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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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January 9th (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
January 10th (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
January 12th (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
1861 AD (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
January 5th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
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Henry Anderson (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
Star of the West,
A steam merchantman, sent to relieve Major Anderson in Fort Sumter.
It having been resolved, on the advice of Secretary Holt and General Scott, to send troops to reinforce the garrison at Fort Sumter, orders were given for the United States steam-frigate Brooklyn—the only war-ship available then— to be in readiness to sail from Norfolk at a moment's notice.
This order Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, revealed to the early Confederate leaders.
Virginians were r ward, after seventeen shots had been fired by the insurgents, and returned to New York, Jan. 12.
This firing on the flag of the United States was the first overt act of war that marked the inauguration of the great Civil War of 1861-65.
Had Major Anderson, in Sumter, then known that loyal men were in power in his government, he would have opened the great guns of the fortress, and the Star of the West and her precious freight would not have been driven to sea.
There was great exultation in
James Buchanan (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
Joseph Holt (search for this): entry star-of-the-west
Star of the West,
A steam merchantman, sent to relieve Major Anderson in Fort Sumter.
It having been resolved, on the advice of Secretary Holt and General Scott, to send troops to reinforce the garrison at Fort Sumter, orders were given for the United States steam-frigate Brooklyn—the only war-ship available then— to be in readiness to sail from Norfolk at a moment's notice.
This order Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, revealed to the early Confederate leaders.
Virginians were r should be given without the question being first considered and decided in the cabinet.
It was soon evident that there were members of the cabinet who could not be trusted.
Dangers were thickening; and the President, listening to the counsels of Holt and Scott, resolved to send supplies and men to Sumter, by stealth.
The stanch merchant steam-vessel Star of the West was chartered by the government for the purpose and quickly laden with supplies.
She was cleared for Savannah and New Orleans,
Alexander Jones (search for this): entry star-of-the-west