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Showing posts with label Elihu B Washburne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elihu B Washburne. Show all posts
Friday, April 5, 2024

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, April 24, 1866

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Admiral Farragut and Mrs. F. are staying with us, and I find little time to write. Have had several interviews with the President and Mr. Se...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 7, 1869

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COLUMBUS, March 7, 1869. DEAR UNCLE:—We are all well. Political talk is just now all the talk. Grant's inaugural strikes me as capital...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, August 28, 1874

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 28, 1874. Dear Brother: . . . Don't ever give any person the ...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 16, 1865

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Mr. Blair wishes a young friend paroled, and requests me to see the President. I am disinclined to press these individual cases on the Presi...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 5, 1864

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Mr. Blair returned this morning from Concord. He had, I have little doubt, been sent for, partly to see and influence me. I am not sufficien...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, August 12, 1864

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HEADQ'Rs ARMIEs of THE UNITED STATEs, CITY Point , Va. , August 16, 1864. Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE. DEAR SIR: I state to all citiz...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864

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ROOMS OF THE NATIONAL UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Astor House , New York , Aug 22 1864. My dear Sir:— I feel compelled to drop yo...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Captain John A. Rawlins to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, December 30, 1861

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Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

William Bross* to Simon Cameron, December 30, 1861

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Tribune Office, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 30, 1861 Hon. SIMON CAMERON Sec. of War Dear Sir Evidence entirely satisfactory to myself and...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Joseph Medill to Congressman Elihu B. Washburn, May 24, 1862

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Tribune Office,            Chicago, Ill., May 24, 1862 Elihu B. There is no whistling wind.   The army are fornenst you in relat...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: April 8-19, 1864

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Generally went to town once during the day on business and to see Dan. The boy has seen trouble and I fear that it will be too much for him...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: December 1863

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It has been some weeks since I have opened this book. Such time as I could spare from exacting and oppressing current duties at the Departm...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 21, 1861

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Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Diary of John Hay: Tuesday, December 24, 1863

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I dined to-day with S. S. Cox. He spoke of Greeley’s foolish   Chase explosion the other night at Wendell Phillip’s Cooper Institute meetin...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Diary of John Hay: December 13, 1863

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The President, speaking to-day about Missouri matters, said he had heard some things of Schofield which had very much displeased him: — Tha...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 10, 1863

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Presented Colonel Hawley's name to the President for Brigadier-General with expressions of my regard. Was kindly received but no assura...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 11, 1865

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From Grant we got a despatch that he would come up, with some ladies and gentlemen, to see our left and to review a few troops. The General...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, January 30, 1864 (Extract)

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On my return from the North, I was pleased to find your very welcome and interesting letter of the 30th ult., and I hasten to assure you, y...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 14, 1864

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Culpepper C. H ., April 14, 1864. . . . Spring seems really to be here, but it has brought with it no ploughman to “turn the glebe afie...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 9, 1864

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Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 9, 1864. . . . Rain. The ride of yesterday was too much for me and has excited my cough. Read the Serm...