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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
between separate commonwealths, seemed rather to unite them only the more closely, and no human foresight could have predicted that within a little more than twelve months there would be such altered conditions. The presidential election of 1860 found the people of Kentucky much divided in political sentiment. The split in the Democratic party at the Charleston convention resulted in two Democratic tickets, and out of a vote in Kentucky of 145,862, Breckinridge and Lane received 52,836, Douglas and Johnson 25,644, while the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and Everett received 66,016 and Lincoln and Hamlin but 1,366. So that it will be seen that while the Bell and Everett ticket received a plurality of about thirteen thousand votes, the combined vote for the Democratic tickets was nearly as much in excess of that for the former. The small vote for the Republican ticket shows that even if it did not include all who sympathized in the objects of that party, it indicated the sli
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
h of history justifies Mr. Breckinridge's doubt. Lincoln's election did more than divide the Union. It consolidated the South. After the result was known, politics turned into a game of partners. The Young Bell Ringers maintained their organization for a while. Their organization, in changing the current of its partisanship, soon amalgamated with their Democratic rivals. All the young voters of 1860 melted into one party. It was the party of the South; a party with one cry and one purpose. It gave out an insistent note, swelling from day to day into larger volume—the cry for an independent Confederacy. Over all these—whether Young Bell Ringers or Breckinridge and Lane men, or Douglas and Johnson clubs-hovered a glorified radiance from the Confederacy that was to be! I leave here the workers in the political campaign of 1860. In May that campaign had divided upon party interests. In January it was to unite in one controlling, dominating interest of State and section
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
mend provision for the election of members of the convention as soon as may be passed with due regard to time, to whom shall be communicated the responsibility of determining that position and shaping that policy, so far as affects the relations of Louisiana to the Federal government. Before the legislature met there had come, filtering through, the totals of the Louisiana election. A mere mention suffices here. Breckinridge and Lane had received 22,681 votes; Bell and Everett 20,204; Douglas and Johnson 7,625; Lincoln and Hamlin were voteless. Like Gallio, the supporters of the different candidates now cared for none of these things. The Lincoln election had wiped out, as by an all-spreading sponge, any solicitude for the votes in the various States of the South. With the meeting of the legislature the adjutantgen-eral of the State submitted his report. He looked at the matter gloomily, holding that the sum absolutely needed to organize and arm the militia of the State wi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), President Davis in reply to General Sherman. (search)
o report any measure which did not receive the concurrence of at least a majority of each division. The Republican Senators rejected every proposition that promised pacification, and the committee reported to the Senate that their consultation was a failure. Was there less conspiracy in the Republican Senators combining to prevent pacification than there was in Southern Senators uniting in conference to advise the conventions of their States that their cause was hopeless in Washington? Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, assailed the Republican side of the Senate for their refusal to accept any terms that were offered to them, and demanded to know what they proposed to do, and in that connection referred to Senator Toombs and myself as having been willing to accept the line of 36° 30′, or the Missouri Compromise, and that the Republican Senators rejected the proposition. Which were the conspirators, the Senators who offered the Missouri Compromise for the sake of peace, or the Senators who
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.23 (search)
what he believed to be his duty. The success of the school was always dear to him. Even after the war had broken out, and he had left Lexington, his letters constantly expressed the desire that it should be kept up as of old. Zzzpolitical speech. I heard Jackson make the only political speech of his life. It was at Lexington during the campaign resulting in the election of Lincoln. Though the voters of Rockbridge county, in which Lexington is situated, were overwhelmingly for Douglas, Breckinridge had a numbar of warm supporters, and the latter called a mass meeting in the court-house. Frank Paxton, who afterwards fell at Chancellorsville at the head of his brigade, was one of the speakers, but the interest lagged until Jackson, who sat in the rear of the room, arose to speak. From the first he was listened to with the strictest attention, and his speech of a quarter of an hour made a deeper impression than all the others. He spoke briefly and to the point, touching
