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Showing posts with label Joseph G Totten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph G Totten. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, May 20, 1863

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Admiral Lee has been here for two or three days consulting in regard to Wilmington. The blockade of Cape Fear is difficult and gives infini...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Captain John G. Foster to Brevet Brigadier-General Joseph G. Totten, April 8, 1861

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Fort Sumter, S. C. April 8, 1861. General Joseph G. Totten , Chief Engineer U. S. Army, Washington, D. C: General : The increased ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Colonel Joseph G. Totten to Simon Cameron, April 3, 1861

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WASHINGTON, April 3 , 1861 . To the SECRETARY OF WAR: Under the strongest convictions on some military questions upon which great p...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott's Memoranda for the Secretary of War, March 15, 1861

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It seems from the opinions of the Army officers who have expressed themselves on the subject – all within Fort Sumter, together with Genera...

Memorandum of Different Plans for Re-Enforcing Fort Sumter

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Memoranda read before the President and Cabinet, General Scott and Commodore Stringham, and Mr. Fox, late of the Navy, Washington, March 15...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Caleb B. Smith to Abraham Lincoln, March 16, 1861

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Department of the Interior March 16, 1861, President United States Sir. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your not...

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Abraham Lincoln, March 12, 1861

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The President has done me the honor to propose certain military questions, concerning Fort Sumter to which he desires replies. “1st.” T...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Simon Cameron to Abraham Lincoln, March 16, 1861

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War Department March 16th 1861 Sir, In reply to the letter of inquiry , addressed to me by the President, whether “assuming it to b...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Captain John G. Foster to Brevet Brigadier-General Joseph G. Totten, March 31, 1861

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Fort Sumter , S. C, March 31, 1861. General Jos. G. Totten, Chief Engineer United States Army, Washington, D. C.: General: Yesterda...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Captain John G. Foster to Brevet Brigadier-General Joseph G. Totten, March 6, 1861

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Fort Sumter, S. C , March 6, 1861. General : I have the honor to report that during the day, and especially towards night, unusual ac...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 7, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, March 7, 1863. Before this reaches you, you will have seen Alexander Coxe, who left this morning for hom...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

From Washington

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WASHINGTON, March 16. From contrabands who have acted as teamsters for the rebels, it is ascertained that the main body of the rebels have ...