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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 19 (search)
f Mississippi, one of the ablest and strongest of Mr. Calhoun's disciples, had consented to lead the next expedition against Cuba; but none ever sailed. The Order of the Lone Star proved useful to Gen. Pierce in swelling his vote for President in 1852, and soon after subsided into nothingness. As our Government had long expressed satisfaction with the possession of Cuba by Spain, while proclaiming hostility to its transfer to any other power, Great Britain and France determined to put our sincerity to the test; and, accordingly, in 1852, proposed to unite with us in a treaty mutually guaranteeing that island to Spain. The body of the Convention proposed to us, on the part of Great Britain and France, was in the following words: The high contracting parties hereby severally and collectively disclaim, both now and for hereafter, all intention to obtain possession of the island of Cuba; and they respectively bind themselves to discountenance all attempts to that effect on the p
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., XXXIII. East Virginia—Bull Run. (search)
he one side to the James on the other, were barely able, on the 21st--three weeks after we should have been before Richmond — to beat a third of our regiments that might and should have confronted them. That Gen. Scott, though loyal and Union-loving, was always in favor of buying off the Rebellion by compromises and concessions, and averse to what was most unjustly termed coercion and invasion, is no secret. How eagerly he jumped upon the finality platform when nominated for President, in 1852, and ordered a grand salute of one hundred guns in honor of the passage of Mr. Guthrie's Compromise propositions in the Peace Conference of 1861, are matters of record. That he sought to have Fort Sumter evacuated, a month later, as a military necessity, is well known. Two or three weeks thereafter, on the very morning that the Rebels opened fire on Sumter, The National Intelligencer, of April 12th, contained the following, which was widely understood to have been inspired, if not directly
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)
Dem. Convention of 1844 at, 164; Convention of 1843 at, 191; Conventions at, in 1852, 222-3: Whig Convention of 1856 at, 247; Seceders' and Douglas Conventions at, 3res, 204; heads the State Rights Ticket in Miss., 211; in the Dem. Convention of 1852, 222; 251; letter from Brodhead to, 278; his seven resolves in Congress, 306 to -President, 192; his accession to the Presidency, 208; in the Whig Convention of 1852, 223; nominated for President, 247; his speech at Albany, 248; the vote he recei-Soilers, the, their Convention of 1848, 191; their Platform, 192; Convention of 1852, 223. Free-State Hotel, at Lawrence, destroyed, 244. Frelinghuysen, Theo.,solutions of ‘98, extracts from, 83-84; indorsed by the Democratic Convention of 1852, 222; alluded to by Davis in one of his Messages, 497. Reynolds, Gen., attackumbia, 142; Resolutions of ‘98 and ‘99 indorsed by the Democeratic Convention of 1852, 222; withdrawal of delegates from the (Charleston Convention, 318; the position<
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 15: Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies--casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy. (search)
ities. These exempts — which include, also, all cases of minor defects — constitute, in every country, one-fifth of the military population. The large number of persons who are unfit for military duty is shown in the following figures: Army. Period. Number Examined. Number Rejected. Per Cent. Rejected. United States 1864-65 225,639 Recruits. 50,008 22.1 United States 1864-65 79,968 Substitutes. 21,125 26.4 United States 1863-65 605,045 Conscripts. 155,730 25.7 British 1842-52 171,276 Recruits. 57,381 33.5 French 1831-43 2,097,876 Recruits. 680,560 32.4 But the Confederate recruiting officers did not insist on any high standard of physical requirements. Their need was too pressing; and they accepted all recruits or conscripts except those whose disabilities manifestly incapacitated them for military service. The Confederate States, however, could send to the war a far greater proportion of their military population than the Northern States, as they possesse
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 81. skirmish near Upton's Hill, Ky. October 12, 1861. (search)
very thing he had was at the service of the army. Gen. McCook arrived on Sunday, and took command of this division on yesterday (Monday) morning. He is quite a young man, not more than thirty years of age, as I have been informed. In personal appearance he is the very reverse of Gen. Sherman, late head of this division and now head of the department. He is short of stature, fleshy, with a decidedly genial, good-humored face. He graduated at the national military academy, West Point, in 1852. Last night, about one o'clock, we had another little skirmish. Capt. Vandyke, of the Kentucky cavalry, while out with a scouting party, fell in with a body of rebel horse. Several shots were exchanged, but none were killed or wounded. Just before day this morning a man coming in from the South was shot in endeavoring to pass our pickets. His horse was killed, and the man himself wounded in the hand and wrist. The health of the army continues excellent. Gen. Rousseau, however, has
