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New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 14
the South. Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war upon their rations, not on men. They are such as marched through Baltimore [the Massachusetts Sixth, admirably clothed, equipped, and disciplined, and composed of some of the best young men of New England], squalid, wretched, ragged, and half-naked, as the newspapers of that city report them. Fellows who do not know the breech of a musket from its muzzle, and had rather filch a handkerchief than fight an enemy in manly combat. White slaves, pnear the fountain, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, many of them in the gay costume of the Zouave. Already thousands of volunteers had gone out from among the citizens, or had passed through the town from other parts of the State, and from New England; and already the commercial metropolis of the Republic, whose disloyal Mayor, less than four months before, had argued officially in favor of its raising the standard of secession and revolt, See page 205. had spoken out for the Union in a
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
t the place of rendezvous, in any one year. It was hoped that three months would be sufficient time to put down the insurrection.), unless sooner discharged. He requested each to inform him of the time when his quota might be expected at its rendezvous, as it would be there met, as soon as practicable, by an officer or officers, to muster it into the service and pay of the United States. The quota for each State was as follows. The figures denote the number of regiments. Maine1 New Hampshire1 Vermont1 Massachusetts2 Rhode Island1 Connecticut1 New York17 New Jersey6 Pennsylvania16 Delaware1 Tennessee2 Maryland4 Virginia3 North Carolina2 Kentucky4 Arkansas1 Missouri4 Ohio13 Indiana6 Illinois6 Michigan1 Iowa1 Minnesota1 Wisconsin1 He directed that the oath of fidelity to. the United States should be administered to every officer and man; and none were to be received under the rank of a commissioned officer who was apparently under eighteen, or over forty-
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 14
blic, it said :--When the Government at Washington calls for volunteers to carry on the work of subjugation and tyranny, under the specious phrases of enforcing the laws, retaking and protecting the public property, and collecting the revenue, let every Democrat fold his arms and bid the minions of Tory despotism do a Tory despot's work. --Quoted by Whitney in his History of the War for the Preservation of the Federal Union, i. 313. One of the most influential newspapers printed west of the Alleghanies, which had opposed secession valiantly, step by step, with the keen cimeter of wit and the solid shot of argument, and professed to be then, and throughout the war, devoted to the cause of the Union, hurled back the proclamation, to the great delight and encouragement of the conspirators, and the dismay of the friends of American nationality, in the following words:-- The President's Proclamation has reached us. We are struck with mingled amazement and indignation. The policy announ
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
d that three months would be sufficient time to put down the insurrection.), unless sooner discharged. He requested each to inform him of the time when his quota might be expected at its rendezvous, as it would be there met, as soon as practicable, by an officer or officers, to muster it into the service and pay of the United States. The quota for each State was as follows. The figures denote the number of regiments. Maine1 New Hampshire1 Vermont1 Massachusetts2 Rhode Island1 Connecticut1 New York17 New Jersey6 Pennsylvania16 Delaware1 Tennessee2 Maryland4 Virginia3 North Carolina2 Kentucky4 Arkansas1 Missouri4 Ohio13 Indiana6 Illinois6 Michigan1 Iowa1 Minnesota1 Wisconsin1 He directed that the oath of fidelity to. the United States should be administered to every officer and man; and none were to be received under the rank of a commissioned officer who was apparently under eighteen, or over forty-five years of age, and not in physical health and vigor.
