Monday, 13th–We left this morning at 3 o’clock on our return trip via Black river bridge, with a train of two hundred and fifty empty wagons. We took with us sixty-one prisoners, giving them the first free ride they have had for some time. We all rode on the wagons, standing, and in order to [...]
13th. Breakfasted in town about 5 A. M., at Mrs. Harper’s, very kind and hospitable people. Mrs. Derban’s husband Q. M. in Grant’s Army. Two little girls sang “Down With the Traitor.” Passed through several German towns, very patriotic. Passed through Lawrenceburgh. Reached the Whitewater at dusk. T. and I stopped at a German’s for [...]
July 13th. At one thirty A. M., the U. S. mail steamer Creole came up the river; at seven o’clock, U. S. mail steamer George Cromwell, arrived; at ten thirty, a heavy rain shower came up from the southward and westward which lasted about an hour. Carpenters were engaged repairing ship’s side. The boatswain and [...]
Monday, 13th.—Marched eighteen miles; passed through Champion Hills battleground. Gave out in my hips so that I could not walk; got to ride in wagon. Camped near Raymond; nice country. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
July 13—Visit Regiment. Rain. Late in the afternoon start for Virginia, at twilight. Ride down through rain and mud to pontoon bridge at Falling Water. Cross at 10:30 and pass on in rain and mud to within one mile of Martinsburg. Sleep a little on two rails under a wagon. God bring our soldiers over [...]
JULY 13th.—The Enquirer says the President has got a letter from Gen. Lee (why not give it to the people?) stating that his operations in Pennsylvania and Maryland have been successful and satisfactory, and that we have now some 15,000 to 18,000 prisoners, besides the 4000 or 5000 paroled. Nonsense! Lee and Meade have been [...]
Caroline Carson Woolsey to Abby Howland Woolsey at Fishkill. 10th St., New York, Monday, July 13, 1863. Dear Abby: It has come–resistance to the draft! The city is in a tumult and Uncle Edward wishes us to go out to Astoria in the 6 o’clock boat. The regulars are all out and the streets are [...]