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Showing posts with label Alfred Pleasonton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Pleasonton. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Major-General Henry W. Slocum to L. H. Morgan, January 2, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH CORPS,                     ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           TULLAHOMA, TENN., January 2d, 1864. MY DEAR SIR: I presu...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Thomas A. Scott, June 10, 1863

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           June 10 , 1863 . THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.: Major-General Couch has accepted command of ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Major-General Alfred Pleasonton to Major-General William H. French, July 5, 1863 – Received 11 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 5 , 1863 .     (Received 11 a.m.) Major-General FRENCH: GENERAL: Major-General Meade desir...

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 6, 1863 – 7 p.m.

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SOLDIERS’ HOME, [ Washington, ] July 6 , 1863 — 7 p.m. Major-General HALLECK: I left the telegraph office a good deal dissatisf...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, July 17, 1863

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At the Cabinet council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of the British Ministry. I see in the papers an intimation that sh...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, September 14, 1862

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Enemy on a spur of Blue Ridge, three and one-half miles west. At 7 A. M. we go out to attack. I am sent with [the] Twenty-third up a mounta...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Diary of John Hay: September 10, 1863

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. . . I dined to-night at Wormley’s with Hooker, Butterfield, Fox, Wise , and Col. Rush of Philad a . . . . Hooker says: — “Our war has de...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Diary of John Hay: July 16, 1863

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Nicolay leaves to-day for the Rocky Mountains. . .   Had a little talk with the President about Milroy. Says Halleck thinks Schenck never h...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, November 11, 1862

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Camp Near Sharpsburgh, Md., November 11, 1862. We had an interesting little reunion and supper at my tent last evening. Yesterday mor...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Captain Richard F. Halstead to Miss Sedgwick, July 17, 1863

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Camp Near Berlin, Maryland, July 17, 1863. My dear Miss Sedgwick: As you no doubt already know, from newspapers if not from letters...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, September 19, 1862

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Am vexed and disturbed by tidings from the squadron off Mobile. Preble, by sheer pusillanimous neglect, feebleness, and indecision, let the...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 25, 1862

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The tables were turned on Saturday, as we succeeded in driving a good many of them into the Potomac. Ten thousand Yankees crossed at Shephe...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, February 24, 1864

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Giesboro' Point , Feb. 24, '64.   I left Vienna, not from choice, but because I had to. I am sent over here to straighten out th...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 30, 1865

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March 30, 1865 I take advantage of a rainy morning to draw you a map and start a letter, to explain and recount the deeds of yester...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 30, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac March 30, 1864 I am pretty well, I thank you, and not so blue as when I came back the other time, perha...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 5, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac March 5, 1864 I found myself late and galloped four miles in about twenty minutes, only to find I had ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 24, 1864

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Headquarters Armt Of Potomac February 24, '64 . . . I went yesterday to a review of the 2d Corps gotten up in honor of Governor S...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 10, 1863

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac December 10, '63 All the officers are inclined to be petulant and touchy, for they think that winter...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, September 17, 1863

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Headquarters Army Of Potomac Between The Rappahannock And Rapidan September 17, 1863 Having again got “home,” I find leisure and pa...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 29, 1864

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 29, 1864. Spencer 1 and the Whipple boys continue to enjoy themselves. Yesterday was a fine d...