Europe (search for this): chapter 14
The foolish boastings of the newspaper press in the Slave-labor States were imitated by many of the leading journals in the Free-labor States. The nations of Europe, said one, New York Tribune. may rest assured that Jeff. Davis & Co. will be swinging from the battlements at Washington at least by the 4th of July. We spit the commercial metropolis of the nation from the false position of apparent selfish indifference to the fate of the Republic, in which they had been placed before Europe by an able correspondent of the London Times, who had been utterly misled by a few men among whom he unfortunately fell on his arrival in this country. This wad and retained during his stay in that city was an eminent banker, whom he speaks of as an American by theory, an Englishman in instincts and tastes — educated in Europe, and sprung from British stock. His friends, he said, all men of position in New York society, had the same dilettanti tone, and were as little anxious for the f
Princeton, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
who were about to attack the printing-office of The Palmetto Flag, a disloyal sheet, on the corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets. The Mayor exhorted the citizens to refrain from violence. The proprietor of the obnoxious sheet displayed the American flag. The Mayor hoisted it over the building, and the crowd dispersed. The people said Amen! and no city in the Union has a brighter record of patriotism and benevolence than Philadelphia. New Jersey was also aroused. Burlington, Trenton, Princeton, Brunswick, Rahway, Elizabethtown, Newark, and Jersey City, through which we passed, were alive with enthusiasm. And when we had crossed the Hudson River, and entered the great city of New York, May 1, 1861. with its almost a million of inhabitants, it seemed as if we were in a vast military camp. The streets were swarming with soldiers. Among the stately trees at the Battery, at its lower extremity, white tents were standing. Before its iron gates sentinels were passing. Rude barrac
Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ch false utterances as we have just noticed. On the day after his harangue at Grand Junction, Pillow was in Memphis, where he assumed the character of a military chief, and issued a sort of proclamty. See page 840. Inquiring of a leading Nashville secessionist, on the evening after hearing Pillow's harangue, what authority the General had for his magnificent offer, he smiled and said, in a mative of the disesteem in which the conspirator was held in his own State, The authority of Gid. Pillow. In the course of the war that ensued, which this disloyal Tennessean strove so hard to kindle,amazingly strengthened; and when, on the following day, at Franklin and one or two other places, Pillow, who was our fellow-passenger, repeated his disreputable harangue at Grand Junction, and talked , there was not a single response to his foolish speech. Nobody seemed to be deceived by it. Pillow was again our fellow-passenger on Tuesday morning, when we left Nashville. We had been introduc
Oregon (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ave gone before, to strike for the defense of the Union and the Constitution. Daniel S. Dickinson, a venerable leader of the Democratic party, said:--We are called upon to act. This is no time for hesitation or indecision — no time for haste or excitement. It is a time when the people should rise in the majesty of their might, stretch forth their strong arm, and silence the angry waves of tumult. It is a question between Union and Anarchy — between law and disorder. Senator Baker, of Oregon, a leading member of Congress, who afterward gave his life for his country at Ball's Bluff, made an eloquent speech. Young men of New York, he said-- Young men of the United States--you are told this is not to be a war of aggression. In one sense, that is true; in another, not. We have committed aggression upon no man. In all the broad land, in their rebel nest, in their traitor's camp, no truthful man can rise and say that he has ever been disturbed, though it be but for a single mom
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ey northward Experiences in Mississippi and Tennessee, 348. treason of General Pillow, 349. alark17 New Jersey6 Pennsylvania16 Delaware1 Tennessee2 Maryland4 Virginia3 North Carolina2 Kensister Southern States. Governor Harris, of Tennessee, said:--Tennessee will not furnish a single Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Beau-regard. Already General Pillow, of Tennessee, had hastened to Montgomery and offered the on Davis at Montgomery. Although his State (Tennessee) had lately, by an overwhelming vote, pronouo the service of the Confederate States (for Tennessee has no other place of shelter in this hour o of freedom. All the forces tendered from Tennessee, to the amount of fifty thousand men, will bJefferson Davis the services of ten thousand Tennessee soldiers, without the least shadow of authorus. We intended to travel eastward through East Tennessee and Virginia to Richmond, and homeward by [1 more...]
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
egiments. Maine1 New Hampshire1 Vermont1 Massachusetts2 Rhode Island1 Connecticut1 New York17 New Jersey6 Pennsylvania16 Delaware1 Tennessee2 Maryland4 Virginia3 North Carolina2 Kentucky4 Arkansas1 Missouri4 Ohio13 Indiana6 Illinois6 Michigan1 Iowa1 Minnesota1 Wisconsin1 He directed that the oath of fidelity to. the United States should be administered to every officer and man; and none were to be received under the rank of a commissioned officer who was apparently undfly like chaff before the wind on our approach. A Chicago newspaper Chicago Tribune. said :--Let the East get out of the way; this is a war of the West. We can fight the battle, and successfully, within two or three months at the furthest. Illinois can whip the South by herself. We insist on the matter being turned over to us. Another Cincinnati Commercial. in the West said:--The rebellion will be crushed out before the assemblage of Congress. There were misapprehensions, fatal mis
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