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Showing posts with label Ft Delaware. Show all posts
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, March 20, 1865

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A great joy has come to me this day, an unlooked-for, an inexpressible joy! A card was brought to me, and I took it with a sigh, because so ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 21, 1864

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I heard to-day that my brother Morris was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Pa. I asked for a parole to-day to go and see my parents in New York,...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, September 1, 1863

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Camp near Orange Court House, Va., September 1, 1863 . We still remain quiet in our old camp, with no sign of an enemy anywhere. I see no ...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 28, 1863

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Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 28, 1863. There was a cavalry fight across the river yesterday, and I am told th...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 20, 1865

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Stanton informed me this P.M. that Halleck had gone from Richmond to Fortress Monroe and he wished certain persons, whom he named, should be...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 14, 1863

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Some skirmishing between Chattanooga and Knoxville. From prisoners we learn that the enemy at both those places are on half rations, and th...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1863

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We have a rumor to-day that Meade is sending heavy masses of troops to the West to extricate Rosecrans, and that Gen. Hooker is to menace R...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Lieutenant-Colonel William T. Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 17, 1863

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Headquarters Del. Dept., Wilmington, Del. , Aug. 17th, 1863. My dear Mother: The month is rapidly passing away, and I am awaiting i...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 8, 1863

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We have nothing further from Charleston, to-day, except that the enemy is not yet in possession of Sumter. Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 11, 1865

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Every thing seems unchanging in the outer world during the few past days. We were most delightfully surprised last night. While sitting qui...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Major-General John A. Dix to Major-General George B. McClellan, September 5, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., September 5 , 1861 . Maj. Gen. G. B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Army of the Potom...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 19, 1863

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When shall we recover from this fatal trip into Pennsylvania? General Pettigrew, of North Carolina, fell on the retreat, at a little skirmi...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: July 4, 1862

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A beautiful, glorious day, and one which the Yankees expected confidently to spend triumphantly in Richmond. Last Fourth of July old Genera...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 22, 1862

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Dr. T. called to-day, to say that the firing we heard on Friday was from our guns shelling the enemy, to drive them lower down the Chickaho...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: July 22, 1862

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Yesterday, while we sat at dinner, who should step into the dining room but Frank Preston! Poor fellow! it was a piteous thing to see him w...