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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 80 0 Browse Search
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. 36 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 3 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 3: assembling of Congress.--the President's Message. (search)
e Senate, 80. speeches of Senators Davis and Wigfall, 81. Cotton proclaimed King, 82. the Cotton kingdom, 83. Wigfall's insolent harangue, 84. Whilst the Cotton-growing States were in a blazetating the case that was before the country. Wigfall, of Texas, said he could not understand it; aenators from Texas were John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall. told me, the other day, that a good manygia, Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas, followed. They had been stirraccepted the challenge. Senators Iverson and Wigfall, the most outspoken of the disloyalists preseily, and polished Mississippi Senator. Louis T. Wigfall. After declaring that State after Statas wounded. years before; and now, a Senator (Wigfall) of the Republic, with words of treason fallions of negro insurrections that might follow, Wigfall said:--I tell you, Senators, that next year yonfederacy. --Before this day next week, said Wigfall, December 13, 1860. I hazard the assertion t[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
H. Underwood, L. J. Gartrell, James Jackson (Senator Toombs is not here, but would sign), John J. Jones, and Martin J. Crawford, of Georgia; George S. Hawkins, of Florida. It is understood Mr. Yulee will sign it. T. C. Hindman, of Arkansas. Both Senators will also sign it. A. G. Brown, William Barksdale, 0. R. Singleton, and Reuben Davis, of Mississippi; Burton Cragie and Thomas Ruffin, of North Carolina; J. P. Benjamin and John M. Landrum, of Louisiana. Mr. Slidell will also sign it. Senators Wigfall and Hemphill, of Texas, will sign it. Davis added, that he had presented it to the Committee of Thirty-three, when a resolution was passed avowedly intended to counteract the effect of the above dispatch, and, as I believe, to mislead the people of the South. It was one of the many sensation dispatches spoken of by the Georgia journalist. It was also presented by Mr. Davis to the Committee of Thirty-three, with the expectation, no doubt, that it would frighten the Northern men into
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 10: Peace movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. (search)
uires that no further intervention, from any quarter, should be tolerated, and that this fort should be taken, and taken by South Carolina alone. By any other course, it appears to us, unless all the positions of the Governor are false, the State must be disgraced. The South Carolinians were pacified by promises, and, as we shall observe, were gratified in their belligerent desires. On the 13th, John Gregg, one of the delegates from Texas. appeared The delegation was composed of Louis T. Wigfall, J. H. Reagan, J. Hemphill, T. N. Waul, John Gregg, W. S. Oldham, and W. B. Ochiltree. and took a seat in the Convention, although the Ordinance of Secession adopted in that State had not been ratified by the people, according to legal requirement. The rest of the delegation were on their way. In this act, as in all others, the conspirators utterly disregarded the will of the people. On the same day, the Convention commenced preparations for war, by instructing the Military and Naval
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
r of Baltimore, named. Byrne, who went to Richmond soon after the events in question, was arrested there on a charge of keeping a gambling-house, and of disloyalty to the Southern Confederacy. His loyalty was made apparent by the notorious Senator Wigfall, who testified that he was captain of the gang who were to kill Mr. Lincoln. This evidence of his complicity in the premeditated crime was sufficient to cover every other sin of which he was guilty, and he was discharged from custody. the w, of which it was a part. Letter of Francis W. Pickens to President Buchanan, January 11, 1861. Mr. Hayne arrived in Washington City on the 13th of January, when ten of the disloyal Senators, still holding seats in Congress, These were Wigfall, Hemphill, Yulee, Mallory, Jefferson Davis, C. C. Clay, Jr., Fitzpatrick, Iverson, Slidell, and Benjamin. advised him, in writing, not to present the letter of Pickens to the President until after the Southern Confederacy should be formed, a mon
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
here; and whether he had any information of a conspiracy to seize the Capital, and prevent the inauguration of the President elect. On the 5th of the same month, Wigfall had offered a resolution in the Senate, asking the President why, since the commencement of the session of Congress, troops had been gathering in Washington; munith, as belligerent — as threatening war, because it contemplated the coercion of law-breakers into submission. That conspicuous counterfeit of a statesman, Senator Wigfall, whose mendacity and cowardice at Fort Sumter, a month later, were as prominent as his vulgarity and bluster in Congress, kept his seat in the Senate, in defi you may enter into, will satisfy the South, unless you recognize slaves as property, and protect it as any other species of property. Senator Douglas reminded Wigfall that, according to his own doctrine, he was a foreigner, and yet he retained his seat in the Senate of the United States. The insolent conspirator replied:--It w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 13: the siege and evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
wn, Sir. It is yet flying from the ramparts. Wigfall saw it where Peter Hart and his comrade had n Sir, replied the officer; it is for you, General Wigfall, to stop them. Will any of you hold this, then? If you wish to, was the cool reply. Wigfall sprang into the embrasure, or port-hole, and have defended your flag nobly, Sir, continued Wigfall; you have done all that can be done, Sir. You will go now. --I understand you to say, said Wigfall, eagerly, that you will evacuate this fort nohen I will return to General Beauregard, said Wigfall, and immediately left. This account of WigWigfall's adventure I derived from the written statements of Captain (afterward General) Seymour, Surghe white flag. When informed of the visit of Wigfall, they exchanged significant glances and smileor of procuring the surrender of Fort Sumter, Wigfall had, by misrepresentations, obtained leave frfspring of falsehood and fraud. Assured of Wigfall's mendacity, the deceived and indignant comma[9 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
, 1861. Davis left Montgomery for Richmond, with the intention, it is said, of taking command of the Confederate troops in Virginia in person, Speech of Alexander H. Stephens at Atlanta, Georgia, May 28, 1861. accompanied by his favorite aid, Wigfall, of Texas, See pages 81 and 826. and Robert Toombs, his Secretary of State. His journey was a continuous ovation. At every railway station, men, women, and children greeted him with cheers and the waving of handkerchiefs. When the flute-li respect of his auditors, it was not long before there was an outburst of feeling which gave vent to a tornado of voices. Every sentiment he uttered seemed to well up from his heart, and was received with the wildest enthusiasm. The modesty of Wigfall on the occasion was most remarkable. In vain, says the chronicler, he would seek some remote part of the cars; the crowd hunted him up, and the welkin rang with rejoicings, as he addressed them in his emphatic and fervent style of oratory. Too
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
te of ninety-two against fifty-five. The Senate took measures at an early day to purge itself of treasonable members. On the 10th, July. on motion of Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, it expelled ten Senators who were named, James M. Mason and Robert T. M. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chesnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. 0. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; William K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. because of their being engaged in a conspiracy for the destruction of the Union and the Government. The resolution for expulsion received the required vote of two-thirds of the Senate (thirty-two against ten); and, on the 13th, the places of Hunter and Mason were filled by John S. Carlile and Waitman T. Willey, They had been appointed by the Legislature of reorganized Virginia. See page 491. who appeared with proper credentials. On the same day July 13, 1861. John B. C