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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. 470 8 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 2: Charleston Harbor. (search)
echo, The forts must be ours. The city of Charleston lies on a tongue of land between the Ashley were two government buildings in the city of Charleston: the Custom-House and the United States Arsegan to insist that reinforcements be sent to Charleston. Buchanan becoming also a trifle anxious ovut that he could not order reinforcements to Charleston; whereupon General Cass tendered his resignaere was, however, one resource yet available. Sumter was the real key to the harbor. Captain Fosteer steaming up the channel in the direction of Sumter. She presented no warlike appearance; men and Anderson a formal demand for the surrender of Sumter. Anderson replied rather meekly that he couldto Hayne, that neither the proposed sale of Fort Sumter, nor its relinquishment under South Carolinarbor of Pensacola, Fla., similar to that at Charleston. The insurgents had threatened, and the offise and dispatch a new expedition to reinforce Sumter. This time a few small vessels belonging to t[13 more...]
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 4: Lincoln. (search)
Major Anderson was secure in his stronghold of Sumter until the rebel batteries should become powerfOn the morning after inauguration letters from Sumter were put into the President's hands, showing tpractically impossible to relieve or reinforce Sumter, and that, as a mere military question, it wason, Assuming it to be possible to provision Fort Sumter, is it wise under all the circumstances of advised the evacuation of Pickens as well as Sumter. To crown all, news came that the commander oof Fort Pickens no less essential than that of Sumter, at once sent new and peremptory orders to then of the federal forts. Two efforts to obtain Sumter by intrigue had failed; nevertheless, they stiell Campbell of his own willingness to give up Sumter, and of his belief that the President, upon tht he would not change the military status at Charleston without giving notice. This, be it obserose to force rebellion to put itself flagrantly and fatally in the wrong by attacking Fort Sumter. [2 more...]
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 5: Sumter. (search)
Chapter 5: Sumter. Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, began about the 1st of January to build batteries to isolate and reduce Fort Sumter; and the newly made General Beauregard was on the 1st of March sent by the rebel government to Charleston to assume direction of military affairs and to y this Government will not undertake to supply Sumter without notice to you. This language did notance, and place both troops and supplies in Fort Sumter. Lincoln's notice having been communicat hour from that time. The inhabitants of Charleston had now for more than three months followed est, until they began to regard the affairs of Sumter as their own pet and exclusive drama. It had ordinarily occupied as barracks and quarters. Sumter suffered most in this respect: the balls strikFalling on the parapet and the open parade of Sumter and exploding, their destructive force spent ihe boats to carry the supplies and soldiers to Sumter, had been detached from this duty and sent to [14 more...]
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 6: the call to arms. (search)
Chapter 6: the call to arms. The assault upon Fort Sumter had doubtless been ordered by the rebel government under the hope, if not thetal watchword: You must sprinkle blood in the faces of the people. Sumter was a bloodless conquest, but it nevertheless filled the South withr wild political lunacy, the symbols of a holy deliverance. The Sumter bombardment, Lincoln's proclamation, and the enthusiastic war-spirin addition to the six or seven thousand rebel troops assembled at Charleston to aid in the reduction of Sumter, and the four or five thousand is sent them his message, announcing that he had in the field, at Charleston, Pensacola, Forts Morgan, Jackson, St Philip, and Pulaski, ninetction, an army of one hundred thousand men. Between the fall of Sumter, however, and the date of this message, the whole revolution had un rush of popular excitement and passion consequent upon the fall of Sumter. The three others, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and also the
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 7: Baltimore. (search)
nd, and, under an outward show of qualified loyalty, the conspiracy was almost as busy and as potent in the Old Dominion as in the Cotton States themselves. When Sumter fell, all this hidden intrigue blazed out into open insurrection. The convention, notwithstanding many previous contrary votes, held a secret session on April 17s believed to be unreliable. Treason had so far taken a foothold in the populous city of Baltimore, that a secret recruiting office was sending enlisted men to Charleston. But all local demonstration was as yet baffled by the unwavering loyalty of the Governor of Maryland, Thomas Holliday Hicks. He had refused and resisted all for the security of the capital, and to that end authorized him to muster into the service of the United States about fifteen companies of District militia. When Sumter fell and the proclamation was issued, as a still further precaution the first few regiments were ordered directly to Washington. To the Massachusetts Sixth be
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 9: Ellsworth. (search)
thought of war; and when Lincoln became President, Ellsworth sought his favor and was readily permitted to accompany him to Washington as one of his suite. The inauguration over, the President made him a second lieutenant of dragoons. Then came Sumter and the call for volunteers, and Ellsworth saw his opportunity. Hastening to the city of New York, he called together and harangued the fire companies of the metropolis; in three days he had twenty-two hundred names inscribed on his recruiting t go unavenged, for in that same instant his assassin also expired by the double effect of a musket-charge and a bayonet-thrust from Ellsworth's foremost companion. If there remained a possibility of a sensational climax of deeper import than Sumter and Baltimore, it was furnished by this hideous tragedy at Alexandria. The North had supposed that the first exhausted the cold-blooded recklessness of conspiracy. The second manifested the sudden fury of sectional excitement. But this last op
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 11: Kentucky. (search)
of Henry Clay had impressed upon her people a love and reverence for the Union higher and purer than any mere passing interest or selfish advantage. Nevertheless, as rebellion progressed, the State became seriously agitated and divided. When Sumter fell and the President issued his call for troops, Governor Magoffin insultingly refused compliance. This action in turn greatly excited the people of the three Border Free States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, who thus beheld a not remote prosh in Maryland and Missouri, he authorized direct enlistments under the supervision of United States officers. Leading men having informed him of the actual state of Kentucky sentiment, he, on May 7th, specially commissioned Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, to proceed to Cincinnati and muster into service all loyal volunteers who might offer themselves from Kentucky and West Virginia. Nor was he content with such merely negative encouragement. He felt a deep solicitude to retain Kentucky
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
neral G. T., 56; directs operations against Fort Sumter, 57, 59; placed in command at Manassas, 170on cause, 76 Centreville, Va., 177 Charleston, S. C., situation of, 20, 79 Cheat River, 1 the Confederacy, 41; opposes the attack on Fort Sumter, 56; belief of Northern aid, 71; offers letails in command of expedition for relief of Fort Sumter, 59 Franklin, General W. B., 174 Fremion, 48; inauguration of, 49; anxiety about Fort Sumter, 50 et seq.; orders the relief of Forts SumForts Sumter and Pickens, 53; his final resolution with regard to Fort Sumter, 55; his letter to Major AndersSouth Carolina, 5, 32; demands surrender of Fort Sumter, 35, 56 et seq., 59 Pierce, ex-Presiden Washington, 24, 49; views on the relief of Fort Sumter, 51; orders the reinforcement of Harper's Feq. Seward, Secretary, opposes relieving Fort Sumter, 51; his idea of the conspiracy, 52; his red Vice-President of the Confederacy, 42 Sumter, Fort, 21 et seq.; expedition for the relief of, [2 more...]