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Showing posts with label Bounty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bounty. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: January 1, 1864

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RE-ENLISTING. We have now entered on the last year of our soldier service and are looking forward to the end, and may it not only end our ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to “an Old Resident of St. Louis, Missouri,” September 8, 1864

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IN THE FIELD, ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 8, 1864 DEAR SIR:—Yr kind note of Aug. 24 from Rochester, N. Y. reached me here and I am really thank...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, January 5, 1864

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Last day of bounties. Got about three hundred veterans. The Twenty-third may now be counted as a veteran regiment. Very absurd in Congress ...

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: January 24, 1864

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Camp White, January 24, 1864 Dear Uncle : — The extension of the bounties and postponement of the draft will postpone my visit home a w...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 24, 1864

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Tom and Admiral Dahlgren returned from Fortress Monroe, but without the remains of young Dahlgren. We are running short of sailors a...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 29, 1863

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New-York , Jan. 29th, 1863. My own dear Son: I enclose a copy of a letter received by your Uncle Phelps from Col. Allen . Mr. Phelps ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 29, 1863

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Seward was not at the meeting of the Cabinet. Chase avoids coming in these days. Blair is ill. There has been some vicious legislation in C...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: February 8, 1864

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Saw several committees in C. About 11 made arrangements for rest of company in Polk Township, Cranford County. $100 bounty. Several of us w...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for other Purposes, March 3, 1863

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Whereas there now exist in the United States an insurrection and rebellion against the authority thereof, and it is, under the Constitution...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, September 11, 1864 – 7:55 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, September 11, 1864 — 7.55 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: It is not designed by this department to delay the draft a sing...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Speech of Congressman Daniel Webster: The Encouragement of Enlistments, January 14, 1814

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House Of Representatives Of The United States , January 14, 1814. 1 Mr. Speaker , — It was not my intention to offer myself to your n...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 17, 1863

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Returned last evening from strictly confidential visit to New York. Some discussion in Cabinet-meeting to-day on letters of marque. ...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, July 13, 1863

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The luxury and comfort of New York and Philadelphia strike one as extraordinary after having lately come from Charleston and Richmond. The ...
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...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: July 16, 1864

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Near Vining Station, Ga., July 16, 1864. The President, in his wisdom or his weakness, has stopped all capital punishment in the army...