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Showing posts with label Joseph Lane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Lane. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2026

Diary of George Templeton Strong, September 14, 1860

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Went with George Anthon and Walter Cutting to the opera. Heard three acts of Martha in the Cutting box. Patti and Brignoli did fairly. Hous...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, July 22, 1860

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VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

John Tyler to Henry S. Foote, August 26, 1860

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SHERWOOD FOREST, August 26, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of August 21st was forwarded to me from the summer residence of my family, near...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

William T. Sherman to David F. Boyd, September 16, 1860

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LANCASTER, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I came up from Cincinnati last evening, whither I had gone to prove the sheets of our reg...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Brooks and Wilson—Dueling, Street-Fights, or Personal Abuse, published June 2, 1856

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The New York Courier has the following dispatch: “WASHINGTON, THURSDAY NIGHT. Mr. Brooks, by Mr. Lane of Oregon, sent today a note to Ge...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Mr. Sumner — published May 30, 1856

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WASHINGTON, May 29.—Hon. Mr. Brooks of S. C., sent a challenge to-day to Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, for having, in the Senate, charged...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

William Brimage Bate

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William Brimage Bate, Governor of Tennessee, 1883-1887, was born near Castalian Springs, in Tennessee, October 7 , 1826. His educational adv...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

1860 Presidential Election: The Candidates

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Party Home State Running Mate Abraham Lincoln Republican Illinois Hannibal Hamlin Ste...