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Showing posts with label John J Key. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John J Key. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, March 3, 1865 – 12 p.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           March 3, 1865 — 12 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: I send you a telegram written by the President himself ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Diary of John Hay: Sunday, September 25, 1864

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Yesterday Nicolay who has been several days in New York telegraphed to the President that Thurlow Weed had gone to Canada, and asking if he...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, October 18, 1862

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The ravages by the roving steamer 290, alias Alabama, are enormous. England should be held accountable for these outrages. The vessel was b...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, September 30, 1862

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Little of importance at the Cabinet-meeting. The President laid before us the address of the loyal Governors who lately met at Altoona. Its...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, September 24, 1862

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Secretary Smith called this morning. Said he had just had an interview with Judge-Advocate Turner, who related a conversation which had ta...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Abraham Lincoln’s Memorandum on the Dismissal of Major John J. Key, October 14, 1862

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We have reason to believe that the following is an exact copy of the record upon which Major John J. Key was dismissed from the military se...

Abraham Lincoln to Major John J. Key, September 26, 1862

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Executive Mansion Washington, Sept. 26. 1862. Major John J. Key Sir: I am informed that in answer to the question “Why was not ...