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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource] 28 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 39 (search)
Doc. 15. visit of Messrs. Gilmore and Jaquess to Richmond, Va. On the sixteenth of July, 1864, J. R. Gilmore, a well-known author, and Colonel James F. Jaquess, of the Seventy-third Illinois volunteers, obtained a pass through the rebel lines, and visited Jefferson Davis at Richmond. This visit, in many respects, was one of the most extraordinary incidents of the war. With no safe conduct, and no official authority, these gentlemen passed the lines of two hostile armies, gained access to the leaders of the rebellion, and came away in safety; bringing with them information which was of great importance at the time, and proved of vast service to the Union cause in the election which soon followed. As it will be matter of history, we condense from the Atlantic Monthly Mr. Gilmore's account of this singular and most successful enterprise: When the far-away Boston bells were sounding nine on the morning of Saturday, the sixteenth teenth day of July, we took our glorious Massachu
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 104 (search)
nty-third Illinois volunteer infantry, and J. R. Gilmore, Esq., be allowed to meet Colonel Robert Orsigned, James F. Jaques of Illinois, and James R. Gilmore, of Massachusetts, most respectfully solihat they came by request of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Gilmore replied that they came unofficially, but wiom Mr. Lincoln; and in order to satisfy me, Mr. Gilmore referred to the fact that permission for thest should be preferred to President Davis. Mr. Gilmore then showed me a card, written and signed br. Lincoln, requesting General Grant to aid Mr. Gilmore and friend in passing through his lines inttever they had to offer on that subject. Mr. Gilmore then addressed the President, and in a few him. At one period of the conversation, Mr. Gilmore made use of some language referring to thesnext day. This account of the visit of Messrs. Gilmore and Jaques to Richmond, has been renderedct of the visit. The extreme inaccuracy of Mr. Gilmore's narrative will be apparent to you from th[3 more...]