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Showing posts with label Geary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geary. Show all posts
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, April 19, 1863

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April 19. Yesterday the rebels at the Ferry made arrangements for Col. Higginson to meet General [W. S.] Walker this morning under a flag ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Samuel Clark Pomeroy

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Pomeroy, Samuel Clark , pioneer and United States senator, was born at Southampton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1816; was educated at Amherst College, an...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to a Member of the Dabney Family, October 9, 1856

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Steamboat Cataract aground on a bank in the Missouri River October 9, 1856 I know you would enjoy going to Kansas, for it is as gen...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, September 24, 1856

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Topeka , September 24, 1856 People joke here as readily as anywhere, though all pronounce it the darkest time Kansas has ever seen. . ....
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Journal of Amos A. Lawrence, January 6, 1857

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Very cold and windy. Rode an hour and a half. Called at the United States Hotel on Captain John Brown, the old Kansas hero. Found Governor ...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Amos A. Lawrence to Governor John W. Geary

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To secure the adoption in all parts of the Territory of the best system of public schools seems to be desirable at this early day, and I ha...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Governor Salmon P. Chase to Senator Charles Sumner, December 13, 1856

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State Of Ohio, Executive Department,                         Columbus, Dec 13, 1856. Dear Sumner , I long to hear of you at the Capit...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: May 31, 1864

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Kingston, Ga ., May 31, 1864. My last letter was written from Cassville, and sent by Colonel Coggswell. On the 23rd the whole army mad...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: December 20, 1861

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camp Hicks, near Frederick , December 20, 1861. It was only the immediate pressure of another topic that crowded out the mention of th...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse: May 7, 1863

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Stafford C. H ., May 7, 1863. I am going to give you, without any introduction, a history of this last campaign against Richmond by th...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Charles Robinson to John Brown, September 13, 1856

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Lawrence , Sept. 13, 1856. Captain John Brown. Dear Sir , — Governor Geary has been here and talks very well. He promises to protect ...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, May 25, 1862 – 8:30 p.m.

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(Send in Cypher). War Department Washington City, D.C. May 25. 1862 8½ P.M. Major Gen. McClellan Your despatch received. Banks w...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Skirmish in the Shenandoah Department

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WASHINGTON, May 17. The following is extracted from a dispatch to the Secretary of War: RECTORTOWN, Va., May 16. A company of...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Gen. Banks falling back – The Shenandoah Valley again in the Hands of the Rebels

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NEW YORK, May 25 – Herald’s correspondent from Banks’ Division writes that 7,000 men had been added to the rebel force in the Shenandoah Val...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Reports of Lieut. Col. George Burton, Fourth Iowa Infantry.

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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH IOWA INFANTRY, Lookout Mountain, November 25, 1863. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that, agreeably to your order, a...