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Showing posts with label Political Generals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Generals. Show all posts
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 6, 1861

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I breakfasted with Mr. Bigelow this morning, to meet General McDowell, who commands the army of the Potomac, now so soon to move. He came i...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 23, 1863

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We have nothing additional up to three p.m. to-day; bat there is an untraceable rumor on the street of some undefinable disaster somewhere,...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Horace Barnard, September 28, 1862

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79th Regiment, Near Antietam Creek, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Horace: Here we are, still resting at the mouth of this muddy littl...
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...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Thursday Morning, October 24, 1861

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Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 24, 1861, Thursday Morning. The violation of every rule and maxim of military law, the exactio...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, March 28, 1864

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March 28, 1864. . . . To-day has been mild and cloudy, threatening rain. Everything is quiet along our lines, but in our camps is a bur...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, January 7, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Second Army Corps, Army Of Miss., On Board Steamer "Sunny South," Jan. 7,1863....