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Tag Archives: United States Army
6 April 1865: “That Anaconda Tightening!”
Item Description: Bulletin announcing the fall of Richmond and Petersburg as well as the capture of Boone, North Carolina. Item Citation: The Times War Bulletin: New Berne, N.C., Thursday, April 6, 1865, No. 5.: Richmond Ours! Cb970.7 T58n North Carolina … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged newspapers, North Carolina, Richmond, United States Army
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29 March 1865: “I would respectfully request that you direct one or two gunboats to lay in the Appomattox…”
Item Description: Letter from Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. Army, to Rear-Admiral David D. Porter, U.S. Navy, asking that gunboats be positioned in both the Appomattox and James Rivers. Item Citation: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Appomattox, Gunboats, North Atlantic Squadron, Ulysses S. Grant, United States Army, United States Navy, Virginia
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3 September 1864: “they curse Hood beyond all account”
Item Description: Letter, 3 September 1864, from George Washington Baker to his mother. Baker hailed from Washington County, N.Y., and served with Company K, 123rd New York Volunteers in the Civil War. Item Citation: From folder 5 of the George … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 123rd New York Volunteers, Atlanta campaign, General Hood, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, George Washington Baker, United States Army
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4 July 1864: “Your company with lady is requested at a celebration of the 4th of July, to be held in Fort Macon…”
Item Description: An invitation and order of exercises for the First Regiment North Carolina Union Volunteers’ Fourth of July celebration at Fort Macon, North Carolina. The pre-printed invitation is addressed to “Collector Hendricks…with lady.” The celebration included a “National Salute,” … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged celebrations, First Regiment North Carolina Union Volunteers, Fort Macon, Independence Day, invitations, July 4th, social life, United States Army
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15 March 1864: “I should have received “more’n a hundred bushels” of letters from the young ladies”
Item Description: Letter, 15th March 1864, from Edward W. Allen to his parents, James and Emily Allen. Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, during … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Edward W. Allen, Lieutenant John Tinker, union camps, United States Army, Vicksburg
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29 February 1864: “there has been a big battle in Virginia in which the Yankees were as badly whipped as they ever have been.”
Item description: Diary entry, 29 February 1864, written by Samuel Andrew Agnew. Agnew grew up and attended college and seminary in Due West, S.C. In 1852, he moved to Mississippi, and thereafter lived in the northeastern part of the state, chiefly in … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged diaries, Samuel A. Agnew, United States Army
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25 January 1864: “He has had all the shops in Memphis pressed to shoe their horses preparitory to the raid.”
Item description: Diary entry, 25 January 1864, written by Samuel Andrew Agnew. Agnew grew up and attended college and seminary in Due West, S.C. In 1852, he moved to Mississippi, and thereafter lived in the northeastern part of the state, chiefly in … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Gen. William T. Sherman, Samuel A. Agnew, Union raids, United States Army
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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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11 July 1863: “we think that we have got old leigh in a box trap.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 11 July 1863, from Eldridge B. Platt to his family, updating them on the injury he sustained at the Battle of Gettysburg and sharing his thoughts on the war. Click here for an earlier description of his injury … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 2nd Connecticut Light Battery, Battle of Gettysburg, casualties, Eldridge B. Platt, United States Army
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16 May 1863: “one thing I can say I was not in the least scart and filled up my pipe and had a good smoke while the bullets were fling pretty nimbly.”
Item Description: Letter, 16 May 1863, from George Washington Baker to his sister describing the Battle of Chancellorsville. Baker hailed from Washington County, N.Y., and served with Company K, 123rd New York Volunteers in the Civil War. The collection includes letters … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 123rd New York Volunteers, amputations, apples, Battle of Chancellorsville, environment, George Washington Baker, Peaches, prisoners-of-war, United States Army
Comments Off on 16 May 1863: “one thing I can say I was not in the least scart and filled up my pipe and had a good smoke while the bullets were fling pretty nimbly.”