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Showing posts with label Suppression of Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suppression of Newspapers. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, August 17, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 17 , 1862 . Major-General GRANT, Corinth: DEAR SIR: A letter from yo...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, May 23, 1864

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A late dispatch on Saturday night from Cairo informs me that a dam at Alexandria has been constructed and our fleet is passing the falls. L...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, May 18, 1864

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Selected the Visitors to the Naval Academy, although we have not yet the appropriation bill, but we can no longer delay, if there are to be...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 3, 1861

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Up early, breakfasted at five, A. M., and left my hospitable host's roof, on my way to Washington. The ferryboat, which is a long way o...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Senator Lyman Trumbull & Congressman Isaac N. Arnold to Abraham Lincoln, June 3, 1863

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CHICAGO, June 3 , 1863 .       (Received 10 . 38 p.m.) Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President: At a meeting held to-day in reference to...

Major-General Ambrose Burnside’s General Orders, No. 91, June 4, 1863

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GENERAL ORDERS, No. 91. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,   Cincinnati, Ohio, June 4 , 1863 . I. By direction of the President of th...

Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, June 4, 1863

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EXECUTIVE MANSION,     Washington, June 4 , 1863 . Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR: MY DEAR SIR: I have received additional dispatches which,...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Trial of Edmund J. Ellis, editor, for violating the laws of war by publishing intelligence to the enemy, etc., February 25, 1862

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COLUMBIA, Mo., Tuesday, February 25 , 1862 . The commission proceeded to the trial of Edmund J. Ellis, a citizen of Boone County, Mo.,...

Trial of Edmund J. Ellis, editor, for violating the laws of war by publishing intelligence to the enemy, etc., February 26, 1862

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WEDNESDAY, February 26 , 1862 . The court met pursuant to adjournment, all the members present. EDWARD REYNOLDS, a witness for the...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 7, 1863

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Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 7, '63. There was a dose of medicine administered to the command in this di...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, June 3, 1863

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Wrote Du Pont that Foote would relieve him. I think he anticipates it and perhaps wants it to take place. He makes no suggestions, gives no...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 23, 1862

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Gen. Winder was in this morning listening to something MacCubbin was telling him about the Richmond Whig. It appears that, in the course of...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Major-General John A. Dix to the Honorable Francis P. Blair,

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Fort McHenry , August 31, 1861. My Dear Sir , — I have received the letter of the Postmaster of Baltimore, with your endorsement, in re...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: August 26, 1861

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The Terror has full swing at the North now. All the papers favorable to us have been suppressed. How long would our mob stand a Yankee pape...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Gen. McKinstry

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We learn from unquestionable authority, that this gentleman, failing in all his efforts to get a Court of Inquiry to make an investigation ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 10, 1863

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CAMP AT VICKSBURG, April 10, 1863. . . . I was really amused at a circumstance to-day that may be serious. Grant has been secretly work...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

From New Orleans

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Gen. Butler, of all our military Governors has the most thorough appreciation of the Secessionists, and is always master of the situation. ...