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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
em ready to assist in the work. Fortunately, the command of the forts was in the hands of Lieutenant A. J. Slemmer, a young, brave, and patriotic officer from Pennsylvania, who, like Anderson, could not be moved by the threats or persuasions of the enemies of his country. Governor Perry had already been to New York and Philadelpeading politicians of the Buchanan party, and endeavoring to create a sentiment among business men favorable to the establishment of a Confederacy, leaving out Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and all New England. Free trade was to be the basis of union. These agents, it asserted, were in all of the Northwestern States, and te, as its projectors termed it, having its center at Havana, in Cuba, with a radius of sixteen degrees of latitude and longitude, and reaching northward to the Pennsylvania line, and southward to the Isthmus of Darien. It would include the West India Islands and those of the Caribbean Sea, with a greater part of Mexico and Centra
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ida, on the 10th; in Alabama, on the 11th; in Georgia, on the 19th; in Louisiana, on the 26th; and ment made with the Governors of Louisiana and Georgia, and by order of the Governor of Alabama, hadlled secession of Alabama, the politicians of Georgia, assembled in convention at Milledgeville, thgton, telegraphed an address to the people of Georgia, half true and half untrue, in which he said:hes, it is said, decided the wavering vote of Georgia for secession, at the election on the 2d of Je commonwealth to the Union, and that the State of Georgia was in full possession and exercise of aleived January 20, 1861. from the Governor of Georgia at this point in the proceedings, and producet (Clinch) on Amelia Island, off the coast of Georgia, was taken possession of by insurgents of thana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas, and their preparations for a convphen F. Hale to Arkansas, John A. Winston. Georgia.--To Missouri, Luther J. Glenn; to Virginia, [16 more...]
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
opposition to Secession, 173. rejoicings in Mobile seizure of forts Morgan and Gaines, 175. worport when word came to him that the forts near Mobile had been surrendered to Alabama troops, and hehe multitude. There was no less excitement in Mobile, whither the news went with lightning speed. enal at Mount Vernon, about thirty miles above Mobile, and Fort Morgan, at the entrance to the harbor of Mobile, about thirty miles below the city. The expedition to seize the Mount Vernon Arsenal wapecial aid, with the rank of colonel. He left Mobile on the steamer Selma, at near midnight of the der the orders of Governor Moore, embarked, at Mobile, in the steamer Kate Dale, This vessel was destroyed by a terrible powder explosion, at Mobile, on the afternoon of the 25th of May, 1865. withrdinance of Secession was passed, the Mayor of Mobile called for a thousand laborers, to prepare deffrom seizure the revenue cutters Lewis Cass at Mobile, and Robert McClelland at New Orleans. He fou
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ations for War, 164. Secession Convention in Florida, 165. preparations to seize Fort Pickens, 16tep in the necessary revolution, by declaring Florida no longer a member of the Union. The Conventthis ordinance, withdrawn from the Union, and Florida had become a sovereign and independent nationrson and Taylor were too strong for any force Florida might send against them, so he prudently conf public property within the limits of the State of Florida was in consequence of the transfer of troe Ordinance of Secession by the Convention of Florida politicians, is compiled chiefly from the manby intelligence of the so-called secession of Florida. Government Street was filled with jubilant pin honor of Alabama, and fifteen in praise of Florida. The bells rang out merrily, and all busines. Crawford, of Georgia; George S. Hawkins, of Florida. It is understood Mr. Yulee will sign it. T., A. P. Calhoun; to Georgia. James L. Orr; to Florida, L. W. Spratt; to Mississippi, M. L. Bonham; [21 more...]
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e Union, following the example of those of South Carolina, passed ordinances of secession and appoinogress of business easy. Delegates from South Carolina and Alabama, who were present, were invitet the bond that held it to the old Union. South Carolina was formally acknowledged as a Sovereign S States in the Union. The population of South Carolina, in 1860, was 708,812, of whom 402,541 werlahassee was addressed by L. W. Spratt, of South Carolina, the great advocate of the African Slave-ter them, and invited Commissioners Orr, of South Carolina, and Shorter, of Alabama, to seats in the overnor Brown, following the advice of the South Carolina conspirators, and the recommendations of T of America. McQueen, a commissioner from South Carolina, was there to assist in working the machinon of seven Cotton-growing States, namely, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Garrett; to Mississippi, E. W. Pettus; to South Carolina, J. A. Elmore; to Maryland, A. F. Hopkins;[9 more...]
