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Showing posts with label Wm Porcher Miles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wm Porcher Miles. Show all posts
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 25, 1864

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Raining moderately. Yesterday Mr. Miles, member of Congress from South Carolina, received a dispatch from Charleston, signed by many of th...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Statement of Messrs. Miles And Keitt, of what Transpired Between the President and the South Carolina Delegation, between January 1 & 14, 1861

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In compliance with the request of the Convention, we beg leave to make the following statement: On Saturday, the 8th of December, several...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Commissioners of the State of South Carolina to James Buchanan, December 9, 1860

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To His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States: In compliance with our statement to you yesterday, we now express to...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 20, 1863

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A few weeks ago Gen. Cooper wrote to Bragg, suggesting that he advance into Middle Tennessee, reinforced by Gen. Johnston, and attack Rosec...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 5, 1863

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A letter from Hon. W. Porcher Miles to the Secretary of War, received the 15th July, urging the government to send some long-range Brooke g...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 20, 1863

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Nothing from Lee or from Johnston, except that the latter has abandoned Jackson. From Bragg's army, I learn that a certain number of r...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 19, 1863

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We have no news this morning. But a rumor prevails, which cannot be traced to any authentic source, that Texas has put herself under the pr...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 19, 1863

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A dispatch from Gen. Johnston says a battle has been fought between Pemberton and Grant, between Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi, which ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 14, 1863

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We have been beaten in an engagement near Jackson, Miss., 4000 retiring before 10,000. This is a dark cloud over the hopes of patriots, for...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Official Reports of the Operations in Charleston Harbor, S. C., December 20, 1860 – April 14, 1861: No. 26. – Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Hartstene, C. S. Navy, and Messrs. William Porcher Miles and Roger A. Pryor, aides-de-camp

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No. 26. Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Harts...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 21, 1861

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In the afternoon I went with Mr. Porcher Miles to visit a small farm and plantation, some miles from the city, belonging to Mr. Crafts. Our...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 20, 1861

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I visited the editors of the “Charleston Mercury” and the “Charleston Courier” to-day at their offices. The Rhett family have been active a...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 16, 1861

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Early next morning [the 16th], soon after dawn, I crossed the Cape Fear River, on which Wilmington is situated, by a steam ferry-boat. On t...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: September 7, 1863

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Major Edward Johnston did not get into the Confederacy until after the first battle of Manassas. For some cause, before he could evade that...
Friday, January 9, 2015

John McQueen et al to James Buchanan, December 9, 1860

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To His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States. In compliance with our statement to you yesterday, we now express to...
Monday, December 29, 2014

William Gilmore Simms to William Porcher Miles, probably January 13, 1861

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Sunday 1 Night, 12 P. M. I am sleepless, my dear Miles, and must write. If you should be sleepless also, it is not improbable but that...