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Showing posts with label John B Floyd. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

James A. Seddon to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, December 3, 1855

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ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA, December 3rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter only reached me in this outside world a few days since. Its confidence ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, February 16, 1862

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By daylight all of Colonel Statham's Brigade had crossed Caney Fork except a few wagons. Before night General Carroll's Brigade, exc...

Lieutenant Colonel William W. Mackall to Major-General George B. Crittenden, February 17, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, February [17, 1862]. Major-General CRITTENDEN,           Commanding Chestnut Mound: ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Landon C. Haynes to Jefferson Davis, January 27, 1862

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KNOXVILLE, TENN., January 27 , 1862 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,           President Confederate States of America: SIR: The Army of...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Governor John B. Floyd* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 8, 1850

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RICHMOND, [VA.], November 8th, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: I was absent when your letter of the 9th ult reached the City, and I have delayed an ans...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

James Buchanan to Robert Tyler, June 13, 1860

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WASHINGTON, 13th June, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Do you wish me to place the letter of Captain Maddox to yourself on file? Also that of Mr. Ivers...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 2, 1861

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A slight solace to one's anxieties about home is found in the circumstances brought by successive steamers during the week. 1. The propo...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, January 16, 1861

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I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Annual Report of William T. Sherman, January 1, 1861

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LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY                     of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, January 1, 1861. TO THE PRESIDENT OF TH...
Friday, January 21, 2022

John W. Garrett to John T. Quynn, October 26, 1859

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Baltimore, Oct. 26th, 1859. J. T. Quynn, Frederick: Advices from Superintendent Armory, Harper's Ferry, represent that efforts for rescu...

A. P. Shutt to William Preston Smith, October 28, 1859

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October 28th, 1859. Wm. P. Smith. All quiet last night. Secretary of War Floyd was here from Washington, in consultation with Barbour. He is...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, April 3, 1865

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Intelligence of the evacuation of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond was received this A.M., and the city has been in an uproar through ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

John W. Garrett to John B. Floyd, October 26, 1859

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Baltimore, Oct. 26th, 1859. Hon. J. B. Floyd,           Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Our company has received the following message...

Alfred M. Barbour to William Preston Smith, October 26, 1859

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Harper's Ferry, Oct. 26th, 1859. W. P. Smith,           B. & O. R. R. Co.: I have received a letter from a reliable friend in New Y...

John W. Garrett to James Buchanan, October 26, 1859

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Baltimore, 26th Oct., 1859. His Excellency,           James Buchanan: Alfred M. Barbour, U. S. Superintendent at Harper's Ferry, has a...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Colonel Robert E. Lee to John B. Floyd, [October 18, 1859]

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To the Hon. Secretary of War : I find it unnecessary to bring the troops from Fort Monroe here, and have stopped them at Fort McHenry to a...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

William Preston Smith to Thomas H. Parsons, October 17 1859

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Baltimore, 10.40 A. M., October 17th, 1859. Thos. H. Parsons,           Washington, D. C. Go at once to Secretary of War, and get his instru...

G. F. Gilbert to William Preston Smith, October 17, 1859

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Washington Junction, 17th October, 1859. W. P. Smith. Hold train until Col. Lee comes to Relay. I will take them up with Engine 22, and keep...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

John W. Garrett to James Buchanan, October 17, 1859 – 10:30 a.m.

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Baltimore, Oct. 17th-10.30 A. M. His Excellency, James Buchanan,                Pres’t U.S.: The United States Armory at Harper's Ferry ...

John W. Garret to John B. Floyd, October 17, 1859 – 10:20 a.m.

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17th Oct., 1859—10.20 A. M. Hon. J. B. Floyd,                Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Telegraphic advices present a serious affa...