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Tag Archives: casualties
15 July 1862: “…We have been compelled by the pressure of our enemies to give up more of our mother state to their brutal army.”
Item description: Letter, 15 July 1862, from Robert W. Parker of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry to his wife, Rebecca Louise Fitzhugh Walker Parker, at home in Bedford County, Va. Parker wrote of his company’s retreat from Culpeper to Rapidan Station, … Continue reading
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Tagged casualties, Chapel Hill, conscription, Culpeper, Gen. Richard Stoddert Ewell, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, railroads, Rapidan Station, Robert W. Parker
Comments Off on 15 July 1862: “…We have been compelled by the pressure of our enemies to give up more of our mother state to their brutal army.”
8 July 1862: “The remainder will march to the cannons mouth and Stab The yankee gunners to The heart Unawed by superior numbers or the display of burnished weppons and dazling unaforms”
Item description: Letter, 8 July 1862, from William C. McClellan of the 9th Alabama Infantry to his brother, Robert Anderson McClellan, in which he described the Seven Days Battle with McClellan’s forces near Richmond. He wrote of the heavy Confederate … Continue reading
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Tagged 9th Alabama Infantry, casualties, Chickahominy River, Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, Gen. George McClellan, James River, Richmond, Robert Anderson McClellan, Seven Days Battles, William C. McClellan
Comments Off on 8 July 1862: “The remainder will march to the cannons mouth and Stab The yankee gunners to The heart Unawed by superior numbers or the display of burnished weppons and dazling unaforms”
3 July 1862: “It fell to my lot – being officer of the guard today – to give him a burial…”
Item description: Letter, 3 July 1862, from Union soldier Stephen Tippet Andrews to his beloved, Margaret (Maggie) Little. For an introduction to the correspondence between Andrews and Little, please see our post of 11 February 1862. [Transcription available below images.] … Continue reading
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Tagged casualties, Independence Day, Margaret Little Andrews, Richmond, Seven Days Battles, Stephen Tippet Andrews
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2 July 1862: “It becomes my painful duty to inform you of the death of your son John. R. Smith, a member of my company.”
Item description: Letter, 2 July 1862, from Edward M. Hardy, Captain of Company G, 6th Virginia Infantry Regiment, informing Rev. Aristides Spyker Smith (1809-1892) of the death of his son Johnathan “Johnnie” Reynolds Smith (1836-1862). Johnnie was killed on 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Aristides Spyker Smith, Battle of Malvern Hill, casualties, death notifications, Edward M. Hardy, Johnathan Reynolds Smith, Seven Days Battles, Virginia
Comments Off on 2 July 1862: “It becomes my painful duty to inform you of the death of your son John. R. Smith, a member of my company.”
22 June 1862: “Dear Parents…Well I was in the fight on the 16th & got slightly wounded in the Right Arm just below the Shoulder.”
Item description: This letter, dated 22 June 1862, was written by William Cooley to his parents in Connecticutt. A member of the Connecticutt Volunteers, Cooley recounts the horror of assaulting fixed Confederate positions near Hilton Head, South Carolina. Wounded in … Continue reading
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Tagged casualties, Connecticut, Hilton Head, South Carolina, William Cooley
Comments Off on 22 June 1862: “Dear Parents…Well I was in the fight on the 16th & got slightly wounded in the Right Arm just below the Shoulder.”
2 June 1862: “Peter shall be as well cared for as if the General were alive. His grief at the loss of the General is most touching & draws out the sympathies of all of us.”
Item description: Letter, dated 2 June 1862, from Louis Gourdin Young, aide-de-camp to Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew (CSA). The letter appears to be addressed to the General’s brother, William S. Pettigrew. In his message, Young delivers a report on … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Seven Pines, body servants, casualties, James Johnston Pettigrew, Louis Gourdin Young, Peninsula Campaign, Peter, Pettigrew family, slavery, slaves, Virginia, William Pettigrew
Comments Off on 2 June 1862: “Peter shall be as well cared for as if the General were alive. His grief at the loss of the General is most touching & draws out the sympathies of all of us.”
1 April 1862: “The President does things pretty much in his own way, without consulting anyone and takes the responsibility upon himself and has give us a cabinet which is not satisfactory to the country.”
Item description: Letter, Burgess S. Gaither to Thomas Ruffin, 1 April 1862. Gaither, a Burke County, N.C., politician and member of the Confederate Congress wrote of the military disaster in which Roanoke Island was lost and the resulting investigation. He … Continue reading
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Tagged artillery, Burgess S. Gaither, casualties, Col. Henry M. Shaw, Gen. Benjamin Huger, Gen. D. H. Hill, Gen. Henry A. Wise, Gen. Lawrence O. Branch, Gen. Richard C. Gatlin, Gen. Walter Gwynn, Jefferson Davis, Roanoke Island, Thomas Ruffin
Comments Off on 1 April 1862: “The President does things pretty much in his own way, without consulting anyone and takes the responsibility upon himself and has give us a cabinet which is not satisfactory to the country.”
7 March 1862: “A great many bodies have been taken up and still the woods are thick with groups of graves with rudely carved boards for tombstones to show where their last remains repose.”
Item description: Letter, 7 March 1862, from Robert Stuart Finley to his fiancee, Mary A. Cabeen. Finley was a member of the 30th Illinois Infantry, a Union regiment engaged in the siege and taking of Fort Donelson on the 13th, … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th Illinois Infantry Regiment, casualties, Fort Donelson, Illinois, Mary A. Cabeen, provisions, Robert Stuart Finley, Tennessee
Comments Off on 7 March 1862: “A great many bodies have been taken up and still the woods are thick with groups of graves with rudely carved boards for tombstones to show where their last remains repose.”