Tag: Phineas Stearns Davis

• Colby 88: “A Fine Drunk”

  

  Tensions arise in camp as the holidays approach …

  Marek

  7 November, 2014

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

  alcohol, Cuvier Grover, Freeman Colby, mail, Phineas Stearns Davis, Thanksgiving

• Colby 85: Mail

  

  Postal privileges & caustic comments from the camp of the 39th MA:

  Marek

  10 July, 2014

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

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• Colby 57: Rations

  

  1862: Col. Stearns secures more (if not better) victuals:

  Marek

  16 January, 2014

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

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• Colby 36: A Full Statement of the Case

  

  1862: Freeman & Jonas finally get to plead their case regarding their dramatic escape from camp …

  Marek

  15 October, 2013

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

  civil war, Freeman Colby, Henniker, John Richardson, jonas bacon, Maryland, Phineas Stearns Davis

• Colby 5: We Enlisted

  

  1862: The Colby brothers sign up with a Massachusetts regiment…

  Marek

  22 December, 2012

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

  civil war, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, newton colby, Phineas Stearns Davis, woburn