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Showing posts with label Secession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secession. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Senator Henry Clay to James B. Clay, January 2, 1849

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WASHINGTON, January 2, 1849. MY DEAR SON,—I received your letter of the 27th November, and I was happy to hear of the continued health of ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Henry Greville: Thursday, January 3, 1861

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The King of Prussia 1 died yesterday at Sans-Souci. The American Secession question now occupies public attention more than any other sub...

Diary of Henry Greville: Wednesday, February 20, 1861

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London.—I came here yesterday for the levee to-day. I found a letter from Naples from Lady Holland written before the fall of Gaeta, giving ...

Diary of Henry Greville: Saturday, March 30, 1861

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In a letter I received a few days ago from Fanny Kemble from New York, she says: I suppose if I had been in Boston, I should have heard some...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop, Friday, May 6, 1864

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BEHIND THE ENEMY'S GUNS; LEE AND LONGSTREET. Up at earliest dawn. Feeling quite well. The sound of battle was in our ears. The ground ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

John Tyler to Julia Gardiner Tyler, April 18, 1861

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RICHMOND, April 17, 1 1861. Well, my dearest one, Virginia has severed her connection with the Northern hive of abolitionists, and takes...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina, December 10, 1832

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PROCLAMATION, BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1832. Whereas a convention, assembled in the St...