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Showing posts with label Boston MA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston MA. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Speech of Samuel Gridley Howe, September 24, 1846

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I have been requested, Fellow-citizens, as Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this meeting, to make a statement of the reasons f...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Lewis Cobb to William Still, June 2, 1857

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TORONTO, June 2d, 1857. To MR. WM. STILL — Dear Sir: — I received yours dated May 6th, and was extremely happy to hear from you. You ma...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, April 21, 1864

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There was a pleasant party at our house last evening, with an attendance of about three hundred. All passed off pleasantly, and all who exp...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 26, 1856

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Worcester , June 26,1856 I have a momentary lull, having yesterday sent off my second party to Kansas. . . . The first had forty-seven ...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Remarks of George Thompson: October 9, 1834

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The following is a sketch of Mr. Thompson's remarks, delivered at the adjourned meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, held i...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Rebecca Jones to William Still, October 18, 1856

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PARKER House , School street, Boston, Oct. 18th, ’56. MY DEAR SIR: — I can hardly express the pleasure I feel at the receipt of your ki...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, December 14, 1849

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Washington , Dec. 14,, 1849. My Dear Sumner : I thank you for your argument in defense of equality before the law 1 for the colored pe...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

John A. Andrew to Gideon Welles, July 16, 1863

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Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, Executive Department, Boston, July 16, 1863. Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your...

Gideon Welles to John A. Andrew, July 11, 1863

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Navy Department , July 11, 1863. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st instant . The alarm...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Wednesday, October 12, 1864

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Went to Boston. Bought carpet, table and cloth, brackets, etc. A beautiful bust of Garibaldi by Pietro Stefani. It is the best likeness tha...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Wednesday, October 12, 1864

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Went to Boston. Bought carpet, table and cloth, brackets, etc. A beautiful bust of Garibaldi by Pietro Stefani. It is the best likeness tha...
Friday, October 7, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: The “Veteran” Furlough

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The regiment received its orders to go home for its thirty days' furlough January 9, 1864, those who had not re-enlisted remaining in c...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: May 19, 1864

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Leave for Boston. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of William Francis Bartlett , p. 102
Sunday, August 14, 2016

Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, July 31, 1862

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July 31, 1862. Our recruiting goes on very well, except in Boston where it has been badly botched, and drags terribly. I suppose we non...
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...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Governor John A. Andrew’s Special Order No. 21

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Headquarters, BosToN , Apr. 17, 1861 SPECIAL ORDER No 21 HIS Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, o...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Edward S. Philbrick: February 19, 1862

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Boston, February 19, 1862. Dear –––: I think you will not be greatly astonished when I tell you that I am off for Port Royal next week....
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Extracts of Letters Written by Louise Wigfall: April – June 1861

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Longwood , near Boston, April and May and June, 1861. . . . Isn't the news from Sumter delightful. When I read the account in a ...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Gideon Welles to John M. Forbes, January 20, 1862

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Navy Department , 20 January, 1862. Sir , — It is understood that one of the iron boats built to run to New Orleans is ready for sea at...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, June 5, 1863

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Camp Brightwood , June 5, 1863. I do not see what you and Mr. Child find to be so hopeful about, — I see no evidence of yielding on the...