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Saturday, April 13, 2024
Diary of Private Louis Leon: January 1865
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Nothing, only that I fear that our cause is lost, as we are losing heavily, and have no more men at home to come to the army. Our resources ...
Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 1865
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The smallpox is frightful. There is not a day that at least twenty men are taken out dead. Cold is no name for the weather now. They have gi...
Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 1865
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Nothing new. It is the same gloomy and discouraging news from the South, and gloomy and discouraging in prison. SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary...
Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 1865
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I suppose the end is near, for there is no more hope for the South to gain her independence. On the 10th of this month we were told by an of...
Friday, April 12, 2024
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, March 1, 1862
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Passing on through Shelbyville, crossing Duck River, we went into camps on its bank in sight of town, in Bedford County, twenty-five miles f...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, March 4, 1862
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Johnston dispatched thus to the Secretary of War from Shelbyville: My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigad...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, March 5, 1862
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Passing on through Fayetteville, crossing Elk River, we went into camps on its bank half a mile from town, in Lincoln County. Had another ni...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, March 7, 1862
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After a march of about seven miles in the direction of Athens, Alabama, we camped for the night in a barren, swampy country, in Lincoln Coun...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, March 8, 1862
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After a march of eleven miles through a broken country, we camped in an oak grove, still in Lincoln County, Tennessee. SOURCE: Richard R. ...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, March 9, 1862
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We marched through a section of country the principal growth of which was post-oak. There were so many quicksand bogs that it was difficult ...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, March 10, 1862
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Passing on through Athens, we went into camps about two miles beyond. Distance from Fayetteville, Tennessee, to Athens, Alabama, thirty-eigh...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, March 11, 1862
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After mounting and moving out, perhaps, one mile and a half in the direction of Decatur, we were ordered back to the same camp we had just l...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, March 12, 1862
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The battalion moved only about six miles and went into camps. The artillery moved on still further in the direction of Decatur. SOURCE: Ri...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Thursday, March 13, 1862
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Our battalion crossed the Tennessee River on the railroad bridge at Decatur, and went into camps about one mile west of town. The artillery ...
Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, March 14, 1862
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About dusk there was an awful storm of wind and rain. It was all we could do to keep our tents from blowing off. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancoc...
General Albert S. Johnston to Judah P. Benjamin, March 4, 1862
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SHELBYVILLE, March 4 , 1862 . J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War: My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigade ...
Diary of Adam Gurowski, April 1861
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COMMISSIONERS from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, w...
General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 2, 1881—8:45 a.m.
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co., Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 1881. Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 8.45 A.M. ...
General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 2, 1881—3 p.m.
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co., Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 1881. Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 3 P.M. ...
General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 3, 1881—4:15 p.m.
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO., WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 1881. Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 4.15 P.M. To Ho...
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