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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
separate as good citizens, and you can assemble again whenever you wish to do so. I ask you to leave all to the now, and I will see to your rights. Wait till my Adjutant returns from Washington, and you shall be satisfied. And then the rioters cheered loudly, and went on plundering, burning, and murdering, while waiting for the return of the Adjutant, notwithstanding the Governor issued, on the same day, a proclamation against such disorderly conduct. The troops at the service of General Wool, commander of the military district, were too few at the beginning to quell the riot. Others were summoned from the military posts in the harbor, and these, with the efficient Metropolitan Police, managed, by Thursday, to hold the mob in check. At that.time the volunteer companies of the city were beginning to return from Pennsylvania, See note 5, page 52. and the leaders of the riot plainly saw that further resistance to authority would be dangerous. So the city, after a sacrifice of l
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 19: the repossession of Alabama by the Government. (search)
extent. The roads were in a rough condition, the cars were wretched in accommodations, and the passengers were few. The latter were chiefly Northern business men. We arrived at Augusta early in the morning, and after breakfast took seats in a very comfortable car for Atlanta. It was a warm, pleasant day, and the passengers were many. Among them the writer had the pleasure of discovering two highly-esteemed friends, Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Hart, of Troy, New York, who were then members of General Wool's family. traveling for the purpose of seeing the country; and he enjoyed their most agreeable companionship many days, until parting at New Orleans. We had just reached the beginning of the more picturesque hill-country of Georgia, which seemed to be peculiarly charming in the region of Crawfordsville, the home of Stephens, the Vice-President of the Confederacy, whose house we saw on an eminence to the right. As we approached Atlanta, we noticed many evidences of the devastating hand o
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
535. Carthage, Mo., battle near, 2.43. Casey, Gen., Silas, at Seven Pines, 2.408. Cass, Gen., Lewis, letter of Gen. Wool to, 1.76; his resignation as Secretary of State, 1.77; the re-enforcement of Charleston forts urged by, 1.127; how he rnroe, seizure of contemplated by Floyd, 1.126; Gen. Butler placed in command at, 1.499; military movements near, 1.500; Gen. Wool relieves Butler in command at, 2.105. Forts in Alabama, seizure of, 1.174. Forts in Florida, condition of, 1.361.ndment to the Constitution proposed by, 1.89. Nor.folk, history of the destruction of the navy-yard at, 1.392-1.398; Gen. Wool's operations against, 2.387; surrender of, 2.388. North Anna, battle of the, 3.326. North Carolina, secession mov.205. Wood, Gen. T. J., his capture of Orchard Knob, 3.161; at the battle on Missionaries' Ridge, 3.167. Wool, Major-Gen., John Ellis, his letter to Gen. Cass. of Dec. 6, 1860, 1.76; the government warned by, 1.219; important services of in pr