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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 532 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 4: Lincoln. (search)
his element, rebel intrigue and conspiracy were working with telling effect; and instead of declaring and practising frank and direct adherence to the Government, the union members were fulminating baseless complaints, demanding impossible guarantees, and pleading indulgent excuses for the course of South Carolina and the Cotton Republics. And this condition of misdirected and unstable loyalty was also wide-spread among the leaders and people of the Border States of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. How to deal with such a morbid and disturbed public sentiment-how to treat this unnatural, contradictory, and halfhearted allegiance, was a problem of direct bearing on the Sumter question. Mr. Seward, optimist by nature, believed and argued that the revolution throughout the South had spent its force and was on the wane; and that the evacuation of Sumter, and the manifestation of kindness and confidence to the Rebel and Border States, would undermine the conspiracy, strengthen the un
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 6: the call to arms. (search)
olution had undergone a remarkably rapid development, which essentially changed the scope and character of the contest. Hitherto the Border Slave States, as they were called-Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri-though from the beginning also deeply agitated, had taken no decisive action. Their people were divided in sympathy and interest; they favored slavery, but they also loved the Union. Every expression through a popular vote indicated strongly p revolt; it is a record of bold conspiracy, shameless usurpation, and despotic military domination, made possible by the sudden rush of popular excitement and passion consequent upon the fall of Sumter. The three others, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and also the western half of Virginia, were eventually saved to the Union, partly by the inherent loyalty of their people, partly by the quick and sustaining presence of the Union forces. By these adhesions the revolution at a single bound
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 10: Missouri. (search)
Chapter 10: Missouri. Conspiracy had been working with untiring persistence in every Slave Stade considerable advances, notably in the State of Missouri. Governor Jackson, of that State, had lecretly aiding him. Together they were leading Missouri through the usual and well-established paths irect secession ordinance, and declaring that Missouri must share the destiny of the Union. He alson full authority over the militia of the State of Missouri, undertakes, with the sanction of the Goolunteers, a position to which the first four Missouri regiments had unanimously chosen him. Witariance. The Governor proposed to neutralize Missouri by excluding United States troops and disbandinsisted that the Governor should disband his Missouri militia, and give the Government forces full rection and flight of the State officers left Missouri without local government. It happened, fortuating fortunes of the local guerilla warfare by which Missouri was so long tormented and desolated. [2 more...]
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 11: Kentucky. (search)
y the peculiar political condition of the State of Kentucky, which of itself extends the whole distance from Virginia to Missouri. It cannot perhaps be affirmed with certainty that Governor Magoffin of Kentucky was a secession conspirator; but hiana to solicit arms; and by way of justifying the act, he made a similar application to the Governors of Indiana and of Missouri. No substantial success, however, attended these efforts; and the Governor's application to the banks for money also reave States, President Lincoln was not disposed to give up those States as lost. We have seen that, both in Maryland and Missouri, he authorized direct enlistments under the supervision of United States officers. Leading men having informed him of tastward the rebels were driven out of West Virginia with disaster during July; while, to the west, a serious invasion of Missouri was checked in August by the hardy, though over-daring courage of Lyon, who threw back a combined rebel column moving fr
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 14: Manassas. (search)
ge in any military undertakings with the three months volunteers, beyond those to which these forces had been already assigned and distributed, namely: to protect Washington and fortify Arlington Heights; to garrison Fort Monroe and, if chance should offer, recapture the Gosport Navy Yard at Norfolk; to hold Baltimore and Maryland; to prosecute Patterson's campaign against Harper's Ferry; to recover West Virginia through McClellan's campaign; to guard the Ohio line, and control Kentucky and Missouri. Larger and more distant operations, he believed, ought to be undertaken only with new armies formed of the three years volunteers, giving the summer to drill and preparation, and entering on combined movements in the favorable autumn weather. Important reasons, partly military, partly political, conflicted with so deliberate a programme. As events had shaped themselves, it seemed necessary to aid Patterson. The possibility that Beauregard and Johnston might unite their armies was cl
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 17: conclusion. (search)
e from other points for that army. Of the larger aspects of the civil war during the fall and winter of 1861, this volume does not afford further room to give even a summary. Starting with a series of favorable accidents in the spring, the rebellion had confidently expected to hold every slave-holding State. So far from realizing this hope, the end of the year witnessed the substantial loss to the conspiracy of the four important Border States of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. This, together with the effective blockade instituted on the seaboard, and the lodgment gained by the brilliant naval victories at Hatteras and Port Royal, already presaged the fate of disunion. In a rough and hasty measurement of strength and unity, political and military, the relative proportions of population, wealth, and skill, and the no less potent elements of devotion to freedom, justice, and humanity, had already so far turned the scale as to foreshadow, with unerring certainty,
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
battle at Bull Run, 177; change in his plans, 179, 181; his action during and after the battle, 181-205; in charge of the Virginia defences, 208 McLean's Ford, 176, note McRee, Fort, 38 Memphis, 133 Miles, General D. S., commands Fifth Division on advance to Manassas, 174; misconduct and suspension of, 199, 204 Militia, first call for, 73 et seq. Milroy, Colonel, 152 et seq. Melvale, 90 Mississippi, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14 Missouri, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 80, 115; Unionists of, 120; without local government, 124; rescued from secessionists, 125, 131, 133 Mitchell's Ford, 176, note Montgomery, 92 Morgan, Fort, 79 Morris, General, 143, 147, 151 Morton, Governor, 129 Moultrie, Fort, 21 et seq., 28; seizure of, 32 N. National property in the Southern States, 15; seizure of, by secessionists, 16; S. Carolina Commissioners treat for delivery of, 27 Nelson, Lieut., William, U.