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Memoranda During the War


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MEMORANDA, &c. [MEMORANDA, &c.: 1862]
  
[Introduction]
  
FALMOUTH, VA., opposite Fredericksburgh, December 21, 1862.
  
December 23 to 31.
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[MEMORANDA, &c.: 1863]
  
WASHINGTON, January, '63.
  
Thursday, Jan. 21.
  
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field.
  
Letter Writing.
  
Saturday, Jan. 30.
  
Wednesday, Feb. 4th.
  
Feb. 23.
  
The White House, by Moonlight — Feb. 24.
  
An Army Hospital Ward.
  
A Connecticut Case.
  
Two Brooklyn Boys.
  
A Secesh Brave.
  
The Wounded from Chancellorsville, May, '63.
  
May 12 — A Night Battle, over a week since.
  
June 18.
  
W. H. E., Co. F., Second N. J.
  
June 25, (Thursday, Sundown).
  
Bad Wounds, the Young.
  
June 29.
  
July 3.
  
4th July — Battle of GETTYSBURG,
  
A Cavalry Camp.
  
July 6.
  
July 10.
  
A New York Soldier.
  
Aug. 8.
  
Aug. 12.
  
Heated term.
  
Soldiers and Talks.
  
Death of a Wisconsin Officer.
  
Aug., Sep., and Oct., '63 — The Hospitals.
  
Oct. 20.
  
Spiritual Characters Among the Soldiers.
  
Cattle Droves About Washington.
  
Hospital Perplexity.
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[MEMORANDA, &c.: 1864]
  
CULPEPPER, VA., Feb., '64.
  
Paying the Bounties.
  
Rumors, Changes, &c.
  
Virginia.
  
WASHINGTON Again — Summer of 1864.
  
Readings.
  
A New Army Organization Fit for America Needed.
  
Death of a Hero.
  
A Slight Glimpse.
  
Ice Cream Treat.
  
An Incident.
  
Another.
  
A Yankee Soldier.
  
Union Prisoners South — Salisbury.
  
Deserters — Saturday, Oct. 24.
  
A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes.
  
Gifts — Money — Discrimination.
  
Items Wanted
  
A Case from Second Bull Run.
  
Army Surgeons — Aid deficiencies.
  
The Blue everywhere.
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[MEMORANDA, &c.: 1865]
  
Sunday, Jan. 29, 1865.
  
Boys in the Army.
  
Burial of a Lady Nurse.
  
Female Nurses for Soldiers.
  
Southern Escapees, Feb. 23, '65.
  
Feb. 27, '65.
  
Feb. 28.
  
March 1st.
  
The Inauguration, March 4.
  
The Weather — Does it Sympathise with these Times?
  
March 6 — Inauguration Ball.
  
Scene at the Capitol.
  
March 27, 1865 — A Yankee Antique.
  
Wounds and Diseases.
  
Murder of President Lincoln.
  
Releas'd Union Prisoners from South.
  
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier — Frank H. Irwin, Co. E, 93rd Pennsylvania — Died May 1, '65 — My letter to his mother.
  
May 7 — (Sunday.)
  
May 21.
  
May 22.
  
The Grand Review.
  
Western Soldiers — May 26-7.
  
May 28.
  
Two Brothers, one South, one North — May 28-9.
  
May 31.
  
June 9-10.
  
Sunday, Sep. 10.
  
Calhoun's Real Monument.
  
October 3.
  
Oct., Nov. and Dec., '65 — (Sundays.)
  
Dec. 10 — (Sunday.)
  
Three Years Summ'd Up.
  
The Million Dead, too, summ'd up — The Unknown.
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NOTES.
  
'Convulsiveness.'
  
Typical Soldiers.
  
Attack on Fort Sumter, April, 1861.
  
The ensuing three Months—The National Uprising and Volunteering.
  
Contemptuous National feeling.
  
Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861.
  
Sherman's Army's Jubilation, 1865—Its sudden stoppage.
  
Attitude of Foreign Governments toward the U.S. during the War of 1861-'65.
  
No good Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
  
The War, though with two sides, really ONE IDENTITY (as struggles, furious conflicts of Nature, for final harmony.)—The Soil it bred and ripen'd from—the North as responsible for it as the South.
  
Results South—Now and Hence.

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1875-1876
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