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Showing posts with label William Sprague. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Sprague. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Thursday, November 28, 1861

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Thanksgiving day. Governor Sprague furnished twenty turkeys for us. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Sunday, October 13, 1861

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Gov. Sprague visited the camp. Private Benedict deserted. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Lig...

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Tuesday, October 15, 1861

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Parade drill of the battery, in presence of Gov. Sprague, and Col. Tompkins, the drill proving very satisfactory. Capt. Vaughan visited us t...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Tuesday, September 10, 1861

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Gov. Sprague, Col. Wheaton, Major Tompkins, and Capt. Reynolds, visited the section on picket. Quiet up to [Monday, September 16.] SOURCE:...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Sunday, July 28, 1861

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The Second Battery left Camp Clark by four o'clock P. M., for Harper's Ferry, to receive the guns of the First Battery, whose term o...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Wednesday, June 19, 1861

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Embarkation of the Second Battery on the steamer Kill Von Kull, and of the Second Rhode Island Infantry, on the State of Maine. Early in t...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: December 7, 1865

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WASHINGTON, D. C. December 7, 1865. MY DARLING: Thanksgiving morning before breakfast. So far I have no very decided feeling about the lif...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, May 25, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., May 25 , 1862 . Governor CURTIN, Harrisburg: Send all the troops forward that you can immediat...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 19, 1863

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The case of Vallandigham, recently arrested by General Burnside, tried by court martial, convicted of something, and sentenced to Fort Warr...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Diary of John Hay: Sunday, November 12, 1863

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. . . In the evening Miss Chase and Gov. Sprague’s wedding. A very brilliantlooking party. Kate looked tired out and languid, especially at...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Diary of John Hay: April 28, 1861

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All this blessed Sunday, free from war's alarms, we have lounged sans souci. Sprague and his staff called on the President; and the Cab...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Diary of John Hay: April 26, 1861

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Massachusetts and Rhode Island troops in large numbers arrived to-day. . . . I called on Sprague, the Governor of Rhode Island, with Nicola...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron (Copy), June 11, 1861

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I have just enclosed to you the recommendation of Gov. Sprague that Gen. James B. M. Potter be appointed a Paymaster. Immediately afterward...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday, September 26, 1862

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Received note from Gov. Seward, asking me to name Consul to Rio. Named James Munroe. Another note from Fred Seward asking me to call at Sta...
Friday, July 10, 2015

From a Friend in Providence, Rhode Island to Charlotte Cross Wigfall, May 13, 1861

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May 13th, 1861. . . . We are always delighted to hear from you — and indeed your letters and Louis's are the only comfort we have i...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to Governor William Sprague, August 23, 1862

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Headquarters Sedgwick's Division, Near Newport News , August 23, 1862. Governor: Understanding that you propose to recommend Co...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 10, 1864

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July 10, 1864 It seems sometimes sort of lonely and hopeless, sitting here in the dust by Petersburg, and hearing nothing except now an...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Charles Eliot Norton to James Russell Lowell, July 21, 1861

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Newport , 21 July, 1861. Dearest James , —   . . . Newport is very pleasant, or perhaps I should better say, would be very pleasant wer...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 16, 1864

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Mott's division, that had hitherto behaved so badly, was broken up and put with Birney — a sad record for Hooker's fighting men! Na...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 24, 1864

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Headquarters Armt Of Potomac February 24, '64 . . . I went yesterday to a review of the 2d Corps gotten up in honor of Governor S...