Deek Spooner Benj
Swearengen took their waggon & I & Amandus & our Orderly & Phil
Whitzell went over into Ill some 6 or 8 miles took dinner at Dr Griswells they
have a baring orchard of fifty acres I got some apples for the Boys & 10
gallons of Sider evening we returned & I am now with my children at Kelleys
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
I spent the day with
my children most of the time in the city 4 Oc we went out to camp & I took
command of our Company on Dress perade my children took supper with us at Camp.
Ben Swearengen & Deek Spooner started home in their wagon & Lemuel L
Spooner & John W Williams started home to Centerville on the cars this
morning
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
There was no
drilling afternoon we had batallion drill & Dress perade about noon one of
Capt Sawyers men from Appanoose Co Company C died his wife was by him this is
the 2nd in our Reg evening I attended a Speaking meeting in the 30th Reg we had
a good time
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
10 Oc I & Emma
Amandus & our Cozens Maria & Mary Kelley attended Catholic Church after
which we went to the Hospital Boat & from that we went to the hospitals
& amongst the sick & wounded 5 Oc I was on dress perade evening I
preached in the tent 30th Reg text Gal 6th 1st & 2nd v
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92
1 William P. Shipley, age 25, residence
Eddyville, nativity Tennessee. Enlisted August 13, 1862, Company D.
Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry. Died of disease October 20, 1862, at Keokuk,—"Roster
Iowa Soldiers," Vol. V, p. 716.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 92-3
Forenoon I was on
Company drill afternoon Division & Battalion drill & Dress perade,
evening Emma Cozen Maria Kelly & I attended a Medical Lecture at the
Medical Colledge we visited some of the sick soldiers in part of the Colledge
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon we ware on
Co drill afternoon on Brigade & battallion drill & Dress perade. Our
Capt is poorly in his bed most of the day the 26th Reg passed down on a Packet
landed a short time they are a fine looking set of men. evening Emma & I
attended the African Church & seen some contrabands just from South
Carolina
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
I went with our Capt
to the Hospital & gave him his medison & staid with him most of the day
afternoon a short time on drill & Dress perade evening Emma & I attended
prayer meeting at exchange St Church after that we went into see some of our
sick Soldiers in the Hospital
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
It was so cold we
did not drill any this day Emma & I visited the hospitals & tryed to
Comfort the suffering evening Emma Amandus & I attended the prayer meeting
at the African church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
We did not drill but
had Dress perade at 4 Oc the 30th Reg left here this day on the Packet John
Warner they ware in fine spirits I had the children all with me to see them
leave then Emma & I attended the hospitals & evening Emma & Mary
Kelly & I attended meeting in the hospital in the lighton house & I
spoke from the 1st Psalm one of the 30th died
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Our Reg got our
coats pants shirts & socks & caps & they needed them verry much 9
Oc I was at love feast in the African church then visited our boys in the
hospital. then helped to receive & distribute the uniform 4 Oc we were on
dress perade evening Emma & Mrs & Miss Kelly visited the hospitals
& attended preaching at exchange church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon I drilled
the Co & was on dress perade. 1st Lieut drilled the Co afternoon. I took my
children & visited the hospitals. the centance of the Courtmartial on 2
deserters from Co C. 36 Reg Iowa & was read on Dress perade they are
brothers each forfeit one months pay & one is put on hard labor for 2 weeks
& have 1⁄2 his head clipped & be kept in the guard house at nights.
Evening Miss Mary & Miss Richey of Ill spent the evening at Kellys with us
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
Forenoon we drilled in the manuel of arms evening I took Miss Richey of Ill to the sociable at the M E Church Chatam Square we had a pleasant time
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93
We drilled forenoon
in manual of arms & afternoon in battallion drill & dress perade Our
Reg took a march through the citty & drilled some on main Street evening I
wrote our Capt a letter visited the hospitals & with our 1st & 2nd
Seargent took a dish of Oisters two of the men of our Reg in Capt Vermilions
Co. ware sent home to be buried
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 93-4
Forenoon I drilled
the Co in the manual of arms afternoon we ware on battallion drill & dress
perade & ware down on main street & had our arms inspected I visited
our boys in the hospital morning & night some of them are verry sick one of
Co [F] Capt Vermilion died he is a brother to one that was sent up yesterday
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
I was Officer of the
Guard & was up near all night it was a beautiful night. one of our boys
Josiah Biddison is verry sick & some doubts of his recovery
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 94
WASHINGTON, January 2, 1849.
MY DEAR SON,—I
received your letter of the 27th November, and I was happy to hear of the
continued health of Susan and your children, and especially that she had so
easy an accouchement. That was the result of her previous exercise and the
climate of Lisbon.
I am sorry to hear
of the bad prospect of your getting our claims satisfied. I wrote you a few
days ago, giving a long account of an interview which I had with the Portuguese
minister, etc., about the case of the General Armstrong. In the course of it,
he told me that he thought some of our claims were just, and so did the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and that they would be paid. If we are to come to
any appeal to force, perhaps it will be as well that they should reject them
all, those which are clearly just as well as those which are contestable. But,
as it would be a feather in your cap, I should like that you would get them all
owned, or as many as you can.
The minister told me
that the owners of the General Armstrong demanded $250,000. That sum strikes me
to be erroneous. If they agree to admit the claim, you might stipulate to have
the amount fixed by some commission; or, which would be better, if the owners
have an agent at Lisbon, you might get him to fix the very lowest sum which
they would be willing to receive, which might not exceed one fifth of the sum
demanded.
I mentioned
confidentially to Sir H. Bulwer, the British minister, my apprehensions of a
difficulty with Portugal, and he said he would write to Lord Palmerston, and
suggest to him to interpose his good offices, etc. He told me that a brother of
Lord Morpeth was the British Chargé at Portugal. If he resembles his brother,
you will find him a clever fellow.
