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Showing posts with label Alton IL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alton IL. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

Private Daniel L. Ambrose: April 27, 1861

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After the organization of the regiment, on the twenty-seventh, they are marched from Camp Yates to the armory, where they receive their arm...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, February 21, 1862

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Paducah, February 21, 1862 Dearest Ellen, I have received your letter 1 from St. Louis and I cannot express to you how sorry I am to...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, September 1, 1838

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“Only ye may opine it frets my patience, Mr. Osbaldistone, to be hunted like an otter, or a sealgh, or a salmon upon the shallows, and that...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Trial of Edmund J. Ellis, editor, for violating the laws of war by publishing intelligence to the enemy, etc., February 26, 1862

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WEDNESDAY, February 26 , 1862 . The court met pursuant to adjournment, all the members present. EDWARD REYNOLDS, a witness for the...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 19, 1863

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We have rumors of fighting this morning on the Rappahannock; perhaps the enemy is making another advance upon Richmond. There was a gra...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

William Cullen Bryant’s Introduction of Congressman Owen Lovejoy at the Cooper Institute, June 16, 1861

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It is now just a quarter of a century since a party of men from the State of Missouri crossed the great river of the West to destroy a news...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Speech of William Ellery Channing: Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 1837

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Mr. Chairman , — My relation to this meeting not only authorizes, but requires, me to offer, at its commencement, some remarks on the purpo...

Wendell Phillips's Freedom Speech: Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 1837

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MR. CHAIRMAN: — We have met for the freest discussion of these resolutions, and the events which gave rise to them. [Cries of “Question,” “...