Category Archives: Mike M. Hubbert Diary

The Journey: Back to Brucetown

On Oct. 24, 1862, the regiment moved with the brigade from its camp east of Winchester to a new camp within a mile south of Brucetown, a community about seven miles northeast of Winchester. The purpose of the move was … Continue reading

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The Journey: Withdrawal

Friday, Sept. 19, 1862. From Private Mike Hubbert’s diary: “Rained last night very hard. Our Army all came across the River last night to the Virginia side, leaving many of our wounded in the hands of the Yankees. We camped … Continue reading

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Night on the battlefield, anxious morning

“We slept on the battle field last night,” Private Mike Hubbert of the Minutemen of Attala recorded in his diary Sept. 18, 1862. “It is very horrifying to hear the cries of the wounded who are all around us. The … Continue reading

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Battles: Sharpsburg

The Spartan Band’s “boiled meat and crackers” eaten, the 13th and the rest of the Mississippi Brigade marched through the dawn’s early light into the western suburbs of Sharpsburg, Maryland (above), headed for Gen. Lee’s headquarters.It was a clear and … Continue reading

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The Journey: On to Sharpsburg

On Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1862, the 13th regiment finally descended from the Maryland Heights and crossed the Union pontoon bridge into Harpers Ferry. They didn’t linger, but pushed on west, keeping to the Charles Town road, until they were about … Continue reading

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The Journey: On to Harpers Ferry

From Middletown, Maryland, Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade and the rest of McLaws Division turned southwest, probably along what is now State Road 17. Quartermaster clerk William H. Hill described it as “very disagreeable marching” for 10 miles in a warm rain. … Continue reading

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I hope you will get butchered up

Union sentiment was so strong in Frederick, Maryland, that at least one citizen felt free to threaten the Mississippi Brigade, according to Spartan Band Private Albert Wymer Henley who wrote in his diary on Sept. 10, 1862: “While Longstreet’s Corps … Continue reading

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The Journey: Maryland, My Maryland

Sept. 6, 1862, a Saturday. Wrote Spartan Band Private and diarist Albert Wymer Henley, “Our haversacks full of rations, we were again set into motion.” The 13th tried to cross the Potomac River at White’s Ford, northeast of Leesburg, where … Continue reading

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