Entrance to the Provost Marshal’s Building, Holiday Street, Baltimore, Guarded by Cannon to Prevent the Intrusion of the Mob—Colonel Kenley Acting as Provost Marshal in place of Marshal Kane, Confined in Fort McHenry, on a Charge of Treason, by Order of Major-Gen. Banks Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 13, 1861 Arrest of Marshal Kane and [...]
American Civil War Chronicles
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Extracts from the journal of Commander Semmes, C.S. Navy, commanding C.S.S. Sumter
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Sunday, July 7.—Morning clear and beautiful, the waters of the little harbor clear and sparkling, and the bright green of the vegetation on shore looking picturesque and cheerful. At 8 a. m., Lieutenant Chapman, whom I had sent to town yesterday to look after the prizes, make arrangements for coaling, and present a dispatch to [...]
Texas Troops
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Standard [Clarksville, Tx], July 20, 1861 Fort Washita, C. N., } July 7th, 1861. } My Dear Major: According to promise, I have concluded to write you, though at this time I am quite unwell–the effects of a severe attack of fever. But I hope, with prudence, I will soon be restored to health, and [...]
Mary Chesnut’s diary—”If our husbands are taken prisoners, what will they do with them? Are they soldiers or traitors?”
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July 7th.–This water is making us young again. How these men enjoy the baths. They say Beauregard can stop the way with sixty thousand; that many are coming. An antique female, with every hair curled and frizzed, said to be a Yankee spy, sits opposite us. Brewster solemnly wondered “with eternity and the judgment to [...]
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary.—”The President is appointing generals enough, one would suppose. I hope we shall have men for them.”
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JULY 7th.—Major Tyler’s health has improved, but I do not perceive a resumption of his old intimate relations with the Secretary. Yet he is doing the heavy epistolary work, being a lawyer; and the correspondence sometimes embracing diverse legal points. My intimacy with the colonel continues. It seems he would do anything in the world [...]
“The Regt is bound for Harpers Ferry and Martinsburgh to reinforce Genl Patterson.”—Horatio Nelson Taft
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SUNDAY 7 This has been a hot day. M. 90. Lieuts Whitlock and [Monville?] took dinner with us and we sent down dinner to Sergeant Mandevilles mess at the camp. We went down at 1 o’clk to see them off. The Regt is bound for Harpers Ferry and Martinsburgh to reinforce Genl Patterson. We parted [...]
William Howard Russell’s Diary: “Washington politicians were speaking of (Scott) as obstructive, obstinate, and prejudiced—unfit for the times and the occasion.”
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July 7th.–Mr. Bigelow invited me to breakfast, to meet Mr. Senator King, Mr. Olmsted, Mr. Thurlow Weed, a Senator from Missouri, a West Point professor, and others. It was indicative of the serious difficulties which embarrass the action of the Government to hear Mr. Wilson, the Chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate, inveigh [...]
A Diary of American Events – July 7, 1861
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–An infernal machine, designed by the Rebels to blow up the Pawnee and the vessels of the Potomac flotilla, which was set adrift near Acquia Creek, was picked up floating toward the Pawnee. The following description of the article has been sent to the Navy Department: Two large eighty-gallon oil casks, perfectly water-tight, acting as [...]