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Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2016

Diary of John Hay: April 26, 1861

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Massachusetts and Rhode Island troops in large numbers arrived to-day. . . . I called on Sprague, the Governor of Rhode Island, with Nicola...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Diary of John Hay: April 24, 1861

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. . . . This has been a day of gloom and doubt. Everybody seems filled with a vague distrust and recklessness. The idea seemed to be reache...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Diary of John Hay: Sunday, April 21, 1861

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This morning came a penitent and suppliant crowd of conditional secessionists from Baltimore, who, having sowed the wind, seem to have no p...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron (Copy), June 11, 1861

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I have just enclosed to you the recommendation of Gov. Sprague that Gen. James B. M. Potter be appointed a Paymaster. Immediately afterward...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Massachusetts Kansas Committee to Governor James W. Grimes, December 20, 1856

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State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston , Dec. 20, 1856. Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 16th has been received, and we are glad to ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Providence, R. I., May 14 [1862].

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Jabez C. Knight was re-elected Mayor without opposition.   The other Republican officers on the ticket with him were also chosen. – Pub...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Senatorial Election

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PROVIDENCE, May 28 – Gov. Wm. Sprague was to-day elected U. S. Senator for six years, from the 4 th of March next, when the term of Senator...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Providence, R.I., Feb. 28 [1862]

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The Constitutional Union Convention of Rhode Island assembled yesterday, and remominated Gov. Sprague and other State officers. – Published...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Municipal Election

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PROVIDENCE, May 14. – Jabez C. Knight was elected Mayor to-day without opposition.   The other Republican officers on the ticket were also c...