These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the American Civil War. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk. ...

Virtual exhibition of the Civil War letters of Calvin Shedd, a New Hampshire soldier stationed in South Florida, Archives and Special Collections, Richter Library, University of Miami ...

Extensive information about the president of the Confederacy and his family, including biographical chronology, genealogy, and photographs.

Captain Richard W. Burt Civil War Letters From The 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Introduction 76th Ohio Newspaper Recruiting Ad 1862 Letters to The Coshocton Age Fort Donelson Fort Donelson Poem Corinth Strike For Liberty Memphis Mary Roy Missouri Arkansas Post Phil On Picket In Dixie Vicksburg February 1863 Old Flag Vicksburg May 17, 1863 Vicksburg May 30, 1863 Vicksburg June 10, 1863 Vicksburg ...

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

The Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr, 1838-1919 (covers Sherman's march to the sea) Return to menu Contents Biographical info on James Laughlin Orr Introduction to a Civil War Diary (A talk delivered on November 22, 1960 by Samuel Orr to the Civil War Round Table of Evansville, Indiana) The Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr (November-December 1864) Separate sheet inserted at random into ...

Letters written by A.J. Juckett during the Civl War while on duty with the 2nd Michgan Infantry ...

This site is proud to be associated with the HistoryChannel.com By clicking on the above link, you help support our web site. Thanks! Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary Introduction Click here to see photos of Dwight, Harriet, and their children. Go to page 1 Dwight Henry Cory was born January 23, 1841 in Greene, Trumbull County, Ohio. He was the son of Orin Cory and Polly Phillips and married ...

Follow the colors of the Nineteenth - General Webb Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment By CAPT. JOHN G. B. ADAMS. Captain Jack Adams July 1865 Boston: Wright, Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1899 Editor's Note PREFACE For thirty-four years I have waited patiently for some one to write a history of the 19th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, but fearing that it ...

Index of letters from Samuel S. Dunton to his family while in the 114th New York Infantry during the North American Conflict of 1861-1865 ( Civil War ) Pvt. Samuel S. Dunton Photo by D. Woodworth, Specialite, 444 Broadway, Albany, N.Y. (exact date unknown) These letters were transcribed from the original text by William Dunton c. 1981. There are eleven complete letters and one incomplete letter.

To His Beloved Wife and Children - THE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL OF ANDREW JACKSON NICKELL - Letters home from member of the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Andrew Jackson Nickell was a Federal soldier and active combatant during the Vicksburg Campaign.

Camp near Quincy Oct - 26/61 Dear Sister I thought I would write you a few lines to day as it is not probable that I will have another opportunity of sending you a letter very soon We have no regular mail here so we have to send out letters when ever we can get a chance I am going to send this letter with a man that is going to Keokuk & have it mailed there We are now camped near a small town ...

Mo Dec 28 1862 General Hospital New house of Refuge Ward H, St Louis Dear parents I resume my pen once more for the purpose of writeing you a few lines my health is improveing very fast I think considering I am entirely over the measles coug & I think about over the measles I havent gained my strength yet but my apotite is very good & I think I will be strong in a few days I havent been out of ...

Excerpts From the Diary of a Union Officer in the Civil War September 1864 First Lieutenant Wilson DeGarmo of the 33rd Iowa Volunteers made the following entries in his pocket diary while stationed in Little Rock, Arkansas. The dates follow the style of the diary. Information provided by the publisher, James J. Purcell, Blank Book Manufacturer, in the diary includes 1860 Census figures for the ...

Genl Hospt New house of refuge March 15/63 Dear Mother & sister Louisa this being sunday & as I have not writen to you for some time I thought I would write you a few lines my health is quite good I am geting to be as fat as a pig I have quit nursing in the ward as I did not like to be confined to a sick room so mutch of my time I am now waiting on a table where the teamsters bakers& wash house ...

