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Showing posts with label Fredericksburg VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fredericksburg VA. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 8, 1865

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Damp and foggy. We have no military news yet—9 A. M. President Lincoln's short inaugural message, or homily, or sermon, has been recei...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: May 10, 1865

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On the morning of the 10th we move towards Richmond. For some cause unknown we do not enter the city, but are ordered into camp three miles ...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, December 11, 1862

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Left camp at half-past six, and marched to Falmouth, and staid all night. The bombardment of Fredericksburg began at daybreak, and lasted ti...

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

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Started out at eight A.M. Crossed the river on a pontoon-bridge, marched through the city, and went into battery six hundred yards from the ...

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, December 15, 1862

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On picket at Fredericksburg all day. Started at half-past six P.M., marched to the upper part of the city, and went into battery, and threw ...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone: April 6, 1862

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the Sabath was a beautyfull spring day And I went to Fredericksburg to meating and the Preachers text was in the first Book of Kings 18 chap...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone, March 10, 1862

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cloudy and raining in the morning but no rain in the eavning And we arrived at camp Barton about 3 oclock in the eavning which is about 2 mi...

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone, March 23, 1862

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the Sabath was a beautyfull spring day and I went to Frederksburg to preaching And the preachers text was in St. John 3 chap and 18 virse ...

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone, March 29, 1862

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it raind and haild and snowed and sleated and friezed and done a little of all that was bad And me and James Colmond went to Fredreksburg an...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, June 14, 1863

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Camp near Fredericksburg, Va.,           June 14, 1863. The Yankees have all gone back on the other side of the river, and we have left ou...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, June 21, 1863

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Between Front Royal and Winchester, Va.           , June 21, 1863 . We are in the Valley of Virginia again and are now within ten miles of...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, December 4, 1862

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Camp near Fredericksburg, Va . ,           December 4, 1862. We traveled 175 miles from the Valley to this place in twelve days, and are n...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, December 24, 1862

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Camp near Fredericksburg, Va.,           December 24, 1862. The Yankees seem loath to make another advance since the good whipping we gave...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 19, 1863

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Left here at 5 this morning, got to Richmond at 8, and are stationed at Camp Lee. We will have to march to Fredericksburg. Our brigade is tr...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 16, 1865

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Five miles south of Fredericksburg, May 16, 1865. Our division and brigade in advance of corps to-day. Made 24 miles by 2 p. m. Fences all...

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 17, 1865

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Aquia Creek, Va., May 17, 1865. We passed over the whole line of Burnside's battle ground this morning. (It was no fight, only a Yanke...