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I believe Wolseley traveled with London Illustrated News artist-correspondent Frank Vizetelly who likely introduced him to various personages and places while also making drawings and sketches that were subsequently published back in England. The time-lines of the two men seem to correspond, to judge by the illustrations.
In 1895, he also wrote a letter to the Raleigh News and Observer describing a flag raising ceremony at Carlisle Barracks on June 28, 1863. Charles F. Bahnson to Dear Father, July 15, 1863, in Sarah Bahnson Chapman, Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate (Knoxville: University of ...
A rainbow is caused by light reflected/refracted by water droplets, with the sun to the observer's back at a low angle in the sky. Hence at the time, a scattered rain shower should have been found over Culp's Hill. We have confirmation of this fact from a post-war account, "The Farmer's Son," appearing in Battleground Adventures, by Clifton ...
The Fayetteville Observer reports the dig that began July 24th resumes Monday and continues through Friday. So far, they've found items such as a ceramic shard of a smoking pipe, melted glass, nails and screws, along with brick, mortar, sandstone and slate.
The following dispatch, by the Balize Telegraph Line, from Fort Jackson to Major General Twiggs, was received yesterday : Fort Jackson, Sept. 2-0, 1861. Major General D. E. Twiggs: Mr. Fulda, the telegraphic operator at the head of the Passes, arrived here this morning from that point. He...
A friend of ours who has just returned from a business trip through the counties of Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln, Pulaski and Wayne, brings the most cheering news. The Union cause is flourishing every-where. Even the Secessionists have declared for the The Union and have taken up arms against the Tennessee invaders.
Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1882. 180 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Company, 1997. 247 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Rebel Raiders, The: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York ...
33 VA/H, 2nd Lieutenant George D. Buswell. (The Painful News I Have to Write, Letters and Diaries of Four Hite Brothers of Page County in the Service of the Confederacy, comp. and ed. by Harlan R. Jessep, Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1998) Steuart’s Brigade 1 MD BN/A, Sergeant J. William Thomas.
The Daily Manchester American, Manchester, NH The big black dog, familiarly known as "Dan,'' owned by Frank B. Hutchinson, has been admitted to the Fourth Regiment, and will prove a valuable and efficient soldier. Should he be promoted to Corporal he will bear his honors nobly. He goes with the...
Camp of 9th Maine Infantry on Morris Island, South Carolina, September 7, 1863. Photographer: Jacob R. Foster (1834-1925)