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Two Points (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
th the Arsenal of Fayetteville was captured without bloodshed, thus securing to the State and the South sixty-five thousand stand of arms, of which twenty-eight thousand were of tile most approved modern construction. Virginia had taken the decisive step, and passed her ordinance of secession on the 17th day of April. It became an immediate concern to secure for the State all the arms, munitions, ships, war stores, and military posts within her borders, which there was power to seize. Two points were of special importance: one was the Navy Yard, at Gosport, with its magnificent dry-dock-its huge ship-houses, shops, forges, ware-rooms, rope-walks, seasoned timber for ships, masts, cordage, boats, ammunition, small arms, and cannon. Besides all these treasures, it had lying in its waters several vessels of war. The other point was Harper's Ferry on the Potomac River, with its armory and arsenal, containing about ten thousand muskets and five thousand rifles, with machinery for the
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
n Virginia to secure the Gosport navy-yard and Harper's Ferry. their success. burning of Federal ships. attitude of Maryland. the Baltimore riot. Chase of Massachusetts soldiers. excitement in Baltimore. timid action of the Maryland Legislature. military despotism in Maryland. arrests in Baltimore. a reign of terrour. liseceded States, the indignation of the people of Maryland, and especially of Baltimore, could not be restrained. It being known that a body of volunteers from Massachusetts were coining through the city, on the 19th of April, a fierce and determined purpose to resist their passage was aroused. As several hundred of these volunteeshowing that the same numbers were ready to come forward in his State. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, was equally liberal in his assurances to Washington. Massachusetts and New York were pressing with offers of men and money for the three months war. But while the North was making such insolent and giddy exhibitions on the
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
re riot. Chase of Massachusetts soldiers. excitement in Baltimore. timid action of the Maryland Legislature. military despotism in Maryland. arrests in Baltimore. a reign of terrour. light estimation of the war in the North. why the Federal GVirginia occurred a memorable collision in the streets of Baltimore; and tile first blood of Southerners was shed on the soil indignation of the people of Maryland, and especially of Baltimore, could not be restrained. It being known that a body of killed and three wounded. A terrible excitement ensued in Baltimore, and continued for weeks. The bridges on the railroad led in transports to Annapolis. Mass meetings were held in Baltimore, and speeches of defiance made to the Government at Washir the immediate organization or arming of the militia. Baltimore was rapidly brought under the yoke. By a concerted movemPolice Board suspended; a provost-marshal appointed, and Baltimore brought under the law of the drum-head. The municipal po
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
The West was as violent as the North or East, quite as confident, and valorous to excess. The Chicago Tribune insisted on its demand that the West be allowed to fight the battle through, since she was probably the most interested in the suppression of the rebellion and the free navigation of the Mississippi. Let the East, demanded this valorous sheet, get out of the way; this is a war of the West. We can fight the battle, and successfully, within two or three months at the furthest. Illinois can whip the South by herself. We insist on the matter being turned over to us. It is no wonder that, with the prospect of a short war extended from Washington and enlivened by pictures of cheap glory in the newspapers, the rage for volunteering in the North should have been immense. Going to the war for three months (the term of the enlistment of volunteers) was looked upon as a sort of holiday excursion, and had peculiar attractions for the firemen, the rowdies, and roughs of the Nor
Fort Caswell (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
of the same month, the sovereign Convention of North Carolina, by a unanimous vote, passed an ordinance of secession. This latter State, although slow to secede and accomplish formally her separation from the Union, had acted with singular spirit in giving early and valuable evidence of sympathy with the Southern cause. Under the orders of her Governor, Fort Macon, near Beaufort, was seized on the 15th of April, and promptly garrisoned by volunteers from Greensborough and other places. Fort Caswell was also taken, and on the 19th the Arsenal of Fayetteville was captured without bloodshed, thus securing to the State and the South sixty-five thousand stand of arms, of which twenty-eight thousand were of tile most approved modern construction. Virginia had taken the decisive step, and passed her ordinance of secession on the 17th day of April. It became an immediate concern to secure for the State all the arms, munitions, ships, war stores, and military posts within her borders, wh
