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Showing posts with label Picket Lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picket Lines. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: August 8, 1861

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Major Wood, Fifteenth Indiana, thought he heard chopping last night, and imagined that the enemy was engaged in cutting a road to our rear. ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 25, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS,           March 25 , 1865 . At daylight this morning General Gordon assaulted and carried enemy's works at Hare's H...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Major-General Henry W. Slocum: General Orders No. 4, May 5, 1864

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General ORDERS No. 4.} HDQRS, DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 5, 1864. I. No persons except those in the employ of ...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 21, 1861

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This morning, at two o'clock, I was rattled up by a sentinel, who had come to camp in hot haste to inform me that he had seen and fired ...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, April 1, 1862

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Two gun-boats and three transports came up and landed some troops at Eastport and Chickasaw, after firing a few shots at the former place. T...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Thursday, October 3, 1861

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Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o'clock, and arrived there by eight o'clock P. M...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Monday, September 23, 1861

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Orders came to leave the picket line at dark, and return to Camp Jackson. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: July 14, 1864

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Our barracks are finished and the regiment cosily quartered therein. The picket line is now affording considerable attraction. The citizens ...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Thursday, July 18, 1861

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Advance at daylight. A part of the Union army, Gen. Tyler's troops, engaged. This conflict the rebels call battle of Bull Run. While the...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, June 12, 1863

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Hospital near Hamilton's Crossing, Va . ,           June 12, 1863. Our corps is lying in line of battle in the trenches, and has been ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, September [28], 1863*

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Early this morning the command is up and ready to move forward. While waiting to hear the bugle call, Sergeant Flint, with his mind ever rea...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, May 22, 1862

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All day we lay behind our entrenchments; our works of defense seem impregnable. It is now quiet along our picket line. The rebels are drawin...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, May 23, 1862

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To-day our regiment is detailed to advance with the picket line and protect a fatigue party while building roads and bridges for the advance...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, May 20, 1862

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Last night God smiled upon the army by opening the windows of heaven and causing the rain to fall. Nature is refreshed; water is more plenty...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, August 15, 1864

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Rebels attacked our picket line and drove it after a brisk skirmish. (The) Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth supporting soon check the Rebels. O...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, August 15, 1864

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Rebels attacked our picket line and drove it after a brisk skirmish. (The) Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth supporting soon check the Rebels. O...