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Showing posts with label Opequan Creek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opequan Creek. Show all posts
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: Monday, September 19, 1864

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Moved at 2 A. M. Slept with Houghton. Reached the Opequon about daylight, 2nd N. Y. charging. After this, constant charging till we drove a...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: September 18, 1864

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Sent regt. wagons loaded to Ferry. Preparations to move. 2nd Ohio made a reconnoissance, driving rebs across the Opequon. All Q. M.s ordere...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: August 31, 1864

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At daylight went on a reconnoissance towards Winchester. Found rebs and drove them to their main body on the Opequon. No one hurt. Very spi...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Lieutenant-Colonel James W. Forsyth to Brigadier-General John D. Stevenson, September 20, 1864 – 1 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,     Winchester, September 19 [20] , 1864 — 1 a.m. [Brigadier-General STEVENSON:] GENERAL: W...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 13

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“At the critical moment General Wright, who was for the day in command of the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps, though (as he says) ‘it was too e...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 11

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The following pertaining to Sheridan's battle of Winchester has been discovered since writing the foregoing. It will be answered in det...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 6

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The distance locally from where we crossed the Opequan to Winchester is called five miles; and to where we formed line of battle three mile...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 5

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The formation in front of the Nineteenth Corps which was our infantry right in the noon or first assault of the day was entirely different....
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 4

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About a half mile to the right or north of the pike and about two hundred and fifty yards in front of our line of battle before advancing, ...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 3

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After passing Sheridan about two hundred yards we arrived at the height of the land westerly from Opequan Creek where the Sixth and Ninetee...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 2

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Sheridan restlessly urged the men across a small ravine opposite where he sat, his eyes wandering occasionally everywhere over the large op...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 1

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We received orders at 10 o'clock last night to march at 2 o'clock this morning which we did. Daylight brought us up near Opequan Cr...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, September 15, 1864

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It was fair until 5 o'clock p. m. when it sprinkled slightly and prevented dress parade. We had battalion drill this forenoon and Compa...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 31, 1864

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Camp in the woods. Called up very early. Our regiment detailed for picket duty. We advance towards the west, near Smithfield and the Opequo...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 16, 1864

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November 16, 1864 They have made Sheridan a Major-General in the Regular Army. I think he deserves it for that remarkable battle of Ced...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Diary of Private Charles H. Lynch: December 10, 1863

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Left camp early this morning. Passed through Martinsburg, going east, bound for Charlestown. Weather good. After a march of about eight mil...