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Showing posts with label Philip Kearny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Kearny. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

1st Lieutenant William T. Sherman to Mary Elizabeth Sherman Reese, November 10, 1846

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UNITED STATES SHIP LEXINGTON AT SEA,           Νον. 10, 1846. My Dear  Sister : The wind is now so strong and fair that we have hopes of rea...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, September 3, 1862

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Ox Hill, Va.,           September 3, 1862. I was in the battle at Manassas and made several very narrow escapes. I had to go on the field ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Horace Barnard, September 10, 1862

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Norwich , Sept. 10th, 1862. Dear Horace: I received your letter on Sunday morning. I am satisfied that you will manage the business i...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, September 9, 1862

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Norwich, Conn. September 9th, 1862. My own dear Son: I am half sick, very sad, grieved, and troubled on your account, yet very than...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, September 4, 1862

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Headquarters 1st Div. Reno's Command, Near Alexandria , Sept. 4th, 1862. Dear Mother: Once more, after a lapse of nearly five w...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Major-General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 24, 1862 – 3:15 p.m.

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REDOUBT NO. 3, June 25, 1862 — 3 . 15 p.m. The enemy are making a desperate resistance to the advance of our picket lines. Kearny...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: September 5, 1862

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camp Near TennallytowN, Maryland , September 5, 1862. I wrote you a hasty scrawl in my hurried visit to Washington, just to assure you ...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, September 21, 1862

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Vienna , September 21, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : Your last letters, 1st and 2d September, reached us with promptness, and gave us the...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Major-General Philip Kearny to Oliver S. Halsted Jr., August 4, 1862

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HARRISON’S LANDING, 4th August, 1862. DEAR PET: I thank you for your kind, long letter. You extend me hope.   You suggest withdrawing m...

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, October 15, 1862

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General Dix came to see me in relation to the blockade of Norfolk. Says Admiral Lee is extremely rigid, allows no traffic; that the people ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 9, 1862

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Early this morning I was at the depot. The superintendent suggested that I should send some one to Weldon in search of the trunk. He proffe...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Captain William D. Sedgwick to his Cousin, June 5, 1862

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Headquarters Division, Near Fair Oaks Station , June 5, 1862. My dear cousin: The General asks me to write you a short account of o...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 4, 1862

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Our victory at Manassas complete; the fight lasted four days. General Kearney was killed in a cavalry fight at Chantilly. Beautiful Chantil...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 2, 1864

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To-day has been occupied with strategy; but our strategy is of a bloody kind, and even the mere movements have not passed without the soun...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 3, 1862

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CAMP NEAH PURCELLVILLE, VA., November 3, 1862. We yesterday moved to this place, which for a time placed us in the advance, but to-day ...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 3, 1862

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ARLINGTON HOUSE, VA., September 3, 1862. We arrived here this morning. Everything now is changed; McClellan's star is again in the ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Wednesday, September 10, 1862

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Mr. Skinner at breakfast. — Soon after Mr. Hamilton (James A.) came, and we conversed about the condition of things. He said the Committee ...