Posted on 02/27/2024 6:49:27 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, March 4, 1864 (“A pleasant Cabinet-meeting. Chase and Blair both absent. Seward and Stanton had a corner chat and laugh about Chase, whose name occasionally escaped them”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-march-4.html
Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major General William T. Sherman, March 4, 1864 (“I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson, as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 4, 1864 (“And now we are getting ready to move somewhere, the Lord only knows where.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_3.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 4, 1864 (“Gen. Lee says the railroad from Chattanooga to Knoxville, being about completed, will enable the enemy to combine on either Johnston or Longstreet.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-4.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 4, 1864 (“I am as stiff as an old man this morning from yesterday’s march on the plank road.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-4-1864.html
Today’s posts:
“Grant,” reply #38
Mary B. Chesnut, #39
John Hay, #40
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #41
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