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Showing posts with label Arkansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arkansas. Show all posts
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 22, 1864

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Bright and dry again. Gen. Johnston has been relieved. It would seem that Gen. Hood has made a successful debut as a fighting general in c...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Captain William M. Duncan to Mary Morgan Duncan, September 21, 1862

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Sept. 21st. Our Reg. is still working on the fortifications, and the work goes on well.   The Gen. is building five forts at this place, w...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

To The Supporters Of The Government.

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We have read without surprise, but not without indignation, the Proclamation of the President of the 8th of July, 1864 . The supporters ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, July 8, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, at the late session Congress passed a bill to " guarantee cert...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A New Lesson on Dying in the Last Ditch, September 15, 1864

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Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: Dr. Francis Wayland, October 20, 1838

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We wonder if this learned divine has ever undertaken to convince men that their “responsibilities were limited” in regard to the removal of...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, December 25, 1862

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(Private) New Orleans , December 25th, 1862. Dear Sir : The mail has just arrived and I see that, among other charges, Gen. Butler is...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: Constitutionality of Slavery, September 8, 1838

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The second “unprovided-for difficulty” of the Keene Sentinel, in the way of the anti-slavery movement is, that “slaves are property.” We de...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

George Thompson: Lecture at Lowell, Massachusetts, October 5, 1834

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On Sunday evening, October 5th, GeoRGE THOMPsoN , Esq. the abolitionitst, delivered a lecture on Slavery in the Town Hall, Lowell. The spac...