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Showing posts with label Julia Junkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julia Junkin. Show all posts
Monday, June 22, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Thursday, June 16, 1864

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As after a storm has passed, we go out and look abroad to see the extent of the damage done, so now, having been swept with the besom of de...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: June 8, 1864

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I must continue to make some notes, as I have opportunity.   . . . Listened all night for the knock of the courier who was to return to Mr....
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 18, 1864

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Surely we have fallen upon evil times! Last night we received intelligence of the very severe battle at or near New Market, between Brecken...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 10, 1864

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The anniversary of Jackson's death. A flag sent from England was reared over his grave this morning with appropriate ceremonies. He is ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: January 23, 1864

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Wrote a letter which I mean to try to get through the lines to Julia. Weather mild and fine. SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan,  The Life ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: December 21, 1863

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Averill has escaped! To-day Mr. P. returned; also Eben: all are terribly chagrined at the escape of Averill. We hear thro' a dispatch f...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: December 18, 1863

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Went on the street to hear some news; found that a dispatch had been received, ordering a body of men to go on to Pattonsburg to burn down ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Tuesday, November 10, 1863

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Hear that there was fighting yesterday all day at Callihans, six miles west of Covington; that the Home Guard and cadets were being pushed ...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: June 25, 1863

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The joy of a note from Julia by Flag of Truce. Thank God! my beloved father and sister are well, and my other friends too. I wrote instante...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: March 24, 1863

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Wrote yesterday to my dear father by Flag of Truce; hope and pray I may succeed in getting a reply from him or Julia. SOURCE: Elizabeth...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: March 11, 1863

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Had a note yesterday from Gen. Jackson, promising to do all he could to get a letter I sent him for Sister Julia, across the lines. His not...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: January 23, 1863

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Wrote to Julia, and sent it by the Rev. B. T. Lacy, to General Jackson. SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan,  The Life and Letters of Margar...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: January 22, 1863

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. . . I sew all day, and am busy with housekeeping; never go out, scarcely; have not paid a visit anywhere for months. At night, after the ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: December 10, 1862

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Have had the extreme joy of receiving today a short note from my precious sister; the first I have had from her since August 21st, 1861, a ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 10, 1862

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Ground white with snow; no mails still: Mr. P. consents to postpone his going to the army, till there is a more decided change in George (a...