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Showing posts with label George S Boutwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George S Boutwell. Show all posts
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to John Bigelow, May 2, 1851

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I would not affect a feeling which I have not, nor have I any temptation to do it; but I should not be frank if I did not say to you that I ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Charles Sumner to George Sumner, November 26[, 1850]

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Our movement here is part of the great liberal movement of Europe; and as “law and order” are the words by which reaction has rallied in Eur...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Diary of Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes: December 7, 1865

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Took Thanksgiving dinner with Judge James at the Metropolitan Club. Governor Boutwell, a bright, pleasant-looking man, reminding me of Waite...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Colonel Edward F. Jones to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 30, 1861

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UNOFFICIAL. Headquarters, 6th Regiment, M.V.M. – Capitol, WASHINGTON, April 30th, 1861 General B. F. BUTLER, ANNAPOLIS, MD. MY ...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Horace Mann, January 21, 1852

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Boston , January 21st, 1852. My Dear Mann : — It seems an age since I have seen you and long since I have had a word about you. There ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Horace Mann, February 6, 1851

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Boston , Feb'y 6th, 1851. My Dear Mann : — The telegraph will tell you the result of to-morrow's fight before this reaches you....
Thursday, January 5, 2017

John Hay to John G. Nicolay, August 27, 1862

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Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 27, 1862. MY DEAR SIR: Where is your scalp? If anybody believes you don't wish you were at ...