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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 3 (search)
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in winter quarters
[toward the end of December, the army being then well settled in winter quarters, Lyman obtained leave of absence, passed Christmas at home, and returned to the army about the middle of January.
He found Headquarters almost deserted, General Meade sick in Philadelphia with an attack of inflammation of the lungs, General Humphreys, and his tent-mate Rosencrantz, away on leave of absence, and Barstow sick and weak, with a cold on the lungs.]
Headquarters, Army of Potomac January 23, 1864
Yesterday came General Humphreys, to my great content.
His son, with Worth and myself, rode down to bid him welcome.
Such a sea of mud round Brandy Station was enough to engulf the most hardy.
There is no platform to get on; nothing but the driest spot in the mud. You should have seen the countenances of the unfortunate officers' wives, as they surveyed, from the height of the platform, this broad expanse of pap!
Then the husband would appear, in great excitement,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 66 (search)
A negro soldier's speech.--At a celebration of Christmas by a negro regiment at New-Orleans, one of, the men made the following speech:
Fellow-soldiers ob de Sebenth Regiment: I is mighty glad to enjoy dis ‘portunity for enjoying dis fust free Christmas in dis world what we live in. A year ago, where was we?
We was down in de dark land of slavery.
And now where are we?
We are free men, and soldiers of de United States.
And what have we to do?
We have to fight de rebels so dat we never more be slaves.
When de day of battle come, what will we do?
I speak for me, and I say for myself, I go and fight de rebels till de last man die. Yes, under de flags what was presented to us from New-York, we fight till de last man die; and if I be de last man, what will I do?
I hold up de flags, and if I die, den I go to my grave cousified for doing my duty.
De President of de United States is one great man what has done more good dan any oder man whatever was borned.
I bless de Lor
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), 6 . Confederate raids in the West : Morgan 's Christmas raid, 1862 -63 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence and fall of Fort Fisher . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The killing of Colonel Dennis J. Halisey . (search)
The killing of Colonel Dennis J. Halisey. By Captain George B. Eastin.
On what was known in Morgan's command as the Christmas raid into Kentucky, from the fact of its having taken place during Christmas week of 1862, it became necessary for us to leave the State rather precipitately, because of our being pressed by a large Federal cavalry force in our rear.
It also became necessary, on our retreat from the State, for us to flank the town of Lebanon, Kentucky, which lay in our most direct road south, from the fact that the garrison there had been heavily reinforced, and the town occupied by a large force of the enemy.
This necessitated our leaving the turnpike road at Springfield on the evening of December 30th, 1862; and on that bitter night, which will be long remembered by every member of the command, we made the famous all-night march around Lebanon, and owing mainly to the almost impassable condition of the mud roads, found ourselves at day-light the next morning only abou
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 7 : winter of 1861 -62 . (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Twelfth : his character and fame. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., V. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Reply of Mrs. Child . (search)