Tag Archives: Peninsula Campaign

A picket fight

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Tuesday, May 27, 1862: “Cloudy and raining,” wrote Minutemen of Attala Private Mike Hubbert. “We had quite a picket fight this morning.” Six of the Winston Guards, sent out at noon as scouts, according to Private Thomas David Wallace, got … Continue reading →

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Picket duty in the siege of Richmond

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Dick Stanley

“Saturday [May 24, 1862]. Warm and showery. Heavy Skirmishing all day [on the Chickahominy battle line]. Our regiment left at sunset to go on picket.” Quartermaster clerk William H. Hill’s diary entry (the day the Federals seized Mechanicsville, 5 miles … Continue reading →

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With the sick and dying in Richmond

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Dick Stanley

Throughout the Peninsula Campaign and during their cold, wet and hungry evacuation, the 13th kept contributing its share of the army’s sick and dying to the new Richmond hospitals. Official correspondence on April 26 showed the regiment reduced to 640 … Continue reading →

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