hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war. 45 7 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 28 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 12 0 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 11 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 7 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 6 0 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 6 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 5 1 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war.. You can also browse the collection for Newnan (Georgia, United States) or search for Newnan (Georgia, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 26 results in 3 document sections:

Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
which was used for a distributing-room) was in Newnan well fitted up. A cavernous fireplace, well su little son (who had by this time joined me at Newnan) accompanied me. Kingston was at this time a bds to the hotel, whence I returned next day to Newnan. This was during the winter. Later, I made a very kindly took charge of me. I was going to Newnan, he returning to camp. Delightful conversatiost ambulance picked him up, and he was sent to Newnan, as all supposed, to die. Had I not been in a se meagre forces, aided by the volunteers from Newnan, had held the Federals in check until now, butn giving a hint of my project to my friends at Newnan, a storm of protest broke upon my devoted headt I could never forget it. Upon arriving at Newnan, I lost no time in preparing my boxes for the must part. On the same evening I returned to Newnan, where my friends were so overjoyed at my safeened that Dr. Merriweather, of Alabama, was in Newnan, in close attendance upon his young son, who h[13 more...]
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., chapter 4 (search)
the boys by declaring that he had been living like a fighting-cock on a paper of needles and two skeins of silk. And, added father, if he had paid for all the meals be got in Confederate money, the amount would have been far more than ten dollars. I know other boys and girls will think this a queer story, but I hope they will like it as well as mother and Loo and I did. Chapter 7: Bunny. One bright morning I sat in the matron's room of the Buckner Hospital, then located at Newnan, Georgia. Shall I describe to you this room—or my suite of rooms? Indeed, I fear you will be disappointed, dear young readers, for perhaps the word hospital conveys to your mind the idea of a handsome and lofty building containing every convenience for nursing the sick, and for the comfort of attendants. Alasduring the war hospital arrangements were of the roughest. Frequent changes of location were imperative, transportation was difficult. So it became a military necessity to seize upon su
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., chapter 5 (search)
nderness in nursing the Confederate sick and wounded. I soon learned to appreciate her services and to regard her as indispensable. She remained with me as hospital matron while I was stationed at Gainesville, Alabama, Ringgold, Georgia, Newnan, Georgia, and Fort Valley, Georgia, embracing a period of over three years. She was all the time chief matron, sometimes supervising more than one thousand beds filled with sick and wounded, and never did any woman her whole duty better. Through hea, she was incessant in her attentions and watchfulness over the Confederate sick and wounded, many times so worn down by fatigue that she was scarcely able to walk, but never faltering in the discharge of her duties. At one time, while at Newnan, Georgia, the Federal forces under General McCook were advancing on the town, and it became necessary for every available man —post officers, surgeons, convalescents, and nurses—to leave the town and wards in order to repel the invading enemy. I was