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Showing posts with label Quinine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quinine. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2025

Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, January 8, 1863

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We have had several cases of fever lately, occasioned, it is said, by malaria from the lower swamps in the neighborhood. We have one slough ...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, October 28, 1861

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Our Captain, Robert C. Stanard, died to-day at Camp Deep Creek, of disease contracted in the army. He was a man of warm impulses and generou...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

,Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 4, 1864

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Am now living splendid; vegetable diet is driving off the scurvy and dropsy, in fact the dropsy has dropped out but the effect remains. Set...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: September 30, 1864

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Am decidedly better and getting quite an appetite but can get nothing but broth, gruel, &c. Mouth very bad. Two or three teeth have com...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 12, 1862

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Headquarters,  U. S. Forces En Route To F. Monroe , July 12th, 1862. My dear Mother: When I wrote you a few hurried, peevish line...

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 14, 1862

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14th. Still on shipboard but near Fortress Monroe. Lilly's wedding day. Miles of friends — little children's voices — church be...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: Saturday, November 22, 1862

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Took a blue pill and three quinine powders during the day. Kept very quiet. Went to bed early and rested well. Still did my usual duties. L...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: Wednesday, November 19, 1862

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Wrote short letters home and to Fannie. Cleared up about noon. Bought a pack of envelopes and a little Candy. Moved camp up on the hill to ...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Friday, September 9, 1864

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Have been a little feverish (typhoid) for a day or two; took dose of quinine last night. Arthur came down to-day. He is pretty well. ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: May 12, 1864

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Pretty miserable this morning Left at twenty minutes past five for Baltimore Good night's sleep. Plenty of quinine has kept off fever s...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: November 19, 1861

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Camp Near Seneca , November 19, 1861. By every rule of gratitude, after receiving father's long and cheerful letter this morning, t...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 30, 1864

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July 30, 1864 My spirits to-night are not very high; our project of attack, which in the beginning promised well, has not been a succes...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, May 23, 1863

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Camp E. Of Capitol , May 23, 1863. E. wrote me an account of your flag presentation and sent the speeches: I suppose the responsibility...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, May 26, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala ., May 26, 1865. You had received my recountal of our narrow escape from per...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith, April 9, 1865

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Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines, Ala. , April 9, 1865. I have this moment received news that Petersburg has falle...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

General McClellan’s Advance – Balloon Reconnoissance

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY POTOMAC, May 21, P. M. The encampment of the advance of the army under Gen. Stoneman, is still at Gains’ Mills, 18½ miles...