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Showing posts with label Troop Strength. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Troop Strength. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Diary of Adam Gurowski, October 1861

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As in the mediæval epoch, and some time thereafter, anatomists and physiologists experimented on the living villeins, that is, on peasantry,...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan, Saturday, February 25, 1865

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Slept well, rained all night. At 10. a. m. start through pass. aground at 11. Brown with 4 co of our Regt passes us here. Men runing short o...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Diary of Private William S. White, March 13, 1862

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Our forces at this place amount to 7,000 effective men, with ten pieces of light artillery. We are in reinforcing distance of Norfolk, where...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, June 26, 1861

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Our strength at this place now amounts to about seven thousand men—on the entire Peninsula, nearly ten thousand. It is quite evident that ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 5, 1864

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Moved this morning, feeling for the enemy, and came up to them at noon, five miles from the Run, in the Wilderness. It certainly is a wilder...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Captain William M. Duncan to Mary Morgan Duncan, September 21, 1862

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Sept. 21st. Our Reg. is still working on the fortifications, and the work goes on well.   The Gen. is building five forts at this place, w...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 2, 1864

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Very warm and cloudy. There was no general engagement yesterday, but heavy skirmishing, and several assaults at different points; and a di...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 23, 1864

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 Bright and pleasant. A letter from Gen. Maury indicates now that Mobile is surely to be attacked. He says they may force a passage at Gra...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: June 1, 1862

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  A CHANGE OF BASE. And now something else has turned up, and here we are encamped just outside the city and behind our batteries. The ord...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, February 9, 1862

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This morning troops are landing. Everywhere around Fort Henry, inside and outside the fortifications, the camp fires are burning. About twen...
Monday, June 22, 2020

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 2, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                        September 2 , 1864 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, August 12, 1864

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HEADQ'Rs ARMIEs of THE UNITED STATEs, CITY Point , Va. , August 16, 1864. Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE. DEAR SIR: I state to all citiz...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Inquisitiveness Nonplussed.

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Mr. Lincoln as a very effective way sometimes of dealing with men who trouble him with questions.  Some body asked him how many men the reb...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 11, 1863

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The raid on the fence before going into camp. We drew two days' rations and marched till noon. My company, E, being detailed for r...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, February 28, 1862

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Confidential Wabash Outside Port Royal Bar 28 Feby. 62 My Dear Sir My ammunition arrived just on time as I was detained by bad ...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 26, 1863

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The weather is clear and bright again ; but, oh, how dark and somber the faces of the croakers! The following dispatches have been receiv...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 19, 1864

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Decatur, Ga., July 19, 1864. To-night we are in Decatur, six miles from Atlanta. The Rebels were yet in Atlanta this morning, for they ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, February 7, 1862

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SAINT Louis , February 7 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. D.C. BUELL, Louisville, Ky.: GENERAL: My telegrams of to-day are so full that I have v...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Don Carlos Buell, March 18, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,        Saint Louis, March 16 , 1862 . Major-General BUELL, Nashville: Move your forces ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, February, 25, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Fort Donelson, February 25 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. G. W. CULLUM, Cairo, Ill.: I wrote you tha...