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Showing posts with label John C. Fremont. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John C. Fremont. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2020

Deacon Smith Against Lincoln.

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Richard Smith, Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, gave the movement his enthusiastic adhesion, as the following extract from a letter dated A...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, June 1, 1864

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Called on the President relative to the appointment of midshipmen. After looking over the list with some care, he finally designated two so...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Captain Chauncey McKeever to Major-General John C. Frémont, November 9, 1861

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CINCINNATI, November 9 , 1861 . Major-General FRÉMONT: General Grant did not follow his instructions. No orders were given to attack...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Details of the Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry. Incidents, &c., February 10, 1862

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The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial’s Cairo correspondence give the following account of the bombardment and capture of Fort Henry: ...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Gerrit Smith to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, June 6, 1864

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PETERBORO, June 6, 1864. MRs. E. CADY STANTON , New-York: MY DEAR Cousin : I have your letter. It would be too great labor to answer ...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to a Member of the Dabney Family, October 9, 1856

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Steamboat Cataract aground on a bank in the Missouri River October 9, 1856 I know you would enjoy going to Kansas, for it is as gen...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Gerrit Smith’s Speech on the Fort Pillow and Plymouth Massacres: Peterboro, Massachusetts, April 26, 1864.

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The whole civilized world will be startled and horrified by this slaughter of probably not less than five or six hundred persons. The excus...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 9, 1861

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Late last night the President told General Scott to send Captain Taylor back to the Confederate lines, and he was accordingly escorted to A...
Monday, December 17, 2018

William Coffee Daniell* to Howell Cobb, June 20, 1848

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Near Gainesville [ga.] , 20th June, 1848. My Dear Sir : If the Report of Fremont's last exploration has been printed and you have a...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 15, 1864

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Mr. Sedgwick on Friday wished a pass to visit Stover, the convict in Fort Lafayette, and would get from him statements that would open frau...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to George William Curtis, January 23, 1857

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Do you remember, on your last visit to Worcester, that I said that there was but one thing wanting to your position — that you should becom...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 17, 1863

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Camp White , May 17, 1863. Dearest :— Things look well for quiet in our vicinity for a time to come. We have had a good deal of excitem...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, November 1862

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Near Rectorville, Va. November, 1862. My dear Mother: I received your half reproachful letter last night just after I had gone to b...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Horace Barnard, September 28, 1862

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79th Regiment, Near Antietam Creek, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Horace: Here we are, still resting at the mouth of this muddy littl...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, January 15, 1851

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Washington City , Jany 15, 1851. My Dear Sir , Why have you not written me these many days? I believe you are my debtor, but I shall st...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John C. Frémont, May 24, 1862 – 9:45 a.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 9 . 45 a.m. Major-General FR é MONT,   Franklin: Yesterday the enemy attacked and drove Banks'...