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November (search for this): chapter 2
and insulted and abused by mobs. Confederate cavalry, as well as infantry, scoured the country, offering every indignity to men and women, destroying the crops of the rich and poor alike, turning their horses to feed into fields of growing corn, burning barns and stacks of hay, and plundering the people of provisions. The jails were soon filled with loyalists, and an extensive disarming of the people was accomplished. So thoroughly were they under the control of the Confederates, that in November 1861. Colonel Wood was able to write to Benjamin, at Richmond, The rebellion [resistance to Confederate outrages] in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, and will be effectually suppressed in less than two weeks in all the counties. Their camps in Sevier and Hamilton Counties, he continued, have been broken up, and a large number of them have been made prisoners. . . . .It is a mere farce to arrest them and turn them over to the courts . . . . They really deserve the
April (search for this): chapter 2
e of the most serious difficulties encountered by the Government, at the beginning of the war, was a lack of arms. We have seen how Secretary Floyd stripped the arsenals and armories in the Free-labor States, and filled those of the Slave-labor States, when preparations were making for rebellion. See volume I., page 121. The armories at Harper's Ferry and Springfield were the principal ones on which the Government could rely for the manufacture of small arms. The former was destroyed in April, and the latter could not supply a tithe of the ,demand. It was necessary to send to Europe for arms; and Colonel George L. Schuyler was appointed an agent for the purpose, July 29, 1861. with specific instructions from the Secretary of War. He purchased 116,000 rifles, 10,000 revolvers, 10,000 cavalry carbines, and 21,000 sabers, at an aggregate cost of $2,044,931. Colonel Schuyler could not procure arms in England and France on his arrival, and a greater portion of them were purchase
September (search for this): chapter 2
request the appointment of a similar committee from the so-called Confederate States, the two commissions to meet at Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Monday in September following. This was followed by a proposition from W. P. Johnson, of Missouri, to recommend the Governors of the several States to convene the respective legisl,000,000 were in the loyal States. It was also estimated that the yearly surplus earnings of the loyal people amounted to over $400,000,000. In the month of September, Mr. Chase sent forth a patriotic appeal to the people, in behalf of the subscription to the authorized loan. The war, said Mr. Chase, made necessary by insure States, his blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace. The President, by proclamation on the 12th of August, appointed the last Thursday In September to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. Whilst the National Congress was in session at Washington, and armies were contending along the
June (search for this): chapter 2
extensive preparations for its overthrow; also that the nationality of the leagued insurgents had been recognized by the Government, by its establishment of blockades by sea and land; also that the idea that the inhabitants of the Confederate States were citizens of the, United States was repudiated by the Government, in making war upon them with a savage ferocity unknown to modern civilization. With the same disregard of candor which characterized Beauregard's proclamation at Manassas, in June, and with the same evident intention to fire the Southern heart, 3 See page 550, volume I. Davis said of the warfare of the Nationals: Rapine is the rule; private residences, in peaceful rural districts, are bombarded and burnt, and pains taken to have a brutal soldiery completely destroy every article of use or ornament in private houses. Mankind will shudder, he continued, to hear the tales of outrages committed on defenseless females, by soldiers of the United States now invading our
John Brown (search for this): chapter 2
fraud would find advocates in Richmond as well as in Washington. He opposed these schemes of disorder which have desolated the South. Their projectors professed to protect her from possible evils, and involved her in present and terrible disasters. The people were discontented at seeing rats infesting the granaries of Southern industry, and were urged to set fire to the four corners of every Southern barn to get rid of the vermin. They were alarmed at attacks on slavery by such men as John Brown and his banditti, and proposed as a remedy to rush into war with the armed hordes of the whole world. For a bare future contingency, they proposed to encounter an enormous immediate evil. Its enforcement gradually declined, and it became almost a dead letter during the later period of the war. At the close of August, Congress and the chief council of the conspirators at Richmond had each finished its session, and both parties to the contest were preparing to put forth their utmost st
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 2
ionists the Confederate Army immovable Jefferson Davis a Marplot, 21. why the Confederate Army ly confiscations, 33. protection of pirates Davis's so-called Departments, and their heads, 34. rty-five thousand National troops, See Jefferson Davis's dispatch to the Confederate Congress, vts have joined his in eternal commune. Jefferson Davis addressed the people on his arrival at Rior twelve months. --Richmond papers, July 24. Davis's exaggeration is made plain by the statement onfederate States Capital, page 65. where Jefferson Davis said to the multitude, when referring to he immobility of their army after the battle. Davis and his associates at Richmond well knew the s Southern heart, 3 See page 550, volume I. Davis said of the warfare of the Nationals: Rapine iwo hundred thousand soldiers in the field; and Davis was authorized to increase this force by an adhment of the so-called government at Richmond, Davis's committee of advisers, whom he dignified wit[10 more...]
