Box 24
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Correspondence, 1864-04-13 - 1864-04-23
File — Box: 24, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
April 13, 1864. Alonzo B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"From present appearances there will be no lack of capital to carry the thing through and I do hope you will not allow yourself to get into a position which will cause you the least uneasiness financially. You have worked hard and have secured a fortune?I really hope you will conclude to make your subn. $300,000 instead of $500,00."
Topics: Western Union Telegraph Company: dividends, stock, Russian stock; New York State Legislature:...
Dates:
1864-04-13 - 1864-04-23
Correspondence, 1864-04-24 - 1864-05-06
File — Box: 24, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
April 26, 1864. W. Irving Wood to Ezra Cornell from camp near Alexandria, Virginia:
"We left Annapolis at 6 A.M. the 23rd inst. we passed through Washington at noon yesterday & was reviewed by Genl. Burnside & the President as we passed, and we made a good appearance but it was very hard work after marching for two days & the night before we laid out through a drenching ravine & had marched 10 miles through the mud besides fording a stream that morning. Quite a number of men...
Dates:
1864-04-24 - 1864-05-06
Correspondence, 1864-05-07 - 1864-05-20
File — Box: 24, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
May 13, 1864. Petition by members of New York State Senate to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton:
"The undersigned respectfully request a pass for Hon. Ezra Cornell to go within the lines of our Army to render assistance to the wounded."
May 18, 1864. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell:
"I am going out into the State of Missouri recruiting for the 29th Ill. Colored Regt."
May 20, 1864. John W. Brown to Ezra Cornell describing at length activities in and battles of the Union Army.
Topics: Steam...
Dates:
1864-05-07 - 1864-05-20
Correspondence, 1864-05-21 - 1864-06-04
File — Box: 24, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
May 21, 1864. W. Irving Wood to Ezra Cornell describing battles near Spottsylvania.
May 29, 1864. John W. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from New Orleans describing his capture and wounding in a war skirmish:
"Probley you have sean the account of the capchur of the Gun Boat Signal No. 8 the one that I was on."
Topics: Civil War; Cornell family genealogy and history; steam cultivator; Russian stock
Personal names: Wood, W. Irving; Wright, Avis; Sibley, Hiram; Robinson, R.R.; Chester, E.W.;...
Dates:
1864-05-21 - 1864-06-04
Correspondence, 1864-06-05 - 1864-06-22
File — Box: 24, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Topics: agriculture; Russian stock; Ezra Cornell's Wisconsin lands; Civil War: colored regiments. Personal names: Chester, E.W.; Balch, G.W.; Cornell, D.B.; Pierpont, J.E.; Willers, D. Geography:
Dates:
1864-06-05 - 1864-06-22