Named Entity Results, 1861 AD

Goodwin (1859-61） Governor Nathaniel S. Berry (1861-3） Governor Joseph A. Gilmore (1863-5） New ue (1860-1） Governor John R. Bartlett, acting (1861-2） Governor William C. Cozzens, acting (18634-8） Florida Governor Madison S. Perry (1857-61） Governor John Milton (1861-5） Georgia Gove1861-5） Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown (1857-65） Louisiana Governor Thomas O. Moore (1860-4） Governor Henry W. Al North Carolina Governor John W. Ellis (1859-61） Governor H. T. Clark, acting (1861-2） Gover1861-2） Governor Zebulon B. Vance (1862-5） South Carolina Governor Francis W. Pickens (1860-2） Governor M. L(1862-5） Texas Governor Samuel Houston (1859-61） Governor Edward Clark, acting (1861） Govern3-7） Maryland Governor Thomas H. Hicks (1857-61） Governor A. W. Bradford (1861-5） Missouri 1861-5） Missouri Governor C. F. Jackson (1861） Union Governor H. R. Gamble (1861-4） Governor T. C. Fletcher (1nfederate Governor from 1862 to 1865; but after 1861 a Confederate Governor of Missouri was littl

e whole of Secretary Floyd's term of office. In the spring and summer of 1860 the force in Utah was reduced to 3 companies of dragoons, 3 companies of artillery, and 4 companies of infantry. The remainder (13 companies of infantry and 2 of dragoons) were sent to New Mexico, relieving 1 regiment of infantry already there, which thereupon proceeded to Texas. No other changes of importance were made during the period in question.--editors. Months would have been Map of the United States in 1861. necessary to concentrate at Washington, in that season, a force of three thousand regular troops. Even had President Buchanan been desirous of bringing troops to the capital, the feverish condition of the public mind would, as the executive believed, have been badly affected by any movement of the kind, and the approaching crisis might have been precipitated. I saw at once that the only force which could be readily made of service was a volunteer force raised from among the well-disposed

ny, John H. Winder (afterward brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and widely known in connection with the military prisons in the South), and the senior first lieutenant, A. R. Eddy, were absent on leave, and the only officers with it were First Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer and the writer of this sketch,--then the second lieutenant of the company, who, by virtue of that high rank, was also the post treasurer, post quartermaster, post commissary, and post adjutant. With the new year, 1861, came to us at that quiet little post the startling news of the seizure of United States property at various points by State troops, and by January 7th rumors, to us still more startling, reached our ears, to the effect that the Navy Yard and forts in Pensacola Harbor were to be seized by troops already preparing, in Florida and Alabama, to march against us. As yet no orders had come to Lieutenant Slemmer for his guidance in this emergency, and, as may be imagined, we had frequent conversatio

From Moultrie to Sumter. Abner Doubleday, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A., Retired. View of Charleston from the Rampart of Castle Pinckney.--from a sketch made in 1861. As senior captain of the 1st Regiment of United States Artillery, I had been stationed at Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, two or three years previous to the outbreak of 1861. There were two other forts in the harbor. Of these, Fort Sumter was unoccupied, being in an unfinished state, while Castle Pinckney was i1861. There were two other forts in the harbor. Of these, Fort Sumter was unoccupied, being in an unfinished state, while Castle Pinckney was in charge of a single ordnance sergeant. The garrison of Fort Moultrie consisted of 2 companies that had been reduced to 65 men, who with the band raised the number in the post to 73. Fort Moultrie had no strength; it was merely a sea battery. No one ever imagined it would be attacked by our own people; and if assailed by foreigners, it was supposed that an army of citizen-soldiery would be there to defend it. It was very low, the walls having about the height of an ordinary room. It was littl

Inside Sumter: in 1861. James Chester, Captain Third Artillery, U. S. A. Toward the close of 1860, the national defenses of Charleston Harbor, consisting of Castle Pinckney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter, were garrisoned by an army of 65 men instead of the 1,050 men that were required. Fort Moultrie alone, where the 65 soldiers were stationed, required 300 men for its defense, and Fort Sumter, to which they were ultimately transferred, was designed for a garrison of 650. Fort Moultrenemies, but attracted little attention from their friends. So faithful and true have the soldiers of the army always been that even very striking exhibitions of these qualities are not considered worthy of notice. There were military posts in 1861 which were abandoned by all the commissioned officers, at which not one of the enlisted men proved untrue. The loyalty of the latter has never been properly appreciated.--J. C. The opening of the bombardment was a somewhat dramatic event. A

