Frances McCullagh A Native of Dunmore Ireland 1st Mich Inftry Saginaw)City Mich Francis MCulla gh 1st Mich Infantry Janury 3d 186[2?] Pocket Diary for 1862. CONTAINING A BLANK SPACE FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR, MEMORANDA, ALMANAC, RATES OF POSTAGE, &c. ---------------- PUBLISHED ANNUALLY FOR THE TRADE. 1862. Counting-House Almanac 1862 [12-Month Calendar] RATES OF POSTAGE [Descriptions of various postal rates] ECLIPSES IN 1862. [List of solar and lunar eclipses both visible and invisible in Boston, St. Louis, and San Francisco] JANUARY. [Astrological information for month of January] [On ensuing pages, the same information is provided for each month, but these are not pictured] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1862 $. 10 } Camp 15 } Mich 10 } Annapols 20 } Junction $ 55 } Maryland THURSDAY 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FRIDAY 3 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1862 1862 Francis McCullag WEDNESDAY 8 THURSDAY 9 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1862 broad [stripe?] And bright stars from [illegible] FRIDAY 7 SATURDAY 8 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1862 received of Government $.. 39 26 26 26 TUESDAY 25 26____ 133 to August 1st 1862 WEDNESDAY 26 13 ____3___ 3 9 2 6 [illegible scribbles] MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1862 S Lynch Cole and [Meeshan?]. TUESDAY 8 32 [two words illegible] Street New York___ __City___ __________ WEDNESDAY 9 [Written sideways across April 13-15, 1862, entries] The Confederate Chieftains OK A tale of the Irish Rebelion 1741 by Mrs [F?] Sadler Cloth extra WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862 [southfield?] [Dewel’s?] [illegible] THURSDAY 8 At ten oclock three gun [bots?] [Rased?]. here [over?] the long role sounded all [illegible] FRIDAY 9 the regim[illegible letter] h fell out wit^ we wer order to march [two words illegible] and to be [illegible] to march in [Continued from previous page, entry for Sunday, May 7, 1862] SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1862 one hour the gun bots that passed here comensed sheling withen SUNDAY 11 A few rods off here the rebel forts [illegible] the other side MONDAY 12 [Drawing of face] TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1862. At 8 oclock we got orders ts to strack ten^ the order was [others?] received with ^ WEDNESDAY 4 We [steemed?] up York river And pased the strong battlements of York town THURSDAY 5 at 5oclock our regt left white house landing for Richmond FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1862 We Camped in front of Chickahominy river SATURDAY 7 Great shelen of the enemy from our [Cavry?] SUNDAY 8 THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1862. FRIDAY 13 Cannoding Great .. firing by the rebls the whole devison ready to martch And . [countermand?] SATURDAY 14 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1862. hill we left [gains?]^ [illegible] for [illegible]^ stoped . 8 .. hours returned to [gains?] hill THURSDAY the ..rebels comensed sheling our camp FRIDAY we .. left camp to our [north?] and wenr on picket and we wer sheld to TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1862. WEDNESDAY 25 THURSDAY 26 [illegible] A light [crimish?]. at left [illegible] [two illegible words crossed out]^ [line illegible] FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1862. A hard battle at gaines hill the union troops retreat SATURDAY 28 [At?] white oake .. bottom SUNDAY 29 [illegible] [an?] other battle. a light scrimish hill MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1862. Malvern^ . hard . battle the.. union Army retreat the rebels in hot persuit to James . river TUESDAY, JULY 1 X A hard battle unto long after night our regt. Cut up badly On Malvarn hills WEDNESDAY 2 retreating all night And day the rebels close behind THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1862. we capture three of the guns and A good many Prisoners [illegible] the reb retreat FRIDAY 4 adrass [issued?] by Gennerl Mcleln to the army of the Potomoc SATURDAY 5 SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1862. visited [illegible] [harsons?] lange MONDAY 7 received one [pr?] shoes shirt one blanket TUESDAY 8 visitd by Presented Lincoln Mclelen and Staff WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1862. THURSDAY 31 [illegible] Dreadful ^fire of the rebls [illegible] at our… [illegible]^ And our camp killing many FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 (men) our troops [crossd?] the river SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1862. A