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Showing posts with label Cholera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cholera. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Senator Henry Clay to Thomas B. Stevenson, January 31, 1849

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NEW ORLEANS, January 31, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—The breaking out of the cholera here prevented my meeting General Taylor in this city, as had ...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 27, 1866

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CINCINNATI, Monday, August 27, 1866. MY DARLING:— There is to be a convocation of the Union faithful at Columbus on Wednesday, the 29th, a...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 7, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— Have you melted away? Not heard from you for a good many hot days. We have the inevitable ...

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 6, 1866

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CINCINNATI, August 6, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— Our convention* went off just to my taste. There seems to be no doubt as to the result in my distri...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Charles Sumner, August 20, 1850

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Paris , Aug. 20, '50. My Dear Sumner : — I am always cheered by the sight of your “hand-o'-write” and that of your last letter ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 4, 1862

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Camp, near Point Pleasant, Mo., April 4, 1862. I received your last letter within three days after it was mailed, and praised Uncle Sam...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Friday, June 18, 1865

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Cholera morbus all night, was 6 cases in Regt. quite weak today. Yellow fever in Matamorass. awful hot & poor water. SOURCE: “Diary...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, September 5, 1863

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No news of importance. The weather continues hot and sultry. Many more of the sick are being sent home on furloughs or taken to hospitals. ...