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posed secession as long as opposition was of any avail. Now that the ordinance will pass, as a patriot, I feel bound to take the side of my native State in any contest which might grow out of it. I will vote against the ordinance. On the 11th of January, the secession of Alabama from the Federal Union was accomplished. I give the full text of the act: An Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Alabama and other States united under the compact styled The Constitution of thnsmit forthwith, a copy of the foregoing preamble, ordinance and resolution to the governors of the several States named in said resolutions. Done by the people of the State of Alabama in convention assembled at Montgomery, on this, the 11th day of January, A. D. 1861. During December and January, Governor Moore had taken possession of Forts Morgan and Gaines and the arsenal at Mount Vernon. The forts were strongly garrisoned; and when the ordinance of secession was passed, the State wa
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t, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Mill Cr., Tenn., Jan. 8. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 1.—Federal, total loss 40. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Off Texas, Hatteras, and Albemarle, Tenn., Jan. 11. Ad. Semmes. —Federal; loss 2 k, 3 w, 110 m. Harding Pike, Tenn., Jan. 11. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; loss 1 w.—Federal, total loss 20. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., Jan. 13. Gen. JJan. 11. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; loss 1 w.—Federal, total loss 20. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., Jan. 13. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 5.— Federal, total loss 650. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Mill Cr., Tenn., Jan. 23. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 2.—Federal, total loss 85. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Near Smyrna, Tenn., Jan. 26. Gen. Jos. Wheeler.—Federal, total loss 20. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Iron Furnace, etc., Tenn., Feb. 3. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; to
ensacola to General Chase, commander of Florida troops, and participated in the seizure of the Warrington navy yards and the forts on the Florida coast. The Second regiment captured the navy yard, and Forts Barrancas and McRae on January 10th and 11th, and soon afterward General Chase, Colonel Lomax and Lieutenant-Colonel Battle telegraphed to Senator Jefferson Davis, at Washington, for advice as to the propriety of an attack upon Fort Pickens, and received the reply: In the present condition o S. C., in 1836; was graduated at the military academy in Charleston in 1856; for three years he was a professor in a military school at Yorkville, and in 1860 removed to Macon county, Ala., where he taught school while studying law. On the 11th of January Alabama seceded, and shortly afterward he took a company of State troops to Pensacola, Fla., where he remained two months.. Entering the Confederate service as captain he was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Alabama, one of the comma