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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)
t, 47, 220, 221. G. Gamble, Governor, 242. Garfield, General, 240. Garrison, 167. Gilbert, Wall Street Assessor, 255. Goldsborough, Admiral, 240. Grant, General, 56, 57, 265, 283, 292. Greeley, 152. Greene, W. T., 267. Gulliver, Rev. J. B., Reminiscences, 309. H. Halpine, Colonel, 63, 278 Hammond, Surgeon as a lawyer. 245; attorney of the people, 245; little influence with this administration, 246; reply to Stanton's detractor, 246; the German lieutenant, 246; General Grant's whiskey, 247; no personal vices, 247; serenade speeches, 248; his own war minister, 249; illustration from Euclid 249; pigeonhearted 250; minneboohoo, 251; H; appointment of chaplains, 277; appreciation of humor, 278; public opinion baths, 281; on the Lord's side, 282; going down with colors flying, 282; opinion of General Grant, 253; interview with Messrs. Colfax and Ashmun, evening of assassination, 284; at City-Point hospital, 287; Lincoln and the rebel soldier, 288; last interview
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Oh September, 1859. (search)
ou ought to thank Judge Douglas for having put that in a much more taking way than any of yourselves have done. Again, Douglas's great principle, Popular Sovereignty, as he calls it, gives you, by natural consequence, the revival of the slave-trade whenever you want it. If you question this, listen awhile, consider awhile, what I shall advance in support of that proposition. He says that it is the sacred right of the man who goes into the Territories, to have slavery if he wants it. Grant that for argument's sake. Is it not the sacred right of the man who dont go there equally to buy slaves in Africa, if he wants them? Can you point out the difference? The man who goes into the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, or any other new Territory, with the sacred right of taking a slave there which belongs to him, would certainly have no more right to take one there than I would, who own no slave, but who would desire to buy one and take him there. You will not say-you, the frie
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 19. (search)
suppress the Rebellion. dealing with McClellan and Grant. efforts to hasten the Emancipation Proclamation Lapacity. His confidence in the ability and power of Grant, when the press and many of the people had turned ag New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky. The result, as Grant so aptly expressed it in his telegram of congratulattains of Tennessee through Georgia to the sea, while Grant, with stolid indifference to public criticism and neturning from the sea, was aiming for Richmond, where Grant, with bull-dog tenacity, held Lee firmly in his gras half its original numbers, evacuated Richmond, with Grant in close pursuit. A few days later the boys in blueCabinet. At eleven o'clock he met the Cabinet. General Grant was present. He spent the afternoon with Governbly Vice-President. Johnson, Secretary Stanton, General Grant, and perhaps others. Booth had left a card for ward received wounds, from which he soon recovered. Grant, who was to have accompanied Lincoln to the theatre
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862. (search)
The nation mourns him as one of our most accomplished officers. He fell while commanding in the thickest of the fight. It is an overwhelming loss to the Western army, and to the whole country. Beauregard pursued the enemy, but their General (Grant) having been reinforced very largely, our army had to retreat to Corinth, which they did in good order. This was done by order of General Johnston, should Buell reinforce Grant. They are now at Corinth, awaiting an attack from the combined forcGrant. They are now at Corinth, awaiting an attack from the combined forces. Van Dorn reinforced Beauregard. We are anxiously awaiting the result. April 10th, 1862. Spent yesterday in the hospital by the bedside of Nathan Newton, our little Alabamian. I closed his eyes last night at ten o'clock, after an illness of six weeks. His body, by his own request, will be sent to his mother. Poor little boy! He was but fifteen, and should never have left his home. It was sad to pack his knapsack, with his little gray suit, and coloured shirts, so neatly stitched
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1863. (search)
Mrs. Minor and his sisters, and is doing remarkably well. Colonel Ruffin received a telegram to-day, and I a letter. She passed her hand across her eyes for a minute, and said, Thank God, his life is spared! Next morning she left us for the University. General Bragg has met with a repulse in the South-west, and was pursued; but, being reinforced, has again attacked the enemy and repulsed them. This occurred in the Northwestern part of Georgia. The papers say that the enemy under General Grant has retreated towards Chattanooga. Longstreet, when last heard from, was at Knoxville. Meade, on the Rapidan, after having been in line of battle for several days, has fallen back, finding that General Lee was ready to meet him. December 6, 1863. I this morning attended the funeral of Mr. John Seddon, brother of the Secretary of War. It was a most solemn occasion; he was a man of fine talents and high character. The Rev. Dr. Moore, of the Presbyterian Church, preached a most b
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1864. (search)
Our army on the Rapidan is in line of battle. Grant is moving his mighty columns. Where the battlll not be able to go before the afternoon. Grant's force is said to be between one hundred and ave us an account of another repulse given General Grant, with great slaughter. We suffered littleemy was repulsed, and driven back; and yet General Grant prepares for a fresh attack. It is said t the least of casualties. Generals Lee and Grant still fighting. On the south side, Beaureglesser rank were there from time to time. General Grant was encamped at S. H. for a time. Dr. B. commissariat is the chief object of the trip. Grant still before Petersburg, sending transports, es, etc., rattle by, morning, noon, and night. Grant remains passive on the Appomattox, occasionallrth, from the sanguinary work of this summer! Grant still remains near Petersburg; still by that mat has been done in that way. He telegraphs to Grant that he has burned 2,000 barns. The Lord shor[6 more...]
