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Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telegraph. Show all posts
Sunday, January 1, 2023

John W. Garrett to Henry A. Wise, November 29, 1859

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Baltimore, November 29, 1859. To Hon. Henry A. Wise. To ensure satisfactory and reliable arrangements, I visited Harper's Ferry to-d...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

William Preston Smith to A. P. Shutt, November 29, 1859

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Cumberland, Nov. 29, 1859. A. P. Shutt,           Harper's Ferry. Did you take the gentlemen to Charlestown, to-day? Did they see the pr...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

William Preston Smith to L. M. Cole, October 18, 1859—12 a.m.

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Harper's Ferry, October 18, 1859, 12 midnight. To L. M. Cole: Arrived at Sandy Hook before 11, and car with Col. Lee arrived soon after....
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Thomas Thompson Eckert

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THOMAS THOMPSON ECKERT, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, was born April 23, 1825, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He l...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Ulysses S. Grant to Frederick Dent, April 19, 1862

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Galena , April 19, 1S61. Mr. F. Dent— Dear Sir: I have but very little time to write, but, as in these exciting times we are very...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant, January 30, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...
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...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Robert Toombs to John J. Crittenden, November 9, 1848

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Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9th, 1848. Dear Crittenden, The telegraff being out of order, you may get our glorious news by this before ...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas, March 15, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,        Saint Louis, March 15 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. LORENZO THOMAS. Adjutant-General of the ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 21, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Savannah, March 21 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: I have just retu...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 18, 1861

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After breakfast. Leaving head-quarters, I went across to General Mansfield's, and was going up-stairs, when the General* himself, a whi...
Monday, July 15, 2019

William T. Sherman to Mary E. “Minnie” Sherman, Sunday, January 22, 1860

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Seminary, Alexandria, La ., Jan. 22, 1860. Dear Little Minnie : I have not written to you for a long time, but I have sent many message...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Diary of to Amos A. Lawrence: August 5, 1858

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Atlantic telegraph laid and a message received. The whole country is electrified. Every assembly took notice of it. Thanksgivings offered b...
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...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 8, 1863

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The President, accompanied by two of his aids, set off quietly day before yesterday for the Southwest — to Bragg's army, no doubt, wher...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, March 31, 1863

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7:30 A. M. — Colonel Comly started from Coal's Mouth down [the] river at daylight. 8:30 A. M. — Dispatch from Colonel Comly at R...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 19, 1863

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Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Edward S. Sanford to Edwin M. Stanton, July 13, 1863 – Received 12:10 p.m.

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NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 .   (Received 12 . 10 p.m.) SIR: What is represented as a serious riot is now taking place on Third avenu...

Edward S. Sanford to Edwin M. Stanton, July 13, 1863 – 9:30 p.m.

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NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 — 9 . 30 p.m. (Received 11 . 45 p.m.) SIR: The situation is not improved since dark. The programme is div...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stanton, October 16, 1863 – 12 p.m.

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CHATTANOOGA, October 16 , 1863 — 12 m. For fifteen hours little rain has fallen, but the skies remain threatening and the barometer ...