Duvalls Bluff Ark Sunday morning Sept 27, /63 Dear parents it is with mutch pleasure that I pen you those few lines to tel you know that my health is stil improving. my general health is good, my breast troubles me a little by spels yet think it wil not last long when I wrote you last I expected to of been with the reg before this but have not been able to procure transportation yet as the cars ...

Genl. Hospt H of refuge St Louis Mo Jan. 15/63 Dear Father This is now the 15 of Jan & no letters from you yet I look anxiously from day to day but as often am disapointed one month ago to day I wrote mother a letter & have no ans yet neither have I from the various letters writen to the rest of you I have wrote often as twice a week since that time & will continue to write as long as God give ...

General Hospital N H of refuge St Louis Mo Jan 27 163 Dear Father & Mother I am all anxiety to get a letter from you I havent had a letter from you since the 26 of last month it must be that your letters go to the reg as I have told you to put on the co & regt that is the correct way to direct but at the office they probably on seeing the co & reg on the back of the letter look no further but ...

Excerpts From the Diary of a Union Officer in the Civil War October and early November 1864 Saturday, October 1 I go on Picket - It clears off and we have a very pleasant day. Nothing of special note on picket. Sunday 2 I get to camp about 10 Oclock put in rather a lonesome day. Weather a little cloudy at times but no rain. Our chaplain preached a pretty good sermon for us in the evening.

I suppose you knew ... Emery McColley, born Sept. 3, 1844, at Ashtabula, Ohio, was the 10th of Alexander and Polly McColley's 12 children and the twin brother of Emily McColley (later Humes). He enlisted in Company F, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery on Sept. 1, 1863. On Oct. 3, 1863, the company left for duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C. He describes the end of the war in the following ...

Pvt. James Franklin Freeman and The 22nd Regiment N.C. Troops Second Corps, and later Third Corps Army of Northern Virginia Confederate States of America In all my readings of veterans, and of coolness under fire, I have never conceived of anything surpassing the coolness of our men in this fight. An unnamed officer in the 22nd NC describing the regiment's demeanor during Seven Pines. Part One ...

Roane County TN Civil War Letter history ...

Excerpt from diary by George W. Ervay, volunteer in Stockton's Independent Volunteers Begins January 1, 1863 and goes until July 1, 1863. He was shot in the head on January 2 and died July 6. JANUARY 1 Wee marched for camp arrived at two o'clock Pm distance 15 ms. Wee was in A rekinoiter partey 2 Wee was mustered for two months pay had dress parade at four Pm it has been A vary fine day 3 ...

IN A CHARGE NEAR FORT HELL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN A CHARGE NEAR FORT HELL PETERSBURG, APRIL 2, 1865 By Captain Thomas P. Beals Transcribed by Herbert A Rideout Aug. 1999 Great grandson of Cpl. James A Strout, Company L 31st Maine Text unchanged Where the Jerusalem Plank Road, leading into the city of Petersburg, Va., passed through the ...

LETTERS OF THE HARVARD REGIMENT Many historically significant letters, some transcribed from the collection at the Boston Public Library and published here exclusively for the first time. Civil War Correspondence of Lt. Sumner Paine and musings by a great-great nephew Thomas M. Paine, including A Short Essay: Lt. Sumner Paine and the 20th Mass at Gettysburg TWO HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT ...

Levi Pennington's Last Letter Levi Pennington was a Lieutenant under Sherman, who later received a field promotion to Captain. The promotion was confirmed by act of Congress but Pennington died at Chickasaw Bluffs, Vicksburg Mississippi, before the paper work was processed. Camp Wolf River Near Memphis, Tennessee December 9, 1862 My Dear Wife, Children, Father, Mother I once more take the ...

The speech below was written by Augustus M. Erwin, Captain, Co. E. 117 Reg t. N.Y. Infantry. Some of his recollections of the Civil War are noted in his hand-written draft of a speech he made at the National Encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) at their twenty-first meeting on September 11, 1888. Augustus M. Erwin was born on January 19, 1843. He graduated from the Cleveland ...