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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 20: commencement of civil War. (search)
ounty, on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, on the 22d of April, when resolutions, offered by John S. Carlile, a member of the Convention yet sitting in Richmond, calling an assembly of delegates of the people at Wheeling, on the 13th of May, were adopted. The course of Governor Letcher was severely condemned, and eleven citizens were chosen to represent Harrison County in the Convention at Wheeling. Meetings were held elsewhere. One of these, at Kingwood, in Preston County, May 4, 1861. evinced the most determined hostility to the conspirators, and declared that the separation of Western from Eastern Virginia was essential to the maintenance of their liberties. They also resolved to elect a representative in the National Congress. Similar sentiments were expressed at other meetings, especially in a mass Convention held at Wheeling on the 5th of May, where it was resolved to repudiate all connection with the conspirators at Richmond. A similar meeting was held at Whee
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 204 (search)
As I have this day resigned my commission as a Captain in the Navy, and consider myself only temporarily in command here, you will carry out all the instructions you have received in preparing the steamers for war service, as directed by my order to you this morning, and superintend the defence of the Yard, when necessary. I shall not take any part in the defence of this Yard from this date Respectfully, &c., F. Buchanan. Coin. J. A. Dahlgren, &c., &c. The Rest, near Easton, Md., May 4, 1861. sir: If his Excellency, the President, has not accepted my resignation as a Captain in the Navy of the United States, I respectfully ask to recall it. The circumstances which induced me, very reluctantly, to tender my resignation, no longer exist, and I cannot voluntarily withdraw from a service in which I have passed nearly forty-seven years of my life, in the faithful performance of duty — as the records of the Navy Department will prove. I am ready for service. Respectfully, si
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
n, for the purpose of putting down a servile insurrection, entirely ignoring the fact that the servile insurrection was placed before me in a loyal State as a reason for opposing my being allowed to land in that loyal State. I was to be opposed in my march because the people of an always loyal State believed I was landing on its soil, not with the intent of going to the defence of the capital, but for the purpose of aiding their slaves in a servile war. That fear being withdrawn, neither my troops nor any other of the United States forces met the least opposition from the people of that State in their march to Washington. The only notice that I took thereafter of this question was when it appeared that Governor Andrew had so dealt with his own letter that injurious comments were published in the newspapers upon this action and his reprimand, before I had made my reply to it. I published both letters in self-defence,--one such article issued in the New York Tribune of May 4, 1861.
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval chronology 1861-1865: important naval engagements of the Civil war March, 1861-June, 1865 (search)
Seizure of the U. S. transport Star of the West, at Indianola, by Texas troops under Col. Van Dorn. April 19, 1861. Ports of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas ordered blockaded by President Lincoln. April 20-21, 1861. Gosport Navy-Yard, Norfolk, Va., abandoned by Union officers in charge, and seized by Virginia State troops. April 27, 1861. Ports of Virginia and North Carolina included in the blockade. May, 1861. May 4, 1861. S. S. Star of the West made the receiving ship of the Confed. navy, New Orleans, La. May 9, 1861. U. S. ships Quaker City, Harriet Lane, Young America, Cumberland, Monticello, and Yankee enforcing the blockade off Fort Monroe. Steamers Philadelphia, Baltimore, Powhatan, and Mount Vernon armed by U. S. Government, and cruising on the Potomac. May 13, 1861. Proclamation of neutrality issued by Queen Victoria, in which the subjects of Great Britain were forbidden
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Marches of the Federal armies (search)
s when 1861 came. The United States regular army could furnish only six regiments of cavalry, sixty batteries of artillery, a battalion of engineers, and nineteen regiments of infantry. The American volunteers, however, soon acquired the soldierly bearing Of the 3,559 organizations in all branches of the service in the Union armies, the States furnished 3,473. The Eleventh Infantry in the regular army was organized at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, by direction of the President, May 4, 1861, and confirmed by Act of Congress, July 29, 1861. It fought throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac. This photograph was taken at Alexandria, Va., a month before the Wilderness. The regiment participated in every important battle of the Army of the Potomac, and was on provost duty at Richmond, Va., from May to October, 1865. The regiment lost during service eight officers, 117 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and two officers and eighty-six enlisted men by disease.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
