= December 13. The rebel steamer “Nashville” is lying at Southampton waiting to be repaired. She burned on her way out the American ship “Harvey Birch,” in ballast, and brought the crew in irons to England. She has no letters of marque and I believe is not a national vessel, though Pegram, the...
December 14. The English Cabinet, on hearing of the seizure of Mason and Slidell from the mail steamer “Trent,” forbade the export of saltpetre and lead, ordered arms sent to Canada, put several vessels in commission, and sent secret orders to their ambassador, Lord Lyons, as the newspapers state...
I can hardly explain to myself how it has happened that I shld so long have delayed writing, but so it is, and I find there is not a very distant prospect of my entering into another year without a line sent to acknowledge yr. last kind favours. All that I can plead is that I have been unusually...
January 1. This morning Mason and Slidell and attachés were put on board a tugboat and taken to Provincetown, where the British gunboat “Rinaldo” was waiting. She sailed that night at six in the face of a severe northwest gale. Mr. William Appleton is failing. He died February 15. Incendiary...
PATRIOT WAR CORRESPONDENCE. From the Eighth Regiment. LETTER FROM MAJOR J. W. JEFFERSON. Camp—in the Swamp, near Sikestown, Mo.}March 9, 1862. Dear Brother:—We have been in the swamp just a week to-day. We were ordered away a week ago, with two days’ rations, to Charleston, Mo. As the road was in...
I write to let you know that I am well & unhurt up to this time, I write this on the side of the road. I sent word to Aunt Mary & asked her to write to you I have seen nothing of either Willie or Tom but would have heard if they were hurrt hurt None of our officers are hurt
Wisconsin Men Killed and Wounded at the Battle of Corinth. eighth regiment Field-Officers wounded—Lt. Col. Robbins, slight in abdomen; Maj. J. W. Jefferson, slight in shoulder.
I dont know what Jane wrote to you about the General’s resignation, so being here at my office, my work over and nothing to do for an hour, except to wait to see whether my new master Genl Smith (“Sec of War ad interim” an office of the Presidents creation) has any commands for me, I feel too...
1863 General McClellan passed some days in the beginning of February in Boston. He was most enthusiastically received by the people. There was a monster reception at the Tremont House of fifteen thousand people. He received a silver pitcher from the children and a sword from the Citizens’...
Yours of 27th Ult. came duly to hand—Lizzie says two letters were recd from you for me when I was sick, if I ever hear’d of them before I had entirely forgottan all about it, looking in drawers &c I have found one of the 20th Decr there is something in it about Money and Dr Henderson—now in...
I hasten to drop you this line; I cannot write much, as I have no time or spirits. Since the 2nd of May up to yesterday (excepting two days I was in Jackson, Miss.,) I have been continually on the March and fighting the rebels. I had not until to-day changed my clothes or had a decent meal for...
IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE. Brilliant Movement of Gen. Rosecrans’ Army—The Enemy Driven Out of All Their Strong Positions—Their Retreat to Tullahoma—Particulars of the Battle at Hoover’s Gap. Head-quarters of the Army of the Cumberland, Manchester, Tenn., Monday, June 28.—General Reynolds, at 8 A....
I write to let you know that I am well, tho’ wounded Slightly, and a prisoner, I was not So much disabled, but that I could have walked off if I had been a little quicker. I wrote to my aunt the other day, but a very general letter, letting her know my condition &, that you were all well at...
Capt Bennett Taylor of the 19th virginia Regiment is well, & slightly wounded in the side, & wishes these facts known to his friends at home in Virginia. He is presumed to be, or to have been recently in Baltimore as a prisoner; but as intercourse with prisoners is not allowed, it is not...
My husband received your letter today, requesting him to inquire for your Son Bennett. As he is on a parole it will be my pleasure to assist you in any way I can—I learned a week ago, that your Son was in the battle, and I immediately wrote a friend to search for him—The restrictions at that time...
REPORTS FROM NASHVILLE No Fighting on Wednesday. Nashville, September 23.—The news from the front to-day is meagre. No trains have arrived from the South to-night. It is reported that they are being detained to bring up the wounded. A telegram from the front reports that there was no fighting to...
I was very glad to hear from you that there was a probability of Bennetts being exchanged—I have written to Commissioner Ould & stated to him that Bennett was my Senior Capt & how important it was to the Regt at this time to have his services. I truly hope the exchange may be effected ...
Major Coolidge.—Major Sidney Coolidge, of this city, reported to have been killed at Chattanooga, is, we understand, a prisoner supposed to be wounded. He was second in command of the regulars under Brig.-General John H. King.
Major Coolidge.—We are sorry to learn that while it seems probable that Major Sidney Coolidge of the Sixteenth United States Infantry was wounded and taken prisoner at Chickamauga, his friends are still without that specific intelligence which would make it certain that he survived that terrible...
Jefferson’s Descendants.—Hon. Henry S. Randall, of Courtland Village, N.Y., and author of a “Life of Jefferson,” writing to a friend in Columbus, says: “Alas how his descendants are divided in this war! All his grandsons go with the South. George Wythe Randolph, the Confederate Secretary of War,...
1864 During this year the war continued in all its force, but we were gradually breaking down the Confederate strength and preparing for their surrender in April, 1865. The financial condition of the country became appalling, gold reaching at one time two hundred and seventy-six, and the English...
MAJOR SIDNEY COOLIDGE. The painful uncertainty of the earlier accounts from Chattanooga and from Richmond, relative to the fate of Major Coolidge of the 16th U. S. Infantry, reported as killed, then as a prisoner, and again, officially, as “missing in action” on the fatal field of Chickamauga,...
In my hurried retreat from the ‘old homestead,’ I omitted to procure the description boundaries &c of the Lot whc I sold to My sister Eliza, and as you are her agent in business matters, I write to inform you of the cause of delay in forwarding as promised, the relinquishment of Dower. Send...
I was rejoiced to hear from Mary a few days ago that you are much improved in health, and I trust that this will find you at Saratoga, enjoying that quiet and freedom from household duties, so essential to one in yr. enfeebled condition. It is the one thing needful for you my dear Sister; the one...
I am going to make one more effort to revive our correspondence, which I hope will be more sucessful than those through the past winter. It seems as though some unwonted fate had attended every effort to acquaint my dearly loved relatives of Mill Brook, with my whereabouts, since I have been...