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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Recollections of the Twiggs surrender. (search)
gave their parole not to take up arms against the Confederacy, and were ordered to leave the post in the afternoon. By this time the German company had refused to act against the United States, and the citizen companies had disbanded. The Irish company had twice torn down the Stars and Stripes from the Alamo, and had raised the Lone Star flag in its place. An attempt was made to disarm the troops, but they declared that they would kill any man who interfered, and marched away under Major Larkin Smith and Captain John H. King, with the stained and bullet-riddled old flag of the 8th Regiment flying over them, while the band played national airs. Strong men wept; the people cheered them along the streets, and many followed them to the head of the San Pedro, where they encamped. By 6 o'clock the Rangers had returned to their camp on the Salado, and the day ended without further excitement. About 2 o'clock that afternoon, Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived in his ambulance from Fort M
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
ing. But the time had now arrived when temporizing must end. He was ready to act; but he must have a decent excuse for his surrendering the force under his immediate command, which consisted of only two skeleton companies under Captains King and Smith. Other troops had been ordered away from San Antonio by Twiggs when the danger of revolution became pressing, and they might be called to put down insurrection. The excuse for Twiggs was readily found. Ben. McCulloch, the famous Texan Rangerous embarrassments. In violation of the terms of Twiggs's treaty for surrender, adequate means of transportation for the troops in the interior were withheld; and officers born in Slave-labor States, such as Lieutenant Thornton Washington, Major Larkin Smith, and others, in whom he confided, betrayed their trusts in a most shameful manner, and joined the insurgents. Captain Hill, who commanded Fort Brown, on the Rio Grande, opposite Fort Brown. Matamoras, refused to obey the order of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
ace and Urbana in charge of Col. Van Dorn when the Rusk left last night. They had gone down the bay on these schooners with a view of being embarked on the Fashion, but this steamer was deemed unseaworthy, and the United States was not in a much better condition, while the propeller Mobile was too small for their accommodation. It is expected that they will go on shore again to-day, and that most of them will enlist in the army of the Confederate States. We see from Gen. Nichols' report to Gen. Sherman, that in less than an hour after the Rusk took position so as to command the schooners with the U. S. troops on board, he reported himself to Col. Van Dorn, and received in reply, that the surrender had just been agreed on. Major Larkin Smith, who, we believe, was second in command at Indianola, resigned immediately on hearing of the secession of Virginia; and we learn his example was followed by some six or eight other United States officers.--Galveston (Texas) News, April 27.
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: Maryland's overthrow. (search)
the officers, pledge ourselves and for our men that the arms she has obtained shall at the close of the war be returned to the State of North Carolina, without stain or dishonor. Resolved—That these resolutions be signed by the officers of the meeting and presented to Mrs. Johnson. James R. Herbert, President. I. G. W. Harriott, Secretary. She forthwith returned to Richmond for clothes and the tents. She secured cloth for uniforms, by permission of Governor Letcher, by purchasing it from the mills where it was manufactured for the State of Virginia, and she paid for making it up into uniforms. Shoes, blankets and underclothes were supplied by Col. Larkin Smith, quartermaster-general; and the tents had been ordered on her way back from North Carolina. On June 29th she started back for camp with forty-one tents, and uniforms, underclothes and shoes for five hundred men. She had paid out ten thousand dollars, the contribution of enthusiastic North Carolinians and Virginians
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
antry. Peter C. Gaillard. 814. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 29. Colonel, commanding Twenty-seventh South Carolina Infantry. James M. Wells. 824. Born Maryland. Appointed District of Columbia. 39. Colonel, commanding Twenty-third Mississippi Infantry. Jones M. Withers. 829. Born Alabama. Appointed Alabama. 44. Major-General, April 6, 1862, commanding Reserve Corps, Army of Mississippi; later commanding division in Army of Tennessee. Larkin Smith. 832. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 47. Colonel, September 24, 1861. Assistant Quartermaster-General Confederate States Army, Richmond, Va. Hugh M'Leod. 841. Born New York. Appointed Georgia. 56. Colonel, 1861, commanding First Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, Longstreet's Division (1862), Army of Northern Virginia. 1836. Danville Leadbetter. 844. Born Maine. Appointed Maine. 3. Brigadier-General, February 27, 1862. （1st) Commanding brigade, Army of Kent
