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Tag Archives: Chickahominy River
7 June 1864: “we may take our Southern Confederacy and go to h__ll with it”
Item Description: Letter from William Martin. He told of being involved in hard marching and heavy fighting at the battle of Cold Harbor near Chickahominy, Va. (7 June 1864). In the same letter, he noted that General Lee’s army was … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Chickahominy (Va), Chickahominy River, Cold Harbor, food, Martindale (N.C.)
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4 June 1864: “I apprehend from the quietude the enemy has preserved today that he is preparing to leave us tonight, and I fear will cross the Chickahominy.”
Item description: Dispatch, dated 4 June 1864, from Robert E. Lee to Richard H. Anderson, written during the Battle of Cold Harbor. Item Citation: From the Edward Porter Alexander Papers #00007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Cold Harbor, Chickahominy River, Cold Harbor, dispatches, Richard H. Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Virginia
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8 July 1862: “The remainder will march to the cannons mouth and Stab The yankee gunners to The heart Unawed by superior numbers or the display of burnished weppons and dazling unaforms”
Item description: Letter, 8 July 1862, from William C. McClellan of the 9th Alabama Infantry to his brother, Robert Anderson McClellan, in which he described the Seven Days Battle with McClellan’s forces near Richmond. He wrote of the heavy Confederate … Continue reading
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Tagged 9th Alabama Infantry, casualties, Chickahominy River, Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, Gen. George McClellan, James River, Richmond, Robert Anderson McClellan, Seven Days Battles, William C. McClellan
Comments Off on 8 July 1862: “The remainder will march to the cannons mouth and Stab The yankee gunners to The heart Unawed by superior numbers or the display of burnished weppons and dazling unaforms”