294 25 22278 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/9852d43f6b515462760c2227b8139525.pdf 4a6a8dcf572cc73939c18d5357866dda Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 7, Folder 04 (August 6-7, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Fuller to [Richard Yates] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-08-07 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 501840 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2ee343786daf991670312d332655c6e9.pdf 6de79ab2be88838be99b882547f5c2a8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 5, Folder 04 (January 1-14, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Hay to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 501147 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/3aa3848d22579f038315f18831b06166.pdf ebe97773f96b73816f813232fc8060d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 7, Folder 01 (July 29-31, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Hay to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-07-29 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 501614 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/25cb6dac488010faaa0fb025c1203282.pdf b3d7664320ee112b94428ddb4405a7f1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Belleville, Ills, Aug 11, '62 Gov Yates - The bearer Wm E Miller long a resident of this county, is a good Rep. Union Man, and well worthy of your consideration and favor Yours truly J B Underwood J B Hay. <hr /> J.B.Hay, Belleville, Aug. 11. Letter of recommendation in favor of Wm E Miller. Had interview Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 7, Folder 06 (August 10-11, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Hay to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-08-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 501970 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Belleville, Ills, Aug 11, '62 Gov Yates - The bearer Wm E Miller long a resident of this county, is a good Rep. Union Man, and well worthy of your consideration and favor Yours truly J B Underwood J B Hay. <hr /> J.B.Hay, Belleville, Aug. 11. Letter of recommendation in favor of Wm E Miller. Had interview Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/63861f889e721624df4f266d124a59de.pdf b4b90e90ddaeb477a23f0ea2d6773e78 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Louisiana Mo. May 2d 1863. To whom it may concern This is to state, that I am well acquainted with the bearer Capt J. B. Roberts who for some years has been a resident of this county. Capt R. at an early day after the origin of the rebellion took up arms in defence of the country, and performed valuable service in suppressing disturbance in North East Missouri. Capt R. bears a good reputation for <hr /> energy, honesty and upright bearing He deserves well of all friends of the country Your friend J. B. Henderson Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 02 (May 1-15, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Henderson to Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-05-02 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506702 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Louisiana Mo. May 2d 1863. To whom it may concern This is to state, that I am well acquainted with the bearer Capt J. B. Roberts who for some years has been a resident of this county. Capt R. at an early day after the origin of the rebellion took up arms in defence of the country, and performed valuable service in suppressing disturbance in North East Missouri. Capt R. bears a good reputation for <hr /> energy, honesty and upright bearing He deserves well of all friends of the country Your friend J. B. Henderson Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/1bb887e15409ffb7c0dff8d09ce4b731.pdf 7e4a84f3ebe82666b9d4434e8f4e6b43 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 06 (October 1-10, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Humbeck to [Richard Yates] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506412 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2d842369199223e82f7ddec4ec682ba4.pdf 5297faa01f8576f57a96f31cefdad49d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 13, Folder 06 (October 1-10, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Hunter to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-10-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503924 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/44fb4cd5bb73410f6f4ed6170ddda06e.pdf 903baaedcad5c51d22b8f9c97efc4d04 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Springfield Illinois, Dec 9th, 1861. Sir. Having at length succeeded, at some expense of private interest, in so adjusting my affairs as to be in a condition to enter the military service, I am desirous of doing so. And having failed to obtain an interview with you, I beg thus to approach you on the subject of a captaincy--or such other commission as I may be deemed worthy of--in the Infantry or Artillery. My qualifications are: about eighteen months study, and service to the grade of Captain of Light Infantry, at a military school (Norwich University) where the drill, discipline, rules and regulations of the U.S. Army were enforced and maintained; a general education not inferior to that of most officers in the volunteer service; a taste for military service; a will to serve the country, and a soldier's ambition. I beg to be informed whether, upon making <hr /> good my pretensions, it is probable that I can have the honor of serving you. Respectfully, Your Obt. Servant, J. B. Lawrence (Springfield) His Excellency, Richard Yates, Governor. <hr /> Answer that the Field officers for the Artillery are appointed--that the Companies elect their Captains--Regret I [k]now of no vacancy--that applicants are innumerable--that I will be happy to see him at any time. Gov Y. J. B. Lawrence Dec 9 Wants to "serve his country" Ansd Dec 12 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 10 (December 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Lawrence to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-12-09 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509816 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Springfield Illinois, Dec 9th, 1861. Sir. Having at length succeeded, at some expense of private interest, in so adjusting my affairs as to be in a condition to enter the military service, I am desirous of doing so. And having failed to obtain an interview with you, I beg thus to approach you on the subject of a captaincy--or such other commission as I may be deemed worthy of--in the Infantry or Artillery. My qualifications are: about eighteen months study, and service to the grade of Captain of Light Infantry, at a military school (Norwich University) where the drill, discipline, rules and regulations of the U.S. Army were enforced and maintained; a general education not inferior to that of most officers in the volunteer service; a taste for military service; a will to serve the country, and a soldier's ambition. I beg to be informed whether, upon making <hr /> good my pretensions, it is probable that I can have the honor of serving you. Respectfully, Your Obt. Servant, J. B. Lawrence (Springfield) His Excellency, Richard Yates, Governor. <hr /> Answer that the Field officers for the Artillery are appointed--that the Companies elect their Captains--Regret I [k]now of no vacancy--that applicants are innumerable--that I will be happy to see him at any time. Gov Y. J. B. Lawrence Dec 9 Wants to "serve his country" Ansd Dec 12 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/04ba45c40bb3219a446980a188213507.pdf 12fc617cbba0632c5820679275b10e06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 16, Folder 02 (May 11-20, 1864) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. McCown to Juluis White Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-05-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 507598 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/211446d37cf8e8f85158297496cc1945.pdf 3e9214cd46c73c83731eee610cf02f9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 02 (May 1-15, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Moore to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-05-04 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506708 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/46c40425d4bfe5780276c0a3b87b7f5d.pdf 1b1eadc2d659916c4d6e92f1657157a1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Confidential Head Quarters, Provost Marshal's Office, Ninth District, Mt. Sterling, Ill., Oct. 3rd 1863. Sir From information derived from several different sources entitled, in my opinion, to credit I have become convinced that a secret cabal of immense proportions actually exists, at this time in this State, having for its object the subversion of the State government upon the first opportunity deemed favorable by its leaders. About four months since, I induced an inteligent and trustworthy discharged trooper of my old company in the 3rd cavalry, to join these secret plotters, for the purpose of learning the object of their organization From him I have learned many interesting facts, and among others, that they have within ten miles on either side of the Q & G RR line between the West line of Brown County and Meredosia, a regiment of one thousand men, all armed with revolvers and officered completed from Colonel to corporal. <hr /> He states that the whole organization is under the command of Gov Seymour of New York That the officers