Mr Fee our Orderly drilled us today. Oliver Williams a Traveling preacher & Miss Ella Filkin was Married by C Morey
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 87
Mr Fee our Orderly drilled us today. Oliver Williams a Traveling preacher & Miss Ella Filkin was Married by C Morey
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 87
To-day we went on a
general hunt in full force. We went into a house where we suspected there was a
deserter. We hunted through all the out-houses, then went to the house, and the
lady strongly denied there being any one there, but would not give us
permission to look. We then searched the house, but found no one. I then
proposed that we go in the loft. She objected again. But of course we were
determined. It was pitch-dark in the loft. We called in, but no answer came. I
then proposed, in a loud voice, so that if any one was there they could hear
me, that we fix bayonets and stick around and satisfy ourselves that no one was
there. Still no answer. I then got in the loft, took my gun and commenced
sticking around. At last an answer came from the far corner that he would
surrender. The way I got into the loft was, I being a little fellow, and Si
Wolf a tall man, they put me on his shoulder, and in that way I crawled in. We
then left for camp, passed a church, and was in time to see a wedding. We
drilled for the ladies, and had a good time.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 45-6
ALEXANDRIA, March
30, 1860.
. . . I wrote you
from Louisville and Memphis. The boat was elegant and landed me at ten o'clock
Wednesday night on the wharf boat at Red River and at two o'clock same night
the boat “Morning Light” came along, and Clay1 and I embarked,
reaching Alexandria yesterday at sundown. I rode him out last evening. He is,
you will be pleased to hear, in fine condition well pleased with the trip and
has no dread of steamboats. He had a fine opportunity to study steam engine,
and is now familiar with all the parts. The cadets seemed glad to see me, and
in their new uniforms they looked finely. Everything has worked well in my
absence, and now I can begin to provide for the future. I shall be pretty busy
next week in making up the accounts and sending the results to parents. The
Board of Supervisors have only awaited my return, and will soon meet and
consider and order the improvements, enlargements, etc., embracing the new
professors' houses. Of course, the style and general plans of these will rest
with me, and I will try and get as good houses as possible for the money. With
tri-weekly mails and no telegraphs we are as much out of the world here as
a hermit could desire.
I find the trees in
full leaf, the dogwood in blossom, and the season about a month in advance of
Ohio. The sun is agreeably warm, but the evenings are cool enough for a small
fire.
The wedding of
Captain Lindsey and daughter of Judge Boyce came off some time since and Miss
Ann Patterson is now at the plantation, twenty-four miles off. She has visited
the Seminary and two of the professors were so pleased with her, that they are
going to ride up tomorrow. I shall avail myself of some opportunity to call
when she comes to Alexandria. Mrs. Isaacs is to start for Washington tomorrow
and I will ride in to see her for a few minutes and as it will afford me an
opportunity to register this letter, I enclose a hundred dollar bank bill. I can't
get any drafts on the North here now. This is a risky mode of remitting money,
but I must make it. Give my love to all the children and folks at Lancaster. .
.
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1 A horse brought from Ohio. - ED.
LOUISIANA STATE
SEMINARY, Alexandria, April 12, 1860.
DEAR GENERAL: I have
been pretty busy in obeying the orders of the Board of Supervisors and of the
Academic Board in writing constantly according to their dictation, and last
night learned with some surprise that I was to continue to act as treasurer,
bookkeeper, etc., whilst Henarie was to hold the money. I have been in town all
day to find out what is meant. I can't see the system, though Dr. Smith insists
on its being carried out and expects me to try the system. I can see very well
that all moneys appropriated by the legislature and that arising from the
tuition fees of cadets, should be appropriated by the Board of Supervisors,
and, as it will be paid in large amounts [it] could be held in the bank at New
Orleans without risk and without cost, whereas as I now look at it you are to
pay Henarie six hundred dollars for that whilst I am as heretofore to ask for
money to pay the cadets' wants, supply them and keep the accounts.
Here is a work that
employs about a dozen at West Point, at least three at Lexington, Va., and yet
I must do it all. I can do it all, not thoroughly but good enough, if the
treasurer resides here and relieves me of the necessity of taking care of so
many little items of books, clothing, and every species of things needed by
cadets. If the institution be pressed by want all of us can do extra work, but
this six hundred dollars now is absolute wastage, and negatives the idea of
poverty. Still that is none of my business and from present appearances I see I
will have my hands full.
The atmosphere has
changed since I went north, and I will find out its drift. I think I see where
it lies, and I think I divine your plan of defence. Judging from the personal
nature of your colleagues and their fondness of disputation I only say that if
their intention be to submine our regulations, you can by encouraging
discussion on the earlier passages cause them to desist from a close
examination of clause by clause, and have them generally adopted as originally
agreed on by the committee appointed to draft them.
If you can get the
regulations substantially adopted, and adjourn with an order for their
publication, and an agreement as to the arrangements of the terms, I will be
willing to go on keeping the individual accounts of cadets through this term,
but if my powers are substantially curtailed, or any overt disposition made to
complicate matters too much I may have cause to regret my sudden refusal of the
Roelofson proposal. I have abiding faith in you — and knowing that you can
prevent their meeting for mischief now, that without you they cannot act
at all, and that you can command a quorum always, I will continue to have
faith.
I do think the new
fence ought to be built to keep out hogs and cattle, and because I made a
distinct point before the committee at Baton Rouge. Were you to make the want
of fences next year a cause of application for more money it would be detected.
Still if you have postponed it till after June, I will give Ledoux notice that
at the close of April, I will discharge one and maybe two of his negroes, as
all wood-cutting and carrying has ceased, and Henry with occasional assistance
can sweep the galleries and empty the water. I will await the result of your
Saturday meeting, and conform thereto.
Smith tells me you
are down on him for gallanting. I ought to take the blame. At the wedding he
appointed a revisit to the party, and on Sunday at church he asked my leave to
accompany them to Mrs. Flower and Dr. Bailey. Miss Patterson is the daughter of
a particular friend of mine in St. Louis. I gave Smith permission because I was
glad to see him attentive to that party. Not an iota of duty was lost. Boyd
heard his class. I drilled and had evening parade and he was home by tattoo,
and if we must conform to every rumor we will lead a devil of a life here. If
we do our work the public ought to be well satisfied. I think had Miss
Patterson been of Rapides Parish, Smith would not have been complained of. . .
.
November weather; like snow, only it doesn't. Captain Blazer and his scouts make some captures; a deserter from Sixth Corps was married in ten days after.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 2, p. 535
Lucilla Field was married in our church to-day to Rev. S. W. Pratt. I always thought she was cut out for a minister's wife. Jennie Draper cried herself sick because Lucilla, her Sunday School teacher, is going away.
SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 155
I have been up at Laura Chapin's from 10 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night, finishing Jennie Howell's bed quilt, as she is to be married very soon. Almost all of the girls were there. We finished it at 8 p. m. and when we took it off the frames we gave three cheers. Some of the youth of the village came up to inspect our handiwork and see us home. Before we went Julia Phelps sang and played on the guitar and Captain Barry also sang and we all sang together, “O! Columbia, the gem of the ocean, three cheers for the red, white and blue.”
SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 140
Our cousin, Ann Eliza Field, was married to-day to George B. Bates at her home on Gibson Street. We went and had an elegant time. Charlie Wheeler made great fun and threw the final shower of rice as they drove away.
SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 140