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Showing posts with label Elisha F Paxton. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2017

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, May 3, 1863

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MILFORD, May 3 , 1863 . President DAVIS: Yesterday General Jackson, with three of his divisions, penetrated to the rear of the enemy...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 4, 1863

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This morning early the tocsin sounded, and the din, kept up for several hours, intensified the alarm. The presence of the enemy would not h...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Saturday Night, May 9, 1863

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So much has happened since I last wrote in my diary, that I can scarcely collect my thoughts to give a plain detail of facts as they occurr...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Tuesday, May 12, 1863

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Last night I sat at this desk writing a letter to General Jackson, urging him to come up and stay with us, as soon as his wound would permi...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 5, 1863

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Today brings news of a terrible battle — but no particulars; only that General Frank Paxton is killed; Jackson and A. P. Hill wounded. Of t...
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