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Showing posts with label Harriet Lane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harriet Lane. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Julia Gardiner Tyler to Juliana MacLachlan Gardiner, February 13, 1861

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BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1861. I have a moment to myself just before tea, and I may have time to write you in haste som...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 29, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, May 29 , 1861 . SIR : The expedition to Newport News, of which I spoke in my last, eight miles f...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Tuesday, May 5, 1863

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We breakfasted at Huntsville at 5.30 A.M. The Federal officers captured in the Harriet Lane are confined in the penitentiary there, and are...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 16, 1863

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Just returned from Richmond. B's situation still precarious, and I am obliged to stay with him a great deal. I see a number of officers...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

James Buchanan to Harriet R. Lane, January 16, 1862*

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Wheatland , near Lancaster , 16 January [1862]. My Dear Harriet I have received yours of the 11th Instant; & now enclose you a ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 11, 1861

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In full conclave to-night, the drawing-room crowded with Judges, Governors, Senators, Generals, Congressmen. They were exalting John C. Cal...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Edwin M. Stanton to James Buchanan, May 16, 1861

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WASHINGTON, 16 May, 1861. DEAR SIR: Your letter by Mr. Magraw was received, and I designed to send an answer by him, but he left he...