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Showing posts with label
Long Roll
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Showing posts with label
Long Roll
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Diary of Private Seth J. Wells, December 21, 1862
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The long roll was beaten at 3 o'clock this morning. The company was formed and we marched down to our cotton fort where we lay until day...
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: August 20, 1861
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These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...
Friday, May 10, 2024
Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, September 6, 1861
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I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, September 15, 1861
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I am alone to-night, and tired enough to lie and sleep for twenty-four hours, did not the scenes around call up associations which banish re...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, November 12, 1862
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The camp at New Berne was aroused by the long-roll, by an attack at the bridge, where the pickets are posted. All our guard were called out....
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, October 30, 1862
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OUR FIRST MARCH. This morning, at four o'clock, we thought the Old Nick was to pay, but soon found it was only the long roll. It would...
Friday, March 1, 2024
Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, Tuesday, September 9, 1862
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About midnight, an officer of some sort rode into camp with some word that was the means of our being routed out by the "Long Roll,...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Private Daniel L. Ambrose: July 3, 1861
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An alarm to-night; "long roll" beaten; the men formed in line; no ammunition; considerable confusion; three rounds issued to the ...
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