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Showing posts with label Wesley Merritt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wesley Merritt. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Major-General Philip H. Sheridan to Brevet Major-General Wesley Merritt, November 2, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,                 November 27 , 1864 . Bvt. Maj. Gen. WESLEY MERRITT, Commanding First Cavalry D...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Major-General Philip H. Sheridan to Lieutenant-General Ulysses. S. Grant, August 17, 1864—9 p.m.

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BERRYVILLE, VA ., August 17 , 1864 — 9 p.m. Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: All your dispatches h...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 8

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The Tenth Vermont, Fourteenth New Jersey and the rest of our brigade as usual, not only proudly led the Division at first by a good deal in...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 19, 1864 – Part 6

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The distance locally from where we crossed the Opequan to Winchester is called five miles; and to where we formed line of battle three mile...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, September 18, 1864

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It's cloudy with a gentle south breeze. We had company inspection at 9 o'clock this forenoon and monthly at 4 o'clock this afte...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, October 17, 1864

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Cedar Creek , Oct. 17, '64. There's really nothing to tell here; I never have anything to tell even to E. We are in a glorious ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, October 14, 1864

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CEDAR CREEK, Oct. 14, 1864. You’re an innocent. Go on with the shoulder-straps, you needn’t be expecting any change, — those eagles wil...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, October 10, 1864 – 12 p.m.

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Near Strasburg , Monday, Oct. 10. It's just noon, and we have gone into camp for the day in a lovely green field with plenty of for...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Tuesday Evening, September 20, 1864

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Tuesday evening (September 20). We had a very successful action yesterday, and the cavalry did well. Both the other brigades of the di...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, September 8, 1864 – 9 p.m.

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Near Summit , 9 P. M., Sept. 8, 1864. To-day has quite changed the face of things, — the Third Brigade (my brigade) has been broken up:...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, August 9, 1864

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Halltown, Aug. 9, 1864. I've been ever so busy lately; I've hardly had time to sleep or think, except Sunday, when I slept all ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 5, 1865

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April 5, 1865 Last night, at 9.30, came a note from Sheridan, dated at Jetersville, saying that he was there, entrenched, with the 5th ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Special Orders, Headquarters Armies of the United States, April 9, 1865

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SPECIAL ORDERS.] HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, In the Field, April 9 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. John Gibbon, Bvt. Maj. Gen. Char...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Ely S. Parker to Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, March 30, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, March 30 , 1865 — 12 . 10 p.m. Brig. Gen. JOHN A. RAWLINS: GENERAL: A messenger just in ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 5, 1864

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February 5, 1864. General Humphreys sent for me and showed me a cipher correspondence between Butler and Halleck, and Halleck and Sedgw...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, May 10, 1865

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CAMP OPPOSITE RICHMOND, May 10, 1865. I wrote you on arrival from Savannah at Old Point. I got here yesterday and found my Army all in....
Monday, July 1, 2013

Official Reports of the Battle of Gettysburg: No. 337 Report of Brig. Gen. John Buford, U.S. Army, commanding First Division.

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HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, August 27 , 1863 . COLONEL: I have the honor to make the following report of the operations of t...