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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
The mother looks to her sons, said this fiery organ of treason, to protect her from outrage. . . . She is sick of the Union--disgusted with it, upon any terms within the range of the widest possibility. The call was responded to by the resignations of many commissions held by South Carolinians; and the conspirators, unable to comprehend a supreme love for the Union, boasted that not a son of that State would prove loyal to the old flag. One of those who abandoned the flag was Lieutenant J. R. Hamilton, of the Navy, who, on the 14th of January, 1861, issued a circular letter from Fort Moultrie to his fellow-officers in that branch of the service, calling upon them to follow his example. It was a characteristic production. After talking much of honor, he thus counseled his friends to engage in plundering the Government:--What the South most asks of you now is, to bring with you every ship and man you can, that we may use them against the oppressors of our liberties, and the enem
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 13: the siege and evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
ere commanded by officers of the National Army who had abandoned their flag. In addition to the land-works was a curious monster in the character of a floating battery, which had been constructed at Charleston, under the direction of Lieutenant J. R. Hamilton, a deserter from the National Navy. See note 3, page 97. It was made James Simons. of heavy pine timber, filled in with Palmetto logs, and covered with a double layer of railway iron. It appeared on the water like an immense shedr, sent from Pensacola, reached Charleston, and twenty thousand pounds from Wilmington, North Carolina. At that time neither Virginia nor North Carolina had passed ordinances of secession. See Charleston Mercury, April 13, 1861. under Lieutenant J. R. Hamilton; and from nearly all the rest of the semicircle of military works arrayed around Fort Sumter for its reduction. Full thirty heavy guns and mortars opened at once. Their fire was given with remarkable vigor, yet the assailed fort made
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 70 (search)
was rumored in England, and the rumor confidently reported here by Capt. Pegram, that the independence of the Confederacy would be first recognised, and that right speedily, by Belgium. The following is a list of the officers of the Nashville: Commander.--R. P. Pegram. Lieutenants.--J. W. Bennett, and W. C. Whittle. Acting-Master.--J. H. Ingraham, Jr. Paymaster.--Richard Taylor. Surgeon.--J. L. Ancrum. Midshipmen.--Cary, Dalton, Pegram, (son of the commander,) Sinclair, Hamilton, Bullock, McClintock, and Thomas. Captain's Clerk.--------Hasell. Her crew consists of sixty men. The Nashville brings the intelligence, that on February twenty-second, an order was officially promulgated at Bermuda, prohibiting to the United States Government the use of the port as a coal depot. Several schooners laden with coal reached Bermuda a few days before the promulgation of the order. The Sumter was at Gibraltar at latest accounts. She had captured twenty-one Yankee v
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
Jones, Geo. T. Sinclair,Wm. L. Powell, C. B. Poindexter,W. H. Murdaugh, Henry H. Lewis,John M. Brooke, Geo. W. Harrison,John Kell, John N. Maffit,J. H. Rochelle, Wash. Gwathmey,Robt. D. Minor, Wm. A. Wayne,D. P. McCorkle, Peter U. Murphy,Wm. Sharp, Isaac N. Brown,Joseph Fry, John J. Guthrie,Chas. P. McGary, Jos. N. Barney,H. Davidson, Thos. B. Huger,Robt. R. Carter, Jno. Rutledge,O. F. Johnston, C. ap C. Jones,Beverley Kennon, Van R. Morgan,J. R. Eggleston, Edw. L. Winder,J. R. Hamilton, Joel S. Kennard,B. P. Loyall, Jno. Wilkinson,R. T. Chapman, C. M. Morris,J. W. Dunnington C. M. Fauntleroy,F. E. Shepperd, Wm. B. Fitzgerald,Thos. P. Pelot, John S. Maury,Geo. S. Shayock, Chas. W. Hays,Wm. L. Bradford, R. Stephens,Wm. G. Dozier, A. F. Warley,Wm. E. Ewan, Reginald Fairfax,J. W. Alexander, Wm. A. Webb,Jno. M. Stribling, Chas. C. Simms,Philip Porcher. surgeons. Wm. F. Patton,Daniel S. Green, Geo. Blacknall,John T. Mason, W. A. Spotswood,Wm. B. Sinclair, Le
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of South Carolina, (search)
the army and navy to resign their commissions and join in the movement. The mother looks to her sons to protect her from outrage, said this fiery newspaper (the Charleston Mercury); she is sick of the Union-disgusted with it upon any terms within the range of the widest possibility. This was responded to by the resignation of many South Carolinians; and the leaders in the movement declared that not a son of that State would prove loyal to the old flag. They commended the course of Lieut. J. R. Hamilton, a South Carolinian and member of the United States navy, who issued a circular letter to his fellow-Southerners in the marine service, expatiating much upon honor, and saying, What the South asks of you now is to Bring with you every ship and man you can, that we may use them against the oppressors of our liberties and The custom-house, Charleston, S. C. the enemies of our aggravated but united people. Vigilance committees were organized to discover and suppress every oppositio
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
From Montgomery.[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Montgomery, Ala., April 23, 1861. Capt. J. R. Hamilton, the able and ingenious projector of the Floating Battery, which poured into Sumter such a destructive fire, and passed unscathed through the terrible ordeal to which the heroic Anderson subjected it, has been engaged all the morning in exhibiting a model of it to the Secretary of War, who, after the delineation, will authorize the immediate construction of a similar one to be used in the bombardment of Fort Pickens. The United States commander at that place has recently declared to Gen. Bragg that he should act entirely on the defensive, consequently there will be no fighting for two weeks or more. Capt. Hamilton will have ample time to construct his ball and bombproof battery, and Gen. Bragg a sufficient delay to charge with the most crushing thunder the war cloud that now overhangs the doomed fortress. The moment the preparations are completed the attack