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Showing posts with label Silas H Stringham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silas H Stringham. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Gustavus V. Fox to Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont, April 3, 1862

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Navy Department  April 3, 1862  My dear Commodore,  The deficiency of coal is entirely Lenthall's fault, for on the impression gathered ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 17, 1864

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A painful suspense in military operations. It is a necessary suspense, but the intense anxiety is oppressive, and almost unfits the mind fo...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, April 8, 1864

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Answered a letter from J. P. Hale, Chairman of Naval Committee, on the question of increasing the Marine Corps. In answering the inquiries ...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Commandant Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, September 24, 1861

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Private Astor House 24 Sep. 61. My Dear Mr. Fox, I closed up things yesterday at Philad a — where Turner is doing remarkably well;...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Montgomery Blair, March 31, 1861

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N. York 31 Mch. '61 D r Judge, I saw Mr. Aspinwall yesterday and in the evening met him and Capt. Marshall. From being for a l...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, Fort Monroe, May 24 , 1861 . Lieutenant-General WINFIELD SCOTT: I have the honor to report my ...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Montgomery C. Meigs to William H. Seward, April 5, 1861

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new York , April 5, 1861. Hon. W. H. Seward: Powhatan was ready to sail at 6 P. M.; telegram received by Captain Foote, commandant of...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Andrew G. Magrath to Leroy Pope Walker, April 6, 1861

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CHARLESTON, April 6 , 1861 . L. P. WALKER: The following telegraph I have just received from Washington: Positively determined n...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Opinions of Various Officers on Resupplying and Reinforcing Fort Sumter: Probably Presented to Lincoln and his Cabinet March 15, 1861

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George W. Snyder, lieutenant of Engineers, February 28, 1861: 4 regiments, or 4,000 men; 4 vessels of war. R. K. Meade, jr., second lie...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Memorandum of Different Plans for Re-Enforcing Fort Sumter

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Memoranda read before the President and Cabinet, General Scott and Commodore Stringham, and Mr. Fox, late of the Navy, Washington, March 15...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Caleb B. Smith to Abraham Lincoln, March 16, 1861

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Department of the Interior March 16, 1861, President United States Sir. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your not...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Simon Cameron to Abraham Lincoln, March 16, 1861

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War Department March 16th 1861 Sir, In reply to the letter of inquiry , addressed to me by the President, whether “assuming it to b...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: September 16, 1862

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Chase called on me this morning. Wishes a secret concerted attack on Richmond. Says Stanton will furnish 10,000 men. Told him we would do a...