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Showing posts with label Snowball Fights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snowball Fights. Show all posts
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Private Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Thursday, February 5, 1863

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Boys had grand snowball. Gave Col. Harrison a taste. Came up Columbia road, twenty miles, to little village of Wharton, took up quarters. We...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 4, 1862

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a very nice day over head and the snow melted very fast all day, and we boys saw a heep of fun that day a snow bawling SOURCE: Bartlett Ya...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 17, 1864

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An order was read out at dress parade that all troops in the army would be held until the end of the war. This was nothing of importance to ...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, February 15, 1863

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February 15, 1863.           (Sunday.) This is a very unpleasant day, but I am comfortable in my tent by the fire. The snow and cold do no...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: March 23, 1864

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SNOW STORM. A snow storm commenced yesterday and continued through last night with great severity, and as our camp is only a temporary aff...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 30, 1864

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It rained all night, the wind blowing a gale from the east. This morning the wind was from the west, blowing moderately; and although cloudy...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Francis H. Wigfall to Louise Wigfall

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Camp near Chesterfield Station. . . . My home is in a wild pine grove and sweetest melancholy, poesy's child, keeps watch and ward ...