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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. 24 0 Browse Search
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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 II. 16 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
on, travelling alone at an unusual hour, so that his passage through Baltimore was not expected or known. As the South was not yet ready to march on Washington, and as Mr. Lincoln's inaugural address purposely under the advice of Seward left it wholly uncertain whether he would attempt to retake Forts Pickens and Moultrie, it became a very important question who should strike the first blow, and when and where it should be struck. It was thought best to wait for the South to strike it at Sumter, where some three thousand armed men had been assembled, and batteries erected with which to defend Charleston and attack Sumter. This state of things so far satisfied our legislature that war was neither near nor probable, that on the 10th day of April it repealed unanimously, so far as any roll call shows, the emergency appropriation, leaving only money enough to pay for the expenditures already incurred. How well I remember the tone of the articles in the newspapers at this time, wh
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
st any such inference. After the 22d of April, Washington was never in any danger of being captured for the next Montgomery, Ala., showing State Capitol in 1861. from sketch made in 1861. two years, until Lee crossed the Potomac. Why it was not captured within ten days after Fort Sumter was fired upon has always since been a subject of careful consideration on my part, and a thing which I have been entirely unable to understand. Davis must have known, and did know, that the firing on Sumter was as pronounced an act of war as was the battle of Gettysburg. Indeed, the Confederate Congress at Montgomery passed an act declaring war against the United States, and giving the power to its president to issue letters of marque, within two days after the 14th of April. On the 17th of April, Davis issued such proclamation. True, this act of the Confederate Congress was kept secret until the 6th day of May, for it was passed in secret session and the seal of secrecy was not removed till
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
— for their names had not yet been made public,--whose appointments I had secured from the governors of the other States, and told him that the other governors had made no objection. Governor Andrew was very much astonished. And Governor, I added, I want you to recommend the Hon. Caleb Cushing, who was president of the Charleston convention, as a brigadier-general to go with me into war. He is a friend of Jeff Davis, was the reply. Yes, I said, and immediately after the firing upon Sumter he put himself in his speech at Newburyport wholly on the side of the Union. Well, said the governor, I certainly shall not do that. Oh, well, I said, I know he some time ago called you a one-idea'd abolitionist, and that was true, although it was not a pleasant thing to say. But certainly his ability and his position in the country would seem to entitle him to the place if he would take it, and I think he will. But I will not appoint French, and I will not appoint any other officer
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, chapter 24 (search)
Ferry, which the rebels had captured and were occupying for that purpose. From thence I made a descent upon Baltimore and established it a Union city, which it always remained. These movements prevented the secession of Maryland, and held her loyal during the war. At Fort Monroe I first declared the legal principles by which, under military law, slaves could be set free, and thereby made the President's proclamation of emancipation possible. Within forty-five days after the fall of Sumter, without orders from anybody having a technical military education, of my own motion, I seized and strongly fortified the important strategic point of Newport News, at the mouth of the James River, which was held during the war, thus keeping open a water-way for the transportation of troops and supplies to the intrenchments around Richmond, and by which the Army of the Potomac under McClellan escaped from Harrison's Landing. In co-operation with the navy I captured Fort Hatteras and Fort