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Showing posts with label Wm H French. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Major-General Alfred Pleasonton to Major-General William H. French, July 5, 1863 – Received 11 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 5 , 1863 .     (Received 11 a.m.) Major-General FRENCH: GENERAL: Major-General Meade desir...

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 6, 1863 – 7 p.m.

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SOLDIERS’ HOME, [ Washington, ] July 6 , 1863 — 7 p.m. Major-General HALLECK: I left the telegraph office a good deal dissatisf...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 15, 1863

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The Tredegar Iron Works and Crenshou's woolen factory were mostly destroyed by fire last night! This is a calamityWe have also intellig...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 24, 1863

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We lost five fine guns and over a hundred men on the Nansemond; and we learn that more of the enemy's gunboats and transports have pass...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 22, 1863

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The President is reported to be very ill to-day — dangerously ill — with inflammation of the throat, etc. While this is a source of grief t...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 19, 1863

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The resignation of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has been accepted by the President. It was well done — the acceptance, I mean. Who will Gen. Wind...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Diary of John Hay: July 16, 1863

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Nicolay leaves to-day for the Rocky Mountains. . .   Had a little talk with the President about Milroy. Says Halleck thinks Schenck never h...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 23, 1863

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The Northern papers are filled with what purports to be the intercepted correspondence of Mr. Benjamin with Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Lord...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 11, 1863

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The message of Gov. Seymour, of New York, if I am not mistaken in its import and purposes, will have a distracting effect on the subjugatio...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 8, 1863

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Gen. French writes that the enemy at Suffolk and Newbern amounted to 45,000; and this force now threatens Weldon and Wilmington, and we hav...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, March 25, 1864

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Chilly wind from the southeast; very cloudy; looks like rain; Company drill from 10 to 11 a. m. Our Third Division of the Third Corps has b...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, March 15, 1864

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Cold but pleasant; no wind; four hours' drill today, but I was excused being so busy at the chapel. I forgot to mention that Captain J....
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, March 8, 1864

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It has been raining quite hard all day. The entertainment did not close last night till 2 a. m. today; have been returning the things borro...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, February 25, 1864

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Pleasant but windy. General French reviewed our division to-day — the Third of the Third Corps; muster and payrolls have come; after review...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade’s General Orders, No. 101, November 9, 1863

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 101. HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, November 9 , 1863 . The commanding general congratulates the army upon the r...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Official Reports of the Mine Run (Virginia) Campaign: No. 77. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps.

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No. 77. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps. Headquarters Sixth Army Corps, December 4, 1...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to Major-General William H. French, September 1, 1863

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Headquarters 6th Corps, Warrenton , September 1, 1863. My dear French: It has been suggested by some of the friends of General Mc...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Captain Richard F. Halstead to Miss Sedgwick, July 17, 1863

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Camp Near Berlin, Maryland, July 17, 1863. My dear Miss Sedgwick: As you no doubt already know, from newspapers if not from letters...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 1, 1863

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POOLESVILLE, July 1, 1863. On Friday night at half past ten, I got orders to report next day to General Slocum. As I had to get in my p...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 13, 1864

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July 13, 1864 . . . I hear this evening that General Wright has been put in command of all forces to repel the invasion. 1 But our att...