Related Records

1. Fredericksburg to the Valley of Virginia. - November 1893

   George S. Bernard spoke to the R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, in Richmond on November 3, 1893, about his experiences during the Gettysburg Campaign. His talk was published in the newspaper. Bernard used his wartime diary and notebooks as source material for the talk. After the Battle of Chancellorsville, Mahone's Brigade made camp at Salem Church, and then marched to Fredericksburg to relieve Barksdale's brigade. After a week, the reg...

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. G. Adolphus Boisseau Addendum letter - September 21, 1894

   The first page is a map sketch of the entrenched lines in the front of Petersburg made by Nathaniel Michler, a Colonel in the Engineers. The map does not match with the names of the places mentioned in the letter. The last or eighth page is the reverse of page seven. Mr. G. Adolphus Boisseau sent a letter (the addendum) dated September 21, 1893, in which he states that he was the little boy referred to by Captain Griffin in a letter sent to Be...

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Letter from William Mahone to George S. Bernard - July 1895

   Letter written by William Mahone to George S. Bernard pertains to the Battle of the Weldon Railroad, in which Mahone's Division participated when it arrived on the scene August 19, 1864. The nine pages are extremely fragile and are crumbling. Where they were folded, the pages are now splitting apart. The letter is unsigned, but, on the reverse of page four, Bernard has made a faint notation that it was from General Mahone. The letter begins by d...

   Record Type: Archive