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Showing posts with label Missouri River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri River. Show all posts
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to a Member of the Dabney Family, October 9, 1856

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Steamboat Cataract aground on a bank in the Missouri River October 9, 1856 I know you would enjoy going to Kansas, for it is as gen...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

William T. Sherman to George Mason Graham, October 23, 1859

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ST. LOUIS, MO., Sunday, Oct. 23, 1859. Dear SIR: . . . It is absolutely impossible for me to leave here before Thursday of this week,...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: May 17, 1864

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That General Smith was a joker was conceded by everybody, our friends, the enemy, as well as the union army. When we were in Alexandria I w...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 25, 1861

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More accounts of battles and massacres in Missouri and Kansas. I never thought the Yankees would be permitted to ascend the Missouri River....
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Edwin M. Stanton, September 8, 1862 – 12:30 p.m.

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DES MOINES, September 8 , 1862 – 12 . 30 p.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON: I have reliable information that Yankton Indians on our western ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Senator James W. Grimes to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, January 28, 1861

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Washington, January 28, 1861. Your esteemed favor of the 17th inst. has reached me. There appears to be a very great misunderstand...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

John Brown to his Children, May 7, 1855

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Rockford, Winnebago County, Ill ., May 7, 1855. Dear Children , — I am here with my stock of cattle to sell, in order to raise funds so...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Colonel Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, August 3, 1861

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Mexico. Mo., Aug. 3d, 1861. Dear Father: I have written to you once from this place and received no answer, but as Orvil writes t...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 26, 1863

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CAMP BEFORE VICKSBURG, April 26, 1863. My Dear Brother: To-morrow I start with my corps to bring up the rear of the movement agains...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Monday, February 3, 1862

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The captain with eight men went out on a scouting trip to rout some “secesh” from an island in the Missouri river, where they were trying t...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, October 1, 1862

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MEMPHIS, Oct. 1, 1862. Dear Brother: I did not expect you would come if the confederates got possession of Kentucky. Even on the Mi...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, January 4, 1862

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Some of the boys went out today on a ’possum hunt. They were very successful, as this is a good ’possum country, especially over on the ban...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Steamboat Arrivals

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On Sunday last Key West No. 2 passed up the river heavily freighted for the Upper Missouri. Thursday the Spread Eagle arrived on her way to...