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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 3, 1862 (Nine-year-old Hubert Welles has died, the 6th child of Gideon and Mary Ann Welles to die in childhood.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-december.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 3, 1862 (Gen. and Mrs. Meade are conducting a lively correspondence about Gen. McClellan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, December 3, 1862 (“So difficult it is with the best intentions and no motive to deceive, to get the truth of these battle incidents even from eyewitnesses.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_7.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 3, 1862 (The 103rd Illinois Infantry may be in for a fight but a junior line officer has no way of getting good information.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-december-3.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 3, 1862 (Capt. Lusk thinks he would have “more congenial companions” in the regular army if he could get a transfer out of the 79th NY Volunteers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to.html

William Cullen Bryant to John Bigelow, December 3, 1862 (“The English have lost more ground in public opinion in America within the past year and a half than they can redeem in a century.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/william-cullen-bryant-to-john-bigelow.html

William Cullen Bryant to R. H. Dana, Esq., December 3, 1862 (Bryant thanks Dana for translating 3 poems into French.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/william-cullen-bryant-to-r-h-dana-esq.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 3, 1862 (“[Gen. Lee] says several thousand of his men are barefoot! He suggests that shoes be taken from the extortioners at a fair price.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 3, 1862 (“Katz and myself went to Petersburg to-day. The headache we had next day was caused by too much whiskey.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-private-louis-leon-december-3.html