him, and on Merrill s giving us a
really interesting speech, involving parti-
culars of the state of affairs here, a
dead-set was made upon the Celt, es-
pecially by little Shaw, when O Gor-
man fell drunkenly sleep. At about
11, I left the party, all sober except the
Irishman two had left early in the
evening. O Gorman was accommodated
with a mattrass, on which, booted and
breeched, he slept till morning.
14. Wednesday. The great O,
awaking about 7 presented him-
self upstairs to annoy Hills & Shaw,
then abed, and subsequently brought
up a bottle of bitters, of which they re-
fused to join him in partaking. So
he went down stairs, ordered the ne-
groes to prepare 6 eggs for his break-
fast, got 2, pocketted our Tobacco,
and cleared out by the back entrance.
Breakfast. Out for a stroll with
Howell, visiting the 1st Metropolitan
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two: page twenty-nine |
| Description: | Describes a whiskey party at Baton Rouge. |
| Date: | 1863-01-13 |
| Subject: | Civil War; Drunkenness; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Hills, A.C.; Howell; Merrill, Captain; Military; New York Infantry Regiment, 131st; O'Gorman, Lieutenant; Shaw, Charles P.; Slaves |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Baton Rouge, Louisiana] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-01-03 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ''The New York Tribune'' at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as his preparations in New York for going back to England. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| 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 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
