War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

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30th. Train and sutler came up. Got Co. property. Mail came. Letter from home, expected more. Had inspection and charged boys with ordnance and ordnance stores. Quite a time. Appointed L. H. Thomas Corporal. Busy on muster rolls and Quarterly Returns. Hugh is busy enough. Wrote a letter home. Ordered to march at daylight. Rain [...]

Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

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Friday, 30th–We had a downpour of rain last night which continued most of the day. Our camp is flooded, the dry run beside it having become a raging torrent, and our camp ground is under water from one to four feet. Some of the boys put all their belongings on their bunks and others left [...]

Diary of Alexander G. Downing; Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

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A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

OCTOBER 30th.—We have nothing new to-day, except the continued bombardment of Charleston. That city has been besieged over one hundred days.

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones

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Monday, October 30, 2023