Good Friday, April 18th [1862] Last night we heard that the enemy were four miles from Falmouth. did not know their strength. Our forces went across the river to meet them. I believe they had a short skirmish in the night. Whi…
This is to announce that The House on Caroline Street has created a web page for the publication of related items concerning Virginia in the Civil War. The first article to be published there is an article originally published in Appleton’s magazine on…
Thursday, 17th April [1862] My dear husband went to Richmond to day. It goes very hard with me to part with him. We may be separated for years and maybe for ever. God only knows. He has applied for a Lieutenantcy in the artille…
[Sunday] April 13th, 1862 All of our forces have left except one Brigade commanded by Gen’ Field. They are here as out posts and scouts and expect to retire when ever the enemy come to take possession. We have piles of tarred l…
Tuesday, 8th [April 1862]We have had a grand a[nd] glorious victory in Tennessee but our commander in chief Gen’ A. S. Johns[t]on was killed, Gen’ Beauregard’s official dispatch says.Battle of Shiloh Sunday 6th [April 1862]We this morning attacke…
Note: For another perspective on the events in Fredericksburg in these days, see A Slave No More by David W. Blight, which has the text of a memoir by John Washington of Fredericksburg. [Sunday] April 6th [1862] Since our forces have fallen…
[Sunday] March 30th [1862] Our Dick wrote a noble letter to Gen’ Early telling him that he would accept his offer in consideration of the perilous condition of the times and the mortification it would occasion him to be deprived of his com…
Monday, March [24, 1862] Papa came up yesterday. He looks very much depressed. He wants Mama and all of us women kind to make up our minds to stay here when the place is occupied by the Yankees, as everyone says it must be ere long. I am n…
Fredericksburg, Va.Sunday, March 16th, 1862 Nashville has fallen into the hands of the enemy. We have evacuated Columbus. Since our army has fallen back from the line of the Potomac to Fredericksburg and Gordon Mills. We have evacuated St…
March 2nd 1862 Mama has gone to Richmond to enter Molly at Mr. Powell’s school. She will stop.
