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Showing posts with label Malvern Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malvern Hill. Show all posts
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 *           *           *           *           *     ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 16, 1862

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Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 16th, 1862. My dear Mother: Back again once more in the old camp, sound as a dollar. Would that 10,000...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Diary of John Hay: September 9, 1863

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Dined with Wise.   Met Hooker, Butterfield and Fox. Hooker was in fine flow. Before dinner we talked about Halleck and his connection with ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 1, 1862

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To-day Gen. Magruder led his division into action at Malvern Hill, it is said, contrary to the judgment of other commanders. The enemy'...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 2, 1862

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More fighting to-day. The enemy, although their batteries were successfully defended last night at Malvern Hill, abandoned many guns after ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Jefferson Davis to Louis T. Wigfall, October 11, 1862

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executive Mansion, richmond, Va., Oct. 11, 1862. genl. L. T. Wigfall, My dear Sir: It has been suggested to me that you thoug...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to John A. Andrew, December 5, 1862

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Washington, D. C , December 5, 1862. To his Excellency, John A. Andrew, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor:...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to Governor William Sprague, August 23, 1862

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Headquarters Sedgwick's Division, Near Newport News , August 23, 1862. Governor: Understanding that you propose to recommend Co...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Official Reports of the Seven-Days’ Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862: No. 24 - Report of Brig. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Second Division, of engagement at Peach Orchard, or Allen's Farm, and battles of Savage Station, Glendale, or Nelson's Farm (Frazier's Farm), and Malvern Hill.

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No. 24 Report of Brig. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, commanding Second Division, of engagement at Peach Orchard, or Allen's Farm, ...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 27, 1862

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We went in a body (half a dozen ladies, with no man on escort duty, for they are all in the army) to a concert. Mrs. Pickens came in. She w...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Charles Lawrence Peirson

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Charles Lawrence Peirson. who died at Boston, Jan. 23, 1920, was born in Salem, Jan. 15, 1834, the son of Dr. Abel Lawrence Peirson and Har...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Thursday August 7, 1862

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Very little accomplished as yet, though much, I hope, in the train of accomplishment. Engaged nearly all day on selections for recommendati...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 16, 1864

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June 16, 1864 At four in the morning they began to ferry over the 5th Corps; of this, two divisions were loaded from Wilcox's wharf...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, August 9, 1862

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Aug. 9, 1862. I was very glad to get your letters of Friday and Saturday, with photograph of Jimmy, all safe: it is a great thing to ha...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Malvern Hill Re-occupied By The Federals

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The special correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, telegraphs that paper from Richmond that the Federals had succeeded in wresting Malv...