CivilWarLetters @WarLettersWP
The Post is tweeting the Civil War, in the words of the people who lived it. To get all of the tweets, follow our list. washingtonpost.com/civilwar Washington, DC Joined December 2010-
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Kate Stone: “The most important fact is Lincoln’s proclamation freeing all slaves…I wonder what will be the result of this diabolical move”
La diarist Kate Stone: “Such a war is too horrible to think of. We hear that My Brother is perfectly well and has never been wounded”
Va diarist Judith McGuire: “Letters from Winchester giving cheering accounts of our army. It is stationed…twelve miles from Winchester”
Judith McGuire, Va:“My heart sickens at the thought of what our dear soldiers have yet to pass through…God…save us from our relentless foes”
La diarist Kate Stone: “A telegram from My Brother…says he is slightly wounded in the leg, wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg”
Va diarist Judith McGuire: “we do not want [Yankee] blood, but only to be separated from them as a people, eternally and everlasting”
Va diarist Judith McGuire: “Yankee papers say…but for the wounding of Gen Hooker [at Antietam] they would have driven us into the Potomac!”
DC diarist Elizabeth Lee: "The Presidents proclamation took the breath out of me...all that could be done to hurt our cause has been done"
Va diarist Judith McGuire: “It is such a blessing to have so many of our public men God fearing”
Mary Chesnut: “Our Army of the Peninsula is fine; so good I do not think McClellan will venture to attack it
NY Tribune: “A certain number of thousands of guns, and a certain number of thousands pairs of trousers….will be…worn by loyal blacks”
NY Tribune: Information from Norfolk…that the Merrimac would soon sally forth from her lair”
NY Tribune: “Our earthworks [around Yorktown] are now beginning to present a very formidable appearance to the enemy”
SC diarist Mary Chesnut: “A grand smash, the news from New Orleans fatal to us”
Richmond Dispatch: “Troops escaped from Island no.10 still continue to arrive here [in Memphis]”
Richmond Dispatch: “Affairs here [in Memphis] look unpleasantly blue”
Richmond Dispatch: “Our dispatches from Yorktown state that preparations were rapidly making for an attack”
Richmond Dispatch: The “Fall of New Orleans… is a heavy blow; it is useless to deny it. But we were anticipating it”
Mary Chesnut: “New Orleans gone and with it the Confederacy. That Mississippi ruins us if lost"
DC diarist Horatio Taft: "The Event here has been the passage of the Bill by the House abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia"
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