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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23: return to his profession.—1840-41.—Age, 29-30. (search)
the attention of our Government for some time. It is proposed to establish a national bank at New York, with a capital of fifty millions of dollars. This subject will probably be commended to Congress at the approaching extra session on the 31st of May. With regard to foreign affairs, I trust that nothing will occur to require any action of our Congress. You know that, under our Constitution, the House of Representatives alone has the power of declaring war. We are all for peace. Even Pickens, when the time to vote cones, will hesitate, I think. His Report was mere brutum fulmenhere. Nobody regarded it; few read it, till its horrid echo reached us from England, resounding across the Atlantic. It is an absurd, illiterate, and mischievous production, by which sensible people have been disgusted, as much in America as in England. Do not be anxious about McLeod. He will not come to harm. I have reason to know that our Government are disposed to do all that you and the law of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
Harper's Mon., vol. 31, p. 358. — In 1863. Gen. Truman Seymour. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 9, p. 466. Charleston harbor. 1861. Jan. 9. Steamer Star of the West fired upon; early despatches, with correspondence of Maj. Anderson and Gen. Pickens. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 11, 1861, p. 4, col. 6. — 1861. April 3. Boston vessel, the R. H. Shannon, with a cargo of ice, is suspected of having come to reinforce Fort Sumter, and is fired upon. Boston Evening Journal, April 9, 1861, Stanton, F. P. Defence and evacuation of Winchester, Va., June 15, 1863. Continental, vol. 4, p. 481. Star of the West, Steamer, fired upon in Charleston harbor, Jan. 9, 1861; early despatches, with correspondence of Maj. Anderson and Gov. Pickens. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 11, 1861, p. 4, col. 6. Stars and Stripes, U. S. steamer, expedition from, destroys rebel government fishery, etc., on Marsh Island, Fla. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 2, p. 221. State of Georgia, U. S. gunboa
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
e channel to prevent the escape of ships from the navy yard. There were at the navy yard at that time 4 ships of the line, 3 frigates, 2 sloops of war, 1 brig and the steam frigate Merrimac, and some 780 marines and other armed men. On the 18th of April, Governor Letcher called out the militia of Norfolk and vicinity, and dispatched Maj.-Gen. William B. Taliaferro to take command of the same and endeavor, by a rapid movement, to secure the navy yard. After having done this he asked Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, to immediately send 2,000 troops to Norfolk to aid the Virginia militia. Pickens at first declined, as it might appear intrusive, and besides, we stand at present on the defensive. He said he would ask President Davis for advice. The latter wired Letcher for information as to his object in asking for troops. He replied that it was to secure the Gosport navy yard, where the Merrimac, the Cumberland, the Pennsylvania, and perhaps other vessels were at that time; th
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 10: (search)
the 13th January the truce letter from Governor Pickens not delivered to the President until the h Fort Sumter, was fired upon by order of Governor Pickens. She then immediately changed her course explained and disavowed, now proposed to Governor Pickens to refer the question of surrender to Wase annulled this truce after due notice to Governor Pickens. This, however, would have cast a serioucting the demand, as he understood it, of Governor Pickens for the surrender of Fort Sumter, instead1, as a bearer of despatches. Still, had Governor Pickens attacked the fort, this would have been tsend to South Carolina for authority from Governor Pickens to become a party thereto. Colonel Hayneransmitted to the President the letter of Governor Pickens demanding the surrender of the fort, withmmunication addressed to the President by Governor Pickens, under date of the 12th January, and whic15th January, both he and they had warned Governor Pickens that an attack upon the fort would be the[8 more...]
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
the anxious attention of the American people was then fixed. It was not known until some days after the termination of the truce, on the 6th February, that Governor Pickens had determined to respect the appeal from the General Assembly of Virginia, and refrain from attacking the fort during the session of the Peace Convention. ries Toucey and Holt to the commanders of the Macedonian and Rrooklyn and other naval officers in command, and to Lieutenant A. J. Slemmer, 1st artillery, commanding Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida. The following is a copy: In consequence of the assurances received from Mr. Mallory in a telegram of yesterday to Messrs. Slidell, Ha and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Holt and Toucey to instruct, in a joint note, the commanders of the war vessels off Pensacola, and Lieutenant Slemmer, commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no act of hostility, and not to land Captain Vogdes' company unless the fort should be attacked. He washes his hands of all knowledge of the t
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
s from Barrancas. A mile and a half east of McRee and a little further south of Barrancas, on the western extremity of the sandy island of Santa Rosa, which thence stretches forty miles eastward, stood Fort Pickens, which, aside from Fortress Monroe and Key West, was the only fortified post held by the United States within Confederate territory. On the mainland between the navy yard and McRee, a number of batteries were placed, and preparations were on way for an attack which should bring Pickens also under the Southern flag. Between the hostile guns lay the bay of Pensacola, and on the river seven miles northward lay that city, well out of the range of fire. The Federal garrison was reinforced by several companies, and Col. Harvey Brown was put in command. Supply ships could approach without incurring the fire of the Confederate batteries, and warships were sent to blockade the port and assist in the defense of the fort. There were no offensive operations throughout the summer.
