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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Preface. (search)
obliterate recollections of virtue in each other's foes, and direct all the agencies of power to color the causes and events of the war to harmonize with the prejudices which ruled North and South. It was to correct as far as possible the pages of the future history of the war of the late rebellion, that the contributions herein given were solicited, and they have all been written with the view of attaining that purpose. Already many of the leading actors of the war have passed away. Lincoln fell by the assassin's hand just when he had achieved the final victory for the Union, lamented by those who were then his foes as keenly as by the loyal men who so bravely sustained him; and of his original cabinet but two members survive. Stanton, the great War Minister, has gone to his final account; Mead and Lee, who met the shock of decisive battle at Gettysburg, now sleep in the City of the silent; and hundreds of others, who were conspicuous in civil councils and on the sanguinary f
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First iron-clad Monitor. (search)
The First iron-clad Monitor. Hon. Gideon Welles. The Navy of the United States, at the commencement of Mr. Lincoln's administration, was feeble, and in no condition for belligerent operations. Most of the vessels in commission were on foreign service; only three or four, and they of an inferior class, were available for actithe limit of twenty-five days for receiving proposals for iron-clads expired, I went to Hartford, which place I had not revisited after leaving, in February, on Mr. Lincoln's invitation to become a member of his Cabinet. While at Hartford, Mr. Cornelius S. Bushnell laid before me a model, invented by John Ericsson, for a turreted pt to come up the river, the boats which he had procured and loaded might be found to answer a useful purpose in protecting Washington. Your emergency, said Mr. Lincoln, reminds me of a circumstance which took place in Illinois. We had on our circuit a respectable lawyer named B— , noted for a remarkable development of his bre
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Union view of the Exchange of prisoners. (search)
ore reprehensible, if possible, than that of General White. General Goff, at the time of his capture, was Major of the Fourth West Virginia Cavalry. He was confined in Libby prison with other Federal officers for a short time, when it was concluded to place him in close confinement, as a hostage for a Confederate Major, by the name of Armsey, who had been condemned to be executed by hanging, but whose sentence had been commuted to fifteen years solitary confinement in Fort Delaware by President Lincoln. This Armsey, at the beginning of the war, was a citizen of Harrison county, West Virginia. At the beginning of the war he took part with the rebellion, and was commissioned major. Some time in the spring of 1863, Armsey returned to his home, which was then in the Federal lines, and commenced recruiting clandestinely for the Confederate service, and while engaged in this work was captured, and condemned to death by hanging. When the finding of the court-martial was presented to th
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Morale of General Lee's army. (search)
what was afterward the famous Army of Northern Virginia, with which our peerless Lee won his series of splendid victories. It was common for the Northern press to represent that secession leaders betrayed the people of the South, and led them unawares and unwilling into the rebellion, and many of the so-called histories still insist that the Union men of the South were forced against their will into the revolt. Never were a people more misrepresented. The simple truth is, that after Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation, calling for troops to coerce sovereign States, there ceased to be any Union party in the South, and the people of every class and every section prepared for resistance to the bitter end, and forced their leaders to join the secession movement. A public sentiment was at once formed, which not only impelled our best men to enter the army, but branded, as a skulker, the able-bodied young man who failed to do so. This spirit affected the character of all of the armie
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Mr. Lincoln and the force bill. (search)
provisions, and that he had never spoken to Mr. Lincoln on the subject. Whereupon I remarked, Iperhaps, I added, as I turned to leave him, Mr. Lincoln may not be so inflexible as you are in this Berkeley, Virginia, Colonel Ward H. Lamon, Mr. Lincoln's law partner and compagnon de voyage from wishes, kindly undertook to ascertain if Mr. Lincoln, whom he had just left alone, would see me. Hy to the cause of the Union. Consequently, Mr. Lincoln, said I, I have ventured to come to you to t by bayonets-Federal bayonets, especially, Mr. Lincoln. Then your idea is, said he, that Federater a silence of some seconds, during which Mr. Lincoln seemed to be absorbed in thought, he preseneady made upon me by the interview, that M3r. Lincoln was a kind-hearted man; that he was, at that thereupon, a leading Republican member from Mr. Lincoln's own State (Mr. Washburne, our distinguishe following Monday, without having given to Mr. Lincoln the power asked for — to call out the milit[7 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First attack on Fort Fisher (search)
