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Showing posts with label Slave Labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slave Labor. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: December 10, 1861

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A WALK INTO THE COUNTRY. The weather holds warm and springlike. We have no need of overcoats, unless doing guard duty nights. The peopl...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Amos A. Lawrence to David R. Atchison, March 31, 1855

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(cottage Farm Near) Boston , March 31, 1855. My Dear Sir , — I take the liberty to address you upon a subject in which I have a common ...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 7, 1863

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Batteries Wagner and Gregg and Fort Sumter have been evacuated! But this is not yet the capture of Charleston. Gen. Beauregard telegraphed ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 5, 1861

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The smart negro who waited on me this morning spoke English, I asked him if he knew how to read and write. — “We must not do that, sir.” “W...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Amos A. Lawrence to David R. Atchison, March 31, 1855

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( Cottage Farm Near) Boston , March 31, 1855. My Dear Sir , — I take the liberty to address you upon a subject in which I have a common...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 8, 1861

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I tried to write, as I have taken my place in the steamer to Mobile to-morrow, and I was obliged to do my best in a room full of people, co...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

John M. Forbes to William Curtis Noyes, July 28, 1862

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Boston , July 28,1862. My Dear Sir , — Hardly a day passes that I do not see some article which ought to be republished in each of the ...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 8, 1861

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How it does rain! Last night there were torrents of water in the streets literally a foot deep. It still runs in muddy whirling streams thr...
Monday, December 29, 2014

William Gilmore Simms to William Porcher Miles, probably January 13, 1861

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Sunday 1 Night, 12 P. M. I am sleepless, my dear Miles, and must write. If you should be sleepless also, it is not improbable but that...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Charles Eliot Norton to Arthur H. Clough, February 10, 1861

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Shady Hill , 10 February, 1861. . . . Well, since I wrote last to you, great things have been going on here. It has been no time for wr...