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Showing posts with label Colored People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colored People. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2026

Diary of Colonel John Beatty, February 27, 1862

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Crossed the Cumberland and moved through Nashville; the regiment behaved handsomely, and was followed by a great crowd of colored people, wh...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 2, 1866

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Neither Seward nor Stanton was at Cabinet council. Seward is on his way to the West Indies, Gulf, etc. He wishes to be absent until the issu...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, December 26, 1866

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MEMPHIS, December 26, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— We are thus far on our way to New Orleans, with everything thus far the very pleasantest possible...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 6, 1863

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February 6, 1863. We are just now through with the hardest and coldest north east storm that we have had since I came to the Department of...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, April 19, 1865

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The funeral on Wednesday, the 19th, was imposing, sad, and sorrowful. All felt the solemnity, and sorrowed as if they had lost one of their ...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: [April 15,] 1865

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A door which opened upon a porch or gallery, and also the windows, were kept open for fresh air. The night was dark, cloudy, and damp, and a...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Colonel Florence M. Cornyn to Colonel Jacob B. Biffle, May 30, 1863

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SAVANNAH, (TENN ) MAY 30, 1863 Colonel Biffle:   SIR:  Your pompous demand for the surrender of one squadron of cavalry (15th Illinois reg...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, June 15, 1863

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The late raid of the dashing Cornyn to Florence, Alabama, is attracting considerable attention. Though it may be diverging, we would ask the...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Major-General Edward O. C. Ord to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 25, 1863

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[June 25, 1863.] A colored man got in last night from Vicksburg Started night before re [he] was servant to staff officers to Gen Lee conf...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: February 29, 1864

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SECESH LADIES. Most of the residents in town are women and small children, and a few old men. Of course the colored people are with us alw...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Abstract of the Report of Mr. John Eaton, Freedmen's Superintendent for Tennesee

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Prepared, for the President, by the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. __________________ Abstract of Mr. John Eaton's Report. ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 6, 1863

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February 6, 1863. We are just now through with the hardest and coldest north east storm that we have had since I came to the Department of...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Minutes of an interview between the colored ministers and church officers at Savannah with the Secretary of War and Major-General Sherman, January 12, 1865 – 8 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS OF MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMAN,                                     In the City of Savannah, Ga., Thursday evening,               ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: Reverend Ralph Randolph Gurley, December 8, 1838

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[From the Herald of Freedom of Dec. 8, 1838.] We must give the whole of this euphonic line, so harmonious to the colored ear. This silv...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: Colonization, June 23, 1838

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There is either a most strange delusion, or an obstinate wickedness in men, in relation to this matter of expatriating our colored people —...