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Showing posts with label Horatio Seymour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horatio Seymour. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Diary of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, July 9, 1868

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Horatio Seymour nominated because: — 1. He was more distinctly and decidedly committed against the Greenback theory of Mr. Pendleton and t...

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 14, 1868

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COLUMBUS, July 14, 1868. DEAR UNCLE: Joel Bryan's wife, son, and daughter were here this morning. Had a pleasant time with them. The s...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Senator John Sherman to Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, September 1868

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[PHILADELPHIA, September 1868.] Grant will surely be elected. If not, we shall have the devil to pay, and shall have to fight all our old ...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, November 6, 1864

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Bright and frosty. All quiet below. Another day, and if it remains quiet, we may know that Lincoln will be re-elected. It is said news c...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Joshua Bates to John M. Forbes, August 22, 1863

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21 Arlington Street, 22 August, 1863. Many thanks for your letter of the 4th August. I grieve with you for the loss of good young men ...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Gerrit Smith’s Speech on the Rebellion and the Draft: Oswego, New York, July 29, 1863

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I am embarrassed at the very outset. For I recollect that I am an abolitionist; and I recollect that in the public esteem he who is an abol...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Request of William C. H. Waddell, John J. Cisco, and Colonel A. Farnsworth, that Capt. William T. Lusk of the 79th Highlanders Be Granted Leave of Absence with a View of His Attaining Command of Col. Allen's Regiment, January 31, 1863

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New-York, Jan. 31st, 1863. Governor desires that General Sprague will reply to this note. *           *           *           *   ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 29, 1863

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New-York , Jan. 29th, 1863. My own dear Son: I enclose a copy of a letter received by your Uncle Phelps from Col. Allen . Mr. Phelps ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Charles A. Dana to Brigadier-General Marsena R. Patrick, October 30, 1864

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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30 , 1864 . Brig. Gen. M. R. PATRICK, Provost-Marshal-General, City Point: Various reports have reached...

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, November 1, 1864

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WASHINGTON CITY, November 1 , 1864 . Lieutenant-General GRANT: It is absolutely necessary there should be at New York an adequate mi...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, November 1862

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Near Rectorville, Va. November, 1862. My dear Mother: I received your half reproachful letter last night just after I had gone to b...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Mayor George Opdyke to Edwin Stanton, July 14, 1863 – Received 4:25 p.m.

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NEW YORK, July 14 , 1863 .   (Received 4 . 25 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Your dispatch received. Demonstr...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Resolutions of the New York Democratic Committee, May 16, 1863

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Resolved, That the Democrats of New York point to their uniform course of action during the two years of civil war through which we have pa...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Horatio Seymour, June 27, 1863

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War Department, Washington City, June 27th, 1863. Dear Sir : I cannot forbear expressing to you the deep obligation I feel for the pr...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, January 12, 1863

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Camp Reynolds, Near Gauley Bridge , January 12, 1863. Dear Uncle : — Yours of the 6th came duly to hand. The death of Magee is indeed a...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, August 12, 1863

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The President addressed me a letter, directing additional instructions and of a more explicit character to our naval officers in relation t...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 11, 1863

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Admiral Farragut has arrived in New York and telegraphs me he will report in person when I direct. I congratulated him on his safe return b...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 7, 1863

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Went on board of steamer Baltimore Wednesday evening in company with a few friends, for a short excursion. My object was to improve the tim...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: November 12, 1862

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Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, July 16, 1863

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It is represented that the mob in New York is about subdued. Why it was permitted to continue so long and commit such excess has not been e...