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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
end and willing instrument of Slidell, The politicians more directly under the influence of Slidell seem to have had the management of the Convention. It had been all arranged beforehand, apparently, that Mouton should be made President of that body. He was elected on the first ballot. As early as the 14th of the month (January), nine days before the Convention assembled, a letter written by Slidell, and signed by himself and Judah P. Benjamin, and Representatives J. M. Landrum and J. G. Davidson, of Louisiana, was addressed, from the Capitol at Washington, To the Convention of the State of Louisiana, directed to Hon. Alexander Mouton, President of the Convention, &c. This letter (the original is before me) occupies six pages of large foolscap paper, and contains an expression of the views of the arch-conspirator and his colleagues on the great topic of the hour. It urges the necessity of immediate and energetic action; and after referring to the fact, that many of the people of
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Not so. --We see that our Southern exchanges still continue to copy a paragraph first started at the North, to the effect that Private Taylor, who murdered Lieut. J. G. Davidson, of the 1st Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, at Lynchburg, had been tried at Richmond, on the 21st of May, by court martial, and ordered to be shot. The story is all bosh. When the military officers came to examine into the matter, they found that the men of the Tennessee Regiment had not been mustered into service at the time of the offence, and consequently they could not try Taylor by military law. Had he been tried by court-martial, he would no doubt have been shot. As it was, nothing could be done but turn the offender over to the civil authorities. Taylor is now in jail at Lynchburg, awaiting trial where he committed the offence.