HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY CONFEDERATE STATES, March 29, 1861. Charleston, S. 0., March 29, 1861. Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, U.S. Army, Commanding at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 8. 0.: DEAR MAJsor: Your…
WAR DEPARTMENT, June 15, 1863. June 15, 1863—2.30 a. m. Hon. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg : On arrival at 1 a. m., I had an interview with…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 10, 1864. No. 31. Richmond, March 10, 1864. I. The following act of Congress, ”for the suspension of the writ of habeas…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco : DEAR SIR: Since addressing you under yesterday’s date information has…
City Point, Va., January 10, 1865. Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary of War. It will be seen from the within letter that the Confederate authorities have paroled General Hayes and…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 10, 1864. No. 31. Richmond, March 10, 1864. I. The following act of Congress, ”for the suspension of the writ of habeas…
Executive Mansion, Washington, August 17, 1864. Lieutenant General Grant. I have seen your despatch expressing your wish that all competition for negro laborers might be suppressed. I do not wish…
Message. Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives : Since your last annual assembling another year of health and bountiful harvests has passed. And while it has not pleased…
Message Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In the midst of unprecedented political troubles, we have cause of great gratitude to God for unusual good health, and most…