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Showing posts with label Edward Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Baker. Show all posts
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Diary of Edward Bates: Tuesday, October 22, 1861

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Cabinet Council Present all. Capt Cravens 11 U. S. N. commanding Flotilla in the Potomac, reports great progress made by the rebels wit...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Diary of John Hay: May 14, 1864

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. . . . I have not known the President so affected by a personal loss since the death of Baker, as by the death of General Wadsworth. While...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Diary of John Hay: October 22, 1861

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This has been a heavy day. Last night Col. Baker was killed at Leesburg at the head of his Brigade. McClellan and the President talked sadl...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday March 6, 1862

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Snow two or three inches deep on top of the mud. Dr. Webb and Adjutant Avery started for Raleigh in the storm, or rather on the snow and mu...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Friday Evening, October 25, 1861

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Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 25, Friday Evening. I shall try to send you some, pictures, though I am too tired to-night for...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Edward Everett to Charles Francis Adams, October 29, 1861

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BosTON , 29 October, 1861. MY DEAR MR. ADAMS, – I had much pleasure in receiving yours of the 5th of October by the last steamer. The f...

Captain William Francis Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, Saturday Night, October 25, 1861

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Camp Benton, Saturday Night, October 25, 1861. My Dear Mother , — . . . . I have not had time or heart to write you, who had such goo...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Captain William Frances Bartlett to Brigadier-General Charles P. Stone, October 23, 1861

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Camp Benton, October 23, 1861. To Gen. Stone , Commanding Corps of Observation: — General , — I have to report that one hundred me...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, October 24, 1861

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Camp Near Conrad's Ferry, Md., October 24, 1861. My last letter left off rather abruptly, and as a series of exciting events has ...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday Morning, October 29, 1861

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Camp Tompkins.   — A bright, cold October morning, before breakfast. This month has been upon the whole a month of fine weather. The awful ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, October 27, 1861

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Sunday morning before breakfast, Tompkins' Farm, Three Miles From Gauley Bridge, October 27, 1861. Dear Uncle : — It is a brigh...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Thursday, October 24, 1861

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An account reached us to-day of a severe fight last Monday (21st), at Leesburg — a Manassas fight in a small way. The Federals, under Gener...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Wilder Dwight to William Dwight, March 4, 1861

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Washington , March 4, 1861. Dear Father , — This morning broke badly, but at noon the sky cleared. I remained quietly at Willard's,...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Journal of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, February 19, 1862

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Wednesday, February 19, 1862. The committee met pursuant to adjournment; all the members present. Mr. Odell said he felt constraine...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Diary of Edward Bates, November 1, 1861

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A memorable day.   C.[abinet] C.[ouncil] called at the unusual hour of 9 a. m. to consider of Gen. Scott’s letter to sec: [of] War, declari...