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 Jefferson
Davis, President of the Confederacy
"The enemy are for the time occupied with the interior, and I have directed Captain Hollins to move up the river with his fleet. In two or three weeks it is expected that some fourteen vessels, to be manned by "river men," will be ready to leave New Orleans for operations against the enemy's gunboats. Beauregard was sent to command and direct the troops and defences on the river above Memphis--and in the adjacent country."
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 Robert E. Lee
"Col. Lee expresses to them in all frankness that it is impossible for them to escape. That the Armory is surrounded on all sides by troops that if compelled to take them by force he can not answer for their safety."
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 Pvt. W.J. Steubing, Company B, 26th Cavalry Regiment (Debray's Regiment)
"...it was Telegrafted here last night that our forces at Vicksbourg had again drove Grand back wiht a lost of Ten Thousent men and our army was in Pennsilvania cutting up the divell genraly but time will tell the truth of it"
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Lt. Henry Lea Graves, Marine CSA, Savannah, Georgia
"Christmas Eve myself and two or three of the officers were sitting in the Ward room--which room is what we call the Officers Saloon, where we eat and into which our staterooms open. The men all stay on the deck above no one and us but the officers are allowed in the wardroom. We were sitting quietly but busily making an egg-nogg when a man came down and said the Captain wanted me on deck immediately. I went up and found about 20 sailors, drunk and like so many wild beasts."
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John W. Hagan, Confederate POW#15 -- Barracks 16 Prison 3 Camp Chase O
"I am very anxious to hear of an Exchange but have very little hopes of being Exchanged during the War we are permitted to receve the papers now & have a chance of Knowing what is going on the late arrangement entering into by the C.S. & U.S. will not lead to & Exchange."
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Spencer Glasgow Welch, Surgeon, Thirteenth South Carolina Infantry
"The Yankees seem loath to make another advance since the good whipping we gave them here on the thirteenth in the battle of Fredericksburg. Milton Bossardt’s company went into the fight with forty men, and thirty of them were killed or wounded. He escaped very narrowly. A hole was shot through his hat and one of his shoe heels was shot off. Pick Stevens never shuns a fight. He goes boldly into them all."
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Capt. Emery McColley, Company F, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery
"We are having good news now. I suppose you knew that Lee had surrendered his whole army and Richmond is taken. When Richmond was taken, we fired a salute of one hundred rounds at each fort and in the night the city was all lit up with gas as they threw sky rockets all night."
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D. H. Blair, Company D, 45th Ohio Volunteers, 2nd Brig, 1st Div.
"Still I don't think we will get to go (if at all) until old Longstreet is cleaned out. They have him in pretty close quarters with his barefooted troops out about 35 miles from here and it is supposed that he will either have to surrender or travel now soon. His men are deserting by hundreds and come over to us Many of them barefooted in the snow. and very well satisfied with southern rights."
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Calvin Daniel Samuel Hollowell, Co. G., 2nd Partisan Rangers, Mississippi Cavalry
I do not know what this conferracry will come to. It was wickedness that brought this cruel war on use and I think it can not close till there is more religion but it seems to me that there is no religion in the country now. We thought that the federals when they wer in there was they was the wickedes men in the wourld but I can say that they is no wickeder than our men. It is A continuel sin all the time."
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