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Showing posts with label Small Pox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Pox. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2024

Senator Henry Clay to Susan Jacob Clay, December 15, 1849

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WASHINGTON, December 15, 1849. MY DEAR SUSAN,—I received and read with great pleasure your letter of the 19th of October. All its details ...

Senator Henry Clay to Leslie Combs, December 22, 1849

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WASHINGTON, December 22, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your favor of the 17th instant, and thank you for its details. It seems that I have...

Senator Henry Clay to Thomas H. Clay, December 25, 1849

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WASHINGTON, December 25, 1849. MY DEAR THOMAS,—I received a letter from you while you were with Henry Wilkins, at your saw-mill, but none ...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 1865

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The smallpox is frightful. There is not a day that at least twenty men are taken out dead. Cold is no name for the weather now. They have gi...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: October 1864

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We have got the smallpox in prison, and from six to twelve are taken out dead daily. We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed a...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 18, 1863

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Lee Kelly died last night of small-pox. He came down with a party of twenty-two of us some five weeks since. He was the liveliest of the par...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 20, 1863

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Yesterday my brother-in-law, Jack Smith, came in as a recruit, and, to my great disappointment, brought me no letters. I am certainly the mo...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 21, 1863

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Yesterday I was on guard for the first time since I went soldiering. I cannot say that I particularly like the fun, but it gives one an oppo...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, Sunday, January 24, 1863

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Our faces were considerably elongated this morning by the report that John Bland, of our company, was taking the small-pox. As John circulat...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 6, 1863

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We have had no excitement since we left Vicksburg. Nothing has transpired here to cause a "yell" even. We have lived out the allot...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 8, 1863

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Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: January 16, 1864

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Nothing more until to-day. W. R. Berryhill has got the smallpox. Quite a number of us were in the same quarters with him, but none of us cau...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 13, 1863

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Yesterday we had nothing to do, and spent the day writing letters to friends and relatives at home. In the afternoon had some little excitem...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 15, 1863

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Nothing of the least possible interest to any one has transpired since our confinement in quarantine. We draw our rations, cook, eat, sleep,...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 8, 1862

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Berkeley County, Va.,           October 8, 1862. When I left Charlestown yesterday morning the weather was delightful and I felt so buoyan...

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, November 13, 1862

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Berryville, Clark County, Va . ,           November 13, 1862 . Our brigade is now camped in the suburbs of Berryville and is doing picket ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864 — January 23, 1865: No. 179. Report of Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Provisional Division, of operations November 29, 1864--January 13, 1865.

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No. 179. Report of Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Provisional Division, of operations November 29, 1864—January 13,...