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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, August 30, 1861

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It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

John Tyler to Julia Gardiner Tyler, April 18, 1861

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RICHMOND, April 17, 1 1861. Well, my dearest one, Virginia has severed her connection with the Northern hive of abolitionists, and takes...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, July 31, 1861

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On the 19th of June, 1861, the 5th Regiment of Wisconsin Vols., being partially organized, went into camp at Madison, Wis. Here it remained ...

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, August 12, 1861

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Sixteen of my sick have so far recovered that I sent them to-day to join their regiment at Kalorama Heights, near Washington. I have quite r...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, Sunday, January 24, 1863

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Our faces were considerably elongated this morning by the report that John Bland, of our company, was taking the small-pox. As John circulat...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 6, 1863

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We have had no excitement since we left Vicksburg. Nothing has transpired here to cause a "yell" even. We have lived out the allot...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 8, 1863

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Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, November 25, 1861

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It was now very cold, and the ground was frozen hard all day, in consequence of which our wagon train did not get as far as Jamestown. In pl...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, November 8, 1861

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In the saddle early that morning, our battalion arrived at Jacksborough late in the afternoon (about twenty-two miles). Zollicoffer had left...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Brigadier-General Lloyd Tilghman to Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall, October 29, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS CAMP, ALCORN,           Hopkinsville, Ky., October 29, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, &c....
Monday, May 30, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, October 2, 1861

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Several of Allison's Company who had been home returned to camp, brother Will (W. C. Hancock) and J. C. McAdoo, who were sick of the mea...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Thursday, August 15, 1861

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Seventy-five of our battalions set out from Camp Schuyler to go to Knoxville, about forty miles east, with some prisoners. They returned the...

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, September 2, 1861

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 Passing down Cumberland Mountain, the three companies bivouacked at Camp McGinnis, on Wolf River, some ten miles north of Jamestown. As I...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 2, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Walnut Hill, June 2, 1863. Major-General GRANT,           Present: DEAR GENERAL: I would most...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: December 1862

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Hon. William H. Lamport went down to Virginia to see his son and found that he had just died in the hospital from measles and pneumonia. The...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 179. Report of Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Provisional Division, of operations November 29, 1864--January 13, 1865.

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No. 179. Report of Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Provisional Division, of operations November 29, 1864—January 13,...