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The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A bold Enterprise. (search)
A bold Enterprise. --The Pensacola correspondent of the New Orleans Bee gives the following account of an attempt to spike the guns of Pickens: Were it not that I have all the particulars in this case from such responsible military authority as leaves no room for doubt, I could not have been induced to give it to your readers as a fact. About two weeks ago a daring spirit formed the rash determination to spike the guns of Fort Pickens. He was a resident of Pensacola, and knew every inch of Santa Rosa Island, while he was perfectly familiar, from numerous visits, with the interior of the fort. Fired with patriotism and ambition, a stranger to such a feeling as that of fear, hope became father to the wish with him, and he resolved to carry out his desperate plan without consulting a soul or letting any one into his confidence. Provided with a bag containing his hammer and nails, he took a sail-boat, and was soon landed in the Live-Oak Woods. This was previous to the r
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
nt hopes that it will be strengthened by the indignation of the North and West to such an extent that it can not only repel the aggression, but possibly give a stimulus to a great reaction in its favor. On these principles Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens are held. They are claimed as Federal fortresses. The Stars and Stripes still float over them. Whatever may be said to the contrary, they will remain there till they are removed by the action of the Confederated States. The Commissioners of Mr. Jefferson Davis's Government "have reason to say that if any attempt be made to throw reinforcements into Fort Pickens, unless they receive previous notice of it as promised, it will be a breach of good faith." From all I can learn no intention of strengthening the fort is at present entertained, but it may be doubted if the attempt would not be made should any favorable opportunity of doing so present itself. All "the movements of troops," of which you will see accounts, are preparation
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The British press on American Affairs. (search)
It was even feared that military operations had begun on the part of the Southerners. No news had been received from Fort Pickens for several days, and this had led to the belief that the communication had been cut off by the Southern troops. Fromed orders, but we learn from a private source that there were still doubts as to whether they were intended to relieve Fort Pickens, or to proceed to St. Domingo. Such is the momentous intelligence which we publish to-day. We may here, however,weeks it has been difficult to keep the Charleston regiments from attacking Fort Sumter, and at Pensacola we find that Fort Pickens was hard pressed by a considerable force. The iron foundries in Virginia were turning out guns to be used against theaken place. Before Mr. Buchanan left office Major Anderson was in extreme danger; no time was to be lost in relieving Fort Pickens and the Confederate States themselves were lowering their tariff and letting in the productions of Europe at a rate wh
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Pensacola. (search)
From Pensacola. --We learn from a gentleman who left Pensacola on Monday evening last, that two of the soldiers stationed at Fort Pickens had deserted and were brought to the Navy-Yard by one of the boats of General Bragg. They report that the Negroes who were recently stolen from the Tortugas are now on Santa Rosa at work — that there are about nine hundred men in fort and on the Island, besides sixty from ships — and that only six vessels of war are now off the harbor.--Montgomery Advertise
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
een long ago, and then war would have been stayed a while at least, " but better late than never." The Mobile News publishes a letter from Pensacola, dated April 30th, giving an account of the adventures of two men who deserted from Fort Pickens. We copy a portion of the letter : They say many wish to desert, and only await an opportunity; that the officers are very suspicious, and watch every movement of soldiers and sailors. They work day and night on the Fort, and in construty of a Southern correspondent, and desired to be sent to that city. No confidence was placed in his story, and he was immediately ironed, and so remains. We get this from the Pickens deserters. Slemmer knew this last Saturday when I was at Fort Pickens, as he evaded an answer to the question whether any one had been arrested on the Island since Thursday. The Neafle this morning brought up from the Navy-Yard four large cannon, to be placed in battery on the east side of Pensacola city, a