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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
with the election of delegates. He accordingly recommended the Legislature to adopt such an ordinance at once, and call upon the people to vote upon it speedily. A few days after the Governor's message was submitted to the Legislature, Henry W. Hilliard, a leading member of the Methodist Church South, appeared before that body April 30, 1861. as a commissioner of Jefferson Davis and his confederates, clothed by them with authority to negotiate a treaty of alliance between the State of Tenh the Confederate States, by which the whole military rule of the Commonwealth should be subjected to the will of Davis. He appointed Gustavus A. Henry, Archibald O. W. Totten, and Washington Barrow as commissioners for the purpose. They and Mr. Hilliard negotiated a treaty, and on the 7th May. the Governor announced to the Legislature the conclusion of the business, and submitted to it a copy of the Convention. By it Davis and his confederates were authorized to exercise absolute military c
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., chapter 30 (search)
armies, is already well known. Of the many who weakly, culpably allowed themselves to be beguiled or hurled into complicity in the crime of dividing and destroying their country, there is no name whereon will rest a deeper, darker stigma than that of John Bell. Conservatism having thus bound itself hand and foot, and cast its fettered and helpless form at the feet of rampant, aggressive treason, the result was inevitable. An emissary from the Confederate traitors, in the person of Henry W. Hilliard, Formerly a Whig member of Congress. of Alabama, forthwith appeared upon the scene. The Legislature secretly adopted May 1, 1861. a resolve that the Governor might or should appoint three Commissioners on the part of Tennessee to enter into a military league with the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the authorities of such other slaveholding States as may wish to enter into it; having in view the protection and defense of the entire South against the war which is
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
25, 1861, and in a message to them he strongly urged the immediate secession of the State. He urged that there was no propriety in wasting time in submitting the question to the people, for a revolution was imminent. A few days afterwards Henry W. Hilliard, a commissioner of the Confederate States of America, clothed with authority to negotiate a treaty of alliance with Tennessee, appeared (April 30) and was allowed to address the legislature. He expressed his belief that there was not a truke measures to annex that State to the Confederacy, the governor appointed Gustavus A. Henry, Archibald O. W. Totten, and Washington Barrow, commissioners for the purpose. They negotiated a treaty with the agent of the Confederate States, Henry W. Hilliard, and on the 7th a copy of the treaty was submitted to the legislature. By the treaty the authorities of Tennessee were to turn over to the Confederate States all the public property, naval stores, and munitions of war of which she might th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
ence of the entire South against the war that is now being carried on against it. The said commissioners met the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, the accredited representative of the Confederate States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreed upon and exnvention, entered into and agreed on in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, on the seventh day of May, A. D. 1861, by Henry W. Hilliard, the duly authorized Commissioner to act in the matter for the Confederate States, and Gustavus A. Henry, Archibalde parties aforesaid have herewith set their hands and seals, the day and year aforesaid, in duplicate originals. Henry W. Hilliard, [Seal.] Commissioner for the Confederate States of America. Gustavus A. Henry, [Seal.] A. O. W. Totten, [n A. O. W. Totten, Gustavus A. Henry, and Washington Barrow, Commissioners on the part of the State of Tennessee, and H. W. Hilliard, Commissioner on the part of the Confederate States of America, subject to the confirmation of the two governments:
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Regiments, &c., in Confederate service. (search)
. T. MorganSept. 6, 1862.Promoted Brigadier-General. 52dAlabamaRegimentInfantryCol. S. D. Hale   53dAlabamaRegimentPartisan RangersCol. M. W. HannonNov. 5, 1862.Promoted Brigadier-General. 54thAlabamaRegimentInfantryCol. Alpheus BakerJan. 28, 1863.Promoted Brigadier-General. 55thAlabamaRegimentInfantryCol. John SnodgrassFeb. 25, 1863.  56thAlabamaRegimentPartisan RangersCol. Wm. Boyle   57thAlabamaRegimentInfantryCol. Jno. P. W. AmerineApril 13, 1863.  1stAlabamaLegionInfantryCol. Henry W. Hilliard   1stAlabamaBattalionArtilleryLt. Col. Forsyth   2dAlabamaBattalionArtilleryMajor Hollinquist   5thAlabamaBattalionInfantryLt. Col. Chadick   8thAlabamaBattalionInfantry    9thAlabamaBattalionInfantryLt. Col. Blount   10thAlabamaBattalionInfantryMajor Clifton   1stArkansasRegimentCavalryCol. Robt. W. HarperApril 14, 1862.  2dArkansasRegimentCavalryCol. Jas. A. WilliamsonNov. 8, 1862.  Col. B. T. Embry1862.  3dArkansasRegimentCavalryCol. Samuel G. EarlMay 26
