10 Oc I & Emma
Amandus & our Cozens Maria & Mary Kelley attended Catholic Church after
which we went to the Hospital Boat & from that we went to the hospitals
& amongst the sick & wounded 5 Oc I was on dress perade evening I
preached in the tent 30th Reg text Gal 6th 1st & 2nd v
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
1 William P. Shipley, age 25, residence
Eddyville, nativity Tennessee. Enlisted August 13, 1862, Company D.
Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry. Died of disease October 20, 1862, at Keokuk,—"Roster
Iowa Soldiers," Vol. V, p. 716.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92-3
Forenoon we ware on
Co drill afternoon on Brigade & battallion drill & Dress perade. Our
Capt is poorly in his bed most of the day the 26th Reg passed down on a Packet
landed a short time they are a fine looking set of men. evening Emma & I
attended the African Church & seen some contrabands just from South
Carolina
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
I went with our Capt
to the Hospital & gave him his medison & staid with him most of the day
afternoon a short time on drill & Dress perade evening Emma & I attended
prayer meeting at exchange St Church after that we went into see some of our
sick Soldiers in the Hospital
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
It was so cold we
did not drill any this day Emma & I visited the hospitals & tryed to
Comfort the suffering evening Emma Amandus & I attended the prayer meeting
at the African church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Our Reg got our
coats pants shirts & socks & caps & they needed them verry much 9
Oc I was at love feast in the African church then visited our boys in the
hospital. then helped to receive & distribute the uniform 4 Oc we were on
dress perade evening Emma & Mrs & Miss Kelly visited the hospitals
& attended preaching at exchange church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Four days I have
been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble.
I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. From last date it has rained every
day. We have news from my regiment. Adjutant Carpenter was killed in a charge,
both Col. Grover and Lieut. Col. Cook are disabled; Capt. J. L. Goddard, of my
company, in command. The movement of trains toward Americus is on account of
wounded Confederates being taken to Americus from battlefields about Atlanta.
All doctors absent; no sick call for a week. The dead are daily drawn out by
wagon loads.
On the 8th a
Catholic priest said to us he supposed we were badly treated, but there are as
kind hearted people about here as anywhere; that officers have it their own
way; thought our government unwilling to exchange, but if better provisions
could not be made for us, something ought to be done. Priests, though
frequently in, have little to say. They are said to be using their doctrinal
influence to get men to swear allegiance to the Confederacy. I do not accept
this as true, though one of Erin's sons frequently visited, who said to me that
he refused to renounce Uncle Sam, yesterday went out with the priest and has
not returned.
I am out of conceit
with many reports which originate in camp. I have no faith in innocent liars
who tell so much news. For instance: Lincoln is going to give two for one to
get us out; "is going to throw the nigger overboard to please
Rebels"; that Secretary Stanton has said that "none but dead beats
and coffee boilers are taken prisoners, and the army is better off without
them." Likely some Rebel started this story, but it had weight among some.
Indignant crowds gather and vent their curses on Stanton. Grant is cursed by some,
so is the President and the Cabinet; for these gossipers have but little depth
of thought and are easily moved by groundless rumors. It is cheering to know
many on whose eyes are no scales, logically rebutting these stories and laying
the blame of our abuse on the Rebel authorities, where it belongs. A small
ration of rice today.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 73-4
New Year’s Day. God prosper the New Year to those I love. Church with Ellie and Johnny; an effective sermon by Higby. Thereafter we took a cold “constitutional” up the Fifth Avenue to Forty-second Street, a rather vigorous winter day, still and sharp. Tonight is overcast, with promise of snow tomorrow.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 3, p. 2
Received twenty-four
boxes, saddles, bridles, halters, etc. Sent to Camp. Got a detail and put them
all in a house and locked them up. We took charge of the Clerk's Office to
sleep in, tied our horses in Court Yard and got our forage from the farmers
around. Secured boarding at Maj. Holden's, a clever gentleman and nice family;
has one grown daughter, Miss Emma, a nice young lady. Remained here Wednesday,
18th-Monday, 23rd. During this time had nothing to do but write letters, visit
MY GIRL THAT PAWS IVORY, and make acquaintances. Among them Miss Lou Hill I
prize highest. We had prayer meeting and church. I purchased four books and
left them with Miss Emma: Mormon's at Home, Pilgrim's Progress, Bayard Taylor's
Travels and Bible Union Dictionary.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 8
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL:—I congratulate you back again [—on your election to the state Senate]. Some enemy of yours reported that you would be badly beaten in any event. But I didn't believe it. I agree with you. Our lines didn't fall in the right years. The "off years," as Greeley calls them, are bad years to run for office.