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
63, 15th and 37th Tennessee Regiments. Scayles, A. W., Assistant Surgeon, appointed by Colonel 14th Texas, May 21, ‘62. Dec. 31, ‘62, 14th Texas. Jan. 31, ‘63, Douglas' Battery. April 7, ‘63, transferred to 14th Texas, General Stewart command'g Division. May 9, ‘63, transferred with com'd to Department Mississippi. Sayle, AMarch 31, ‘64, 2nd Tennessee Regiment. April 30, ‘64, 35th and 48th Tennessee Regiments. Schell, W. Augustus, Surgeon. Passed Board Dec. 9, ‘62. Dec. 31, ‘62, Douglas' Battalion. Shelton, J., Assistant Surgeon. Dec. 31, ‘62, Carter's Tennessee Regiment. Seago, B. L., Assistant Surgeon. Jan. 13, ‘63, assigned by Secretary ud, A. D., contract $80, made by E. J. Bryan. June 20, ‘62, Hospital in Murfreesboro, Feb. 28, ‘63, 10th Texas Regiment, March 30, ‘63, 2d Arkansas. April 7, ‘63, Douglas' Battalion. Scott, Jesse Foree, Surgeon, com'd May 1, ‘62, appointed by Secretary of War 11th Feb. ‘64, to rank May I, ‘62. Passe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
evolution were to them household tales. So, when the gleam of the bayonet and the flash of the sword appeared upon Southern hills, they sent their electric effect across Southern valleys, and those who bore them were deemed invaders; so the young men of the South rushed to arms. The South had drawn great inspiration, too, from Northern youth and Northern manhood. Many of her illustrious men had taught the Southern youth, men who afterwards became famous in American history. Seward and Douglas and Blaine and many others had instructed Southern youth, in Southern States. The South's roster of famous names gave their birthplaces to many in Northern States; Quitman and Prentiss and Walker and many others noted in Southern life were of Northern birth. Many who had thus come, profoundly convinced of the right of the Southern cause, entered her armies and became distinguished. In 1862 the Army of Tennessee, having felt the first great shock of battle at Shiloh, the sons of the So
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Johnson's Island. (search)
, 1864. Close out all of the stock in the Mount Hope Oil Company before 3 o'clock to-day. Be prompt. C. H. Cole. This meant that the attempt to capture the Michigan was to be made that afternoon, and that attacks should be made on Camps Douglas, Chase, and Morton. In company with Beall, Cole boarded the Philo Parsons, which ran between Detroit and Sandusky. She stopped at the various places on the Canada side of the Detroit river. At Windsor and Maiden the Confederates got aboard. t had come, and they were to rise immediately in insurrection. Their escape was to be covered by the captured Michigan, which was to shell the fort and Federal quarters. It was expected that at this same hour the blows would be struck at Camps Douglas, Chase, and Morton. All points failed. Sure of his prize, Cole played with it as a cat tantalizes a mouse. He delayed one second too long. He was pledging his last good health when an officer from Johnson's Island entered the ward-room. T
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
e to be Written, 369 Donelson, Capture of Fort, 271 Ellyson, Lieut.-Gov. J Taylor 160 Emancipation in the United States in 1861, 328 Embargo Act. 64 Emmett, Daniel D., 369 Fathers of Confederate Veterans Living 368 Featherston, Capt. John C., 161 Fisher's Hill, Desperate Picket Fight, 221 Fleming, Prof. W. L., 8 Forrest, Gen. N. B., 10 Fredericksburg Hattie of, Confederates and Federals Killed and Wounded at, 24 Historic Spots in Field Around, 197 Freeman, Dr. Douglas S., 371 G Co. 24th Va. Infantry, History of members, 256 Garnet, Judge, Theo. S., 251 Gettysburg, Battle of, 245 Gibbons, J. R 236 Gildersleeve, r. J. R., 86 Goss, Lynn C, 287 Grayson, William, Sketch of, 57 Remarkable preservation of his body in the grave, 58 Green, Mrs. Anne S., 150 Greatness of Great Things, The, 305 Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 28 Henry, Patrick, Sketch of, 26, 30 Historic Spots of Battlefield around Fredericksburg, 197 Hoar, Senator, Geo. F.,
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
40 Foster, William40 Fowle, Eliza6 Foye, William15 Foxcroft, Thomas27 Francis I. of France10 Franklin, Benjamin99 Franklin Grammar School, Somerville4 Franklin, Mass.103 Franklin, Statue of13 Franklin Street, Somerville44 Frazar, General Douglas2 Frazar, General Douglas, Works of3 Free School, Charlestown37 Free Schools, Charlestown, Grant in Aid of35 French Church in Boston, The13 French and Indian Wars, The88 Frigate Nonsuch65 Frost, Mrs., House of47 Frothingham, HistorGeneral Douglas, Works of3 Free School, Charlestown37 Free Schools, Charlestown, Grant in Aid of35 French Church in Boston, The13 French and Indian Wars, The88 Frigate Nonsuch65 Frost, Mrs., House of47 Frothingham, Historian18,19, 36, 38, 41, 63 Frothingham's History of Charlestown16, 36, 87, 38 Frothingham, Nathaniel36 Frothingham, Richard, Jr.97 Frothingham, Samuel36 Furber, Hon. William H.100 Galletly Rope-Walk, The44 Gage, General79 Gardner, Col.94, 96 Garrison, William Lloyd104 Garton, Rev. J. Vanor76 Geary, Captain Benjamin64 General Court of Massachusetts, The41, 52 General Court of Mass. Colony, The19 Geneva10 George III.79 Gerrish, Colonel94 Gilman, Charles E., Town Clerk, Somerville4
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