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Showing posts with label Napoleon III. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Napoleon III. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 30, 1865

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Bright and beautiful, but quite cold; skating in the basin, etc. The departure of the commissioners has produced much speculation. The e...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Council of New Orleans, May 16, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . To the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Council of N...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Amedée Couturie to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 16, 1862

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NEW ORLEANS, May 16 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Gulf, at New Orleans: SIR: Your offici...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 25, 1863

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We have an unintelligible dispatch from Gen. Bragg, saying he had, yesterday, a prolonged contest with the enemy for the possession of Look...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, November 29, 1862

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(Private) New Orleans , November 29th, 1862. Dear Sir : — I thank you for your kind letter of the 14th inst. Whenever it is deemed ex...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Francis Lieber to Judge Thayer, March 23, 1864

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New York , March 23, 1864. . . . If you will pardon a purely conversational letter, I would take the liberty of asking you whether ther...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

John M. Forbes to Senator William P. Fessenden, February 13, 1862

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Willard's Hotel, Washington, February 13, 1862. Mr. Gray has gone home not very well and rather discouraged. I gave him your mess...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: August 13, 1861

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Hon. Robert Barnwell says, “The Mercury's influence began this opposition to Jeff Davis before he had time to do wrong. They were offen...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Twenty five American trotters . . .

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. . . says the Journal de Havre, have arrived at that port which were purchased for the imperial stables.   Prince Napoleon has selected fi...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

The year 1861 was unlucky to the crowned heads . . .

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. . . as Napoleon truly observed in his New Year’s day speech.   Prussia buried a King, the effete Sultan of Turkey sank into the grave, th...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Possibility of a Civil War in Germany

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From the foreign papers it appears that the condition of affairs throughout the great Germanic Confederation, is, in many respects similar...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

A Democratic Prince – Exciting Scene In The French Senate

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The liberal and even democratic tendencies of the Prince Napoleon are well known, but never has he given his views so unmistakably as in a...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Foreign News

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(CONCLUDED.) The smith laborers in Liverpool were making demonstrations but had been promptly dispersed by the police. The Opinion...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Trouble Brewing in Europe

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If all the ages of the times do not fail, there is a crisis approaching in European affairs, that will require the whole attention of the ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Napoleon, probably suffering an infliction of . . .

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. . . diabetes or perhaps indigestion, has snubbed Queen Victoria, and to balance the account, Lord Palmerston has given Napoleon a pretty s...