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745, Emigration Project.
box etc. By 9 to 745. The girls and
their parents here. Haney and Jack away
at Pougkeepsie
28. Sunday. Is put down erroneously
to the credit of Saturday. On the latter day
Mr Edwards
called on me
about procuring
my aid for
a colonization
scheme in get-
ting South
Carolinian
negroes to emi-
grate to Aus-
tralia, to
cultivate cot-
ton, and set-
tle there. I
proposed to
put him into
[photograph]
Miss Lizzie Woodward.
[Gunn s diary continued]
communication
with Prince
Rivers, an in-
fluential man
among the ex-
slaves of Hil-
ton Head.
Writing to
Hannah and
scoring up
Diary until
pretty late
at night.
I have cut
Cahill and
company al-
most totally, only speaking a little to Shepherd.
29. Monday. Down town in the afternoon.
To Tribune office, saw Gay. To Haney s. He
has met Edge and scolded him about the bor-
rowed $17. To the Evening Post office. In
the evening went to 9th Street and called on Liz-| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty: page one hundred and eighty-three |
| Description: | Regarding a visit by Mr. Edwards, who wished to promote ex-slave emigration to Australia. |
| Date: | 1862-09-27 |
| Subject: | African Americans; Bennett, Hannah; Cahill, Frank; Civil War; Edge, Frederick; Edwards, Eliza; Edwards, George; Edwards, John; Edwards, Martha; Edwards, Sarah; Gay, Sidney H.; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Haney, Jesse; New York evening post.; New York tribune.; Rivers, Prince; Shepherd, N.G.; Slaves; Woodward, Lizzie (Fite) |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York]; Australia; Hilton Head, South Carolina |
| Coverage (Street): | 9th Street |
| Scan Date: | 2010-09-10 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, especially Hilton Head, Port Royal, St. Augustine, Key West, and the end of his experiences with the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular Campaign when he had to leave camp due to illness. |
| Subject: | African Americans; Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Diseases; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marches (U.S. Army); Medical care (U.S. Army); Military; Military camp life; Peninsular Campaign (Va.); Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Port Royal, South Carolina; Hilton Head, South Carolina; Key West, Florida; St. Augustine, Florida; Virginia |
| 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. |
