Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Three Months in the Southern States–Lieut. Col. Fremantle, Coldstream Guards.

April 1, 2013

Three Months in the Southern States–Lieut. Col. Fremantle, Coldstream Guards

1st April.—Anchored at 8.30 P.M., three miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo del Norte, which is, I believe, its more correct name, in the midst of about seventy merchant vessels.

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