lined to agree not to open his guns upon the Confederate troops, in the event of any hostile demonstration on their part against his flag. Major Anderson made every possible effort to retain the aides till daylight, making one excuse and then another for not replying. Finally, at 3:15 A. M., he delivered his reply. In accordance with their instructions, the aides read it and, finding it unsatisfactory, gave Major Anderson this notification: Francis W. Pickens, Governor of South Carolina, 1861. from a photograph. Fort Sumter, S. C., April 12, 1861, 3:20 A. M. Sir: By authority of Brigadier-General Beauregard, commanding the Provisional Forces of the Confederate States, we have the honor to notify you that he will open the fire of his batteries on Fort Sumter in one hour from this time. We have the honor to be very respectfully, Your obedient servants, James Chesnut, Jr., Aide-de-camp. Stephen D. Lee, Captain C. S. Army, Aide-de-camp. The above note was written in on

War preparations in the North. Jacob D. Cox, Major-General, U. S. V., Ex-Governor of Ohio, Ex-Secretary of the Interior. The awkward squad. The wonderful outburst of national feeling in the North in the spring of 1861 has always been a thrilling and almost supernatural thing to those who participated in it. The classic myth that the resistless terror which sometimes unaccountably seized upon an army was the work of the god Pan might seem to have its counterpart in the work of a n, acquaintanceship between the officer and his command is a necessary condition of confidence and a most important element of strength. My own assignment to the Great Kanawha district was one I had every reason to be content with, except that for several months I felt the disadvantage I suffered from having command of troops which I had never seen till we met in the field. Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati. View of Montgomery, Alabama, showing the state capitol. From a sketch made in 1861.

and others in Charleston that William L. Yancey, member of the Confederate Senate, Confederate Commissioner to Europe in 1861. from a photograph. a majority of the delegation were opposed to Mr. Davis, but that, not having compared opinions, theyng with the President as to the number of arms to be imported, and the number of men to be placed in camp in the winter of 1861-62 (being in favor of very many more than the President), he wisely resigned. Mr. Stephen R. Mallory, of Florida, was published about the immediate necessity of providing gun-boats and shipping suitable for that purpose. In the winter of 1861 Mr. C. K. Prioleau, of the firm of John Fraser & Co., of Liverpool, found a fleet of ten first-class East Indiamen, availaelieved that 2,000,000 bales of the crop of 1860 could be obtained in that way from the planters, and that, of the crop of 1861, 2,000,000 more bales might be obtained afterward. By using this cotton as security, or shipping it abroad, he maintained

Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861. John D. Imboden, Brigadier-General, C. S. A. Richmond, Virginia, in 1861. from a sketch. The movement to capture Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and the fire-arms manufactured and stored there was organized at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond on the night of April 16th, 1861. Ex-Governor1861. from a sketch. The movement to capture Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and the fire-arms manufactured and stored there was organized at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond on the night of April 16th, 1861. Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise was at the head of this purely impromptu affair. The Virginia Secession Convention, then sitting, was by a large majority Union in its sentiment till Sumter was fired on and captured, and Mr. Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand men to enforce the laws in certain Southern States. Virginia was then, as it were,e gain to our scantily stocked Virginia roads of the same gauge was invaluable. Pen sketch of General Jackson. Drawn from life, near ball's bluff. Probably in 1861. While we held the Point of Rocks bridge, J. E. B. Stuart (afterward so famous as a cavalry leader) was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, and reported to Colone

rs, two pairs of drawers, a pair of thick boots, four pairs of stockings, four flannel shirts, a blouse, a looking-glass, a can of peaches, a bottle of cough-mixture, a button-stick, chalk, razor and strop, the tailor's shop A militia uniform of 1861.--after the New York seventh's Memorial statue in the central park. The New York seventh marching down Broadway, April 19, 1861. spoken of above, a Bible, a small volume of Shakspere, and writing utensils. To its top was strapped a double woolh increased in shabbiness and dirty dilapidation as they approached the suburbs. The climate of Washington was genial, but in the winter months the mud was fearful. I have drilled in it, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington. From a sketch made in 1861. marched in it, and run from the provost-guard in it, and I think I appreciate it from actual and familiar knowledge. In the lower quarter of the city there was not a piece of sidewalk. Even Pennsylvania Avenue, with its sidewalks, was extremely