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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 6: Affairs at the National Capital.--War commenced in Charleston harbor. (search)
an intimate acquaintance of the President, he was in continual fear of assassination. On the morning after the stormy cabinet meeting just mentioned, news came that Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney had been seized by South Carolina troops. The President breathed more freely. He felt himself relieved from much embarrassment, for the insurgents had committed the first act of war. He now peremptorily refused to order the withdrawal of the garrison from Sumter, and on the following day December 29. the disappointed Floyd resigned the seals of his office, fled to Richmond, and afterward took up arms against his country. In his letter of resignation, this man, covered, as with a garment, with some of the darkest crimes known in history, spoke of patriotism and honor. He said:--I deeply regret that I feel myself under the necessity of tendering to you my resignation as Secretary of War, because I can no longer hold it under my convictions of patriotism, nor with honor, subjected as
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
s S. Powell, S. G. Howell, J. A. Hayden, G. W. Adair, and R. C. Honlester. to Messrs. Douglas and Crittenden. Is there any hope for Southern rights in the Union? they inquired. We are for the Union of our fathers, they said, if Southern rights can be preserved in it. If not, we are for secession. Can we yet hope the Union will be preserved on this principle? You are looked to in this emergency. Give us your views by dispatch. We have hopes, said Douglas and Crittenden, in reply, December 29. that the rights of the South, and of every State and section, may be protected within the Union. Don't give up the ship. Don't despair of the Union. To counteract this assurance, Toombs and others sent numerous sensation dispatches to Georgia. On the first of January, 1861. the day before the election was to be held, Toombs telegraphed to an Augusta journal, True Democrat. saying:--The Cabinet is broken up; Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War, and Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interio