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Showing posts with label Newport News VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newport News VA. Show all posts
Friday, November 1, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: November 15, 1862

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WE are nearly out of sight of land. Wild ducks and geese cover the water. The sun is just coming up, and seems to me I never saw such a love...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, Late February 1862

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During the latter part of February we were ordered with the Fourteenth Virginia Infantry to fall back to the left flank of Mulberry Island, ...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, July 1, 1861

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Changed our position to Young's Mill, a strong position nine miles from Newport News. Throwing up breastworks, reënforced by four piec...

Diary of Private William S. White, July 5, 1861

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THE "DREUX SKIRMISH." It pains me no litle to write the following account of this sad affair, but it was my intention when I fir...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Julia Gardiner Tyler to Julianna MacLachlan Gardiner, May 7, 1861

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SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., May 7, 1861. MY DEAR MAMMA: Mr. Clopton goes to Richmond in the morning (by land), and it is a good opportunity to w...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, February 15, 1863

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We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Diary of Musician David Lane, February 28, 1863

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Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

Diary of Musician David Lane, March 27, 1863

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Louisville, Ky. We did not go to Suffolk as I anticipated. Third Division went in our stead, while we took another direction, and in eight d...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, June 29, 1861

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Arrived at camp early next morning, and found our entire force had moved in the direction of Hampton. The rain was still falling without int...

Diary of Private William S. White, June 30, 1861

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Our troops are nearly "used up" on this march, as it has been raining the whole time. At one time we were in sight of the enemy...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 14, 1861

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At six o'clock this morning the steamer arrived at the wharf under the walls of Fortress Monroe, which presented a very different appea...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, June 24, 1861

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[Washington , June 24, 1861.] Success attends me everywhere. I left Saturday P.M. for Fortress Monroe. Mr. Blair gave me a letter of in...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Major-General John A. Dix to Abraham Lincoln, March 7, 1863

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Head Quarters Department of Virginia Seventh Army Corps Fort Monroe, Va. Mch. 7th 1863 Sir: I am extremely unwilling to trouble y...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 5, 1862

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Headquarters Stevens' Div. 9th Army Corps, Steamer “elm City,” Aug. 5th, 1862. My dear Mother: Here we are at length at Acqu...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, Fort Monroe, May 24 , 1861 . Lieutenant-General WINFIELD SCOTT: I have the honor to report my ...

Official Reports: Expedition to and Occupation of Newport News, Va., May 27-29, 1861

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Reports of Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler, U . S. Army, Commanding Department of Virginia. Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-Genera...