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Showing posts with label Samuel R. Curtis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel R. Curtis. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, December 2, 1861

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CONFIDENTIAL.] SAINT LOUIS, MO .,  [ December 2 , ] 1861 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commander-in- Chief, Washington, D.C.: ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, August 17, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

The Victory on the Cumberland—The End in Sight

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We have reason to believe, if not the certainty, that Fort Donelson has fallen.   After a struggle, desperate on both sides, and, as far as...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Diary of Edward Bates: Tuesday, October 22, 1861

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Cabinet Council Present all. Capt Cravens 11 U. S. N. commanding Flotilla in the Potomac, reports great progress made by the rebels wit...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: May 11, 1862

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Corinth and Hamburg Road, Miss., May 11, 1862. You remember that in my last I spoke of a reconnoisance our people made on the 8th inst....
Friday, March 10, 2017

Diary of John Hay: December 13, 1863

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The President, speaking to-day about Missouri matters, said he had heard some things of Schofield which had very much displeased him: — Tha...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: Tuesday, October 28, 1862

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Reveille at three. Breakfasted and were on the move at 6 in the advance — bound for Maysville. Capt. kept me running a good deal. Passed th...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: April 13, 1864

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We found Bank's whole army here having been badly defeated at Pleasant Hill, forty miles above on the nineth and tenth instant and had ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Hawkins Taylor to Abraham Lincoln, February 25, 1860

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State of Iowa Senate Chamber, Des Moines, Iowa, Feb 25, 1860. Dear Sir I wrote you immediately after the Convention. As near as I...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, March 12, 1862

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A bright warm day. I go to Raleigh, bidding good-bye to Fayetteville. We entered Fayetteville either the 13th or 14th of November; four mon...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Pacific Railroad Act of 1862: July 1, 1862

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An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Gover...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 23, 1862

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Letters and papers to-day. It is reported that Hindman has captured Curtis and his whole command in Arkansas. Delightful, if true. The army...

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 28, 1862

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The report of Hindman's having captured Curtis untrue; but our army is doing well in the West. Murfreesboro', in Tennessee, has bee...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, August 24, 1862

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Have a dispatch from General Burnside at Falmouth, calling earnestly for five or six gunboats in the Potomac at Acquia Creek. Mentions havi...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Thursday August 7, 1862

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Very little accomplished as yet, though much, I hope, in the train of accomplishment. Engaged nearly all day on selections for recommendati...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Sunday August 3, 1862

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Genl. Shields came to breakfast and to visit the Ohio men of his command in the Cliffburne Hospital. He told me he desired greatly to have...