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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, November (search)
November 10. Captain Gillespie's cavalry surrounded a body of Lincolnites in Paw Paw follow, Sevier County, Tenn., and captured twenty-five of them.--Knoxville Register, Nov. 11. Major-General Halleck, lately arrived from California, was appointed to the command of the Military Department of the West, in place of General Fremont, and General Buell, of Ohio, an efficient army officer who can point to a brilliant record, was put in charge of Kentucky, in place of General Sherman, resigned. These two men are in the prime of life — about forty years of age — and their antecedents warrant the expectations that there will be no more mistakes in the Western section.--N. Y. Herald, November 11. The New Orleans Crescent has the following: Unfortunately the resources of the Hessian Government of Lincoln have been underrated. It is now nearly six months since a vessel entered the port of New Orleans from a distant country. The same remarks will apply to Mobile and other ports
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
and plundering the people of provisions. The jails were soon filled with loyalists, and an extensive disarming of the people was accomplished. So thoroughly were they under the control of the Confederates, that in November 1861. Colonel Wood was able to write to Benjamin, at Richmond, The rebellion [resistance to Confederate outrages] in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, and will be effectually suppressed in less than two weeks in all the counties. Their camps in Sevier and Hamilton Counties, he continued, have been broken up, and a large number of them have been made prisoners. . . . .It is a mere farce to arrest them and turn them over to the courts . . . . They really deserve the gallows, and, if consistent with the laws, ought speedily to receive their deserts. With the spirit of this Alabama clergyman, the Loyalists were everywhere illtreated, and no measures seemed to be considered too cruel to be employed in crushing them. Notwithstanding the Loy
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Reagan, John Henninger 1818- (search)
Reagan, John Henninger 1818- Jurist; born in Sevier county, Tenn., Oct. 8, 1818; held several local offices in Texas; and was judge of the district court in Texas, to which State he emigrated after its independence. From 1857 to 1861 he was in Congress, and, joining the Confederacy, was appointed Postmaster-General, and was for a short time Secretary of its Treasury Department. He was captured with Jefferson Davis and was sent to Fort Warren. In 1874 he was elected to Congress, where for nearly ten years he was chairman of the committee on commerce, and in 1887 to the United States Senate, on retiring from which he became chairman of the Texas State railroad commission.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 265 (search)
ree upon some plan of adjustment ; and having met, at Frankfort, on the 27th of May, in pursuance of the act; we deem it proper to inform you, briefly, of what was done by us in the Convention. It was a matter of regret to us that while the call for this Convention originated in Virginia and had, apparently, the concurrence of all the Border Slave States, yet there were delegates in attendance from Kentucky and Missouri only. One representative chosen by the counties of McMinn and Sevier, in Tennessee, appeared, and, although not coming with such credentials as were necessary to constitute him a delegate, lie was invited to participate in our deliberations. After a continuous session from day to day, during which the condition of the country, and the various causes that led to it were maturely considered, it was resolved that the Convention should address an appeal to the people of the United States, and the delegates from Kentucky determined to present to you a separate address
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
s the position of secretary of the navy, which he accepted and held until the dissolution of the government. In April, 1865, he left Richmond with Mr. Davis and proceeded as far as LaGrange, Georgia, where he was arrested. For ten months he was confined in Fort Lafayette, New York. On his release he returned to Pensacola and practiced law until his death, November 9, 1873. John Henninger Reagan John Henninger Reagan, postmaster-general of the Confederate States, was born in Sevier county, Tennessee. His early life was laborious and uneventful as a farm boy, woodsman, book-keeper, and boatman, preparing himself well for the active and useful life which followed. Before the age of twenty he went to Natchez, in Mississippi, and in 1839 he moved to Texas, where he enlisted in the campaigning against the Indians, and meanwhile engaged in surveying in the Indian country. In 1845 he began the study of law and was licensed to practice in 1848. But while a law student he was elect
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
State troops; but ex-Governor Rector was at Columbus, a member of the Home Guard. Thus passed six or eight weeks, while the men and horses were recuperating for the season when the Federals should advance in force. Meanwhile the usual scouts and skirmishes continued. There was a combat at Brownsville, January 17th, between Poe's Confederate rangers and Missouri Federal cavalry. January 21st, a scout of Kansas cavalry from Waldron, Scott county, passed down the Little Missouri into Sevier county and, making a circuit, returned north along the Cossatot, attacking Captain Williamson's company of Confederate cavalry in the rear at Baker Springs, killing the commander and dispersing his command. Harrell's battalion was sent in pursuit of the raiders, but was unable to overtake them. Gen. Dandridge McRae, tired of camp life with the infantry, obtained orders to scout and recruit a cavalry command in White and adjoining counties, along White river, and speedily organized a force of
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
the confluence of the French Broad River and the Holston, where Burnside's cavalry will not be slow to seek the enemy. Wheeler's four brigades cover the besieging army on the north and the east, from the neighborhood of Kingston, still occupied by the Federals, as far as the Cumberland Gap and Tazewell roads. No Confederate soldier shows himself on the south of the Holston. The Army of the Ohio is therefore not completely invested. It maintains its communications with every part of Sevier county, while the sympathies of the farmers, compensating for the poverty of the country, ensure the supply of the troops. They embark their grain and live-stock on rafts, and avail themselves of the November fogs to descend the French Broad River and the Holston as far as Knoxville without being perceived by the enemy's vedettes. Without this the defence of Knoxville would be of short duration, because the stores on hand could feed for only a few days the army, the inhabitants, and the num
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Official list of casualties in the Belmont battle. (search)
A son of Senator Pickens, of Sevier county, Tennessee, was mortally wounded in the attempt to burn the bridge at Strawberry Pleasant few days since. Young Pickens is reported as one of the incendiaries who attacked the sentinel and set fire to the bridge. He was the man shot by the brave sentinel who so gallantly defended the bridge alone.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
e and made good his escape. The prisoner states that the fleet landed 13,000 of the 20,000 with whom they set sail. He could give no account of the remaining 7,000. He was brought to Charleston on Wednesday. East Tennessee. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 21st, says: The men engaged in the Union movement in East Tennessee are represented as an exceedingly ignorant class of men, who have been misled by designing leaders. Parson Brownlow has been heard from.--He is in Sevier county, engaged in preaching the Gospel. Gen. Carroll's brigade left Chattanooga on Tuesday to join Gen. Zollicoffer at Jacksboro. The rebellion in East Tennessee is regarded as effectually put down. County of Bartow, Ga.--an affecting The Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder publishes the following: The bill introduced by Mr. Sheats was amended, on motion of Mr. Black, so as to change the name of Cassville to Bartowville, and in this form the bill was unanimously passed in
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
any time, left Knoxville or elsewhere with any guns, nor have I had any guns to furnish to others. I left Knoxville about three weeks ago, on horseback, to try and collect some fees due me for advertising in the adjoining counties of Blount and Sevier, and stated to different persons where I was going and what my business was. As it regards the bridge burning, I have no knowledge of the guilty parties, and I never had any intimation from any quarter of any such purpose until I heard the nles made no impression on its iron-clad sides whatever. A good joke. A Knoxville correspondent of the Nashville Garette gets off the following as having occurred in East Tennessee: A fellow named Kates, a Baptist preacher, living in Sevier county, mistaking our forces for Federals, cheered lustily for Lincoln. Invited the boys to meal with him. After partaking of his Lincolnite hospitality, he was requested to go to Knoxville; he declined; but they pressed their invite on him so urge
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