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Showing posts with label Government Contracts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Contracts. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, July 7, 1864

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I am apprehensive of trouble in making future contracts. Old contractors have been attacked and called to account, and will be shy. But th...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 22, 1862

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We shall never arrive at the correct amount of casualties at the battle of Fredericksburg. The Enquirer today indicates that our loss in ki...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: Saturday, August 9, 1862

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In the morning had to give up the book which I had borrowed from Robinson. Accomplished very little during the day. Tried to write Will but...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Memoranda of John M. Forbes: Minor Reforms Needed, September, 1862.

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Minor Reforms Needed. September, 1862. 1st. Drunken officers. The public, rightly or wrongly, attribute part of the mischief at Bull Ru...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, November 27, 1861

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Cairo, Illinois, November 27th, 1861. Dear Father: Your letter enclosed with a shawl to Julia is just received. In regard to ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

XXXVIIth Congress -- First Session

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WASHINGTON, April 30. SENATE. – Mr. Harris presented a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce of N. Y., on the system of taxation. M...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Contract Commission

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Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, and Hon. Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, recently appointed on a special commission by the Secretary of War, a...