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Showing posts with label USS San Jacinto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USS San Jacinto. Show all posts
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, August 18, 1864

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Mr. Seward brought me this A.M. a dispatch from Consul Jackson at Halifax, saying the pirate Rebel Tallahassee had arrived at that port. I h...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Gerrit Smith: The News From England, January 3, 1862

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Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, December 4, 1862

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The Members of Congress from Minnesota are urging the President vehemently to give his assent to the execution of three hundred Indian capt...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, November 29, 1861

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Vienna, December, 1, 1861. My Dearest Mother : Your letter of November 5 reached us a few days ago. It is always a great delight to m...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

John M. Forbes to Nassau W. Senior, December 20, 1861

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Boston , 20 December, 1861. Nothing from you lately. You will be glad to hear that our people here are within the control of the govern...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 25, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 25, 1861. I write a few lines on this day of rejoicing and festivity, to let you know I am well, and thou...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Shelling of Sewall’s Point

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BALTIMORE, May 9. The special correspondent of the American sends the following relative to affairs in Hampton Roads and the Peninsula...