1 25 9 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/a59b415c237016413cbdfd4c3beba7d1.pdf 5fbeebb46d2faa18b094efd40ae116e9 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 10, Folder 05 (Undated) 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 E. A. Paine to A. 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Genl Hospital - Corner Chestnut & 5th Street St Louis Govr Yates Dear Sir Haveing heard of your kindness in sending home wounded soldiers belonging to Illinoise I thought that I would lay my case before you - hopeing that you may view it favorably I belong Co B 20th Ills - I was in he siege and Battle of Fort Donelson on the 13th 14th and 15th and was wounded on the 15th in the right thigh I am now able o get about on crutches and would be able to go home -- the surgeon tells me that I will not be able to go to my Regiment in a month and as it is very sickley at the hospital <hr />I wish to get home until able to do duty - I should have been able to have payed my own Transportation if the rebles had not robbed me of all my money on hte field of Battle - my home is in Genieso - and if you can send me home - you shall ever have the prayers of a grateful solider Truly Yours Eugene R. Currier Genl Hospital Corner Chestnut & 5th Street St. Louis - Mo Send him papers and $3.00 out of contingent fund <hr />E.R. Currier (Hospital) St Louis [illegible] One of the Ft Donelson wounded -- wants pass. Ansd - sent. 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 10, Folder 05 (Undated) 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 Eugene R. Currier to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-XX -XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503363 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. Genl Hospital - Corner Chestnut & 5th Street St Louis Govr Yates Dear Sir Haveing heard of your kindness in sending home wounded soldiers belonging to Illinoise I thought that I would lay my case before you - hopeing that you may view it favorably I belong Co B 20th Ills - I was in he siege and Battle of Fort Donelson on the 13th 14th and 15th and was wounded on the 15th in the right thigh I am now able o get about on crutches and would be able to go home -- the surgeon tells me that I will not be able to go to my Regiment in a month and as it is very sickley at the hospital <hr />I wish to get home until able to do duty - I should have been able to have payed my own Transportation if the rebles had not robbed me of all my money on hte field of Battle - my home is in Genieso - and if you can send me home - you shall ever have the prayers of a grateful solider Truly Yours Eugene R. Currier Genl Hospital Corner Chestnut & 5th Street St. Louis - Mo Send him papers and $3.00 out of contingent fund <hr />E.R. Currier (Hospital) St Louis [illegible] One of the Ft Donelson wounded -- wants pass. Ansd - sent. 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://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/8021d2a7bda346f7bdefaca353f7377a.pdf 8369d2f8ef8d39fd4bbf449984715d17 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 10, Folder 05 (Undated) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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Campbell and others to Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-XX -XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503361 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://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/94328e51c06f33be394954ba849d66e2.pdf a9f375ad432810cc52c460f4c33f7bb3 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/. 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Needs Review Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. 1 Officers and Soldiers I claim it to be a high honor to have the privilege of addressing the Grand Army of Illinois at Cairo. You were among the very first of the hundred thousands who in response to the call of the President promptly and with alacrity volunteered in the service of your country. You have had severe trials. While your patriotic hearts have yearned for an opportunity to meet the enemies of the country, you have been doomed to that restless inaction which to the brave hearted soldier is the greatest infliction to which he has to submit. To your honor be it said you have in the spirit of true soldiers submitted to your fortune patiently and uncomplainingly. But let me say that still your position has been a truly honorable one and though engaged in no battle you have rendered the country a service quite as effective and necessary as the troops which have encountered the rebels in Virginia or Missouri. You occupy the most exposed and prominent military position in the North West -- you are at the point whence danger was to be most apprehended and which most of all others has required the presence of our best and bravest troops. Had you been sent to either Virginia or Missouri, this strong point would have fallen into the hands of the enemy and the command of the Ohio & Mississipi with the millions of their commerce and all our supplies have passed from our jurisdiction - Therefore be assured that while the days have passed heavily on your hands and you have longed for the fields where danger was to be dared and glory was to be won <hr /> 2 your friends at home and your countrymen everywhere hold you in grateful remembrance for the patience, patriotism and fidelity with which you have discharged your duties here. I may add also that it is evident from the scenes before me that you have not been idle, for instead of the raw recruit as you then were now you have the bearing and the accomplishments of the well disciplined soldiers presenting a scene of regularity, order and beauty of which well trained regulars would not be ashamed - It is true that Ohio & Indiana have had their troops at the seat of war in Virginia, and if Illinois troops have not been ordered there, it is because Genl Scott and the Administration have believed that your services were needed at home against the rebels of Missouri & Tennessee more dangerous foes and braver and harder to subdue than the less hardy troops of Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina. You have doubtless often felt that you have been neglected by the officers of government, but I can assure you that both by day and night have they faithfully labored to supply your wants. You must recollect that this war has been suddenly sprung upon us and that the difficulty of raising, providing for, equipping, arming and transporting twenty thousand troops in Sixty