Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 21, page 98 with photograph, December 6, 1862

Describes Andrew Jackson Hamilton. Transcription: 89 unclear words. feel that the man Andrew Jackson Hamilton 's heart was bleeding. I think if the Texas chapter of the history of the great American Rebellion were written it would exceed all the others for horror and atrocity. But half the truth will never be known. "Jack Hamilton," as he was popularly called, had never been north of Washington until the last two months and spoke simply of the effect, of his reception in New York, when he had to speak at the Academy of Music; how he almost broke down at the welcome given him, but then spoke as the spirit dictated, and not without effect. He was a tall powerfully-built, resolute man, dressed in a plain gray suit (in which he looked ten times better than in his general's uniform, worn afterwards at New Orleans) and a black hat. The day cold but with intermittent sunshine. Lunch on brandy, sardines, crackers and cheese, with a contingency of fruit, in Gen. Hamilton's cabin, on the suggestion of Charles P. Shaw, in company with him and photograph Hamilton of Texas.

Date

1862

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