Saturday, July 18, 2026

“Our relations with this country are now in a promising condition.”–Adams Family Letters, Charles Francis Adams, U.S. Minister to the U.K., to his son.

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London, July 18, 1861 I Have engaged a house1 which will I hope be more convenient. It is not in quite so fashionable or so noisy a situation, but it is amply and in some respects richly furnished, and is in a very good neighborhood. My engagement is only for a year, and even that [...]

Adams Family Civil War letters; US Minister to the UK and his sons.

“The soldiers from the far South have never had measles, and most unfortunately it has broken out among them, and many of them have died of it…,”—Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire.

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July 18.—During the last ten days we have been visiting among our friends, near Berryville, and in Winchester. The wheat harvest is giving the most abundant yield, and the fields are thick with corn. Berryville is a little village surrounded by the most beautiful country and delightful society. Patriotism burns brightly there, and every one [...]

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

Civil War Day-By-Day

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July 18, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 First Battle of Bull Run2: an engagement took place at Blackford’s Ford, Bull Run, between Union troops under Gen. Tyler and the rebels under Beauregard. Gen. Tyler fell back to Centreville. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson [...]

Civil War Day-by-Day