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Showing posts with label Fort Pillow Masacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Pillow Masacre. Show all posts
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, May 6, 1864

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At the Cabinet-meeting each of the members read his opinion. There had, I think, been some concert between Seward and Stanton and probably ...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 3, 1864

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At the Cabinet-meeting the President requested each member to give him an opinion as to what course the Government should pursue in relatio...

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, May 5, 1864

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I have written a letter to the President in relation to the Fort Pillow massacre, but it is not satisfactory to me, nor can I make it so wi...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Gerrit Smith’s Speech on the Fort Pillow and Plymouth Massacres: Peterboro, Massachusetts, April 26, 1864.

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The whole civilized world will be startled and horrified by this slaughter of probably not less than five or six hundred persons. The excus...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Abraham Lincoln’s Address to the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, Maryland, April 18, 1864

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Ladies and Gentlemen – Calling to mind that we are in Baltimore, we can not fail to note that the world moves. Looking upon these many peop...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 24, 1864

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Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 24, 1864. . . . The trees are beginning to put forth their leaves, and the fruit trees their blossoms; the...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 23, 1864

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Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 23, 1864. . . . Clear, dry weather. . . . Burnside's corps commenced moving up from Annapolis toda...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, April 17, 1864

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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17,1864. My Dear Brother: . . . Our finances are bubbling up and down in that feverish state where a panic ...