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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bad faith, but was attributable to causes consistent with the intention to fulfill the engagement, and that as regarded Pickens, I should have notice of any design to after the existing status there. Mr. Justice Nelson was present at these conversal copy of the statement I had made on the 15th. The 30th of March arrived, and at that time a telegram came from Gov. Pickens inquiring concerning Col. Lamon, whose visit to Charleston he supposed had a connection with the proposed evacuation oer fully kept — wait and see." In the morning's paper I read: "An authorized messenger from President Lincoln informed Gov. Pickens and General Beauregard that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise, by force." This was the 8tate. Dispatches to L. P. Walker, Secretary of war. An authorized message from President Lincoln just informed Gov. Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. Anderson and Beauregard. Acrobats are sometimes killed at the Alhambra, a man was eaten by a lion at Cooke's circus, but nobody was killed at Charleston! We are surprised that the exhibition did not end with a grand discharge of rockets. Governor Pickens in person setting light to the train, or with the sudden appearance of an illuminated temple with the words "Southern Confederation" blazoned on the pediment in colored lamps. If this capture of Fort Sumter is really to be styled fighting, al dispatches which passed between Gen. Beauregard, Major Anderson and L. P. Walker, the secessionist Secretary of War: [No. 1] To L. P. Walker,Secretary of War:-- An authorized messenger from President Lincoln his just informed Gen. Pickens and myself that several hampers of canvass back ducks, wild turkeys, corn cakes, and materials for brandy smashes and cocktails will be sent to Fort Sumter, peaceably or otherwise. G. F. Beauregard. Charleston, April 8. [No. 2]
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
From Charleston.[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, May 16, 1861. Two vessels came into port this morning, one laden with molasses and sugar. The Niagara is not to be seen off the harbor; where gone, no one knows and nobody cares. On yesterday, several Baptist ministers of your State and city visited Fort Sumter, by special permit of Governor Pickens, who did me the special honor of a call at my private residence. Among them was your townsman, the Rev. James B. Taylor, D. D., "whose praise is in all the Churches," and who still retains much of his former appearance, though now a man advanced in life. Accompanying him was a son, Rev. George B. Taylor, a Baptist minister of no small repute, and a son-in-law, Rev. Mr. Prichard, of Wilmington, N. C. These gentlemen were returning from Savannah, where the denomination had been holding their biennial Convention, and in which convocation they adopted certain resolutions expressive of the feelings of the
The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Statement of the Dahlonega Mint, Ga. (search)
Improved projectile. --Major J. A. Wagener's improved projectile was tested on Tuesday from the Battery, at Charleston, before a large concourse of witnesses and spectators, among whom were Gov. Pickens and many members of his staff. The Courier says the result was a gratifying success.
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ut as three miles, and in all about 12,000 men. The Navy-Yard has no protection, and can easily be destroyed by Fort Pickens. No one of Fort McRea's guns bear on Pickens, as they command the channel, in which the vessels have been sunk. The dry dock that cost $150,000 is loaded with stone and brick-bats, with the intention of taking it down and sinking it in the channel, to prevent the Federal ships from coming in. I think whenever they go to sink the dock the ball will open, for Pickens is certain to fire on it. They have told Gen. Bragg as much, who pays no attention to them. When the steamers Keys and Lewis were fired at, it was just as much as the offn the boats turned back some of the men actually sat down and cried — they were so mad. Sunday some vessels anchored in the fleet, and I could see the soldiers on Pickens — they were as thick as bees. I could see them drilling on the beach, and the horses grazing near the fort. General Bragg has ordered all strangers away, or tha
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Montgomery. Montgomery, May 27th, 1861. Recall to mind the last time you moved your household from one tenement to another, and you can form a tolerably correct idea of the condition of Montgomery this sultry day.--Perspiring clerks and employers are everywhere busy in packing up huge piles of books and papers, and it would not be surprising if some of them should swear just a little before the business of removal is completed; though all appear anxious to hasten to the good old city of Richmond and be nearer the scene of action. The War Department, including the Quartermaster General and Chief of Ordnance Bureaus, will require the greatest amount of labor in removal, but even there everything will be ready for a start in a few days. Several intelligent officers from Pensacola have just arrived, and report that our forces around Pickens are in excellent condition, and confident of their ability to reduce the Fort in a few hours whenever the order is given to open fire.
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A novel Method of taking Pickens. (search)
A novel Method of taking Pickens. --Red Pepper.--A correspondent of the Mobile Register has a novel plan for capturing Fort Pickens. He says: It is well known that there are some chemicals so poisonous that an atmosphere impregnated with them, makes it impossible to remain where they are, as they would destroy life, or interfere so much with respiration, as to make fresh air indispensable. That the whole atmosphere of Fort Pickens can be so impregnated, in a short time, can be shown to be no means chimerical; and only not chimerical, but easily effected. It will not cost so much as to be impracticable, and may cost infinitely less than a regular siege, not only in money, but life.--Every body almost knows that burning red pepper, even in small quantities — a teaspoonful — will clear the largest room of a crowd in a few minutes; that the least snuff of veratria will make one cough himself almost to death, and run great risk of coughing himself into consumption; that
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], What a U. S. Naval officer Thinks of Fort Pickens. (search)
ery and Warrington are connected by the iron railway horse, and reinforcements may be poured in. I mention these matters only to plainly establish one fact, namely; we cannot take a permanent and offensive stand in Florida with 1,500 men. Defend Pickens, hold Rosa Island, batter down McRae and Barrancas, we may, but will the American people be satisfied with this? Let the Cabinet decide whether Federal forces are concentrated here to defend Pickens until it shall be made of little consequence,inforcements may be poured in. I mention these matters only to plainly establish one fact, namely; we cannot take a permanent and offensive stand in Florida with 1,500 men. Defend Pickens, hold Rosa Island, batter down McRae and Barrancas, we may, but will the American people be satisfied with this? Let the Cabinet decide whether Federal forces are concentrated here to defend Pickens until it shall be made of little consequence, or to take the Navy Yard and make the Fort impregnable in time.
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice. (search)
Pensacola. --The editor of the Mobile Register, who has visited this important point, says that it is impregnable against Major Brown and the fleet, and that it will not take very long to render the abandonment of Fort Pickens a matter of military necessity — Its adds: Yet there is a difference among military men and civilians, too, as to the policy of an attack upon Pickens, even with the certainty of its reduction. The reason for the attack is that the United States flag insults, while it files over a soil declared to be independent of the Government it emblems, and that honor demands it should be expelted at every cost. This is true, but it is also true that it is no more insulting to-day than it was two weeks or two months ago, and if we have put up with that insult for several months because we could not help it, may we not do so for a time longer if it is a manifest advantage to the cause and our ultimate triumph!--Those against the attack urge that the presence of
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mine of opals. (search)
s writes, June 14, as follows: Last evening, about 8 o'clock, a man was picked up on the beach near Barrancas, perfectly naked, who gave an account of himself thus: He, as usual, went in to bathe near Fort Pickens, and venturing too far, was forced by the current and winds into the sheet of deep water that separates the two forts, and driven against his will to our shore. This is all he acknowledges of himself, and is probably correct. He refuses to give any information in regard to Pickens, its defences, the number of troops, or anything else connected with the Island or its peoples. He is in durance, and will be kept so. He says he is a Massachusetts man, and his cause is just. He looks like a fellow that has been hard worked. The flags of the squadron, as well as that in Fort Pickens, have been at half-mast all day. At noon a salute was fired from Fort Pickens. The cause we know not. It created some excitement among the troops stationed at Pensacola. Within the
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