Day 122. June 30, 1862.
122 make it possible for each side to feel that it is combatting some form of evil…. —Monday 30― Quite…
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Day 121. June 29, 1862.
121 Note: The 110th will muster out on this day, 1865. a hard thing to live haunted by the ghost…
Day 120. June 28, 1862.
120 proudly celebrating the failure…. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army…. Saturday 28 Cool this morning. I…
Day 119. June 27, 1862.
119 to lay a familiar hand on his shoulder…. June Friday 27 1862 Quite pleasant this morning. I was at…
Day 118. June 26, 1862.
118 blood-smuch’d little note-books…. Thursday 26 Pleasant this morning. We went over to old Mr Tusseys. There awhile. We came…
Day 117. June 25, 1862.
117 useless to try to put on paper any idea of it…. Wensday 25 Quite pleasant this morning we got…
Day 116. June 24, 1862.
116 worth a lifetime to see and live through such a fight…. June Tuesday 24 Quite cool this morning. A…
Day 115. June 23, 1862.
115 astonishment flows through Civil War diaries…. Monday 23 Quite cool this morning and looks very much for rain this…
Day 114. June 22, 1862.
114 who had rightfully expected to be tried and hung as traitors…. when white southerners threatened to reverse the verdict…
Day 113. June 21, 1862.
113 no matter what, America wins…. –Saturday 21 – The sun came up quite bright this morning. Cousin John and…
Day 112. June 20, 1862.
112 the South had become peculiarly the home of lynching…. June Saturday 20 1862 Quite a fine morning. I was…
Day 111. June 19, 1862.
111 animals that refused to go were shot down…. Thursday 19― Midling cool this morning as it rained some yesterday…
Day 110. June 18, 1862.
110 another fight it will be the last of the 110th…. June Wensday 18. 1862 This is a pleasant morning.…
Day 109. June 17, 1862.
109 you have my shadow that I am forced to call my life…. June Tuesday 17 1862 Somewhat cool this…
Day 108. June 16, 1862. Dr. Hays/Joint Committee.
108 people mistake one person for another…. Monday 16 June 1862 Quite cool this morning. I found myself in Washington…
Day 107. June 15, 1862.
107 a mule, albeit a small mule, disappear into the mud up to his ears…. June Sunday 15 1862 Quite…
Day 106. June 14, 1862.
106 Some come under the influence of liquor, others in cold blood…. June Saturday 14. 1862 Cool this morning. The…
Day 105. June 13, 1862.
105 and beacons of smoke by day and fires by night…. June Friday 13 1862 The Ballance of the mounth…
Day 104. June 12, 1862.
104 he will regret it but once…. June Thursday 12 1862 Quite cool this morning. It was quite cool last…
Day 103. June 11, 1862.
103 a hundred unnamed lights and shades of camp, I say, will never be written…. (note: doodle, 4 sticks smashed…
Day 102. June 10, 1862.
102 June Tuesday 10th 1862 the scene with mystic images and unreal shapes…. Quite wet this morning raining. We soon…
Day 101. June 9, 1862. PORT REPUBLIC Battle.
101 their screams joined those of the men… (note: doodle top of all three pages this entry encompasses: sticks again,…
Day 100. June 8, 1862. CROSS KEYS.
100 Hogs also ate the living…. Note: Today is the Battle of Cross Keys; tomorrow the Battle of Port Republic.…
Day 99. June 7, 1862.
99 I think Jackson is caught this time…. June Saturday 7 1862 Quite cool this morning and a fine appearance…
Day 98. June 6, 1862.
98 editors had broken out their blackest type…. June Friday 6 1862 Quite cool this morning but the weather is…
Day 97. June 5, 1862.
97 last thing anyone expected him to do was to turn and fight…. June Thursday 5 Quite wet this morning.…
Day 96. June 4, 1862. LETTER.
96 if I have the chance I will come home soon…. There is a June 4 diary entry today, too.…
Day 96. June 4, 1862.
96 army could be heard, through martial song and sheer vibration, miles before they came…. June Wensday 4 1862 Raining…
Day 95. June 3, 1862.
Note: Ephraim wrote May 3, but it’s June 3. 95 but Jackson was gone…. May Tuesday 3 1862 Quite wet…
Day 94. June 2, 1862.
94 horses went down screaming…. June Monday 2 1862 This is annother wet morning. We are camped in the…
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Day 93. June 1, 1862.
June Quotes: James L. Petigru 1860 (A South Carolina native): “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too…