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Showing posts with label Mexican War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexican War. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, March 7, 1848

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Washington 7th March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The last Steamer brought a letter from Anna to me, the only one received by it. I am happy to learn...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, March 22, 1848

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Washington 22d March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The Cambria brought us the intelligence of the Revolution in Paris, the overthrow of the late dynas...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 1, 1848

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Washington 1st April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, I am very happy to learn by your's and Anna's letters by the Caledonia, that you were all w...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 13, 1848

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Washington 13th April 1848. MY DEAR SIR, I was disappointed in not receiving any letter by the Hibernia from Brussels. Since I wrote you...

Senator John C. Calhoun to James Edward Calhoun, April 15, 1848

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Washington 15th April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, Your letter indicates much and mature reflection on the character and tendency of the present grea...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Andrew Pickens Calhoun, April 16, 1848

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Washington 16th April 1848 MY DEAR ANDREW, Everything here is in a state of uncertainty, in reference to the Presidential election. The pa...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Committee of Invitation to the 1st Mississippi Rifles, May 31, 1847

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To the First Mississippi Regiment: The undersigned, a committee, appointed at a meeting of the citizens of the city of Natchez and county ...

Jefferson Davis to the Committee of Invitation, June 11, 1847

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New Orleans, June 11th, 1847. Gentlemen,—From the hands of R. M. Gaines, Esq., I had the honor to receive your invitation to the 1st Missi...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 3, 1886

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ST. LOUIS, April 3, 1886. Dear Brother: . . . I shall go to California to be in San Francisco August 3d-5th for the Encampment of the G. A...

Senator John Sherman to General William T. Sherman, April 6, 1886

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SENATE CHAMBER,           WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 1886. Dear Brother: Yours of the 3d is received. The speech of Mr. Corwin, to which ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Daniel Webster to a Committee of Gentlemen from New York, October 1850

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[Franklin, N. H., October 1850] I concur, gentlemen, in all the political principles contained in the resolutions, a copy of which has bee...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Reception in honor of the First Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, War with Mexico at Natchez, Mississippi, June 15, 1847.

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(From Natchez Weekly Courier, June 16, 1847.) Yesterday was a day which will long be remembered in our annals—a glorious day, alternately ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Colonel Jefferson Davis to C. S. Tarpley and others, May 7, 1847

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(From Vicksburg Weekly Whig , June 9, 1847.) Monterey, May 7, 1847. Gentlemen—Your letter of the 5th ult., conveying the resolutions of ...

Governor Albert G. Brown to Colonel Jefferson Davis, May 17, 1847

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(From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Letter Book of Governor Brown.) Executive Chamber Jackson Mi 17 May 1847 Col Jef...

James K. Polk* to Jefferson Davis, May 19, 1847

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(From Vicksburg Weekly Whig , October 20, 1847.) Washington City, May 19, 1847. My Dear Sir:—The Secretary of War will transmit to you, ...

Brigadier-General Jefferson Davis to John M. Chilton and others, June 11, 1847

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(From Vicksburg Weekly Whig , June 16, 1847.) New Orleans, 11th June, 1847. Gentlemen—Your letter of the 31st of May, conveying in the m...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, September 25, 1850

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Poor, dear Miss Dix! Her bill has failed this morning in the House; or, at least, it has been referred to the Committee of the Whole on the ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Senator Daniel S. Dickinson to Henry Orr, September 13, 1853

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BINGHAMTON, N. Y., September 13, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—I have this moment received your favor of the 10th, calling my attention to a communica...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Colonel Jefferson Davis’ Memoranda of the Transactions in Connexion with the Capitulation of Monterey, Capital of Nueva Leon, Mexico, October 7, 1846

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By invitation of General Ampudia, commanding the Mexican army, General Taylor accompanied by a number of his officers, proceeded on the 24th...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Lecture of Wendell Phillips: “The Lesson of the Hour,” Delivered at Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday Evening, November 1, 1859

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...