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West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
1861. Wallace reported to the Governor the sixty companies for the six regiments, complete, and in Camp Morton, adjoining Indianapolis. He reported, in addition, more than eighty surplus companies, organized and ready to move. With the report he sent in his resignation, and a request for permission to go out and organize his own regiment. It was given, and within the next twenty-four hours he reported the Eleventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers (Zouaves), which did admirable service in Western Virginia a few weeks later, as organized, armed, and ready for marching orders. Wallace's regiment was a fair type of the Indiana Volunteers who composed her quota. It was an assemblage of mechanics, farmers, lawyers, doctors, and clergymen. They were all young and full of life, and ambitious, quick, shrewd, and enterprising. The regiment adopted the Zouave costume of Colonel Wallace's Crawfordsville Company. The color was steel gray, with a narrow binding of red on their jackets and the
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
nor Ramsay to the Minnesota Legislature. The position of the inhabitants of Kentucky, as a professedly loyal State, was peculiar and painful at this time. We have observed with what insulting words her Governor (Magoffin) responded to the President's call for troops, See page 337. and the fierce denunciations of that call by the Louisville Journal. See page 339. These demonstrations in high places against the war policy of the President, were followed by a great Union meeting in Louisville on the evening of the 18th of April, 1861. over which James Guthrie See page 238. and other leading politicians of the State held controlling influence. At that meeting it was resolved that Kentucky reserved to herself the right to choose her own position; and that, while her natural sympathies are with those who have a common interest in the protection of Slavery, she still acknowledges her loyalty and fealty to the Government of the United States, which she will cheerfully render un
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
wealth like water in support of the Government, those of the region westward of these lofty hills and northward of the Ohio River were equally patriotic and demonstrative. They had watched with the deepest interest the development of the conspiracy the General Government, Yates 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 Legislatm invasion of southern Illinois and Indiana, by the banded enemies of the Republic. The possession of the mouth of the Ohio River, where it pours its tribute into the Mississippi, was of importance, as that point was the key to a vast extent of navik on Fort Sumter, the President's call for troops, and the events at Baltimore, Governor Rector View at Cairo, on the Ohio River front, in 1861. (whose election had been gained by the influence of the Knights of the Golden Circle See page
Tahlequah (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
heck the rising rebellion there. Isolated and weak, and perceiving no hope for relief by their Government, the chief men of the Cherokees held a mass meeting at Tahlequah in August, August 2, 1861. and with great unanimity declared their allegiance to the Confederate States. Ross still held out, but, 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 their connection with the National Government, and an alliance with the Confederates. Four days afterward, August 24.h, C. S. A., which I have the honor to request you will cause to be forwarded to him by earliest express. At a mass meeting of about four thousand Cherokees, at Tahlequah, on the 21st inst., the Cherokees, with marked unanimity, declared their allegiance to the Confederate States, and have given their authorities power to negotiat
Davis (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
, but to cultivate peace and friendship with the inhabitants of all the States. He earnestly urged them to observe a strict neutrality, and to maintain a trust that God would not only keep from their borders the desolation of war, but stay its ravages among the brotherhood of States. But Ross and his loyal adherents among the Cherokees and Creeks were overborne by the tide of rebellion, and were swept on, powerless, by its tremendous current. The forts on the frontier of Texas (Gibson, Arbuckle, and Washita), used for their defense, had, as we have observed, been abandoned by United States troops, in consequence of the treason of Twiggs, and the 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 it is the city of Fort Smith, at which an immense trade with the Indians and New Mexicans was
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
hom fifty-three were lawyers. One-quarter of them were natives of Virginia, and only fourteen of them were born in Missouri. Thirteen were from Kentucky, and three were natives of Europe. Notwithstanding the slaves in Missouri were less than one-tenth of the population, and the real and best interests of the State were in close affinity with free labor, the Slave power, which embraced a large number of active politicians, was potential. These politicians were mostly of the Virginia and South Carolina school, and through their exertions the disloyal Claiborne F. Jackson was elected Governor of the State. See page 201. On the second day of its session the Missouri Convention adjourned to St. Louis, where it reassembled on the 4th of March, 1861. in the Mercantile Library Hall, with Sterling Price as President, and Samuel A. Lowe as Secretary. Price, who had been Governor of Missouri, and who afterward became one of the most active generals in the Confederate service in the Sou
Clinton (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
anizing 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 early period of the war that ensued. Governor Morton called Wallace to his aid. A dispatch summoning him to Indianapolis reached him on Monday evening, April 15, 1861. while he was trying a cause in Clinton County. He reported to the Governor the next morning. The President has called on Indiana for six regiments to put down a rising rebellion, said Morton. I have sent for you to assist me in the business. I want to appoint O. P. Morton. you Adjutant-General. --Where is the Adjutant-General's office? inquired Wallace.--There is none, responded the Governor.--Where are the books? --There are none. --How many independent companies are there in the State? --I know of but three--two here in In
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Chapter 19: events in the Mississippi Valley.--the Indians. Ohio prepares for War, 454. Indiana makes ready for the conflict, 455. Illinois vigilant and active, 456. last public services of Senator Douglas, 457. Michigan ready position of the Kentuckians, 458. Buckner and the State Guard his treason, 459. effects of Conditional Unionism, 460. Missouri State Convention, 461. the Convention and the Legislature, 463. treason of military and civil officers, 464. Union organizropriated three millions of dollars for war purposes, and authorized the immediate Stephen A. Douglas. organization of the entire militia force of the State, consisting of all able-bodied men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years. Michigan was equally aroused by the call of the President. He asked of her one regiment only. Ten days afterward she had five regiments ready for the field, and nine more were forming. Governor Blair called the Legislature together on the 7th of May,
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
kson, and held at Neosho, Missouri, in October, 1861. It was published by order of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Missouri, in 1865. This Journal, in Ms., was captured by the Forty-ninth Missouri Volunteers, in the State of Alabama. On the day when the President called April 15. for troops, Frost hastened to remind the Governor that it was time to take active measures for securing the co-operation of Missouri in the disunion scheme. He suggested that the holding of Saws about five thousand. A large proportion of these were engaged in the pursuits of civilized life, especially the Cherokees, who had many flourishing schools. There were also in that region a remnant of the Creek Nation who formerly inhabited Alabama, and some Senecas and Shawnoese from the North, who had lately gone there on a visit. It was believed that a band of efficient warriors might be drawn from these nations, whose very name would be terrible; and through the resident agents, who w
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ssippi Valley.--the Indians. Ohio prepares for War, 454. Indiana makes ready for the conflict, 455. Illinois vigilant and active, nati. So Ohio began to prepare for the struggle. The people of Indiana moved as promptly and vigorously as those of Ohio. In March, the ted to the Governor the next morning. The President has called on Indiana for six regiments to put down a rising rebellion, said Morton. I an idea of the absolute want of preparation for war on the part of Indiana when the rebellion broke out — a State that afterward sent about tom Washington, more than ten thousand Indianians were in camp. So Indiana, one of the younger States of the Union, also prepared for the str Unconditional Unionists had the pledges of the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to give them all needful military aid to keep theirof the insurgents, and also from invasion of southern Illinois and Indiana, by the banded enemies of the Republic. The possession of the mou
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