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Showing posts with label Raccoon Ford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raccoon Ford. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Private John C. West to Mary Stark West, May 20, 1863

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ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

Private John C. West to Mary Stark West, May 25, 1863

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CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 25TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have written to you by every opportunity I have had since I left home, a...

Private John C. West to Mary Stark West, May 30, 1863

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CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 30TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I write you a few lines by an Irishman who has just gotten a discharge fro...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Diary of Private John C. West, Monday, June 1, 1863

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Received orders to retrace our steps and marched fourteen miles over the same dusty road and are now camped in two miles of Raccoon Ford. I ...

Diary of Private John C. West, Thursday, June 4, 1863

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On yesterday evening we received orders to cook three days rations and be ready to march today at daylight. We were up late at night cooking...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Diary of Private John C. West, Sunday, May 24, 1863

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Left Richmond yesterday about 6:30 o'clock a. m. Found a number of the Texas Brigade and a few of my regiment on the cars and soon becam...

Diary of Private John C. West, Thursday, May 25, 1863

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While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...