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Showing posts with label Mount Vernon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount Vernon. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2025

Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Saturday, March 8, 1862

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The weather is now fine & the roads are drying up. Troops are coming into the City and crossing over the River. Rumors afloat of fightin...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 15, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— I was at Mount Vernon yesterday for the first time. Washington was a capital judge of fine...

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 15, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1866. MY DARLING:—I went to Mount Vernon yesterday. It is a beautiful spot. The extensive views of the Potoma...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Last Will and Testament of Martha Washington, March 4, 1802

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In the name of  GOD,  Amen. I MARTHA WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Fairfax, being of sound mind and capable of disposing o...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 19, 1865

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Near Alexandria, Va., May 19, 1865. Rained all night. Reveille at 2 p. m., and started off before daylight. Men waded two or three creeks ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, August 7, 1864

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Moved up the Potomac. Had a good view of Mt. Vernon. A beautiful location. Passed Fort Washington. Reached Giesboro about noon. Moved up to...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 20, 1861

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Col. J. A. Washington has been killed in a skirmish. He inherited Mount Vernon. This reminds me that Edward Everett is urging on the war ag...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Monday, April 2, 1861

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The following day I started early, and performed my pilgrimage to “the shrine of St. Washington,” at Mount Vernon, as a foreigner on board ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 12, 1861

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Have been looking at Mrs. O'Dowd as she burnished the “Meejor's arms” before Waterloo. And I have been busy, too. My husband has go...
Monday, October 21, 2013

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, December 25, 1861

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COOSAWHATCHIE, S. C, December 25, 1861. I cannot let this day of grateful rejoicing pass without some communion with you. I am thankful...