railroad bridg...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, December 15, 1862

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On picket at Fredericksburg all day. Started at half-past six P.M., marched to the upper part of the city, and went into battery, and threw ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, September 7, 1861

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On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 20, 1863

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March 20. The enemy left us undisturbed during the night and I believe their chance has vanished with the rising of this morning's sun...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 4, 1864

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Foggy; then bright; then very warm. Gen. Lee is at Chaffin's Bluff. A dispatch from him this morning states that the enemy's infan...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864-January 23, 1865: No. 220. — Report of Lieut. Col. Alfred Reed, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, of operations December 7, 1864.

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No. 220. Report of Lieut. Col. Alfred Reed, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, of operations December 7, 1864. HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH INDIANA CAVALRY,  ...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 168. Report of Lieut. Thomas J. Ginn, Third Battery Indiana Light Artillery, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

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No. 168. Report of Lieut. Thomas J. Ginn, Third Battery Indiana Light Artillery, of operations December 15-16, 1864. HEADQUART...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 154. Report of Lieut. Col. John H. Stibbs, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

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No. 154. Report of Lieut. Col. John H. Stibbs, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864. HDQRS. TWELFTH IOWA VET...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 150. Report of Maj. Modesta J. Green, Eleventh Missouri Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

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No. 150. Report of Maj. Modesta J. Green, Eleventh Missouri Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864. HDQRS. ELEVENTH MISSO...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 146. Report of Capt. Edwin C. Sanders, Tenth Minnesota Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

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No. 146. Report of Capt. Edwin C. Sanders, Tenth Minnesota Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864. HDQRS. TENTH MINNESOTA I...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 140. Report of Maj. David G. Bowers, Fifth Tennessee infantry, of operations November 22-30, 1864.

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No. 140. Report of Maj. David G. Bowers, Fifth Tennessee infantry, of operations November 22-30, 1864. HDQRS. FIFTH REGT. EAST TE...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 132. Report of Capt. Jacob Miller, Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864.

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No. 132. Report of Capt. Jacob Miller, Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864. HDQRS. SIXTEENTH KENTUCKY...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 103. Report of Col. Cicero Maxwell, Twenty-sixth Kentucky Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864

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No. 103. Report of Col. Cicero Maxwell, Twenty-sixth Kentucky Infantry, of operations December 15-16, 1864. CAMP TWENTY-SIXTH KENTU...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 3, 1861

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Up early, breakfasted at five, A. M., and left my hospitable host's roof, on my way to Washington. The ferryboat, which is a long way o...
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 ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 6, 1862

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Washington City , September 6, 1862. Dear Uncle : — We left Upton's Hill and its earthworks to be guarded by less serviceable troop...
Monday, May 8, 2017

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: October 27, 1861

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Bird's Point , October 27, 1861. I haven't written for a full week because I really had nothing to write and in fact I have not...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, March 28, 1865

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Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder ...