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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 16, 1863 (“[Seward] alluded to the removal of Butler, which he said was a necessity to appease France.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-may-16.html

Resolutions of the New York Democratic Committee, May 16, 1863 (Re Vallandigham and suspension of the writ.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/resolutions-of-new-york-democratic.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sturgis Russell, May 16, 1863 (On the grueling trip to Washington by ship and train.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to_13.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 16, 1863 (Slapjacks and Champion Hill.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_28.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, May 16, 1863 (“a wounded soldier gave us the deplorable information that the enemy really was on the railroad between Jackson and Brookhaven, and that Jackson itself was in his hands.”)

(“All the young women in this country seem to be either uncommonly free-spoken, or else extremely shy.” Welcome to Louisiana.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 16, 1863 (“it was resolved not to send Pickett’s division to Mississippi, and this morning early the long column march through the city northward.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-16.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 16, 1863 (Damn Yankees and the indominable good spirits of the Confederate wounded.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_24.html