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Showing posts with label Francis C Barlow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis C Barlow. Show all posts
Friday, December 15, 2017

Major-General George G. Meade to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 2, 1863 – 8 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 2 , 1863 — 8 p.m. (Received July 3 , 5 . 15 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, September 11, 1864 – 8 a.m.

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Ripon, Sunday, 8 A. M. (Sept. 11). A lovely morning after one of the most stormy nights I ever remember. Torrents of rain and continuo...

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Brigadier-General Francis C. Barlow, September 10, 1864

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Ripon, Va ., Sept. 10, '64. Take care of yourself, old fellow. Just get your mother to take you to some quiet place and make much o...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, August 4, 1863 – P. M.

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Washington, Aug. 4, P. M. With what you say about Negro Organization west of the Mississippi I entirely agree; it is a more aggressive...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 16, 1864

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August 16, 1864 I have been well content to get your letter this afternoon. In regard to what you say for the troops for the assault, 1...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 12, 1864

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July 12, 1864 I sent off a detail of fifty men at daylight to prepare the ground for the new camp, and at eight o'clock, the waggon...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 7, 1864

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July 7, 1864 I paid a visit to Brigadier-General Barlow, who, as the day was hot, was lying in his tent, neatly attired in his shirt an...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 13, 1864

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June 13, 1864 Last night, at dark, the whole army was in motion for "Charles City" on the James River (there is no "city...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 5, 1864

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June 5, 1864 This afternoon I carried a flag of truce — quite an episode in my military experiences. At three in the afternoon General ...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 3, 1864

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June 3, 1864 We had very severe fighting this morning, all along the lines. If you look on the map you may follow our lines. The line o...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 31, 1864

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May 31, 1864 Last night, what with writing to you and working over some maps of my own, I got to bed very late, and was up tolerably ea...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, Tuesday, May 17, 1864

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Our Headquarters were moved to the left, and back of the Anderson house. We rode, in the morning, over, and staid some time at the house, o...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 10, 1864

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May 10, 1864 [Tuesday] there was sharp fighting all along the line. General Mott's division of the 2d Corps was put on the left of ...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 20, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac Friday, May 20, 1864 To-day has been entirely quiet, our pickets deliberately exchanging papers, despite...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Henry Lee Jr., July 23, 1862

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Harrison's Landing , July 23, '62. I have no doubt I could get permission from the War Department to take a Massachusetts regim...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Review: Hell or Richmond

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Hell or Richmond   By Ralph Peters  In a series of battles between May 4 & June 24, 1864 the Army of the Potomac directed by Lieute...