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Showing posts with label Lew Wallace. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 19, 1864

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A steady, gentle rain from 8 A.M. till 4 P.M. A dispatch from Gen. Hood, who relieves Gen. Johnston, was received to-day. It was in cipher...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, July 11, 1864

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The Rebels are upon us. Having visited upper Maryland, they are turning their attention hitherward. General Wallace has been defeated, and ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to Charles Francis Adams Sr., August 5, 1864

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H.Q. Cav’y Escort, A. of P.                 Before Petersburg, August 5 , 1864 *           *           *           *           *     ...

Abraham Lincoln to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 10, 1864 — 2:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, July 10 , 1864 — 2 . 30 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Your dispatch to General Halleck referring to what I may think i...
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...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, July 8, 1864

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Two boat-loads of our Division landed last night at 11 o'clock. We took the cars at once for Frederick, Md., and arrived there at 10 o...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: April 10, 1862

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A. M. Ground whitened with snow; still threatening bad weather. 3. P. M. Captain Haven, Company G, and Lieutenant Bacon, Company K, ...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 4, 1864

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Fine morning. Had an early swim in the good clean waters of the Monocacy River. Later hunted up some bait, sat under a large tree to try my...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, July 11, 1864

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Tenallytown , July 11, 1864. There is no end of confusion out here, and very little known of the enemy. I took over our 1st squadron, w...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 6, 1864

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July 6, 1864 We have no rain here — never expect any; air hazy with a faint dust, finer than twice volted flour, which settles on ever...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 29, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , July 29, 1864. Your letters of the 24th and 27th arrived this evening. They are written in very bad ...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 12, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , July 12,1864. I received to-night your letter of the 10th, and am glad to see you are not excited ab...
Friday, March 14, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 26, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, June 26, 1864. HIS EXCELLENCY JEFFERSON DAVIS, President Confederate States. MR. PRESIDENT: ...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Major General Henry W. Halleck's Special Field Orders, No. 35

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 35. HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 30 , 1862 . I. Major-General Thomas...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, June 6, 1862

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Camp at Chewalla, 10 miles N. West of Corinth   daylight, June 6, 1862. . . . I get nearly all or all the papers here somehow or othe...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Army Correspondence

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CAMP 3D OHIO CAVALRY, WOOD’S DIVISION, BUELL’S ARMY; May 2. EDITOR GAZETTE:   It is now ten days since Pope’s army disembarked at Ham...