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Showing posts with label Quotas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotas. Show all posts
Saturday, March 11, 2023

S. A. Smith to William T. Sherman, April 24, 1864

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ALEXANDRIA, April 24, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your very welcome letter announcing your determination to settle in St. Louis....
Monday, May 18, 2020

Lincoln’s Call for 500,000 Troops: July 18, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and six...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 29, 1863

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Seward was not at the meeting of the Cabinet. Chase avoids coming in these days. Blair is ill. There has been some vicious legislation in C...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for Other Purposes,” Approved March Third, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-three, February 24, 1864

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the U...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

An Act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the National Forces, and for other Purposes, July 4, 1864

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the T...

Abraham Lincoln’s General Orders, No. 232, July 19, 1864

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GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 232. WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,           Washington, July 19, 1864. For five hundred thousand vol...

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Samuel Cony, August 11, 1864

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, August 11 , 1864 . His Excellency SAMUEL CONY, Governor of Maine, Augusta, Me.: SIR: Y...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, September 11, 1864 – 7:55 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, September 11, 1864 — 7.55 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: It is not designed by this department to delay the draft a sing...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Major-General John A. Dix to the Citizens of New York, August 17, 1863

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Head-quarters, Department of the East, New York City, August 17, 1863. To the Citizens of New York: The draft of men in this city t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, August 12, 1863

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Centreville , Aug. 12, '63. I am very sorry that the conscription is being made such a farce — somebody must be neglecting his duty...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: April 29, 1862

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A grand smash, the news from New Orleans fatal to us. Met Mr. Weston. He wanted to know where he could find a place of safety for two hundr...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 24, 1864

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It is praise not to be pitched into by the Great Peppery: and he is very kind to me. To be sure, I watch him, as one would a big trout on a...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 18, 1861 – Night

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The day was passed delightfully; the Bishop, his son, and daughter-in-law, all so kind, hospitable and agreeable. It amused me to see with ...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 6 1864

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HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENN., April 6, 1864. Dear Brother: .       .        .       .       ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Our Quota

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The State Register of Friday last has the following on this subject: “Adjutant General Baker has kindly furnished us with some explanatory l...