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Tidewater (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e and free) in Virginia in 1860, by grand divisions of the State, and number of counties in each grand division: Counties.Slaveholders.Slaves.Free Negroes. 1.Tidewater,30114,862149,01828,646 2.Midland,2517,841190,48915,746 3.Piedmont,149,18288,6905,206 4.Blue Ridge,33311,28499 5.The Valley,176,23541,3765,803 6.Appalachia,1enings in Virginia during the civil war. They show that the slave population of Virginia was mainly confined to the region east of the Appalachian mountains. In Tidewater, where slavery was first planted within the limits of the Union, there were numerous large plantations, but many of the slaves of that region and many of its large number of free negroes were found within its commercial and manufacturing cities. The area of Midland was but little more than that of Tidewater, but its slaveholders and slaves were considerably more numerous, for in its industries slave labor was profitable. The Piedmont country, the fourteen counties east of and adjacent t
Lake Erie (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n which lived prosperous graziers, most of whom held families of slaves. Virginia's forty-one Trans-Appalachian counties were mainly a forest-covered and thinly-peopled region, and few slaves were there held except in the valley of the Big Kanawha and along the Ohio below the mouth of that river. In proportion to the population, the number of slaves was extremely small, and especially was this true in the part of the State which extended northward between Ohio and Pennsylvania, almost to Lake Erie. The people of the two Valleys and of the nine Appalachian counties that were subsequently embraced in West Virginia, remained, by a large majority, loyal to the State during the war; and, in a large degree, the same may be said of the Trans-Appalachian counties in and southwest of the Big Kanawha basin. The West Virginia secessionists, those that by act of Congress, when its membership was almost exclusively Northern, seceded from Virginia in 1861, were mainly confined to the Trans-Ap
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
have land there, in designated localities, to distribute to her revolutionary soldiers, and that slavery should be forever prohibited from that region, but that slaves fleeing there from other States should be returned to their owners. By this deed of gift Virginia did more to draw the line of actual separation between the North and South on the question of slavery than did any or all other States combined; for the great and populous States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and part of Michigan, which were created from that territory, were the strongest factors in sustaining the North during the civil war, It is difficult to give the proper title to the war of 1861-65. It was not technically civil war, because it was not waged among citizens. Strictly speaking, it was not Confederate, as it was not instituted by the Confederacy. The term civil is now commonly used.—[editor. and in eventually saving the Union. The federal convention of 1787, which framed the Constitution o
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Cook, and there formulated his final plans of invasion; and that soon thereafter he removed to a schoolhouse nearer Harper's Ferry, the hundreds of carbines, pistols, spears or pikes, and a quantity of cartridges, powder, percussion caps, and other military supplies, that he had gathered for arming the negroes when they rose to insurrection in response to his call and movements. About 11 p. m., Sunday, October 16, 1859, Brown, accompanied by 14 white men from Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, Indiana and Canada, and 5 negroes from Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, some 20 insurgents, all fully armed, crossed the Potomac into Virginia at Harper's Ferry, overpowered the watchmen at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad bridge, the United States armory and arsenal near the Baltimore & Ohio, and the rifle factory above the town on the Shenandoah, and placed guards at those points and at the street comers of the town. Brown established himself in the thick-walled brick bu
Chambersburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
mer from New York, with his two sons and a son-in-law, desiring to rent or purchase land. Soon after his arrival at Harper's Ferry he rented the small Kennedy farm in Maryland, some four and a half miles from Harper's Ferry, where he did some little farming, and, to explain his secret movements, said he was accustomed to mining operations, and expected to find valuable mineral deposits in that mountain region. In the meantime he kept two or three of his party, under assumed names, at Chambersburg, Pa., who there received arms, ammunition. and other military stores, which had been collected for use in Kansas, and forwarded them from time to time to Brown's habitation. On October 10, 1859, from Headquarters War Department, Provisional Army, Harper's Ferry, John Brown, commander-in-chief, issued his General Order No. 1, organizing the divisions of the provisional army and the coalition, providing for company, battalion, regiment, brigade and general staff organization. It is proba
