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Showing posts with label Ft Butler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ft Butler. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: August 5, 1864

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Relieved Eighteenth Indiana, went home on the Iberville. Lieutenant Kerney and myself crossed the river early in the morning. Found Captain...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 29, 1863

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The [1st] Louisiana was again ordered to garrison Fort Butler. The twenty-eighth Maine having served out its time was discharged. General B...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 7, 1863

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This was the gloomest day to me I remember since the war begun. But it need not have been so, bad I known the true condition of affairs. As...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: June 28, 1863

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First Louisiana ordered to Donaldsonville. Went in wagons by way of Springfield Landing, 18 miles below Port Hudson, where we went on board...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: February 9, 1863

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This day will be remembered by the First Louisiana by the event of raising the flag on the new fort. It was now about completed. Six large ...
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