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Showing posts with label John E Wool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John E Wool. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Robert Selden Garnett

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Son of Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.), born in Essex county, Virginia; graduated from United States Military Academy, in 1841, as second lieu...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Release of Rebel Prisoners

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The Secretary of War has, it is stated issued an order stopping the release or parole of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson.   It is known tha...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Assistant Adjutant General Edward D. Townsend to Major-General John Wool, April 28, 1861

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Washington, D. C ., April 28,1861. General , — The General-in-Chief directs me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25th instan...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Governor John A. Andrew to Major-General John Wool, April 30, 1861

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April 30,1861. . . . I understand N. H. regiment is simply waiting for orders to move. Vt. is waiting by reason of some hitch merely — ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Commandant Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, Monday, October 28, 1861 – 2 p.m.

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Confidential Wabash H Roads         Monday, 2 P.M. 28th Oct. My Dear Sir The very rough weather continued until eleven today, the...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Commandant Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, October 8, 1861

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Astor House, N.Y. Oct. 8, 61. Dear Mr. Fox I answered yr telegraph in some haste last evening and write to say that ten days from the...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Lieutenant-Colonel William T. Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 28, 1863

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Headquarters Del. Dept. Wilmington, Del., July 28th, 1863. My dear Mother: That I have not written you more punctually, the enclos...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862

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Washington, April 9. 1862 Major-General McClellan. My Dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, ...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Simon Cameron to Major-General John E. Wool, September 20, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 20 , 1861 .   Maj. Gen. JOHN E. WOOL, Commanding, Fort Monroe, Va.: GENERAL: Your communicati...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 15, 1863

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Certain persons in Boston have an innate conviction that they can improve the administration of the Navy Department. They are never united ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: November 12, 1862

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Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, July 16, 1863

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It is represented that the mob in New York is about subdued. Why it was permitted to continue so long and commit such excess has not been e...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, June 27, 1863

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A telegram last night informed me of the death of Admiral Foote. The information of the last few days made it a not unexpected event, yet t...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, September 4, 1862

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A cheerful bright morning and a sound sleep dispels the gloom resting on my views of the future. During the night a courier came to my tent...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Abraham Lincoln, November 9, 1861

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PRIVATE. H’d Q’rs Dep't of New England, BosTON , Nov. 9th, 1861 MY DEAR SIR: Gen. Wool has resigned. Gen. Fremont must. Gen. Sc...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Diary of John Hay: November 8, 1861

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Here is a cheeky letter just received. MY DEAR SIR: Gen'l Wool has resigned. Gen'l Fr é mont must. Gen'l Scott has re...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Congressman Galusha A. Grow to Simon Cameron, May 5, 1861

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GLENWOOD, May 5 , 1861 . Hon. S. CAMERON: MY DEAR SIR: Reached home last night by way of New York. You have no conception of the dep...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Tuesday, September 16, 1862

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Bannister at Breakfast. Went to Department, and from Department with Deputation of Friends from Mt. Pleasant, O., and Wilmington, Del., to ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: January 20, 1862

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Westwood, Hanover County . — I pass over the sad leave-taking of our kind friends in Clarke and Winchester. It was very sad, because we kne...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Diary of Charles H. Lynch: Sunday, August 24, 1862

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It was after eight o'clock last night before the train got under way. At midnight we passed through Harrisburg, Penn. The night very da...