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Civil War Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd
36 Page booklet
5.5 inches by 8.5 inches
Nice new reprint of an old pamphlet. Below are some of the first few pages.
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Member of Company D
Terry's Texas Rangers
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DECEMBER 4, 1862
—JANUARY 1, 1864
PRESS OF E. L. STECK
AUSTIN 1914
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
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In his history of "Terry's Texas Rangers," Mr. L. B. Giles narrates the following tragic incident of the East Tennessee campaign:
| Also includes: The Hanging of Dodd 4-page booklet, containing a description of Ephraim Dodd's hanging as a spy.
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"It was during this winter that one of the saddest events in all our career happened: the hanging of E. S. Dodd by the enemy. He was a member of Company D. He was of a good family and well educated. For many years he kept a diary, setting down at night the happenings of the day. He was taken prisoner with this diary in his pocket. On that evidence alone he was condemned and executed as a spy."
In January, 1914, the State Librarian received a letter from a resident of New York State, informing him that she had in her possession a diary found on the body of a Texas Ranger hung as a spy. Negotiations for its acquisition by the State Library were opened at once, and terminated successfully. The only information about the diary this person could give was that it "was found by a lieutenant from a N. H. regiment, who for years was a friend of our family, and some time before his death (which occurred six years ago) he gave it to me."
E. S. Dodd came to Texas from Kentucky late in 1860 or early in 1861. After visiting an uncle, James L. L. McCall, at Waco, he made his home with another uncle, Dr. John R. McCall, at Austin. He was teaching school near Austin, and was not yet out of his teens, when he enlisted in Terry's Rangers.
ERNEST WILLIAM WINKLER
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
November 5, 1914
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And here is the last page:
Dodd was sentenced to death on or before January 5th. An extract from a letter by the general commanding and dated at Knoxville, Tenn., January 17, 1864, reads:
"I also avail myself of this opportunity to forward an order publishing the proceedings, findings and sentence in the case of Private E. S. Dodd, Eighth Texas Confederate Cavalry, who was tried, condemned and executed as a spy.
"I also inclose a copy of an order which I have found it necessary to issue, in regard to the wearing of the U. S. uniform by Confederate soldiers.*"
*Inclosure No. 7 (here omitted) contains "General Orders, No. 3, Department of the Ohio, January 5, 1864, promulgating charges, findings and sentence to death in the case of E. S. Dodd, Eighth Texas Cavalry, arrested and tried as a spy." War of the Rebellion, Series III, Vol. 4, p. 53.
The Civil War Diary Of Joseph Fant Kauffman
32 Page booklet
5.5 inches by 8.5 inches
Nice new reprint of an old pamphlet. Below are some of the first few pages.
28 March 1862
through
28 August 1862
Published by
Treasures Beyond Measure, Publisher
220 Samuel Road
Luray, VA 22835
FAX: (707) 988-1650
© 2002, 2003 K. P. Stiles
PREFACE
This diary tells of a Confederate soldier's short exploits during the War between the States, ending with a wonderful answer to prayer. After long treks and bouts of sicknesses, he prayed that his misery would end-- and it did. God took him home for his own good, for God says in His word:
The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
(Isaiah 57:1-2 NIV)
INTRODUCTION
Joseph Fant (Franklin) Kauffman was born 22 Dec. 1838, the son of Barney and Rebecca Mauck Kauffman. He grew to manhood in the Kauffman home at Mauck's Mill, Page County, Virginia. He was the eldest of eight children, three brothers, Enoch Van Buren; Philip Marion; and John William Kauffman; and four sisters, Ellen Virginia; Julia Ann; Mary Magdalene; and Susan Elizabeth Kauffman. His father, Barney Kauffman, died 10 April 1855 and Joseph became the head of the family. On 20 Dec. 1860 Joseph was united in marriage to Nancy Seatta Beasley, daughter of Isaac & Ann R. Beasley. One child was born to this union, William Kauffman, who died on 6 March 1873, aged 11 years, 1 month and 3 days.
Joseph F. Kauffman served a short time in the State Malitia under Captain John D. Aleshire in the early part of the Civil War and on 28 March 1862 volunteered for regular service. He joined Company K. 10th Virginia Regiment at Culpeper Court House and served under General Stonewall Jackson in his Valley Campaign. He fought in the battles around Richmond, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill and Cedar Mountain where he helped to bury his uncle, John W. Mauck who was killed in that battle on 9 August 1862. He kept the events of each day in this diary from the time he left home on Friday, 28 of March 1862, to join the army until he was killed in the battle of Second Manassas on 28 August 1862.
