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Showing posts with label The Rip Raps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rip Raps. Show all posts
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 11, 1862

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As I look out on the Old Dominion, the Mother of presidents, statesmen and heroes, my mind is filled with historical reminiscences of its p...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 10, 1862

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A thick, heavy fog envelopes the bay this morning, so thick we cannot see half the boat’s length. In a little while the fog began to settl...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Shelling of Sewall’s Point

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BALTIMORE, May 9. The special correspondent of the American sends the following relative to affairs in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

From Fortress Monroe

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BALTIMORE, March 26. – The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Baltimore Union gives a report of two contrabands relative to the condition...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Letter from Fortress Monroe

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FORT MONROE, May 28 via BALTIMORE – The steamer Massachusetts, which left Sunday morning for City Point with a flag of truce, returned early...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

From Norfolk and Vicinity

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BALTIMORE, March 26. A Fort Monroe correspondent, of a Baltimore paper, gives a report of two contrabands, relative to the condition of the...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Vandalism

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A dispatch from Norfolk, dated the 7th inst., to the Petersburg Express , says: “Three private dwellings on the shore opposite Old Point wer...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

The Fortifications At The Rip Raps

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The recent order of Mr. Secretary Stanton changing the name of the important work at the Rip Raps calls to mind the fact that an excellent o...