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Showing posts with label Roanoke River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roanoke River. Show all posts
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, May 14, 1864

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Owing to wet clothing and a chill I could not sleep. Before day I was watching the country. At sunrise we were alongside the Little Roanoke ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, November 3, 1862

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At four o'clock this morning "all was wrong." We were aroused from the most miserable attempt at sleep our boys ever dreamed o...
Monday, August 2, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 3, 1865

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Right Bank Roanoke river, Robbin's Ferry, N. C. May 3, 1865. About 20 miles to-day and the latter fourth quite dusty. We did not get the...

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 4, 1865

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Thirteen miles south of Laurenceville, Va., May 4, 1865. Our regiment in advance of the division crossed the Roanoke at 3:30 p. m. and went ...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: April 24, 1863

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ALL QUIET ON THE ROANOKE. The noise of the battle is over and we are longer harassed by war's dread alarms, but can now sit down, eat ...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 20, 1862

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WE STAY AWHILE IN PLYMOUTH. All the troops, with the batteries, wagons, horses, mules and negroes, have been sent around to Newbern by boa...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 12, 1862

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THE TARBORO MARCH. On the morning of Oct. 30, Major Pickett, with six companies (the other four being on picket up the Trent road), left N...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: September 20, 1862

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WE LOSE OUR BANDS.  All the regimental bands have been mustered out and have gone home. Ours left the first of this month, and it seems qu...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, December 27, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, City Point, Va., December 27 , 1864 . Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Military Division...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 27, 1863

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Gen. Beauregard's statement of the number of his troops, after 10,000 had been ordered to Mississippi, with urgent appeals for the orde...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, May 7, 1865

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Started at the usual time and marched eighteen miles today. We bivouacked in some old camps which our men had built during the siege of Pet...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, May 4, 1865

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We started at 8 a. m., marched four miles, and then lay over until 6 p. m., when we moved on four miles farther, passing the Third Division...

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

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It is quite warm. We left our bivouac at 3 a. m. and by 6 o'clock had crossed the Roanoke river. It is a fine stream. One of our driver...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee, February 23, 1865

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[CONFIDENTIAL.] HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, February 23 , 1865 . General R. E. LEE, Commanding, &c.: GENERAL: Your let...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, February 22, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, February 22 , 1865 . Lieut. Gen. J. LONGSTREET, Commanding, &c.: GENERAL: Your...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

From Fortress Monroe

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FORTRESS MONROE, Feb 25. – The steamer S. R. Spaulding arrived here this P. M., having left Roanoke Island the day before.   No news was rec...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Washington News

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WASHINGTON, May 27 – From the Navy Department the following news is gathered. The U. S. steamer Shanee, with one company of the 5 th N. Y....
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Arrival of the Steamer S. K. Spaulding

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FORT MONROE, Feb. 25. The steamer S. K. Spaulding arrived here this p. m., having left Roanoke Island the day before.   No news by her. We...