France (France) (search for this): chapter 7
iot. Seward's letter to the European Governments. Early action of England and France with respect to the war. Mr. Gregory's letter to the London times. Northern cpecially anxious to guard against any probability of recognition, by England or France of the new Confederacy, and to anticipate opinion in Europe by misrepresenting rote a letter of instructions to Mr. Dayton, the recently appointed minister to France, designed as a circular notice to the European courts, which, as a tissue of miaffect public opinion, and putting the question to the people of England and of France in every possible aspect. He pointed out the reasons of his advocacy of the redence. Mr. Gregory concluded with the strong conviction that the interests of France and England were identical in the American question, and that the recognition buld bring England to her knees. The idea was ludicrous enough that England and France would instinctively or readily fling themselves into a convulsion, which their
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
raud and treason: In December, 1859, Secretary Floyd had ordered the removal of one-fifth of the old percussion and flint-lock muskets from the Springfield Armory, where they had accumulated in inconvenient numbers, to five Southern arsenals. The United States had, on hand, say 500,000 of these muskets; 115,000 includes all transferred to the Southern arsenals. And this order of distribution was made, almost a year before Mr. Lincoln's election, and several months before his nomination at Chicago. Again, in 1860, the aggregate of rifles and muskets distributed was 10,151, of which the Southern and Southwestern States received only 2,849, or between one-third and one-fourth of the whole number. It thus appears that the Southern and Southwestern States received much less in the aggregate, instead of more than the quota of arms to which they were justly entitled under the law for arming the militia. Could the force of misrepresentation further go than to torture from these facts the
Tell M. Thouvenel (search for this): chapter 7
bsurdity, and an exhibition of littleness in a politician's cast of the future, is one of the most remarkable productions of the political history of the war. In this document the Federal Secretary of State urged that Mr. Dayton could not be too decided or too explicit in assuring the French Government that there was no idea of the dissolution of the Union; and that the existing commotion was only to be ranked among the dozen passing changes in the history of that Union. He concluded: Tell M. Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe. Yet at the time this was penned eight millions of Mr. Seward's countrymen had decided on a dissolution of the Union, and the gathering armies of the South were within a few miles of the Federal capital. Meanwhile the action of the
Rector (search for this): chapter 7
e. Gov. Magoffin of Kentucky replied that that State would furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States. Gov. Harris of Tennessee notified Mr. Lincoln that that State would not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand if necessary for the defence of her rights. Gov. Ellis of North Carolina telegraphed to Washington: I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. Gov. Rector of Arkansas replied in terms of equal defiance, and declared the demand is only adding insult to injury; and Gov. Jackson slowed an indignation surpassing all the others, for he wrote directly to Mr. Lincoln: Your requisition in my judgment is illegal, unconstitutional, and revolutionary, and, in its objects, inhuman and diabolical. The only Southern State that did not publicly share in this resentment, and that made it an occasion of official ambiloquy, was Maryland. Her Governor, Thom
George Washington (search for this): chapter 7
led at Washington in February, 1861; her representatives in Congress sought in that body every mode of honourable pacification; her Convention sent delegates to Washington to persuade Mr. Lincoln to a pacific policy; and in every form of public. assembly, every expedient of negotiation was essayed by Virginia to save tile Union. t State would not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand if necessary for the defence of her rights. Gov. Ellis of North Carolina telegraphed to Washington: I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. Gov. Rector of Arkansas replied in the cities, but the country people, the shoemakers and cobblers of New England and the coal-heavers of Pennsylvania. Governor Dennison, of Ohio, telegraphed to Washington, offering thirty thousand troops. Governor Weston, of Indiana, received offers showing that the same numbers were ready to come forward in his State. Governor
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