The Limited Civil War Diary
of
Enoch Pearson Williams
Company H, 8th Iowa Infantry
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Spellings and misspellings in this diary were kept as close as possible to the original copy.
PREFACE
 This is a diary written during the Civil War by Enoch Pearson Williams which was found in a safe belonging to his son, Jesse Cyrus Williams, in 1958. Most of it was written in ink but some of the pages were done in a very soft lead pencil and were extremely hard to read. The book was 3" by 5" which made it easy to carry. It was copied by Mrs. Harriett Jones Stewart, his granddaughter.
Enoch Pearson Williams was born May 22, 1841, in Logan County, Ohio, and died September 24, 1884, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He was married March 28, 1867, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Sarah Ellen Jones. He was the son of John C. Williams who was born May 14, 1812, in Grayson County, Virginia, and who died April 4, 1883, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. His mother was Lydia Ann Pearson of Logan county, Ohio. The grandfather referred to on one of the last pages of the diary would have been William Pearson who lived in New Sharon, Iowa, at that time. Both families had been members of the Quakers for many generations. Richard Williams, the great-great grandfather of Enoch, lived and died in Guilford, North Carolina, and gave the land on which Guilford College stands. There is no previous record of any of the Williams family becoming a soldier. Richard was a "Patriot" in the Revolutionary war using his home as a hospital for the wounded of both armies. During and before the Civil War some of the family were busy actively helping with the Underground Railroad. There is a bronze plaque in Middletown, Ohio, on the home of Henry Pickrell, uncle of Lydia Ann Pearson Williams, mentioning his part in that work. Also mentioned are some of the related Williams' and Paxton's.
With a strong feeling of his family against active participation in fighting, Enoch ran away to join the northern army. He enlisted in Oskaloosa, Iowa, September 23, 1861. His older brother Cyrus was sent after him, but finding Enoch already enlisted, he also joined "to care for him." On the train going to one of the prison camps, Uncle Cy was blinded by a cinder so was released from the army at the end of this time in the prison. Enoch served his three years in the army and was mustered out September 28, 1864.
We believe this diary is one of three that were kept but is the only one found and covers the period from May 13, 1863, to October 5, 1864.
The Civil War Diary of Bingham Findley Junkin
100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry ("Roundheads")
March 11, 1864
to
June 13, 1865
20 Page booklet
5.5 inches by 8.5 inches
Published by
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Luray, VA 22835
FAX: (707) 988-1650
Formatting © 2001 K. P. Stiles
Nice new reprint of an old pamphlet. Below is an excerpt.
Bingham Findley Junkin enlisted from Mercer County Pennsylvania on February 27, 1864. He was mustered in at North Liberty, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1864 as a private in Captain Samuel Bentley's company, and later Norman J. Maxwell's company E. Regimental commander was Colonel Daniel Leisure.
The Diary
Wednesday, May 11
Lay in our ditches till about three o'clock. Then retreated across the Ny Branch of the Mattaponi river. Returned to our pits a little after dark and was on guard a part of the night. It rained and we had to sleep on our arms again.
Thursday, May 12
Had coffee and started off for the line of battle. (An account of the 126th Ohio's battle on May 12th starts on page 16 of this booklet) Kept up a skirmished fight through the woods during which Joseph was wounded [the Reverend Joseph Buchanan Junkin was Bingham's brother, and also Union Chaplin of the 100 PVI, Company E) and Paree killed. About 2 o'clock we were ordered to make a charge through the woods, but we were soon on a rifle pit and were forced to fall back with heavy loss to out regiment. Company E lost in wounded and killed 22 during the day. Killed: Paree, [Pvt.] Stewart Hunt, [Pvt.] James S. Gill, [Pvt.] Milton C. Campbell, [and] [Pvt.] W, H. Rodgers. Wounded: Sergeant [James D.] McKune, Sgt. John W. Bentley, [Sgt.] George Maxwell, Corp. Samuel Moore, David H. Stevenson, Privates Rounds, Daniel Shaner, ______, ______, James J. Book, John S. Barber, Abraham & Alexander Hannah, William H. Brown, P. Cook, John H. Martin [and] Tomkin. We fell back a short distance and lay on our arms all night. Had our skirmishes and ordered not to sleep for fear of a surprise. Rained on us all day and night.
