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Showing posts with label John Slidell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Slidell. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, December 4, 1884

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ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 4, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . We have several posts of the Grand Army here, one of which, Frank Blair Post No 1, invit...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Monday, October 28, 1861

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Commenced to build a stable for horses, three hundred feet long. Captain Bess, our chief of artillery. Our battery remained at Muddy Branch ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 17, 1861

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Mr. Reuter sends me a telegram from Queenstown of the American news. 1. The conference invited by Virginia met on the 4th, and re-assembled ...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Braxton Bragg to William T. Sherman, October 25, 1860

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AT HOME, near Thibodeaux, La., October 25, 1860. MY DEAR SHERMAN: It is long since we last communed, but both of us have been travelers, a...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Investigation Of The Sumner Assault — published May 28, 1856

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We find the following in the Baltimore Papers. With regard the Sumner’s statement, we may remark that it disagrees, in important particulars...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 23, 1863

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Nothing of moment from the armies, although great events are anticipated, soon. On Saturday, Gen. Winder's or Major Griswold's ...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Gerrit Smith: The News From England, January 3, 1862

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Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

John M. Forbes, writing from London, after June 9, 1863

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Among my London acquaintances was Mr. Edward Ellis, a member of Parliament himself, and, I think, with one or two sons also in that body. H...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Diary of Edward Bates: November 27, 1861

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And now (Nov 27) Count Gurouski 65 tells me   that Prentice 66 has come out, in bitter denunciation of Cameron — in   shape of a Washingt...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Samuel L. M. Barlow [Extract], January 7, 1862

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From the day you left here until the present time there has been no improvement in public affairs, save General McClellan's accession t...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Joseph Holt & Isaac Toucey to James Glynn et al, January 29, 1861

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WASHINGTON, January 29 , 1861 . To JAMES GLYNN, commanding the Macedonian; Capt. W. S. WALKER, commanding the Brooklyn, and other nav...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 12, 1863

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We have information that Stonewall Jackson, one of the best generals in the Rebel, and, in some respects, perhaps in either, service, is de...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 23, 1863

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The Northern papers are filled with what purports to be the intercepted correspondence of Mr. Benjamin with Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Lord...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 28, 1861

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On dropping in at the Consulate to-day, I found the skippers of several English vessels who are anxious to clear out, lest they be detained...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 25, 1861

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Virginia has indeed been invaded by the Federals. Alexandria has been seized. It is impossible to describe the excitement and rage of the p...