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Showing posts with label Horatio G. Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horatio G. Wright. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, July 12, 1864

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The Rebels captured a train of cars on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Road, and have burnt the bridges over Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. It ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stanton, July 7, 1864—8 a.m.

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CITY POINT, VA ., July 7 , 1864 — 8 a.m.           (Received 6 p.m.) A change in the commander of the Army of the Potomac now seem...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Major-General William F. Smith to Senator Solomon Foot, July 30, 1864

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College Point, L. I., July 30, 1864. Hon. S. Foot: Dear Senator: — I am extremely anxious that my friends in my native State should no...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Major Thomas T. Eckert to Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, July 15, 1864—10 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15 , 1864 — 10 p.m. Brig. Gen. J. A. RAWLINS: We have no report from Wright since this morning, nor from the...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 16, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,                       Washington, July 16 , 1864 . General SHERMAN, Georgia, via Chattanooga: MY DEAR GE...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, July 14, 1864

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CITY POINT, VA., July 14 , 1864 . Major-General HALLECK, Washington, D.C.: It would seem from dispatches just received from Mr. Da...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, March 14, 1862

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Off St. Augustine 14 March 62 My Dear Sir All these reports are interesting. Do have them published, they encourage the officers mo...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Gustavus V. Fox to Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont, March 10, 1862

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Wabash off St. Johns   Florida—10 Mar. 62 My Dear Friend— After sending Mohican, Pocahontas and Potomska to Brunswick I sent the 6 ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Wednesday, October 19, 1864

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Firing again on picket. Turned out. At daylight heavy firing commenced on left with infantry. At 8 A. M. learned the infantry had fallen ba...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 12, 1862

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Headquarters,  U. S. Forces En Route To F. Monroe , July 12th, 1862. My dear Mother: When I wrote you a few hurried, peevish line...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, June 17, 1862

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James Island , June 17th, 1862. My dear Mother: Yesterday was for us a hard, cruel, memorable day, memorable for its folly and wicked...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to John Adams, June 17, 1862

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Headquarters 2d Division, James Island , June 17th, 1862. My dear Uncle: I write to impose a solemn duty upon you, which involves t...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, June 10, 1862

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Headquarters 2d Division, James Island, June 10th, 1862. My dear Mother: I saw a few moments ago a mail-bag walking off — hailed i...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Addenda No. 2.The Battle Of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. And The Status Of The Sixth Corps With Generals Grant And Sheridan.

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I was absent wounded in Vermont at the time of the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., and only know that my regiment fought desperately and lost h...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 13

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“At the critical moment General Wright, who was for the day in command of the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps, though (as he says) ‘it was too e...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, September 18, 1864

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It's cloudy with a gentle south breeze. We had company inspection at 9 o'clock this forenoon and monthly at 4 o'clock this afte...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 17, 1864

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Oh, such a horrid night's rest! Being near the mountains it was cold with a heavy dew, and I had nothing but a rubber poncho for cover,...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, June 29, 1864

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Very warm and dry again this morning. General H. G. Wright, our corps commander, had an inspection and review at 7 o'clock this morning...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, June 17, 1864

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We arrived at Point of Rocks at 1 o'clock a. m., marched about three miles, got coffee and joined our brigade in General B. F. Butler...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 26, 1862

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Beaufort, S. C. Jan. 26th, 1862. My dear Mother: Another Sunday has come around, time slips quietly by — still nothing striking ha...