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Showing posts with label Robert S Garnett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert S Garnett. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024

Major Robert Selden Garnett to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, April 20, 1856

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POST AT MUCKLESHUTE PRAIRIE,           NEAR STEILACOONE, W. T., April 20, 1856. MY DEAR COUSIN: By the time this reaches you the excitemen...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Robert Selden Garnett

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Son of Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.), born in Essex county, Virginia; graduated from United States Military Academy, in 1841, as second lieu...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Major Robert Selden Garnett to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, July 8, 1855

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FT. MONROE, VA., July 8, 1855. MY DEAR COUSIN: Your kind letter of the 25th Ult was misdirected to me at New York and did not overtake me ...

A. D. Banks to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 23, 1855

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PETERSBURG, [Va.], November 23rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: For the past ten days, I have been in Richmond and while there have had frequent conv...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Colonel Robert Selden Garnett to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 5, 1853

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WEST POINT, NEW YORK, November 5th, 1853. MY DEAR COUSIN: Before Congress meets and you become pressed with business incident thereto, I w...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Robert Seldon Garnett* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, September 27, 1850

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ST. LOUIS, MO., September 27th, 1850. MY DEAR COUSIN: On my arrival at this place yesterday I heard a rumor to the effect that there was a...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 13, 1861

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I have had a long day's ride through the camps of the various regiments across the Potomac, and at this side of it, which the weather d...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 17, 1861

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The news is not so good to-day. Gen. Garnett's small command has been defeated by the superior numbers of Gen. McClellan. But the gener...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: August 29, 1861

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No more feminine gossip, but the licensed slanderer, the mighty Russell, of the Times. He says the battle of the 21st was fought at long ra...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: July 19, 1861

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Beauregard telegraphed yesterday (they say, to General Johnston), “Come down and help us, or we shall be crushed by numbers.” The President...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 27, 1861

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RICHMOND, Va., — Mr. Meynardie was perfect in the part of traveling companion. He had his pleasures, too. The most pious and eloquent of p...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 12, 1861

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Still nothing from the army. We go on here quietly and happily — as happily as the state of the country will allow. The household peaceful ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 18, 1861

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During the last ten days we have been visiting among our friends, near Berryville, and in Winchester. The wheat harvest is giving the most ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Since the breaking out of the rebellion . . .

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. . . the southern confederacy have lost the following named rebel Generals: Major Gen. David E. Twiggs, resigned. Brigadier Gen. Henry B. J...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Difference

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The rebels have lost the following Generals during the war: Garnett was killed at Carrick’s Ford; Burton and Bee at Manassas; Zollicoffer at...