Wednesday, October 13, 2021

“Every body is on the ‘qui vive’ to heare from the great naval expedition which sailed south recently, Charleston or N Orleans probably the point.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1861. I caught a severe cold last night by the wind blowing on me in bed and have been rather miserable today, have not been out at all. The Family all went to church excepting myself and Willie, he has got smart again and eats his allowance. The weather is rather chilly, [...]

Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.

Fremont’s Hundred Days in Missouri.

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Camp Asboth, October 13th. Mr. Cameron, Senator Chandler of Michigan, and Adjutant-General Thomas arrived at an early hour this morning; and at eight o’clock, the General, attended by his staff and body-guard, repaired to the Secretary’s quarters. After a short stay there, the whole party, except General Thomas, set out for Syracuse to review the [...]

The Atlantic Monthly

“The country is desolate, but the camps are flourishing..,”—William Howard Russell’s Diary.

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October 13th.–Mr. Duncan, attended by myself and other Britishers, made an extensive excursion through the camps on horseback, and I led him from Arlington to Upton’s House, up by Munson’s Hill, to General Wadsworth’s quarters, where we lunched on camp fare and, from the observatory erected at the rear of the house in which he [...]

My Diary North and South – William Howard Russell

Government takes family horses.–Jackson promoted to Major General.–Letters from Elisha Franklin Paxton.

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Camp near Fairfax C. H., October 13, 1861. I have received your last letter, and will devote an hour of this quiet Sabbath to giving you one in return for it. I am very sorry to hear that, having spared your team so long, they have called for it at last. I had hope they [...]

Elisha Franklin Paxton – Letters from camp and field while an officer in the Confederate Army

Civil War Day-By-Day

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October 13, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Skirmishing at Beckwith and Tavern Creek, Mo. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863

Civil War Day-by-Day