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Showing posts with label Tug Boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tug Boats. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 31, 1862

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This morning a small schooner was seen coming down the sound. A boat went out and met her; she contained seven darkies who said they stole ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 15, 1862

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Rough weather still continues, and we are out of rations, subsisting entirely on hardtack and a short ration of that. Unless it calms down ...

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 17, 1862

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THE STORM OVER. The great storm has at last subsided and the sun once more shines out. All the bands are out playing, everything is put...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to Gustavus V. Fox, May 1, 1861

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Washington, D. C. May 1, 1861 Capt. G. V. Fox, My dear Sir, I sincerely regret that the failure of the late attempt to provisio...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Montgomery Blair, March 31, 1861

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N. York 31 Mch. '61 D r Judge, I saw Mr. Aspinwall yesterday and in the evening met him and Capt. Marshall. From being for a l...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Captain Gustavus V. Fox: Memorandum for the Relief of Fort Sumter, February 6, 1861

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ST. GERMAIN HOTEL, New York , February 6, 1861. Since the repulse of the steamer Star of the West at Charleston it may be assumed tha...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Memorandum of Capt. Gustavus V. Fox to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, February 8, 1861

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Feb. 8, 1861 The proposition which I had the honor to submit to you fully in person is herewith presented in writing. Lt. Hall and ...