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Showing posts with label St Louis MO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Louis MO. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, December 12, 1861

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LANCASTER, OHIO, December 12 , 1861 . Major-General HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: DEAR SIR: I believe you will be frank enough to answ...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General William T. Sherman, December 18, 1861

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SAINT LOUIS, December 18 , 1861 . Brig. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN,   Lancaster, Ohio: MY DEAR GENERAL: Yours of the 12th * was received a d...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: June 7, 1865

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Some beautiful scenery today. High bluffs and a number of castle homes. Got into St. Louis a little before dusk. A. B. and M. got off at Ca...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward L. Pierce, July 4, 1853

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Chicago , July 4 , 1853. My Dear Sir : I have just returned from Missouri. Your letter reached me I think at St. Louis. I regret not se...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Diary of John Hay: Monday, June 17, 1864

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I left Cincinnati Sunday evening and came to St. Louis about 11 o'clock Monday morning. The road is a very pleasant one, though rather ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: January 13, 1862

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Bird's Point, Mo. , January 13, 1862. After all the excitement and promise we have had of a trip into Dixie, we are still here in ...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: December 1, 1861

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Bird's Point, Mo. , December 1, 1861. This, the beginning of winter, is the warmest and altogether the most pleasant day we have ha...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills: May 11, 1861

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Camp Defiance. We have been seeing and feeling the roughest side of camp life, ever since my last. Rain in double-headed torrents; lightnin...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Diary of John Hay: August 28, 1861

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I went West and passed several days in St. Louis. Saw very much of Fr é mont and his wife. He was quiet, earnest, industrious, imperious. S...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, June 21, 1865

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The Second Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps received their pay and embarked this morning for St. Louis. ...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Frederick Law Olmsted to John M. Forbes, December 16, 1861

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U. S. Sanitary Commission, Washington, D. C. , December 16, 1861. My Dear Sir , — I have just received your favor of the 12th, and am...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, July 19, 1863

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New York , July 19th, '63. On Tuesday evening, upon an intimation from a man who had heard the plot arranged in the city to come do...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

From St. Louis

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ST. LOUIS, May 19. The following is by telegraph to headquarters: Col. Daniels attacked the rebels under Col. Jeffries, forty miles...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Major General Henry W. Halleck to Abraham Lincoln, January 6, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, January 6 , 1862 . To His Excellency the PRESIDENT: In reply to your excell...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Affairs at St. Louis -- Vigorous Measures of Gen. Halleck

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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 24. – Several of the Secessionists of this city who were recently assessed for the benefit of the South western fugitives b...
Friday, March 8, 2013

A general swearing business is going on in St. Louis.

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We are pleased to see that Gen. Halleck has recommended clergymen to take the oath of allegiance, that the people may be able to distinguis...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Washington’s Birthday was . . .

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. . . celebrated in St. Louis in the grandest style ever known in the West, and on the largest scale.   I procession representing all the tr...