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Showing posts with label Banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banking. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 18, 1864

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Clear and dry. It is believed that a battery sent down opposite to Harrison's Bar in the James River sank two of the enemy's trans...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler: General Orders, No. 29, May 16, 1862

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 29.} HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,              New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . I. It is hereby ordered that neith...
Friday, May 29, 2020

William N. Mercer & Jean M. Lapeyre to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 13, 1862

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NEW ORLEANS, May 13 , 1862 . Major-General BUTLER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Gulf: SIR: To avoid misapprehension we ...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to William N. Mercer & Jean M. Lapeyre, May 14, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    New Orleans, May 14 , 1862 . Messrs. WILLIAM N. MERCER and J. M. LAPEYRE, Comm...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, June 10, 1862

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NEW YORK, June 10, 1862. Governor SEWARD, Secretary of State: MY DEAR SIR: A gentleman well-informed in the financial relations of...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, February 25, 1864

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I called at the Treasury Department this morning relative to funds to pay the hands in the Navy Yard at Broooklyn. Chase appeared very well...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 6, 1863

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Camp White , July 6, 1863. Dear Uncle : — . . . I propose to take in your bank twenty-five hundred dollars stock in Lucy's name. Pl...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin,* November 11, 1854

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Cin . Nov. 11, 1854.. My Dear Sir , It is too bad that the failure of the Banks should add to your other troubles; and too bad that, at...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Salmon P. Chase to Ahaz Merchant,* Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, January 23, 1849

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Jan. 23d [1849.] Dear Sir — I received this morning your favor of the 18th inst. & I beg leave to disclaim at once all pretention ...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Salmon P. Chase to Eli Nichols,* Walhonding, Coshocton County, Ohio, July 11, 1848

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Cin ti . Nov r . 9 [ 1848. ] My Dear Sir , I recd. yrs of the 6th to day, & as I shall be obliged to leave the city to attend the C...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 7, 1863

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April 7, 1863. My dear sister: I received your letter this morning. I see that the Norfolk Bank has made a dividend; I hope some of t...
Monday, May 11, 2015

John M. Forbes to William Henry Aspinwall, January 21, 1862

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Boston , January 21, 1862. My Dear Mr. Aspinwall , — Some of our infernally weak-backed bank men as soon as they had got back here wen...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

John M. Forbes to William Cullen Bryant, January 22, 1862

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Boston , January 22, 1862. . . . I have not seen set forth so distinctly as it deserves the point that while speculators, and gamblers,...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Edward Everett to Charles Francis Adams Sr., August 20, 1861

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BosToN , 20 August, 1861. MY DEAR SIR, - I had great pleasure in receiving your letter of the 26th July, and in your favorable opinion ...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

John M. Forbes to Senator William P. Fessenden, January 13, 1862

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New York , January 13, 1862. My Dear Sir , — I see that the financial question is pressing, and before I turn my face eastward I canno...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Governor Andrew G. Curtin to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, April 30, 1861

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Executive Chamber, Harrisburg. April 30, 1861. Gentlemen: — THE PRESENT UNPARALLELED EXIGENCY in the affairs of our country, has in...
Friday, January 17, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General G. W. Custis Lee, August 10, 1863

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CAMP ORANGE, 10th August, 1863. MY DEAR CUSTIS: I send a draft, No. 107, of the 7th inst. of Capt. H. C. Fairfax, a q. m. on Treasu...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Local Matters

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FOR cheap and good boots, gaiters, and slippers, go to Dow & Co.’s. STEEL spring hoop skirts, the latest patent, are now selling at ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, April 17, 1864

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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17,1864. My Dear Brother: . . . Our finances are bubbling up and down in that feverish state where a panic ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Andrew Johnson And The Directors Of The State Bank Of Tennessee

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Andrew Johnson has quietly notified the directors of the State Bank of Tennessee, who handed over the assets of that institution to the reb...