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Showing posts with label Samuel Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Jones. Show all posts
Monday, June 5, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 30, 1864

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Clear, and warm as summer. No fires. It is reported that Gen. Hood is still marching North, and is near Nashville. The following telegra...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 6, 1864

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Major-Gen. Breckinridge, it is said, is to command in Southwestern Virginia near the Kentucky line, relieving Major-Gen. Sam Jones. Yes...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 25, 1864

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The breach seems to widen between the President and Congress, especially the Senate. A majority of the Committee on Military Affairs have r...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 2, 1863

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Gen. Lee writes that he will endeavor to protect the workmen while removing the iron at Aquia Creek, but he fears the work has been too lon...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 24, 1863

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To-day we have a cold northwest storm of wind and rain, and we have our first fire in the parlor. The elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 14, 1863

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A letter from Gen. Lee to the Secretary of War, dated 11th inst. at Madison C. H., complains of the injury done by the newspapers of Richmo...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1863

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We have a rumor to-day that Meade is sending heavy masses of troops to the West to extricate Rosecrans, and that Gen. Hooker is to menace R...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 21, 1863

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The President was called out of church yesterday, and was for three hours closeted with the Secretary of War and Gen. Cooper. It appears th...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 15, 1863

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Gov. Vance writes that he has reliable information that the 30,000 troops in New York, ostensibly to enforce the draft, are intended for a ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 30, 1863

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The department companies and militia returned yesterday, through a heavy shower, from the wild-goose chase they were rushed into by Gen. El...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 26, 1863

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Letters were received to-day from Gens. Beauregard, Mercer, Whitney, and S. Jones. It appears that Beauregard has some 6000 men of all ...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: January 20, 1863

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Headquarters Outpost. First Brigade, Second Kanawha Division, January 20, 1863. Sir : — I am instructed by General Scammon to info...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1862

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Last accounts from Fredericksburg state that the enemy are retiring toward the Potomac and Washington. We have got some of their pontoon br...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 13, 1862

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After all, Fredericksburg was severely shelled — whether designedly or incidentally in the fight, does not yet appear. Our army has fal...
Friday, February 28, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant General James Longstreet, January 16, 1864

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(Confidential.)  CAMP, ORANGE COURT HOUSE, January 16, 1864. LIEUT.-GEN. J. LONGSTREET. GENERAL: Your letters of the 10th and 11t...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, December 3, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, December 3, 1863. HIS EXCELLENCY JEFFERSON DAVIS, President Confederate States, Richmond. MR...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Wednesday, July 15, 1863

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There was a rumor of another battle beyond the Potomac, this morning, but it has not been confirmed. From Charleston we have no news; b...