and men are enjoined and sworn to act in all cases under orders from him, through their superior officers and that the paramount object of the Cabal at this time is the election in Ohio. At their meeting held near Versailles on Monday night last an order was issued requesting every man to hold himself in readiness to march at an hours notice and that this order must be strictly observed until the election in Ohio was past and until Valandingham if elected, had taken his place as Governor of the State at Columbus. The object of this order (though not stated to the men) was, as he informs me to keep their forces under marching orders & ready to execute the order of Seymour secretly imparted to the Colonel of the regiment, that in case any action or [control?] of the election in Ohio should be attempted by the military, or that in the event of V's election the military or Federal authority should attempt to prevent him from exercising the duties of the office these secret forces throughout Illinois, Indiana <hr /> Ohio Pennsylvania & New York are to rise symultaneously seize the arsenals & railroads, and by these means throw a force of three hundred thousand men immediately into the State of Ohio. My informant is in high repute with the senior officers of the regiment being their drill master, and from them he has gathered the story, whether true or not you are quite as capable of judging as I. He says that Gov Seymour has given the assurance that the forces raised and equiped in that State are commanded by men wholly under his control and will in case of revolution in the free States act with him, if necessary, even to the total subversion of the Washington government Your Excellency will bear in mind that while I believe the above information to be true, yet I think it would be highly inexpedient to make any expose of it at the present time, as to attempt through my informant, or others to any investigation that would give publicity to the facts above stated Surely your Excellency cannot be ignorant of the existence of this tratorous secret cabal, indeed you are probably much better informed of its <hr /> machinery and intentions than any one man, beside, in the state and if so your information derived from all sources will enable you to judge of the degree of reliability of my informant It is for this purpose I address you on the subject, and for the further object of advising you of what I have gathered in the premises and believe to be entitled to credit I am Governor very Respectfully Your obt. Servt. J. B. Moore (File) Mt. Sterling, Ill. Oct 3,1863; Westlake, B. F. Capt, & Provost Marshal, 9th District Illinois. Executive Office Dec 31, 63 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 13, Folder 06 (October 1-10, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Moore to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-10-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503929 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Confidential Head Quarters, Provost Marshal's Office, Ninth District, Mt. Sterling, Ill., Oct. 3rd 1863. Sir From information derived from several different sources entitled, in my opinion, to credit I have become convinced that a secret cabal of immense proportions actually exists, at this time in this State, having for its object the subversion of the State government upon the first opportunity deemed favorable by its leaders. About four months since, I induced an inteligent and trustworthy discharged trooper of my old company in the 3rd cavalry, to join these secret plotters, for the purpose of learning the object of their organization From him I have learned many interesting facts, and among others, that they have within ten miles on either side of the Q & G RR line between the West line of Brown County and Meredosia, a regiment of one thousand men, all armed with revolvers and officered completed from Colonel to corporal. <hr /> He states that the whole organization is under the command of Gov Seymour of New York That the officers and men are enjoined and sworn to act in all cases under orders from him, through their superior officers and that the paramount object of the Cabal at this time is the election in Ohio. At their meeting held near Versailles on Monday night last an order was issued requesting every man to hold himself in readiness to march at an hours notice and that this order must be strictly observed until the election in Ohio was past and until Valandingham if elected, had taken his place as Governor of the State at Columbus. The object of this order (though not stated to the men) was, as he informs me to keep their forces under marching orders & ready to execute the order of Seymour secretly imparted to the Colonel of the regiment, that in case any action or [control?] of the election in Ohio should be attempted by the military, or that in the event of V's election the military or Federal authority should attempt to prevent him from exercising the duties of the office these secret forces throughout Illinois, Indiana <hr /> Ohio Pennsylvania & New York are to rise symultaneously seize the arsenals & railroads, and by these means throw a force of three hundred thousand men immediately into the State of Ohio. My informant is in high repute with the senior officers of the regiment being their drill master, and from them he has gathered the story, whether true or not you are quite as capable of judging as I. He says that Gov Seymour has given the assurance that the forces raised and equiped in that State are commanded by men wholly under his control and will in case of revolution in the free States act with him, if necessary, even to the total subversion of the Washington government Your Excellency will bear in mind that while I believe the above information to be true, yet I think it would be highly inexpedient to make any expose of it at the present time, as to attempt through my informant, or others to any investigation that would give publicity to the facts above stated Surely your Excellency cannot be ignorant of the existence of this tratorous secret cabal, indeed you are probably much better informed of its <hr /> machinery and intentions than any one man, beside, in the state and if so your information derived from all sources will enable you to judge of the degree of reliability of my informant It is for this purpose I address you on the subject, and for the further object of advising you of what I have gathered in the premises and believe to be entitled to credit I am Governor very Respectfully Your obt. Servt. J. B. Moore (File) Mt. Sterling, Ill. Oct 3,1863; Westlake, B. F. Capt, & Provost Marshal, 9th District Illinois. Executive Office Dec 31, 63 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/385e91c4feac2f0337f045d466e06cdf.pdf 679842dc8048d4da8f1244d311695662 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 6, Folder 10 (July 25-26, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Nyman and others to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-07-24 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503074 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b0b3bef18105037a83d21f42882c73ec.pdf 80bed804a8bd8480a1f3c75086a77ff9 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. with Robert Smith 9/26/61 with Cyrus Edwards 9/27/61 with Warren Leverett 9/27/61 Upper Alton Sept 26th/61 To his Excellency Gov. Yates Dear Sir I wish to recommend to you my worthey young friend George R. Miller. I have known him all his life. I know him to be honest, worthey and well qualified to fill any office he will ask at your hands and any favor you can bestow on him in that way will be greatfully remembered By your friend J. B. Randle Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 4, Folder 02 (September 21-27, 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Randle to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-09-26 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 502126 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. with Robert Smith 9/26/61 with Cyrus Edwards 9/27/61 with Warren Leverett 9/27/61 Upper Alton Sept 26th/61 To his Excellency Gov. Yates Dear Sir I wish to recommend to you my worthey young friend George R. Miller. I have known him all his life. I know him to be honest, worthey and well qualified to fill any office he will ask at your hands and any favor you can bestow on him in that way will be greatfully remembered By your friend J. B. Randle Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b1992d008d9bbe8fa8f453c60d51fda1.pdf 1e57ff34911a4b5c25dc8799f7bbb236 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 6, Folder 07 (July 18-20, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Richardson to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-07-20 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 502921 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/334467126d176cfa014e7c695bbe8902.pdf c56e4ea2c949611bacc7bddee043f07d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 04 (June 1-10, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Rodgey to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-06-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506821 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/35223e1721b0bfd5087c1812f2d27547.pdf 10575e9d19f61e578a29265c04068870 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Fort Randall Dakota Ty Augt 27th 1861 Hon Richard Yates Gov of Illinois Dear Gov I have tendered my services to the President & asked him to confer upon me the appointment of Major Genl, or a Brigadier - the former I prefer - amongst the oldest, if not the oldest, graduates of the Military Academy from our State, I am desirous of contribute my share in upholding the Constitution & union of our country - and after twenty years service in the army, I believe I am fitted to take command quite as well as many who have been thus honored - I beg that you will write to the President & Secty of War & give me your assistance - this you once assured me you would do. I want to take a part in Missouri - please write at once to Washington, also to me - Yours Truly J.B.S. Todd <hr /> J.B.S. Todd for Letter to Sec'y of War Write the 3 letters requested Mr Todd having been appointed it was unnecessary to write these letters - His appointment was announced in the Mo Democrat of 21 Sept. