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Tag Archives: General Ambrose Burnside
21 February 1864: “In general the condition of affairs in East Tennessee was so much improved as to produce a decided feeling of confidence.”
Item: “Report of Major General J. G. Foster of Operations in East Tennessee” in Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in two volumes. Supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session . … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged East Tennessee, French Broad River, General Ambrose Burnside, General James Longstreet, General John G. Foster, General John Parke, General John Schofield, General Samuel D. Sturgis, General Ulysses S. Grant, Knoxville (Tenn.), supplies
Comments Off on 21 February 1864: “In general the condition of affairs in East Tennessee was so much improved as to produce a decided feeling of confidence.”
5 December 1863: “… the Rebels it appears have Smelt a rat and have all Skedadeled moving up towards Verginia…”
Item description: Letter, dated 5 December 1863, from Chauncey B. Welton to his parents. He describes troop movements in eastern North Carolina near Greenville and mentions having gotten through “the Siege” all right. [item transcription available below images] Item citation: … Continue reading
28 November 1862: “We are confident that we can handle any 60,000 Burnside has…”
Item description: Letter, 28 November 1862, from Alexander Swift (“Sandie”) Pendleton, officer on the staff of Stonewall Jackson, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, to his father Gen. William N. Pendleton. Item citation: From folder 29 of the William Nelson Pendleton Papers, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Alexander Swift Pendleton, Fredericksburg, General Ambrose Burnside, Second Corps, William Nelson Pendleton
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14 November 1862: “I am very anxious to go to my native state to defend the soil that that the miserable abolitionists of the hated and cowardly state of Massachusetts are now polluting.”
Item description: Letter, 14 November 1862, from D.G. Cowand to William S. Pettigrew. Cowand wrote to thank his friend for lobbying the governor on his behalf for a command in North Carolina should troops be raised to defend the home … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, army chaplains, D.G. Cowand, Drewry's Bluff Virginia, Gen. George McClellan, General Ambrose Burnside, General James Longstreet, North Carolina, William S. Pettigrew
Comments Off on 14 November 1862: “I am very anxious to go to my native state to defend the soil that that the miserable abolitionists of the hated and cowardly state of Massachusetts are now polluting.”