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Showing posts with label Clement Claiborne Clay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clement Claiborne Clay. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

John Tyler to Wyndham Robertson, January 26, 1861

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BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter was duly received, and I thank you for the enclosure. We will talk ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 31, 1864

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Bright. Tom's rations came in—worth $200— for a month. Gen. Lee writes that it is necessary for the gun-boats to guard the river as fa...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 18, 1865

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Senators Doolittle and Foster and Mr. Ford, who have been on a mission to the Plains, visiting New Mexico, Colorado, etc., had an interview ...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Clement C. Clay: Farewell Speech in the United States Senate, January 21, 1861

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 I rise to announce, in behalf of my colleague and myself, that the people of Alabama, assembled in convention at their capital on the 11th ...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Diary of Edward Bates: July 22, 1864

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In C.[abinet] C[ouncil]—present, Welles, Usher, Blair, Bates, and part of the time, Fessenden. absent Seward and Stanton— The Prest. gav...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Clement C. Clay and James P. Holcombe To Horace Greeley, July 21, 1864

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Niagara Falls, Clifton House , July 21, 1864.   To the Honorable Horace Greeley :—   Sir : — The paper handed to Mr....
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Proclamation of Andrew Johnson, May 2, 1865

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By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION.             Whereas, it appears from evidence in the Bureau of Mi...

Charles A. Dana, May 22, 1865

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FORT MONROE, May 22 , 1865 . Brevet Major-General Miles is hereby authorized and directed to place manacles and fetters upon the hands...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: April 11, 1864

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Drove with Mrs. Davis and all her infant family; wonderfully clever and precocious children, with unbroken wills. At one time there was a s...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Louis T. Wigfall et al to Isaac W. Hayne, January 15, 1861

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WASHINGTON CITY, January 15, 1861. SIR: We are apprised that you visit Washington as an envoy from the State of South Carolina, bearing...

Isaac W. Hayne to Louis T. Wigfall et al, January 17, 1861

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WASHINGTON, January 17, 1861. GENTLEMEN: I have received your communication dated the I5th instant. You say you represent States which ...

Isaac W. Hayne to Louis T. Wigfall et al, January 24, 1861

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WASHINGTON, January 24, 1861. GENTLEMEN: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, enclosing a communication, dated the 22d insta...