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Augusta journal, True Democrat. saying:--The Cabinet is broken up; Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War, and Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, having resigned. This was eight days before Thompson resigned. A coercive policy has been adopted by the Administration. Mr. Holt, of Kentucky, our bitter foe, has been made Secretary of War. Fort Pulaski is in danger. The Abolitionists are defiant. On the same day, Jamison, President of the South Carolina Convention, telegraphed to the Mayor of Macon, saying:--Holt has been appointed Secretary of War. He is for coercion, and war is inevitable. We believe re-enforcements are on the way. We shall prevent their entrance into the harbor at every hazard. These dispatches, it is said, decided the wavering vote of Georgia for secession, at the election on the 2d of January, and yet the ballot-box showed twenty-five or thirty-thousand fewer votes than usual, and of these there was a decided majority against immediate secession. With all th
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
y, by establishing a customhouse at Neine's Landing, near the boundary between Mississippi and Tennessee, and the erection of other batteries, whose guns for more than two years obstructed the river-appears to have been one of the most fiendish of the persecutors of Union men in Alabama and East Tennessee, at the beginning of the civil war. His atrocious conduct in East Tennessee is darkly portraEast Tennessee is darkly portrayed by Governor Brownlow, in his Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession, page 311. For this purpose the Governor made him his special aid, with the rank of colonel. He left Mobile os; to South Carolina, J. A. Elmore; to Maryland, A. F. Hopkins; to Virginia. Frank Gilmer; to Tennessee, L. Pope Walker; to Kentucky, Stephen F. Hale to Arkansas, John A. Winston. Georgia.--To Mia, Wirt Adams; to Texas, H. H. Miller; to Arkansas, Geo. R. Fall; to Florida, E. M. Yerger; to Tennessee, T. J. Wharton; to Kentucky, W. S. Featherstone; to North Carolina, Jacob Thompson; to Virgini
Vera Cruz, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
strong fort on the same day; and all the guns of the abandoned post, fifteen in number, bearing upon the bay, were, by Slemmer's orders, spiked in position, for he had neither time nor means to dismount them. The arrangement for the Wyandot and Supply to anchor near Fort Pickens was not carried out; and, to the astonishment of Slemmer, he was informed that Commodore Armstrong had ordered both vessels away, the former to the south side of Cuba, and the latter to her final destination off Vera Cruz, with coals and stores for the Home Squadron there. He remonstrated, but in vain. That night Captain Berryman sent him some muskets which he had procured, with difficulty, from the Navy Yard, to arm his seamen; and Captain Walke assured him that he would afford him all the aid in his power, in defense of the fort. On the morning of the 10th, about five hundred troops of Florida and Alabama, and a few from Mississippi, commanded by Colonel Lomax, of Florida, appeared at the Navy Yard,
Huntsville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
men were favorable to postponing action altogether, until the 4th of March, with the hope of preserving the Union. So doubtful was the final result, that, so late as the 17th, January 1861. a dispatch was sent by telegraph to the Alabama delegation in Congress, to retain their seats until further advised. This opposition exasperated the ultra-secessionists, and they became very violent. When, in the debate that followed the presentation of the two reports, Nicholas Davis, of Huntsville, in northern Alabama, declared his belief that the people of that section would not submit to any disunion schemes of the Convention, William L. Yancey, whose business for many months had been to fire the Southern heart and precipitate the Cotton States into revolution, sprang to his feet, denounced the people of northern Alabama as Tories, traitors, and rebels, and said they ought to be coerced into submission. This high criminal, who had talked so defiantly about the sin of coercion on the part o
Fernandina, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
opinion [at a conference of conspirators in Washington] that if we left here, force, loan, and volunteer bills might be passed, which would put Mr, Lincoln in immediate condition for hostilities; whereas, by remaining in our places until the 4th of March, it is thought we can keep the hands of Mr. Buchanan tied, and disable the Republicans from effecting any legislation which will strengthen the hands of the incoming Administration. The original letter, now before me, was found at Fernandina, Florida, when the national troops took possession of that place, on the 3d of March, 1862. It was directed to Joseph Finegan, Esq. (Sovereignty Convention), Tallahassee, Florida. Other Senators, as we shall observe hereafter, wrote similar letters to their constituents. These David L. Yulee infamous epistles were sent free in the national mail, under the official frank of their more infamous authors. The Convention at Tallahassee was addressed by L. W. Spratt, of South Carolina, the
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