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Showing posts with label The Draft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Draft. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 9, 1865

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Bright, frosty, beautiful, after a cold night. We have nothing more specific from the fight of Tuesday, when we learn another general was ki...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 11, 1865

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Clear and pleasant. Cannon heard down the river. Mr. E. A. Pollard, taken by the Federals in an attempt to run the blockade last spring, h...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 10, 1864

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Slight showers, and warm. Gen. J. H. Morgan was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him. Custis made an estimat...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 4, 1864

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Cloudy, but still hot and dry. From the clouds of dust seen rising between Petersburg and the James River, it is conjectured that Grant...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 14, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,           Washington, July 14, 1863. Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT,           Vicksburg: GENERAL: Your letterto the Presid...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln, June 19, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 19, 1863. Hon. A. LINCOLN,           President of the United States...

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 2, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Walnut Hill, June 2, 1863. Major-General GRANT,           Present: DEAR GENERAL: I would most...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 28, 1864

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Bright and cool-a little rain last night. The Departmental Battalion is still kept out. They have built a line of fortifications four mile...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, October 15, 1864

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CAMP NEAR STRASBURG, VIRGINIA, October 15, 1864. Dear UNCLE:— We are resting. Early, reinforced, came up a few days ago, evidently thinkin...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: July 2, 1863

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This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 26, 1864

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Am harassed by the pressure on the enlistment question. A desire to enter the Navy to avoid the draft is extensive, and the local authoritie...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 22, 1864

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The offices are closed, to-day, in honor of Washington's birth-day. But it is a fast day; meal selling for $40 per bushel. Money will no...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Colonel Theodore S. Bowers to Brigadier-General John Rawlins, August 20, 1864

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. . . The impression is becoming almost universal that for political considerations the President will suspend the draft. If he does, good...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 15, 1864—9 p.m.

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CITY POINT, VA., August 15 , 1864 — 9 p.m.                         (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General HALLECK, Washingto...
Monday, June 22, 2020

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 2, 1864

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,                        September 2 , 1864 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Lincoln’s Call for 500,000 Troops: July 18, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and six...

Lincoln’s Call for 300,000 Troops, December 19, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. (Calling for 300,000 volunteers.) Whereas, by the act approve...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864

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ROOMS OF THE NATIONAL UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Astor House , New York , Aug 22 1864. My dear Sir:— I feel compelled to drop yo...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1864

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New York, July 7th, 1864. My Dear Sir: I venture to inclose you a letter and telegraphic dispatch that I received yesterday from our i...
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...