Friday 21st It has been pleasant today, it was frozen up this morning. I have been in the office as usual. Willie Taft spent part of the day with me at the office while his Ma & the other boys went to the Presidents. The illumination will not take place tomorrow night in consequence of [...]
FEBRUARY 21st.—All our garrison in Fort Henry, with Gen. Tilghman, surrendered. I think we had only 1500 men there. Guns, ammunition, and stores, all gone. No news from Donelson—and that is bad news. Benjamin says he has no definite information. But prisoners taken say the enemy have been reinforced, and are hurling 80,000 against our [...]
Friday, 21st–We are to bid goodby to Lookout Station tomorrow. Some of the good people living here are sorry to see us go. May they have success for their loyalty to the Union cause.
Feb. 21st. Continued our journey and reached Kansas City a little after noon. Arrested two men pretending to be secessionists–drunk. Encamped out on snow and ice a little distance from town. Major heard of a gang of jay-hawkers and secessionists at Independence under Parker and Quantrell. He detailed 150 men to go after them under [...]
February 21.–Our society met at Fanny Palmer’s this afternoon. I went but did not stay to tea as we were going to Madame Anna Bishop’s concert in the evening. The concert was very, very good. Her voice has great scope and she was dressed in the latest stage costume, but it took so much material [...]
Eliza Woolsey Howland to Joe Howland. February 21 We went yesterday to the Navy Yard and were very much interested in all we saw. They make 15,000 Enfield rifle and musket balls in every twelve hours, or 30,000 while (as now) they work day and night! They also turn out 800 rifled and other cannon [...]
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Open Content Program Title: [General George Brinton McClellan and his wife] Artist/Maker: Charles DeForest Fredricks (American, 1823 – 1894) Culture: American Place: New York, United States (Place Created) Date: 1862 Medium: Albumen silver print Object Number: 84.XD.1157.100 Dimensions: 9 × 5.4 cm (3 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.) Signature(s): (Verso, [...]
February 21st.–A crowd collected here last night and there was a serenade. I am like Mrs. Nickleby, who never saw a horse coming full speed but she thought the Cheerybles had sent post-haste to take Nicholas into co-partnership. So I got up and dressed, late as it was. I felt sure England had sought our [...]
21st.–No grounds yet on which to base an opinion as to when or where we shall go. One day brings us assurances that our Division will in a few days go to Annapolis to join the mortar fleet bound South. The next we hear that we are to advance and take Manassas. To-day we hear [...]