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Showing posts with label Saltworks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saltworks. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 18, 1864

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Raining. The old dull sound of bombs down the river. Nothing further from Savannah. It is now believed that the raiders in Western Virgini...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Enabling Act For Missouri, March 6, 1820

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[SIXTEENTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.] An Act to authorize the people of Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, an...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 25, 1864

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The breach seems to widen between the President and Congress, especially the Senate. A majority of the Committee on Military Affairs have r...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, January 15, 1863

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(Private) New Orleans , January 15th, 1863. Dear Sir : A fight is progressing on Bayou Teche. Gen. Weitzel commands. He crossed Berwi...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 15, 1863

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Gov. Vance writes that he has reliable information that the 30,000 troops in New York, ostensibly to enforce the draft, are intended for a ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 5, 1863

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Camp White , April 5, 1863. Dearest : — The weather is good, our camp dry, and everybody happy. Joe has got a sail rigged on his large ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 10, 1862

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Camp Green Meadows , August 10, 1862. Dearest Lute : — All your names are sweet. “Lu” is good; I always think of the girls at Platt’s s...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 9, 1862

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It is too true that Charleston, Va., and the great Kanawha salt works have been abandoned by Gen. Echols for the want of an adequate force ...