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Showing posts with label Thomas Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Williams. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, May 16, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, April 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                    Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, April 29 , 1862 . SIR: I have the honor to rep...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 25, 1862 – about 12 at night.

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Sleep is impossible after all that I have heard, so, after vainly endeavoring to follow the example of the rest, and sleep like a Stoic, I ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 11, 1862

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At Randallson's Landing , August 11th. I don't mean those ladies were, but that I am at present. I’ll account for it after I ha...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 9, 1862

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To our great surprise, Charlie came in this morning from the other side. He was in the battle, and General Carter, and dozens of others tha...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 6, 1862

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We six madcaps got in the carriage and buggy, and rode off in search of news. We took a quantity of old linen rags along, and during the wh...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, June 29, 1862

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“Any more, Mr. Lincoln, any more?” Can't you leave our racked homes in repose? We are all wild. Last night, five citizens were arrested...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: June 11, 1862

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Last evening mother and Miriam went to the Arsenal to see if they would be allowed to do anything for the prisoners. General Williams recei...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, June 8, 1862

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These people mean to kill us with kindness. There is such a thing as being too kind. Yesterday General Williams sent a barrel of flour to m...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: June 6, 1862

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We dined at Mrs. Brunot's yesterday, and sitting on the gallery later, had the full benefit of a Yankee drill. They stopped in front of...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: June 4, 1862 - Night

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We were so distressed by the false position in which we would be placed by a Federal sentinel, that we did not know what course to pursue. ...

Diary of Sarah Morgan: June 4, 1862

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Miriam Morgan Miriam and Mattie drove in, in the little buggy, last evening after sunset, to find out what we were to do. Our condition...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, June 1, 1862

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From the news brought by one or two persons who managed to reach here yesterday, I am more uneasy about mother and the girls. A gentleman t...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Commander Samuel P. Lee to the Authorities at Vicksburg, May 18, 1862

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UNITED STATES STEAMER ONEIDA, Near Vicksburg, May 18 , 1862 . To the AUTHORITIES AT VICKSBURG: The undersigned, with orders from Fl...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Washington News, Rumors &c.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. – Yesterday the Senate confirmed Cassius M. Clay as Major-General, and Jesse L. Reno, of Burnside’s column, as Brigadie...