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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., chapter 34 (search)
narrated. It did not distinctly avow that the Government had ever purposed the evacuation of Fort Sumter, but set forth the material facts as follows: On the 5th of March (the present incumbent's first full day in office), a letter of Major Anderson, commanding at Fort Sumter, written on tile 28th of February, and received at the War Department on the 4th of March, was, by that Department, e mere matter of getting the garrison safely out of the fort. Thus baffled with regard to Fort Sumter, the Administration had resolved to reenforce and provision Fort Pickens, Fla., simply as an and the troops. The news of this failure reached Washington just one week before the fall of Sumter; and thereupon the President proceeded at once to notify Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina, that he should provision Fort Sumter. Whereupon, the fort was attacked and bombarded to its fall, without even awaiting. the arrival of the provisioning expedition. The President sets forth the course
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., chapter 36 (search)
hile the Minnesota, then blockading the harbor of Charleston, was looking after a suspicious vessel that was oer of her deck, slipped out from under the lee of Fort Sumter, by the north channel, taking first a northward c transferred to the Perry, and returned in her to Charleston bar; whence they were dispatched, on the 7th, as cers in the infancy of Secession. Running out of Charleston on a cruise, the Petrel soon encountered the St. the fall Map of Fort Pickens, Pensacola, etc. of Sumter, and its defense confided to Col. Harvey Brown. A heir service. So the Nashville, which ran out of Charleston during the Summer, and, in due time, appeared in this blow been followed up as it might have been, Charleston, or Savannah, or both, could have been easily and were sunk in the main ship channel leading up to Charleston between Morris and Sullivan's islands — as othersops which they were unable to remove, and fled to Charleston and the interior. Not a slaveholder on all that
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., Xxxvii. Kentucky. (search)
awes finally declared Governor. we have seen P. 492-7. that Kentucky emphatically, persistently, repeatedly, by overwhelming popular majorities, refused — alike before and after the formal inauguration of war by the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter--to ally herself with the Rebellion, or to stand committed to any scheme looking to Disunion in whatever contingency. Her Democratic Governor and Legislature of 1860-61, with most of her leading Democratic, and many of her Whig, politicians, repudiation of their constitutional duties, but as a chimerical futility, and as a betrayal of the slaveholding Border States into the power of the Black Republicans. Kentucky, as we have shown, P. 496. nine weeks after the reduction of Fort Sumter, gave an aggregate of 92,365 votes for Union to 36,995 for Secession candidates, in choosing, at a special election, her representatives in the XXXVIIth Congress, while, as yet, no Federal soldier stood armed on her soil, and while her Legisla
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., Additional Notes. (search)
his assurances to or through Judge Campbell, respecting Fort Sumter, says: If the Secretary of State were at liberty to in those conversations, at one period, he intimated that Fort Sumter would be evacuated. He certainly believed so; founding e statement on pages 449-50, that the original attack on Fort Sumter was impelled by a stringent, imperative political necessy were evidently discussing the propriety of firing upon Fort Sumter. Two or three of them withdrew to a corner of the room; lso a citizen of Huntsville, who made, the evening after Fort Sumter's surrender, a public proclamation that the Rebels wouldsell, The Times's correspondent, who was in the South when Sumter was reduced, records in his Diary, under the date of April 20th, 1861, just after dining at Charleston with W. H. Trescott, W. Porcher Miles, Gov. Manning, and other pioneers of Disu deed was a new one, elected just after the reduction of Fort Sumter, and under the popular conviction that Mr. Lincoln was w
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., Analytical Index. (search)
obert, evacuates Fort Moultrie and occupies Fort Sumter, 407-8; The Charleston Courier accuses him nt of the Seceders' Convention, 318; sent to Charleston by Buchanan, 409. Cuyler, Theodore, speecf Del., 45. Dickinson, Daniel S., 191; at Charleston, 317. Dickinson, Mr., of Miss., Corn. tohe evacuation of, 436; Col. Lamon's visit to Charleston, 442; commencement of the bombardment, 443-4e fight at, 285. lay, Col. C. W., goes to Charleston, 442. Leavenworth, Kansas, outrages at, 2 Chicago, 321. McCurdy, Edward, speech at Charleston, 408. McCulloch, Gen. Ben., 413; 575; defgo, 358-9: on proceedings at Charleston, after Sumter's fall, 449 ; on the President's call for troot a battle, 593. Pryor; Roger A., visits Fort Sumter, 448. Pugh, Geo. E., of Ohio, at CharlesCharleston, 322. Punta Arenas, surrender of Walker at, 276. Q. Quakers, the, assist Lundy in Northre, 442. Scott, Gen. Winfield, ordered to Charleston by Jackson, 94; nominated for President, 223[30 more...]
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