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Showing posts with label Grant's Drinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grant's Drinking. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 5, 1862

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The artillery is coming up all day. Halleck is moving slowly with his grand army. Would that Grant would be permitted to swing it; there wou...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Major John A. Rawlins to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 6, 1863

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Before VicksBURG, Miss ., June 6th, 1863, 1 A. M. DEAR GENERAL: The great solicitude I feel for the safety of this army leads me to me...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Major-General William F. Smith to Senator Solomon Foot, July 30, 1864

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College Point, L. I., July 30, 1864. Hon. S. Foot: Dear Senator: — I am extremely anxious that my friends in my native State should no...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, July 28, 1864

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City Point, July 28, 1864. . . . On my return yesterday from Washington I touched at Cherry Stone Point and there received your despatch...

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, July 28, 1864 [Later.]

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City Point, July 28, 1864. . . . Matters are now such that it is impossible for me to leave here at present. Active operations have comm...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Captain John A. Rawlins to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, December 30, 1861

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Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

William Bross* to Simon Cameron, December 30, 1861

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Tribune Office, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 30, 1861 Hon. SIMON CAMERON Sec. of War Dear Sir Evidence entirely satisfactory to myself and...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Major-General Charles F. Smith, March 17, 1862

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PITTSBURG, TENN., March 17, 1862 The Public are all astray about Gen. Grant.   His habits (drink) are unexceptionable.   His absence du...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, July 31, 1863

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I met at the President's, and was introduced by him to, Colonel Rawlins of General Grant's staff. He arrived yesterday with the off...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, May 21, 1863

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Had an early call from the President, who brought a communication from Tassara to Seward, complaining of violation of neutral rights by a s...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

William Cullen Bryant to John M. Forbes, October 16, 1862

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Office Of The Evening Post, New York , October 16, 1862. My Dear Sir , — What your friend says of Grant may be the truth, so far as h...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: January 1, 1864

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General Hood's an awful flatterer— I mean an awkward flatterer. I told him to praise my husband to some one else, not to me. He ought t...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 4, 1864

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Nashville, February 4, 1864. . . . General Grant arrived this evening and is in excellent health. His non-arrival last night made me n...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, January 31, 1864

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Nashville , Jan. 31, 1864. . . . General Grant has not yet returned, but will leave St. Louis in the morning. I see by the papers he wa...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, December 20, 1863

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Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , December 20, 1863. As to the Christmas box you ask about, it is hardly necessary to send it, as the ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel John Rawlins to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 6, 1863 – 1 a.m.

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Before VICKSBURG, MISS., June 6th, 1863, 1 A. M. DEAR GENERAL: The great solicitude I feel for the safety of this army leads me to me...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, June 6, 1862

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Camp at Chewalla, 10 miles N. West of Corinth   daylight, June 6, 1862. . . . I get nearly all or all the papers here somehow or othe...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

St. Louis Correspondence

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ST. LOUIS, May 2, 1862. ALFRED SANDERS, Esq. – Dear Sir:   Reading in the Weekly Gazette of yesterday your editorial on Maj. Gen. U. S...