Pages

▼
Showing posts with label The Dahlgren Affair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Dahlgren Affair. Show all posts
Monday, February 8, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 3, 1864

›
Bright and frosty. Confused accounts of the raid in the morning papers. During the day it was reported that Col. Johnson's forces had ...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 5, 1864

›
Clear and pleasant, after a slight shower in the morning. The raid is considered at an end, and it has ended disastrously for the invaders...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 10, 1864

›
Raining fast all day. There was a rumor to-day that the enemy were approaching again, but the Secretary knew nothing of it. Major Griswo...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 8, 1864

›
CAMDEN, S.C., May 8, 1864. – My friends crowded around me so in those last days in Richmond, I forgot the affairs of this nation utterly; ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 7, 1864

›
Shopping, and paid $30 for a pair of gloves; $50 for a pair of slippers; $24 for six spools of thread; $32 for five miserable, shabby littl...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 5, 1864

›
Tom Ferguson walked home with me. He told me of Colonel Dahlgren's 1 death and the horrid memoranda found in his pocket. He came with ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, March 6, 1864

›
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, March 6, 1864.   HON. JAS. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richmond. SIR: I have just receiv...