Thursday, July 25, 2024

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Charles Lynch

July 25th. Bunker Hill. A very severe rain storm set in last night. We are wet through. Orders to march on to Martinsburg. My feet keep me reminded of the rough roads, stubs and briers in the lots. We reach Martinsburg after a march of ten miles. After holding the enemy in check for a [...]

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

“During the battle, our regiment changed position three times, facing east, west and south.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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July 25, 1864. We moved up to the rear of the corps on the 21, and had just got comfortably fixed for the night when orders came that we should report back to the brigade on the front line. Just as we started a heavy rain set in, and continued while we marched one and [...]

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

JULY 25th.—It rained all night! Cloudy and windy to-day. Gen. Hood corrects his dispatch of Saturday; we captured only 13 guns; but we captured some 18 stand of colors. “HEADQUARTERS, ATLANTA, “July 23d, 1864. ———“HON. JAMES A. SEDDON, SECRETARY OE WAR. ———“The enemy shifted his position on Peach Tree Creek last night, and Gen. Stewart’s [...]

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

A Diary From Dixie.

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July 25th.–Now we are in a cottage rented from Doctor Chisolm. Hood is a full general. Johnston[1] has been removed and superseded. Early is threatening Washington City. Semmes, of whom we have been so proud, risked the Alabama in a sort of duel of ships. He has lowered the flag of the famous Alabama to [...]

A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.