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Showing posts with label Enlistments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enlistments. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Diary of Joseph Stockton, July 23, 1862

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CHICAGO, ILL.   Books were opened on this evening for the formation of a new regiment to be enlisted under the auspices of the Chicago Board...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 5, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 5, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON,           Commanding Seventeen...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Jonathan Worth to Joseph Ulley, May 28, 1861

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ASHEBORO, May 28, ’61 *          *          *          *          *          *          * I think there is no reliable date on which to ba...

Jonathan Worth to Samuel H. Walkup,* May 28, 1861

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*          *          *           *           *          *           * [P. S.]—We have 5 incipient companies of volunteers, some nearly fu...

Jonathan Worth to Captain Robert Gray, June 5, 1861

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ASHEBORO, June 5th, 1861. I learn from various sources to-day that an impression has been made, or has been attempted to be made on you, tha...

Jonathan Worth to Alfred G. Foster, July 31, 1861

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ASHEBORO , July 31, '61. I know not your views in relation to the re-election of the superior Court. my nephew as Clk. of the Supr. Co...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: May 1863

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Caroline Cowles Richards A number of the teachers and pupils of the Academy have enlisted for the war. Among them E. C. Clarke, H. C. Kirk, ...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: Milford, Mass., Sept. 6, 1861.

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THE BEGINNING. Pursuant to a call from President Lincoln for more troops in suppression of the great rebellion, a regiment is now being...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Governor John A. Andrew to Simon Cameron, April 25, 1861

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April 25. . . . I desire . . . to say that we can send to you four thousand more troops from Massachusetts within a very short time aft...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 29, 1863

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New-York , Jan. 29th, 1863. My own dear Son: I enclose a copy of a letter received by your Uncle Phelps from Col. Allen . Mr. Phelps ...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 18, 1863

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24 West 31st Street, New-York , Jan. 18th, 1863. My own dear Son: I hope my letters reach you more regularly than yours do me, for ...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

An Act to authorize the Employment of Volunteers to aid in enforcing the Laws and protecting Public Property, July 22, 1861.

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Whereas, certain of the forts, arsenals, custom-houses, navy yards, and other property of the United States have been seized, and other vio...

An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for other Purposes, March 3, 1863

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Whereas there now exist in the United States an insurrection and rebellion against the authority thereof, and it is, under the Constitution...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Frederick Douglass to Major George L. Stearns, August 1, 1863

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RochESTER , August 1st, 1863. MAJOR GEORGE L. STEARNS: My Dear Sir, Having declined to attend the meeting to promote enlistments, app...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Speech of Congressman Daniel Webster: The Encouragement of Enlistments, January 14, 1814

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House Of Representatives Of The United States , January 14, 1814. 1 Mr. Speaker , — It was not my intention to offer myself to your n...