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Showing posts with label Francis W Pickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis W Pickens. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

John Tyler to James Buchanan, Saturday Evening, February 9, 1861

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Saturday evening, February 9, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I communicated to Governor Pickens what passed between us as to Mr. Holt's letter, an...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

John Tyler to James Buchanan, February 20, 1861—2 p.m.

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TWO O'CLOCK P. M., February 20, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I have this moment received a telegram from Charleston. The Governor says: Received...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, January 16, 1861

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I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Governor Francis W. Pickens to Jefferson Davis, February 27, 1861

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston, S.C., February 27, 1861. The PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES,  &c., Montgomery, Ala : DEAR SIR...

Leroy P. Walker to Governor Francis W. Pickens, March 1, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,       Montgomery, March 1, 1861. GOV. F. W. PICKENS, Charleston, S. C.: Your letter to President received. This...

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, ...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Dr. Francis Mallory* to Congressman Robert M. T. Hunter, January 12, 1840

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Near Hampton, [va.], January 12, 1840. Dear Hunter : For some months past I had almost given over talking or reading of politics and m...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

George Fitzhugh to Congressman Robert M. T. Hunter, December 15, 1839

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Port Royal, [va.], December 15,1839. Dear Hunter : I have not seen one single whig to whom the nomination of Harrison is acceptable. M...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Commandant Samuel F. DuPont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 4, 1862

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Confidential. Port Royal, Jany. 4, 62. My Dear Sir The Vanderbilt played us a scurvy trick yesterday, having gone off without our m...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Commissioners of the State of South Carolina to James Buchanan, January 1, 1861

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Washington, D. C, January 1st, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th December , in reply...
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...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Governor Francis W. Pickens, April 12, 1861

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[April 12, 1861] F. W. Pickens, Gov. S. C. Sir, The U. S. Gov t has directed me to deliver a quantity of provisions to Major An...

Gustavus V. Fox to Captain Daniel Jackson, April 12, 1861

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Capt. Daniel Jackson Pilot— Sir— I send you to Fort Sumpter with a load of provisions to be delivered with a letter to Major A. wh...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Montgomery Blair, March 31, 1861

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N. York 31 Mch. '61 D r Judge, I saw Mr. Aspinwall yesterday and in the evening met him and Capt. Marshall. From being for a l...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Virginia Woodbury Fox, March 19, 1861

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Washington D.C. Mch 19, ’61 D r V. I am real homesick for the kind company of the dearest wife in the world — the best and the swe...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Montgomery Blair to Gustavus V. Fox, January 31, 1861

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Wash. 31 Jany 61 Dear Fox: I recd yours about the Tug of War yesterday and laid it before Genl Scott, who upon reading it said it had...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Salmon P. Chase to John Townsend Trowbridge of Somerville, Massachusetts, March 21, 1864

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WASHINGTON, March 21, 1864. . . . . IMMEDIATELY after the organization of the cabinet, the question of what should be the policy of the...
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...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Major Robert Anderson to Colonel Lorenzo Thomas, April 5, 1861

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No. 94.] fort Sumter, S. C., April 5, 1861. (Received A. G. O., April 8.) Colonel L. Thomas , Adjutant-General U. S. Army: Colo...

1st Lieutenant George W. Snyder to Major Robert Anderson, April 4, 1861

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FORT SUMTER S.C., April 4 , 1861 . Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, First Artillery, U. S. Army Commanding Fort Sumter : MAJOR: In compliance...