No certain
developments are yet made of what Congress may do on the subject of slavery. I
think there is a considerable majority in the House, and probably one in the
Senate, in favor of the Wilmot proviso. I have been thinking much of proposing
some comprehensive scheme of settling amicably the whole question, in all its
bearings; but I have not yet positively determined to do so. Meantime some of
the Hotspurs of the South are openly declaring themselves for a dissolution of
the Union, if the Wilmot proviso be adopted. This sentiment of disunion is more
extensive than I had hoped, but I do not regard it as yet alarming. It does not
reach many of the Slave States.
You complain of not
hearing from Kentucky. I have the same complaint. I have not received a letter
from John for a long time. My last was from Thomas, of the 18th ult. They were
then all well.
I am glad to hear
that Henry is placed at school, but am sorry that his defects continue to
display themselves. We must hope that he will correct them as he grows older,
and in the mean time console ourselves that his faults are not worse than they are.
My love to Susan,
the boys, and your children.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 582-3
NEW ORLEANS, January 26, 1849.
MY DEAR SIR,—I met
with an accidental but violent fall a week ago, in carelessly descending a
flight of stairs, to receive a gentleman who bore me a letter of introduction,
and I got terribly bruised. I broke no bones, but it disabled me, for the
present, from walking without assistance, and almost from writing.
I received yesterday
your favor of the 12th, and to-day that of the 14th. I regret extremely that
the use of my name, in connection with the office of Senator, should have
created any division among the Whigs, or excited any dissatisfaction with any
one. God knows that I have no personal desire to return to that body, nor any
private or ambitious purposes to promote by resuming a seat in it. I expressed
to you and to other friends, at the period of my departure from home, the exact
state of my feelings, when I declared that I could not reconcile it to my
feelings to become a formal or an avowed candidate; and that if the General
Assembly had any other person in view, I did not wish to interfere with him. I
added that, if, nevertheless, the Legislature thought proper to require my
services in the Senate, deference to their will, a sense of public duty, and the
hope of doing some good, would prompt me to accept the office.
These views are
unchanged. According to them, it follows that I have no desire to have my name
pressed upon the General Assembly, and I hope that it will not be presented,
unless it is manifestly the free and voluntary wish of a majority of that body.
It would be a great mortification to me to be thought to be solicitous for that
office, and to be supposed to be seeking it from the reluctant grant of the
Legislature. I hope that my friends will act in consonance with the state of my
feelings, and not suffer my name to be used but on the conditions which I have
stated.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 583-4
NEW ORLEANS, January 31, 1849.
MY DEAR SIR,—The
breaking out of the cholera here prevented my meeting General Taylor in this city,
as had been expected. I met him at Baton Rouge, but only long enough to
exchange friendly salutations, without any opportunity to converse on public
affairs.
About a fortnight
ago I met with a terrible accidental fall, which, although fortunately I broke
no bones, has for the present confined me to my lodgings, disabled me from
walking, and almost from writing. To that cause is owing my not having earlier
acknowledged the receipt of your friendly letter of the 25th ultimo.
I suppose that I
shall be elected to the Senate by the General Assembly of Kentucky, in which
case I shall hardly feel myself at liberty to decline, conferred as the office
will be without any solicitation from me, without my being a candidate, and
with the knowledge of a strong disinclination on my part to return to that
body. Deference to the will of the General Assembly, a sense of duty, and the
possibility of my being able to do some good, overcome my repugnance. If I go
to Washington, it will be with an anxious desire that I shall be able to
support the measures of the new Administration, in consequence of their
conformity with Whig policy.
There seems to be
yet some slight prospect of a settlement at Washington of the Free Soil
question; but we shall see.
The cholera has
nearly entirely disappeared from this city.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 584
Scalding heat during
forenoon; heavy showers follow. Water is running through camp like a flood.
Prisoners reported missing, rations suspended; Rebels are making a stir on the
outside.
Finished
"Paradise Lost"; called on Harriman. He supplied us with Pollock's
"ourse of Time." We had read this, but it is now more acceptable. In
our view it is a work of more natural thought and imbibes less of the
unnatural. Milton has soulstirring passages, alive with truth, significant
expression and beautiful simplicity. Then he goes deeply into themes beyond
most conceptions; we don't wish to not, unless this is "Paradise
Lost." Confederacy when he said:
follow him, or
cannot, have Did he mean the Southern
"Devils with devils damned firm concord
hold."
Did he mean the North when he wrote:
"Men only disagree of creatures
rational,
Though under hope of heavenly grace"
how they should save the Union?
The following lines express a truth in human experience:
"God proclaiming peace,
Yet men live in hatred, enmity and strife
Among themselves, and levy cruel wars
Wasting the earth, each other to destroy,
As if man had not hellish foes enough
besides,
That day and night for his destruction
wait."
Milton seems to have
designed to impress the thought that man had hellish foes distinct from his
race, awaiting his destruction, which originated through rebellious war in
heaven. I think the causes of our troubles lie in our lack of knowledge and
misconception of our social relations, wicked ambition, foolish pride, and that
these lines better fit an earthly than a heavenly realm.
The usual monotony
except an unusual amount of firing by sentry. Prisoners arrive daily from both
our great armies. Men crowd near them to get news and hardtack; occasionally
old friends meet. About half the camp draw raw meal; we are of that half this
week; have the trouble of cooking it without salt or seasoning or wood, half
the time. We stir it in water, bake it on plates held over a splinter fire with
a stiff stick, or boil it into mush or dumplings, baking or boiling as long as
fuel lasts.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 70-1