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
. Surgeons Lynde and Burns. In all, 450 men. Seven companies of the 8th Infantry are on the way to the coast. They will be intercepted and disarmed. Officers not with Maj. Sibley on the vessels arrested and on parole : Col. Waite and staff, Col Morris, Adjt. Nichols, Maj. Vinton, Lt. Gerrard, Surgeon Abadie, Asst. Surgoon G. R. Smith, Col. Roffman Maj Sprague, Maj McCline,Capt. Lee,Capt. Bowman, Lt. Wipple, Maj. Cunningham, Lt. Whistier, Lt.Hunter. Officers Resigned --Maj. Larkin Smith, Capt. Blair,Capt. Reynolds, Capt. Trevett, Lt. Cone, Lt. M. L. Davis, Haskell, Walter Jones, Dr. Anderson, Lt. Jas. Major, Lt. Washington. The capture and resignation of these officers will deprive the Department at Washington of the services of about thirty five of the most efficient men in the service, and cripple its power to do us mischief. The terms of the surrender are that all the arms and company property are to be turned over to the Confederate authorities. Private
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
nnie muskets, fired into her, and killed several of their own men and slightly wounded in the arm Mr. John Hopkins, one of our plicts, attached to the Beaufort. While the Virginia was engaged with the Congress, with her how gun she poured broadside after broadside into the shore batteries of the enemy at Newport News. One discharge from the bow-gun of the Virginia, says of the priestess, capsized two of the guns of the Congress, willing of her crow and taking off the head of a Lieut. Smith, and literally tore the ship to pieces. The Minnesota and it Lawrence come up. While the engagement was going on between the two frigates and the Virginia, the enemy's steam frigate Minnesota put out from Old Point to their assistance. She laid well ever towards Newport News, but not entirely out of the range of our batteries on Sewell's Point, which opened on her, with what effect we are unable to say, but she replied to them without any damage whatever. The Minnesota got agr
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
Mr. Barksdale, of Miss., submitted a design for the Confederate flag, which was referred to the Committee on Flag and Seal. Mr. Davis, of Miss., offered a resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to the regimental and company officers and men who so gallantly defended Fort Donelson. The resolution was supported by Mr. Davis, and opposed by Messrs. Bonham and Footh, on the ground that it indirectly censured two of the general officers--Buckner and Bushrod Johnson. On motion of Mr. Smith, of Va., the resolution was referred to the special committee for the investigation of the surrender of Fort Donelson. Mr. Davis, of Miss., offered a resolution instructing the military committee to inquire into the expediency of appropriating $500,000 for the support of the families of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson, and for the comfort of the prisoners themselves. Mr. Conrad, of La., moved to amend the resolution by inserting, instead of "prisoners taken at Fort Donelson," "a
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Twenty Dollars reward. (search)
n the year 1841, and is consequently twenty-one years old. She was of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven tons burthen and carried fifty guns. Previous to her having been placed on the blockading squadron she was in commission off the coast of Brazil, from which station she was recalled when the rebellion broke out. When she arrived in August last, four of her officers acted in such a manner as to cause them to be sent to Fort Lafayette. At last advices the vessel was under the charge of Commander Smith; but whether any change has since taken place in the commander, we have not yet learned. Our advices report that the vessel was surrendered after some heavy fighting. The Herald's attempt to metamorphose a terrible disaster into a "slight reverse," or, as it says in another editorial, a "brilliant engagement," will not fail to excite a smile here. The account is intended for a foreign market, but we think it will hardly succeed, even in Europe. Summary. The commandant of
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The Captain of the Cumberland. The Captain of the Cumberland, who fought his vessel till her decks went under water, firing as she went down, deserved a better fate than to serve Abraham Lincoln. He deserved to be a Southerner, and to fight under the flag of freedom. If, as we are informed, he was commander Smith, he was a native of Kentucky, a State which has furnished both belligerents in this war with many of the best fighting men. We rejoice to render tribute to a gallant adversary, and the manner in which he met his fate, showed that in the Captain of the Cumberland our own fearless Buchanan had a foeman worthy of his steel. Death is inevitable, but to die gracefully and heroically is not in the power of many. The man who dies nobly for his country only masts the universal fate, which he could not, under any circumstances, avoid; but dying as the brave know how to die, he bequeaths to the traditions of his household and of his country a name which sheds bright renown on
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