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Manassas, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
, with heavy pickets and picket-gate crossing the railway which there passes over the Long Bridge, and connects Washington City with Alexandria. Other fortifications, as we have observed, extended along the line of Arlington Hights, and guarded every approach to positions which commanded the National Capital and Georgetown. The main Confederate army, under the command of Beauregard, supposed to have been a little less than McDowell's in number (forty-five thousand), was at and near Manassas Junction, then considered one of the strongest military positions for offense or defense between Washington Remains of Fort Jackson, at the long Bridge. this is from a sketch made by the author at the close of April, 1865, and shows the embankments of Fort Jackson on the right, and the remains of the pickets, with the railway, in the foreground. On the left is a public house of entertainment, and just beyond it is seen a portion of the long Bridge. The Capitol is seen in the distance. a
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
ich the politicians had adopted ordinances of secession, were not represented. These were Virginia (the eastern portion, controlled by the conspirators at Richmond), North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Four Slave-labor States, namely, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, were represented. Tennessee had not then held its elections for members of Congress. When they were held, five weeks later, only three districts in East Twere named, James M. Mason and Robert T. M. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chesnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. 0. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; William K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. because of their being engaged in a conspiracy for the destruction of the Union and the Government. The resolution for expulsion received the required vote of two-thirds of the Senate (thirty-t
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
of dollars, was passed. Already a resolution had been adopted in the same House, July 9, 1861. that it was no part of the duty of the soldiers of the United States to capture and return fugitive slaves. This was proposed by Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, and was passed by a vote of ninety-two against fifty-five. The Senate took measures at an early day to purge itself of treasonable members. On the 10th, July. on motion of Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, it expelled ten Senators who were nampirators, as unconstitutional. These were tabled, and a bill, introduced by Hickman, of Pennsylvania, for defining and punishing conspiracies against the United States, was passed, with only seven dissenting voices. On motion of McClernand, of Illinois (opposition), the House pledged itself July 15. to vote for any amount of money, and any number of men, which might be necessary for the speedy suppression of the rebellion. This was passed with only five dissenting voices. Burnett and Grid
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 24
n's Ambulance system the Union Army near Washington City, 579. position of the Union forces, 581.enth Congress assembled in the Capitol at Washington City, in extraordinary session, in compliance ntly, the Peace Convention (see page 235) at Washington, planned by the Virginia conspirators. Suchge 800), who were sent by Jefferson Davis to Washington to say that they were intrusted with power, spatches of most of the foreign ministers at Washington to their respective governments, early in Feure — which a just pride ought to discard. --Washington's Farewell Address. but to stand up manfullyter to say to the imperial representative at Washington, In every event, the American Nation may coutending from Alexandria, nine miles below Washington City, almost to the Chain Bridge, about six mis spanning the Potomac in the vicinity of Washington City, which were well guarded. The Upper, or re passes over the Long Bridge, and connects Washington City with Alexandria. Other fortifications,[4 more...]
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
Marine Artillery-man at Manassas. which the insurgents seized at the Gosport Navy Yard, and manned by seamen, commanded by officers of the National Navy who had abandoned their flag. Beauregard's force was mostly composed of Virginians, South Carolinians, Alabamians, Mississippians, and Louisianians. Another Confederate army, about as strong in numbers as Beauregard's actually was, was in the Shenandoah Valley, under General Johnston, his superior in rank, whose Headquarters were at Winchester, around which he had caused to be cast up heavy intrenchments, under the directions of Major W. H. C. Whiting, his Chief of Engineers. Johnston was charged with the duty, as we have observed, of checking the advance of Patterson, and preventing the junction of the troops under that officer with those under McClellan among the Alleghany ranges. Among the most active of his infantry force was a corps of Tennessee riflemen or sharpshooters. These had been raised in West Tennessee, where th
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
n, were not represented. These were Virginia (the eastern portion, controlled by the conspirators at Richmond), North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Four Slave-labor States, namely, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, were represented. Tennessee had not then held its elections for members of Congress. When they were held, five weeks later, only three districts in East Tennessee chose representatives. One of these, Thomas o the Constitution, no obligation to maintain the Union. Although the President made no allusion to Slavery, as the inciting cause of the rebellion, he stated the significant fact, that None of the States, commonly called Slave States, except Delaware, gave a regiment, through regular State organizations, for the support of the Government. A few regiments, he said, have been organized within some others of those States, by Individual enterprise, and received into the Government service. He
East India (search for this): chapter 24
on the 15th of April, electrified the women of the land; and individuals and small groups might be seen every day, in thousands and tens of thousands of house-holds — women and children — with busy fingers preparing lint and bandages for wounds, and hospital garments for the sick and maimed, and shelters for the heads and necks of the soldiers, when marching in the hot sun, known as havelocks. The name of havelock was derived from Sir Henry Havelock, an eminent English commander in the East Indies during the rebellion of the Sepoys, in 1857, who caused his soldiers to be furnished with these protectors against the heat of the sun. They were made of white cotton cloth, and covered the military cap and the neck with a cape. Our soldiers soon discarded them, as being more uncomfortable, by the exclusion of air, than any rays of the sun to which they were exposed. They had been sent to the army by thousands. The movement was spontaneous and universal. The necessity for some systemat
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
wenty-two States and one Territory were represented. There were forty senators and one hundred and fifty-four representatives present on the first day of the session. Ten States, in which the politicians had adopted ordinances of secession, were not represented. These were Virginia (the eastern portion, controlled by the conspirators at Richmond), North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Four Slave-labor States, namely, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, were represented. Tennessee had not then held its elections for members of Congress. When they were held, five weeks later, only three districts in East Tennessee chose representatives. One of these, Thomas A. A. Nelson, while on his way to Washington City, was arrested by the insurgents and taken to Richmond, where he secured his personal liberty by an open profession of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy of conspirators. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, appea
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
In the Senate, twenty-three States, and in the House of Representatives, twenty-two States and one Territory were represented. There were forty senators and one hundred and fifty-four representatives present on the first day of the session. Ten States, in which the politicians had adopted ordinances of secession, were not represented. These were Virginia (the eastern portion, controlled by the conspirators at Richmond), North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Four Slave-labor States, namely, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, were represented. Tennessee had not then held its elections for members of Congress. When they were held, five weeks later, only three districts in East Tennessee chose representatives. One of these, Thomas A. A. Nelson, while on his way to Washington City, was arrested by the insurgents and taken to Richmond, where he secured his personal liberty by an open profession of allegiance to the
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
had adopted ordinances of secession, were not represented. These were Virginia (the eastern portion, controlled by the conspirators at Richmond), North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Four Slave-labor States, namely, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, were rep preparatory to coming into the Union. and he questioned whether, at that time, there was a majority of the legally qualified voters of any State, excepting South Carolina, who were in favor of disunion. This is essentially a people's contest, he said; and he was happy in the belief that the plain people comprehended it as suchenators who were named, James M. Mason and Robert T. M. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chesnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. 0. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; William K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. because of the
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