days without money in the treasury and in a time of severe financial depression and embarrassment is not an easy one. The complaints in other States have been louder than in ours, unless it may be in those States like Wisconsin which has raised but a few regiments and has not <hr /> 3 till lately taken the field. When the difficulties, which we have had to encounter, shall be made known and when the reasons of secrescy shall have been removed and the correspondence which I have carried on with the Departments at Washington and with others upon the subject matters of this controversy shall be written, I have not a doubt that the verdict of my country will sustain my administration in this the most difficult and trying crisis through which the country has ever passed - Soldiers - I am sufficiently acquainted with the plans of Genl Scott to know that if this rebellion is not soon crushed out that the troops at Cairo will not complain for want of active participation in the service. I know that it is in his contemplation if necessary, to call out one hundred thousand men in the army of the West and to capture and occupy every prominent point on either shore of the Ohio & Mississipi from Pittsburg to New Orleans. In that event, you being longest in the Service, best drilled and disciplined and skilled in the use of arms and and versed in military science would lead the van of that great army. You would occupy the post of danger which is always the post of honor. And, soldiers, I can truly say that Illinois will feel entirely secure with her interests and her honor in your hands. You may go confidently relying upon the sympathies and confidence of your countrymen Your leader, the gallant Prentis has seen actual service <hr /> 4 fighting gloriously by the side of your noble Hardin & Bissel on Buena Vista's bloody won the laurels [meet?] to bind the soldiers brow. Faithful skilful, brave - ready to bear his breast to the storm of battle he will lead you a conquering host to the field where your country is to be vindicated and glory is to be won. The cause in which you are engaged is a glorious one - The consciousness that you are right will fire your hearts & nerve your arms in the day of trial - You are fighting for a government you love - a government that is good - the very best on earth - endeared to you by the boundlessness of the blessings it confers - which has nursed you and protected you with the care and fondness of the mother for her child -Your mission will be to strike down the traitor hands raised against a government so free and the noblest institutions which have ever blessed a people - which for eighty years has secured respect at home and abroad and made the title of "American Citizen" prouder than that of Roman Citizen in the days of the Scipios and the Caesars. - You are fighting for a government under which our boundaries have spread from ocean to ocean, scattering the blessings of civilization Christianity & freedom On every hand. This is your cause, to vindicate such a government, the heritage of your fathers, the gift of your Washington, <hr /> 5 the hope for your children, the asylum for the oppressed of every clime of he earth To live for, to fight for, to die for such a country as this is glorious <pre> of them on this earthly sphere </pre> <pre> A boon, an offering. Heaven holds dear </pre> <pre> It is the last libation liberty draws </pre> <pre> From the heart that suffers & bleeds in the cause </pre> It is but just to the people of the South to say that they are as brave and martial a people as we -but how true is it that 'conscience makes cowards of us all.' and in the hearts of a large portion of the Southern army must be a consciousness that they are in the wrong - they can have no heart in fighting against a government so good as our's - they have enlisted to avow the sacrifice of life, property and secure peace for families - but unimpelled by any of that sort of ambition which moves their leaders, an ambition to rule though it be over but a fragment of a once glorious & united empire - an ambition which would rather "reign in hell than serve in Heaven", the masses having no such ambition will have no heart to fight over a government which has fed, and clothed and honored them and in the end their resistance to our all conquering hosts will be but feeble and ineffectual. We fight for our nationality, for the life of liberty itself, for our union, for the states one and indivisible now and forever - Cost what it may, come what will life or death we will preserve that union and fight till victory complete, overwhelming and glorious shall stream from all our banners. We will have no compromise till the last traitor has lain down his arms & <hr />6 sued for peace. The ground we stand upon towers transcendantly above all party considerations, a struggle for our national existence, the great cause which moved the hearts of the patriot sages of Independence Hall in 1776 when they proclaimed liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof and we will fight till this gigantic treason is crushed out and till the jubilant shouts of victory shall go up from all our charging columns and all our victorious armies. If 250,000 brave men cannot achieve these results, then million can, and traitors shall learn, imperious England shall know, the world shall know that this great American people in its uprisen majesty has the power and the will to vindicate itself all traitors at home and all enemies abroad. The world has never yet seen such an army as our's. It is composed of the flower of the country, men of the highest character and education, civilians of the highest grade enroll themselves in the ranks, the sturdy farmer, the respectable mechanic -- the nation's proudest chivalry swell the ranks an army prouder than Rome in her days of imperial grandeur or Napoleon at the head of his embattled hosts ever led of the field. I had looked forward to such a war as the greatest calamity but it will yet turn out to be the greatest boon which could have fallen upon the nation - The time had come in the order of events, shall I not say of <hr />7 Providence itself to establish once and forever the proposition that there was power in a government of the people without a standing founded upon the principle of the equal rights of all and based upon the principle of the rights of majorities, and sustained by a christian and enlightened civilization to sustain itself. The outrageous scenes which for years past have disgraced the halls of Congress, when the threats of the pugellist, the terrors of the