War Diaries (May 13) (nonfiction)
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Isaac Lyman Taylor: May 13, 1863
Clear & warm in AM. Clouds up & sprinkles a litte in P.M. I finish reading Hitchcock's Geology. We hear that "Stonewall" Jackson died at 3-30 P.M. of the 10th. inst., from wounds reed, in the late battle. He had his left arm amputated. I send to Philp & Solomons "Metripolitan Book Store" 332 Pa. Avenue, Washington D.C. for Wood's Botany. "The decrease of the mean temperature from the equator towards the poles is nearly in the proportion of the cosines of latitude." Hitchcock's Geology, Pg. 306.
—Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Taylor kept a diary of his experiences while serving with Company E of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.
- Source: Campaigning with the First Minnesota: A Civil War Diary, edited by Hazel C. Wolf
Editor's notes: '^ 'The raid was led by George Stoneman. It is described in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:152.
- Not gone [author's note].
™For the text of Hooker's general order, see Official Records, series 1, vol. 25, pt. 1, p. 171.