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Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

John Tyler to Robert Tyler, September 14, 1860

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VILLA MARGARET, Sept. 14, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: I see the election is gone in Maine, although Douglas confidently calculated on carrying t...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: October 11, 1865

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The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa come in favorable, though the vote and the majorities are reduced from the Presidential electi...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Abraham Lincoln to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 10, 1864 — 2:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, July 10 , 1864 — 2 . 30 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Your dispatch to General Halleck referring to what I may think i...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 14, 1864

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Mr. A. ——, editor of the ——, recommends the Secretary of War to get Congress to pass, in secret session, a resolution looking to a reconstru...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

In The Review Queue: Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania

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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania By Cooper H. Wingert Much like the rest of the nation, South ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Congressman Thomas Henry* to Congressman Robert M. T. Hunter, January 2, 1840

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( Confidential.) Washington City , January 2, 1840. My Dear Sir : My position on the Committees is to me a little mortifying. I do no...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 15, 1864

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July 15, 1864. This is a glorious place. The current in the river is very swift, and it is the nicest stream to bathe in imaginable. I...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

John H. Lumpkin* to Howell Cobb, November 13, 1846

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Rome [ga.], 13th Nov., 1846. Dear Cobb , Your letter of the 10th inst. was received by last night's mail. I agree with you that th...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, July 8, 1863

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Camp White, Charleston, West Virginia , July 8, 1863. Dear Mother: — . . . We received the news of the capture of Vicksburg last nigh...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 1, 1863

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Camp White, West Virginia , July 1, 1863. Dear Uncle : — Lucy and family left here today. They go to Ross County. They will probably vi...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 1, 1863

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Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Senator Charles Sumner to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, January 8, 1863

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SENATE CHAMBER, January 8 , 1863 . [General BUTLER :] DEAR GENERAL: Mr. Stanton assured me last evening that had he known your real ...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Thomas A. Scott, June 10, 1863

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           June 10 , 1863 . THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.: Major-General Couch has accepted command of ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

The Pennsylvania Election.

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Secretary Stanton sent to Col. Forney the following congratulatory letter about the result of the election in Pennsylvania:— WASHINGTON...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Address of the Union State Central Committee

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To the People of Pennsylvania: In the midst of a fierce conflict for the national life – responding to calls for large reinforcements to...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Simon Cameron, June 10, 1863

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WAR DEPARTMENT, June 10 , 1863 . Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg: Major-General Couch has been assigned to the command of the Departm...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Alexander K. McClure to Abraham Lincoln, June 30, 1863 – Received at 11:05 a.m.

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PHILADELPHIA, June 30 , 1863 .      (Received 11 . 05 a.m.) His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States: SIR...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor David Tod, June 15, 1863 – 2 a.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, June 15 , 1863 — 2 a.m. Governor TOD, Columbus, Ohio: Reports received yesterday and last night have rendered it...

Edwin M. Stanton to Simon Cameron, June 15, 1863 – 7:30 p.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, June 15 , 1863 — 7 . 30 p.m. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg: The President has referred your telegram to me for a...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General Darius Couch, June 24, 1863 – 8:55 a.m.

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WASHINGTON, June 24 , 1863 — 8 . 55 a.m. Major-General COUCH, Harrisburg, Pa.: Have you any reports of the enemy moving into Penn...