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 3, Folder 07 (August 24-31, 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. S. Todd to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-08-27 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 500869 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Fort Randall Dakota Ty Augt 27th 1861 Hon Richard Yates Gov of Illinois Dear Gov I have tendered my services to the President & asked him to confer upon me the appointment of Major Genl, or a Brigadier - the former I prefer - amongst the oldest, if not the oldest, graduates of the Military Academy from our State, I am desirous of contribute my share in upholding the Constitution & union of our country - and after twenty years service in the army, I believe I am fitted to take command quite as well as many who have been thus honored - I beg that you will write to the President & Secty of War & give me your assistance - this you once assured me you would do. I want to take a part in Missouri - please write at once to Washington, also to me - Yours Truly J.B.S. Todd <hr /> J.B.S. Todd for Letter to Sec'y of War Write the 3 letters requested Mr Todd having been appointed it was unnecessary to write these letters - His appointment was announced in the Mo Democrat of 21 Sept. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/22aba93128d39e2de58bd27fc4850a95.pdf c39019013c19431ef293e45861cec9c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 3, Folder 06 (August 20-23, 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Steedman to Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-08-21 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 500815 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20000 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Start Transcribing https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/a7d9c70b3b2dfd5c0e9864dc8cc9699d.pdf d85645a0574a3dbbf7e1144fba470d7c Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Bolivar Tenn Aug 16" 1862 To His excellency Gov Yates Sir I would have obtained the recomendation of Surgeon Kellogg but he being absent on business I was unable to do so - Before entering the army I followed the practice of Medicine two years. I am a graduate of the Ohio Medical College Cincinnati Ohio. J.B. Stephenson MD Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 7, Folder 10 (August 16-17, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Stephenson to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-08-16 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506122 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Bolivar Tenn Aug 16" 1862 To His excellency Gov Yates Sir I would have obtained the recomendation of Surgeon Kellogg but he being absent on business I was unable to do so - Before entering the army I followed the practice of Medicine two years. I am a graduate of the Ohio Medical College Cincinnati Ohio. J.B. Stephenson MD Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/3cbfb5031263b3e643c1ba5a21988cd7.pdf 3ca2a79ab92fdc15da202fd38fa747ac Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. J. B. Taylor, Real Estate, Loan and Merchandise Broker, Houses, Lots, Lands, and all kinds of Property Bought, Sold, Exchanged, etc. No. 36 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Post Office, Box, 1373. Chicago, Ill., Mch 15th 1861 Gov Richd Yates Springfield My Dear Sir, Various are the ups and downs of life in past 10 yrs, tis useless to mention. I have been here 3 yrs the real Est. business dull during 4 yrs just past God Grant Pres Lincoln & his Cabinet may bring Peace & Good Will to man ere another Month pass off. I will feel under many deep obligations to you for your kind aid in procuring me one of the U.S. Mail route agents from here to Rock Island. (on R Island Rail Rd) being well acquainted with this route & being in Ills 30 yrs. I never use spirits of any kind am allways industrious & attentive to business I am doing. I wish you to write a few lines to Pres Lincoln & Mr Blair P. M G. will do me a very Grt favour I have 3 splendid boys My Wife & at times her Mother & Sister and my little daughter 8 yrs old a large family. You have raised one yourself & know the cares on their a/c so I ask your very <hr /> kind & generous aid. It will not conflict with any party seeking office at Springfield being out of their range. I have never been one of that class pure necessity drives this mind just now, tis a hard poor & risky birth & on a Rail War train going 20 odd miles per hour. yet I cannot help it My family must be the first in my mind. I am sure you will not refuse my request I will see you in Spfld sometime this summer & show you my nice little family. I saw Hon W Butler here in June I was absent when you visited us. Pres Lincoln I am confident will bring arround a speedy adjustmt of our National difficulties & will make a good president. Excuse my long letter & the valuable time I have taken from you. Yet remember you are helping an old & deserving friend & his young family & the God of heaven will bless & prosper you & yours. I never forsook you in political strifes in past days. I am an I.O.O.F. & <hr /> Royal arch Mason, and have many frds in the orders - I hope you are both at least I think so, or the latter sure - I hope you like Springfield as well as J.V. yet I think not. It will give me great pleasure to hear from & do hope you will not forget me & mine at as early a day as possible No time to loose so many unfortunate office seeker claims on file in the various depts. No PM for Chicago as yet Is Scripps I think [?] The Happy & deserving man, Your obt st J. B. Taylor P.O. Box 1373 <hr /> J. B. Taylor. Chicago Ills. For office Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 03 (March 1-April 19, 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Taylor to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-03-15 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 500052 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. J. B. Taylor, Real Estate, Loan and Merchandise Broker, Houses, Lots, Lands, and all kinds of Property Bought, Sold, Exchanged, etc. No. 36 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Post Office, Box, 1373. Chicago, Ill., Mch 15th 1861 Gov Richd Yates Springfield My Dear Sir, Various are the ups and downs of life in past 10 yrs, tis useless to mention. I have been here 3 yrs the real Est. business dull during 4 yrs just past God Grant Pres Lincoln & his Cabinet may bring Peace & Good Will to man ere another Month pass off. I will feel under many deep obligations to you for your kind aid in procuring me one of the U.S. Mail route agents from here to Rock Island. (on R Island Rail Rd) being well acquainted with this route & being in Ills 30 yrs. I never use spirits of any kind am allways industrious & attentive to business I am doing. I wish you to write a few lines to Pres Lincoln & Mr Blair P. M G. will do me a very Grt favour I have 3 splendid boys My Wife & at times her Mother & Sister and my little daughter 8 yrs old a large family. You have raised one yourself & know the cares on their a/c so I ask your very <hr /> kind & generous aid. It will not conflict with any party seeking office at Springfield being out of their range. I have never been one of that class pure necessity drives this mind just now, tis a hard poor & risky birth & on a Rail War train going 20 odd miles per hour. yet I cannot help it My family must be the first in my mind. I am sure you will not refuse my request I will see you in Spfld sometime this summer & show you my nice little family. I saw Hon W Butler here in June I was absent when you visited us. Pres Lincoln I am confident will bring arround a speedy adjustmt of our National difficulties & will make a good president. Excuse my long letter & the valuable time I have taken from you. Yet remember you are helping an old & deserving friend & his young family & the God of heaven will bless & prosper you & yours. I never forsook you in political strifes in past days. I am an I.O.O.F. & <hr /> Royal arch Mason, and have many frds in the orders - I hope you are both at least I think so, or the latter sure - I hope you like Springfield as well as J.V. yet I think not. It will give me great pleasure to hear from & do hope you will not forget me & mine at as early a day as possible No time to loose so many unfortunate office seeker claims on file in the various depts. No PM for Chicago as yet Is Scripps I think [?] The Happy & deserving man, Your obt st J. B. Taylor P.O. Box 1373 <hr /> J. B. Taylor. Chicago Ills. For office Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/40d29fd7bec4893364a3be2db9a75f52.pdf 