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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 96 0 Browse Search
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. 30 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 24 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 14 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 8 0 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
one according to due forms of law. The Legislature of South Carolina met in regular session on the 26th of November; and on the 10th of December it chose Francis W. Pickens to be Governor of the State. That body was greeted with the most cheering news of the spreading of secession sentiments, like a fierce conflagration, all oas ever been exhibited yet, so far as we know, by those who will dissolve the Union. --January 1, 1861. On the same day when the Declaration was adopted, Governor Pickens issued a proclamation declaring to the world that South Carolina is, and has a right to be, a separate, sovereign, free, and independent State, and, as such,ers lately vested in Congress, excepting during the session of the Convention. The judicial powers of the United States were vested in the State Courts; and Governor Pickens, who had organized his cabinet, assumed the exalted position of the Chief Magistrate of an independent nation. His constitutional advisers consisted of A. G
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. (search)
mposing the several commands, and the appointment of nine aides-de-camp to Governor Pickens. These were signs of approaching hostilities that the dullest mind mighI can't get one. Then give me a piece of paper that I may write a note to Governor Pickens; he will send me one. The man yielded at the mention of the Governor's naher brother at the Mills House. On the following morning he procured from Governor Pickens a permit for her to go to Fort Sumter. She sought one for Hart. The Goveered by the sentinel, in accordance with orders, to Colonel Alston, one of Governor Pickens's aids, and Captain Humphreys of the arsenal. They found the fort much mond surrounding points. On the afternoon of the 27th, as we have observed, Governor Pickens sent a message to Anderson, requiring him to leave Sumter and return to MoSouth Carolina, and by command of her government. Anderson's refusal caused Pickens to treat him as a public enemy within the domain of South Carolina; and the Ch
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 6: Affairs at the National Capital.--War commenced in Charleston harbor. (search)
58. Correspondence between Major Anderson and Governor Pickens, 159. the surrender of Fort Sumter demanded aid:--Further, let me warn you of the danger of Governor Pickens making Trescot his channel of communication withat transpires, and that to our injury. Tell Governor Pickens this at once, before matters go further. Thom Washington. This dishonest order plagued Governor Pickens in a way that provoked much merriment. With as an act of war, and promptly sent a letter to Governor Pickens under a flag of truce, borne by Lieutenant Halmy decision, for the good of all concerned. Governor Pickens replied promptly. He assumed the act as that r the whole subject to his Government. He wrote to Pickens to that effect, expressing a hope that he would notions were interposed, and Talbot carried to Francis W. Pickens. the North the first full tidings, from Sumtedays after the attack on the Star of the West, Governor Pickens sent his Secretary of State, Magrath, and Secr
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
tion of the forts. At the same time, Armstrong received instructions to co-operate with Slemmer. These commanders held a consultation. It was agreed that the small garrison could hold only one fort, and it was resolved that that one should be Pickens, the stronger, less liable to be attacked, and the one that might most easily be re-enforced. It was arranged for Armstrong to send the steamship Wyandot, Captain Berryman, to take the little garrison from the Barrancas to Fort Pickens, increaseation of a casemate, seen from the interior of the Fort. Sometimes they are made only large enough for a gun and the gunners. strange restrictions. Captain Berryman was ordered not to fire a shot unless his vessel should be attacked. In case Pickens should be assailed, the Wyandot must be a passive spectator! She might as well have been on the south side of Cuba, if these instructions had been obeyed. Slemmer was now left to his own resources. He was in one of the strongest forts on th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 8: attitude of the Border Slave-labor States, and of the Free-labor States. (search)
to the President that, in the judgment of the General Assembly of Virginia, any additional display of military power in the North will jeopardize the tranquillity of the Republic; and that the evacuation of Fort Sumter Is the first step that should be taken to restore harmony and peace. For the purpose of procuring abstinence from hostile action, pending the proceedings of the proposed Peace Congress, ex-President John Tyler was sent to President Buchanan, and Judge John Robertson to Governor Pickens, and the Governors of other seceding States. The President informed Mr. Tyler that he had no power to make such agreement; and the Legislature of South Carolina said haughtily, by resolution, The separation of this State from the Federal Union is final, and we have no further interest in the Constitution of the United States. The only appropriate negotiations between South Carolina and the Federal Government are as to their mutual relations as foreign States. Copies of these resolut
