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Showing posts with label Spies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spies. Show all posts
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 18, 1861

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This afternoon, when riding down to Huttonville, I met three or four hundred sorry-looking soldiers. They were without arms. On inquiry, I f...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 8, 1865

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Saw that young Englishman again today. He isn't half the idle dreamer he pretends to be. In truth (but let me whisper it softly), I beli...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 19, 1864

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The darkest and most dismal day that ever dawned upon the earth, except one. There was no light when the usual hour came round, and later th...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: October 1, 1863

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Went on picket at 4 this afternoon, and was roused up in the night to intercept a spy who is in our lines, and is expecting to cross, but we...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 2, 1865

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  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...
Monday, May 2, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 11, 1864

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Hot and dry. Dispatches from secret agents at Washington state that Grant and his staff have arrived, that half his army preceded him, and...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Major-General Ambrose Burnside: General Orders, No. 38, April 13, 1863

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 38. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,           Cincinnati, Ohio, April 13, 1863. The commanding general publishes, for th...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 26, 1862

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[ w ]e are busily engaged cleaning off our camp ground; we have no water here; are compelled to haul it from a distance. To-day we send six ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas, November 6, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              Louisville, Ky., November 6 , 1861 . General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General: S...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Major-General Patrick R. Cleburne et al. to General Joseph E. Johnston and the Division, Brigade and Regimental Commanders of the Army of Tennessee, January 2, 1864

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[JANUARY 2, 1864 . ] COMMANDING GENERAL, THE CORPS, DIVISION, BRIGADE, AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE: GENERAL...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 12, 1863

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(Private and Confidential) New Orleans , February 12th, 1863. Dear Sir : Enclosed is General Orders No. 14—in part concerning Plantat...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, April 30, 1861

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Headquarters Department of Annapolis, April 30th, 1861 To Lieut. Gen’l. WINFIELD Scott, General in Chief U.S. Army, WASHINGTON, D.C. ...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 19, 1863

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Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac and Northampton Counties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of Baltim...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

In The Review Queue: Lincoln’s Spies

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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation By Douglas Waller Release Date: August 6, 2019 A major addition to...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Virginia Woodbury Fox, February 6, 1861

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Washington , D. C. 6th Feb. 61 D r V. I arrived safely last night and had an interview with the Genl who treated me very kindly and ...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for Other Purposes,” Approved March Third, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-three, February 24, 1864

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the U...

An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for other Purposes, March 3, 1863

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Whereas there now exist in the United States an insurrection and rebellion against the authority thereof, and it is, under the Constitution...