635ab95fb22ecad648cb251fddb9102c Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Jany 1860 [1861] Hon Richrd Yates. Dear Sir I wish you a happy new year! things look better: The taking of Fort Moulton - shipping of specie, and arms to the south, is all first rate, if true: could not be better possibly under "old [Jimmie?]": But then you and "old Abe" come in, we shall look for support and hope & courage to Gods wisdom, instead of to the Devils folly, as now, as our only recourse. Let the fool and the Devil rule till next March, without fear, and without faltering on our part. It is just the best thing that can be done: I thank God for it! I will not say that I hope, but I am quite willing, if they please, that more outrages should ensue to any extent whatever! It will all only help clear the Deck for "old Abe." Who will appoint something else beside [treasons?] & prayer meetings on ship board, amid the storms: But I intended to write only to ask you to peruse the notes I handed you, as I am negotiating, with a heavy publishing house in the East, for a book or pamphlet on Slavery: and I may wish to use some <hr /> of those ideas, either in their original form or as extracts from your annual message: And if you will use what you please and preserve the rest on file till I call for it, I will be greatly obliged to you Yours truly J B Turner Prof Turner Turner Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 02 (January-February 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 500001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Jany 1860 [1861] Hon Richrd Yates. Dear Sir I wish you a happy new year! things look better: The taking of Fort Moulton - shipping of specie, and arms to the south, is all first rate, if true: could not be better possibly under "old [Jimmie?]": But then you and "old Abe" come in, we shall look for support and hope & courage to Gods wisdom, instead of to the Devils folly, as now, as our only recourse. Let the fool and the Devil rule till next March, without fear, and without faltering on our part. It is just the best thing that can be done: I thank God for it! I will not say that I hope, but I am quite willing, if they please, that more outrages should ensue to any extent whatever! It will all only help clear the Deck for "old Abe." Who will appoint something else beside [treasons?] & prayer meetings on ship board, amid the storms: But I intended to write only to ask you to peruse the notes I handed you, as I am negotiating, with a heavy publishing house in the East, for a book or pamphlet on Slavery: and I may wish to use some <hr /> of those ideas, either in their original form or as extracts from your annual message: And if you will use what you please and preserve the rest on file till I call for it, I will be greatly obliged to you Yours truly J B Turner Prof Turner Turner Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2c2c4c2b7f4fafc834e8152e85d927d7.pdf 56785bd0ea3a6b28329f76839b9fac30 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville April 20 1861 To his Excellency Gov Yates Dear Sir, you know our old friend and neighbor Mr Eno, You know how he became reduced by his unfortunate speculation in wheat: He was in some prospect of righting his misfortunes by the manufacture of Agl tools as I had hoped: but the peculiar exigency of the times has compelled him to defer that enterprise for a time and thus thrown his two Sons Edward and Henry out of employ and brought the family into a condition of almost entire destitution, for the present. Now I had thought that you could probably give them some agency, or clerkship, or employment in providing for the present necessities of the public service; They could not properly enlist as soldiers, as it would take them from the family, who are dependant daily on their aid: <pre>If you could secure for them some such service, either in connexion with the army or otherwise, I believe the boys would be faithful and prompt in the discharge of their duty and you would confer a great favor on a needy & worthy family, as well </pre> <hr /> as on myself: for I feel a deep interest in their present condition: as their necessities are urgent, and they must engage at once in something for the support of their family, if possible. will you not drop me a line on receipt of this and let me know whether there is any prospect that you can secure them any such position, or to whom they should apply, in order to secure it, if not within your power to grant: Yours Truly J.B. Turner P.S. Since writing the above I learn that Edward Eno has enlisted in the army; He is a good penman & Engineer and something of a Drafts man: could keep accounts or do any sort of business correctly & will make a good soldier but would better fill some more responsible post in harmony with his superior practical and theoretical education: can you secure him such a post? as above JBT J.B. Turner Recommending Eno Ansd Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 2, Folder 04 (April 20-30, 1861) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-04-20 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 500131 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville April 20 1861 To his Excellency Gov Yates Dear Sir, you know our old friend and neighbor Mr Eno, You know how he became reduced by his unfortunate speculation in wheat: He was in some prospect of righting his misfortunes by the manufacture of Agl tools as I had hoped: but the peculiar exigency of the times has compelled him to defer that enterprise for a time and thus thrown his two Sons Edward and Henry out of employ and brought the family into a condition of almost entire destitution, for the present. Now I had thought that you could probably give them some agency, or clerkship, or employment in providing for the present necessities of the public service; They could not properly enlist as soldiers, as it would take them from the family, who are dependant daily on their aid: <pre>If you could secure for them some such service, either in connexion with the army or otherwise, I believe the boys would be faithful and prompt in the discharge of their duty and you would confer a great favor on a needy & worthy family, as well </pre> <hr /> as on myself: for I feel a deep interest in their present condition: as their necessities are urgent, and they must engage at once in something for the support of their family, if possible. will you not drop me a line on receipt of this and let me know whether there is any prospect that you can secure them any such position, or to whom they should apply, in order to secure it, if not within your power to grant: Yours Truly J.B. Turner P.S. Since writing the above I learn that Edward Eno has enlisted in the army; He is a good penman & Engineer and something of a Drafts man: could keep accounts or do any sort of business correctly & will make a good soldier but would better fill some more responsible post in harmony with his superior practical and theoretical education: can you secure him such a post? as above JBT J.B. Turner Recommending Eno Ansd Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/97088a0c9b5914ff8cb24f60b2cab9fd.pdf b076dd24fdf114f6b9574b5bab053453 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Thrsdy morning Jan 1862 Gov Yates Dear Sir I have just now recd your most excellent message: I have tried several times: took up my pen and laid it down again: in order not to annoy you, and to resist the temptation personally to thank you: but I cannot: and so here it goes: I thank you for its profound philosophic truth -- I thank you for its spirit of humanity & Patriotism: I thank you for the boldness & fullness of its utterance: I thank you for the elegance and eloquence of its diction: I think it by far the best State paper that was ever issued from our capital. And in the name of Gods humanity, of our bleeding country and our quiet & beloved State I thank you. I hope & pray, that you and Mr Lincoln may by this winter's work make yourselves dearly remembered by God & man, as long as stars shine or water runs. Yours truly J B Turner P.S. Strengthen & encourage Mr Lincoln all you can -- I still want to see that Haman of a Halleck, away from the kings gate. <hr /> J. B. Turner Jacksonville Complementary of Gov's message. Complimentary to message. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 5, Folder 06 (January 27-31, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-01-XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 501289 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Percent Needs Review The percentage of pages with Needs Review status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 200 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/d731f744411495e160f77055bba542bc.pdf 26ae2eccde311cd6445aac634e752681 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. 