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Showing posts with label Pistols/Revolvers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pistols/Revolvers. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Gerrit Smith to the callers of the Kansas Convention at Syracuse, New York, May 31, 1856

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I wish the convention would go with me in voting slavery to death. But I tell you, gentlemen, with all my heart, that if the convention is ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 23, 1863

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Thede got on order a secesh saddle. Gave up my mare to Dr. Smith. Gave me an old plug. Traded her for a pretty brown mare, $25 to boot. Jef...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: May 14, 1863

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Went down to H Co. after morning work and played chess. Beat Capt. N. three times and John Devlin four times. Cleaned up my revolvers. Col....
Friday, May 12, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 24, 1863

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We lost five fine guns and over a hundred men on the Nansemond; and we learn that more of the enemy's gunboats and transports have pass...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: April 13, 1863

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Ordered to remain here at present. Prospect of staying in “Sturges’s” division in east Ky. Don't like him on account of Mo. notoriety. ...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

George L, Stearns to Colonel Carter, agent of the Massachusetts Arms Company, May 4, 1857

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Boston, May 4, 1857. Dear Sir , — Being desirous of aiding Captain Brown In his Kansas enterprise, I am willing to purchase of you the...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills, April 28, 1861

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Cairo. This is the twilight of our first day here. We started from Peoria last Wednesday at 11 a. m. amid such a scene as I never saw befor...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, October 12, 1862

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Cleaned my revolver and dried my cartridges. Indians had preaching by their Chaplain. Seemed good to hear singing and preaching even in an ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, Monday Evening, June 2, 1862

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Williamsport, Maryland , Monday Evening, June 2, 1862. At last. Soon after my last words, Mr. Barnhardt, with corpulent and puffy ene...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: April 19, 1862

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Went down to the creek and practiced a while with our revolvers. Played chess in the evening. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary ...