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Showing posts with label Front Royal VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Front Royal VA. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 23, 1863

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Left at 5 this morning, went through Front Royal—seventeen miles to-day. Waded the south and north prongs of the Shenandoah River. We then t...

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 24, 1863

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Marched two miles up Chester Gap, when we were about faced and marched through Front Royal again. We here took the Strasburg road at dayligh...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 12, 1863

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Left at 5 A.M., marched over part of the Blue Ridge, and crossed the head of the Rappahannock River-eighteen miles to-day. We marched throug...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Major-General Philip H. Sheridan to Lieutenant-General Ulysses. S. Grant, August 17, 1864—9 p.m.

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BERRYVILLE, VA ., August 17 , 1864 — 9 p.m. Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: All your dispatches h...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Mosby to General Robert E. Lee, October 29, 1864

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NEAR MIDDLEBURG, October 29 , 1864 . General R. E. LEE, Commanding Army of Northern Virginia: GENERAL: I desire to bring through y...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: September 20, 1864

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Followed up, picking up stragglers. Halted near Front Royal. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney,  War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney , p. ...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John C. Frémont, May 24, 1862 – 9:45 a.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 9 . 45 a.m. Major-General FR é MONT,   Franklin: Yesterday the enemy attacked and drove Banks'...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, August 16, 1864

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Such trifling! I'm tired of it! Must be we are waiting for something — aren't ready. I am glad to lay quiet, but such suspense keep...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Journal of Major Wilder Dwight: Noon, Sunday, June 1, 1862

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We have been listening two hours to the sound of cannon in the direction of Strasburg or Front Royal. A report comes in, that Milroy camped...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, June 21, 1863

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We got the horse shod with some delay, and after refreshing the animals with corn and ourselves with bacon, we effected a'start at 8.15...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, June 24, 1862

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Camp At Nineveh, Near Front Royal, June 24, 1862. I don't think I have ever mentioned in any of my letters anything about the Thi...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, May 29, 1862

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May 29, 1862. I am going to start to give you a detailed account of what has transpired during the last week; whether I shall be interr...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, October 16, 1864

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Cedar Creek , Oct. 16, 1864. We started all right last evening and marched till 1 A. M., camped at Front Royal till 5.30 A. M. and were...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 26, 1863

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Warrenton, Va ., July 26, 1863. I think my last letter to you was about the 21st or 22d, when I was embarrassed at not ascertaining an...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, May 26, 1862

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My precious darling, an ever-kind Providence blest us with success at Front Royal on Friday, between Strasburg and Winchester on Saturday, ...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, May 25, 1862 – 8:30 p.m.

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(Send in Cypher). War Department Washington City, D.C. May 25. 1862 8½ P.M. Major Gen. McClellan Your despatch received. Banks w...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major General John C. Fremont, June 15, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., June 15 , 1862 .   Major-General FREMONT: MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 12th, by Colone...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 6, 1862

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CAMP OPPOSITE FREDERICKSBURG, June 6, 1862. You will see that Jackson has escaped up the Valley of the Shenandoah, in spite of the vari...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 31, 1862

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CAMP OPPOSITE FREDERICKSBURG, May 31, 1862. Yesterday General McDowell (who has gone after the enemy who drove Banks back) telegraphed ...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

From Fremont’s Army

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STRASBURG, May 16. Yesterday morning a band of guerillas made a dash on the railroad beyond Front Royal, and killed one man and took fo...