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Showing posts with label Dahlgren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dahlgren. Show all posts
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Diary of Captain John A. Dahlgren: May 22, 1862

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1 received a telegram from Secretary of War for a boat in the evening. So about nine came a carriage with Stanton and, to my surprise, the ...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

John Hay to John G. Nicolay, August 27, 1862

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Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 27, 1862. MY DEAR SIR: Where is your scalp? If anybody believes you don't wish you were at ...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, October 9, 1862

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Letter to Senator Fessenden in regard to dismissal of Preble, stating the case, — the fault, the dismissal, and the impossibility of revoki...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, October 1, 1862

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Called this morning at the White House, but learned the President had left the city. The porter said he made no mention whither he was goin...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 6, 1864

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December 6, 1864 There arrived Captain Alden, with 253 brevets, of all grades, for the Army of the Potomac. Do you know what a brevet i...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: March 30, 1861

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Descended into the barber's shop off the hall of the hotel; all the operators, men of color, mostly mulattoes, or yellow lads, good-loo...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Senator James W. Grimes to Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont, July 30, 1863

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I duly received your favor of the 20th inst., and on the same day the gun captured on the Atlanta, sent by express. Accept my thanks for th...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Personal Journal of Captain John A. Dahlgren, December 16, 1862

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Raw, rainy, and dismal, with the wind howling from northwest, striving to get the mastery. And there are 150,000 of our men on a strip of l...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 17, 1862

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CAMP NEAR THE CHICKAHOMINY, June 17, 1862. To-day we hear very heavy firing in the direction of Fort Darling on the James River, and we...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, December 16, 1864

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NEAR SAVANNAH, December 16, 1864. I have no doubt you have heard of my safe arrival on the coast. . . . We came right along living on t...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

The President Visits a French Frigate

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WASHINGTON, April 26. – The President visited the French frigate Gassendi, to-day, being the first time the President of the United States e...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The President’s Visit to the French Frigate

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Saturday last was quite a gala day at the Washington Navy Yard. The appearance for the first time of a French vessel of war in the “Eastern...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

From Washington

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WASHINGTON, April 26. The President visited the French frigate Gassendi, to-day, it being the first time a President of the United States ev...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Navy Department has ordered . . .

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. . . the casting of fifty 16-inch Dahlgreen [sic] guns at Pittsburgh. – the Draughts of moulds, &c., have been prepared by Capt. Dahlgr...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Gen. Sherman stormed and took Ft. McAlister . . .

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. . . near Savannah, on the 14th, capturing with it 500 prisoners, 21 heavy guns, and a large quantity of ordinance stores. This puts Sherma...