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Saturday, September 16, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 29, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 29 , 1861 . SIR : The expedition to Newport News, of which I spoke in my last, eight miles f...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, January 3, 1863

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We have, yesterday and to-day, broken accounts of a great fight for three days — and not yet terminated — at Murfreesborough, Tennessee. Al...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Sunday, April 14, 1861

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A night of disturbed sleep, owing to the ponderous thumping of the walking beam close to my head, the whizzing of steam, and the roaring of...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Shelling of Sewall’s Point

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BALTIMORE, May 9. The special correspondent of the American sends the following relative to affairs in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

The Scene Of The Late Naval Fight

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There is talk about blocking up the entrance to Norfolk with a stone fleet, which can be easily done, as the channel is narrow, and so ren...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Fight in Hampton Roads

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In giving place to all the details which have yet reached us of the Naval combat in Hampton Roads on Saturday and the following night, whi...
Friday, October 21, 2011

FORT MONROE, Feb. 5 [1862].

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The Constitution which sailed yesterday, A. M., for Ship Island spoke the gun boat Maine about 40 miles north of Hatteras last night, in a s...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

What one of the Merrimac’s Crew says of her Fight with the Monitor

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From the New York Herald, 19 th . James Thompson a sailor by vocation, a citizen of Massachusetts, and formerly a resident of this city, ar...