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1865. (search)
snows and sunshine of our variable climate having made the roads impassable to Grant's artillery and baggage-wagons. A soldier in our hospital called to me as I pa5. Sheridan's raid through the country is perfectly awful, and he has joined Grant, without being caught. Oh, how we listened to hear that he had been arrested ihe Upper Valley, the Piedmont country, the tide-water country, until he reached Grant. His soldiers were allowed to commit any cruelty on non-combatants that suiteded it upon our great commander and his gallant army. How all this happened-how Grant's hundreds of thousands overcame our little band, history, not I, must tell my r could accomplish. The scenes at the surrender were noble and touching. General Grant's bearing was profoundly respectful; General Lee's as courtly and lofty as when she found that her mammy, deceived and misled by the minions who followed Grant's army, had left her ; and to see how her affection still clings to her, showin
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 11: Kentucky. (search)
est Point education, by laying aside his clerical functions and accepting a major-general's commission in the Confederate service. On September 5th he began moving his forces northward, violating the neutrality of Kentucky by occupying the town of Hickman, on the Mississippi, within that State. The movement did not pass unobserved; the Union commander at Cairo had, with equal vigilance, been studying the possibilities of the river system in his neighborhood. On the following day, Brigadier-General Grant proceeded, with two gunboats and an infantry force, to take possession of the town of Paducah, at the confluence of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers with the Ohio — a movement which bore important fruit a few months later. General Polk, on his part still marching northward, reached and occupied Columbus, on the Mississippi, on September 7th. Having hastily procured the endorsement of this step from Jefferson Davis, General Polk, on the 9th, formally notified Governor Magoffin
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
Captain G. V., 51; sails in command of expedition for relief of Fort Sumter, 59 Franklin, General W. B., 174 Fremont, General J. C., 133 Frost, D. M., 117 et seq. G. Gainesville, Va., 181 Gamble, Hamilton R., 125 Garnett, General, 146, 154 Georgia, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8, 12; secession of, 13 et seq. Gist, Governor of South Carolina, his circular letter, 1, 8, 27 Gosport Navy Yard, destruction of, 96 et seq. Grafton, 142 et seq., 146 Grant, General U. S., 134 Great Bethel, Va., engagement at, 172 Green, Captain, 117 Griffin, Captain, 188, 191, 192 Guthrie, Colonel, 131 H. Hagerstown, Md., 157 Hamlin, Hannibal, 76 Harney, General, 119 et seq. Harper's Ferry, United States Armory at, 83; capture of, by rebels, 95, 98; retaken from the rebels, 157; weakness of, 158; destroyed by Johnston, 161 Harrisburg, 100 Hayne, I. W., 35, 37 Heintzelman, General S. P., commands Third Division on advance to Manassa
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 20: the General exchange. (search)
s no great thing to build such sheds. True. And yet they were a blessing to a number of wretched prisoners who were almost naked, and had there been more of them, and had they been built in the fall, they would have saved many lives. Thus the winter wore away. March came; and looking over the stockade toward the forest, we could see the burst buds and tender leaves, telling of springtime and a new year. We heard no news from the war, in which we were so intensely interested. What was Grant doing? Where was Sherman? What had become of Thomas since his victory at Nashville? These questions were often asked-but as they were never answered, to ask them only intensified our sadness. But the great question — the one that took precedence over all others, was: Why don't our Government exchange prisoners and get us out? It was a hard strain on our patriotism to feel that we were neglected by our own Government. For we believed then, as we learned certainly afterward, that
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