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Showing posts with label Joshua R Giddings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joshua R Giddings. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann to E. W. Clapp, February 6, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1850. E. W. CLAP, Esq. MY DEAR SIR, . . . You must be entirely mistaken in your speculations. The Free-soil party, wit...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann, January 7, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1850. Mr. A. has infinitely slender cause to praise Mr. Cobb for putting Mr. Giddings on the Committee on Territories,...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

John H. McHenry* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, February 21, 1850

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HARTFORD, KY., 21st February, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: Perhaps you may almost have forgotten the individual who now addresses you, and who retai...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: December 1, 1865

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It is some weeks since I have had time to write a word in this diary. In the mean time many things have happened which I desired to note but...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 25, 1863

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February 25, 1863. This afternoon our regiment was reviewed by Gen. Saxton in the presence of Gen. Hunter. The staff and body guards of th...
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...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

William Preston Smith to Andrew Hunter, October 25,1859

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Baltimore, Oct. 25, 1859. A. Hunter, Esq.:           Attorney-at-Law, &c.,                     Charlestown, Va. Sir:—At the request of ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to William M. McPherson, Esq., March 24, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISISIPPI, IN THE FIELD                    GOLDSBORO, N. C., March 24, 1865 DEAR SIR:—On reach...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

George Fries* to Howell Cobb, September 4, 1848

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Hanoverton, Ohio , Sept. 4th '48. My Dear Sir : When we parted at Washington I promised to write as soon as I had looked over the w...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Senator Charles Sumner, December 28, 1851

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South Boston , Dec. 28, 1851. My dear Sumner : — I received to-day the revised copy of your speech, and thank you for it. It is a beaut...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Hopkins Holsey to Howell Cobb, December 31, 1847

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Athens, Ga. , Dec. 31st, 1847. Dr. Sir : I avail myself of a leisure moment to reply to your communication of the 1 ——. Your favor in ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, October 29, 1859

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Steamer L. M. Kennett [at Cairo], Saturday, Oct. 29, 1859. . . . Should my health utterly fail me or abolition drive me and all modera...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

John Brown's Interview with Senator James M. Mason, Congressman Clement L Vallandigham, and Others, October 19, 1859

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Senator Mason. Can you tell us who furnished money for your expedition? John Brown. I furnished most of it myself; I cannot implicate ot...