Friday, May 13
Threw up our entrenchments and again had to put in a sleepless night. Are still holding our position...
Includes Two Pre-Civil War PDF eBooklets:
THE
LIFE OF JOSIAH HENSON,
FORMERLY A SLAVE,
NOW AN INHABITANT OF CANADA,
AS
NARRATED BY HIMSELF.
44 Page booklet
5.5 inches by 8.5 inches
Nice new reprint of an old pamphlet. Below are some of the first few pages. It was this original booklet that inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin. and which Abraham Lincoln remarked that her book started such a great war.
BOSTON:
ARTHUR D. PHELPS.
1849.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
ARTHUR D. PHELPS,
in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY BOLLES AND HOUGHTON.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
 THE following memoir was written from the dictation of JOSIAH HENSON. A portion of the story was told, which, when written, was read to him, that any errors of statement might be corrected. The substance of it, therefore, the facts, the reflections, and very often the words, are his; and little more than the structure of the sentences belongs to another.
The narrative, in this form, necessarily loses the attraction derived from the earnest manner, the natural eloquence of a man who tells a story in which he is deeply interested; but it is hoped that enough remains to repay perusal, and that the character of the man, and the striking nature of the events of his life will be thought to justify the endeavor to make them more extensively known. The story has this advantage, that it is not fiction, but fact; and it will be found fruitful in instruction by those who attentively consider its lessons.
LIFE OF JOSIAH HENSON.
I WAS born, June 15, 1789, in Charles County, Maryland, on a farm belonging to Mr. Francis N., about a mile from Port Tobacco. My mother was the property of Dr. Josiah McP., but was hired by Mr. N., to whom my father belonged. The only incident I can remember, which occurred while my mother continued on N.'s farm, was the appearance of my father one day, with his head bloody and his back lacerated. He was in a state of great excitement, and though it was all a mystery to me at the age of three or four years, it was explained at a later period, and I understood that he had been suffering the cruel penalty of the Maryland law for beating a white man. His right ear had been cut off close to his head, and he had received a hundred lashes on his back. He had beaten the overseer for a brutal assault on my mother, and this was his punishment. Furious at such treatment, my father became a different man, and was so morose, disobedient, and intractable, that Mr. N. determined to sell him. He accordingly parted with him, not long after, to his son, who lived in Alabama; and neither my mother nor I, ever heard of him again. He was naturally, as I understood afterwards from my mother and other persons, a man of amiable temper, and of considerable energy of character; but it is not strange that he should be essentially changed by such cruelty and injustice under the sanction of law.
After the sale of my father by N., and his leaving Maryland for Alabama, Dr. McP. would no longer hire out my mother to N. She returned, therefore, to the estate of the doctor, who was very much kinder to his slaves than the generality of planters, never suffering them to be struck by any one. He was, indeed, a man of good natural impulses, kind-hearted, liberal, and jovial. The latter quality was so much developed as to be his great failing; and though his convivial excesses were not thought of as a fault by the community in which he lived, and did not even prevent his having a high reputation for goodness of heart, and an almost saint-like benevolence, yet they were, nevertheless, his ruin. My mother, and her young family of three girls and three boys, of which I was the youngest, resided on this estate for two or three years, during which my only recollections are of being rather a pet of the doctor's, who thought I was a bright child, and of being much impressed with what I afterwards recognized as the deep piety and devotional feeling and habits of my mother. I do not know how, or where she acquired her knowledge of God, or her acquaintance with the Lord's prayer, which she so frequently repeated and taught me to repeat. I remember seeing her often on her knees, endeavoring to arrange her thoughts in prayers appropriate to her situation, but which amounted to little more than constant ejaculation, and the repetition of short phrases, which were within my infant comprehension, and have remained in my memory to this hour.
After this brief period of comparative comfort, however, the death of Dr. McP. brought about a revolution in our condition, which, common as such things are in slave countries, can never be imagined by those not subject to them, nor recollected by those who have been, without emotions of grief and indignation deep and ineffaceable. The doctor was riding from one of his scenes of riotous excess, when, falling from his horse, in crossing a little run, not a foot deep, he was unable to save himself from drowning.
