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Showing posts with label Delaware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delaware. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Lieutenant-Colonel William T. Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 17, 1863

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Headquarters Del. Dept., Wilmington, Del. , Aug. 17th, 1863. My dear Mother: The month is rapidly passing away, and I am awaiting i...
Friday, September 15, 2017

The Confederate Sequestration Act, August 30, 1861

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AN ACT for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate S...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Senator Charles Sumner to Governor John A. Andrew, January 26, 1861

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Washington , January 26, 1861. My Dear Andrew , — Yesterday I was with the Attorney-General, 1 an able, experienced, Northern Democrat...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 15, 1863

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Already, as if quite certain that the great Northwest would speedily withdraw from the Eastern United States, our people are discussing the...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 13, 1863

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Received this A.M. from Admiral Du Pont an intercepted mail captured off Charleston. Reed Saunders, who had the mail in charge, threw it ov...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Diary of John Hay: Monday, April 23, 1861

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This morning Doug. Wallack came rushing into the office, looking for Seward with what he called important news. He said that the two ships ...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Assistant-Adjutant General William D. Whipple to Edward McKenney Hudson, August 16, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., August 16 , 1861 . EDWARD McK. HUDSON, Aide-de-Camp: SIR: I am directed by...

Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas’ General Orders, No. 47, July 25, 1861

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 47 WAR DEP’T, ADJT. GEN.'S OFFICE, Washington, July 25 , 1861 . I. There will be added to the Department...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Bayard Taylor to Richard Henry Stoddard, April 23, 1862

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Tuesday, April 23. We are fast getting armed and organized here. An armed band of traitors has been within thirty-seven miles of us. We...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 30, 1862

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A package arrived last night from our sisters, with my sister [Mary's] diary, for my amusement. It was kept while our dear ones of [Wil...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond, March 9, 1862

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Private Executive Mansion Washington, 9 March 1862.   Hon. Henry J. Raymond: My dear Sir: I am grateful to the New York journ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

John M. Forbes to William Cullen Bryant, August 24, 1861

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Naushon , August 24,1861. Yours of the 21st received. The objection which you suggest to Mr. H. is a very strong one. We need a man in...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Senator James W. Grimes to Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont, March 27, 1863

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Burlington, March 27, 1863. I feel the difficult and responsible position in which you are placed, and the great questions that are to...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Rutherford B. Hayes to Guy M. Bryan, May 8, 1861

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CINCINNATI, May 8, 1861. DEAR GUY: — I have just received and read your letter of the 27th ult. It does me good to hear from you again....
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

XXXVIIth Congress -- First Session

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WASHINGTON, May 1. SENATE. – Mr. Howard presented petitions for a general bankrupt law. Mr. Wright also presented petitions for a b...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

The New York Legislature's Concurrent Resolutions Tendering Aid to the President of the United States in Support of the Constitution and the Union

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Concurrent Resolutions Tendering Aid to the President of the United States in Support of the Constitution and the Union. Whereas , Trea...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

First Session – 37th Congress

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WASHINGTON, March 21. – SENATE. – After discussion, the bills were referred to a special committee. The bill for the Abolition of Slave...