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he insurgents fired upon all white people that came in sight. After sunset of the 17th, Capt. B. B. Washington's company from Winchester, and three companies from Frederick City, Md., under Colonel Shriver, arrived; later came companies from Baltimore, under Gen. C. C. Edgerton, and a detachment of United States marines, commanded by Lieut. J. Green and Major Russell, accompanied by Lieut.-Col. R. E. Lee, of the Second United States cavalry (with his aide, Lieut. J. E. B. Stuart, of the Firse the government armory and arsenal, and restore order. Colonel Lee halted the Baltimore troops at Sandy Hook, about a mile and a half east of Harper's Ferry, directed the United States artillery companies (ordered from Fort Monroe) to halt in Baltimore, then crossed to Harper's Ferry with the marines, disposed them in the armory grounds so as to prevent the escape of the insurgents, and awaited dawn of the 18th before attacking Brown's stronghold, for fear of sacrificing the lives of the host
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ee leading religious denominations of the United States divided into northern and southern churcheories came before the Supreme court of the United States for a decision, in the case of Dred Scott.ition. Of the 384,884 slaveholders in the United States, 52,128, or about one-seventh of the wholeone-half the whole number of slaves in the United States. While Virginia had more slaveholders aution and ordinances for the people of the United States, the preamble of which began: Whereas slavry, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other than a most barbarous, unprtion. . . . Therefore, we, citizens of the United States and the oppressed people who . . . are decs been engaged in preparing to capture the United States works at Harper's Ferry. He avows that hiution and ordinances for the people of the United States, of which there was found a large number pHon. A. H. Stephens, in his history of the United States, says: This act greatly inflamed the South
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
emancipation began in many of the Northern States. When Maryland refused to sign the articles of confederation of 1777, unval at Harper's Ferry he rented the small Kennedy farm in Maryland, some four and a half miles from Harper's Ferry, where heg forward the arms, etc., deposited at the schoolhouse in Maryland. In the meantime Brown halted, for a time, an eastboun, hastened from all the surrounding parts of Virginia and Maryland to resist this high-handed invasion of their homes and Stng with him ten of the most prominent of his Virginia and Maryland captives, which he termed hostages, to insure the safety for a campaign, which Brown had there stored. A party of Maryland troops secured from the schoolhouse, where Brown had depo notoriety in Kansas, who in June last located himself in Maryland, at the Kennedy farm, where he has been engaged in prepareport, about sundown of the 18th, from Pleasant valley in Maryland, that a body of men had descended from the mountains. an
Midland (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ing numbers of slaveholders and of negroes (slave and free) in Virginia in 1860, by grand divisions of the State, and number of counties in each grand division: Counties.Slaveholders.Slaves.Free Negroes. 1.Tidewater,30114,862149,01828,646 2.Midland,2517,841190,48915,746 3.Piedmont,149,18288,6905,206 4.Blue Ridge,33311,28499 5.The Valley,176,23541,3765,803 6.Appalachia,182,44413,2111,465 7.Trans-Appal'a,411,5226,7971,081 ————————— Totals, 148152,128490,86557,374 The following tab was first planted within the limits of the Union, there were numerous large plantations, but many of the slaves of that region and many of its large number of free negroes were found within its commercial and manufacturing cities. The area of Midland was but little more than that of Tidewater, but its slaveholders and slaves were considerably more numerous, for in its industries slave labor was profitable. The Piedmont country, the fourteen counties east of and adjacent to the Bl
Arlington (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
sight. After sunset of the 17th, Capt. B. B. Washington's company from Winchester, and three companies from Frederick City, Md., under Colonel Shriver, arrived; later came companies from Baltimore, under Gen. C. C. Edgerton, and a detachment of United States marines, commanded by Lieut. J. Green and Major Russell, accompanied by Lieut.-Col. R. E. Lee, of the Second United States cavalry (with his aide, Lieut. J. E. B. Stuart, of the First United States cavalry), who, happening to be at Arlington, his home, near Washington, had been ordered to take command at Harper's Ferry, recapture the government armory and arsenal, and restore order. Colonel Lee halted the Baltimore troops at Sandy Hook, about a mile and a half east of Harper's Ferry, directed the United States artillery companies (ordered from Fort Monroe) to halt in Baltimore, then crossed to Harper's Ferry with the marines, disposed them in the armory grounds so as to prevent the escape of the insurgents, and awaited dawn o
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