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Showing posts with label Firing On Ft Sumter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firing On Ft Sumter. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Diary of Lucy Larcom, Sabbath, April 14, 1861

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This day broke upon our country in gloom; for the sounds of war came up to us from the South,—war between brethren; civil war; well may ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Henry Greville: Friday, April 26, 1861

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Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski, April 1861

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COMMISSIONERS from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, w...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

John Tyler to Julia Gardiner Tyler, April 16, 1861

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RICHMOND, April 16, 1861. Well, dearest, your letter received this morning placed me much at ease relative to the dear children. I hope yo...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 12, 1864

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Cloudy——rained in the afternoon. This is the anniversary of the first gun of the war, fired at Fort Sumter. It is still said and believe...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: April 15, 1861

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The storm has broken upon us. The Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, just off the coast of South Carolina, and forced her on April 14 to ha...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 6, 1863

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This day has been a hot one, but as our duties have not been of an arduous nature we have sought the shade and kept quiet. While in camp, t...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Joseph Green Cogswell to George Ticknor, April 29, 1861

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NEW YORK, April 29, 1861. . . . The humiliating condition to which Southern insolence and ruffianism have reduced us has preyed upon me...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Gerrit Smith’s Speach at a War Meeting in Peterboro, Massachusets, April 27, 1861

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The end of American slavery is at hand. That it is to end in blood does not surprise me. For fifteen years I have been constantly predictin...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, March 30, 1864

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A severe storm last night and to-day. Mrs. Welles had arranged for a party this evening. The rain ceased about sundown. The evening passed ...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Result Of Gustavus V. Fox's Plan For Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing

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My plan for reinforcing Fort Sumpter was this— From the outer edge of the bar to Sumpter through the swash channel it is four miles in a...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, June 27, 1863

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A telegram last night informed me of the death of Admiral Foote. The information of the last few days made it a not unexpected event, yet t...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Brigadier-General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to Leroy P. Walker, April 16, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A. , Charleston, S.C., April 16 , 1861 . SIR : I have the honor to submit the following summary...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 26. – Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Hartstene, C. S. Navy, and Messrs. William Porcher Miles and Roger A. Pryor, aides-de-camp

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No. 26. Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Harts...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 11. – Report of Lieut. Col. Roswell S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery

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No. 11. Report of Lieut. Col. R. S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery. HEADQUARTERS ARTILLERY, Sullivan's Isl...