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Showing posts with label Mechanicsville VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mechanicsville VA. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2026

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Wednesday, May 28, 1862

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The Second corps marched four miles this morning, to support Fitz John Porter's corps, near Mechanicsville. Went in line of battle near ...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Diary of Private William S. White, July 6, 1862

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Having a day's leave granted me I saddled my horse and wended my way towards the devastated fields of old Hanover; passed through Mechan...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, May 28, 1864

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In consequence of the damp nights I cough badly. Nights are cool, compared with the heat of the day, the sun being terrible, in consequence ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Charlotte Cross Wigfall to Louise Wigfall, Friday Night, June 27, 1862

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Friday night, 27th. Yesterday afternoon I took a drive with Halsey and as soon as we got on Church Hill we heard the cannon and it seem...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, June 1, 1864 – 6 p.m.

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , 6 P. M., June 1, 1864. We are pegging away here, and gradually getting nearer and nearer to Richmond...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 18, 1862

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CAMP NEAR “NEW BRIDGE,” June 18, 1862. Late last night orders came for our division to march at early daylight this morning, which we d...