scouting SUNDAY 3 A .. scouting And burning [illegible letter] the enemys ^ camp Capern [captured?] some Prisoners MONDAY 4 FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1862. SATURDAY 9 SUNDAY 10 Martching orders our knap sacks Taken [any?] [crossed out word] Away THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1862. ALL ready . we left at [illegible] ten oclock P.M. march all . night FRIDAY 15 Martched all day and [crossed out word] crossed . the river Chichomany^ encampated that SATURDAY 16 night Martchad all day to Williamsburg encamped on the old [crossed out word] cattle ground SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1862. Martched All day [crossed out word] encamped in front of [crossed out word] York town MONDAY 18 martched all day encamped At Hampton fortress [illegible] TUESDAY 19 martched to new [fort?] [new?] went A bord the the [trans?] [illegible] steemed [illegible] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1862. On bord the south America left fortress [two words illegible] at one oclock steemed up [illegible] the [illegible word written through “THURSDAY”] ^ THURSDAY 21 pike we landed At [illegible] land And [illegible] the [cars?] FRIDAY 22 [S?] Martched through fredreks burg to [several words illegible] FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1862. A light scrimish SATURDAY 30 + hard battle of Manases SUNDAY 31 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1862. At [illegible] TUESDAY 2 Martch [crossed out word] towards Washington WEDNESDAY 3 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1862. THURDAY 11 FRIDAY 12 hights left Arlington^ Martched through Washington City SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1862. in Maryland SUNDAY 14 At [illegible] Fredrick City ~~~~~~ MONDAY 15 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1862. WEDNESDAY 17 vile At Peters^ on the battle field * greate battle THURSDAY 18 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1862. Pased . through Sharpe [Borrow?] SATURDAY 20 Across . potom A light [crossed out word] scrimish waded the Potomac SUNDAY 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1862. THURSDAY 2 FRIDAY 3 Revewed .. by Presented Lincoln. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1862. WEDNESDAY 29 THURSDAY 30 left camp .. near Sharps burg Marth [crossed out word] towards sharpes berg FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1862. Encamped near Harper’s ferry SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Mustered For Pay SUNDAY 2 Encamped at Snechers [Snickers?] gap [V Ct?] .. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1862. Encamped At snechers gap TUESDAY 4 martching orders tents struck at sun rise WEDNESDAY 5 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1862. leave sneckers.gap martch all day near Encamp^ [crossed out] [at] Middlesburg FRIDAY 7 SATURDAY 8 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1862. [reviewed?] by Gennerl hooker SUNDAY 16 viseted by Gen Robson SATURDAY 17 n left Warran^to martched towards [crossed out word] fredsburg TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1862. WEDNESDAY 10 THURSDAY 11 [a day?] the cannon^ All day the rebls leave fredracks FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1862. some fiting the union Army [cross?] into fre SATURDAY 13 Charged up to the reble . batrys hard fiting greate sheling SUNDAY 14 [lay?] all day on the battle . field MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1862. fall back Into the City TUESDAY 16 WEDNESDAY 17 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1862. WEDNESDAY 31 forded .. the Rapphanock on A [illegible] MEMORANDA. McCulla Francis . ^McCul 1st Mich . Inf Co.. F.. enliste th In . July. 16^ 1861 by liut Ransom in w East .. sagina^ Michigan July 8 [shoes 1 . pr?] [1?] shirt [1?] blanket MEMORANDA. Campaigning Is his [crossed out] [cort] Cortship And the day of battle is his bridle when he is wedded to his [crossed out] [mistes] mistress Death MEMORANDA. Com. Command Corpl Francis Mc Culaugh MEMORANDA. Timothy [illegible] Fran Mc John Mc [illegible letter]lack..ford ford __________________ [crossed out] [Antietam] Antietam Creek __________ Sharps burg ____________ [Sketch of a ship and camp] [written sideways in bottom left of Scan 1] porters & illegible [End] [Written in bottom middle of Scan 1] hospital batry [End] [Illegible writing sideways in bottom middle of Scan 1] [Illegible scribbles] Francis McCullagh [Letters written and scribbled] Francis F M McCullagh Cooketown [Moneymore?] Tyrone years 1854 1862