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Showing posts with label Slave Insurrections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slave Insurrections. Show all posts
Friday, February 1, 2019

Gerrit Smith to the Chairman of the Jerry Rescue Committee, August 27,1859

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[August 27, 1859.] For many years I have feared, and published my fears, that slavery must go out in the blood. My speech in Congress o...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor John A. Andrew, May 9, 1861

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Department of Annapolis, Headquarters, ANNAPOLIS, May 9, 1861 To his Excellency, JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief ...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor Thomas H. Hicks, April 23, 1861

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Headquarters, 3rd Brigade Mass. Vol. Milit. ANNAPOLIS, MD. Apr. 23, 1861 To His Excellency THOMAS H. HICKS, Governor of Maryland SI...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, January 17, 1862

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Froze last night to harden mud; cold and clear this morning; warm and bright all day. We feel rather lonely — so many gone. One regiment de...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

William Barton Rogers to Henry Darwin Rogers, November 29, 1859

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Boston , November 29, 1859. . . . The doings at Harper's Ferry have made an impression which will long be felt. The execution of Br...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

George Bancroft to Elizabeth Davis Bancroft, December 16, 1861

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Monday, December 16, 1861. MY DEAR WIFE,   . . . Keeping down my sorrow   at heart for the woes of our poor country, which under   inc...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Major General George B. McClellan’s Proclamation to the People of Western Virginia.

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, Cincinnati, May 26 , 1861 . To the Union Men of Western Virginia: VIRGINIANS: The General Go...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

New Orleans and the War

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We have just had the pleasure of enjoying a protracted conversation with a highly intelligent gentleman, long a resident of that city, who ...