Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Courts of Inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Courts of Inquiry. Show all posts
Friday, December 10, 2021

Major-General John A. McClernand to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863

›
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 28, 1863. To the PRESIDENT: Failing to be restored to my command (now, as I understand, passed from General G...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Major-General John A. McClernand to Edwin M. Stanton, September 5, 1863

›
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 5, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,           Secretary of War: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your...

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. McClernand, September 14, 1863

›
WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, September 14, 1863. Maj. Gen. JOHN A. MCCLERNAND,           Springfield, Ill.: GENERAL: Your let...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 2, 1864 — 9:30 p.m.

›
CITY POINT, August 2 , 1864 — 9 . 30 p.m. Major-General HALLECK, Chief of Staff: I have the honor to request that the President m...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Judah P. Benjamin to General Albert Sidney Johnston, February 8, 1862

›
WAR DEPARTMENT,           Richmond, February 8 , 1862 . General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Bowling Green: SIR: The condition of your dep...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Official Reports of the Action at and Surrender of Murfreesborough, Tenn., July 13, 1862

›
No. 1.  Reports of Maj. Gen. D.C. Buell, U.S. Army, commanding Army of the Ohio, including General Orders, No. 32 No. 2.  R...

Official Reports of the Action at and Surrender of Murfreesborough, Tenn., July 13, 1862: No. 3. — Findings of a Court of Inquiry.

›
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 4. HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,                        Murfreesborough, Tenn., January 24 , 1863 . I. At...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 26, 1864

›
Stanton tells some curious matters of Jeff Davis, derived from Davis's servant, who escaped from Richmond. The servant was a slave, bor...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: January 7, 1864

›
The case of R. [L.] Law tried by court martial, which has been in my hands for a month nearly, was disposed of to-day. The court found him ...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 22, 1862

›
Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Charles A. Dana, September 30, 1863 – 6:30 p.m.

›
WAR DEPARTMENT,            September 30 , 1863 — 6 . 30 p.m. Maj. C. A. DANA, Nashville : Your action retaining Surgeon Clendeni...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: January 7, 1862

›
Holly Springs, Miss., January 7, 1862. The colonel and I were ordered to report here to give evidence before the “Court of Inquiry,” c...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, October 8, 1863

›
Fairfax , Oct. 8, 1863. I believe with Lord Bacon, who was a very wise old fellow, that whatever be your income, it is only just to you...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, August 31, 1863

›
Centreville , Aug. 31, 1863. I told you last week that Stanton had ordered a Court of Inquiry about some horses taken from us by Mosby...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday, September 5, 1862

›
The President, at Cabinet meeting, read Pope's Report, which strongly inculpates McClellan, Porter, Franklin and Griffin; and asked opi...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 13, 1865

›
Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 13, 1865. I wish you would think favorably of my proposition to take a trip to the army. I thi...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 4, 1865

›
Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , March 4, 1865. To-day's Chronicle has part of the opinion of the court of inquiry, which I suppo...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 28, 1864

›
Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , August 28, 1864. I received this evening yours of the 26th. In it you acknowledge the receipt, per M...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 13, 1864

›
Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , August 13, 1864. Grant was here yesterday to transact some business. I immediately asked him, how, a...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 10, 1864

›
Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , P. M., August 10, 1864. The Washington papers of yesterday announce Sheridan being temporarily assig...