Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Hatcher's Run. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hatcher's Run. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, December 10, 1864

›
PETERSBURG, December 10, 1864. About noon yesterday the First Division of Second Corps of enemy, supporting their cavalry, forced back ou...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 12, 1864

›
Clear and cold. Ice half an inch thick. Gen. Longstreet is again in the old lines on this side of the river. The reconnoissance, however, ...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, April 2, 1865

›
A telegram from the President this morning to the War Department states that a furious fight is going on. Sheridan has got west of Petersbur...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: February 16, 1865

›
LINCOLNTON, N. C., February 16, 1865 . A change has come o'er the spirit of my dream. Dear old quire of yellow, coarse, Confedera...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 10, 1864

›
December 10, 1864 Miles, with the troops which had been sent to reinforce him, maintained a threatening attitude near Hatcher's Ru...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 9, 1864

›
Miles's division of the 2d Corps was sent to aid the cavalry in forcing Hatcher's Run. They marched out early and found several reg...