Tag: harper’s ferry

• Colby 47: “None of us were any too well pleased”

  

  1862: Camp life is definitely a step down from picket duty …

  Marek

  3 December, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

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• Colby 46: Alarm

  

  1862: Alert! Alert! The enemy approaches! (Or DOES he…?)

  Marek

  24 November, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, harper’s ferry, Maryland, Potomac

• Colby 35: Day of Rest

  

  1862: Colby’s footsore “day of rest” just happens to be the bloodiest day in US military history …

  Marek

  23 September, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

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