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Showing posts with label Varina Howell Davis. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 27, 1865

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Clear, and coldest morning of the winter. None but the rich speculators and quartermaster and commissary speculators have a supply of food a...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 30, 1865

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[W]e proceeded up the Savannah River, and, on reaching the city, were provided with carriages to examine it and the environs. Savannah has s...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 13, 1865

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Rear-Admiral Porter spent the evening at my house. Among other things he detailed what he saw and knew of Jeff Davis and others in the early...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 21, 1864

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Bright sunshine all day, but cool. Gen. Bragg received a dispatch to day from Gen. Hoke, of Plymouth, N. C., stating that he had (yesterda...
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