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who was standing in front of his store, surveying
the procession, called out to me. His remarks were
not many, but they contrasted with his sen-
timents as adapted to the lattitude of Charleston.
As I have before had occasion to observe, most
of the Northern men who go South on business,
rather justify the Southern conviction that a Yan-
kee will do anything for a dollar. Lindsay
supposed Charleston would be destroyed, which
didn t impress me pleasantly. His sister, he said,
was in Indiana. Further on, Viele met an
English acquaintance of his, with whom I present-
ly left him in a liquor-saloon. To the Evening
Post office; saw Maverick. Returning, saw
F. Wood and Nicholson at the World office.
Met Shepherd in Broadway. He spoke of the in-
tended return of a school-teacher, or governess, to
whom he is more or less engaged, at present in
Tennessee; producing a letter from her and reading
a line of it containing that intimation. Up-town.
In-doors during the evening. Boweryem brought
Stockton up, who is reduced to a consideration
of Ways and Means, as the new Century dynasty
pays only in accidental silver. I was tired and
went fast asleep on the bed, while they talked. Wrote
subsequently for an hour or two. Apropos
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen: page one hundred and forty-five |
| Description: | Mentions that Lindsay seems to have different opinions on the war when in the North than in the South. |
| Date: | 1861-04-29 |
| Subject: | Boweryem, George; Century.; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Lindsay; Maverick, Augustus; Nicholson; Shepherd, N.G.; Stockton; Vieil; Wood, Frank |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York]; Charleston, [South Carolina] |
| Coverage (Street): | Broadway |
| Scan Date: | 2010-06-07 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of the scene in New York at the commencement of the Civil War, boarding house living, visits to the Edwards family, Mort Thomson's engagement to Fanny Fern's daughter Grace Eldredge, Frank Cahill's return to New York from London, Frank Bellew's dissatisfaction with living in England, Thomas Nast's engagement to Sally Edwards, the scene in New York during the departure of the 7th New York Regiment for Washington, attending the wedding of Olive Waite and Hamilton Bragg, a visit with Frank Cahill to the camp of the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers and the 2nd Regiment of New York State Militia on Staten Island, the death of Charles Welden, and his reporting work. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Military; Publishers and publishing; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
