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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 11: (search)
Capt. Wilkes was not only approved by the Federal Secretary of the Navy; it was extravagantly applauded by him. lie accumulated words of praise, and declared that it had been marked by intelligence, ability, decision, and firmness. The man who had made himself a hero in a proceeding in which he encountered no peril, received the public and .official thanks of the Congress sitting at Washington. The Northern press and people appeared to be almost insane over the wonderful exploit. The city of New York offered Capt. Wilkes the hospitality of the city. Boston gave him a festival. Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts declared that the act of taking four unarmed men from an unarmed vessel was one of the most illustrious services that had rendered the war memorable, and exulted in the idea that Capt. Wilkes had fired his shot across the bows of the ship that bore the English lion at its head, forgetting that the ship bore no guns to reply to a courage so adventurous. The New York Times wrote
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 41: (search)
ng the street; and vast crowds collected, whose fantastic exhibitions of joy, not content with huzzas, cheers, and dancing in the streets, broke out into a blasphemous singing of hymns of the church. In New York twenty thousand persons in the open air sung the doxology. There was, of course, an unlimited display of flags; and as evidence of this characteristic exhibition it is said that half an hour after the news of the fall of Richmond was known, not a single large flag in the whole city of New York was left unpurchased. These symbols of loyalty not only floated over houses, but were fastened to carts, stages and wagons. The newspapers were mostly occupied with spread-eagles and maps of Richmond. The World expressed the opinion that the event of the day more fully justified exuberant rejoicing than any previous achievement in the history of the war. The New York Herald-the organ par excellence of Yankee wind-went further, and declared that the taking of Richmond was one of the