il 23, 1861 John A. Campbell, of Alabama, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, resigns about......May 1, 1864 [Campbell alone of the three Southern justices joined the Confederacy. He became assistant Secretary of War of the Confederate States; died 1889.] President Lincoln calls for 42,034 volunteers for three years, and adds 22,714 men to the regular army and 18,000 to the navy......May 3, 1861 United States ordnance stores seized at Kansas City......May 4, 1861 Ordinance of secession of Arkansas adopted in convention by 69 to 1......May 6, 1861 President proclaims martial law and suspends the habeas corpus in Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa......May 10, 1861 Baltimore, Md., occupied by United States troops......May 13, 1861 Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, U. S. A., assumes command of the Department of the Ohio, embracing a portion of West Virginia......May 13, 1861 Engagement at Sewell's Point, Va.......May 18-19, 1861 Ordinance
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
.....April 15, 1861 Union meeting at Louisville declared that Kentucky would not take sides, but maintain a neutral position and remain loyal until the government became the aggressor......April 18, 1861 Capt. Joseph Desha, with a company of over 100 men, leaves Harrison county to join the Confederates, with several other companies from other counties......April, 1861 At an election of delegates to the Border State convention the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the Union......May 4, 1861 Three Union men and three Breckinridge men as arbitrators agree that Kentucky should not take part, but maintain armed neutrality......May 11, 1861 House of Representatives resolves on State neutrality......May 16, 1861 Governor Magoffin proclaims armed neutrality of State......May 20, 1861 Border State convention at Frankfort, with representatives from Kentucky and Missouri and one from Tennessee, addresses Kentucky to remain neutral, and the United States to satisfy the slav
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
ns seized by Confederates......Jan. 31, 1861 Convention to join Southern Confederacy; State flag adopted, a red ground, crossed by bars of blue and white and bearing a single star of pale yellow......Feb. 4, 1861 Louisiana ratifies the Confederate constitution......March 22, 1861 Louisiana raises 3,000 Confederate troops, and at call of Governor Moore 3,000 additional......April 24, 1861 First gun cast for Confederate navy at Phoenix Iron Works at Gretna, near New Orleans......May 4, 1861 Port of New Orleans blockaded by United States sloop-of-war Brooklyn; Ship Island occupied by Union troops......1861 Banks of New Orleans suspend specie payments......Sept. 18, 1861 Confederate martial law instituted in New Orleans......Oct. 11, 1861 Federal steamship Richmond, under John Pope, while coaling near New Orleans, is struck by a Confederate ram......Oct. 12, 1861 State casts its electoral vote for Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederate States......Feb.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 137 (search)
Doc. 132.--letter from Commodore Stewart. Bordentown, May 4, 1861. My dear Sir: Agreeably to your request I now furnish you with the reminiscences of a conversation which passed between Mr. John C. Calhoun and myself in the latter part of December, 1812, after the declaration of war by the Congress of the United States against Great Britain on the 18th of June previous. On the assembling of Congress, in the early part of December, I found that an important portion of the leading democratic members of Congress had taken up their quarters at Mrs. Bushby's boarding-house, among whom was Mr. Calhoun, a new member from South Carolina--and I believe this was his first appearance in the House of Representatives. In consequence of this I took Lieutenant Ridgley, my confidential officer, and the first lieutenant of the frigate Constitution, of which vessel I then held the command, and was preparing for sea at the Washington Navy Yard, left our lodgings at Strother's, and obtain
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 142 (search)
n, or a peaceable acquiescence in the assertion of their claims to a separate sovereignty. M. Thouvenel expressed the opinion that the employment of force would be unwise, and would tend to a further rupture of the Confederacy by causing the remaining southern States to make common cause with the States which had already taken action on the subject. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Charles J. Faulkner. Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton. Department of State, Washington, May 4, 1861. Sir: The despatches of your predecessor, Nos. 117, 119 and 120, have been received. Tho latter, acknowledging the receipt of your letter of recall, and announcing his intended return, requires no especial notice. No. 117 bears the date of 5th of April last. It contains only an exposition of Mr. Faulkner's views of the policy which this Government ought to pursue in regard to the disturbed condition of affairs at home, but at the same time gives us no information concerning the stat
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