1 Jacksonville Oct 11 1862 Governor Yates Dear Sir On my return from Washington City I found yours of Sept 18 and hasten to reply - I went to Washington about the first of September, being telegraphed of the sickness & probable death of my fourth son Charles who was in the army there. He had the typhoid fever badly, but recovered. I learned that you was in Washington and were very anxious to see you & father Giddings, & called at your rooms at the National but could not find you. I was there over a month with my sick son, and was so perfectly amased at what I saw that I knew not what to do. When I came home I was still more surprised to see by your letter, that you and experienced much the same alarm that I had, without the least possible conference between us. to shew you what my alarm was, I will with your permission now take the liberty to extract from my notes written at Washington three days after my arrival there, before the proclamations & before I had consulted with a single soul, but merely walked <hr /> around as an entire stranger and kept my eyes and ears open. of course I had a great advantage of all you dignitaries, for all men took me for some devilish old fool, in whose presence they could safely say just what they really thought fit to say -- In my notes of Sept 8 which I intended for an Literary and philosophical club a home, I wrote as follows: leaving out only nonessential matter - II "I am most deeply and sorrowfully convinced, that the worst conspiracy we have to fear, is after all not atRichmond but at Washington: and that we are in fact, already under a military despotism, as much worse than that of France, as ours is less reliable and less respectable than theirs; only we are such devilish fools that we have not yet found it out, but time will shew it to us, to our sorrow, if something is not speedily done to suppress it; II II This military despotism which now governs and controls the destiny of the whole country, instead of having no policy as has been charged upon the growing <hr /> 3 power of the country, has now, ever has had, a distinctive, and settled, and terribly inexorable policy, which it still unflinchingly persues; and ever has persued from the beginning of the war; and which it intends to play out to the bitter end, in spite of Presidents, congresses, people, and all together -- These are my two fundamental propositions: I will now very briefly describe first the origin & nature of this despotism and second its policy -- The new theory of our government as well as of all other possible government, in war, throws the whole practical power of the administration under the military power; In peace under our theory, the army is nothing; it is a mere sinecure; if not a mere nonexistance; But in war it at once becomes everything; the sole active and efficient power of the land: it makes no sort of difference how many edicts and decrees and proclamations & statues the civil powers may fulminate: so long as the army exists and its supplies are voted, the whole actual government, will be in the hand of the military commanders, and no where else. so far as the final fate and destiny <hr /> of the nation is concerned: Hence Gen Hallicks jocose reply, (as reported) to the Englishman, who asked what the capital building was for, that "it was the Bakery for the U. S. Army" - though meant for a joke, it expressed a great & most solemn philosophical truth - The capital is, and must be, so long as this war lasts a mere Bakery for the Army, just that and nothing else; and so long as it votes & bakes the bread the leaders of the army alone will do the work of the land & of the ages, in their own way: Thus the whole country in the time of war, becomes one vast military camp; and all laws & statutes whatever become only so many tolerated regulations of the camp; mere camp regulations, whose present use & final destiny lies wholly in the power of the sword, and of those who in fact wield it. But the sword may reach its final end, boldly and directly, as in the case of Ceasar, Cromwell, Bonaparte, and Jeff Davis: or it my reach it with mean and detestable sneaking hypocrisy & intrigue, as it is now attempting to reach it at Washington. Under the Old Slave-ocracy which ruled the country for a whole generation, the soldiers who were educated at West Point were of course in the first instance selected from among the peoples by its almost unerring instincts, then trained to its sentiments & opinions; <hr /> 2 and or course, finally devoted and consecrated to its uses - in most cases successfully so, heart & soul; in others only partially so; But in general, under their guidance & control, West Point and our military schools, as naturally and inevitably educated & turned out those who were at heart, Slaveocrats, or old Hunkers in state policy, as Princeton does those who are Presbyterians, or New Haven those who are Congregationalists, or Cambridge those who are Unitarians. At the opening of this war these military Slaveocrats at heart, were scattered over the whole country, and had the actual practical control of its whole military destiny, which, as I have said, controlled all else: all of their educated military slaveocrats who chanced to be in the South, so far as I know, went heart & soul with the rebellion of the South: Many who were at the North also went heart & soul over to the South: and verry many others were restrained from doing so, by no principles or tastes of their own, but only by their selfish, family & mercenary interests, and their accidental location and official duty while their hearts & souls were as truly with <hr /> the slaveholders, and ever have been, as is that of Beauregard or Jeff Davis; and far more truly & fully, than was that of Stonewall Jackson General Houston & many others at the South, when the rebellion first opened: While but a very small portion of our educated prominent military men of the North, at the opening of the war, still held on to a hearty love of freedom, in the Northern sense of that term, & went heart & soul with the North. For the Slaveocrats of the South while still concocting this conspiracy, had entire control of the government through thirty years of plotting & intrigue, and they were no such fools as to overlook the prospective condition & control of the Army, North as well as South; and they had of course, selected, educated, and appointed, to high places, in the Army, only those whom they supposed would be most likely in the hour of trial, in one way or another to support their interests and directly or indirectly to play into their hands. In a word men whose hearts & souls would in fact be with them, & in the end work for them wherever their hands & swords might chance to be. It seems to me that all this is so perfectly <hr /> 7 apparent & self evident, aside from all the appalling proofs, now around us, that a man who does not at once see it to be so, as soon as it is stated, by his own conscious instincts, is simply a political fool, who has no possible capacity, for the political government & control of men; And if all men do not now see it, they soon will, and to their sorrow too: Most [true?] these Slaveocrats had to make some exceptions to their rule of subserviency & favoritism, in the case of the Army, as well as in the case of the other branches of the public service: But they took good care to make those exceptions as few as possible: barely sufficient decently to cover up the plot: by no means sufficient, to constitute in the army any controling power, either North or South. Hence the peculiar spite and malice of Jeff Davis & co. wherever they discover, a real opponent in the ranks of the army of the North: they regard him as a real apostate from themselves; as sometimes indeed he is; but they always shew that they thought they had reason to expect better things of him: But not a few of our generals have conducted the war, on what the rebels are satisfied to consider, as very genteel & honorable principles: <hr /> and that of course is so conducting it, that they perceive that its final issues will play wholly into their hands For where did ever this or any other political [illegible] smile complacently, on those who so beat the bush, as in fact to scare the ultimate political game out of their own hands? A Northern general of note whom Jeff Davis does not speedily denounce as a clown, and an outlaw & threaten with assassination, or some other dire calamity, is in all probability unfit for his command, and ought to be cashiered a sent home at once. But I will come now more nearly to persons as well as principles: for we, the people of the United States, cannot well afford to Slaughter a hundred thousand of our fathers sons & brothers [illegible] on the battle field and pay out one thousand millions of money, and merely shout for those, whose slaveholding conspirators at the south, and their allies these old Hunker conspirators of the North, with us to shout for, without taking the liberty to use either our own eyes, ears or tongues; grape shot & Bombshells can have but very little respect for grey hairs. or loud hurrahs: and a drowning father, like a dying country, would not ask his children whether they were reputed to have saved him from some slight calamity before, but whether, with outstretched hands, he could induce them to save him from death now. <hr /> 3 I will further say that the persons of whom I am about to speak in all the plainness which becomes a free man, when his dear country is already dying for want of their efficient & hearty aid, are personally wholly unknown, and inoffensive to me: I never even saw them: I never either sought or received a favor or a disfavor from them for myself or any of my friends: Indeed I never in my life sought an office of any sort and never expect to do so: and before the war I had at least a respectable if not an exalted opinion of these very men. I say this only to shew that I have no personal feelings against them; & no personal hopes from their good or ill repute whatever. Still what I may say, may be deemed by others either slanderous or even treasonable: if so I am willing to be imprisoned for it: But as I have been solicited to do it by many gentlemen of more intelligence & influence in such matters