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Showing posts with label Malaria. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2025

Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, January 8, 1863

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We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood. We have one slough ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, September 29, 1863

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This morning the fallen soldier's comrades bury him in a lonely place. Thus is this land being dotted all over with the Union's nobl...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: January 18, 1864

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The order has arrived and we are under heavy marching orders for Yorktown, which is 30 miles distant and where, it is said, we shall probabl...
Friday, May 7, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: July 10, 1863

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WHISKEY RATIONS. This being an isolated post and several miles from any commissary or sutler, the officers feared it would be terribly inf...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 5, 1861

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The smart negro who waited on me this morning spoke English, I asked him if he knew how to read and write. — “We must not do that, sir.” “W...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: September 30, 1862

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At sunrise we were on the march for Camp Kearney. After we had marched about a mile Col Holcomb ordered me back to look after the convalesc...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: September 29, 1862

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Received marching orders, and at sunrise next morning we were on the march for Camp Kearney. After we had marched about a mile Col Holcomb ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: November 19, 1861

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Camp Near Seneca , November 19, 1861. By every rule of gratitude, after receiving father's long and cheerful letter this morning, t...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, May 27, 1862

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Camp Fourteen Miles From Richmond, May 27, 1862. My dear sister: I did not expect to write again till after reaching Richmond unles...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 14, 1864

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August 14, 1864 . . . General Parke got back from his sick leave and took command of the 9th Corps. He is a very pleasant-looking man a...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 30, 1864

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July 30, 1864 My spirits to-night are not very high; our project of attack, which in the beginning promised well, has not been a succes...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, May 23, 1863

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Camp E. Of Capitol , May 23, 1863. E. wrote me an account of your flag presentation and sent the speeches: I suppose the responsibility...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 29, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTH ALABAMA, Fort Gaines , April 29, 1865. My Dear Wife : Your very interesting and affectionate letter ...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith, April 9, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala. , April 9, 1865. I have this moment received news that Petersburg has falle...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 4, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala. , April 4 , 1865. My Dear Wife: As to Mobile, in my judgment, it is going...