Marcellus Hartley, a Brief Memoir (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1903 Excerpt: ... EXTRACTS FROM MR. HARTLEY'S CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR Note.--During the nine months that Mr. Hartley was in Europe, in 1862 and 1863, in the service of the United States Government, he wrote a vast number of letters. These are wholly on business affairs, to various manufacturers, to his agents, to his bankers, and, as a rule, they possess little interest to the reader. Among them, however, those to Secretary Stanton, of which there are twenty-five or thirty, and to other persons in high place, stand out as possessing a more than passing interest; they deal with more general questions of policy and with business details of greater moment. A few of those are included in the text of Chapter V. They are here supplemented by some further correspondence of the same sort, introduced with the purpose, not of giving any complete account of Mr. Hartley's doings, but of showing the various aspects of his work. No. 9. Berlin, October 7, 1862. Sir: My last was under date of the first instant from Cologne. I have nothing from you since your three favors of the twelfth ulto.--No. 6. I have just received a telegram that the additional 150,000 credit has arrived, making 380,000 in all, but they all expire on the first of November. Please lose no time in extending them until such time beyond the tenth of December as in your judgment you may require me. You will pardon me if I suggest here that it is our right course to secure all arms here in Europe, in order that the South may not obtain them. They are purchasing largely, and wherever they can find arms they purchase, paying but little attention to price as long as they can obtain them. They are endeavoring to purchase Enfields. Some of our Birmingham makers have refused to deliver at less than 53/. Th...