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Showing posts with label Patronage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patronage. Show all posts
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, December 13, 1865

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The Radicals have been busy. They are feeling their way now. The President has been deceived, I think, in some persons in whom he has confid...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Joseph J. Lewis to Abraham Lincoln, January 9, 1861

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West Chester Pa: Jany: 9. 1861 Dear Sir Nothing short of considerations of imperative duty could induce me to trouble you with a lett...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, September 4, 1862

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Camp Near Washington, September 4, 1862. My dear sister: I received your two last letters yesterday. Just as I had finished my last...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, December 8, 1860

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Private & Confidential Springfield Ill. Dec. 8 th , 1860 My dear Sir: In addition to the accompanying, and more formal note, ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 24, 1861

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Congress passed, in secret session, a resolution to remove the seat of government to Richmond; but I learn it has been vetoed by the Presid...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, August 19, 1861

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August 19, '61. I say these things looking squarely at what is possible, looking at what we shall be willing to do, not what we oug...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Capt. Theodore McMurtrie to Corydone E. Fuller, December 10, 1864

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Provost Marshal General’s Office, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10, 1864 Corydon E. Fuller, Esq., Rochester, Indiana: ...