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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, May 29, 1865

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[W]e took a morning ride, Mrs. Welles being able to go with us, and drove about the place. Returning to the wharf, we took a tug, visited th...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, September 2, 1864

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Admiral Farragut’s dispatch relative to the capture of Fort Morgan and the infamous conduct of General Page in spiking his guns after his su...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Jonathan Worth to Joseph John Jackson, December 17, 1860

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RALEigh , Dec. 17, ‘60. I can not find time to write you as often as I ought to. To-day the Senate voted 27 to 15 to suspend the ru...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Statement of Messrs. Miles And Keitt, of what Transpired Between the President and the South Carolina Delegation, between January 1 & 14, 1861

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In compliance with the request of the Convention, we beg leave to make the following statement: On Saturday, the 8th of December, several...
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...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

James Buchanan to the Commissioners of the State of South Carolina, December 30, 1860

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Washington City , 30th December, 1860. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your communication of 28th inst., together with a copy of...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Memorandum of Verbal Instructions to Major Anderson, First Artillery, Commanding Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, December 11, 1860

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FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., December 11 , 1860 . Memorandum of verbal instructions to Major Anderson, First Artillery, commanding at Fort Mou...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 2, 1863

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Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Commissioners of the State of South Carolina to James Buchanan, December 28, 1860

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Washington , 28th December, 1860. Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 10, 1863

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A Mr. J. C. Jones has addressed a letter to the President asking permission to run the blockade to confer with Mr. Bates, of President Linc...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Captain Gustavus V. Fox: Memorandum for the Relief of Fort Sumter, February 6, 1861

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ST. GERMAIN HOTEL, New York , February 6, 1861. Since the repulse of the steamer Star of the West at Charleston it may be assumed tha...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Brigadier-General Robert Anderson to Edwin M. Stanton, December 1862

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New York , December, 1862. Hon. E. M. Stanton , Secretary of War. Sir : Although by the strict advice of my medical advisers I am pre...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Simon Cameron to Major Robert Anderson, April 20, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 20 , 1861 . Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, Late Commanding at Fort Sumter. MY DEAR SIR: I am directed by...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 11. – Report of Lieut. Col. Roswell S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery

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No. 11. Report of Lieut. Col. R. S. Ripley, South Carolina Army, commanding Artillery. HEADQUARTERS ARTILLERY, Sullivan's Isl...