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Tag Archives: Hilton Head
15 August 1864: “my heart is tonight agitated and troubled”
Item Description: Diary entry dated 15 August 1864 from Sarah Lois Wadley. She writes about her brother Willie returning to camp and the rumors that she has heard about the fighting around her. Item Citation: From volume 4 (folder 5) … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta (G.A.), diaries, diary, Fort Macon, Hilton Head, Oconee railroad, Sarah Lois Wadley
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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
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28 January 1862: “for while my pen moves over the paper my blood rushes in my veins. for roar roar roar so[u]nds on my ear and makes the very ground quiver and tremble where I sit.”
Item description: Letter, 28 January 1862, from Emmett Cole, a Union soldier in Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, at Beaufort, S.C., to his friend Jo in Michigan. Cole’s letter comments on the noise of artillery firing; rumors of England … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry, Beaufort, cannon fire, Emmett Cole, England, General Isaac Stevens, Hilton Head, homefront, homesickness, Small Pox
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9 December 1861: “It would do you good to hear the slaves tell about their masters leaving”
Item description: Letter from Emmett Cole, Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, to his sister, Celestia. His letter describes the work of striking camp at Hilton Head; the scenery while traveling by boat on the Port Royal River to Beaufort, … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry, camp life, food, Hilton Head, picket duty, Port Royal, slaves, South Carolina
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17 November 1861: “we will soon have the Island fortified so strong that the whole south cannot take it.”
Item description: Letter, 17 November 1861, from Emmett Cole, Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, to his sister Celestia. Written from Hilton Head Island, S.C., several days after the Battle of Port Royal. Emmett Cole of Barry County, Mich., was … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Battle of Port Royal, Emmett Cole, Hilton Head, South Carolina
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