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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pickens, Fort (search)
January the commander of Fort Pickens (Lieut. Adam J. Slemmer), a brave Pennsylvanian, heard rumors cial order to do so, he declined. On the 9th Slemmer received instructions from his government to and Armstrong was ordered to co-operate with Slemmer. It was feared that the small garrison couldickens. Armstrong failed to do his part, but Slemmer, with great exertions, had the troops of Barrhor near Fort Pickens was not carried out. To Slemmer's astonishment, these vessels were ordered awuns to bear upon Pickens and Fort Barrancas. Slemmer was now left to his own resources. His was tng the workers were the heroic wives of Lieutenants Slemmer and Gilmore, refined and cultivated womola, appeared, and, in friendly terms, begged Slemmer to surrender, and not be guilty of allowing f would be on guard. The plot was revealed to Slemmer by a loyal man in the Confederate camp namepplies of food and munitions of war; and Lieutenant Slemmer and his almost exhausted little garrison[1 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slemmer, Adam J. 1828- (search)
Slemmer, Adam J. 1828- military officer; born in Montgomery county, Pa., in 1828; graduated at West Point in 1850; was promoted for gallant conduct in the Seminole War; was for a while assistant Professor of Ethics and Mathematics at West Point, and was in command of a small garrison at Fort McRae, near Pensacola, when the Civil War broke out. He took his men and supplies to stronger Fort Pickens, and held it against the Confederates until relieved by Colonel Brown (see Pickens, Fort). He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862; was severely wounded in the battle of Stone River, and was disabled from further active service. In March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army, and was afterwards commandant at Fort Laramie, Kan., where he died, Oct. 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
adopted in convention, 62 to 7......Jan. 10, 1861 United States arsenal and barracks at Baton Rouge, La., seized by Louisiana State troops......Jan. 10, 1861 Fort Jackson and Fort Philips, below New Orleans, seized by Louisiana State troops......Jan. 11, 1861 Ordinance of secession of Alabama adopted in convention, 61 to 39......Jan. 11, 1861 Florida demands the surrender of Fort Pickens, at the entrance of Pensacola Bay, Florida, with the garrison of eighty-one men, under Lieutenant Slemmer; refused......Jan. 12, 1861 Fort Taylor, Key West, garrisoned by United States troops......Jan. 14, 1861 Ordinance of secession of Georgia adopted in convention, 208 to 89......Jan. 19, 1861 United States Senators Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Stephen R. Mallory and David L. Yulee, of Florida, withdraw from the Senate with speeches of defiance......Jan. 21, 1861 United States arsenal at Augusta, Ga., se