Saturday, November 23, 2024

Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire.

0 comments

23d.—Military movements are kept very much in the dark. Nothing going on about Richmond, except cannonading, particularly at Dutch Gap. Sherman is moving across Georgia in direction of Milledgeville, looking towards Savannah, or perhaps Charleston, or to some intermediate point on the coast, where he may, if necessary, meet with reinforcements and supplies from Federal [...]

Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by Judith White McGuire

“The smoke of pine wood is so disagreeable.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

0 comments

Near Gordon, November 23, 1864. Came here to-day, about eight miles, find the Army of the Tennessee all here. Have heard nothing of the Rebels to-day; saw ice one and one-half inches thick that formed last night. Wore my overcoat all day. The left wing is either at Milledgeville or gone on east. A branch [...]

Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills, (8th Illinois Infantry)

0

0 comments
Charles Lynch

November 23d. Called up early this morning. Sorry to leave our good camp in the Faulkner’s woods, Martinsburg. Our boys often repeat, “There is no rest for the wicked.” Soldiers must obey orders and not ask questions. Left camp, on the march for Halltown. After an uneventful march of about eighteen to twenty miles we [...]

Civil War Diary of Charles H. Lynch, 18th Conn. Vol’s.