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Showing posts with label Manassas Junction VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manassas Junction VA. Show all posts
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 24, 1861

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The news from Manassas Junction is a little more cheering, and all feel better to-day. We have now a force of about four thousand men in t...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Sunday, July 21, 1861

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Battle of Manassas Plains. This battle will always occupy a prominent place in the memory of every man of the battery. They all expected to ...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, September 3, 1862

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Ox Hill, Va.,           September 3, 1862. I was in the battle at Manassas and made several very narrow escapes. I had to go on the field ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862

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Washington, April 9. 1862 Major-General McClellan. My Dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, August 30, 1862

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Camp near Upton's Hill, near Falls Church, on road to Manassas. — All or nearly all day we have heard cannon firing, as is supposed, i...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 7, 1861

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The Confederate issue of ten millions sterling, in bonds payable in twenty years is not sufficient to meet the demands of Government; and t...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

William T. Walters to Frances Halsey Cross, July 9, 1861

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balto ., 9th July, 1861. mrs. Frances M. Cross. Dear Madam: I have this moment received your letter dated yesterday and have just...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, October 9, 1863

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Fairfax , Oct. 9, 1863. I saw that paragraph in the “Herald,” — it is not true. I had orders from Heintzelman to clear out the whole co...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 23, 1863

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Centreville , July 23, 1863. People used to tell me, when I was at Cambridge, that those were to be the happiest years of my life. Peop...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, September 1, 1862

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We were engaged with the enemy at and near Manassas Junction Tuesday and Wednesday, and again near the battle-field of Manassas on Thursday...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Abraham Lincoln’s Special War Order, No. 1, January 31, 1862

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PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL WAR ORDER, No. 1 EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ashington, January 31, 1862. Ordered, That all the disposable force...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major General George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862

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WASHINGTON, April 9 , 1862 . Major General McClellan. My dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly susta...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Bayard Taylor on the Rebel Works at Centerville and Gen. McClellan

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(From Bayard Taylor’s Letter to the N. Y. Tribune.) I am not a military man, you know.   I could be easily puzzled by a dexterous use ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Washington Items

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WASHINGTON, March 11. – Dispatches from Fortress Monroe report all quite at that point. No further intelligence obtained about the Mer...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Special to New York Papers

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(Special to Post.) WASHINGTON, May 29 – The Intelligencer of this city states that Gen. McDowell is now at Manassas Junction with a suffici...