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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 12: (search)
the general defense of the whole country, its commerce and interests, instead of being useful only for the defense of a particular city or locality. It is true that Forts Taylor and Jefferson, at Key West and Tortugas, are so situated as to be essentially national, and therefore important to us without reference to our relations with the seceded States. Not so with Moultrie, Johnson, Castle Pinckney, and Sumter, in Charleston Harbor; not so with Pulaski, on the Savannah River; not so with Morgan and other forts in Alabama; not so with those other forts that were intended to guard the entrance of a particular harbor for local defense. . . . We can not deny that there is a Southern Confederacy, de facto, in existence, with its capital at Montgomery. We may regret it. I regret it most profoundly; but I can not deny the truth of the fact, painful and mortifying as it is. . . . I proclaim boldly the policy of those with whom I act. We are for peace. Douglas, in urging the mainten
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
the late Vice-President of the United States, and whose general and wellde-served popularity might have reasonably led him to expect in the Union the highest honors the states could bestow; William Preston, George W. Johnston, S. B. Buckner, John H. Morgan, and a host of others, alike meritorious and alike gratefully remembered. When the passions of the hour shall have subsided, and the past shall be reviewed with discrimination and justice, the question must arise in every reflecting mind. Wment of Texan rangers was brought from Louisiana, and supplied with horses and sent to the front. Five hundred Kentuckians joined General Buckner on his advance, and five regiments were gradually formed and filled up. A cavalry company under John H. Morgan was also added. At this time (September, 1861), General Johnston, under the authority granted to him by the government, made a requisition for thirty thousand men from Tennessee, ten thousand from Mississippi, and ten thousand from Arkansas.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
om Confederacy to Lin-coln, 212, 230. Fort Barrancas, 230. Brown, 183, 407. Castle Pinckney, 242. Caswell, 355. Donelson, 348. Henry, 348. Jackson, 283. Jefferson, 242. Johnson, 242, 355. McHenry, 290. McRee, 230. Monroe, 180, 380. Morgan, 242, 283. Moultrie, 181, 183, 242. Pickens, 174, 230, 242. Pulaski, 242, 283. St. Philip, 283. Sumter, 185, 186, 187, 242, 243, 244, 250-51, 406. Occupation by Federal forces, 182, 183-84, 230. Attempted reinforcement, 186. Evacuation co10-12, 23, 25, 28, 59, 71. Monroe, Judge, 342. Montgomery, General, 370. Convention, 197. Constitution adopted, 197. Election of officers, 197. Moore, Dr. L. P. Surgeon general of Confederacy, 268-69. Morehead, —, 344. Morgan, John H., 342, 351. Morris, Gouverneur, 117, 123. Proposed method of presidential election, 135-36. Island, 243. Motley, John Lothrop, 112, 113, 119. Extract from letter to London times, 110-11. Remarks on sovereignty, 121-22, 127. Mun