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Showing posts with label Locomotives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Locomotives. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 28, 1864

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The beautiful, pleasant weather continues. It is said Congress passed, last night, in secret session, the bill allowing increased compen...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Major-General Robert Patterson, April 29, 1861

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Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 29th, 1861 Maj. Gen. PATTERSON SIR: I wrote to you by Major Porter on the 27th, and also ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 31, 1863

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Governor Vance writes that large bodies of deserters in the western counties of North Carolina are organized, with arms, and threaten to ra...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, April 4, 1865 – 8 a.m.

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CITY POINT, VA., April 4 , 1865 — 8 a.m.* (Received 8 . 45 a.m.) Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: General Weitzel tel...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 15, 1863

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Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 15, 1863. I have just returned from a walk to and inspection of the cemetery belo...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Friday, April 14, 1865

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Spend a pleasant day, have a skiff ride, boys fishing a great deal, plenty of eels in the creek, the train gone in with 3 wounded of the 91...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, September 24, 1864

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This morning found us lying at Acworth, Georgia, having arrived at about 11 o'clock in the night. There is an engine off the track abou...