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Showing posts with label Election of 1860. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election of 1860. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, October 1885

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[St. Louis, October 1885.] The newspapers here now state that the Ohio election has gone fairly and conclusively to the Republicans, and p...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Theodore Parker to Francis Jackson, November 24, 1859

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Rome, November 24, 1859. MY DEAR FRIEND: I see by a recent telegraph which the steamer of November 2d brought from Boston, that the Court ...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Diary of Elvira J. Powers: April 1, 1864

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ON BOARD THE "GEN. BUELL,"           OHIO RIVER, April 1, 1864. HAVING been duly commissioned and ordered to “report immediately...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Henry Greville: Monday, November 19, 1860

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Hatchford. Came here on Saturday. Lincoln has been elected President of the United States. SOURCE: Alice Countess of Stratford, Leaves f...

Diary of Henry Greville: Thursday, January 3, 1861

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The King of Prussia 1 died yesterday at Sans-Souci. The American Secession question now occupies public attention more than any other sub...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, January 19, 1860

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SHERWOOD FOREST, January 19, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: To-day the General Assembly give a complimentary dinner to Gov. Wise, and I have been i...

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, July 22, 1860

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VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, August 14, 1860

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VILLA MARGARET, August 14, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: The country is undoubtedly in an alarming condition. While I think you are too bitter on Dou...

John Tyler to Henry S. Foote, August 26, 1860

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SHERWOOD FOREST, August 26, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of August 21st was forwarded to me from the summer residence of my family, near...

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, August 27, 1860

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SHERWOOD FOREST, August 27, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: I think it best to enclose you these letters. There are parts of mine you may not be able t...

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, September 14, 1860

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VILLA MARGARET, Sept. 14, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: I see the election is gone in Maine, although Douglas confidently calculated on carrying t...

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, November 10, 1860

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SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860. So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to ...
Friday, September 9, 2022

George Mason Graham to William T. Sherman, January 4, 1861

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TYRONE, Friday Night, Jan. 4, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: Your Christmas letter came duly to hand, and I beg to make you my acknowledgements for i...

William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 16, 1861

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Jan. 16, 1860.  . . . The people born and bred in the North are more enthusiastic in this revolution than the natives to the soil. If yo...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, November 23, 1860

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ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

William T. Sherman to George Mason Graham, September 20, 1860

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LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 20, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I did regret and do still regret that under the circumstances you thought it your duty to yo...

William T. Sherman to David F. Boyd, September 30, 1860

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LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 30, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I am much obliged to your letters which have kept me easy. Time now begins to approach the...