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Tag Archives: General Robert E. Lee
4 May 1864: “Why then does he wait for Grant to gather his strength?”
Item description: In this letter, Thomas L. Norwood, wrote from Richmond, Va., to his uncle Walter W. Lenoir, catching him up on news of the 37th North Carolina Troops, Company A. Norwood reported on the prosecution of the case against … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Virginia Cavalry, 37th North Carolina Troops, Battle of Spotsylvania, Colonel William E. Peters, deserters, desertion, General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, George Black, Jeremiah Blackburn, reenlistment, Thomas L. Norwood, Walter Waightstill Lenoir
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11 March 1864: “Beauregard has whipped the Yankees at Mud Creek (where is Mud Creek?)”
Item Description: In this entry dated 11 March 1864, Samuel Agnew, a Presbyterian minister, teacher, farmer, and prominent local citizen in Tippah and Lee counties, Mississippi, reported on some local disputes and third hand news of the war. Confederate Generals Lee, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dalton (Ga.), Florida, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Nathaniel P. Banks, General P.G.T. Beauregard, General Robert E. Lee, General William T. Sherman, Mud Creek, Pearl River, Samuel A. Agnew, Virginia
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22 February 1864: “…being called thither on business with his Excellency the President.”
Item description: Letter, dated 22 February 1864, from Major Charles Scott Venable to Lieutenant General Richard Stoddert Ewell. The letter informs Major Ewell that his commanding General (General Robert E. Lee) would be leaving his position to visit President Jefferson … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles S. Venable, Gen. Richard Stoddert Ewell, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Richmond (V.A.)
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18 November 1863: “he prayed for him last night as he had never prayed for his soul.”
Item Description: Diary entry, 18 November 1863, written Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), a tobacco planter of southwestern Virginia and north central North Carolina, Confederate soldier, and commission merchant. The entry discusses movements of the Confederate army, third party reminiscences of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederate Army, diaries, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, General Robert E. Lee, Peter Wilson Hairston
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16 November 1863: “I know of no more fitting resting place for a brave soldier than the battlefield on which he has laid down his life in the defense of the rights of his Country.”
Item Description: Letter dated 16 November 1863, from Robert E. Lee to R. H. Graves, about locating the remains of Captain H. A. Gordon at Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, casualties, General Robert E. Lee, grief, R.H. Graves
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25 September 1863: “My whole heart & Soul have been with you & your brave Corps in your late battle.”
Item description: In this letter, 25 September 1863, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General James Longstreet with congratulations for brave fighting at the recent Battle of Chickamauga and urged him to return quickly to the Rapidan River in northern … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Chickamauga, General Braxton Bragg, General George Meade, General James Longstreet, General Robert E. Lee, Major General John Bell Hood, Rapidan River
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16 September 1863: “…it is so sweet to me to be petted if it is only by letter.”
Item description: Letter, dated 16 September 1863, from Frances “Fannie” Roulhac Hamilton to her husband, Daniel Heyward Hamilton. She discusses an unidentified illness and the spring where she and others are being treated, as well as the pregnancy of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chattanooga (T.N.), clothing, D. H. Hamilton Jr., Frances Roulhac Hamilton, General Robert E. Lee, health, Hillsborough (N.C.), illness, John Bell Hood, Kittrell's Springs (N.C.), love letters, pregnancy, railroad, Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, Richmond (V.A.), social life
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23 July 1863: “I have made myself a leg which I am beginning to use in walking about the farm.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 23 July 1863, from Walter Waightstill Lenoir to his brother. Walter was a lawyer in Lenoir, N.C. before the war. He had enlisted in the North Carolina 58th Infantry by early 1862 but was wounded at Ox … Continue reading
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Tagged amputations, Emancipation Proclamation, General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg Campaign, slavery
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11 June 1863: “…News from all quarters is that desertion is progressing to an alarming extent and disloyalty is every where increasing and growing bolder”
Item description: In this diary entry of 11 June 1863, David Schenck (1835-1902), who during the war held the post of receiver in Lincoln County, N.C., under the Sequestration Act, confided his doubts about the Confederacy’s chances for success. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged Chief Justice Richmond Mumford Pearson, David Schenck, deserters, desertion, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, Siege of Vicksburg, Wilkes County (N.C.), Yadkin County (N.C.)
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