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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
d. The conflagration, starting simultaneously at different points, became instantly terrific. Its Burning of the vessels at the Gosport Navy Yard. this view shows the position of some of the vessels on Sunday morning, the 21st of April. The large vessel on the right is the Pennsylvania. on the extreme left is seen the bow of the United States. in the center is seen the Pawnee steam-frigate, and the Cumberland with the Yankee at her side. This is from a picture in Harper's Weekly, May 11, 1861. roar could be heard for miles, and its light was seen far at sea, far up the James and York Rivers, and Chesapeake Bay, and far beyond the Dismal Swamp. The ships and the ship-houses, and other large buildings in the Navy Yard, were involved in one grand ruin. To add to the sublimity of the fiery tempest, frequent discharges were heard from the monster ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania, as the flames reached her loaded heavy guns. When the conflagration was fairly under way, the Pawnee
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
ight for authority to commit further outrages upon the Government and private property, which had been planned by the conspirators some days before, and had been proclaimed in other parts of the State. See Address to the People of Maryland, May 11, 1861, by Governor Hicks. Kane said that he had received information by telegraph that other troops were on their way to Baltimore by the railways from Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and proposed the immediate destruction of bridges on these roads, tohe Mayor) repaired, Mr. Hicks being too ill to rise. They soon came out of that chamber with the Governor's acquiescence in their plans, they said; but which he afterward explicitly denied in a communication to the Maryland Senate, and later May 11, 1861. in an address to the people of Maryland. Their own testimony.shows that his consent was reluctantly given, if given at all, in the words:--I suppose it must be done ; and then only, according to common rumor and common belief, after argument