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Showing posts with label Peace Conferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peace Conferences. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 11, 1865

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Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 19, 1864

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Much pressed with duties. A pleasant hour at the Cabinet, but no special subject. Fessenden still absent. Stanton did not attend. Blair inqu...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, July 22, 1864

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At the Cabinet-meeting the President read his correspondence with Horace Greeley on the subject of peace propositions from George Saunders a...
Friday, May 15, 2020

The N. Y. World on the Peace Plotters.

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The Copperhead press out west bloviated in favor of peace, and, and endorsed the Peace Commissioners and the peace programme of the loafin...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

A New Sensation—Talk of Peace—Unofficial Commissioners to Richmond—Unofficial Rebel Commissioners—The War to be Carried on for Abolition Purposes Only.

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WASHINGTON, July 21, 1864. Editors of the Enquirer: Since I closed my letter at noon, a new sensation has appeared on the political bo...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, February 1, 1865 – 10:30 p.m.

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CITY POINT, VA., February 1, 1865 — 10.30 p.m. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Now that the interview between Major Ecker...

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, February 4, 1865 – 12:20 p.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, February 4, 1865 — 12.20 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT, City Point, Va.: The President desi...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Diary of John Hay: about July 21, 1864

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. . . . Got in to New York at 6 o'clock the 16th, Saturday, and, while I was washing my face, came up Greeley’s card. I went down to th...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

In The Review Queue: The Peace That Almost Was

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The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War B...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, March 2, 1861

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I doubt if we have any news. No other paper than ours had the final report of the Peace Conference. That august body seems to have done its...