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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 106 2 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 101 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 96 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 82 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 60 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 59 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 56 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 44 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 44 2 Browse Search
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
ad been clearly in the wrong. In view of his position, and after mature reflection, he adopted a system of policy to which ever afterward, during. the brief remnant of his term, he inflexibly adhered. This he announced and explained in the annual message to Congress of the 3d December, 1860, and in the special message thereafter of the 8th January, 1861. The Cabinet was then composed of Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of State; Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury; John B. Floyd, of Virginia, Secretary of War; Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut, Secretary of the Navy; Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior; Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, Postmaster-General, in the place of Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee, deceased; and Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, Attorney-General. The annual message throughout, before it was communicated to Congress, had been warmly approved by every member of the Cabinet, except so much of it as denied the right of secession, a
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 10: (search)
eply, and its return to them its presentation to the Senate by Mr. Davis Secretary Floyd requested to resign he resigns and becomes a secessionist Fort Sumter the received bills of corresponding amount from Russell, drawn by the firm on John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, and by him accepted and indorsed, and this without any lwas rendered impossible by the action of the committee itself, in examining John B. Floyd and William H. Russell as witnesses. For this reason they were relieved fr any fact or act touching which he shall have testified. In this manner both Mr. Floyd and Mr. Russell escaped without trial. To return from our digression. SecreSecretary Floyd's apparent complicity with this fraudulent transaction covered him with suspicion, and, whether this were well or ill founded, rendered it impossible, in he War Department. The President had not made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Floyd before his appointment. Though never in Congress, he had been, like his fath
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
ico. General Scott asked the attention of Secretary Floyd, then about to leave office, to the reenfting and indorsing the accusation against Secretary Floyd, in regard to what has been called the st from one armory or arsenal to another by Secretary Floyd, without the knowledge and active particie muskets or rifles had been purloined by Secretary Floyd. But not so. The ex-President had stated words to explain the whole transaction. Secretary Floyd, on the 20th December, 1860, without the time. to prevent the pothumous order of Secretary Floyd from being carried into execution. Why ding as applicable to the subject, it is that Mr. Floyd had issued the order to Captain Maynadier aferror in having said that the countermand of Mr. Floyd's order was in March, instead of early in th, for on the question of union and secession Mr. Floyd was then regarded throughout the country as nquiry into the circumstances under which Secretary Floyd had a year before, in December, 1859, ord[10 more...]
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 12: (search)
Scott, in his autobiography, published in 1864, Vol. II., p. 504. asserts that he had protested against the Utah expedition, and that it was set on foot by Secretary Floyd, to open a wide field for frauds and peculation. He does not even intimate that the expedition had been ordered by the President. The censure is cast upon FFloyd, and upon Floyd alone. The President had, as a matter of course, left the military details of the movement to the Secretary of War and the Commanding General of the Army; From a reference to the instructions from the General to General Harney, the President could not have inferred the existence of any such protest. On the coFloyd alone. The President had, as a matter of course, left the military details of the movement to the Secretary of War and the Commanding General of the Army; From a reference to the instructions from the General to General Harney, the President could not have inferred the existence of any such protest. On the contrary, General Scott explicitly states the fact that they had been prepared in concert with the War Department, and sanctioned by its authority wherever required. In these instructions General Scott, so far from intimating that he had protested against the expedition, states that the community, and in part the civil Government of