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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Diary of Henry Greville: Tuesday, September 24, 1861
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Clifden. was married yesterday by special licence at St. James's Church. The bride was lovely to behold, full of grace and graciousness ...
Diary of Henry Greville: Tuesday, November 5, 1861
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Hatchford. I have been at Frognal and Hillingdon and came here yesterday. When at the former place I received a letter from Fanny Kemble, wh...
Diary of Henry Greville: Wednesday, November 27, 1861
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Wrest . I came here on Monday. The party is composed of Dowager Lady Spencer and Lady Sarah, Lord and Lady Proby, Dufferin, A. Egerton, E. L...
Diary of Henry Greville: Saturday, November 30, 1861
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London . I came back yesterday, and this morning heard that the Cabinet had decided, on the advice of the law officers, that the act of the ...
Diary of Henry Greville: Monday, December 2, 1861
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London . The 'Persia' arrived at Queenstown yesterday, having left New York on the 20th. The American newspapers are full of quotati...
Diary of Henry Greville: Thursday, December 5, 1861
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Hatchford . It was asserted some days ago, and it was generally believed, that old General Scott, who has lately come to France from America...
Monday, March 31, 2025
General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, April 1, 1865
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HEADQUARTERS, April 1 , 1865 . His Excellency President DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: General Beauregard has been ordered to make arrang...
Major General Godfrey Weitzel: To The People Of Virginia, April 11, 1865
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The undersigned, members of the Legislature of the State of Virginia, in connection with a number of the citizens of the State, whose names ...
Major General Edward O. C. Ord to Abraham Lincoln, April 13, 1865
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RICHMOND, VA., April 13 , 1865 . His Excellency A. LINCOLN, President of the United States: Copy of order to be published in t...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 1, 1865
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Clear and pleasant. Walked to the department. We have vague and incoherent accounts from excited couriers of fighting, without result, in Di...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 2, 1865
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Bright and beautiful. The tocsin was sounded this morning at daybreak, and the militia ordered to the fortifications, to relieve some regime...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 3, 1865
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Another clear and bright morning. It was a quiet night, with its million of stars. And yet how few could sleep, in anticipation of the entra...
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 4, 1865
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Another bright and beautiful day. I walked around the burnt district this morning. Some seven hundred houses, from Main Street to the cana...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 5, 1865
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Bright and pleasant. Stayed with my next door neighbors at their request last night—all females. It was quiet; and so far the United State...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 6, 1865
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Showery morning. I perceive no change, except, perhaps, a diminution of troops, which seems to confirm the reports of recent battles, and ...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 7, 1865
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Slight showers. Wm. Ira Smith, tailor, and part owner of the Whig, has continued the publication as a Union paper. I visited the awful c...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 8, 1865
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Bright and pleasant weather. We are still in uncertainty as to our fate, or whether an oath of allegiance will be demanded. Efforts by J...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 9, 1865
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Bright and beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the President was omitted, by a previous understanding. Rev...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 10, 1865
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Raining. I was startled in bed by the sound of cannon from the new southside fort again. I suppose another hundred guns were fired; and I le...
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 11, 1865
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Cloudy and misty. It is reported that Gen. Johnston has surrendered his army in North Carolina, following the example of Gen. Lee. But no sa...
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