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Showing posts with label Evacuation of Richmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evacuation of Richmond. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2025

Major General Godfrey Weitzel: To The People Of Virginia, April 11, 1865

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The undersigned, members of the Legislature of the State of Virginia, in connection with a number of the citizens of the State, whose names ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 2, 1865

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Bright and beautiful. The tocsin was sounded this morning at daybreak, and the militia ordered to the fortifications, to relieve some regime...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 4, 1865

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Another bright and beautiful day. I walked around the burnt district this morning. Some seven hundred houses, from Main Street to the cana...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 14, 1865

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Bright and cool. Gen. Weitzel and his corps having been ordered away, Major Gen. Ord has succeeded to the command at Richmond, and his cor...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, March 5, 1865

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CUMBERLAND, March 5, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— We are feeling a good deal of anxiety now to hear from our cavalry. General Sheridan with all the...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, April 5, 1865

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We get no particulars of the surrender of Richmond, of the losses and casualties, of the time and circumstances of the evacuation. On Sunday...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 3, 1865

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Five miles south of Cheraw, S. C., March 3, 1865. General Wood says we have made 24 miles to-day. Our whole corps on one road and hardly a...