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Memphis (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
uate of the Military Academy at West Point, and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Louisiana. Early in July, Polk accepted the commission of major-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, and was appointed to the command of a department, which extended from the mouth of the Arkansas River, on each side of the Mississippi as far as the northern boundary of the Benjamin F. Cheatham. Confederacy. He made his Headquarters at Memphis, in Tennessee; and, in his first general order, issued on the 13th of July, he showed great bitterness of feeling. He declared that the invasion of the South by the Federal armies comes bringing with it a contempt for constitutional liberty, and the withering influence of the infidelity of New England and Germany combined. General Lyon's first movement against Jackson and Price was to send June 12, 1861. the Second Missouri Regiment of Volunteers, under Colonel (afterward General) Franz Sigel
St. Joseph, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
te Convention was called to reassemble at Jefferson City on the 22d of July. General Lyon remained at Booneville about a fortnight, making preparations for a vigorous campaign against gathering insurgents in the southwestern part of the State. He now held military control over the whole region northward of the Missouri River, and east of a line running south from Booneville to the Arkansas border, thus giving to the Government the control of the important points of St. Louis, Hannibal, St. Joseph, and Bird's Point, as bases of operations, with railways and rivers for transportation. On the 1st of July there were at least ten thousand loyal troops in Missouri, and ten thousand more might be thrown into it, in the space of forty-eight hours, from camps in the adjoining State of Illinois. And, at the same time, Colonel Sigel, already mentioned, an energetic and accomplished German liberal, who had commanded the republican troops of his native state (the Grand Duchy of Baden) in the
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
sharp conflict for the control of the State, early in May. The first substantial victory of the former had been won at St. Louis, in the loyal action of the State Convention, See page 461. and in the seizure of Camp Jackson ; See page 468. an Volunteers, under Colonel (afterward General) Franz Sigel, to occupy and protect from injury the Pacific Railway, from St. Louis to the Gasconade River, preparatory to an advance toward the southern portion of the State, by way of Rolla, to oppose dred men, and was marching, with rapidly increasing numbers, on Springfield. On the following day, June 13. Lyon left St. Louis in two river steamers (Iatan and J. C. Swan), with about two thousand men well supplied for a long march, their immedianing south from Booneville to the Arkansas border, thus giving to the Government the control of the important points of St. Louis, Hannibal, St. Joseph, and Bird's Point, as bases of operations, with railways and rivers for transportation. On the 1
Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
th. But he was there none too early, and cast up his fortifications none too soon, for General Pillow, who was collecting a large force in Western Tennessee for the capture of Cairo, made Bird's Point the most important objective in his plan. Pillow worked diligently for the accomplishment of his purpose, efficiently aided by B. F. Cheatham, a more accomplished soldier of Tennessee, who served with distinction under General Patterson in the war in Mexico. He was among the first of his class in Tennessee to join the insurgents, and was now holding the commission of a brigadier-general in the service of the conspirators. Pillow was superseded in command by Leonidas Polk, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point, and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Louisiana. Early in July, Polk accepted the commission of major-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, and was appointed to the command of a department, which extended fr
Iatan (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
e Texas Ranger, See page 267. who had crossed the border from Arkansas with about eight hundred men, and was marching, with rapidly increasing numbers, on Springfield. On the following day, June 13. Lyon left St. Louis in two river steamers (Iatan and J. C. Swan), with about two thousand men well supplied for a long march, their immediate destination being the capital of the Commonwealth, on the Missouri River, and their first business to drive Jackson and Price, with their Leonidas Polkefferson City. Lyon followed them the next day, June 16. leaving Colonel Boernstein, with three companies of his regiment, to hold the capital. Contrary to the expectation of the insurgents, Lyon went by water, in three steamers (A. McDonnell, Iatan, and City of Louisiana), and the destruction of bridges availed the insurgents nothing. At Rocheport, at dawn on the 17th, Lyon ascertained that the insurgents were encamped a few miles below Booneville. Pressing into his service a ferry-boat
Swan Point (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
