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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 17 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 14 14 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 9 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 6 Browse Search
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 4 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 4 4 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. 4 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 4 4 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 4 4 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 1: (search)
been called by one of my friends: The import is, that Mr. Davis, disappointed and chagrined at not receiving the nomination of the Democratic party for President of the United States in 1860, took the lead on the assembling of Congress in December, 1860, in a conspiracy of Southern Senators which planned the secession of the Southern States from the Union, and on the night of January 5, 1861, . . . framed the scheme of revolution which was implicity and promptly followed at the South. In otselves to any future act. Their purpose was proclaimed to the world through the press and telegraph, and criticised in Congress, in the Northern Legislatures, in press and pulpit, and on the hustings, during many months before Congress met in December, 1860. Over and above all these facts, the reports of the United States Senate show that, prior to the 5th of January, 1861, Southern Senators united with Northern Democratic Senators in an effort to effect pacification and prevent secession, an
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
warning of what they were to expect. She had chosen to be, for the time at least, neutral in the impending war, and had denied to the United States troops the right of way across her domain in their march to invade the Southern states. The governor (Hicks) avowed a desire, not only that the state should avoid war, but that she should be a means for pacifying those more disposed to engage in combat. Judge Handy, a distinguished citizen of Mississippi who was born in Maryland, had in December, 1860, been sent as a commissioner from the state of his adoption to that of his birth, and presented his views and the object of his mission to Governor Hicks, who in his response (December 19, 1860) declared his purpose to act in full concert with the other border states, adding, I do not doubt the people of Maryland are ready to go with the people of those States for weal or woe. Annual Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, p. 443. Subsequently, in answer to appeals for and against a proclamation assembli
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
13-14; speech in Senate, 453-56; extract from speech relative to slavery in territories, 457-64. Reflection to Senate, 16, 22. Nomination for governor, 17; defeat, 18. Letter to Brown of Indiana, 18-19. Member of Pierce's cabinet, 20-22. Extracts from speech on master and servant, 26-27. Extract from speech on Nicholson letter, 32-33. Resolutions submitted in Senate, 36-38. Speech in reply to Douglas, 38-40. Opinions on secession, 50, 51-52. Remarks in Senate showing position in Dec. 1860, 53-58. Member of Powell committee, 58-59. Adherence to state rights, 141. Davis Refutation of statements of Count of Paris, 173. Position in Jan., 1861, 176-78. Letter of Clav refuting misstatements, 177-78. Conferences with Buchanan, 183-84. Remarks on resigning from Senate, 189-192. Departure from Washington, 193. Appointment to command of army of Mis-sissippi, 195. Election to presidency of Confederacy, 197. Journey to Montgomery, 198. Inauguration, 198-203; extracts