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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
ppi: 1,500 from Alabama; and 1,000 from Georgia. The destination of these troops is Pensacola, and the object to take Fort Pickens, if it is not surrendered under the demand of the Government of the Confederate States. A number of the troops from M at the service of the Confederate States, if needed. The following are extracts from the letter of an officer in Fort Pickens to a friend in St. Louis: Fort Pickens, March 18, 1861. We left Old Point on the 24th of January, and came Fort Pickens, March 18, 1861. We left Old Point on the 24th of January, and came on the Brooklyn by Abaco, the "Hole in the Wall," and the Bahamas (my third trip through here;) stopped at Key West for coal, and arrived off Fort Pickens about the 5th of February. On the 8th of February I was ordered into the fort. We haFort Pickens about the 5th of February. On the 8th of February I was ordered into the fort. We have hard work, plenty of guard duty, and plenty of anxiety. The Brooklyn, with our men on board, is anchored off the bar about four miles distant. She is accompanied by the frigate Sabine and sloop-of-war St. Louis. The Government at Washington cons
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Removals, appointments, &c. (search)
that the evacuation of Fort Sumter had then been ordered, was another fraud and deception deliberately concocted for the purpose of influencing the Virginia Convention. The late removal of troops on the Gen. Rusk from Texas to Key West, after a solemn stipulation with the Texas Commissioners that they should be taken to New York, was another deliberate deception, which could scarcely be excused on the presumption of actual war.-- And finally we have the letter of the Secretary of War denying that the guns had been ordered from the Bellona Arsenal, flatly contradicted by the officers of his own Department. With these multiplied evidences of the duplicity and bad faith of the General Government, the South should not repose the slightest confidence in anything the Lincoln Administration, which thinks anything right in war, may say or swear. It is even believed that Fort Pickens has been, or is to be reinforced, in spite of the assurances to the contrary to the Southern Commissioners.