24 [August] Received a letter yesterday from Lewis he hopes to soon get home & accepts thankfully the Commission of Assistant Surgeon in the State Forces, and in reply to Arthur’s wish to go out to Virginia if in no other way as a private, says he had better not, for it is the life [...]
SATURDAY 24 Saw the President this morning 1/2 past 8. Applied for a Pay Mastership in the Army. Too many already appointed, gave me a line to Mr Seward. Came home and found Mr Brownson of Lyons at the house. Went with him and Julia up to Camp Cameron to see the “Anderson Zuaves.” Col [...]
Thursday, August 22.—The right section left Berlin and went towards Frederick City. Friday, August 23.—Rebel cavalry plainly to be seen on the other side of the Potomac. Saturday, August 24, and Sunday, August 25.—Quiet. Great slaughter amongst turkeys and chickens!
Saturday 24.–Doctor and I laughed at a soldier who said it was Saturday. We thought it was Thursday. The finest day’s march yet. Streams, mountain views, and invigorating air! Reached Buckhannon [Beverly] at 2 P. M.; greeted by friends in the Guthries warmly–Captain Erwin, Captain Bense, Captains Tinker, Clark. Saw Tatem, sick, Charles Richards, Tom [...]
Title: [Major William Schnackenburg] Creator(s): Metzner, Adolph, artist Date Created/Published: [1861] Medium: 1 drawing on front of sheet: graphite ; sheet 24 x 15 cm. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-51175 (digital file from front of original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: DRWG/US – Metzner, no. 4 (front) (A size) [P&P] Repository: Library [...]
AUGUST 24th.—We are resting on our oars after the victory at Manassas, while the enemy is drilling and equipping 500,000 or 600,000 men. I hope we may not soon be floating down stream! We know the enemy is, besides, building iron-clad steamers—and yet we are not even erecting casemate batteries! We are losing precious time, [...]
Saturday, August 24.—Clear and pleasant; some passing clouds and in the evening slight squalls and rain. The Dutch steamer with the mail arrived to-day from Demerara. We were looking anxiously for news from home, as at last accounts ( July 20, from New York) a battle near Manassas Junction seemed imminent. Demerara papers to the [...]
August 24th.–Daniel, of The Examiner, was at the President’s. Wilmot de Saussure wondered if a fellow did not feel a little queer, paying his respects in person at the house of a man whom he abused daily in his newspaper. A fiasco: an aide engaged to two young ladies in the same house. The ladies [...]
Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 10 Title: [Confederate Colonel Alexander R. Chisolm, aide-de-camp to General P.G.T. Beauregard, in uniform] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format) Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-58421 (digital file [...]
Saturday, 24th–I reached home this morning at daylight, having left Davenport late yesterday afternoon, riding out with a farmer to “the forks” of the Hickory Grove and the Allen’s Grove roads, and from there walked the twenty-one miles home, after night, all alone. This is a fine day. I went over to Mr. Sparks’ and [...]
Note: This particular diary entry–a document written in 1861–includes terms and topics that may be offensive to many today. No attempt will be made to censor or edit 19th century material to today’s standards. August 24th.–My servant came in this morning, to announce a trifling accident–he was exercising my horse, and at the corner [...]
Letter To The Editor Of The Lexington “Gazette.” Camp Harmon, August 24, 1861. I do not merit the compliment paid me in a paragraph contained in a recent number of your paper, which gives me the position of leading a portion of the 4th Va. and 7th Geo. in the charge upon the enemy’s batteries. [...]
August 24.–Depredations by soldiers on the property of citizens of Elizabeth City and County, in Virginia, occasioned an order from Gen. Wool, in which marauders were threatened with severe punishment–(Doc. 4.) –The Cameron Rifles, N. Y. S. V., commanded by Col. Robert J. Betge, struck their tents at Hudson City, N. J., and departed for [...]
August 24, 1861 President Davis names James M. Mason as commissioner to Great Britain and John Slidell as commissioner to France. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Of?ces of the Bridgeport (Ct) Farmer and of the Cumberland (Md) Alleghanian (secession papers) destroyed by mobs. Mayor Berrett, of Washington, D. C., arrested on [...]