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Showing posts with label Lynchburg VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynchburg VA. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone: June 11, 1862

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we left Chickahominy And went to Richmond and taken the cars and went to the Junction that night And the next morning we left thar And about...

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone: June 12, 1862

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we stade at Linchburg SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone,  The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,  p. 21
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, May 9, 1864

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About 10 a. m., the train having come back, we got on for Lynchburg. I had a flat car next to the engine, exposed to the sun, smoke and cind...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, March 5, 1865

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CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 5, 1865. DEAREST: — General Sheridan has got together all the four-footed beasts of this region and mounted hi...

Diary of Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, March 6, 1865

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Sheridan last Monday with a large cavalry force went towards Staunton, Charlottesville, and Lynchburg to destroy stores and connections with...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Shipp to Major-General Francis H. Smith, July 4, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 11, 1863

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A dispatch from Raleigh informs us of a mob yesterday in that city. Some soldiers broke into and partially destroyed the office of the Stan...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Sunday, April 9, 1865

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Revelie this morning on the drums which is the first time while we have been before Spanish fort. Soon as breakfast is over many of the men...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 22, 1864

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This morning prisoners began to show up. They were guarded from here to Harper's Ferry by a portion of our regiment, who relieved the c...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 13, 1864

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The “military situation” seems very much the same. Some cheering intimations from Georgia. Hood has made movements on Sherman's flank, ...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 19, 1862

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We await the issue before Richmond. It is still believed by many that it is the intention of the government and the generals to evacuate th...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 20, 1862

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Lynchburg. — Mr. —— and myself arrived here last night, after a most fatiguing trip, by Clarksville, Buffalo Springs, then to Wolfs Trap S...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 7, 1865

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Headquarters Army or The Potomac , April 7,1865. Though late at night, I seize the time to send you a few lines. I don't know when ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 3, 1865

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Headquarters Army Of The Potom ac, April 3, 1865. The telegraph will have conveyed to you, long before this reaches you, the joyful int...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: June 17, 1864

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A cornfield was a rough place to sleep for a night, and try to rest. Up early this morning. After a hasty feed, again on the march, along t...