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Showing posts with label Fort Pickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Pickens. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Saturday, February 2, 1861

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Foggy and misty day with water driping from roofs all the time. A Salute of 34 guns was fired today at noon at the Armory on account of the ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Monday, January 28, 1861

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It has thawed only in the sun today but it has been bright and pleasant overhead. The day has passed without any startling news. The committ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

John Tyler to Wyndham Robertson, January 26, 1861

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BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter was duly received, and I thank you for the enclosure. We will talk ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 17, 1861

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Mr. Reuter sends me a telegram from Queenstown of the American news. 1. The conference invited by Virginia met on the 4th, and re-assembled ...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Adjutant-General George Deas to Brigadier-General Braxton Bragg, March 7, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Montgomery, March 7, 1861.  Brig. Gen. BRAXTON BRAGG,      Provisional Army, C. S. A., Comdg. Troops near Pensacola, Fla.:...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Resolution in Relation to the Occupation of Forts Sumter and Pickens, February 15, 1861

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Resolved by the Confederate States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the sense of this Congress that immediate steps should be ta...

Resolution of the Confederate Congress, February 22, 1861

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CONGRESS, February 22 , 1861 . Mr. Bartow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following resolution, which was adopted, ...

Jefferson Davis to Governor Madison S. Perry, February 22, 1861

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE,      Montgomery, Ala., February 22, 1861. His Excellency Governor PERRY : SIR: The subjoined resolution was passed by ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Jonathan Worth to the People of Randolph County, North Carolina, May 1861

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  RALEigh , May, 1861. You know how earnestly I have labored to preserve the Union. I still regard it as the “paladium of our liberty.” I ...