Meridian Hill, Washington. Aug. 11th, 1861. My dear Mother: I have been overjoyed by a visit from Hunt, who has now probably returned home and reports me hearty and well. I have been fortunate in meeting several friends most unexpectedly during the last few days. Miss Woolsey was at our encampment on some errand of [...]
Camp Harmon, August –, 1861. I had a chance to show my gallantry last week. I was directed one night to pass a Mr. Pendleton and his party through, our line of sentinels. I reached the party about ten o’clock, and found the party consisting of an old gentleman driving the carriage, and in it [...]
August 14.–Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, Va., issued a proclamation, notifying all residents of the “Confederate” States, who do not acknowledge the authority of the same, to leave the “Confederacy” in forty days from the date of the proclamation.–(Doc. 182.) –Robert Muir, of Charleston, S. C., and cousin of the British consul at Now Orleans, was [...]
August 14, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Martial law was declared in St. Louis by Major Gen. Fremont. Mutiny in the 79th New York Regiment at Washington. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863