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: the Port Royal expedition. (search)
Bar, some thirty miles distant. No sooner had she been sighted from Fort Sumter, than a signal gun was fired, and repeated farther in, probably to announce the arrival of the fleet of which this vessel was the avant courier. Immediately after the capture of Port Royal it was well known that the Confederates had been correctly informed as to the destination, although it was only determined a few days before, and was supposed to be a profound secret. Richmond, November 1, 1861. Governor Pickens, Columbia, S. C.: I have just received information which I consider entirely reliable, that the enemy's expedition is intended for Port Royal. J. P. Benjamin, Acting Secretary of War. [Same telegram sent to Generals Drayton and Ripley.]—Vol. VI., p. 306, Offcial Records of the War of the Rebellion. Flag-Officer Dupont, in writing to the Secretary of the Navy, on the 6th of November, the day preceding the battle, says: Upon taking into consideration the magnitude to which the j
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
Commander, 149 Penguin, the, U. S. gunboat, 19, 21, 33, 41, 49 et seq., 59 Pennsylvania, regiments of: Forty-seventh, 70; Fifty-fifth, 63; Ninety-seventh, 46, 50; One Hundred and Seventy-sixth, 79 Pensacola Navy Yard, 6, 69 Pensacola, the, U. S. steamer, 7 Penton, Mr., Pilot of the Catskill, 131 Pequot, the, 218, 228 Petrel, the, British war-steamer, 78 et seq. Pettigrew, General, 197 Phenix, Lieutenant, 72 Philadelphia, the, U. S. steamer, 176 et seq. Pickens, Governor, 16 (note) Picket, the, 179 Pickering, of the Housatonic, 147 Pioneer, the, 179 Plans of naval attacks : opposite page 232; of Fort Fisher, opposite page 241 Planter, the U. S. vessel, 65, 72 Platt, Master, 91 Pochahontas, the, U. S. steamer, 7, 18, 26, 35, 49, 56, 58 et seq. Pontiac, the, 151 et seq. Pontoosuc, the, 228, 242 Porter, Lieutenant, 237 Porter, Rear-Admiral D. D., relieves Admiral Lee, 216 et seq.; report of, 223 et seq., 227; report of
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
the night of the 12th a deputation went to the fort, consisting of Captain Randolph, Major Marks and Lieutenant Rutledge, and demanded the peaceable surrender of Pickens to the governors of Alabama and Florida, but Slemmer declined to recognize the authority of those officials. On the next night a small party of armed men from thh Col. W. H. Chase, who as an officer of the United States army had built the forts and was thoroughly familiar with all the defenses about Pensacola bay, visited Pickens in company with Capt. Ebenezer Farrand, who had been second in command at the navy yard, and renewed the request for surrender, but this and a third demand a few nd well directed. The loss of life was small and the result indecisive, except as it indicated that the batteries which had been erected along the coast fronting Pickens could not be expected to do much more against her than maintain the defensive. General Bragg reported that the enemy opened fire about 9:30 a. m. from Fort Pic
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 50 (search)
) who had remained with the wounded. The prisoner of the most importance taken from the enemy, and the first prisoner of war I had ever seen, was one Major Vodges. On returning from the Island, and while the machinery of one of our tow-boats was out of order, several of our men were wounded by small arms fired from the enemy on the Island, among them, General Anderson, who was shot in the arm. The bombardment of the 22d and 23d of November, 1861, was commenced by Colonel Brown, commanding Fort Pickens, and in about one-half hour afterwards, responded to by our entire line of fortifications. The enemy's land fortifications were aided by the two large men-of-war, the Richmond and Niagara, commanded by flag-officer McKean. 'Twas said by the enemy that the damage done to Fort Pickens was slight, whilst they with their hot shot and shell set fire to several houses at the Navy Yard, silenced several of our land batteries, and came near demolishing Fort McRea. Be the enemy's damage s
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