Posted on 04/29/2025 6:55:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 3, 1865 (“It is generally believed that after the army is assembled in Washington it will be disbanded.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_3.html
Major Charles Wright Wills: May 3, 1865 (“We are marching too hard. It is using up lots of men.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-3-1865.html
Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, May 3, 1865 (“Rumors of the day — a deserter reports Forest 75 miles from here with 2500 men determined to fight us.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_13.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, May 3, 1865 (“There are a great many rebel soldiers throughout the country here, who have just returned from the armies of Johnston and Lee.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_85.html
Today’s posts:
“Grant,” reply #18
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #19
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #20
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #21
Major Charles Wright Wills: May 4, 1865 (“We crossed the N. C. and Va. line about three miles this side of the river. Good country, and people all out gazing.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-4-1865.html
Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Thursday, May 4, 1865 (“Maj says that the no. of Rebs from Lees army in Mobile out number the yankees”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_4.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, May 4, 1865 (“went into bivouac within a mile of the Roanoke river. The Fifteenth Corps is in advance of us and their rear crossed the river this evening.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_89.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 4, 1865 (“General Johnston surrendered on the 26th of April. ‘My native land, good-night!’”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_5.html
Today’s posts:
“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #23
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #24
Mary B. Chesnut, #25
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #26
Continued from April 15 (reply #11).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4311134/posts#11
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 5, 1865 (“Last evening Markoe Bache, who had been to see his friend Custis Lee, was told by him that his father, General Lee, would be glad to see me. I called there to-day and had a long talk with him.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_4.html
Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 5, 1865 (Gen. Hayes considers quitting public life when his Congressional term is over and opening a law office.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_44.html
Major Charles Wright Wills: May 5, 1865 (“The army is very sore over the affair. We can’t bear to have anybody say a word against Sherman, but he did act very strangely in this thing.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-5-1865.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, May 5, 1865 (“News came that the two men who killed the president and stabbed Seward had been shot. All is quiet.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_10.html
Diary of Malvina S. Waring, May 5, 1865 (“We are all here; nobody killed in battle; nobody dead from disease. Have we not something, after all, to be thankful for?”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/03/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-may-5-1865.html
Today’s posts:
“Lee,” reply #28
Johnny Green, #29
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #30
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #31
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