il before the 13th of December. At this juncture I arrived at Hampton, accompanied by two Philadelphia friends (Ferdinand J. Dreer and Edward Greble), on my way to the headquarters of the army at City Point. While breakfasting at a restaurant I beard a person say,. The general is here. What general? I inquired. General Butler, he answered. He is at Fort Monroe. I had a private letter of introduction to General Butler, and letters from the Secretaries of War and Navy, and from President Lincoln, requesting officers of the United States service, who should read them, to give me every facility consistent with the rules of the service for obtaining historical materials. We went to the fort; I sent in my credentials to General Butler, and we were invited to his quarters, where we were introduced to his wife and daughter. Turning to me the General asked, Did you ever see a naval fight? I replied in the negative. If you will go with me, he said, I will show you one of the great
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First shot against the flag. (search)
ues still unsettled, and the country steadily drifting to war. Up to the last moment the Confederate authorities had hoped that Sumter would be voluntarily evacuated, and they had at one time reason for the belief. An accredited agent from President Lincoln had visited the fort for the purpose of arranging for the removal of the garrison. An intermediary between the Secretary of State and the Confederate authorities, Associate Justice John A. Campbell, of the Supreme Court of the United State. In the meantime, however, other agencies were at work, of which he was probably ignorant, and which largely contributed to an immediate precipitation of hostilities. Soon after the occupancy of Fort Sumter, and up to the earlier days of President Lincoln's administration, Major Anderson had reported to his government that he was not in need of reinforcements, that he was secure in his position, that he could not be relieved without a struggle, and, in a later report, that in his opinion twe
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Recollections of General Reynolds. (search)
neral Reynolds in his tent at corps headquarters. Our duty was to report to him for orders and instructions, and on these occasions the interviews were brief and the words few. He impressed us as being mild and gentlemanly in manner, and an officer of not a very numerous class of old army officers who knew how to treat volunteers in such a way as to secure their respect and confidence. The next we saw of Reynolds was at the great review of his corps in April, 1863, at Belle Plain, by President Lincoln. This was his last review, and but a short time before the battle of Chancellorsville. In this movement, for the first three days, his corps was making demonstrations against Fredericksburg. Here we saw the general cross the Rappahannock, on the pontoon bridge, in gallant style, under a heavy fire of shell. Three days after this he visited our division, then on the right of the army at Chancellorsville, his corps having arrived upon this battle-ground the evening before, in time t
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Union men of Maryland. (search)
r. He was grieved that the President-elect, Mr. Lincoln, should have deemed it prudent to pass throast, if not in the State of Maryland. President-elect Lincoln had intended, after his reception by journal, of that time, says: The friends of Mr. Lincoln do not question the loyalty and hospitalityisapprobation, would certainly have secured Mr. Lincoln from any insult, had such been intended. Ts, and loudly applauded the condemnation of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation for troops. Governor Hicks,d stand of arms. You shall have them, said Mr. Lincoln; and then, with that well-known, but indescn the State the same Fabian tactics that President Lincoln so successfully carried out in his manand the little more than two thousand cast for Lincoln be counted, was in an actual minority. A larrominent man in Maryland that had supported Mr. Lincoln in 1860, by his non-partisan course after hangements for resistance accordingly, would Mr. Lincoln have been inaugurated and installed in powe[2 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Lee and Grant in the Wilderness. (search)
M. Wilcox. Of the many officers of distinction in the Union army, to independent and separate commands were intrusted, in the popular opinion of the North, General Grant was regarded as the most successful, and in abilities the ablest; and for services rendered rewarded, both by Congress and the President, in a manner leaving no doubt as to the high appreciation in which they were held. He was promoted to the grade of lieutenant general, and assigned, on the 10th of March, 1864, by President Lincoln, to the command of the armies of the United States. This order placed, subject to his will, more armed men than any general of modern times ever commanded. The object to be accomplished by this law of Congress, and order of the President, concentrating the whole military power of the North in one officer, was the speedy overthrow of the Southern Confederacy, and the subjugation of its people. To effect this, Richmond must be taken; but preliminary to this, the Army of Northern Virgi
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