Sunday, February 25, 2024

Diary of Belle Edmondson

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February, Thursday 25, 1864 Sallie Hildebrand sent down for me this morning to go with her to Mrs. Morgan’s, poor Ladies, she has at last gone to rest, she died yesterday evening at 4 o’c. I went with her and stayed until sundown, returned home to try to get Joanna to go and sit up, [...]

Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson

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.

FEBRUARY 25th.—The President has certainly conferred on Bragg the position once (1862) occupied by Lee, as the following official announcement, in all the papers to-day, demonstrates: “WAR DEPARTMENT, ” ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, ” RICHMOND, February 24th, 1864. “GENERAL ORDERS No. 23. “Gen. Braxton Bragg is assigned to duty at the seat of government, [...]

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