than myself, I shall now take the liberty to write down just what I think let it hit whom it will or where it will - But to the point of these northern conspirators: I will also presume in their behalf also, that they may be actuated by a direct conscious conspiracy against the cause & freedom of the North, or only <hr /> by an unconscious, latent festering animus, a sort of fever & ague in their spiritual houses which naturally and instinctively exhibits the same phenomenon; and even more unerringly, though less [incrementally?], works out toward precisely the same ends and results; as a direct conscious conspiracy would do. Indeed I wish now only to judge these men out of their own mouths: For there political organs which they approve and circulate every where, in the army and out of it, persistently declare that the Abolitionists, that is the North, are sure to blame for this war than the South: Now if these Old hunker West Point Generals really believe the organs they must approve, of course they are morally bound to see to it, so far as lies in their power that the North suffers more for the war than the South, which is exactly what, & only what, they are now doing, and have been doing through the whole course of the war, as I will now shew: At first, Old General Scott was at the head of this military Despotism thus trained and prepared for us at the North: not so much by design as by necessity and courtesy: and though far more, at heart in sympathy with the South than with the North, he was not one of their trained men: and he had too much <hr /> 11 character and sense of political justice, and of his official reputation & duty, to go over openly to their cause. Beside his natural [illegible] of tempermant, aside from his advanced age, made him a mere cypher, in such a frantic cause, let him as where he would: and of course he was soon disposed of, or rather made a tool of by the younger and more active conspirators. Suffice it to say that the twenty millions of free men of the north, with a hundred thousand sons and brothers under the sod around their capital, and fifty thousand more sick and maimed in the hospitals, need not now, rub onions in their eyes to get up a cry over old General Scott, who served the slave power most heartily and herocicly on the fields of Mexico, and no less efficiently, though less heroicially, in his Bull run & other blunders, aside from his traitor secretary, with whom he dodged off to Europe instead of delivering him up to be shot - as he ought to have done. But At him [illegible]: His great military Anaconda, long since put his own tail in his own mouth and swallowed himself "sic transit gloria mundi:" <hr /> Among the younger men, McClellan seemed fitted both by nature and education as well as selected by the managers, to take the lead: and Lincoln as he was then situated, could not do otherwise than appoint him: even if he had personally so desired: and the New York Herald was of course the only fit trumpet for such a bugle-horn general, and his devoted allies: McClellan skilled at clothing equipping and drilling & ditching soon got up the best armed, the best equipped, the best paid, the best cared for, the best drilled, and the worst disciplined and most unmanageable, useless, and uncontrolable army the world ever saw: The could shew off most admirably in drill, and in drawing room parades; they could march and countermarch; ditch, and bury their dead to admirable perfection; more heroic or patriotic men, never lived: But still they could not conquer at the first Bull Run, simply because their generals were at heart either traitors or West Point fools who shew at last the disgusting meanness to confess to the world that they were frightened, [illegible] and against their will, into that battle by the cry of the newspapers and outsiders; now A [horse?] that is frightened at a newspaper ought to be punched in the head; much more a general; But what punishmt did the known traitors in that battle receive? Echo answers - what punishment? Divide this disaster between old Scott & McClellan & company as you please, it all at lasts rests with the real spirit of West Point & the men furnished us from that school of traitors or imbeciles: and so of all that followed: <hr /> 4' 13 But of McClellan himself, as I am no military man, I will of course say nothing; except that all the Old Hanker proslavery officers in the army, as well as all its real Rowdies, Bull=Run=Russell, the New York Herald the London Times, Jeff Davis and so and all army contractors, all like him, with good reason: and why should not the loyal men of the North? Why should not I? "I am no military man as Brutus is": and God forbid that a blockaded capital through dreary & disgraceful months, painted [illegible] at Mannassas, and 500,000,000 of money & more than 50,000 green soldiers [illegible], on the Chicahanney, & a foe that accomplished all they aim at in Maryland, & gets 10,000 troops at [Harpers?] Ferry to host, I say God forbid that such facts should incite me to set myself up to judge our generals in war: I am one of your good milk & water Northern [Christians?]; and I believe that war should always results when conducted according to the true principles of military & Christian strategy combined; first, in giving all the advantage to our enemies: because it both improves our patience and <hr /> literally fulfills the command to love our enemies: second we should stop to bury our dead at least, and make a [illegible] game of it, as at Antietam, so as to shew that we love our neighbors as ourselves: And though I am no military man I agree with Bull=Run=Russell, the London Times, Jeff Davis & Co, and all the proslavery officers & all the real rowdies of the Army, and the whole army of contractors and commissaries, who want this war protracted forever, that George B. McClellan is one of the most surprising generals the world ever saw. And I advise our patriot soldiers on the Potomac to fight for him, and him alone; to swear by him, & him alone; and to dig their own graves as fast as they can, & ask no useless and impertinent questions about West=Point strategy; "it is so sweet to die for ones country" -- I do not give the Latin here, for I am writing for American ears: and I wish to be understood, without any effort at "Scholastic Strategy". <hr /> 15 But be this as it may, at present the great effort is to make a hero out of McClellan: & foist him to the top of the next political wave; it is rather hard work to be sure; [illegible] it is the best that can be done. Old General Scott and President Lincoln himself have been persistently used by the partisans of McClelland & his generals as convenient tools in their hands, the one to be appealed too from time to time as the highest military authority of the continent, to sanction their do=nothing and exhaustive policy, & to give some shew of excuse at least, for their most watched and destructive military blunders: While President Lincoln alone, has furnished them with the reliable moral capital, in the shape of honesty & integrity, on the basis of which to call out military supplies & subsidies, on the one hand: and stood himself on the other hand, as a sort of magical conduit or sewer, through which they could pour all the infamy of their accidental or purposed losses and disasters, back upon the heads of the Republican party, nominally in power; till at last, these losses & infamies secured <hr /> whether accidentally or purposely by these conspirators should overwhelm the [Republicans?] with utter annihilation & disgrace which is already well night achieved: Hence we see that both parties alike laud Lincoln but from different motives - the one on the republicans because he is their only hope of final conquest, of the Rebellion - the other the old hunkers because he is their only source of supplies for exhaustion and ultimate compromise. They will only flatter him let him do what he will, & cling to him, so long as they are dependant on him for supplies - and they will curse him & kick him out of doors the moment they see that they can get along without him. Lincoln may fulminate whatever proclamations she may choose, whether good or bad, so long as this Old Hunker conspiracy sees that he holds in his hands their supplies for the army, in other words so long as he stands in the doorway of "Hallecks Bake-house", & they have no other way to get in, they will never break with him, till they have first through him wholly annihilated the party that put him in power & practically taken the power again themselves - How these West Point Old Hunker generals manage by a sort of inevitable necessity to keep at the head of the Army, any one can easily see who reflects on the nature & organisation of the army, the papers they read & the constant necessities under which they are laid. <hr /> 5 But if I have indicated the chief persons in this great drama, we will consider more distinctly their real policy: Their policy, that is the policy of those Old Hunker West=point generals, who in fact now constitute the real government of the Union, & have done for a long time, is surely "to save the Union" they could no more get along without that peculiar catch=word, than they can without Mr Lincoln: both are equally indispensable to their supplies: But how save the Union? that is the question - All loyal men are pouring out their treasure & their blood to save the union by the conquest of the rebels & their speedy subjection to the sovereignty of the Union as it now is - But it is plain that these military