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Showing posts with label Lord Lyons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord Lyons. Show all posts
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Diary of George Templeton Strong, Saturday, October 13, 1860

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From any more princes of the blood, libera nos Domine. May this nice-looking, modest boy find his way home, or at least to our boundaries, w...

Diary of George Templeton Strong, October 14, 1860

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Laus Deo , this day is over, and the services at Trinity Church were marked by no gross indecency. It was a cold, gray, bleak morning. The...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Diary of Henry Greville, January 7, 1862

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The general tone of the correspondence brought by the 'Europa' to-day is less pacific than was received by the last mail. No answer ...

Diary of Henry Greville, Thursday, January 9, 1862

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Last night, John Bidwell, who dined with me, brought the news of the surrender of Mason and Slidell, which had reached the Foreign Office at...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski: June 1861

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THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski, April 1861

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COMMISSIONERS from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, w...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 22, 1861

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Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 18, 1864

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A flag of truce boat came up, but no one on board was authorized to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners but Gen. Butler, outlawed. It re...
Friday, May 29, 2020

William H. Seward to Reverdy Johnson, June 10, 1862

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,              Washington, June 10 , 1862 . REVERDY JOHNSON, Esq.: SIR: You are aware that complaints have been m...

George Coppell to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 13, 1862

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BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 13 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of t...

Department of State Memorandum, May 30, 1862

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,           May 30 , 1862 . MEMORANDUM.] Lord Lyons called to-day upon Mr. Seward and said, as perhaps was not e...

Department of State Memorandum, May 31, 1862

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,              Washington, May 31 , 1862 . MEMORANDUM.] Mr. Mercier called upon Mr. Seward informally to speak of...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Edwin M. Stanton to Colonel George F. Shepley, June 10, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT,                      Washington City, D.C., June 10, 1862. Col. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY, New Orleans: DEAR SIR: I have ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 31, 1864

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No special matters in Cabinet. Mr. Seward sent me on Saturday a correspondence between himself and Lord Lyons and the Treasury Department r...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 21, 1861

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Punctual to time, our carriage appeared at the door, with a spare horse, followed by the black quadruped on which the negro boy sat with di...