The missionary story is out of whole cloth. I went to church like a good Christian on the Sunday I was reported to be ploughing with the Hamilton County Reform Members and didn't see one of them. Bishop Thompson preached a capital discourse on the text, "Be ye faithful to the end and I will give you a crown of life," or words to that effect. If you had heard it you wouldn't have thought of that infamous suspicion that I was imitating Sam Cary because I quoted scripture in my Thanksgiving proclamation. Hassaurek says the Reformers will be with us on the Fifteenth Amendment. I think so too. Lew Campbell, it is said, boasts that he will prevent the ratification in the Senate, but as both of the Reformers are perfectly sound I suppose it is safe.
Kind regards to Mrs. Potts.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 69-70
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 13, 1869.
DEAR SAGE: I am in receipt of yours of yesterday. I will send you reports of [the] Ohio Penitentiary and Reform Farm. No report of Girls' Reformatory yet made. But the rules adopted may answer your purpose and I will try to get them for you. They were approved by me as the law required and were in the handwriting of Judge M—— [Matthews (?)].
I have the Thanksgiving proclamations of twenty-seven States all recognizing religion, nearly all the religion of the Bible, and several the Divinity of Christ. More are coming, doubtless. Our Legislature for many years has passed a joint resolution annually authorizing a thanksgiving and frequently in terms which recognized the religion of the Bible. The last Legislature omitted to do so by a mere accident this year, but in [the] Sixty-fifth volume Ohio Laws, page 306, passed one last year. If you wish to borrow my bundle of Thanksgiving proclamations I will send them to you. All state institutions have religious exercises, some of them chaplains paid under state laws. The meetings of the two houses of the General Assembly are always opened with prayer in accordance, sometimes, with resolutions (passed unanimously usually), and sometimes by common consent. The inaugurations of governors are prefaced by religious exercises.
The general proposition on which you stand is undoubtedly sound. Whether your particular relief can be granted by a court is perhaps doubtful; and if you are beaten I am not sure but the question will go before the committee in a better form for a final and correct decision by the people without the intervention of the courts in opposition to the late action of the School Board than it will with such intervention. But if I can aid you, call on me.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 72
A nice enough day,
did not go to church. worked part of the day on Pay rolls. Evening spent at the
house of Mr Goins in co with Mr Miller, in camp at 9, P. M. and drink Egg
nog.
SOURCE: “Diary of
John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa, Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April
1923, p. 570
I went to the supper
table last night too sick to eat anything; left the table and laid down on a
lounge until the hotel keeper could show me a room; I retired early and slept
well; got up this morning all right, but did not go to the breakfast table;
took a lunch from my own haversack; walked out in town; went to the ten-pin
alley and spent an hour rolling; had not played a game before for eight years,
and enjoyed it very much; smoked a cigar, a notable scarcity in these times,
and returned to the hotel, where I wrote a letter to Judge Devine, and one to
my dear wife; may heaven's choicest blessings rest upon her and my sweet
children; went to the dinner table and found the landlady apologizing for some
defect and two young females discussing the merits of the Episcopal and Baptist
faith; got through dinner somehow and walked down to the quartermaster's office;
got the Vicksburg Whig; stretched myself out on the counter; read and took a
nap; got up; went to the armory and would have enjoyed looking over the work
very much but felt sick; it produces four Mississippi rifles per day at $30.00
a piece on contract with the state; I am now sitting at the foot of the hill
below the armory.
SOURCE: John Camden
West, A Texan in Search of a Fight: Being
the Diary and Letters of a Private Soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade, p. 16-7
CAMP STEVENSON.
Sunday. A splendid
day; but what a miserable-looking set of boys we are!—stiff, lame, and dirty,
and hungry for more beans. We received the welcome order, "No work for
three days." We went to church this morning, so there are really only two
days and a half, and they will soon be gone. But we have letters to answer,
trips down-town to make, for those who can get passes; and the first thing we
know it will be Wednesday.
SOURCE: John Jasper
Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass.
Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, p. 30
Marshfield, April 15, 1851.
