Download or read book Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864 written by Lemuel Abijah Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following Diary covering the interesting period of the Civil War from January 1, to December 31, 1864, and a portion of 1865 to the surrender of General R. E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Va., was kept by the Author at the age of twenty-two when an officer of the Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, Third and First Brigade, Third Division, Third and Sixth Corps respectively, Army of the Potomac, and is a brief war history as seen by a young soldier literally from the front line of battle during General U. S. Grant's celebrated campaign from the Rapidan River to Petersburg, Va., and Gen. P. H. Sheridan's famous Shenandoah Valley campaign in the summer and fall of 1864. During this time the Author passed from the grades of Second to First Lieutenant and Captain, and commanded in the meantime in different battles five or more companies in his regiment which afforded an excellent opportunity to make a fairly interesting general diary of the fighting qualities of his regiment and especially of the companies which he commanded during that most interesting period of the Civil War when the backbone of the Rebellion was broken, which, together with Sherman and Thomas' cooperations led to the surrender of General R. E. Lee at Appomattox C. H. April 9, 1865.

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Download or read book Civil War Diary 1864 Expanded Annotated written by Lemuel Abijah Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a newly-minted 2nd lieutenant in the Union Army, Lem Abbott was tossed head-first into General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign. He saw action in all the major battles of that campaign and was severely injured while with Sheridan at the Battle of Opequon (Third Battle of Winchester).Abbott kept a diary during his time in the American Civil War and his descriptions are vivid and compelling. As he lay wounded at Opequon, he nevertheless could not take his eyes of the frenetic Sheridan, commanding the field like a chess player while mounted on Rienzi, his black steed."My first wound was from the butt end of an exploding shell in the breast which maimed and knocked me down and simultaneously as I felt a minie ball fired but a rod away in my front just grazed my forehead, torn through my upper lip crushing both jaws and carrying away eleven teeth, the most painless dentistry I ever had done; but, Oh! the shock it gave my system and the misery I suffered that night!"Despite his wounds, he returned to service and remained with the Federal Army until Appomattox. He then made a career in the army until mustered out in 1883 due to complications from his Civil War wounds.Front-line letters and diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it, and this is one of the best.

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Download or read book PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS CIVIL written by Lemuel Abijah 1842-1911 Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civil War Diary 1864 written by William Henry Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Fine Day The Civil War Diary of Captain Emanuel D Roath 107th PA Volunteers 1864 written by John P. Mulcahy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1864 Civil War diary of Captain Emanuel D. Roath of the 107th Pennsylvania Regiment with details of combat actions and life in confederate prisons. A vivid, personal record of his role in the 1864 campaign in Virginia with the Army of the Potomac under General U. S. Grant and his months in southern prisons.

Download or read book Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864 written by Lemuel Abijah Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lemuel Abijah Abbott was born in Barre, Vermont, on August 24, 1842. He enlisted July 28, 1862, and mustered in as 1st Sergeant, Co. B, 10th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Co. D, February 4, 1863, to date from January 26. On May 5, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, he was slightly wounded, severely wounded at the battle of Monocacy on July 9, and then wounded again at Winchester, on September 19. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on July 11, 1864, to date from June 17, then promoted to Captain, Co. G, on January 30, 1865, to date from the previous December 19. Abbott was mustered out on June 22, 1865 to accept a position as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 97th U.S. Colored Infantry, on November 6, 1865, and was honorably mustered out on September 10, 1867. He joined the 6th U.S. Cavalry as 2nd Lieutenant on July 2, 1867, was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on September 10, 1869. He served as Regimental Quartermaster from November 1869, to May 1873. He was promoted captain on June 3, 1880. He received a brevet promotion to major for "gallant services in action against Indians at Big Dry Wash, Arizona on July 17, 1882. He retired on January 3, 1885. Abbott died February 3, 1911, and is buried in Wilson cemetery, Barre, Vermont.

Download or read book A Confederate Girl written by Carrie Berry and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate South in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities and a timeline of the era.

Download or read book A Civil War Diary written by Francis A. Kiene and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The War time Journal of a Georgia Girl 1864 1865 written by Eliza Frances Andrews and published by New York, D. Appleton, 1908;.. This book was released on 1908 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diary of a Contraband written by William Benjamin Gould and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.

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