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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,300 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 830 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 638 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 502 0 Browse Search
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.) 378 0 Browse Search
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. 340 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 274 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 244 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
Arkansas, and all from South Carolina. On the following morning, twenty-six of the thirty-four Georgia delegates withdrew; and Senator Bayard and Representative Whiteley, delegates from Delaware, alates, the pretext. In May, 1833, President Jackson, in a letter to the Rev. A. J. Crawford, of Georgia, after speaking of the trouble he had endured on account of the Nullifiers, said, The Tariff wa. In the mean time some of the leading Southern Congressmen, among whom were Robert Toombs, of Georgia, and other conspirators, had issued an address from Washington City, urging that the Richmond Cexpression of their opinions and feelings; and one of them, a mercantile dealer in slaves, from Georgia, named Gaulden, advocated the reopening of the Slave-trade, and thought he should live to see tatrick declined the nomination, when the National Committee substituted Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia. The National Committee assembled at the National Hotel, in Washington City, on the 25th of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
ickets therein. These were North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, es of that denomination in South Carolina and Georgia, in Convention assembled, made an official reo remained almost a month longer. hastened to Georgia, and afterward took up arms against his countbeginning of the dissolution of the Union. Georgia was the first to follow the bad example of Soof the South, and especially to the people of Georgia, that we were untrue to our national engagemen national. He avowed that his attachment to Georgia was supreme, and that the chief object of hiswithout excuse. In the State Convention of Georgia, early in January, 1861, Mr. Stephens said:--foreshadowed necessity, by declaring:--Should Georgia determine to go out of the Union, I speak forlater, November, 1864. were marching through Georgia, in triumphant vindication of the National auain to be acted over, said the Milledgeville (Georgia) Journal; and the citizens of St. John's Pari[12 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 3: assembling of Congress.--the President's Message. (search)
at Barnwell Court House, Oct. 27, 1858. In July 1859, Alexander H. Stephens, in a speech in Georgia, said he was not one of those who believed that the South had sustained any injury by those agiee negro with death. The spirit and object of all were expressed in the preamble to the law in Georgia, as follows:--Whereas free persons of color are liable to be taken and held fraudulently and ilbe conciliated nor comforted. I command the Eastern Department, which includes South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. You know me well. I have ever been a firm, decided, faithful, and erved on page 44, Howell Cobb left the office of Secretary of the Treasury, because his duty to Georgia required it, and was succeeded by Philip F. Thomas, of Maryland. Cobb's letter of resignation r made was, that the Union could not be saved by eulogies upon it. Senators Alfred Iverson, of Georgia, Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas, followed. They had been stir
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)
st of those from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. By this action, they virtually avowed their determes H. Campbell, of Pennsylvania; Peter E. Love, of Georgia; Orris S. Ferry, of Connecticut; Henry Winter DavisMaryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Aia; R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Robert Toombs, of Georgia; Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; H. M. Rice, of Milmetto, grows near the shores of South Carolina and Georgia, in great perfection. It is confined to the neighbts, This bonnet was composed of white and black Georgia cotton, the streamers ornamented with Palmetto-treeed, they said, three hundred and fifty gentlemen in Georgia, and were authorized to offer their services to the the Slave-labor States as genuine. The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle and Sentinel, a leading newspaper in the Slave-labor States:--To Alabama, A. P. Calhoun; to Georgia, James L. Orr; to Florida, L. W. Spratt; to Mississ
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. (search)
ts Pulaski and Jackson, at the mouth of the Savannah River. Who hears of any apprehension lest Georgia should seize them? There are Castle Pinckney and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Who hears ts, to the arsenals at Fayetteville in North Carolina, Charleston in South Carolina, Augusta in Georgia, Mount Vernon in Alabama, and Baton Rouge in Louisiana; and these were distributed during the sthe Adjutant-General, November 24. Floyd sold ten thousand of these muskets to G. B. Lamar, of Georgia; and only eight days before, November 16. he sold five thousand of them to the State of Virgin arms, and Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Kentucky only in part; while Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kansas were, by order of the Secretary of War, s and were very uneasy. His devoted wife, a daughter of the gallant soldier, General Clinch, of Georgia, with her children and nurse, were in New York City. She knew, better than all others, the per
