Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Description of Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Description of Lincoln. Show all posts
Friday, March 15, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 3, 1862

›
October 3d, 1862. We have moved camp three miles, and are now five miles above Harper's Ferry, on the banks of the Potomac. The days a...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Senatorial Canvass in Illinois, August 27, 1858

›
LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS AT OTTAWA. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] CHICAGO, August 27, 1858. After Mr. Douglas spoke at Peoria on the 8t...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 18, 1861

›
After breakfast. Leaving head-quarters, I went across to General Mansfield's, and was going up-stairs, when the General* himself, a whi...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Gerrit Smith, 1864

›
The President of the United States is both a great and a good man. But neither greatness nor goodness would be manifest in consenting to a ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, April 25, 1864

›
It has been a pleasant spring day; reported to General Silas Casey this morning; will be examined tomorrow; sat at Bradey's this aftern...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859

›
Springfield, Dec: 20. 1859 W. Fell Esq. My dear Sir: Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested– There is not much of it, for ...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 26, 1865

›
March 26, 1865 My letter of yesterday only gave a part of the day's work. Our train went briskly up to the front and stopped not ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: March 27, 1861

›
This morning, after breakfast, Mr. Sanford called, according to promise, and took me to the State department. It is a very humble — in fac...