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Showing posts with label John S Mosby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John S Mosby. Show all posts
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 18, 1864

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Cloudy and cool. Quiet below, but it is rumored that the enemy has erected one or two sand batteries, mounted with 400-pounders, bearing o...

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, October 16, 1864

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CHAFFIN'S BLUFF, October 16 , 1864 . On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Duffield's; dest...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 27, 1864

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Bright and pleasant. We have rumors of heavy fighting yesterday near Staunton, but no authentic accounts. A dispatch from Gen. R. Taylor...

Official Reports: Skirmish near Greenwich, Va., March 9, 1864— Report of Major George F. McCabe, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.

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Report of Maj. George F. McCabe, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. HDQRS. DETACHMENT 13TH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY,           March 10, 1864. L...

Official Reports: Skirmishes near Charlestown and at Kabletown, W. Va., March 10, 1864 No. 3.—Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1.

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No. 3. Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1. SEPTEMBER 11, 1864. COLON...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 21, 1865

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NEW CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA, April 21, 1865. DEAR UNCLE:—I am amused by your anxiety about General Hayes being relieved. “Tardiness” in the p...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Wednesday, November 2, 1864

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CAMP AT CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 2, 1864. MY DARLING: — We get trains through from Martinsburg regularly once in four days. We retu...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, October 14, 1864

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I had five killed and six wounded by the Rebel battery yesterday. Colonel Brown, Thirteenth, went out and established a picket line easily. ...

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, October 15, 1864

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Rebels still in front. Election said to be favorable. Captain Hastings I fear is worse. Mosby captures a railroad train. General Angus gets ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 18, 1864

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A flag of truce boat came up, but no one on board was authorized to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners but Gen. Butler, outlawed. It re...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, August 16, 1864—1:30 p.m.

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CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Mosby to General Robert E. Lee, October 29, 1864

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NEAR MIDDLEBURG, October 29 , 1864 . General R. E. LEE, Commanding Army of Northern Virginia: GENERAL: I desire to bring through y...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock, April 19, 1865 — 5:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, April 19 , 1865  —  5 . 30 p.m.   Major-General HANCOCK,   Winchester, Va.: If Mosby does not avail himself of the pres...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, August 15, 1864

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Have remained quietly in camp to-day; skirmishing and artillery firing along the line this afternoon; warm, but cooler than yesterday; army...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 7, 1864

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Rainy, cold and disagreeable weather. Henry Stimson, a fellow who was captured with me, was carried out dead this morning He was diseased w...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, July 18, 1864

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Marched at 4 o'clock a. m., passed through Snickersville on a narrow stony road, and arrived at Snicker's Gap about noon. We went t...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: October 30, 1864

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At Harper's Ferry with the prisoners, having been on duty all night. Had a great time talking to the rebs over past experiences. Met on...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: October 26, 1864

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All quiet up to early this morning, before daylight, when the long roll sounded out calling us out under arms. It makes much excitement in ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: October 13, 1864

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The long roll called us up very early, before daylight. We turned out on double-quick time leaving camp on the run, out on the Winchester P...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 30, 1864

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At Harper's Ferry with the prisoners, having been on duty all night. Had a great time talking to the rebs over past experiences. Met on...