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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
he fields of conflict for the future. The city of Memphis is safe against the possibility of approach from the Gulf, and will be equally so by the construction of a battery of 24 and 32-pounders at Randolph, and the point indicated to the Committee of Safety, above the city. Such batteries, with the plunging fire, could sink any sized fleets of steamboats laden with Northern troops. If such batteries are promptly constructed, Memphis will never even be threatened. The object of seizing Cairo by the Lincoln Government (if it should be done, as I take it for granted it will) will be to cut off supplies of subsistence from the Northwest, to prevent the approach through the Ohio of Southern troops, and to cut off Missouri from Southern support; and when she is thus isolated, to invade and crush her. The safety of Missouri requires that she should seize and hold that position at whatever cost. Without it, she will soon cease to breathe the air of freedom. All the forces tendered
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
rris had already (on the 29th of April) ordered the seizure of Tennessee bonds to the amount of sixty-six thousand dollars, and five thousand dollars in cash, belonging to the United States, which were in possession of the Collector of the Port of Nashville. The pretext for the seizure was, that the amount might be held in trust, as a sort of hostage, until the Government should return to the State and its citizens property contraband of war which had been taken from the steamer Hillman, at Cairo. The Legislature, in the mean time, had passed an act, to submit to a vote of the people a Declaration of Independence, and an Ordinance dissolving the Federal Relations between the State of Tennessee and the United States of America ; and also an Ordinance for the adoption of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States. This action was kept secret for several days. When the intrepid Brownlow (see page 88) heard of it, he denounced it vehemently in his jo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
e possession of the Arsenal at St. Louis, which he believed to be in danger of seizure by the secessionists of Missouri. He also telegraphed to Frank P. Blair, of St. Louis (afterward a major-general in the National Army), to assist in the matter. By judicious management, twenty-one thousand stand of small arms, two field-pieces, and one hundred and ten thousand rounds of ammunition were transferred from St. Louis to Illinois. Wool also ordered heavy cannon, carriages, et coetera, to Cairo, Illinois, which speedily became a place of great interest, in a military point of view. He authorized the Governors of New Hampshire and Massachusetts to put the coast defenses within the borders of their respective States in good order, and approved of other measures proposed for the defense of the seaport towns supposed to be in danger from the pirate vessels of the Confederacy, then known to be afloat. He also took the responsibility of sending forward to Washington Colonel Ellsworth's Zoua
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 19: events in the Mississippi Valley.--the Indians. (search)
ice, 470. the militia of Missouri called out, 471. Cairo fortified and garrisoned its importance, 472. Seceo thousand of these State troops to possess and hold Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Riverton had been early informed of a conspiracy to seize Cairo, a small village in Illinois, on the low marshy poins, at an early day, to take possession of and occupy Cairo. See page 456. Cairo is one hundred and seventy-fCairo is one hundred and seventy-five miles below St. Louis. It is situated on a boot-shaped peninsula, which has been formed by the action of twere not less than five thousand Union volunteers at Cairo, under the command of the experienced B. M. Prentissre. Before the close of May, Military position at Cairo. the post at Cairo was considered impregnable againCairo was considered impregnable against any force the Confederates were likely to bring. It soon became a post of immense importance to the Union cd the events at Baltimore, Governor Rector View at Cairo, on the Ohio River front, in 1861. (whose elect
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
took up the gauntlet cast down by the Governor. He had already taken measures for the security of the important post at Cairo, by sending a regiment of Missouri volunteers, under Colonel Shuttner, to occupy and fortify Bird's Point opposite. See map on page 472. That point is a few feet higher than Cairo, and a battery upon it perfectly commanded the entire ground Camp of the Missouri Volunteers on Bird's Point. occupied by the National troops at the latter place. Captain Benham, of t there, called attention early to the importance of occupying that point, for its possession by the insurgents would make Cairo untenable. Shuttner so strongly fortified his camp, that he was in no fear of any force the insurgents were likely to asortifications 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 pu