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Showing posts with label John B Gordon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John B Gordon. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 27, 1865

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Bright, calm, but cold,—my disorder keeping me at home. The dispatch of Gen. Lee, I fear, indicates that our late attempt to break the ene...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 31, 1865

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Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 25, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS,           March 25 , 1865 . At daylight this morning General Gordon assaulted and carried enemy's works at Hare's H...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

General Robert E. Lee to Samuel Cooper, February 6, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           February 6 , 1865 . The enemy moved in strong force yesterday to Hatcher's Run. Part...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 5, 1864

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Moved this morning, feeling for the enemy, and came up to them at noon, five miles from the Run, in the Wilderness. It certainly is a wilder...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 2, 1865

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  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 8, 1865

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Petersburg, Va., May 8, 1865. I'll take back all I ever said against the Potomac Army. I have been down to Fort Steadman to-day and tr...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

United States Military Installations Named For Confederate General

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Military Installation Named For Fort A. P. Hill Ambrose Powell Hill Camp Beauregard ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Brigadier-General John D. Stevenson to Edwin M. Stanton, September 20, 1864 – 11:40 a.m.

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HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., September 20, 1864 — 11.40 a.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Just received the following offi...

Lieutenant-Colonel James W. Forsyth to Brigadier-General John D. Stevenson, September 20, 1864 – 1 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,     Winchester, September 19 [20] , 1864 — 1 a.m. [Brigadier-General STEVENSON:] GENERAL: W...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 – 1:30 p.m.

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CITY POINT, VA., March 25 , 1865 — 1 . 30 p.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: The following dispatch of General Parke is ...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 9, 1864

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We left Frederick under the cover of darkness last night, and after marching a round-about way which took nearly all night, brought up at F...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Charlotte Cross Wigfall to Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall, June 27, 1863

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orange C. H ., June 27th, 1863. . . . I was very glad to get your note of the 18th June, and only wish I knew where you were now. We ar...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Robert Gould Shaw to Francis G. Shaw, September 21, 1862

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maryland Heights , September 21, 1862. Dear Father, — . . . We left Frederick on the 14th instant, marched that day and the next to Boo...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Robert Gould Shaw to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, August 12, 1862

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near Culpepeb Court-house, Virginia , August 12, 1862. Dearest Mother , — . . . I was in different parts of the field with General Gord...
Friday, May 9, 2014

General Robert E. Lee, April 2, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 2 , 1865 . Generals Longstreet's and Hill's corps will cross the pontoon bridge...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Review: Hell or Richmond

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Hell or Richmond   By Ralph Peters  In a series of battles between May 4 & June 24, 1864 the Army of the Potomac directed by Lieute...