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Tag Archives: Virginia
19 February 1863: “…you can, cooperating with General Foster’s land force, destroy the rebel ironclads building on the rivers…”
Item description: “Order of Acting Rear-Admiral Lee, U. S. Navy, to Commander Murray, U. S. Navy, to cooperate with land force for the destruction of Confederate ironclads under construction.” To read more from the Official Records of the Union and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Alexander Murray, Confederate Navy, ironclads, naval, naval operations, Neuse River, New Bern, Newport News, North Carolina, Plymouth (N.C.), Roanoke River, S.P. Lee, sounds, Tar River, U.S.S. Minnesota, United States Navy, Virginia
Comments Off on 19 February 1863: “…you can, cooperating with General Foster’s land force, destroy the rebel ironclads building on the rivers…”
23 January 1863: “so my commission into the staff of General Stuart is at an end. It is with great regret that I leave him.”
Item description: Letter, 23 January 1863, from William W. Blackford, near Orange Court House, Va., to William M. Blackford, expressing his regrets at leaving Gen. Jeb Stuart’s staff. Item citation: From folder 84 in the Blackford Family Papers #1912, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Blackford Family, cavalry, Jeb Stuart, military commission, Virginia, William W. Blackford
Comments Off on 23 January 1863: “so my commission into the staff of General Stuart is at an end. It is with great regret that I leave him.”
9 January 1863: “I havent opened my snack yet”
Item description: Letter, dated 9 January 1863, from Robert W. Parker, describing rejoining the Army of the Northern Virginia in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Parker was born in 1838 in Pittsylvania County, Va. His father, Ammon H. Parker, and mother, Frances Goggin Parker, eventually … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia, Robert Parker, Spotsylvania, Virginia
Comments Off on 9 January 1863: “I havent opened my snack yet”
1 January 1863: “Today is the period fixed for Mr. Lincoln’s unwise and unconstitutional emancipation proclamation…Thousands of the Poor deluded Negroes have left their homes…”
Item Description: Rev. Overton Bernard depicts the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the enslaved African Americans. Item citation: From folder 2 of the Overton and Jesse Bernard Diaries #62-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged African Americans, Emancipation Proclamation, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Rev. Overton Bernard, Virginia
Comments Off on 1 January 1863: “Today is the period fixed for Mr. Lincoln’s unwise and unconstitutional emancipation proclamation…Thousands of the Poor deluded Negroes have left their homes…”
30 December 1862: “Let me know whether I can get ten bunches (bales we call them) of cotton…”
Item Description: Letter, 30 December 1862, from John R. Wilson to J.&J. H. Webb. James Webb (20 February 1774-17 February 1855), physician of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., a founder of the North Carolina State Medical Society, Presbyterian educational leader and … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged business, cotton, debts, North Carolina, Virginia
Comments Off on 30 December 1862: “Let me know whether I can get ten bunches (bales we call them) of cotton…”
15 December 1862: “It is my painful duty to write you a few lines informing you of the death of your son, cousin Benjamin N. Long.”
Item description: Letter, 15 December 1862, from James W. Jones to his uncle John Long informing him of the death of his son, Benjamin N. Long. The Long family of Alamance County, N.C., included John Long and Letitia R. Long … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 3rd Arkansas Regiment, Battle of Fredericksburg, Benjamin N. Long, chaplains, death notifications, Fredericksburg, John Long, Long family, Virginia
Comments Off on 15 December 1862: “It is my painful duty to write you a few lines informing you of the death of your son, cousin Benjamin N. Long.”
27 October 1862: “Four companies of infantry sent down here on the steamer Belvidere have mutinied and refuse to leave the boat.”
Item description: Telegrams, dated 27 October 1862, between Brigadier General H.H. Lockwood and Acting Rear Admiral S.P. Lee, concerning an apparent mutiny of Union soldiers at Drummondtown, Va. To read more from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Drummondtown, H.H. Lockwood, mutiny, S.P. Lee, U.S.S. Belvidere, Virginia
Comments Off on 27 October 1862: “Four companies of infantry sent down here on the steamer Belvidere have mutinied and refuse to leave the boat.”
19 October 1862: “it is with a heavy and sorrowful heart, to inform you that I am at Richmond, wounded & am also in bad health…”
Item description: Letter, 19 October 1862, from William A. Collins, private in Company C, 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, to his parents in Statesville, N.C. More about William A. Collins: William A. Collins of Statesville, N.C., was born into a … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Sharpsburg, McLaws Division, North Carolina, Virginia, William A. Collins
Comments Off on 19 October 1862: “it is with a heavy and sorrowful heart, to inform you that I am at Richmond, wounded & am also in bad health…”
18 October 1862: “I am very short of Officers. I haven’t a single field or staff officer present.”
Item description: Letter, 18 October 1862, from Colonel Isaac E. Avery, 6th Regiment N.C. State Troops, to his sister, Laura, Morganton, Burke County, N.C. In the letter Avery discusses vaccinations, promotions among his surgeons, and the movements of Branch’s Brigade, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Avery family, Burke County, field officers, Isaac Erwin Avery, Morganton, Virginia, Winchester
Comments Off on 18 October 1862: “I am very short of Officers. I haven’t a single field or staff officer present.”
17 October 1862: “I, who always tryed to shirk everything in name of work, had to hatch up something to do, so I hit upon the plan of making a set of chessmen, I have whittled out quite a number out of Black Walnut…”
Item description: Letter, 17 October 1862, from William H. Broughton to his father. More about William H. Broughton: William H. Broughton mustered into the Union Army on 4 August 1862 and was later made captain of Company D, 16th Maine … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 16th Maine Infantry Regiment, boredom, camp life, games, Maine, Sharpsburg, Virginia, William H. Broughton
Comments Off on 17 October 1862: “I, who always tryed to shirk everything in name of work, had to hatch up something to do, so I hit upon the plan of making a set of chessmen, I have whittled out quite a number out of Black Walnut…”