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Showing posts with label John C. Breckinridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John C. Breckinridge. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, April 2, 1865

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PETERSBURG, April 2, 1865. GEN. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Sec. of War. SIR: It is absolutely necessary that we should abandon our positi...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, April 1, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 1, 1865. HON. SEC. OF WAR, RICHMOND. SIR: After my dispatch of last night I received a ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 27, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS CONFEDERATE STATES ARMIES, March 27, 1865. HON. SEC. OF WAR, Richmond. SIR: I have been awaiting the receipt of the or...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 17, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, March 17, 1865. HON. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Sec. of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: A dispatch from Li...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, February 22, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, February 22, 1865. HON. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Sec. of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: I have just received your let...
Monday, April 28, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, February 21, 1865

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(Confidential.) HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, February 21, 1865. HON. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Sec. of War, Richmond. SIR: I have had th...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, February 19, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, February 19, 1865. HIS EXCELLENCY J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: The accounts...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, June 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT. O. V. INF., CAMP NEAR MOSCOW, TENN., Sunday, June 29,1862. My last letter to you was dated from Lagrange yest...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, February 8, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, February 8, 1865. HON. JAS. A. SEDDON, Sec. of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: All the disposable...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early, September 27, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, September 27, 1864. GEN. J. A. EARLY, Commanding Valley. GENERAL: Your letter of the 25th instant is rece...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Vice President John C. Breckinridge to Daniel S. Dickinson, June 29, 1860

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WASHINGTON CITY, June 29, 1860. MY DEAR SIR — I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your friendly letter of the 27th inst.  This no...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 22, 1865

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RALEIGH, N. C., April 22, 1865. I wrote you a hasty letter by Major Hitchcock and promised to write more at length as soon as matters s...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 18, 1865

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IN THE FIELD, RALEIGH, N. C. April 18, 1865. I have just got back from a long interview with General Johnston and Breckenridge, Secre...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones, December 25, 1864

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Christmas ! — Clear and pleasant — white frost. All quiet below. But it is believed on the street that Savannah has been evacuated, some...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Matters at Bowling Green & Conflict near at hand – Floyd and McCulloch at Bowling Green

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(From the Nashville Banner, Dec. 30) The Nashville Banner has an interesting letter from Bowling Green, dated the 30th ult., from which...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Battle At Pittsburg

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FURTHER PARTICULARS __________ CAIRO, April 10. – A man who arrived here to-day says the enemy adopted a ruse to surprise our forces ...
Friday, December 28, 2012

The correspondence of the New York Herald . . .

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. . . from Winchester, Va., contains the following: There were many deeds of heroism performed on the battle field.   While the Fifth O...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

1860 Presidential Election: The Candidates

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Party Home State Running Mate Abraham Lincoln Republican Illinois Hannibal Hamlin Ste...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Vice Presidents of the United States Living at the Outbreak of the Civil War

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Martin Van Buren, died July 24, 1862. John Tyler, died 18 January 1862. George M. Dallas, died December 31, 1864. Millard Fillmore, di...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

An Incident of the Rebel Retreat from Bowling Green

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The Louisville Journal says:   When General John Cabal Breckinridge started in retreat from Bowling Green, the Cavalry, under B. H. Helm wa...