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Showing posts with label Silas Casey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silas Casey. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, April 26, 1864

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Fine day. Several regiments have passed up Pennsylvania Avenue during the day; have been before the board; am very much pleased with its ap...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, April 25, 1864

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It has been a pleasant spring day; reported to General Silas Casey this morning; will be examined tomorrow; sat at Bradey's this aftern...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, April 14, 1864

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Weather fine, no wind or clouds and but little mud; had our regimental monthly inspection at 10 a. m.; have written to Major Fostor, Chief ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, April 13, 1864

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Warm and comfortable; mud drying up finely; application to go to Washington to report to General Silas Casey returned this forenoon, disapp...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, April 8, 1864

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Weather warm and pleasant the fore part of the day, but towards night it hazed up; probably will rain to-morrow; had a long and tiresome br...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, April 2, 1864

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Arrived in camp about dark last night and found the regiment in a mud hole without quarters fit to live in. How white men could be content ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, March 23, 1864

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Weather fine but very chilly. About eight inches of snow fell last night. Major C. G. Chandler is division officer of the day. A review of...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, March 22, 1864

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The wind has blown furiously from the southeast all day. It's by far the most disagreeable day of the winter; commenced snowing about 5...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, February 1, 1864

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A dull and miserable day, but no rain; have been studying very hard in the second volume of tactics. No one has been in this evening save L...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 31, 1862, Night

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The ambulances are coming in with our wounded. They report that all the enemy's strong defenses were stormed, just as we could perceive...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 10, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac November 10, 1864 They have been singularly niggardly to us about election returns; but we have reli...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, May 29, 1863 – 11 P.M.

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Camp , May 29, 1863, 11 p. M. Your Capri and Sorrento have brought back my Campagna and my Jungfrau and my Paestum, and again the seaso...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, May 20, 1863 – 9 p.m.

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Camp E. Of Capitol , 9 P. M., May 20, 1863. I wrote yesterday that General Casey 1 had ordered a review for to-day. In my baby innocen...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Major-General George B. McClellan to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 31, 1862 – 2:30 p.m.

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CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, August 31 , 1862 – 2 . 30 p.m. Major Haller is at Fairfax Station with my provost and headquarters guard and ...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Major General George B. McClellan to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, June 1, 1862

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FIELD OF BATTLE, June 1 , 1862 – 12 o'clo ck. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have had a desperate battle, in which ...