Tuesday, 26th–Our drills now are, company drill at 10 a. m., battalion drill at 2 p. m. and dress parade at 5 p. m. We commenced battalion drill today.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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American Civil War Chronicles
Friday, November 26, 2021
War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.
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26th. Made arrangements to go home but couldn’t.
“News today comes through Norfolk of a Battle at Pensecola. Nothing definite known.”—Horatio Nelson Taft
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TUESDAY 26 In the office all day, weather rather cold and unpleasant. Wife and the two elder boys went to the Review of the Regulars, a little East of the Capitol, by Genl McClellan. News today comes through Norfolk of a Battle at Pensecola. Nothing definite known. I went down and spent an hour with [...]
John B. Jones records a visit by Vice-President Stephens and some of his views.
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NOVEMBER 26th.—The enemy occupy Tybee Island, and threaten Savannah. Vice-President Stephens was in my office to-day, and he too deprecates the passage of so many people to the North, who, from the admission of the journals there, give them information of the condition of our defenses. He thinks our affairs are not now in a [...]
Dora Richards Miller has an diary entry from a beleaguered city, New Orleans.
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Nov. 26, 1861.—The lingering summer is passing into those misty autumn days I love so well, when there is gold and fire above and around us. But the glory of the natural and the gloom of the moral world agree not well together. This morning Mrs. F. came to my room in dire distress. “You [...]