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Showing posts with label Frederick MD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frederick MD. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 14, 1862

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Started at six A.M., and marched through Hyattstown to Frederick, Md. The railroads at Frederick are destroyed by the rebels. Fifteen miles....
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Wednesday, August 24, 1864

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A beautiful day, a little hazy. Forage issued. Boys sent to Frederick to look up brigade train. Fears of its capture. Train arrived. Boys c...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, October 19, 1862

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79th Regiment, Camp Israel,                        Pleasant Valley,         Oct. 19th, 1862. My dear Mother: It is some little ti...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, Monday, September 22, 1862

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Middletown , Monday, September 22, 1862. Dear Uncle : — I am still doing well. I am looking for Lucy. My only anxiety is lest she has t...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 12, 1862

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Entered Frederick amidst loud huzzahs and cheering — eight miles. Had a little skirmish getting in; a beautiful scene and a jolly time. ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: September 13, 1862

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Frederick, Maryland , September 13, 1862. Dear Uncle : — We retook “Old Frederick” yesterday evening. A fine town it is, and the magnif...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Morning, September 13, 1862

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Frederick, Maryland , September 13, 1862, A. M. Dearest : — Yesterday was an exciting but very happy day. We retook this fine town abou...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, July 8, 1864

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Two boat-loads of our Division landed last night at 11 o'clock. We took the cars at once for Frederick, Md., and arrived there at 10 o&...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: January 13, 1862

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cantonment Hicks , Near Frederick, January 13, 1861. “Si le combat est pr é vu, la troupe se met en grande tenue; elle doit cette polit...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, January 5, 1862

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cantonment Hicks , January 5, 1862, near Frederick. DEAR Mother , — The New Year is fairly open, yet my pen has been silent. I would ha...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 7, 1862

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We see by the Northern papers that Pope claimed a great victory over Lee and Jackson! It was too much even for the lying editors themselves...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: December 9, 1861

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Camp Hicks , December 9, 1861, near Frederick, Maryland. To sit in one's tent in the sunshine, and look out through the grove upon ...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: December 7, 1861

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Camp Hicks, Near Frederick , December 7, 1861. When I scribbled a hasty note to send by Colonel Andrews, I was looking grimly forward t...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, July 7, 1863

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Camp near Williamsport, Maryland, July 7th, 1863 Dear Papa, Since the 13th of June, inclusive, there has not been a day on which we...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, September 10, 1862

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Near Darnestown , September 10, 1862. I have time to write a word to say that I'm safe and well. We are on the move all the time an...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, December 16, 1861

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Camp Hicks, Md ., December 16, 1861. I walked into Frederick yesterday to do some business pertaining to the company and a little for m...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, December 8, 1861

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Camp Hicks, Near Frederick, Md., December 8, 1861. I take the opportunity of Captain Williams' going home to send a letter direct...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Major-General George B. McClellan to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, September 15, 1862 – 10 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Bolivar, Md., September 15 , 1862  –   10 a.m. (Received 1 . 20 p.m.)   Major-General HALLECK, ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Major-General George B. McClellan to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, September 11, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS, Camp near Rockville, Md., September 11 , 1862 . (Received 6 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in- Chief: ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 12, 1862

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CAMP NEAR POPLAR SPRING, MD., September 12, 1862. We are here as part of Hooker's (late McDowell's) corps, forming a portion of...