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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Congressman Horace Mann to Reverend Samuel J. May, January 8, 1852
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 1852. REV. S. J. MAY. DEAR SIR,—It is now a long time since I have received any copies of your shots at Mr. C. So I supp...
Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, February 10, 1852
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, - There is nothing of much moment transpiring here. Cabell of Florida, in the House, a few days...
Congressman Horace Mann, 1852
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DANSVILLE, N. Y., 1852. I have seen only the most meagre account of D——'s and R——'s speeches. I do not see how D—— can come out wi...
Congressman Horace Mann to Reverend Cyrus Pierce, February 13, 1852
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 13, 1852. C. PIERCE, Esq. MY DEAR SIR,—We heard from you authentically through our common friends, from whom we had a...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 7, 1863
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It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 11, 1863
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Louisville, Ky. Again in Louisville—eleven hundred miles nearer home than one week ago and yet how far. Still, it is joy to feel I am compar...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 12, 1863
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Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived here at 9:30 this morning. My day's work is, at last, completed, at 9 p. m. This has been a busy day. In fa...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 16, 1863
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Camp near Hickman's Bridge, Ky. I did not join the regiment as soon as I expected, owing to the negligence of the Medical Director, whos...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 20, 1863
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Camp Parks, Ky. I received a letter from a friend in Michigan last evening, saying: "If you were in Michigan, or could see the situatio...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 22, 1863
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I had comforted myself with the reflection that when we returned to Kentucky, where communications were uninterrupted by guerillas, and were...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 24, 1863
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We have nearly the same regulations here as at Newport News, everything being regulated by bugle call. Of course, we drill; it would be hard...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 25, 1863
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We are still in camp, where each day is like the preceding one. The same routine of "duty" is gone through with, which, to me, is ...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 27, 1863
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Nicholasville, Ky. We are again enjoying the quiet of camp life. Our miniature tents are pitched in regular order, streets are policed and b...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 28, 1863
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Camp Dick Robinson, Ky. Again we are on the move en route to Crab Orchard, thirty miles from our late camp, where a military post is to be e...
Diary of Musician David Lane, August 30, 1863
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Crab Orchard, Ky. We arrived at 10 a. m., making ten miles from Lancaster this morning. Crab Orchard is a lovely town of about one thousand ...
Monday, October 13, 2025
Senator Charles Sumner to Henry Wilson, April 29, 1852
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I notice the attack on me in the 'Liberator.' If need be, I shall show backbone in resisting the pressure even of friends. Had I u...
Samuel Gridley Howe to Senator Charles Sumner, 1852
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God bless you for your truly noble and courageous course! Follow it up to the end, however, without caring for blessing or cursing. Such thi...
Wendell Phillips to Senator Charles Sumner, 1852
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I congratulate you most sincerely on the happy issue or your efforts for Drayton and Sayres. You have earned your honors. SOURCE: Edward L...
Senator Charles Sumner to John Bigelow, February 3, 1852
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I am won very much by Houston's conversation. 1 With him the antislavery interest would stand better than with any man who seems now am...
Senator Charles Sumner to Theodore Parker, February 6, 1852
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I have yours of 25th of January proposing to me to write an article on Judge Story in the Westminster Review. As a filial service I should b...
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