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Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 5, 1866

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The Reconstruction Committee have reported a resolution for admitting Tennessee Members. It is, in its phraseology and conditions, in charac...

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 8, 1866

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Myers of Philadelphia had a long conversation with me in regard to the "admission" of Tennessee. I told him, as I have others, tha...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Murat Halstead, February 2, 1866

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.           WASHINGTON, D. C., February 2, 1866. DEAR H—: — I want to preach you a short doctrinal sermon. Text, “Th...

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Guy M. Bryan, February 15, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., February 15, 1866. DEAR GUY:— Enclosed you will find Stephen's papers. The reason I didn't write again [was tha...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Jefferson Davis to Governor Isham G. Harris, September 13, 1861

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RICHMOND, September 13, 1861. Governor HARRIS, Nashville, Tenn.: Movement to Columbus was reported to me as a defensive measure, rendered...

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Governor Beriah Magoffin, September 14, 1861

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KNOXVILLE, September 14, 1861. His Excellency Governor MAGOFFIN, Frankfort, Ky.: SIR: The safety of Tennessee requiring it, I have occupie...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 17, 1864

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Bright, clear, and pleasant; frosty in the morning. Letters from Lieut.-Gen. Hood to the President, Gen Bragg, and the Secretary of War, g...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, May 7, 1862

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To-day Governor Yates visits the Seventh and makes them a speech, which is full of cheer, full of hope and life, right straight from Dick...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A New Lesson on Dying in the Last Ditch, September 15, 1864

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Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 9, 1863

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The President's message is not regarded with much favor by the croakers. The long complaint against foreign powers for not recognizing ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, February 7, 1862

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SAINT Louis , February 7 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. D.C. BUELL, Louisville, Ky.: GENERAL: My telegrams of to-day are so full that I have v...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, February 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 7 , 1862 . Major-General MCCLELLAN, Washington: Fort He...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Major-General William T. Sherman to Edward M. Stanton, June 15, 1864 – 6:30 p.m.

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IN THE FIELD, June 15 , 1864 — 6 . 30 p.m.    (Received 12 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Washington, D. C.: I will have the matter...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Don Carlos Buell, March 14, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSPPI,          Saint Louis, March 14 , 1862 . Major-General BUELL, Nashville: A diving-boat wi...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

George L. Stearns, writing from Nashville, Tennessee, September 6, 1863

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I had a long talk with several influential men here last evening — I think it will result in an effort on their part to destroy slavery in ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Governor Isham G. Harris to Simon Cameron, April 17, 1861

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NASHVILLE, TENN. , April 17 , 1861 . Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: SIR: Your dispatch of 15th instant, informing me that Te...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 11, 1863

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Camp White, September 11, 1863. Dearest : — Glad to get letters both from you and Mother last night. Bless the boys, how they must enj...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 16, 1863

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No battle had occurred in Northern Virginia up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning, although there is a constant stream of prisoners being ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 6, 1863

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Gen. Bragg and others recommend Gen. Hood for promotion to a lieutenant-generalcy; but the President says it is impossible, as the number a...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 15, 1863

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Gov. Vance writes that he has reliable information that the 30,000 troops in New York, ostensibly to enforce the draft, are intended for a ...