MY DEAR SIR,—I was very glad to receive your letter last evening, and to learn that there was nothing occurring of particular urgency at Washington. Although the weather has been cold and wet, nearly all the time I have been here, yet, I leave with regret, and should be tempted to prolong my stay, if there were not to be an occasion likely to call me from Washington again, soon. About the 10th or 15th of May the important suit between the Methodist Church and the Methodist Church South, is to come on for argument in the circuit court of the United States in the city of New York. I have been long engaged in the cause, and drew the original bill in favor of the Church South. I have been in hopes that the parties would be satisfied that Mr. Lord should take my place, with Mr. Reverdy Johnson, but they are not so inclined. Recent occurrences, perhaps, have contributed to lead to an undue estimation of the probable value of my services on the occasion. The division between North and South, you know, took place on the slavery question.
A suit, equally old, and of a similar nature, is on my hands in Massachusetts, to be tried the middle of June. It is between the Old School Quakers, and the Hicksites, so called, and the question is, which party is entitled to the funds and property.
I hope nothing may occur rendering my attention to these two things inconsistent with my public duties.
In the present state of our military means, it is to be feared we shall have trouble with Indians in the southwest. And though it is our duty to do all we can, with the means in our hands, yet it is necessary to remember also that the government will be pressed to raise volunteers, mounted men, &c., by those who would like the employment and the pay. I take it that a mounted man on the frontiers is a person exceedingly well paid for doing very little.
I go to Boston to-morrow, and expect to meet the people in Faneuil Hall on Thursday.
I am not surprised at what you say about the course of Mr. ——— and his friends. They will probably attempt a denunciation of the compromise measures, in some way, but I think they will find themselves less strong than they imagine themselves to be. The case is a curious one. These gentlemen are willing and ready to express a hearty and conscientious approbation of, or at least acquiescence in, the compromise measures, provided only that certain office-holders be not disturbed. And, on the other hand, they are equally ready and willing to denounce these measures, heartily and conscientiously, if these office-holders should be disturbed.
I lament most deeply this schism among the New York Whigs, but I do not see how it could be avoided. At the same time, I think we have friends who are not only not discreet, but who attempt to use all their influence, whatever it is, to magnify themselves and to gain a triumph over their enemies. They wish to be the administration, at least, so far as New York is concerned. They require, in my opinion, sharp looking after.
SOURCE: Fletcher Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol. 2, p. 428-9
We had a shower
while on dress perade I have put in the day making out pay rools for our
company & it has not been a source of much comfort to me but knowing the
wants of the boys & all the other company being at it I reconcile it as a
military necessity. I got K P Morrison to preach in our tent & I exorted
& closed after him text ye will not come to me that ye may have life
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
Rainey nearly all
day & we had a wet time of it on dress perade I visited the hospitals
evening by request I preached in Capt Vermilions tent we got the Blankets for
our boys today
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
11 Oc I attended
church on Exchange Street the paster preached text 126th Psalm 6th v 3 Oc I
& the Miss Kelleys attended at the Chatham Square Church a discourse by Dr
Sturtevant President of Ilinoise Colledge Isaiah 58th & 6th ve 5 Oc we was
at dress perade the ladies took supper with us at the camps I then went home
with them & attended preaching at the African church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
Went to Calvary
Church today. Heard a good sermon on confirmation. First time I have been to
church since I have been in the army.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 8
I attended services
at Manassas last Sunday, but before the meeting closed I was obliged to depart
for this city. For particulars see the New York daily papers.
I am now bolstered
up in bed, making my first attempt at writing. I am as happy as a clam in high
water. My regiment covered itself with glory. It was one of the first in, and
the last out. Not a man showed the white feather. They fought until all their
ammunition was expended, and when the stampede commenced, General McDowell
ordered the officers to form all the regiments in line so as to make another
stand, or, at least, make an orderly retreat. . . . Finally, he gave up the
attempt, and we were ordered to retreat.
After going a few
rods the General made another attempt to check the utter rout of our troops. He
again ordered the regiments to form in line, but ours was the only one that
could be formed again. The General then cried out in a loud voice,
"Soldiers, form on that noble regiment! We must make a stand.” . . . This
same attempt was repeated a third time, with the same result. A person told me
to-day that General McDowell reported all this to General Scott, with a high
encomium on the regiment.
All this may appear
singular in view of the accounts of the battle given in the New York papers,
wherein our regiment is not even mentioned. . . . But the truth is known in
quarters where I desire to have it known. It is all right.
I had almost
forgotten to tell you about my wound. It is doing well, and pains me but
little. I would agree to take another just like it if I could thereby secure as
good conduct on the part of my regiment when it takes the field again.
SOURCE: New York
(State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and
Chattanooga, In Memoriam : Henry Warner
Slocum, 1826-1894, p. 70
