Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Monday, May 28, 2012
1862 May 29 Richmond, Va.
[from the diary of Daniel D. Logan, younger brother of General Thomas M. Logan, formerly a Sgt, Co. B, 1st Special Battalion (Rightor's), now with the Hampton Legion]
Thursday – May 29th 1862
After breakfast I walked over to Mrs
Taylors – Went down in the Ambulance to
Semmes’ brigade & paid off some officers
in the 10th La & 15th Va Regts – returning
by three o’c – Maj Spencer & Poissant
want me to join the 10th & think they
Can get me Elected to a 2nd Lieutenancy
there, I did not commit myself to them
abt taking it- After dinner I rode
down the Mechanicsville road & made
final arrangements to get a room near Mr
Garnetts in Case Genl Magruder makes his
Head Quarters there – Mr Dill left word that
I could have one room at his farm house – I find
the old man & his family live in town! Learned
something new of the road & country which is
soon to be the scene of action – Huger &
Holmes divisions are arriving today from Peters’bg
By todays papers learn of Branches defeat
[The following lines are cross-written over the above page.]
Came to town for the night – find
Mullie much better tonight – we
walked down to the Spottswood
tonight - No letters from anywhere
today – or this week.
[Brig. Gen. Paul Jones Semmes, a University of Virginia alumnus, and possibly the older brother or cousin or the student who fatally shot Professor John A. G. Davis in 1840]
[Major William H. Spencer]
[Henry Puissan, adjutant of the 10th La.]
[Major Gen. Benjamin Huger]
[Maj. Gen. T. H. Holmes]
[transcription and notes by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 6154
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