Civil War Day-by-Day

Rebel War Clerk

A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

MAY 8th.—Norfolk and Portsmouth are evacuated! Our army falling back! The Merrimac is to be, or has been, blown up!

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Posted May 8, 2022

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“It’s all right, I suppose, but damn the general that sent us on a fool’s errand.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

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