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Showing posts with label Thomas Ewing Jr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Ewing Jr. Show all posts
Thursday, April 7, 2022

William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., July 22, 1860

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LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, July 22, 1860. DEAR TOM: . . . The fact that Congress did not admit Kansas must be a disappointment ...
Monday, February 28, 2022

William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., May 11, 1860

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LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, May 11, 1860. DEAR TOM: I have received one or two Leavenwo...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., February 17, 1860

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BATON ROUGE, Feb. 17, 1860. DEAR TOM: . . . I am down here at the legislature log rolling for a bill to the interest of our institution. ...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., December 23, 1859

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Seminary near Alexandria, December 23, 1859. Dear Tom : I received last night a Leavenworth paper addressed in your handwriting and I ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, October 29, 1859

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Steamer L. M. Kennett [at Cairo], Saturday, Oct. 29, 1859. . . . Should my health utterly fail me or abolition drive me and all modera...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday Evening, October 29, 1861

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This is the anniversary of the Literary Club — the society with which so much of my life is associated. It will be celebrated tonight. The ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Brigadier General William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, April 27, 1862

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April 27, 1862 We all knew we were assembling a vast army for an aggressive purpose. The President knew it. Halleck knew it, and the wh...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Colonel William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, July 24, 1861

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FORT CORCORAN, July 24, 1861. On my arrival back here, carried by the shameless flight of the armed mob we led into Virginia, I tried t...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Colonel William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., June 3, 1861

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[June 3, 1861] After all the Mississippi River is the hardest and most important task of the war, and I know of no one competent, unles...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Colonel William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Jr., May 23, 1861

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OFFICE ST. LOUIS R.R. Co., ST. LOUIS, May 23, 1861. . . . I am satisfied with Mr. Lincoln's policy, but I do not like that of the...