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Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts
Friday, January 14, 2022

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel J. Nasmith to Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins, July 1, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS 25TH WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,           Snyder's Bluff, Miss., July 1, 1863. SIR: In compliance with orders dated Head...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, December 6, 1864

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CAMP RUSSELL NEAR WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, December 6, 1864. DEAR MOTHER: — I received your cheerful letter on Sunday. It finds us in the best ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 23, 1862

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Moved our camp two miles up the road toward Richmond. It is a very bad camp—low ground and muddy. But there is a factory here, and plenty o...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 17, 1864 — 12 a.m.

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Near Jackson, Ga., November 17, 1864, 12 a.m. Have just had our coffee. Marched some 17 miles to-day. Begin to see where the “rich plan...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

In The Review Queue: The Better Angels

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The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America by Robert C. Plumb Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara B...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 14, 1864

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July 14, 1864. Another hot day. We marched down to the river at Roswell and crossed it, and have gone into camp on the bank a mile abov...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 14, 1861

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At six o'clock this morning the steamer arrived at the wharf under the walls of Fortress Monroe, which presented a very different appea...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Gerrit Smith: The True Office of Civil Government, April 14, 1851

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[Delivered at Troy, New York, April 14, 1851.] The legitimate action of Civil Government is very simple. Its legitimate range is very n...