Thursday, October 7, 2021

“I will do all I can to prevent a laudable zeal from doing injury to either kind of service…”—The Letters of Samuel Ryan Curtis

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Head Quarters Camp of Instruction Benton Barracks (near St. Louis) Oct 7. 1861 Governor H R Gamble1 Dear Sir Yours of the 5th inst. on the subject of conflicting enrollment by States and United States Officers, is just received. When I have been informed of men brought in this camp who had been previously enrolled [...]

The Letters of Samuel Ryan Curtis

Return of the Wounded

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Return of Wounded Soldiers of the Federal Army Captured at Bull Run–Scene in Hampton Roads on Board the United States Steamer ‘Louisiana’ to which they were Transferred, under a Flag of Truce, October 7th, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New [...]

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Intolerable heat, thunderstorm, thunderclaps and blinding lightning.— William Howard Russell’s Diary.

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October 7th.—The heat to-day was literally intolerable, and wound up at last in a tremendous thunderstorm with violent gusts of rain. At the Legation, where Lord Lyons entertained the English visitors at dinner, the rooms were shaken by thunder claps, and the blinding lightning seemed at times to turn the well illuminated rooms into caves [...]

My Diary North and South – William Howard Russell

“Why do the Southern agents have it all their own way?”–Adams Family Letters, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to his brother, Henry.

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Quincy, Sunday, October 6, 1861 I received your letter of the 7th some ten days ago and not a word from London since; so that as I have seen no signs of trouble in the press, I presume the little flurry you there mention has passed away. In fact I cannot say I share your [...]

Adams Family Civil War letters; US Minister to the UK and his sons.

Civil War Day-By-Day

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October 7, 1861 Confederate government signs a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Gen. W. F. Sherman, relieved. Gen. Robert Anderson relieved of his command in Kentucky, his health not permitting him to enter on active service. Gen. Fremont and his army leave Jefferson City, Mo., in [...]

Civil War Day-by-Day