SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1861. The day has passed off without any thing very remarkable taking place. I was at the office part of the day but at home most of the time. Lieuts Swan and White, Lieut Gould of Rochester, and Sergeant Major Chas Gaul dined with us today. I was at Willards this evening. [...]
July 27th.–Mrs. Davis’s drawing-room last night was brilliant, and she was in great force. Outside a mob called for the President. He did speak–an old war-horse, who scents the battle-fields from afar. His enthusiasm was contagious. They called for Colonel Chesnut, and he gave them a capital speech, too. As public speakers say sometimes, “It [...]
JULY 27, 1861.–From Bellaire to Clarksburg in Virginia. All the way, one hundred and thirty miles, in Virginia, greeted by shouts and demonstrations of joy. The people had seen many three-months men going, leaving western Virginia for home. This, with the defeat at Washington perhaps, led the people to fear that the Union men were [...]
JULY 27th.—A large number of new arrivals are announced from the North. Clerks resigned at Washington, and embryo heroes having military educations, are presenting themselves daily, and applying for positions here. They represent the panic in the North as awful, and ours is decidedly the winning side. These gentry somehow succeed in getting appointments. Our [...]
CLARKSBURG, VIRGINIA, July 27, 1861 (?) (I believe) Saturday (I know). DEAR WIFE:–Our second day, from Bellaire to this place, was an exceedingly happy one. We travelled about one hundred and thirty miles in Virginia, and with the exception of one deserted village of Secessionists (Farmington), we were received everywhere with an enthusiasm I never [...]
Saturday, July 27. – A daylight sent a prize crew on board the Abby Bradford and directed her to proceed to New Orleans. At 6 got underway and stood out. As we were weighing anchor discovered a sail seaward, to which we gave chase and captured about 7 miles from the land. She proved to [...]
The regiments called out for three months were now about disbanding, though a large number of the men at once re-enlisted for the war. – – – – – – – July 27, 10 a. m. My dear Eliza: I have just been up to the corner to see [...]
July 27th, 1861.—Each day brings us fresh news from the battle of Manassas. One of our generals has gained a new name from his action while in battle; he is General Jackson, and he has been a professor in the Virginia Military Institute. He is a strict disciplinarian and his boys at the V. M. [...]
Saturday, July 27.—Men of every detachment were selected to accompany an expedition on board a steamer towards Aquia Creek, to try one of James’ ri?ed guns of heavy calibre upon the rebel battery there. They all returned in the evening without any disaster having occurred.
Reception by the People of New York of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, N. Y. S. M., on Their Return from the Seat of War, Escorted by the New York Seventh Regiment. The return home of the gallant Sixty-ninth Regiment–composed entirely of Irish citizens–on Saturday. July 27th, 1861, was an ovation as warm and enthusiastic as their [...]
The Standard Clarksville, Tx July 27, 1861 One of the 6-pounder cannon, cast at the Camden Foundry, was taken to the Sulphur Spring on the 4th, and experiments tried, which proved in every respect satisfactory. Several shots were fired with ball, and the results exceeded all that had been claimed for the piece by its [...]
July 27th.–So ill to-day from heat, bad smells in the house, and fatigue, that I sent for Dr. Miller, a great, fine Virginian practitioner, who ordered me powders to be taken in “mint juleps.” Now mint juleps are made of whiskey, sugar, ice, very little water, and sprigs of fresh mint, to be sucked up [...]
Cairo, July 27, 1861 We number now about 60 and have 25 days in which to fill up to 100. Two hundred and fifty of our regiment of three-months’ men have re-enlisted. Two hundred and fifty out of 680, which is considerably better than any eastern regiment that I have seen mentioned. There was [...]
–Major-General Robert Patterson of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was honorably discharged from the service of the United States.–(Doc. 106.) –The Odd Fellows’ Hall, jail, and four other buildings in Hampton, Va., were burned by the national troops in apprehension of an immediate attack by the secessionists.–N. Y. Times, July 30. –In Confederate Congress, at Richmond, Va., [...]
July 27, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Return of the 69th and other regiments to New York. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863