Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, March 5, 1864 (Col. Lowell would like to have his entire regiment equipped with Spencer repeating rifles.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john_6.html
Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 5, 1864 (“I have only time to write a single line giving the assurance of my personal safety and the crossing of my command over Black River, with but few casualties, after one of the most extraordinary marches known to modern warfare.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_12.html
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 5, 1864 (“I fancy Kill has rather dished himself. It is painful to think of those poor prisoners hearing the sound of his guns and hoping a rescue was at hand!”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_19.html
Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, March 5, 1864 (“the points which we now must consider as settled and past all discussion are: that the integrity of our country and our nationality shall not be given up; that slavery must be extinguished.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-senator-charles_97.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 5, 1864 (“Some extraordinary memoranda were captured from the raiders, showing a diabolical purpose, and creating a profound sensation here.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-5.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 5, 1864 (“We left the mills this morning and returned to our brigade, a distance of five miles. Nothing more up to the 17th.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-5-1864.html
Should’ve picked our own cotton.