In consequence of his decease, it became necessary to sell the estate and the slaves, in order to divide the property among the heirs; ...
THE UNITED STATES MARINES
AT
HARPER'S FERRY, 1859
Historical Branch, G-3 Division
Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps
Washington, D. C.
Revised 1962
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
REVIEWED AND APPROVED 11 JAN 1962
H. W. BUSE, JR.
Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3
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20 Page booklet
5.5 inches by 8.5 inches
This booklet is a reprint of "At All Times Ready..." featuring a report of the USMC involvment squashing John Brown's revolt at Harpers Ferry in 1859, who's raid is said to be one of the sparks that fueled the flames of the Civil War. The report features the yet to be general, Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee.
Nice new large print (14 point) reprint of an old pamphlet. Below are some of the first few pages.
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THE UNITED STATES MARINES
AT
HARPER'S FERRY, 1859
TABLE OF CONTENTS
"At All Times Ready...;" The Marines At Harper's Ferry ........ 4
Notes ........................................................ 17
"AT ALL TIMES READY ...;"
THE MARINES AT HARPER'S FERRY
By
Bernard C. Nalty
"I must also ask to express...my entire commendation of the conduct of, who were at all times ready and prompt in the execution of any duty."
Brevet Colonel
the detachment of Marines Robert E. Lee
from his report to the Adjutant General of
the suppression of John Brown's Raid.
 James Ewell Brown Stuart, First Lieutenant, U. S. Cavalry, was enjoying six months' leave from his frontier post at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory. Yet, the joys of coming home to Virginia had not made him forget that he was a cavalryman by profession. On the rainy morning of 17 October 1859 he had ridden over the muddy streets of Washington to the office of the War Department, and now he sat waiting to speak with Secretary of War John B. Floyd. Jeb Stuart had an idea for a new type strap to fasten a cavalryman's sabre to his belt. While the young lieutenant was rehearsing in his mind for the coming interview, the Secretary himself was face to face with the spectre of a slave insurrection.
John B. Floyd was a poor administrator, a failing which almost resulted in his removal from office; but on this day there was no need for paper shuffling. Word had come by way of Baltimore that an insurrection had broken out at Harper's Ferry. A band of armed men had captured the United States arsenal there and was fomenting a slave rebellion. A native of Virginia, the Secretary must have heard the oft-told tales of the Haitians revolt against their French masters with all its barbarism. Nor had any son of the Old Dominion forgotten Nat Turner's Rebellion, a slave uprising which occurred a generation before and claimed the lives of 55 whites in a single bloody night.
Swinging at once into action, Floyd fired off a telegram to Fort Monroe; and by noon Captain Edward O. C. Ord with 150 coast artillerymen was on his way toward Baltimore on the first leg of the journey to Harper's Ferry. There was no question as to who would command operations against the insurgents. Floyd called for his chief clerk and set him to writing orders summoning to the War Department Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee, then on leave at his estate, Arlington, just across the Potomac from the Capital.
Message in hand, the harassed aide came dashing out of the office, only to halt when he spied the forgotten cavalry officer. Stuart, by now thoroughly bored, was easily persuaded to deliver the sealed envelope. Even as this message was speeding toward its destination, President James Buchanan called upon Secretary Floyd to move even faster a demand which was to bring the Marine Corps into the picture.
Since there were no troops nearer the scene of the uprising than those en route from Fort Monroe, Floyd was powerless to comply; but Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey quickly offered a solution to his dilemma. About noon Charles W. Welsh, chief clerk of the Navy Department, came riding through the main gate of the Washington Navy Yard. He sought out First Lieutenant Israel Greene, temporarily in command of Marine Barracks, Washington, and asked how many Leathernecks were available for duty. Greene estimated that he could round up some 90 men from both his barracks and the small Navy Yard detachment. He then asked Welsh what was wrong. The civilian told him all he _knew that the armory at Harper's Ferry had been seized by a group of abolitionists and that state and federal troops already were on the march.
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Learning that the militiamen, whatever their faults, had at least forced the insurgents to barricade themselves in a single small building on the armory grounds the Engine House Lee decided to attack as quickly as possible. Because of the danger to the hostages, a night assault was out of the question, so the colonel, his aide, and the Marines crossed the river to await the dawn.
About 2300 on the night of 17 October, Greene led his men across the covered bridge and into the armory yard... |
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