revolver and bowie knife have been the arguments instead of dignified debate and appeals to patriotism, when the sacred memories of the illustrious dead have been insulted and the lessons of Washington & Jefferson not only disregarded but contemptuously spurned and ridiculed, when high handed treason stalked unblushing and unrebuked through the national capitol and through all the departments of the government, till the final culmination in the open and avowed declaration of traitors that they would not submit to the Government constitutionally elected by the people - left no alternative save the absolute annihilation of the Government or the immediate suppression of the treason and the condign punishment of the traitors. And when the Government shall have crushed out the treason and the names of the reckless [illegible] who have raised the standard of revolt shall be enrolled upon the sheet of imperishable infamy which they have prepared for themselves this Government emerging as the sun from the cloud will be purer and more stable than ever before, <hr /> 8 and the world stand repaired that a free government can be strong enough, & vigorous enough to withstand the violent shocks of internal commotion as successfully as Governments sustained above by arbitrary power. Cost what is may then the war cheap and history in all her ample chronicles shall invite no sublimer event than the spontaneous uprising of this great people to settle the question which ages have not settled that man is capable of self government. If we shall succeed in now quelling the most causeless insurrection which ever raised its unhallowed hand against a government - impudently and audaciously setting itself up against the prejudices, the holy memories, the hopes, the numbers - the millions of the American people, we shall down to history a lesson which will foreshadow to traitors the doom which always should await them I know it is said that it is a fratricidal war - that we are fighting against our brothers of the same blood and the same nation - Our reply is this - To our fellow citizens of the South -and though they be our brothers, "Let all traitors stand from under" We are fighting against those who have set at naught and defile the power of the Government - who have insulted our flag - who have violently seized the fort and other property of the country - who are marching upon the capitol of your country to tear down the sacred flag which Washington planted upon its dome and which for 85 years has waved to the battle and the breeze, the proud ensign of our greatness & glory and glorious emblem <hr />9 of our national sovereignty. For that same flag which has waved in triumph at Bunker Hill and Brandywine and Yorktown - at Buenavista and Cerro Gordo you are still to fight - Instead of 13 Stars as in 76 now 34 blaze from its ample folds. The undying emblem of our national freedom, of justice, civilization and christianity. A British once said of it in Parliament by way of derision 'it is but a bit of bunting which in the twinkling of an eye will be swept from the ocean by the British navy' And now that little bit of bunting which has passed through so many clouds of dust and smoke, through showers of shot & shell and has wrapped its folds around so many brave spirits in death, now displays its star lit folds on every Continent Island & Sea under the whole Heavens. I recollect a most thrilling incident as detailed by Jo.R Poinset former of Sec of War in Genl' Jackson's cabinet which occurred while he was Ambassador in Mexico and which is calculated to increase the pride of every American for the flag of his country. In one of the revolutions of that turbulent republic, the City of Mexico had been taken by assault and the house of the American Ambassador was the only place of refuge for the fleying inhabitants of the city -- That house was pointed out to the infuriated assailants as the only place of refuge for their enemies. They rushed to attack and levelled their cannon and musketry at it. Mr Poinset in this moment of extreme peril as his <hr />10 last and only hope, seized his country's flag, rushed out on the balcony, unfurled the stars & stripes and planted himself beneath their waving folds. In an instant every musket fell, loud cheers went up for the flags and the band struck up the Pealing anthem, "Hail Columbia, happy land" -- And now where is the American who willing to see this flag of glory trail in the dust or see it's stars scattered in confusion over the face of the earth. No by the blessing of God, by the memory of our fathers, by our own strong right arms it shall still float like a flame in the sky -- it shall still float the proud emblem of our national glory, and wherever unfurled on land or on sea the oppressed shall see it, he shall still have reason to bless it, and alike whether it float aloft in Holiday triumph on the summer breeze or it be dimly seen amid the clouds of war it shall ever float the pride and joy of the American heart. To you Illinoisians is in part entrusted the great duty of defending and preserving this flag. On many a field of glory Illinois has written an imperishable record of her prowess, and while the memory of her Hardin, her Baker, Her Shields, and her Bissell shall be preserved her fame is secure - Your noble state expects and knows that you will do you duty. I feel and know that wherever you are placed honors bright and lasting will be yours; that you will act worthy <hr />11 whose chivalry has been so nobly vindicated by her sons in arms and that victory will blaze from all your banners - I fell that you will enlist for the war -- that while a traitor will foot shall despoil the land you will not leave the [field?], that you will <pre> "Strike till the last armed foe expires, </pre> <pre> Strike for your altars and their fires, </pre> <pre> Strike for the green graves of your sires, </pre> <pre> God and your native land! </pre> <hr /> 1862 Speech to the "Grand Army at Cairo Just before battle of Belmont Richard Yates 1862 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 10, Folder 05 (Undated) Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource Theodore Griffin to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-XX -XX Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 503362 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://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/e4a0fa51b88dc365587bed09f15e1bb4.pdf 0a1528da874b0591725af343639d18be 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/. 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