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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Washington on the Eve of the War . (search)
Washington on the Eve of the War. Charles P. Stone, Brigadier-General, U. S. V.
All who knew Washington in the days of December, 1860, know what thoughts reigned in the minds of thinking men. Whatever their daily occupations, they went about them with their thoughts always bent on the possible disasters of the near future.
The country was in a curious and alarming condition: South Carolina had already passed an ordinance of secession, and other States were preparing to follow her lead.
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Recollections of the Twiggs surrender. (search)
Recollections of the Twiggs surrender. Mrs. Caroline Baldwin Darrow.
Early in December, 1860, a rumor reached San Antonio, Texas, that Captain John R. Baylor, well known throughout the State, was organizing a company of one thousand men for a buffalo-hunt.
August 2d, 1861, John R. Baylor, then Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the Confederate army in New Mexico, organized that part of the Territory lying south of the thirty-fourth parallel, as the Confederate Territory of Arizona, the seat of government being at Mesilla, and the authority of governor being assumed by him. This action was approved by General Henry H. Sibley, then in command of the Confederate department.--editors. As Captain Baylor's secession sentiments were well known, this was believed to be a mere pretense, and his real design to be to surprise and seize the arsenal in San Antonio, in time to prevent any resistance on the part of the United States, should Texas go out of the Union.
The Union citizens, alarmed
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first step in the War . (search)
The first step in the War. Stephen D. Lee, Lieutenant-General, C. S. A.
In the month of December, 1860, the South itself had no more realizing sense than the North of the magnitude of events about to be entered into so lightly.
Even the Southern leaders did not realize that there could be any obstacle to peaceable secession.
Many at the North were willing to let the wayward sisters depart in peace.
Only a few on either side expected that blood would be shed.
When, in the first Confederate Congress at Montgomery, one prudent debater exclaimed, What if we really have a war?
the general response was, There will be no war.
But, he persisted, if there is a war, what are our resources?
and when one man in reply expressed his conviction that if the worst came, the South could put fifty thousand men into the field, he was looked upon as an enthusiast.
The expectation of peaceable secession was the delusion that precipitated matters in the South; and it was on this expectation, w