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

Update: As readers have pointed out in the comments, this entry is obviously dated wrong.  The Shiloh is still in the not-to-distant future.

MARCH 31ST.—Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is to command on the Peninsula. The President took an affectionate leave of him the other day; and Gen. Lee held his hand a long time, and admonished him to take care of his life. There was no necessity for him to endanger it—as had just been done by the brave Sydney Johnston at Shiloh, whose fall is now universally lamented. This Gen. Johnston (Joseph E.) I believe has the misfortune to be wounded in most of his battles.

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