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Showing posts with label Ft Caswell. Show all posts
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 27, 1864

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A night of rain—morning of fog and gloom. At last we have an account of the evacuation of Savannah. Also of the beginning of the assault on ...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: May 31 – June 7, 1865

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We had calm and delightful weather. Were amused as persons on shipboard usually are. Off the entrance to Cape Fear we had some fishing. Saw ...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Gustavus V. Fox to Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont, June 3, 1862

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Private Navy Department             June 3d 1862  My Dear Flag Officer I have yours of the 25th May. I noticed in the papers the approach i...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 30, 1863

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There is a rumor that Kentucky has voted to raise an army of 60,000 men to resist the execution of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 17, 1863

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Gen. Lee has left the city. His troops, encamped thirty miles north of Richmond, marched northward last night. So it is his determination t...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Monday, April 15, 1861

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Up at dawn. Crossed by ferry to Portsmouth, and arrived at railway station, which was at no place in particular, in a street down which the...
Monday, June 17, 2013

From Fort Monroe

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HON. E. M. STANTON, Sec’y of War: The following appears in the Richmond Dispatch of the 28th:   The fearful state of suspense in which ...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

News From Dixie Via Fortress Monroe

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ARRIVAL OF UNION REFUGEES – CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS – DESTRUCTION OF REBEL GUNBOATS AND ARMY STORES – GREAT PANIC IN DIXIE – PICAYUNE BUTLER ...