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Showing posts with label The Anaconda Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Anaconda Plan. Show all posts
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 25, 1863

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Had a brief call from General McClellan this p.m. He looks in good health, but is evidently uncomfortable in mind. Our conversation was gen...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 18, 1862

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My war archon is beset for commissions, and somebody says for every one given, you make one ingrate and a thousand enemies. As I entere...
Monday, March 2, 2015

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, June 17, 1861

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Washington, June 17, 1861. My Dear Mary :   . . . After being at home three days, I left by the afternoon boat of Saturday, 15th, for...
Monday, February 16, 2015

John Lothrop Motley to his Family, June 14, 1861

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Woodland Hill, June 14, 1861. My Dearest Mary And Dearest Darlings : My note from Halifax, with the announcement which you must have ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Diary of Gideon Welles, Friday, September 12, 1862

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A clever rain last night, which I hope may swell the tributaries of the upper Potomac. A call from Wilkes, who is disturbed because I p...
Monday, May 6, 2013

The Rebels taking a gloomy View of their Situation

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The following significant article from the Richmond Examiner of the 16th inst., shows that the rebels are uncomfortably oppressed by the vi...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

The Desperation Of The Rebel Cause – The Federal Military Cordon – A Wail From Rebeldom – The War Drum To Be Beaten – Plenty Of Work For Court House And Cross Road Orators.

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(From the Richmond Enquirer January 27.) If the plans of McClellan are indeed now developed, and if he has been placing a military cord...
Friday, January 4, 2013

The Expected Blow

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Very much of the new we reprint from the rebel journals we interpret by the rule of contraries, so that their averment that Beauregard has ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

From The 2d Iowa Cavalry

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BENTON BARRACKS, Mo., Feb. 11 th , 1862. FRIEND SANDERS: Benton Barracks is yet or “abiding place,” and though some with little faith may s...
Friday, September 10, 2010

The Constricting of the Anaconda

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The Richmond, Va. Papers are becoming excessively frightened in view of the constricting of the coils of the great anaconda which has encirc...