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Showing posts with label Revolutionary War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revolutionary War. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Speech of Ralph Waldo Emerson,* Saturday Evening, November 18, 1859

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MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Lewis E. Harvie to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, January 19, 1852

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APPOMATTOX DEPOT, AMELIA CO[UNTY, VA.],           January 19th, 1852 . DEAR HUNTER: I am very solicitous to procure an appointment as Cade...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Botetourt Resolutions, December 10, 1860

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Offered in a large mass meeting of the people of Botetourt county, December 10th, 1860, by the Hon. John J. Allen, President of the Supreme ...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 7, 1864

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Gen. J. E. Johnston dispatches from the West that the meat is so indifferent, the soldiers must have an additional quantity of rice. ...
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...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Last Will and Testament of George Washington, July 9, 1799

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately President of the same, do ma...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 24, 1863

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Nothing from Lee, or Johnston, or Beauregard, or Bragg — but ill luck is fated for them all. Our ladies, at least, would not despair. But a...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor John A. Andrew, May 9, 1861

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Department of Annapolis, Headquarters, ANNAPOLIS, May 9, 1861 To his Excellency, JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief ...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1862 – 9 p.m.

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After a very cold day, it has become intensely frigid. I have two fires in our little Robin's Nest (frame) on the same floor, and yet i...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 3, 1861

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At five o'clock this morning, having been awakened an hour earlier by a wonderful chorus of riotous mocking-birds, my old negro attenda...