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Showing posts with label Milledge L Bonham. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 9, 1865

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Bright, frosty, beautiful, after a cold night. We have nothing more specific from the fight of Tuesday, when we learn another general was ki...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 21, 1864

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Wet, dark, and dismal. Quiet below. In Congress, Mr. Staples, of Virginia, unfortunately exhibited a statement obtained from the Bureau of...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Commissioners of the State of South Carolina to James Buchanan, December 9, 1860

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To His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States: In compliance with our statement to you yesterday, we now express to...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 26, 1863

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Letters were received to-day from Gens. Beauregard, Mercer, Whitney, and S. Jones. It appears that Beauregard has some 6000 men of all ...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1862 – 9 p.m.

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After a very cold day, it has become intensely frigid. I have two fires in our little Robin's Nest (frame) on the same floor, and yet i...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 25, 1862

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Gen. Bonham, of South Carolina, has also resigned, for being over-slaughed. His were the first troops that entered Virginia to meet the ene...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: July 19, 1861

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Beauregard telegraphed yesterday (they say, to General Johnston), “Come down and help us, or we shall be crushed by numbers.” The President...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Lieutenant William Brockenbrough Newton to Mary Page Newton, July 22, 1861

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Centreville , July 22,1861. My Dear —: — For the last four days we have never been longer than two hours in any one place, have slept ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

John McQueen et al to James Buchanan, December 9, 1860

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To His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States. In compliance with our statement to you yesterday, we now express to...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to Jefferson Davis, December 6, 1864

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AUGUSTA, GA., December 6 , 1864 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the Confederate States: SIR: Your letter of the 30...