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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
brooding over and feeding her young, emblematic of the fostering care of the National Government for its children, the States created by its will. We have already observed the early movements of the politicians, of Louisiana, led by Slidell, Benjamin, Moore, Walker of the Delta, and others, in drawing the people into the vortex of revolution. See page 61. In the Legislature, which assembled at Baton Rouge in special session on the 10th of December, the Union sentiment was powerful, yet nopopular vote at the election on the 8th of January was small. It was of such a complexion, however, that it made the secessionists confident of success — so confident that on the following day, January 9, 1861. prompted by advice from Slidell, Benjamin, and other representatives of the State at Washington, the Governor sent military expeditions from New Orleans to seize Forts Jackson and St. Philip on the Mississippi, below the city, then in command of Major Beauregard; also Fort Pike on Lake