dictators & conspirators, have no such idea and never have had - Their plan is and ever has been to save the Union only by exhaustion of the North: and not by the conquest of the South-- For by the one method, that of conquest, the Republicans & war Democrats would inevitably come into political power, & they and their friends <hr /> would be [illegible] forever from all political hope: While by their process of exhaustion, they will first totally annihilate the true loyal party of the north, by the infamies and disasters and ruin their own hands will heap upon them: & then they can most easily compromise with the South, & share the undisturbed rule of the continent with Jeff Davis & co, as in olden time or under a more despotic form: They intend, by affecting a benign horror of shedding human blood, by endless military blunders & delays by enormous expenditures, & disasters, to perfectly exhaust & discourage the loyal north: while still the South is encouraged, by Northern traitors, factions, spies, & contractors (who alone really outnumber the army in the field,) to hold out: and when both parties are sufficiently exhausted: they mean to say to the North, "We cant conquer the South: The best statesmen of Europe told us so at first: but we thought we could: We have now tried it & find we cannot; We are all alike heartily sick of this abolitionism: We see what it has come too: it has cost us more than all the Negroes were ever worth: let us now have an armistice: propose <hr /> 19 reasonable terms to our Southern brethren: & make peace & all go along together again as in the good old days of our fathers:" and as soon as the South sees that the Republican party is in fact forever annihilated, she will gladly come into the Union again, with only some mere formal concessions to her pride: For she would rather rule to=day the whole continent, though these Northern Doughfaces as she used to do, than half of one by herself alone -- so the South will shew her magnamity by electing to the Presidency of the Union the greatest Northern hero such a bloody farce of a war, could botch up -- and for the place: these northern doughfaces will be at least more content again as the lickspittles of this slave power, thus triumphant over us through treason & exhaustion, than they would do without name or power in a land saved to freedom by the direct heroism & conquest of their southern opponents. True Both these parties alike discard all partisan discussions -- the one because it conflicts with their loyal end of conquest - <hr /> the other because it equally and ever more dangerously conflicts with their disloyal end of exhaustion -- For the party that practically bears the sword, needs no discussion -- It can cut its own way with the sword alone in the most quiet indifference so long as supplies are voted. -- And both parties too are equally clamorous for supplies -- "Hurry up your men & means." say both parties alike - the one that they may be used - the other that they may be mashed & exhausted and slaughtered-- And they are succeeding most admirably: Where now are all our most loyal fighting men & generals? The real heroes who have won all our real victories? It is appalling to think of it -- They are either slaughtered in [direful?] combat - allamode "Uriah the Hittite of Olden time & Baker & others of modern times: or left to be cut up and discarded like Pope: or ruthlessly assailed & dismissed like Fremont & others; or caged up with some little insignificant command, or in some petty town, like sheep in a slaughter=pen (till their time for the knife too comes, and almost every battle snaps off a score of them- It would seem the easiest thing in the world to kill a horse or a loyal general in this war: But neither God nor mean seems to have power to kill either a proslavery General or a mule: they run out of every battle so bright and early!! <hr /> 7 25 by the assumption that these West Point Old Hunker Generals, mean by this ever present & speedy exhaustion, and final compromise with the traitors in arms, they are indeed, (attended and able generals, and evince a shrewdness and capacity; and have achieved a steady and unvarying success, befitting the self-complacency & self sufficiency which they every where manifest -- and the world ought to esteem them as the greatest and most successful generals of their age: But on the other hand if their real end is the speedy conquest of the South, they are a set of the most devilish fools that the world ever saw: and if the whole twenty millions of the North have not serve enough to see without going 7 years to West Point that their whole conduct of the war has been but one steady, persistent, awful and hideous blunder, conceived in stupidity, executed in weakness and terminating only in disaster, disgrace and ruin, they are not worth fighting for, and we had better drop our arms at once, and turn them all over to Jeff Davis to be taken care of with the negros, under him. <hr /> I did think I would write to Mr Lincoln when I was in Washington not to let him know these facts: but to let him know that we the people know, & feel them too, as well as himself, & symphatise with him in the perilous position in which he is placed, and are fully prepared for any sudden move by which he may attempt to avert these terrible disasters. But I concluded not to trouble him any more than he is troubled, though I wish he did know exactly what I and thousands of others think of these things. I have spoken this freely & hurriedly to you, my Dear Sir, partly because you suggested it, & partly because it is a relief to me to speak my thoughts to any intelligent man who I know will make no misuse of them: I began by quoting from my notes written more than a month since in Washington: but at last run off to present thoughts, it mattered not where; if you find time & patience to read to this place, please excuse me for not closing long before, as I most certainly intended to have done when I began and believe me truly yours J. B. Turner -- <hr /> 5 21 Judging by facts before the whole country one would suppose that Almighty God, as well as the Power that be, owned a particular spite to every general & officer in the army that is not at least half Old Hunker in his politicks, as well as to every four-footed beast that is not half Jackass in his pedigree: However we do occasionally get rid of a mule & a Hunker commander: We at last got rid of Miles for example at Harpers Ferry, by giving the rebels ten thousand men, to furnish us a fair excuse for shooting him ourselves; It was a good bargain: cheap enough! It we can get all our traitor generals shot at a cost of only ten thousand men each we ought never to complain, as we shall son close up the war. One of our Western generals shot a similar brute with epaulettes on, the other day himself: I am glad of it: If well authenticated facts are to be believed, he ought to have been shot long before he was: though I suppose there will be great Peons sung and a great fuss made over his rotten carcase - because our Western General did not see fit to let the epaletted hog live till he had killed a few thousands of his country men, by due forms of law - <hr /> I am fully aware that such general statements as the foregoing prove nothing: But I am equally aware, that the facts of this war can never be grouped under any other generalization, than one such as the above, no more than the facts of the sky can be generalised on any other theory than that of the copernican system; little flat worlds and honest Patriotic generals as our only theory, our present war, and our present sky are alike an incomprehensible mystery to the whole world: But if the same hearty power which in Mr Buchanans day, was in the cabinet, unscrupulously pushing to the wall & politically cutting of the heads of all opponents -- if I say that same power is now over the army, with its terrible [enquiry?] of secret & literal as well as moral death to all opposers, aiming not at conquest, but at its own game of exhaustion & compromise, then all is plain: Then the utter neglect & refusal to organise the only natural [illegible] and time-honored resource of National defence the two millions of Militia men - The constant sneers at these militia men & their officers as a mode of defences, and <hr /> 23 the persistent neglect still to organise them though they have done nearly all for us that has been done by [land?] coupled with the most persistent defence of the most stupid blunders & treasons of these West=Point fools who have been the cause of nearly all our disgraces & disasters -- all this is plain - For if 2,000,000 militia=men had been at once organised, this "othello's occupation would have been gone", and they would have constantly have [illegible] such an uncontrollable force both of men & native genius in their rear: So all our shameful blunders at Corinth, in Missouri, Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, Cumberland Gap, and all round the land, as well as the absolute murders of the two Bull Runs, Balls bluff, & our practical total failure (in spite of the noise of the Herald) in Maryland & at Harpers Ferry - indeed all the facts of the whole war fall rationally & easily into line on one theory - but are totally inexplicable on any other - And why should it not be so? it took thirty years hard fighting to [illegible] this same [brotherhood?] out of the Senate and <hr /> the Forums of the nation, and is it natural to suppose it will quietly leave its last stronghold of hope & of power, in which it is safely