WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1861. This has been a delightful day and one full of excitement and interest. The Ave has been thronged all day with soldiers. Small squads of them have been strolling into the City and all had their story of hair breadth escapes to tell surrounded by an eager crowd of listeners. Most [...]
JULY 24th.—Yesterday we received a letter from Col. Bartow, written just before the battle (in which he fell, his letter being received after the announcement of his death), urging the appointment of his gallant young friend Lamar to a lieutenancy. I noted these facts on the back of his letter, with the Secretary’s approbation, and [...]
Wednesday, July 24.—Lieut. Albert Munroe addressed the battery in regard to the battle, and attributed our defeat to the want of discipline. The men felt very indignant at his remarks. “We had to come down to regulations, the same as in the regular army, and should consider ourselves almost as State prison convicts.” We have [...]
Wednesday, July 24.—Sky occasionally obscured, with a moderate trade wind. Having completed our preparations for sea we got under way at meridian and stood out of the harbor. John Orr, one of our worthless ordinary seamen, deserted just before leaving, enticed away, no doubt, by a Yankee captain and the Yankee keeper of a public [...]
Dallas Herald, July 24, 1861 A train of 20 wagons, with fifteen or twenty families from California, passed through town on Monday bound for this and adjoining counties. They started on the 19th of March, and have traveled every day, having found grass and water very scarce over a great portion of the route. They [...]
Dallas Herald, July 24, 1861 They have a “Lariat Company,” down in Calhoun county, whose only weapons are to be a six-shooter and a lariat. The members are all young men, expert horsemen, skilled in the use of a six-shooter while their horses are at a gallop, and able to throw a rope around any [...]
Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 9 Joseph Ford enlisted as a private in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry, on September 6, 1862. The 13th Kansas was organized on September 10, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas, and fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the unit also preformed provost and garrison duties in [...]
July 24th.–I rode out before breakfast in company with Mr. Monson across the Long Bridge over to Arlington House. General M’Dowell was seated at a table under a tree in front of his tent, and got out his plans and maps to explain the scheme of battle. Cast down from his high estate, placed as [...]
July, Tuesday 24th, 1861. At the Battle-ground near Bull Bun. Dear Sisters: We have had so many small marches and large fights lately that I have had no time to write, and because we left everything but blankets and provisions when we set out to meet the enemy last week–paper among the rest–I borrow this, [...]
–The Richmond (Va.) Whig of today contains the following:–” The Devoted Band.”–The shortest path to peace is that which carries havoc and desolation to our invaders. It is believed that there are five or ten thousand men in the South ready and willing to share the fate of Curtius and devote themselves to the salvation [...]
(excerpts) 23rd. “We have been in the greatest I am curious to know what the effect will be at the North—whether they will be panic stricken or exasperated to frenzy at such a defeat. Poor old Scott! If he had only died after the Mexican War, how much better it would have been for his [...]
Tuesday Morning, July 23, ‘61. God be praised for that telegram! What a day was yesterday to us; and what a day must it have been to you, my dear Eliza! The terrible news, the conflicting reports, the almost unendurable suspense we were in, the distance from you at such a time! Altogether it was [...]
Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey writes: Washington, July 22, 1861. My dear Cousin Margaret: This is the third attempt I have made to finish a letter to you. Joe is safe and quietly sleeping on the sofa by us. You know all about this total defeat–our army is entirely broken up, all the army stores, three of [...]
New York, July 23. Abby is in the front parlor reading the papers. It is quite useless to say anything about going into the country just now. If we are away from the daily papers, or if they are delayed an hour the girls get into a perfect fever; besides, Abby, you know, has decided [...]
CAMP CHASE, July 23, 1861. DEAR UNCLE:–We are in the midst of the excitement produced by the disastrous panic near Washington. We expect it will occasion a very early movement of our regiment. We shall, perhaps, be ordered to the Kanawha line. We certainly shall, unless the recent defeat shall change the plan of the [...]
July 23d. I awoke after a long, refreshing sleep, very stiff, and feet badly blistered, but, after a cold bath at the hydrant, and a cup of coffee, felt quite myself again. Many men have returned but not enough to complete the organization, so we were not required to perform any duty. The first thing [...]
Tuesday.–Witnessed for the first time a military funeral. As that march came wailing up, they say Mrs. Bartow fainted. The empty saddle and the led war-horse –we saw and heard it all, and now it seems we are never out of the sound of the Dead March in Saul. It comes and it comes, until [...]
July 23. 6 A. M.–This extra ¹ was handed me on our parade ground last evening about 6 P. M. by my brother-in-law, Dr. Joe Webb, who had just galloped out from the city on my sorrel. We had heard the first rumor of a great defeat, but this gave us the details. A routed [...]
TUESDAY 23 Yesterday was a rainy day and the poor Soldiers were coming in all day wet and cold. We had our house full of members of our Lyons Co. to tea, and made them as comfortable as we could. Today I have taken down to the camp for them two pairs of pantaloons, bot [...]
JULY 23d.—Jacques is back and as busy as a bee; and, in truth, there is work enough for all.
Tuesday, July 23.—Still coaling, refitting, painting, etc. Weather more cloudy and wind not so constantly fresh within the last few days. Took sights for chronometers; longitude 68° 58′ 30 ” W.
Astoria, July 23. We are trying to look things in the face,–like the great apostle, cast down but not disheartened. Of course the first thought of us civilians is to take care of the wounded. I send enclosed a cheque from Cousin Edward and one from myself. If you find you cannot use these amounts [...]
July 23rd, 1861.—Today we had a thanksgiving service at Mount Zion Church. Mr. Blake conducted the services and his text was “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but Thou, Oh Lord, giveth the victory.” He made the most beautiful prayer I ever listened to and he prayed so [...]
Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #008 Henry Knowlton was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 5, 1862, and mustered into Company K, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 11, 1862. On May 4, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant; promoted to captain on January 30, 1865, he was assigned to command Company D. The 33rd [...]
Daily Times Leavenworth, Kansas, July 23, 1861 We conversed yesterday with five families who have just been driven out from Southwestern Missouri, and are on their way to Illinois. They appear to be intelligent, industrious and honest people. They are from Jasper County, and about six miles from where the battle of Carthage was fought.–They [...]