Day 31. March 31, 1862.
31 we may keep the troops from starvation…. March Monday 31 1862 Quite frosty this morning and has every appearance…
Month: March 2022
Day 30. March 30, 1862.
30 caressingly cut one another’s throats with dull butcher knives…. March Wensday 30 Quite cool this morning but is somewhat…
Day 29. March 29, 1862.
29 By candle-light, the surgeons made their rounds…. March Saturday 29 Quite cool this morning. It is very pleasant this…
Day 28. March 28, 1862.
28 War had come to wipe out this effete race…. March Friday 28 1862 Quite cool this morning. I got…
Day 27. March 27, 1862.
27 a cheer and yell that rose high above the roar of battle…. March Thursday 27 1862 Quite cool this…
Day 26. March 26, 1862.
26 application of cups and leeches…. March 26 Wensday Quite cool this morning the sun came up bright the sky…
Day 25. March 25, 1862.
25 Ephraim wrote 3 pages today. First page is the post header. rolling a piece of lint in his hands…
Day 24. March 24, 1862.
24 I could only stagger toward the door…. March Monday 24 1862 Quite cold this morning. I slept on the…
Day 23. March 23, 1862. KERNSTOWN.
23 Ephraim wrote 5 pages 160 years ago today. Page 1 is the post header. Unfortunately, the ink is slight…
1839 letter
A mud-stained letter (I’m assuming it’s mud. Did he carry this in his diary during the war, or what? No…
Day 22. March 22, 1862.
22 Jackson, meanwhile, rolling north at full speed…. March Saturday 22 Quite cool this morning and cloudy and very mudy…
Day 21. March 21, 1862.
21 Hi, if anyone’s reading this, I just want to say thank you, & that I’m trying to figure out…
Day 20. March 20, 1862.
20 people generally had a cowed and stupid look…. March Thursday 20th 1862 Quite cool and cloudy and raining this…
Day 19. March 19, 1862.
19 and look at his image in it as he ran…. March Wensday 19 1862 Quite cool this morning and…
Day 18. March 18, 1862.
18 every mother’s son assumes a horizontal position…. March Tuesday 18 1862 Quite a fine morning and the sun came…
Day 17. March 17, 1862.
17 we did not come all this way to Virginia to run…. March Monday 17 Quite frosty and cool this…
Day 16. March 16, 1862.
16 plunged downward forever and forever in an endless retribution…. Sunday 16 1862 Quite a fine looking morning but quite…
Day 15. March 15, 1862.
15 next to impossible to find a plantation house still occupied by its old masters…. March Saturday 15 Quite cloudy…
Day 14. March 14, 1862.
14 their owners would see to it that they had no chance…. March Friday 14 1862 Quite gloomy this morning…
Day 13. March 13, 1862.
13 I’d go next door and kill…. March Thursday 13 1862 Quite frosty this morning. It was cloudy. I feel…
Day 12. March 12, 1862.
12 for the purpose of cutting their throats…. March Wensday 12th 1862 Quite pleasant this morning. We had nothing for…
Day 11. March 11, 1862.
11 smoke rose straight upward into a vast column to the height of a mile or more…. March Tuesday 11th…
Day 10. March 10, 1862.
10 droll and at the same time sad and humiliating…. Monday 10th 1862 Quite cool this morning. We found ourselves*…
Day 9. March 9, 1862.
9 O Shenandore, I love to hear you…. March Sunday 9 Quite pleasant this morning and appears very much like…
Day 8. March 8, 1862.
8 Diarists recorded the rage militaire…. March Saturday 8 1862 Cool this morning. The ground frozen some little and quite…
Day 7. March 7, 1862.
7 in cold blood shot them dead in my hearing…. March Friday 7 1862 It was somewhat cold this morning…
Day 6. March 6, 1862.
6 Our people required blood…. Thursday 6= Cool this morning. At 11oclock I got orders to pack up the medicine*…
Day 5. March 5, 1862.
5 veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them…. March Wensday 5 1862 Quite cold and icy this morning. I…
Day 4. March 4, 1862.
4 we probably might have saved Virginia…. March Tuesday 4 1862 Quite cold this morning. I eat breakfast and get…
Day 3. March 3, 1862.
3 empty stirrups and saddle, rider less, moved slowly after it…. March 3 Monday= 1862 Quite cold and frosty this…
Day 2. March 2, 1862.
2 wished that no more generals might die in this division…. March Sunday 2 1862 Quite cold but calm this…
Day 1. March 1, 1862.
March Quotes: South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens: Thank God the war is open. Abraham Lincoln in 1959: The people—the people—are…