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Showing posts with label Lincoln's Calls For Troops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln's Calls For Troops. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2024

Abraham Lincoln’s Call for 300,000 Men, July 1, 1862

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EXECUTIVE MANSION,           Washington, July 1 , 1862 . To the Governors of Maine,   New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, New J...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 15, 1864

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Fair and cold; ice. Quiet below; rumors of further successes in the Southwest, but not official. Congress did nothing of interest yesterda...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: July 1862

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The President has called for 300,000 more brave men to fill up the ranks of the fallen. We hear every day of more friends and acquaintances ...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Lincoln’s Call for 500,000 Troops: July 18, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and six...

Lincoln’s Call for 300,000 Troops, December 19, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. (Calling for 300,000 volunteers.) Whereas, by the act approve...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Ulysses S. Grant to Frederick Dent, April 19, 1862

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Galena , April 19, 1S61. Mr. F. Dent— Dear Sir: I have but very little time to write, but, as in these exciting times we are very...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: Milford, Mass., Sept. 6, 1861.

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THE BEGINNING. Pursuant to a call from President Lincoln for more troops in suppression of the great rebellion, a regiment is now being...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 8, 1861

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I hired a horse at a livery stable, and rode out to Arlington Heights, at the other side of the Potomac, where the Federal army is encampe...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 20, 1864

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Scottsboro, Ala., March 20, 1864. What under the sun can I tell you that will interest you. That it is intolerably dull, bah! Have just...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Abraham Lincoln’s General Orders, No. 232, July 19, 1864

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GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 232. WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,           Washington, July 19, 1864. For five hundred thousand vol...

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Samuel Cony, August 11, 1864

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, August 11 , 1864 . His Excellency SAMUEL CONY, Governor of Maine, Augusta, Me.: SIR: Y...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 12, 1863

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The departments and all places of business are still closed in honor of Gen. Jackson, whose funeral will take place to-day. The remains wil...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 9, 1863

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The papers contain the following order from Gen. Lee: “headquarters Army Northern Virginia, “May 7th, 1803. “general Orders No. 5...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, August 5, 1862

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August 5th, 1862. Old Abe has called out 300,000 men by draft, and has informed us that if the 300,000 volunteers do not appear by the ...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, May 3, 1861

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas existing exigencies demand immediate and adequate measure...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Diary of Charles H. Lynch: Saturday, August 23, 1862

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Very little sleep on board the boat last night. Passing around New York the boat landed at Pier No. 2, North River, at about 6 A. M. The tr...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Special to New York Papers

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(Herald’s Dispatch.) WASHINGTON, May 21. – The President has decided that 50,000 more volunteers shall be accepted.   This is to fill...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

The Rebellion

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Very few persons had a correct idea of the proportions the rebellion would assume, when South Carolina first declared her intention of thro...