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Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Senator John Sherman to Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, August 9, 1867

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MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 9, 1867. Dear Brother : . . . It is now becoming extremely important to know precisely what Grant wants in connectio...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Major-General George B. Crittenden to Samuel Cooper, December 6, 1861

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KNOXVILLE, December 6, 1861. ADJUTANT-GENERAL C. S. ARMY: Will you please send me, without delay, the ten regiments promised by the Presid...
Friday, February 3, 2023

William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 27, 1861

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SEMINARY, January  27 , 1861. . . . Since my last I have three letters from you. . . The mails have been much disordered by a break on the...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Colonel John P. Murray to Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer, October 22, 1862

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CAMP RED SULPHUR, October 22, 1861. General F. K. ZOLLICOFFER: DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of yours of 16th instant. I am much pleased to le...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Leroy P. Walker to Major-General Leonidas Polk, September 4, 1861

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RICHMOND, September 4, 1861. General POLK, Memphis, Tenn.: News has reached here that General Pillow has landed his troops at Hickman, Ky....

Samuel Cooper to Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer, September 14, 1861

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RICHMOND, September 14, 1861. General ZOLLICOFFER, Knoxville, Tenn.: Your letter of 10th received.* The military considerations clearly i...

Gustavus A. Henry to Jefferson Davis, September 15, 1861

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CLARKSVILLE, September 15, 1861. His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, Richmond, Va.: I am just from Nashville, where some dissatisfaction pre...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 17, 1864

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Bright, clear, and pleasant; frosty in the morning. Letters from Lieut.-Gen. Hood to the President, Gen Bragg, and the Secretary of War, g...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: January 19, 1862

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This morning we receive orders to pack up and move back to Fort Holt. We cross the creek on an old flat-boat bridge. The roads are terrible....
Friday, October 25, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, February 7, 1862

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SAINT Louis , February 7 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. D.C. BUELL, Louisville, Ky.: GENERAL: My telegrams of to-day are so full that I have v...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 4, 1862

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Head-Quarters, Camp of Instruction, Benton Barracks, (near St. Louis, Mo.,) Jan. 4, 1862 Dear Brother, I am so sensible now to my...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Murat Halstead to Salmon P. Chase, April 1, 1863

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Copy. Cincinnati, Apl. 1st., 1863. Gov. Chase You do once in a while, don't you, say a word to the President, or Stanton, or Ha...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to Judge Milton Sutliff,* May 1, 1861

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Private. Treasury Department,           May 1, 1861. My Dear Judge : I thank you for your letter. The response of the States to the ...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: August 6, 1863

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Camp White, Charleston, West Virginia , August 6, 1863. Dear Uncle : — I received yours of the first yesterday morning. Lucy writes tha...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 1, 1863

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Another letter from Gen. Whiting, urging the government by every consideration, and with all the ingenuity and eloquence of language at his...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, July 19, 1852

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Washington City , July 19, 1852 . My Dear Sir , I say as usual, “ditto to Mr. Burke.” The ideas of your letter are my own. I fear more ...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens: In the United States House of Representatives, July 5, 1862

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I am no sycophant, no parasite. What I think I say. These acts have been perpetrated over and over again by our generals, and without rebuk...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Trial of Edmund J. Ellis, editor, for violating the laws of war by publishing intelligence to the enemy, etc., February 25, 1862

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COLUMBIA, Mo., Tuesday, February 25 , 1862 . The commission proceeded to the trial of Edmund J. Ellis, a citizen of Boone County, Mo.,...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 27, 1863

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Nothing but disasters to chronicle now. Natchez and Yazoo City, all gone the way of Vicksburg, involving a heavy loss of boats, guns, and o...
Friday, September 15, 2017

The Confederate Sequestration Act, August 30, 1861

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AN ACT for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate S...