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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 356 (search)
On the list of contributors to the fund in aid of the volunteers, which is still open at the Counting-room of the Savannah News, are two ten-dollar subscriptions voluntarily contributed, one by a free negro, and the other by a slave of this city.
They desired to the extent of their ability to prove their devotion to the cause of the South.--Charleston Evening Yews, May 10.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 358 (search)
Rev. Mr. Beattie, of the Bethel, at Cleveland, Ohio, presented a revolver to one of the soldiers of the Seventh Regiment before his departure, with the following injunction:--If you get in a tight place sand have to use it, ask God's blessing if you have time, but be sure and not let your enemy get the start of you. You can say Amen after you shoot. --N. Y. Evening Post, May 10.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 364 (search)
At the session of the Wyoming (N. Y.) Conference, the following substitute was offered and passed, instead of a resolution to adopt the report of last year on slavery:--
Whereas, Divine Providence has taken the work of emancipation into his own hands; therefore,
Resolved, That we stand still and see the salvation of God.--N. Y. Evening Post, May 10.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 369 (search)
Historical Parallels.--The first collision of our fathers with the British after the battle of Lexington, and the first decided military success of the war, was the capture of Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and a British armed vessel on Lake Champlain, which was achieved on the 10th of May following by the Vermont hero, Col. Ethan Allen, at the head of a force of Green Mountain Boys.
Massachusetts has matched the 19th of April, 1775, with the 19th of April, 1861; so Vermont now matched the 10th of May, 1775, with the 10th of May, 1841, for on that day, Capt. Lyon, a Vermonter, and U. S. commanding officer at St. Louis, surrounds the rebel camp threatening that city, and captures 800 men in arms.
Lyon's exploit, like Allen's, was done mostly on his own responsibility, and without direct orders.
Allen, when asked by the British commandant at Ticonderoga his authority for demanding its surrender, could only reply, By the authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 380 (search)
The ladies of Boston, Mass., were informed that five thousand shirts, for soldiers, were required within twenty-four hours. They joined with them some of the ladies of Roxbury, secured the assistance of sewing-machines, went to work in Liberty Hall, their Headquarters, and had the whole number completed fairly within the allotted time.--N. Y. Tribune, May 10.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 381 (search)
New York, May 10.--A rigger from New London, Connecticut, who has found employment as such during the winter at Charleston and Wilmington, North Carolina, and in plying as a hand on board a vessel running between those places, called at the Tribune office yesterday morning.
He said that he had just arrrived from Wilmington in the schooner which brought the garrison of the Fayetteville arsenal, and that he came to contradict the story sent from Charleston, that no one was killed in the attac
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 481 (search)