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Showing posts with label Freedmen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedmen. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2024

Major-General Henry W. Slocum: General Orders No. 6, May 12, 1864

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 6.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 12, 1864. I. The United States Government having adop...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 16, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 16, 1866. MY DARLING:— I send you a paper marked about Fullerton. I am inclined to think my party friends are more ...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 1, 1863

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Our brigade is in the advance this morning. Notwithstanding so many are foot sore we march briskly, and arriving at Iuka about noon we halt ...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Rev. John Eaton Jr. to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 23, 1863

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[Washington, July 23, 1863] I have had one interview with the Secy of War & two with the President. Every one in the Gove't & ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Abstract of the Report of Mr. John Eaton, Freedmen's Superintendent for Tennesee

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Prepared, for the President, by the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. __________________ Abstract of Mr. John Eaton's Report. ...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, January 29, 1863

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The duties of the regiments now stationed at Corinth, are very arduous. Almost every day a regiment or two are called upon to make a trip ei...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

In The Review Queue: Stolen

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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell A gripping and true story abou...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Minutes of an interview between the colored ministers and church officers at Savannah with the Secretary of War and Major-General Sherman, January 12, 1865 – 8 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS OF MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMAN,                                     In the City of Savannah, Ga., Thursday evening,               ...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Edward S. Philbrick to Alpheus Hardy, December 28, 1863

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Beaufort, S. C, Dec. 28, 1863. Alpheus Hardy , Treasurer: Dear Sir ,—Enclosed please find my draft for one hundred dollars, for the ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, June 24, 1861

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[Washington , June 24, 1861.] Success attends me everywhere. I left Saturday P.M. for Fortress Monroe. Mr. Blair gave me a letter of in...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 3, 1862

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Camp Near Falmouth, Va. December 3d, 1862. My dear Mother: I hasten to write you to-day, fearful lest you should dread my being ove...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Major-General William T. Sherman to Edwin M. Stanton, October 25, 1864

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HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,             In the Field, Gaylesville, Ala., October 25, 1864. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secre...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to Edwin M. Stanton, May 5, 1865

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Beaufort, N.C.   May 5, 1865 My dear Sir, How would it do to issue an order forbidding the calling of the freedmen, “contrabands”, an...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Diary of John Hay: December 10, 1863

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. . . . Sumner speaks of the Message with great gratification. It satisfies his idea of proper reconstruction without insisting on the adop...