ispelled when, in the summer of 1863, Lee invaded Maryland, with the expectation of receiving large accessions to his army in that State, but lost by desertion far more than he gained by recruiting. At about this time, a piratical expedition was undertaken on Chesapeake Bay, and successfully carried out by some Marylanders. On the day after the arrest of Kane, June 28, 1861. the steamer St. Nicholas, Captain Kirwan, that plied between Baltimore and Point Lookout, at the mouth of the Potomac River, left the former place with forty or fifty passengers, including about twenty men who passed for mechanics. There were also a few women, and among them was one who professed to be a French lady. When the steamer was near Point Lookout, the next morning, this French lady, suddenly transformed to a stout young man, in the person of a son of a citizen of St. Mary's County, Maryland, named Thomas, and surrounded by the band of pretended mechanics, all well armed, demanded of Captain Kirwan
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Pir valley of the Mississippi, and especially in Missouri, where, as we have observed, the loyalists and, by the violence of immediate war, to sever Missouri from the Union. As we have observed, Seto the service of the disloyal politicians of Missouri a host of men to repel the visible authority rtant post at Cairo, by sending a regiment of Missouri volunteers, under Colonel Shuttner, to occupyers, out of it. These troops were composed of Missouri volunteers, under Colonels Blair and Boernstenon County, on the extreme western borders of Missouri, where he was joined by General Price, July when they were struggling with invaders from Missouri, called Border Ruffians, of whom the now fugiendeavored to concentrate all of the disloyal Missouri troops, with McCullough's men, in the southweat Booneville July 18. to the inhabitants of Missouri, plainly stating the intentions of the Govern[5 more...]
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
gs of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. Treasonable work in Misdisloyalty in Maryland, 551. martial Law in Baltimore arrest of Marshal Kane the Police Commissi Massachusetts soldiers by his associates in Baltimore, and on the body of Colonel Ellsworth by onewith secession was chosen. In the city of Baltimore was the head of the secession movements in teers, provost-marshal in and for the city of Baltimore, to superintend and cause to be executed theled to the honor of being a loyal State, and Baltimore a loyal city. The secessionists were silencmmand on the Upper Potomac, and his place in Baltimore was filled by General John A. Dix. A few danited States Navy, who brought the flag from Baltimore, concealed as only a lady knows how, was prener were the following words:--The Ladies of Baltimore present this flag of the Confederate States to our cause; and you are to take it back to Baltimore, unfurl it in your streets, and challenge th[11 more...]
Fort Warren (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
that building was also found the cannon-ball sent from Charleston to Marshal Kane, delineated on page 322. These discoveries, and others of like character in other parts of the city, together with the rebellious conduct of the Board of Police, who continued their sittings daily, refused to acknowledge the new policemen, and held the old force subject to their orders, seemed to warrant the Government in ordering their arrest. They were accordingly taken into custody, and were confined in Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, as prisoners of State. These vigorous measures secured the ascendency of the Unionists in Maryland, which they never afterward Old City Hall, Baltimore. this is a view of the building as it appeared when the writer sketched it, in the autumn of 1864, from Holliday Street, near Saratoga Street. Adjoining it is seen the yard of the German Reformed Church, and in the distance the spire of Christ Church. The City Hall was built of brick, and stuccoed. lost. It wa
Buena Vista (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
tional Capitol, with Congress in session, on page 523. To them we leave it to insult helpless women; to us belongs vengeance upon man. He had ceased speaking, and was about to retire, when a voice in the crowd shouted: Tell us something about Buena Vista, when he turned and said: Well, my friends, I can only say we will make the battle-fields in Virginia another Buena Vista, and drench them with blood more precious than that which flowed there. The Virginians were so insane with passion at Buena Vista, and drench them with blood more precious than that which flowed there. The Virginians were so insane with passion at that time, that instead of rebuking Davis for virtually reiterating the assurance given to the people of the more Southern States, You may plant your seed in peace, for Old Virginia will have to bear the brunt of battle, See note 1, page 344. they rejoiced because upon every hill around their State capital were camps of soldiers from every State in the Confederacy ; and the citizens of that capital purchased from James A. Seddon (afterward Confederate Secretary of War ) his elegant mansion,
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