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Showing posts with label Thomas H Watts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas H Watts. Show all posts
Monday, June 21, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 22, 1864

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A bright day and warmer. Cherry-trees in blossom. We bave the following war news : PLYMOUTH, N. C., April 20th. To GEN. BRAGG. I have ...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 1, 1864

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Hazy, misty weather. Gen. Lovell (who lost New Orleans) has applied for a command in the West, and Gen. Johnston approves it strongly. He d...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1863

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We have nothing new yet from Averill’s raiders; but it is said Gen. Lee has set a trap for them. From East Tennessee there is a report that...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 11, 1863

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After all the applications of the railroad companies when Gen. Lee was in Pennsylvania, and the enemy had withdrawn from this side of the P...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 2, 1863

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The President is unwell again; to what extent I have not learned. But the Vice-President is ready, no doubt, to take his place in the event...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 15, 1863

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The enemy have abandoned the vicinity of Fredericksburg, falling back across the river, and probably retiring toward Alexandria, or else th...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 19, 1862

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He who runs may read. Conscription means that we are in a tight place. This war was a volunteer business. To-morrow conscription begins—the...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to Jefferson Davis, December 6, 1864

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AUGUSTA, GA., December 6 , 1864 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the Confederate States: SIR: Your letter of the 30...