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I believe Wolseley traveled with London Illustrated News artist-correspondent Frank Vizetelly who likely introduced him to various personages and places while also making drawings and sketches that were subsequently published back in England. The time-lines of the two men seem to correspond, to judge by the illustrations.
After having enunciated to me the face that newspaper correspondents were a fraternity bound together by a common interest that must write down all who stood in their way, and that you had to supply the public demand for news, true if possible, but false if your interest demanded it, I cannot be privy to a tacit acknowledgment of the principle ...
A rainbow is caused by light reflected/refracted by water droplets, with the sun to the observer's back at a low angle in the sky. Hence at the time, a scattered rain shower should have been found over Culp's Hill. We have confirmation of this fact from a post-war account, "The Farmer's Son," appearing in Battleground Adventures, by Clifton ...
The Fayetteville Observer reports the dig that began July 24th resumes Monday and continues through Friday. So far, they've found items such as a ceramic shard of a smoking pipe, melted glass, nails and screws, along with brick, mortar, sandstone and slate.
I have posted before on the Hughes Breechloading cannon - I find this little cannon fascinating, and whenever I find anything related to it, I like to share it with the forum. I found the following article in the Memphis Daily Appeal, October 10, 1861:
I don't recall any source that settles that issue, just clues based on extant accounts. We have Boyle's account of observing Perrin at close range, indicating little separation between 12 SC and 1 SC, Gamble's statement that he was on Doubleday's left, plus a stone wall protecting his troopers (a wood fence supposedly ran along the west border of Schultz woods).
Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1882. 180 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History. New York: Walker & Company, 1997. 247 pp. de Kay, James Tertius. Rebel Raiders, The: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York ...
Daily Intelligencer, Wheeling, VA (WV) From the Morgantown Star. The name of the proposed new State formed from this portion of Virginia—Kanawha—is not the one we would have given, but it is, nevertheless, a very pretty one, but not so good as "New Virginia, or "West Virginia." We still love...
Many observers joined the war effort.8 Others wrote to say their weather instruments had been confiscated or destroyed.9 The strained finances of the Smithsonian, which depended in part on annual Congressional appropriations, made it unable to comply with observer requests10 for barometers, rain gauges, or other such items. https://siarchives ...
Typically diaries document unique insights on a variety of topics, including:-Weather conditions (often general comments such as “rainy,” “dry,” “muddy,” but also cases of sunstroke or heat exhaustion) -Details of the march (road conditions, miles covered daily, extended halts, camp locations, brief descriptions of towns/villages ...