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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 50: (search)
ilitary no less than civil affairs, a graduate of West Point, distinguished as a colonel in the Mexican war, and afterwards Secretary of War, and familiar with the personnel of the United States army—a man who expressed his conviction that the North would certainly make war upon the South, and urged military preparations for defence—picked out Major Caleb Huse and sent him to England, as agent, to purchase arms. Major Huse was also a graduate of West Point, of the class of 1847, from Newburyport, Mass., and, since the war, has been, and still is, principal of a preparatory school at West Point, N. Y. He did not go abroad until after war was declared, and ran the blockade from the harbor of Charleston, with instructions to buy ten thousand (!) rifles. See Chapter V., Vol. I. On the 30th of December, 1861, he wrote: Not able to send anything. It seems, however, to have been held by the Confederate administration that Major House displayed prodigious energy when he sent the informa