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Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, September 11, 1864 – 7:55 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, September 11, 1864 — 7.55 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: It is not designed by this department to delay the draft a sing...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 1, 1863

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Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. McClernand, October 21, 1862

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CONFIDENTIAL.]   WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, October 21 , 1862 . Ordered, That Major-General McClernand be, and he is, directed...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Seth Conklin to William Still, February 3, 1851

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EASTPORT, MISS., Feb. 3, 1851. To WM. STILL: — Our friends in Cincinnati have failed finding anybody to assist me on my return. Searchi...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills: August 2, 1861

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Cairo.   Hot! You don't know what that word means. I feel that I have always been ignorant of its true meaning till this week, but am p...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Thursday, July 13, 1865

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Hard at it all day. The Recruits leave for Houston Texas at 12, M. Heavy shower P. M. 29th Iowa ordered mustered out. The battery, encamped...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 15, 1863

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Already, as if quite certain that the great Northwest would speedily withdraw from the Eastern United States, our people are discussing the...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 14, 1863

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A beautiful day. Yet Gen. Lee is giving furloughs, two to each company. If the weather should be dry, perhaps Hooker will advance: a thing ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 1, 1863

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The Virginia Legislature, now in session, has a bill under discussion for the suppression of extortion. One of the members, Mr. Anderson, r...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 27, 1863

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It is too true that several thousand of our men were captured at Arkansas Post, and that Little Rock is now in danger. There seems to b...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Abraham Lincoln, Address to the 140th Indiana Infantry, March 17, 1865

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Fellow Citizens . A few words only– I was born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, resided in Illinois, and now here, it is my duty to care equ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Zaccheus Beatty to Abraham Lincoln, February 3, 1860

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Republican Office Knoxville, Ill. Feb. 3d, 1860 Hon. A. Lincoln Sir – I enclose you an article, written by Davidson, and published ...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

William Cullen Bryant’s Introduction of Congressman Owen Lovejoy at the Cooper Institute, June 16, 1861

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It is now just a quarter of a century since a party of men from the State of Missouri crossed the great river of the West to destroy a news...
Friday, April 17, 2015

The President on Emancipation.

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If proof were wanting of the patriotic ardor of the President for the peace and well being of the country, it would be found abundantly in ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Special Message of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to the Legislature of Iowa, May 15, 1861

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SPECIAL MESSAGE. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: The Constitution requires that I shall state to you the purp...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Senator Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857

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BLOOMINGTON, December 28,1857. Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Dear Sir : What does the New York Tribune mean by its constant eulogizing and adm...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Proclamation of Richard Yates, Governor of Illinois, April 15, 1861

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 15, 1861. I, Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

First Illinois Troops In Service – On Expedition To Cairo.

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CHICAGO LIGHT ARTILLERY COMPANY. – Organized April 21. Discharged May 2, 1861. LOCKPORT ARTILLERY COMPANY. – Organized April 22. Discha...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860

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SPRINGFIELD, April 29, 1860 Hon: L. TRUMBULL: My dear Sir: Yours of the 24th was duly received; and I have postponed answering it, ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Illinois New Constitution

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The statement industriously circulated that a number of Illinois regiments have voted almost unanimously for the new constitution, is wholl...