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Showing posts with label Confiscation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confiscation. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2024

Major-General Henry W. Slocum: General Orders No. 6, May 12, 1864

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 6.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 12, 1864. I. The United States Government having adop...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, January 13, 1863

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This morning is beautiful and pleasant, much like a happy June morning in Illinois. In the evening we have brigade drill; the boys do not re...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler: General Orders No. 22, May 4, 1862

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 22.] HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,              New Orleans, May 4 , 1862 . The commanding general of the depart...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, December 8, 1863

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By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States it is pro...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Major-General George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              Camp near Harrison's Landing, Va., July 7 , 1862 . Mr. PRESIDENT: You have been fu...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, August 17, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Captain Fitch, August 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 7 , 1862 . Captain FITCH, Assistant Quartermaster, Memphis, Tenn.: ...
Monday, October 29, 2018

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, September 24, 1862

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(Private and Unofficial) New Orleans , Sept. 24th, 1862. Dear Sir : Your kind letter of the 8th. inst. reached me yesterday. I show...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 2, 1863

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Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...
Friday, January 5, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 26, 1863

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Jackson, Tenn., June 26, 1863. Such splendid weather — nice, fresh breezes ruffling the leaves on the trees all the day long—and plenty...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 31, 1863

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Hon. E. S. Dargan, member of Congress, writes from Mobile that Mississippi is nearly subdued, and Alabama is almost exhausted, He says our ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, May 25, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 25 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR : In matters pertai...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 29, 1863

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Gen. Beauregard is eager to have completed the “Torpedo Ram,” building at Charleston, and wants a “great gun” for it. But the Secretary of ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, June 3, 1863

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Wrote Du Pont that Foote would relieve him. I think he anticipates it and perhaps wants it to take place. He makes no suggestions, gives no...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 21, 1863

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The snow is nearly a foot deep this morning, as it continued to fall all night, and is falling still. It grows warmer, however. But ...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, July 18, 1862

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Camp Green Meadows. — Rained last night and drizzled all this morning. . . . I feel dourish today; inaction is taking the soul out of us. ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 7, 1862

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Last night was bitter cold, and this morning there was ice on my wash-stand, within five feet of the fire. Is this the “sunny South” the No...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 4, 1862

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Lee does not follow up his blows on the whipped enemy, and some sage critics censure him for it. But he knows that the fatal blow has been ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 1, 1865

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In Chester still. I climb these steep steps alone. They have all gone, all passed by. Buck went with Mr. C. Hampton to York. Mary, Mrs. Hug...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: April 19, 1865

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Just now, when Mr. Clay dashed up-stairs, pale as a sheet, saying, “General Lee has capitulated,” I saw it reflected in Mary Darby's fa...