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Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Senator Jesse D. Bright* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, September 2, 1854

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MADISON, IND., September 2d, 1854. DEAR HUNTER: Yours of the 15th ultimo with letter in behalf of Mr. Lyle is received and for which accep...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: October 11, 1865

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The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa come in favorable, though the vote and the majorities are reduced from the Presidential electi...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Senator James Harlan, May 9, 1862

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I shall detain the Senate for but a moment longer. General Halleck, in an official communication addressed to the adjutant general of th...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Amos A. Lawrence to a Quaker of Lynn, Massachusetts: September 24, 1856

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Boston , September 24, 1856. My Dear Sir , — In reply to yours I will say that all money sent to the treasurer of the New England Emigr...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

John Brown to his Family, April 16, 1858

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Ingersol, Canada West, April 16, 1858. Dear Wife And Children, Every One , — Since I wrote you I have thought it possible, though not...
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...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Fitz Henry Warren to James S. Pike, December 16, 1860

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Burlington, Iowa , December 16, 1860. James Pike : I am fructified in spirit to see “J. S. P.” again at the foot of a Washington letter...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Massachusetts Kansas Committee to Governor James W. Grimes, December 20, 1856

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State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston , Dec. 20, 1856. Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 16th has been received, and we are glad to ...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Fitz Henry Warren to James S. Pike, February 2, 1860

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Burlington, Iowa , February 2, 1860. Particular Pike : The ills of a congested liver, brought on by attempting to decipher a letter of ...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

John Brown Jr. to Jason Brown et al, August 19, 1856

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August 19. The affair last mentioned was conducted with such expedition that the United States troops, located about a mile off, had no...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, April 2, 1864

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They had a very cold winter here in Iowa and the ground has been frozen so deep that it is slow in thawing out. Farmers, as yet, have sown ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Congressman William B. Allison to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, March 15, 1863

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Dubuque , March 15th, 1863. Dear Governor : — I congratulate you on your confirmation as Resident Minister to Denmark. I regret very mu...

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Friday, January 15, 1864

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Camp and picket duty are becoming very light as compared to one month ago. Some of the regiments sent to Minnesota and western Iowa to driv...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Major General Ulysses S. Grant, July 15, 1863

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Executive Office, Iowa, Iowa City , July 15, 1863. Major-General U. S. Grant, Com'd'g. Army of the Tennessee: General — P...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood To the Soldiers of Iowa in the Army of the Tennessee, July 11, 1863

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Executive Office, Iowa, Iowa City , July 11, 1863. To the Soldiers of Iowa in the Army of the Tennessee: You have passed through on...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Abraham Lincoln, August 21, 1862

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I am satisfied Iowa has to-day not less than eighteen, and, I believe, twenty, new regiments ready for organization, in addition to the twe...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Governor Alexander W. Randall to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, December 23, 1861

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Executive Office, Madison , Dec. 23, 1861. His Excy. Gov. Kirkwood, Iowa: Dear Sir: — It seems to me that the large amount of labor a...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Senator James W. Grimes to a Midshipman at the Naval Academy, October 28, 1862

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Burlington , October 28, 1862. I have received your letter, and by the same mail one from H––. In the pressure of my business I must ma...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Nathaniel B. Baker to Rush Clark, February 19, 1862

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STATE OF Iowa, ADJUTANT GENERAL’s Office February 19th, 1862. HON. Rush CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SIR: I ...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

James W. Grimes to Elizabeth S. Nealley Grimes, October 6, 1862

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Indianola, Iowa , October 6, 1862. I have received your various letters, and I believe they have done me great good by moving me to ren...