entrenched sword in hand: This is a kind of Devil that goeth out by no such means: as we shall find to our sorrow: and that it will take off literal heads in the army, just as unscrupulously as it would political ones in the cabinet we shall find out too: Whether it is possible for Mr Lincoln to manage & control this [illegible] of the army, without directly stradling his horse and taking the field in person I do not know: I hope he will succeed some way: his proclamation was a staggering blow to their counsels: though not worth a penny, for the practical freedom of the slave: He is in the worst position ever mortal man was: and if he dont somehow & that speedily too, take this beast of the Army resolutely by the horns, & grasp & hold it firmly, it will use him, just as it did Mr Buchanan in the cabinet, as its mere tool for the practical destruction of the republic, & the institution finally of a Southern despotism over a [illegible] country and a helpless & exhausted north - and all our insane cries to hurry up men & means only help on the [game?], unless we first know how these men & means are to be handled & used - But we will still hope in God <hr /> Postcript Please pardon one word of proof more which I forgot in my haste -- It was self evident to anybody who was half witted that the sole object of the late Rebel raid into Maryland & Kentucky was to get winter supplies - of course the Richmond papers predicted what they ought to do, and bragged about what they would do, solely to deceive our military fools: Johnson in Fredreichsburgh fulminated his proclamation for the same end: and our military fools took it for granted that the Rebels had the kindness to advertise us, of the real programe & intent of the [illegible] so as kindly to put us on our guard: A child could see through it all: fool as I am in military affairs I predicted the final asalt a month ago in Washington City; which is this, namely, Our Sapient West Point men, who know all about military affairs, and nobody else knows anything at all. will allow the Rebels to make their raids into Maryland and Kentucky, get all their winter supplies, and then get in behind them, and achieve great glory in driving them out fully laden, with quite as much loss, and infinitely more disgrace <hr /> on ourside than on theirs: and thus the Rebels will be left substantially safe and sound, for a new campaign in the spring, which these cursed fools or traitors, whichever you please, from West point, will be enabled to shout and parade their victories & keep their places, simply on the ground that they have in fact, somewhat hurried the rebels out of Maryland & Kentucky, with all their plunder intact doing just enough to secure a shout of nominal victory, & their own positions at the head of their armies, ready for a new game of exhaustion in the spring: Thus at all times the Rebels are enabled to accomplish their real end, and we poor devils of the North are called upon to shout only over those unessential incidents of the war, which were absolutely indispensible, to keep these West Point fools in their places: and I now predict again, that these West=Point constables of ours, will still let the rebel burglars escape out of our houses with all their plunder- only hurrying them along enough, to save appearances of official duty, to get up among the people <hr /> an insane shout in their own favor; as the great deliverers of their country: and only one event will interfere with this disgraceful result to our full campaigns: namely if these West Point conspirators, or any one of them, should happen to catch the enemy where he could, at a single blow crush the Rebellion or seem to do it and they, become the hero of the war, and the next President of the Union, in hope at least: he will do that of course: But in all small and indecisive games, the Rebels will be allowed to have their own way, reach their own real ends, and further for us, the grand game of exhaustion: being interfered with by our leaders from time to time only just so far as it is indispensible to save appearances, & keep their places - And all this simply because neither their hearts nor their ultimate convictions, are with us, but with the rebels: They are therefore only doing us the same service, which a negro does a master he has no real faith in and no real affection for - and <hr /> the less he really does, & the less he intends to do, the more careful he is, at every point to say "Master just see what I have done." "Hurrah for McClellan & Buel" - we have chased the Rebels out of Maryland & Kentucky: Glorious victory of our patriot troops!!! So say the papers: -- Well you dambed fools, you have got the thieves out of your house, have you, with all their plunder safely on their backs; without which they must have perished before spring; and instead of shutting the front door, and catching them in the house, your sapient constables took infinite pains, to leave all the doors wide open, and get behind them, and achieve the great glory of driving them out, a little father than they wanted to go - and all this is strategy! What do you know about war!! Have you ever been to west point, where all these [Dogherry?] war constables have been manufactured to order, under the express supervision and care of Jeff Davis & co.? for a whole generation past? get out of the way then you are a fool - you dont know anything about War -- it is insolence for you to have any opinion, much more to express it -- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 9, Folder 07 (October 11-16, 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-11 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 506482 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Needs Review Percent Needs Review The percentage of pages with Needs Review status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 200 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/6aac6394dbc0a0c00673926a8794d4ed.pdf 0dcb67f41be55e3937c00256d6763b84 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Dec 18 1863 To His Excellency Gov Yates Dear Sir You may remember signing a petition for a colonel ship for our old friend Lieut Wm Strawn, over a colored Regt., to be sent to Washington. For some reason I learned that he failed to secure it. Could he not be promoted in the new regiments to be raised in this state? Judge Berdan and myself and the other petitioners in his behalf feel that he is not advanced as fast as his merits deserve, and that he is so retiring and modest that he never will be, unless you or some other good friend should interfere in his behalf: You reccollect that his testemonials from his fellow officers were of the highest character? What can you do for him? Good times those "glory hallelujah!" & "We will rally round the flag boys" &c Yours Truly J B Turner <hr /> P.S. I will enclose Lieut Strawns last letter to me: Judge Berdan myself and others first got up a petition for him for Washington: then he did not seem to care for it: But now his attention has been called to it he naturally feels solicitous not to be defeated entirely & you know that is in the blood of the Strawns. <hr /> Turner J. B. Jacksonville Ills Dec 18 63 Writes in behalf of Wm Strawn who made an application some time ago for a position in a Colored Regt Wishes the Governor to appoint him Lieut Col of the Regt to be raised in this State. Encloses letter from Strong Executive Office Dec 19 63 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 14, Folder 04 (December 11-20, 1863) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-12-18 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 507294 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Dec 18 1863 To His Excellency Gov Yates Dear Sir You may remember signing a petition for a colonel ship for our old friend Lieut Wm Strawn, over a colored Regt., to be sent to Washington. For some reason I learned that he failed to secure it. Could he not be promoted in the new regiments to be raised in this state? Judge Berdan and myself and the other petitioners in his behalf feel that he is not advanced as fast as his merits deserve, and that he is so retiring and modest that he never will be, unless you or some other good friend should interfere in his behalf: You reccollect that his testemonials from his fellow officers were of the highest character? What can you do for him? Good times those "glory hallelujah!" & "We will rally round the flag boys" &c Yours Truly J B Turner <hr /> P.S. I will enclose Lieut Strawns last letter to me: Judge Berdan myself and others first got up a petition for him for Washington: then he did not seem to care for it: But now his attention has been called to it he naturally feels solicitous not to be defeated entirely & you know that is in the blood of the Strawns. <hr /> Turner J. B. Jacksonville Ills Dec 18 63 Writes in behalf of Wm Strawn who made an application some time ago for a position in a Colored Regt Wishes the Governor to appoint him Lieut Col of the Regt to be raised in this State. Encloses letter from Strong Executive Office Dec 19 63 Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/5f3d687179547c02b8158512741613d2.pdf cbf3f2f9c4d8f9ddc0fe0d3a97ad6e26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yates Family Papers, Box 35, Folder 6 (1861-1865) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J. B. Turner to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-07-17 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 514176 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en