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Showing posts with label Pardons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pardons. Show all posts
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Guy M. Bryan, November 9, 1868

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WASHINGTON, November 9, 1868. DEAR GUY:—I came here last night chiefly to attend to your cause. The President has just given me an order f...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

General Robert E. Lee’s General Orders No. 2, February 11, 1865

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 2.} HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE CONFD. STATES,           February 11 , 1865 . In entering upon the campaign about to open, the...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 13, 1865

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Coldest morning of the winter. My exposure to the cold wind yesterday, when returning from the department, caused an attack of indigestion...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Abraham Lincoln’s 4th Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864

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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Again the blessings of health and abundant harvests claim our pro-roundest gra...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, January 5, 1866

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I submitted the two cases, one of Judge Wayne for money due his granddaughter, and one of Mallory for a cylinder, to the Cabinet. The partie...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, December 21, 1865

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Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, sent me a note this evening, stating that a pardon had been proposed for Pasco, recently conv...

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 23, 1865

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R. J. Meigs called on me by request of the President in relation to Captain Meade, who is under suspension, having been convicted and senten...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 11, 1865

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The question of the Indian war on the Plains was again brought forward. No one, it appears, has any knowledge on the question. The Secretary...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Guy M. Bryan, February 15, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., February 15, 1866. DEAR GUY:— Enclosed you will find Stephen's papers. The reason I didn't write again [was tha...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 10, 1864

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A white frost ; first frost of the season. All quiet below. Gen. W. M. Gardner (in Gen. Winder's place) reports that of the exempts a...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 8, 1864

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Bright and cool; subsequently cloudy and warm. Dispatches from Gen. Hood (Sept 7th) state—1st dispatch: that Sherman still holds his works...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, June 20, 1865

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Mr. Seward was absent from the Cabinet-meeting. All others were present. The meetings are better and more punctually attended than under Mr....
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 24, 1864

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Called on the President to commute the punishment of a person condemned to be hung. He at once assented. Is always disposed to mitigate puni...
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, October 13, 1864

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The President is greatly importuned and pressed by cunning intrigues just at this time. Thurlow Weed and Raymond are abusing his confidence ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, December 8, 1863

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By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States it is pro...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 22, 1863

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Mr. Chase called and took me this evening for a two hours' ride. We went past Kalorama north, crossed Rock Creek near the Stone Mill, t...