Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: December 1862

Hon. William H. Lamport went down to Virginia to see his son and found that he had just died in the hospital from measles and pneumonia. Their only son, only eighteen years old!

SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 147

Diary of 1st Sergeant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, January 18, 1865

Quite warm beautiful day. hear Lt S is no better, disease Pnumonia, Rumors (?) of fighting near Ft Smith and boats captured

SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1923, p. 571

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 18, 1864

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, February 18, 1864.

I have got quite well again; the slight cold I had in Washington has disappeared, and I have lost the sensation of weakness which I retained till I left Washington. I find there has been a good deal of pneumonia in camp. Major Barstow, on my staff, was quite sick with it. He is now well. He is, by-the-by, a son of your father's old friend in Salem and remembers visiting your house in Philadelphia. To-day a very nice fellow, the agent of the Associated Press, died of pneumonia. Everything was done for him in the way of medical attendance and nursing, but without avail. The weather has been intensely cold, the thermometer last night being as low as zero. To-day it is more moderate and cloudy, looking like snow.

I have to go up to Washington to-morrow, which I dislike very much, besides its being so expensive. Affairs here are very quiet.

I have not seen many of the officers except those immediately around me. I have to go to Washington to arrange the details of the proposed reorganization, which will make a great noise when they are made public.

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 166