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Legions in Confederate service. (search)
Legions in Confederate service. No.Name.State.Organization.Commander.Date of Rank.Remarks. 1stHilliard'sAlabamaLegionCol. Jack ThoringtonDec. 1, 1862.  2dClanton'sAlabamaLegionCol. J. H. Clanton Promoted Brigadier-General. 3dCobb'sGeorgiaLegionCol. P. M. B. YoungNov. 1, 1862.Promoted Major-General. 4thPhillips'GeorgiaLegionCol. E. S. BarklyFeb. 13, 1863.  5thMiles'LouisianaLegionCol. Wm. R. Miles   6thJeff. Davis'MississippiLegionCol. J. F. WaringDec. 2, 1862.  7thThomas'North CarolinaLegionCol. Wm. H. Thomas   8thHampton'sSouth CarolinaLegionCol. M. W. GaryAug. 25, 1862.Promoted Brigadier-General. 9thHolcombe'sSouth CarolinaLegionCol. W. P. ShinglerOct. 8, 1862.Promoted Brigadier-General by brevet. 10thWaul'sTexasLegionCol. T. N. WaulMay 17, 1862.Promoted Brigadier-Ge
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 18: the irrepressible Conflict.—1858. (search)
8.15. Convention if Congress refused to admit Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. At the so-called Southern Commercial Convention held at Montgomery, Ala., on Lib. 28.87; Hodgson's Cradle of the Confederacy, p. 371. May 10, 1858, to discuss the African slave-trade and the relations of the South to the Union, Roger A. Pryor of Virginia could pledge his State to disunion in case a Ibid., p. 382. Black Republican President were installed at Washington with a majority in Congress. Henry W. Hilliard of Alabama agreed that the election of such a President Ibid., p. 385. would result in the subversion of the Government, and that the South would neither wait to see him installed, nor delay for some overt act. William L. Yancey of Alabama, though denying that Republican success at Ibid., p. 391. the next election would constitutionally justify secession, nevertheless held the Union to be already dissolved. He should at least expect Virginia to say, Form your Confederacy, and we wi
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
id in suppressing the rebellion, and that he had declined to honor the call. On the 1st of May, 186, the general assembly provided for the appointment of commissioners to enter into a military league with the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the authorities of the other slave-holding States as may wish to enter into it, having in view the protection and defense of the entire South against the war that is now being carried on against it. On the 7th of the same month, Henry W. Hilliard, commissioner for the Confederate States, and Gustavus A. Henry, A. O. Totten and Washington Barrow, commissioners on the part of Tennessee, entered into a temporary convention agreement and military league for the purpose of protecting the interests and safety of the contracting parties. On the same day the general assembly ratified and confirmed this agreement, and pledged the faith and honor of the State of Tennessee to its observance. On the 6th of May, 1861, the legislature su
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
this great and decisive meeting that the memorable debate occurred between Mr. Roger A. Pryor, the young editor of The South, a weekly, published at Richmond, of extreme Southern rights' character, supported by William Ballard Preston, and Henry W. Hilliard, on our side, and William Lowndes Yancey, a lawyer, of Montgomery, on the other side. The report of the committee from the Knoxville meeting of the year before was submitted by its chairman, J. D. B. De Bow, editor of De Bow's Review, a Soy of an original constitutional guarantee, existing in the form of a compromise between the sections in an organic law, could become valid under any enactment less than a constitutional amendment. Messrs. Pryor and Preston, of Virginia, and Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, contended for unconstitutional rejection of De Bow's report favoring the re-opening of the trade. Mr. Yancey saw his opportunity to discuss the encroachments of the Abolitionists upon the Constitution in resisting a summary rej
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
communication, covering the resolutions which passed the Legislature of New York on the 11th instant, tendering aid to the President of the United States, in support of the Constitution and the Union, and shall give them that respectful consideration to which they are entitled from the importance of the subject and the distinguished source from which they have emanated. Your, very respectfully, James Buchanan. Opposed to coercion. The New York World contains a letter from Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Alabama, from which the following is an extract: "Now that some of the States have dissolved their connection with the Union, force is not to be employed against them. The whole theory of our government is opposed to it. Force may be employed against masses of individuals, however numerous; never against political communities or States." "The Southern people are unconquerable.--The race which peoples these; States can never be held in bondage. New political systems m
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