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Showing posts with label Raleigh NC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raleigh NC. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 19, 1865

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As beautiful a spring morning as ever dawned since the sun spread its glorious light over the Garden of Eden. Cannon is heard at intervals...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 24, 1865

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Clear and very windy. The fear of utter famine is now assuming form. Those who have the means are laying up stores for the day of siege,—I m...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: April 10, 1865

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After building houses and making our camp pleasant and comfortable, we move from Goldsboro on the tenth of April and march towards Raleigh, ...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, April 28, 1865

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The weather continues fine. We spent the day in washing and cleaning our clothing. We received orders to start for Washington at 8 o'cl...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, April 24, 1865

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The Seventeenth Army Corps marched to Raleigh this afternoon and was reviewed by Lieutenant-General Grant and Major-General Sherman. Their ...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, April 18, 1865

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General Sherman went out to the front on the cars, and the two generals agreed upon the terms for the surrender of Johnston's army. Bot...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, April 14, 1865

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We started at 5 a. m. and marched twenty-one miles. We crossed the Neuse river at noon and passed through Raleigh about dusk, going into bi...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, April 13, 1865

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It rained nearly all day and I never saw it rain harder than it did this forenoon. We left our bivouac at 5 a. m. and marched eighteen mile...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, April 9, 1865

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Very pleasant weather. Our division was inspected this forenoon by General Smith. Two regiments in the division did not pass inspection and...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, March 23, 1865

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An order from General Sherman was read this morning, stating that the campaign was over, 1 and that we should now prepare to take a short ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, March 22, 1865

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Companies E and F of the Eleventh Iowa were sent out at 6 o'clock this morning on the skirmish line, but there were no rebels to be see...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 10, 1862

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The President's family have departed for Raleigh, and the families of most of the cabinet to their respective homes, or other places of...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 9, 1862

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My family, excepting my son Gustis, started to-day for Raleigh, N. C., where our youngest daughter is at school. But it is in reality anoth...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 29, 1862

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Betsey, recalcitrant maid of the W.'s, has been sold to a telegraph man. She is as handsome as a mulatto ever gets to be, and clever in...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, March 26, 1865

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ON BOARD STEAMER Russia At Sea, Sunday, March 26, 1865. The railroad was finished yesterday into Goldsboro and I came down to Newbern...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Letter from Fortress Monroe

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FORT MONROE, May 28 via BALTIMORE – The steamer Massachusetts, which left Sunday morning for City Point with a flag of truce, returned early...