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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 15 1 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 11 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 3 3 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Agreement between the United States Government and South Carolina as to preserving the status of the Forts at Charleston. (search)
ent was in direct violation of the stipulations before referred to. A few moments afterwards General Floyd, the Secretary of War, called to pay his respects to the Commissioners. He was handed immm with an endorsement: The communication was not respectful; that he would not receive it General Floyd declared when he first heard of Anderson's removal that if the President did not order him b transpired during the eventful week that the commission was in Washington satisfied us that General Floyd never gave Major Anderson any orders to remove, and that if such orders were communicated to him in Floyd's name, or from the War Department, such orders were issued clandestinely and without General Floyd's knowledge. There was no formal vote passed in the Convention with reference to tGeneral Floyd's knowledge. There was no formal vote passed in the Convention with reference to the course that was to be pursued by the State towards the forts in Charleston harbor as to occupying them. After the communication already referred to, by Mr. Miles to the Convention, it was tacitly
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Contributions to the history of the Confederate Ordnance Department. (search)
nclusion that we must have picked up throughout the country over 5,300,000 pounds of lead during the four years of the war. I remember that the window-weights and loose lead about houses yielded 200,000 pounds in Charleston alone; while the disused lead water-pipes in Mobile supplied, if I am not mistaken, as much more. So that these two items alone supplied one-thirteenth of this vast gleaning of the country. Transfer of arms to the South. It was a charge often repeated against Governor Floyd that, as Secretary of War, he had with traitorous intent abused his office by sending arms to the South just before the secession of the States. The transactions which gave rise to this accusation were in the ordinary course of an economical administration of the War Department. After it had been determined to change the old flint-lock musket, which the United States possessed, to percussion, it was deemed cheaper to bring all the flint-lock arms in store at Southern arsenals to the No
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Detached observations. (search)
nclusion that we must have picked up throughout the country over 5,300,000 pounds of lead during the four years of the war. I remember that the window-weights and loose lead about houses yielded 200,000 pounds in Charleston alone; while the disused lead water-pipes in Mobile supplied, if I am not mistaken, as much more. So that these two items alone supplied one-thirteenth of this vast gleaning of the country. Transfer of arms to the South. It was a charge often repeated against Governor Floyd that, as Secretary of War, he had with traitorous intent abused his office by sending arms to the South just before the secession of the States. The transactions which gave rise to this accusation were in the ordinary course of an economical administration of the War Department. After it had been determined to change the old flint-lock musket, which the United States possessed, to percussion, it was deemed cheaper to bring all the flint-lock arms in store at Southern arsenals to the No
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 39 (search)
th Alabama, Colonel John C. Reid. Thirty-fourth Alabama, Major J. N. Slaughter. Tenth and Nineteenth South Carolina, Colonel James F. Pressley. Waters's Battery, Lieutenants Charles W. Watkins and George D. Turner. Buckner's corps. Major-General Simon B. Buckner. Stewarts division. Major-General Alexander P. Stewart. Johnson's brigade. part of Johnson's provisional division. Brigadier-General B. R. Johnson. Colonel J. S. Fulton. Seventeenth Tennessee, Lieutenant-Colonel Watt W. Floyd. Twenty-third Tennessee, Colonel R. H. Keeble. Twenty-fifth Tennessee, Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Snowden. Forty-Fourth Tennessee, Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. McEwen, Jr., and Major G. M. Crawford. Bale's brigade. Brigadier-General W. B. Bate. Fifty-eighth Alabama, Colonel Bushrod Jones. Thirty-seventh Georgia, Colonel A. F. Rudler and Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Smith. Fourth Georgia Battalion (sharpshooters), Major T. D. Caswell, Captain B. M. Turner, and Lieutenant Joel