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Showing posts with label Sioux Uprising of 1862. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sioux Uprising of 1862. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Monday, September 29, 1862

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I wrote to Mr. Eno and copied dispatches for Gov. Ramsey. Indian attack again. Frederick Blazier wounded in the leg. Trouble with Third regi...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Friday, August 22, 1862

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John Beard paid me $4. I sold my garden for $250. Report of Indian outbreak. Great excitement. We elected our commissioned officers-Geo. Atk...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 15, 1862

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Camp at Lagrange, Tenn., November 15, 1862. We're having more of a rest here than we anticipated when we arrived. Suppose that the ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 4, 1864

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And now we are getting ready to move somewhere, the Lord only knows where. One good thing about their old prisons, we are always ready for ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, December 4, 1862

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The Members of Congress from Minnesota are urging the President vehemently to give his assent to the execution of three hundred Indian capt...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, October 14, 1862

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The Secretary of State sends me an important dispatch from Stuart, British Charg é d'Affaires during the absence of Lord Lyons, in whi...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 4, 1862

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The enemy's loss in the series of battles, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, is estimated at 30,000. Where is the braggart Pope now? D...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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December 1, 1862. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Since your last annual assembling another year of healt...