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
on the 11th of January, two days after the attack on the Star of the West, Governor Pickens, as we have observed, See page 160. sent A. G. Magrath and D. F. Jamisoson refused to give it up, and referred the matter to the President; whereupon Pickens sent Isaac W. Hayne, the Attorney-General of the State, in company with Lieutets relations with the United States, of which it was a part. Letter of Francis W. Pickens to President Buchanan, January 11, 1861. Mr. Hayne arrived in Washing, Slidell, and Benjamin. advised him, in writing, not to present the letter of Pickens to the President until after the Southern Confederacy should be formed, a montd not exercise that power. When this correspondence reached Charleston, Governor Pickens ordered Hayne to present the demand for the surrender of Sumter forthwith.tic intercourse. It had utterLy failed. The President refused to receive Governor Pickens's agent, excepting as a distinguished citizen of South Carolina, and also
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
ing was said about re-enforcing the garrison. Governor Pickens, they understood, was to be informed before anto supply Fort Sumter without giving notice to Governor Pickens. When, on the 8th, they were informed that GoGovernor Pickens had been so notified, they sent for the Secretary's reply, and received the Memorandum alluded ized messenger from President Lincoln informed Governor Pickens and General Beauregard that provisions will bed message from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to For Sumter on the 21st of March, by permission of Governor Pickens, On that occasion, Mr. Fox carried a letter to Governor Pickens from General Scott, in compliance with orders from the President. Pickens sent the follod a messenger at once to Charleston, to inform Governor Pickens that he was about to forward provisions, only,f Columbia) was sent as a special messenger to Governor Pickens, who was also informed that supplies must go i
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 13: the siege and evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
Corps. He carried a number of messages from Major Anderson to Governor Pickens. On one occasion the Governor told him that the rebellion wouf messenger in bearing written and oral dispatches to and from Governor Pickens; and Lieutenant Theodore Talbot was his personal messenger to ers, both silent and audible. Late in March, rumors reached Governor Pickens that the garrison in Sumter would soon be transferred to some bles. The crisis came. The message of President Lincoln to Governor Pickens, concerning the sending of supplies to Fort Sumter, was made kwed by the authorities at Charleston to return to the fort. Governor Pickens professed to give his permission with great cheerfulness for Tnd Fort Moultrie. --Duyckinck's War for the Union, 1. 115. Governor Pickens watched the bombardment on Saturday morning with a telescope, possible. Soon afterward a party from Charleston, composed of Governor Pickens and suite, the Executive Council, General Beauregard and his a
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
rom several hundreds of different kinds in possession of the author, because it contains, in its design and words, a remarkable prophecy. The leaders of the rebellion in the more Southern States comforted their people with the assurance, when it was seen that war was inevitable, that it could not reach their homes, for in the Border Slave-labor States, and especially in Virginia, would be the battle-fields. It was indeed so, until in the last year of the war; and poor old Virginia, as Governor Pickens predicted, had to bear the brunt. She was the Mother of disunion, and the hand of retributive justice was laid heavily upon her. The uprising in the Slave-labor States at this time, though less general and enthusiastic, was nevertheless marvelous. The heresy of State Supremacy, which Calhoun and his followers adroitly called State rights, because the latter is a sacred thing cherished by all, was a political tenet generally accepted as orthodox. It had been inculcated in every co
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 15: siege of Fort Pickens.--Declaration of War.--the Virginia conspirators and, the proposed capture of Washington City. (search)
e commerce of the United States was threatened with serious mischief. The first of the purchased vessels commissioned by Mallory was a small steamer which Governor Pickens had bought in Richmond, for use in the defense of Charleston harbor. She was commissioned in March; and named Lady Davis, in honor of the wife of Jefferson 61. The assertion was correct. While the Convention was debating the question of the surrender of Fort Sumter, Governor Letcher sent in a communication from Governor Pickens, announcing the attack on that fortress, and saying:--We will take the fort, and can sink the ships if they attempt to pass the channel. If they land elsewhke none. But if Maryland secedes, the District of Columbia will fall to her by reversionary right — the same as Sumter to South Carolina, Pulaski to Georgia, and Pickens to Florida. When we have the right, we will demand the surrender of Washington, just as we did in the other cases, and will enforce our demands at every hazard a
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