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Showing posts with label Ft Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ft Jackson. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: December 15, 1862

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Went on up the river until hard ground appeared. Passed two forts, Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip they call them, and say Butler's men...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

William T. Sherman to David F. Boyd, February 23, 1861

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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1861. DEAR MR. BOYD: I fear from our experience here the cadets did not have a good time of it last night. It rained...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 16, 1861

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ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 16th, 1861. MY DEAR BROTHER: I am so much in the woods here that I can't keep up with the times at all. Indeed, you i...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, April 3, 1862

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Private & Confidential  ‘Wabash’ Port Royal  April 3. 62.  My Dear Sir Since writing to the Department for more force Genl Hunter inform...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, April 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, April 29 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to rep...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, May 8, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    New Orleans, May 8 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to report my further operati...
Friday, May 29, 2020

George Coppell to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 8, 1862

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BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 8 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, U. S..Army, Commanding Department of th...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to George Coppell, May 11, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                   New Orleans, May 11 , 1862 . GEORGE COPPELL, Acting as Her Majesty's Consu...

George Coppell to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 16, 1862

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BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of the Gulf: SIR: ...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to George Coppell, May 16, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . G. COPPELL, Acting Consul of Her Britannic Majest...

Department of State Memorandum, May 30, 1862

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,           May 30 , 1862 . MEMORANDUM.] Lord Lyons called to-day upon Mr. Seward and said, as perhaps was not e...
Friday, February 14, 2020

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 26, 1863

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(Private) New Orleans , February 26th, 1863. Dear Sir : The military movements lately in contemplation, have, I think, been given up....
Monday, June 3, 2019

Commander John Rodgers to Captain Charles Henry Davis, January 2, 1862

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[Copy] Confidential Flag, Wassaw Sound Jan y 2, 186[2] Dear Davis I learn from Isaac Tatnall Gillis, Contraband, who escaped fr...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Captain Quincy A. Gillmore to Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sherman, December 30, 1861

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[Copy] Confidential Office of Chief Engineer Ex Corps Hilton Head S.C. Dec. 30" 1861 Brig, Genl" T. W. Sherman Commandin...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 4, 1862

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Ladies of New Orleans presented the 13th Conn. Vols, with a beautiful flag. Many of the rebel army paroled at Fort Jackson and St. Philip c...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: Capture and Occupation of New Orleans.

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Of course I have not the time and space to give an account of the passing of the forts as it was described in the papers at that time and a...