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
ida, on the 10th; in Alabama, on the 11th; in Georgia, on the 19th; in Louisiana, on the 26th; and ment made with the Governors of Louisiana and Georgia, and by order of the Governor of Alabama, hadlled secession of Alabama, the politicians of Georgia, assembled in convention at Milledgeville, thgton, telegraphed an address to the people of Georgia, half true and half untrue, in which he said:hes, it is said, decided the wavering vote of Georgia for secession, at the election on the 2d of Je commonwealth to the Union, and that the State of Georgia was in full possession and exercise of aleived January 20, 1861. from the Governor of Georgia at this point in the proceedings, and producet (Clinch) on Amelia Island, off the coast of Georgia, was taken possession of by insurgents of thana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas, and their preparations for a convphen F. Hale to Arkansas, John A. Winston. Georgia.--To Missouri, Luther J. Glenn; to Virginia, [16 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 9: proceedings in Congress.--departure of conspirators. (search)
am K. Sebastian, of Arkansas; Robert Toombs and Alfred Iverson, of Georgia; Judah P. Benjamin and John Slidell, of Louisiana; Jefferson Davising to the approved plan. You are getting it just below there [in Georgia], I believe, irregularly, outside of law, without regular action. nd the National Capital forever, January 7, 1861. and hastened to Georgia, to cheat the people of their rights and precipitate them into the withdrew. A week later, January 28, 1861. Senator Iverson, of Georgia, having received a copy of the Ordinance of Secession from the Con have seen, gone home to work the machinery by which the people of Georgia were unwillingly placed in an attitude of rebellion. Toombs had auary 22, 1861. nearly forty boxes of arms, consigned to parties in Georgia and Alabama, and placed on board the steamer Monticello, bound forork:--Is it true that arms, intended for, and consigned to the State of Georgia, have been seized by public authorities in New York? Your ans
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 10: Peace movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. (search)
esented the disloyal politicians of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. Tarnwell, C. G. Memminger, L. M. Keitt, W. W. Boyce. Georgia.--Robert Toombs, Howell Cobb, Benjamin H. Hill, Alet conveyed Stephens, and Toombs, and T. R. Cobb, of Georgia, and Chesnut, and Withers, and Rhett, of South Caroanized by the appropriate choice of Howell Cobb, of Georgia, as presiding officer. Johnson F. Hooper, of Montgumber) for President, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, the same number, for Vice-President. The announceade on the 16th of February, when J. M. Waldron, of Georgia, asked leave to file a caveat and drawings, settingssistant Secretary of State, and Philip Clayton, of Georgia, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He offered J few years the junior of Davis, having been born in Georgia in 1812. He had climbed to distinction from obscurA. Dudley Mann, of Virginia; and T. Butler King, of Georgia. Yancey was to operate in England, Rost in France,
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)
; but he did very little, and after having them on hand for a long time, died. They were then shipped to a gentleman in Georgia, with a request to complete the work. Papers were missing, requiring months to find; materials hard to get, and the woratched by two negro men. They were then removed to Augusta, Georgia, and thence, when Sherman came, tearing down through Georgia like a wild horse, they were pushed along into the upper part of South Carolina. Thence in the spring they were brought act of treachery of the vilest and most injurious nature, performed by the veteran soldier, General David E. Twiggs, of Georgia, who was next in rank to Lieutenant-General Scott, in the Army of the Republic. We have observed that the conspirator. That of Georgians reassembled on the 7th of March, and on the 16th ratified it by unanimous vote, saying that the State of Georgia acted in its sovereign and independent character. That of Louisianians, which reassembled on the 4th of March, rati
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
Washington, for the alleged purpose of treating with the National Government upon various topics of mutual interest, that there might be a settlement of all questions of disagreement between the Government of the United States and that of the Confederate States, upon principles of right, justice, equity, and good faith. See page 264. Two of these Commissioners (John Forsyth, of Alabama, who had been a Minister of the United States in Mexico a few years before, and Martin J. Crawford, of Georgia, a member of Congress from that State) arrived in Washington on the 5th of March. On the 11th they made a formal application, through a distinguished Senator, for an unofficial interview Martin J. Crawford. with the Secretary of State. It was declined, and on the 13th they sent to the Secretary a sealed communication, in which they set forth the object of their mission, and asked the appointment of an early day on which to present their credentials to the President. See Secretary Se
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