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Tag Archives: Virginia
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
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
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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11 February 1864: “…should my life be spared through this war, I should so much like to have a little daughter to cheer our home.”
Item Description: Letter dated 11 February 1864, from Samuel J. C. Moore to his wife, Ellen, describing a skirmish at Morton’s Ford on the Rapidan River. Samuel J. C. Moore, lawyer and planter of Berryville, Clarke County, Va., was an … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, African American soldiers, negroes, Rapidan River, Samuel J. C. Moore, Virginia, yankees
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11 December 1863: “… you can come on to join me if you still remain in the same mind and wish to come.”
Item description: Letter, dated 11 December 1863, from Bryan Grimes to his wife, Charlotte Emily Bryan Grimes in Raleigh , N.C. In this letter, he urges her to take the opportunity to visit him at camp near Morton’s Ford, Virginia. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp visits, Virginia
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5 December 1863: “… the Rebels it appears have Smelt a rat and have all Skedadeled moving up towards Verginia…”
Item description: Letter, dated 5 December 1863, from Chauncey B. Welton to his parents. He describes troop movements in eastern North Carolina near Greenville and mentions having gotten through “the Siege” all right. [item transcription available below images] Item citation: … Continue reading
3 December 1863: “…a few days will certainly determine the course of the winter’s campaign.”
Item description: Letter, dated 3 December 1863, from Stephen D. Ramseur to his wife, Ellen Richmond Ramseur. He describes engagements in Virginia and a Union retreat that may have been part of the Mine Run campaign. [transcription available below images] … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged engagements, Gen. Robert E. Rodes, Stephen Ramseur, Virginia
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2 December 1863: “They burned and sacked houses, tanyards & blacksmith shops, broke open smoke houses, carried off Mr. Horace Lacy’s library and committed havoc generally.”
Item description: Entry, dated 2 December 1863, from the Civil War diary of Peter W. Hairston. Item citation: From the Peter Wilson Hairston Papers #299, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Dec. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Culpeper, diaries, Germanna, Peter Wilson Hairston, Virginia
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30 November 1863: “Praying that I may come out unhurt and that God will spare me to return home […]”
Item description: Letter, dated 30 November 1863, from James A. Graham to his mother, Susannah Sarah Washington Graham. He writes from the “line of battle” in Virginia, describing maneuvers and engagements of the Mine Run Campaign. Item citation: From folder … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Anderson, battle, Cadmus Wilcox, General William Whedbee Kirkland, James A. Graham, Joseph Graham, Mine Run Campaign, Richard H. Anderson, skirmishes, Susannah Washington Graham, troop movements, Virginia
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15 November 1863: “I am well aware that an escape from prison is attended with much difficulty as well as danger.”
Item description: Entry from a diary kept by Willard W. Glazier, who enlisted as a private in the “2nd Regiment of N. Y. Cavalry (Harris Light)” early in the war. He was captured by soldiers of the Confederate Army on … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 2nd New York Cavalry, disease, escapees, Libby Prison, prisoner, prisoner-of-war, prisoners, prisoners or war, Richmond (V.A.), Richmond prisons, soldier conditions, surgeons, treatment of prisoners, United States Army, Virginia, Willard W. Glazier
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10 November 1863: Union general Benjamin F. Butler assumes command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina
Item Description: Envelope (ca. 1860s?) showing a map of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, and a portrait of General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army. On November 10, 1863, General Butler assumed command of the Department of Virginia and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged envelopes, Fort Monroe, General Benjamin Franklin Butler, maps, North Carolina, pictorial envelopes, Virginia
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28 September 1863: “Lieutenant-Commander Gillis reported that ‘the blockade running in Mobjack Bay had been effectually stopped by placing the schooner Samuel Rotan at the mouth of York River.'”
Item description: “Report of Captain Gansevoort, U. S. Navy.” In this document, Captain Guert Gansevoort reports to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy (United States), on naval actions and blockade running around Mobjack Bay (between the York and Rappahannock Rivers), … Continue reading
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Tagged blockade, blockade running, Gideon Welles, Guert Gansevoort, Mobjack Bay, naval, naval operations, Newport News, reports, United States Navy, Virginia
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