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Monthly Archives: April 2013
30 April 1863: “I would not therefore encumber myself with artillery, but would take the best guns and horses. Use however your judgment.”
Item description: Letter, dated 30 April 1863, from Robert E. Lee to Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. According to a note pasted on the letter, it was Lee’s last official letter to Jackson prior to the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson was wounded on 2 May … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Charles William Dabney, Gen. Thomas Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Lewis Dabney, Stonewall Jackson
Comments Off on 30 April 1863: “I would not therefore encumber myself with artillery, but would take the best guns and horses. Use however your judgment.”
29 April 1863: “Today Genl Lee came over to my position and we had a long con-versation with each other…”
Item Description: Letter, dated 29 April 1863, from General Lafayette McLaws, a Confederate officer from Savannah, Georgia. It it he writes to his wife, Emily Allison Taylor McLaws, discussing the Chancellorsville campaign, relating a story of a North Carolina regiment … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Lafayette McLaws, Robert E. Lee
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28 April 1863: “Warm and rainy. Our guard is the same, however, rain or no rain.”
Item description: Brief entry, dated 28 April 1863, from Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass., Dep’t of No. Carolina, an account, written by John Jasper Wyeth of Co. E, of the experiences of the 44th Massachusetts … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, John Jasper Wyeth, Massachusetts, published accounts, Washington (N.C)
Comments Off on 28 April 1863: “Warm and rainy. Our guard is the same, however, rain or no rain.”
27 April 1863: Drawing of the U.S.S. Steamer Allison, by Herbert E. Valentine
Item description: Drawing, dated 27 April 1863, of the U.S.S. Monitor, drawn by Herbert E. Valentine, a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers, who served in the United States Army between 1861 and 1864 in eastern Virginia, North … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged drawings, Herbert Valentine, Union soldiers, United States Navy
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26 April 1863: “…we are in the best quarters we have had since leaving Boston, so we ought not to grumble.”
Item description: Diary entry, dated 26 April 1863, by John J. Wythe, who served in Co. E of the 44th Massachusetts Volunteers. He describes his accommodations (a house on Broad Street) in New Bern, North Carolina, during the Union Army’s … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts, 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, diaries, diary, food, housing, John Jasper Wyeth, New Bern, North Carolina, occupation, occupied territory, published diaries, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers, United States Army
Comments Off on 26 April 1863: “…we are in the best quarters we have had since leaving Boston, so we ought not to grumble.”
25 April 1863: Nine iron clad Monitors attacked Fort Sumter and the other defences of Charleston on the 10th and were signally defeated
Item description: Diary entry, April 25, 1863 of David Schenck (1835-1902). Item citation: From folder 4 (volume 3) of the David Schenck Papers #652, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
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24 April 1863: “Every day serves to increase my anxiety to exchange my present service for some other less laborious and equally necessary branch.”
Item description: Letter, dated April 24th, 1863 from Ruffin Thompson to his father, William H. Thompson. In it he recounts details of camp life and his failed attempts to transfer to a less physically taxing position. Item citation: From folder … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp life, food shortage, Fredericksburg, Ruffin Thomson, William H. Thompson
Comments Off on 24 April 1863: “Every day serves to increase my anxiety to exchange my present service for some other less laborious and equally necessary branch.”
23 April 1863: “…yesterday I went down to the river and ketched some fish and I fride them for breakfast so I had good breakfast…”
Item Description: Letter, dated 23 April 1863, from Eldridge B. Platt to his sister Adelah E. Platt. More about Eldridge B. Platt: Eldridge B. Platt (b. 1847) enlisted as a drummer in the 2nd Connecticut Light Battery on 12 August 1862. By … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged food, teachers, Union soldiers, weather
Comments Off on 23 April 1863: “…yesterday I went down to the river and ketched some fish and I fride them for breakfast so I had good breakfast…”
22 April 1863: “The whole district is against us & no certain information can be gained any where.”
Item Description: Letter, 22 April 1863, from John McRae to Peter Mallett about McRae’s efforts to round up deserters in Wake County, N.C.John McRae (1793-1880) served as postmaster at Fayetteville, N.C., with his father, Duncan, 1801-1853. He then went into private business … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged deserters, John McRae, Neuse River, Peter Mallett, wake county
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21 April 1863: “Okra the best Substitute for Coffee”
Item Description: “Okra the best Substitute for Coffee” (newspaper article), The Daily Journal (Wilmington, N. C.), 21 April 1863, page 2. Transcription: Okra the best Substitute for Coffee Everybody, we presume, knows how to cultivate Okra. It is a most delicious table vegetable, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged blockade, coffee, newspapers, okra, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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