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Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 9: The forts in Charleston harbor conduct toward them and the reasons for it to guard against surprise reenforcements ready instructions to Major Anderson interview with South Carolina members General Scott again recommends several forts. In this distribution he left only about two hundred men for the twin forts of Moultrie and Sumter, Charleston harbor. He also declared in this letter, that he considered the force quite adequate to the occasion. But, as if renderert that the President confined his observations at their interview exclusively to the reenforcement of the forts in Charleston harbor, for which General Scott, according to his own statement, in the letter to the National Intelligencer, could spare not violate his announced policy by sending one thousand men to all the Southern forts, or two hundred to those in Charleston harbor, he must have considered this renewed recommendation rather a matter of form, springing from a motive which he will
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
a feeble force of United States troops to Fort Moultrie at this critical conjuncture. Had collish, South Carolina would not dare to attack Fort Moultrie. This conviction did not spring from any r cause. If, after all, she should attack Fort Moultrie, this act would have met their universal cjutant-General Buell to Major Anderson, at Fort Moultrie, with instructions how he should act in hithree, to remove it at his discretion from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, whenever he should have tat's] arguments for immediately reenforcing Fort Moultrie, and sending a garrison to Fort Sumter, ththe commanding officer (Major Anderson) of Fort Moultrie to hold the forts (Moultrie and Sumter) aghad been for some time ready to proceed to Fort Moultrie, dependent on no other contingency than thecember), or some time later, been sent to Forts Moultrie and Sumter, both would now have been in th nullification, had sent reenforcements to Fort Moultrie to prevent its seizure by the nullifiers a[1 more...]
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
tion in regard to these forts dependent upon his own decision, or that of Congress, on the question of secession, when he had in his annual message, but a few days before, condemned the doctrine as unconstitutional, and he well knew it would be equally condemned by Congress. It is curious to note a trait of the fault-finding temper of the General in this conversation. In it he makes the Secretary of War observe, with animation, We have a vessel of war (the Brooklyn) held in readiness at Norfolk, and he would then send three hundred men in her from Fort Monroe to Charleston; but the General objected to this arrangement, saying in answer, that so many men could not be withdrawn from that garrison, but could be taken from New York, &c., &c. In this report to President Lincoln the General exultingly declares, that if the Secretary's three hundred men had then (on the 15th December), or some time later, been sent to Forts Moultrie and Sumter, both would now have been in the possession
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
s in the harbor of Charleston whilst he suffered their status quo to remain; yet in this it was possible he might be mistaken. To guard against surprise after the secession of the State, which was then imminent, he had prepared an expedition as powerful as his limited means would afford, to send reenforcements to Major Anderson, at the first moment of danger. For this purpose the Secretary of the Navy had stationed the Brooklyn, a powerful war steamer, then completely ready for sea, in Hampton Roads, to take on board for Charleston three hundred disciplined troops, with provisions and munitions of war, from the neighboring garrison of Fortress Monroe. Having thus provided for the reenforcement of the forts, in case of need, the Secretary of War despatched Assistant Adjutant-General Buell to Major Anderson, at Fort Moultrie, with instructions how he should act in his present position. These were communicated to him on the 11th December, 1860. Whilst they instructed the Major to
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ad assumed a formidable aspect, and when his sinister predictions appeared to be in the course of fulfilment, he read the original draft, in his own handwriting, to a friend. This gentleman, whilst extolling the far-seeing sagacity and the prophetic spirit it displayed, begged for the draft as an invaluable keepsake. This appeal to the General proved irresistible. The manuscript was delivered to the friend, who soon thereafter read it, amid great applause, at a public meeting in the city of New York, and whilst a highly excited political canvass was depending for the office of Governor. The letter thus published, implying a direct censure on President Lincoln for not having followed the advice it had given, created no little astonishment, because of the prevalent belief at the time, that the General was under many obligations to the administration for liberal and indulgent treatment in the face of discomfiture and defeat. The letter having thus been first published by his friend,
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ns were unfounded. February 14, 1861. House Reports of Committees, vol. II., No. 79. Besides, the President, relying on his own sources of information, had never entertained any similar apprehensions. The stake, notwithstanding, was so vast and the General so urgent, that he granted him permission to bring to Washington all the troops he could muster to resist an imaginary but dreaded enemy. The whole number of these, including even the sappers and miners whom be had withdrawn from West Point, amounted to no more than six hundred and fifty-three, rank and file. These troops, with a portion of the district militia, the General had posted in different parts of the city, and had stationed sentinels on the tops of the highest houses and other eminences, so that all was ready to attack the enemy at the first moment of their appearance; but never did an inauguration pass more peacefully and quietly. It is due to President Lincoln to state, that throughout his long progress in the s
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
to the condition of the forts and other public property of the United States within South Carolina, at the date of the President's annual me It is not believed that any attempt will be made to expel the United States from this property by force, but if in this I should prove to bke the attack. Such an outrage as the seizure of a fort of the United States by any State had never before been imagined. There must be a ff the State of South Carolina, will either attack or molest the United States forts in the harbor of Charleston, previously to the action of n recommending to President Buchanan to despatch small bands of United States soldiers to each of the forts. This recommendation, had it bee, respecting the secession of the State and the property of the United States held within its limits; and that if Congress should decide agaie and Sumter, both would now have been in the possession of the United States, & c. And again, It would have been easy to reenforce this fort
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
General. It deals with the past and not with the future. It is remarkable that it does not contain a word of advice to President Lincoln, such as might have been expected from the commanding General, as to the manner of recovering the forts which before its date had been already seized by the Confederates. On the contrary, it reveals the strange fact that the General, so late as the 12th March, and after the so-called Confederate Government of the cotton States was in full operation at Montgomery, had advised President Lincoln to evacuate Fort Sumter, and this in direct opposition to what had been the well-known and oft-expressed determination of Mr. Buchanan. We need scarcely remark that President Lincoln acted wisely in disregarding this counsel. It was founded on an alleged military necessity. Had the fort been actually invested by a hostile force so superior as to render resistance hopeless, this would have justified a capitulation in order to save a useless sacrifice of li
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ea, in Hampton Roads, to take on board for Charleston three hundred disciplined troops, with provisions and munitions of war, from the neighboring garrison of Fortress Monroe. Having thus provided for the reenforcement of the forts, in case of need, the Secretary of War despatched Assistant Adjutant-General Buell to Major Anders of danger. Had the President attempted to distribute the General's thousand men, as he proposed, among the numerous forts in the cotton States, as well as Fortress Monroe, their absurd inadequacy to the object would have exhibited weakness instead of strength. It would have provoked instead of preventing collision. It would h about the 12th February. In making these declarations, he must surely have forgotten not only his own objection to sending these very three hundred men from Fortress Monroe, but also the fate of the Star of the West, in the early part of January, with his recruits from New York, which had been substituted under his advice and dir
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ructions to Major Anderson interview with South Carolina members General Scott again recommends thublic property of the United States within South Carolina, at the date of the President's annual mesole responsibility for its commencement on South Carolina. In order to estimate correctly the wisdos variant from each other. 1. There was South Carolina, which had been the avowed and persistent ities, would have rushed to the support of South Carolina, She would thus have accomplished her long and willing to compromise with the North, South Carolina would not dare to attack Fort Moultrie. Tgible evidence of a design, on the part of South Carolina, to proceed to a hostile act. We say to Fo any doubt on the confidence he feels that South Carolina will not attempt by violence to obtain posed to learn, a short time thereafter, that South Carolina was equally intent on preserving the peaceghly respectable members of the House from South Carolina, yet he welcomed it as a happy omen, that [8 more...]
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