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Showing posts with label Indiana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indiana. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

De Witt C. Chipman to Abraham Lincoln, February 29, 1864

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De Witt C. Chipman, Collector. Collector's Office, 11th Indiana District,                    Noblesville, February 29 A. D. 1864 ...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Governor Oliver P. Morton's Speech Welcoming Abraham Lincoln to Indianapolis, Indiana, February 11, 1861

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Sir, on behalf of the people of Indiana, I bid you welcome.   They avail themselves of this occasion to offer their tribute of high respect...
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...

Governor Oliver P. Morton et al to Edwin M. Stanton, September 12, 1864

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To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: sir — Assembled from the different parts of Indiana, and practically familiar with the infl...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General William T. Sherman, September 19, 1864

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Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C. September 19 th , 1864. Major General Sherman The State election of Indiana occurs on the 11...
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...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Extraordinary Speech From A Southern Congressman

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Hon. Emerson Etheridge, a member of Congress from Tennessee, recently made a speech in Indiana, and a writer to the republican press of the...
Friday, June 30, 2017

John Hay to John G. Nicolay, October 13, 1864

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Executive Mansion. Washington, Oct. 13, 1864. MY DEAR NICOLAY: I suppose you are happy enough over the elections to do without let...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, July 20, 1863

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Morgan's invasion of Ohio and Indiana is likely to terminate more creditably to the Union cause than Lee's excursion into Pennsylva...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday July 20, 1862

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Camp Green Meadows, Mercer County, Virginia. — Morgan's gang, or Rebels encouraged by him, have got into Warrick County, Indiana. This ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday July 19, 1862

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Some rain. Ride with Quartermaster Reichenbach to the scene of [the] Jumping Branch fight. Read with a good deal of levity the accounts of ...
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...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

David Davis to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday Evening, August 5, 1860

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Harrisburg, Pa =Sunday Evening— Augt 5, 1860 Dear Lincoln — I reached Fort Wayne about 12 oclk Thursday night, & met Mr Willi...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Mark W. Delahay to Abraham Lincoln, May 13, 1860

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Tremont House, Gage, Bro. & Drake, Proprietors Chicago, 10 P M May 13 th 1860 Hon A Lincoln My Dear Sir Since your Sprin...

Carson Dobbins Hay to Abraham Lincoln, March 27, 1860

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Newton Jasper Co. Ills March 27th 1860 Hon. A. Lincoln Honored & Dear Sir I have been highly delighted at Seeing the perfec...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Sunday, October 5, 1862

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At home to favor foot. Much better in the afternoon, and rode over to Insane Asylum to see Hooker. Was glad to find him much improved. He s...