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Showing posts with label Robert Barnwell Rhett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Barnwell Rhett. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Proceedings of Congress.

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Congress sat yesterday with open doors, devoting their entire session to suitable tributes to the virtues and services of their late fellow-...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Isaac E. Holmes to Senator Andrew P. Butler,* March 17, 1856

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CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 17th March, 1856 . MY DEAR BUTLER: I have rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and speech. The best speech you have made and y[ou...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, December 3, 1860

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The news brought by the steamer from America is exciting. The political storm rages fiercely in the South, taking a reckless direction for s...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Senator Jefferson Davis to Robert Barnwell Rhett, Jr., November 10, 1860

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Warren County, M issi ., Nov. 10, 1860. Dear Sir:—I had the honor to receive, last night, yours of the 27th ulto., and hasten to reply...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, February 1851

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Washington City , Feb. 1851. My Dear Sir , I am in debt to you, but not absolutely insolvent. I have taken to be sure rather an unreaso...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: August 13, 1861

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Hon. Robert Barnwell says, “The Mercury's influence began this opposition to Jeff Davis before he had time to do wrong. They were offen...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: February 19, 1861

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MONTGOMERY, Ala., – The brand-new Confederacy is making or remodeling its Constitution. Everybody wants Mr. Davis to be General-in-Chief or...