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
ears and ten months; a daughter, Blanche, born in 1847, and a son, Paul, born in 1852, both still living; and a son, Ben Israel, born in 1854, who departed this life optional with them whether they should or should not work the extra hours. In 1852 I was elected to the legislature. While there I endeavored to remedy a great wrd by the voter anywhere, even in the family circle. The elections of 1851 and 1852, upon the question of a ten-hour law, were carried by means of this ballot againing for a Free-Soiler, control the coming presidential election in the autumn of 1852. They had no doubt of that, because the candidate we all looked for was Judge election. Notwithstanding the defeat of the Coalitionists in the election of 1852, the proposition to have a constitutional convention in Massachusetts, which had in 1851 by a majority of five thousand votes, was renewed by the legislature of 1852, and was carried by a majority of nearly the same number. The majority rule had
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. This act was carried through largely by the influence and eloquence of Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, but it was his political death knell. As we have already seen, he was succeeded in the United States Senate by Charles Sumner, a declared Free-Soiler. The passage of the act caused very great and universal excitement and political agitation. In the presidential election of 1852, when Pierce and Scott were the candidates, both political parties substantially united on a platform in regard to slavery. That platform, like most platforms, was an evasion of the point actually at issue. At the election, Pierce was chosen by the vote of all but five States. Meanwhile a fruitful subject of turmoil, anxiety, and political agitation had formulated itself in the question of the admission of the Territory of Kansas. That agitation first took form in settling that Territor
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
en under my command affected with scurvy. Not one of the doctors of their regiment had reported it to me, and I found out the fact myself only because I inspected my own hospitals and knew what I was looking for. I have mentioned above that in preparing cases I have had to spend days in a machine shop, and I will state a case in which that happened, as an encouragement and an instruction to my young friends of the bar as to how I think a case should be prepared. In November of the year 1852, it will be remembered, General Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was elected President. In the December following, himself, his wife, and only son, a lad about ten years old, got on board the cars at Boston to go to their home at Concord, New Hampshire. When about twenty-four or twenty-five miles from Boston, and between two and three miles from the town of Andover, the train was derailed by the breaking of the forward axle of the tender on the left side. The train happened to be on a slig
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
. Pierce, Henry B., reminds Butler of Fast Day proclamation, 970. Plymouth, N. C., occupied by Union forces, 617; captured, 636. Plymton, N. A., Esq., Butler's efforts in behalf of, 975. Point of Rocks, Butler builds hospital, 847. Point Lookout, condition of rebel prisoners at, 612-613. Pomeroy, M. M., gives publicity to spoon story, 43. Politics, early interest in, 77, 85; principles governing belief, 86; defeated for legislature in 11850, 106; elected to legislature in 1852, 110; delegate to four national conventions, 123; defeated for Congress, 123; elected to State Senate in 1858,123; defeated for governor in 1860, 149. Pope, Alex., 1001. Pope, General, 587; letter to Halleck, 460. Port Hudson, Butler advises Banks regarding, 531-532. Port Walthall Junction railroad destroyed, 645. Portsmouth, Union forces occupy, 617. Porter, Fitz John, reference to, in New York election troubles, 753. Porter, Commodore William and Rani Arkansas, 483.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855. (search)
ty survey extended over it, and the whole was sold in partition. I made some purchases, and acquired an interest, which I have retained more or less ever since. We continued to reside in St. Louis throughout the year 1851, and in the spring of 1852 I had occasion to visit Fort Leavenworth on duty, partly to inspect a lot of cattle which a Mr. Gordon, of Cass County, had contracted to deliver in New Mexico, to enable Colonel Sumner to attempt his scheme of making the soldiers in New Mexico seAt that day the whole region was unsettled, where now exist many rich counties, highly cultivated, embracing several cities of from ten to forty thousand inhabitants. From Fort Leavenworth I returned by steamboat to St. Louis. In the summer of 1852, my family went to Lancaster, Ohio; but I remained at my post. Late in the season, it was rumored that I was to be transferred to New Orleans, and in due time I learned the cause. During a part of the Mexican War, Major Seawell, of the Seventh I
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