146
Departure from
recently been in possession but was at Beau-
fort. Got my coats and returned to the Del-
aware, meeting Gen. Terry and others coming
up the long pier. Found James, drunk, and
Birdsall partly so. In my cabin doing things,
tried a doze, couldn t effect it. So in about
two hours time
back to quart
ters. Found
Hay in his
old room
writing, the
door of the ad-
joining apart-
ment being
open and re-
vealing Dole.
Talked with
[photograph]
Osborne of the N. Y. Herald.
[Gunn s diary continued]
him. Saw-
yer came;
had been
sick. Thomp-
son came
from the
Delaware
and related
how Bird-
sall had
got very
drunk in-
deed and been carried off by mistake to
Beaufort. Visited Freeman the vet and
had half and hours talk with him. Then
to the hotel to sup with a promiscuious party
among which were Hay and Bacon the less.
Previously I had met Winser and Ellwell
on horseback when the latter had given me
a note of account from Dupont. So I don t
wait for the St. Mary, which starts to-| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty: page one hundred and sixty |
| Description: | Regarding Gunn's return to the Delaware. |
| Date: | 1862-09-08 |
| Subject: | Bacon, Captain; Birdsall; Civil War; Delaware (Ship); Dole; Drunkenness; Du Pont, Samuel Francis; Ellwell; Freeman, Dr.; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Hay, Charles; James, Lieutenant; Military; New York herald.; Osborne; Sawyer, Captain; St. Mary (Ship); Terry, Alfred Howe; Thompson, Richard; Winser |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Hilton Head, South Carolina]; Beaufort, [South Carolina] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-09-10 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, especially Hilton Head, Port Royal, St. Augustine, Key West, and the end of his experiences with the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular Campaign when he had to leave camp due to illness. |
| Subject: | African Americans; Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Diseases; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marches (U.S. Army); Medical care (U.S. Army); Military; Military camp life; Peninsular Campaign (Va.); Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Port Royal, South Carolina; Hilton Head, South Carolina; Key West, Florida; St. Augustine, Florida; Virginia |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
