Crawfordville, Georgia, 30th December, 1860. Dear Sir,—Yours of the 22d instant was received two days ago. I hold it and appreciate it as you intended. Personally, I am not your enemy,—far from it; and however widely we may differ politically, yet I trust we both have an earnest desire to preserve and maintain the Union [...]
Mr. Hart to Mr. Phelps. EL Paso, Texas, January 29, 1860. My Dear Major: By the return of the express to Chihuahua, I advised the governor, Señor Munoz, (who by the by is my wife’s cousin,) in the event that he could not hold Chihuahua, to fall back on the Rio Grande, bringing with him [...]
Major Heintzelman to Colonel Seawall. Headquarters Brownsville Expedition, Fort Brown, Texas, January 29, 1860. Sir: I have the honor to report that I left Roma on the 15th and arrived here on the 21st of January with Captain Stoneman’s company of cavalry. On the march along the main road we found all the ranchos deserted, [...]
A. J. Grover, Esq Springfield, Ills. My dear Sir: Jany. 15. 1860 Yours of the 9th. was duly received. In my joint debate with Douglas, at Freeport, Aug. 27. 1858, I said about all I have ever publicly said concerning the Fugitive slave law of [...]
Robert Toombs to Alexander H. Stephens. R. Washington, D. C, 11 Jany., 1860. Dear Stephens, I recd. your letters of the 1st, 3d, and 6th and 7th inst. yesterday morning and last night. The freezing up of the Potomac piled up all the mails at Acquia Creek and expect kept mine to you here. Yours [...]
Hon. Abraham Lincoln Jan. 9th 1859 [1860]. Dr Sir — It has been publicly stated in this place that you endorse the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, as constitutional in its object, & in its provisions in All Respects– You would would confer a favour upon the writer of this as well as upon many [...]
Washington, D. C, Jany. 5th, 1860. Dear Stephens, . . . Gilmer never got a Democratic vote on any ballot. I strongly advised them against it, and so far they have firmly adhered. I think Sherman will certainly be elected. He lacked but three votes yesterday, owing to the absence of Dan Sickles without a [...]
Crawfordville [Ga.], Jan. 5th, 1860. Dear Smith: . . . My being out of sorts in health I think is owing to the weather. We have no news. Times rather hard and some complaint with the people for money. Provisions are high and property of all kinds higher than I ever knew it to be. [...]
The bark George Henry, Captain Sidney O. Budington, of New London (1860) was a whaling ship used in a 1860-61 arctic expedition by Charles Francis Hall primarily intended to learn the fate of Franklin’s lost expedition.
On January 1, 1860, the whole number of commissioned officers in the regular army was 1,083; of non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates, 11,848; total 12, 931. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the year 1861
1856 Tuesday New York 19 Aug W F M Arny Dear Sir, I succeeded yesterday in getting our Tabernacle Committee to pass Resolution paying over the Funds to the Chicago Com. I have sent Winchell to Hartford for 50 Sharpe’s Rifles & are negotiating here for 2 or $3,000 worth of side arms. Col Topliff [...]
1856 Burnet House. Burlington, Iowa.Thursday, 17th July Dear Al. I am very sorry that I went to St. Louis last Monday. I wanted then to cross over here and come down and see you while my friend the Dr. should go to St. Louis. But his urgency that I should go with him — his [...]
Osawatomie K T 16th Dec 1855 Sabbath Evening Dear Wife & Children every one I improve the first Mail since my return from the camp of volunteers who lately turned out for the defence of the town of Lawrence in this Territory; & not withstanding I suppose you have learned the result before this (possibly) [...]
Kansas 1855 Browns Station, Kansas Territory, 14th Decem 1855 Orson Day Esqr White Hall N Y Dear Sir I have just returned for the Kansas War (about which you have no doubt learned by the news papers;) & find your Letter of the 19th Nov. As I intend to send you shortly a paper published [...]
Kansas 1855 Richmond friday Dec 7 1855 Dear Brother Thinking you May Want to hear Whare I am and how I get along I take my pen to inform you — I am on my way to Kansas City My health is improving. I think if I am carefull I Shall get along without any [...]
Lexiton Misesoury Saterday Nov 31/55 Dear Wife…… I arived here this afternoon We Started from St Lewis Monday Eve and arived at Hills Landing So Called about 25 Miles from here Whare we had to disembark on account of Low Water we could get no farther we had over two Hundred passengers all had to [...]