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Showing posts with label John Echols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Echols. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1864

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Raining and cold. Horrible for the troops in the trenches ! The battle, yesterday (on this side of the river), was an attempt of Gen. Lee ...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Shipp to Major-General Francis H. Smith, July 4, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 9, 1863

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The President returned Saturday evening, looking pretty well. Yesterday, Sunday, he was under the necestity of reading a dispatch from Gen....
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 9, 1862

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W——1, another of Provost Marshal Griswold's policemen, has arrived in Washington. I never doubted he was secretly in the Yankee service...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 9, 1862

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It is too true that Charleston, Va., and the great Kanawha salt works have been abandoned by Gen. Echols for the want of an adequate force ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 30, 1862

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The Commissary-General is in hot water on account of some of his contracts, and a board of inquiry is to sit on him. The President has ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Monday, November 9, 1863

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We hear today that Echols has had a fight at Lewisburg with 8000 of the enemy, and been badly whipped — lost all his artillery, and many of...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 17, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, March 17, 1865. HON. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Sec. of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: A dispatch from Li...