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 2
Notwithstanding the Loyalists were disarmed, the hatred and cruel passions of the Secessionists were not appeased. Two Confederate officers had the following advertisement printed in the Memphis Appeal: Bloodounds wanted.--We, the undersigned, will pay five dollars per pair for fifty pairs of well-bred hounds, and fifty dollars for one pair of thoroughbred bloodhounds, that will take the track of a man. The purpose for which these dogs are wanted, is to chase the infernal, cowardly Lincoln bushwhackers of East Tennessee and Kentucky (who have taken advantage of the bush to kill and cripple many good soldiers) to their haunts and capture them. The said hounds must be delivered at Captain Hammer's livery-stable by the 10th of December next, where a mustering officer will be present to muster and inspect them. F. N. Mcnairy. H. H. Harris. Bloodhound. camp Comfort, Campbell co., Tenn., Nov. 16. Among the most prominent of the East Tennessee Loyalists, who suffered
William W. Boyce (search for this): chapter 2
f a speedy release; On the day after his arrival in Richmond, Mr. Ely, at the request of his fellow-prisoners, prepared a petition to the President, requesting immediate steps to be taken by the Government for their release. It was signed by the officers, and was forwarded. and a considerable number of men, somewhat John H. Winder. distinguished in the political world, visited Mr. Ely, and made abundant promises of aid, which they never fulfilled. Among these were Messrs. Keitt and Boyce, of South Carolina, and Pryor and Bocock, of Virginia, who were Mr Ely's fellow-members in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and were now occupying seats in the so-called Confederate Congress. Yet there were a few persons in Richmond who did not only promise, but afforded all the aid in their power to the Union prisoners, at this time and ever afterwards. Distinguished among these benefactors were Mrs. John Van Lew and her daughter. Mrs. Van Lew was an, aged and wealthy widow, who lived in a fi
J. G. Barnard (search for this): chapter 2
nd three brigades a division. Each division had four batteries: three served by volunteers and one by regulars; the captain of the latter commanding the entire artillery of the division. With the assistance of Majors William F. Barry and J. G. Barnard, he organized artillery and engineering establishments; and the dragoons, mounted riflemen, and cavalry were all reorganized under the general name of cavalry. To Major Barry were intrusted the details of the artillery establishment; and Major Barnard was directed to construct a system of defenses for Washington City, on both sides of the Potomac. In the course of a few months every considerable Map showing the defenses of Washington. eminence in the vicinity of the National Capital was crowned with a fort or redoubt well mounted. Early in the following year the number of these works was fifty-two, whose names and locations are indicated on the accompanying map. According to General Orders issued by McClellan on the 30th of Sep
Howell Cobb (search for this): chapter 2
sion at Washington, and armies were contending along the borders of Bull's Run, the Third Session of the so-called Provisional Congress of the conspirators (who, as we have seen, had left the Senate-Chamber of the Capitol of Alabama, at Montgomery, May 21, 1861. wherein their Confederacy was formed) was commenced in the Capitol of Virginia, at Richmond, on the 20th of July. See page 547, volume I. There was a full attendance. The members assembled at noon, and were called to order by Howell Cobb, when the Rev. S. K. Tallmadge, of Georgia, made a prayer. At half-past 12 o'clock, Col. Josselyn, the private secretary of Jefferson Davis, appeared, and delivered to Congress a communication The Senate-Chamber at Montgomery. this picture is from a sketch made by the author, while on a visit to Montgomery, early in April, 1866. the mahogany furniture was the same as that used by the conspirators at the formation of their Confederacy. cation from that chief leader of the Rebellion
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