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Camp Smith (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ment, and never ceased to lament it. By the middle of May there were not less than five thousand Union volunteers at Cairo, under the command of the experienced B. M. Prentiss, who had just been commissioned a brigadier-general. They occupied the extreme point of land within the levee or dike that keeps out the rivers at high water, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi. There they cast up fortifications, and significantly called the post, Camp Defiance. A smaller one, called Camp Smith, was established in the rear of it; and troops occupied other points near, on the banks o f the two rivers. Heavy ordnance was forwarded from Pittsburg, and 42-pounder cannon commanded the two streams, and bade every steamer and other craft to round to and report to the military authorities there. Before the close of May, Military position at Cairo. the post at Cairo was considered impregnable against any force the Confederates were likely to bring. It soon became a post of immense i
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
459. effects of Conditional Unionism, 460. Missouri State Convention, 461. the Convention and thGenerals Lyon and Price, 470. the militia of Missouri called out, 471. Cairo fortified and garriso him and his political friends to precipitate Missouri into revolution. He was mistaken, and was ma parties in power. The value of the Union to Missouri was pointed out, with forcible illustrations;nvention, See page 460. The delegates from Missouri consisted of one from each Congressional disties, and miscreants, preparing to make war on Missouri; and it was with the greatest difficulty thatre in full force. The purse and the sword of Missouri had been placed in his hands by the Legislatution, in which he declared that the people of Missouri should be permitted, in peace and security, th. While the loyalists and disloyalists of Missouri were grappling in their first struggles for s the conspirators; and the National troops in Missouri were unable to check the rising rebellion the[27 more...]
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
cere patriot, became the champion of the integrity of the Union. In his last speech, made at Chicago, at the beginning of May, he said:--This is no time to go into a discussion of the causes that Legislature of his State he addressed arguments and exhortations, powerful and persuasive. In Chicago he did likewise. Alas! his warfare was brief. He arrived at his home in Chicago on the 1st ofChicago on the 1st of May, suffering from inflammatory rheumatism. Disease assumed various and malignant forms in his system, and on the 3d of June he died. The funeral of Senator Douglas was an imposing spectacle. His body was embalmed, and it lay in state in Bryan Hall, Chicago, where it was visited by thousands of sincere mourners. It was dressed in a full suit of black, and, the entire lid of the burial-caold the St. Louis Arsenal, See page 430. had been acted upon. Yates sent Captain Stokes, of Chicago, on that delicate mission. He found St. Louis alive with excitement, and, after consultation w
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
perienced B. M. Prentiss, who had just been commissioned a brigadier-general. They occupied the extreme point of land within the levee or dike that keeps out the rivers at high water, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi. There they cast up fortifications, and significantly called the post, Camp Defiance. A smaller one, called Camp Smith, was established in the rear of it; and troops occupied other points near, on the banks o f the two rivers. Heavy ordnance was forwarded from Pittsburg, and 42-pounder cannon commanded the two streams, and bade every steamer and other craft to round to and report to the military authorities there. Before the close of May, Military position at Cairo. the post at Cairo was considered impregnable against any force the Confederates were likely to bring. It soon became a post of immense importance to the Union cause, as a point where some of those land and naval expeditions which performed signal service in the Valley of the Mississippi w
Crawfordsville, Ind. (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
on, seeing the storm gathering, Camp Dennison. went to Washington and procured about five thousand second-class muskets. These and a few others formed all the means at his command for arming the State, when the President's call reached him on Monday, the 15th of April. The militia of the State were unorganized, and there was no Adjutant-General to whom he might turn for aid, for the incumbent of that office refused to act. At that time there was an energetic young lawyer residing at Crawfordsville, who had served in Mexico at the age of nineteen years, and was well versed in military affairs. In the State Senate, of which he had been a member, he had vainly urged the adoption of measures for organizing the militia of the State. Fond of military maneuvers, he had formed a company and drilled them in the tactics of the Zouaves, several weeks before the famous corps of Ellsworth's Zouaves was organized. This lawyer was Lewis Wallace, who became a Major-General of Volunteers at an
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
its importance, 472. Secession Convention in Arkansas, 473. fraud and violence, 474. rebel emissaissouri on the South was the Slave-labor State of Arkansas, in which, as we have seen attachment totes adopted measures immediately for arraying Arkansas on the side of the conspirators without consud confiscating all debts due from citizens of Arkansas to persons residing in the Free-labor States,ersonal property belonging to such persons in Arkansas at the time of the passage of the Ordinance. e to occupy it and overawe the loyalists; and Arkansas troops, raised chiefly by fraud and violence,Territory adjoining the western boundaries of Arkansas and northern Texas. These were the Cherokeesative of New England, but had long resided in Arkansas, to make a treaty with them to that effect. e. Fort Smith, on the boundary-line, between Arkansas and the Indian Territory, The boundary-lin infested the western borders of Missouri and Arkansas and Upper Texas, roaming through the Indian c[1 more...]
Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Indians were threatened by an invasion from that State. Fort Smith, on the boundary-line, between Arkansas and the Indian Territory, The boundary-line runs through the fort. It is at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, and near itut, finally yielding to the force of circumstances and the teachings of expediency, he called on the Council, of the Cherokee Nation to assemble at Tahlequah on the 20th of the same month, when he sent in a message, recommending the severance of thederate States. I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, John Ross, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. to an officer of the insurgent forces, covering dispatches to Ben McCulloch, under whom the Indians and some Texan troops were to act, informing him that the Cherokee Nation had espoused the cause of the conspirators. The wife of Ross, a young and well-educated woman, still held out; and when an attempt was made to raise a Confederate flag over the Council Hous
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
s sent two thousand of these State troops to possess and hold Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a point of great strategic importance at that time, as we shall observe presently. The Legislature of Illinois met at Springfield on the 23d, and two days afterward it was addressed by the distinguished United States Senator, Stephen A. Douglas, the rival of Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency of the Republic. When Treason lifted its arm to strike, Mr. Douglas instantly offen and Colonel Blair, it was thought best to remove a large portion of the arms secretly to Illinois. This was done between midnight and daylight on the morning of the 26th of April. They were taken to Alton in a steamboat, and from thence to Springfield by railway. The Governor and the secessionists of St. Louis were unsuspicious, or at least uninformed, of the removal of so many arms from the Arsenal, and, under orders for the establishment of camps of instruction, they prepared to seize
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
n scheme. He suggested that the holding of St. Louis by the National Government would restrain the secession movement in the Daniel M. Frost. State; and he recommended the calling of the Legislature together; the sending of an agent to Baton Rouge to obtain mortars and siege-guns; to see that the Arsenal at Liberty should not be held by Government troops; to publish a proclamation to the people, warning them that the President's call for troops was illegal, and that they should prepare him for deliberation had expired. With his men Frost surrendered twenty cannon, twelve hundred new rifles, several chests of muskets, and large quantities of ammunition. The most of these materials of war had been stolen from the Arsenal at Baton Rouge. Lyon offered to release the State troops, who were now prisoners, on condition of their taking an oath of allegiance to the National Government, and promising not to take up arms against it. Nearly all of them declined the offer, and towar
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
rtance, 472. Secession Convention in Arkansas, 473. fraud and violence, 474. rebel emissaries among the Indians, 475. John Ross Indian loyalists overpowered, 476. Ross and the secessionists, 477. While thousands of the loyal people of New England and of the other Free-labor States eastward of the Alleghanies were hurrying to the field, and pouring out their wealth like water in support of the Government, those of the region westward of these lofty hills and northward of the Ohio River son and dark perjuries: The most of them have basely from you fled, Followed by Scorn's unending, general hiss; Fled into lands that Liberty disowns, Encrouched within the shadow of tall thrones. a poet of some pretensions, who was a native of New England, but had long resided in Arkansas, to make a treaty with them to that effect. Pike went into the Indian country, where he met them in council. He succeeded with the less civilized Choctaws and Chickasaws, and by virtue of a treaty made with
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