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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
the necessity of protection for the continually expanding commercial interests of the nation. Its men numbered only 7,600 when the Civil War was kindled; and of its officers, 322 traitorously abandoned the service to which they had dedicated their lives, proved false to their flag which they had sworn to protect, and to the Government which had confided in their honor. and relied on their fidelity, to sustain it in conflict and peril. Report of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, December 4, 1865. Notwithstanding this condition of the naval service, the decree went forth, in the spring of 1861, that all the ports of the States wherein rebellion existed, must be closed against commerce, by a strict blockade. Foreign nations protested and menaced, but the work was done. There were no dock-yards or workmen adequate to construct the vessels needed for the service, yet, such was the energy of the Department, in the hands of Mr. Fox, that an unrelaxing blockade was maintained fo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
By an act passed on the 22d of July, 1862, Congress prescribed that every member should make oath that he had not voluntarily borne arms against the United States since he had been a citizen thereof, or voluntarily given aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in hostility thereto, and had never yielded voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. When Congress assembled, Dec. 4. 1865. the subject of reorganization was among the first business of the session, and by a joint resolution a committee of fifteen was appointed On the first day of the session, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 188 against 86, proposed and agreed to a joint resolution to appoint a joint committee, to be composed of nine members of the House and six of the Senate, to inquire into the condition of the States which formed the socalled Confederate States of America, and report whether