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Showing posts with label Recognition of the CSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recognition of the CSA. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 4, 1864

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Clear and pretty cold. We have news of another brilliant affair at Kinston, N. C, where Gen. Pickett has beaten the enemy, killing and woun...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 9, 1863

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The President's message is not regarded with much favor by the croakers. The long complaint against foreign powers for not recognizing ...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

John Bright to John M. Forbes, July 31, 1863

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Rochdale , July 31,1863. My Dear Me. Forbes , — I am glad to hear of your safe arrival, and I rejoice that on your arrival so much good...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

John Bright to John L. Motley, March 9, 1863

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Rochdale, March 9, 1863. My Dear Mr. Motley : I should have written to you sooner, but I have been a week away from town and from hom...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 6, 1863

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Gen. Bragg and others recommend Gen. Hood for promotion to a lieutenant-generalcy; but the President says it is impossible, as the number a...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, July 17, 1863

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At the Cabinet council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of the British Ministry. I see in the papers an intimation that sh...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 24, 1863

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Gen. Longstreet is now in command of Gen. Smith's late department, besides his own corps. Richmond is safe. Our papers contain a...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 30, 1863

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There is a rumor that Kentucky has voted to raise an army of 60,000 men to resist the execution of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. ...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 20, 1863

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The rumor of fighting on the Rappahannock is not confirmed. But Gen. Lee writes that his beeves are so poor the soldiers won't eat the ...
Monday, October 24, 2016

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, November 25, 1862

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Vienna, 20 Favoriten Strasse, Wieden, November 25, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : We jog on here much as usual. We are fortunate in our ...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 19, 1862

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Hon. James A. Seddon (Va.) has been appointed Secretary of War. He is an able man (purely a civilian), and was member of our Revolutionary ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, April 10, 1861

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Department Of State, Washington, April 10, 1861. Sir : Although Great Britain and the United States possess adjacent dominions of lar...
Friday, September 2, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 10, 1862

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A day or two ago some soldiers marched through the city without shoes, in the snow. A committee of citizens to-day obtained an order from ...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 27, 1862

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Jan. 27th. We find all sorts of communication with home fairly cut off. Gen. Sherman has been long planning some expedition against For...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Wednesday, June 17, 1863

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We reached Petersburgh at 3 A.M., and had to get out and traverse this town in carts, after which we had to lie down in the road until some...