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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ong in argument. Reciting the secession and rebellion of the Confederate States, and their unprovoked assault on Fort Sumter, he continued: s lawful. . . . This issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a confidence in the intelligence and virtue of the people of the United States. It may be affirmed, said he, without extravagance, that thl war. It stands to the lasting credit of the negro race in the United States that the wrongs of their long bondage provoked them to no such less the owner would come and take an oath of allegiance to the United States. In connection with this incident, the newspaper report statedent, such slave was employed in service or labor hostile to the United States. The debates exhibited but little spirit of partizanship, evenfederate army was more disorganized by victory than that of the United States by defeat. Manassas was turned into a fortified camp, but the
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
red moderate and prudent by the new conditions. The message of President Lincoln was temperate in spirit, but positive and strong in argument. Reciting the secession and rebellion of the Confederate States, and their unprovoked assault on Fort Sumter, he continued: Having said to them in the inaugural address, You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors, he took pains not only to keep this declaration good, but also to keep the case so free from the power of ingenious sophistry that the world should not be able to misunderstand it. By the affair at Fort Sumter, with its surrounding circumstances, that point was reached. Then and thereby the assailants of the government began the conflict of arms, without a gun in sight or in expectancy to return their fire, save only the few in the fort sent to that harbor years before for their own protection, and still ready to give that protection in whatever was lawful. . . . This issue embraces more than the fat
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
y morning the President had substantially made up his judgment of the battle and its probable results, and the action dictated by the untoward event. This was, in brief, that the militia regiments enlisted under the three months call should be mustered out as soon as practicable; the organization of the new three years forces be pushed forward both east and west; Manassas and Harper's Ferry and the intermediate lines of communication be seized and held; and a joint movement organized from Cincinnati on East Tennessee, and from Cairo on Memphis. Meanwhile, General McClellan was ordered from West Virginia to Washington, where he arrived on July 26, and assumed command of the Division of the Potomac, comprising the troops in and around Washington, on both sides of the river. He quickly cleared the city of stragglers, and displayed a gratifying activity in beginning the organization of the Army of the Potomac from the new three years volunteers that were pouring into Washington by e
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
uld render as guides. Practically, therefore, at the very beginning, the war created a bond of mutual sympathy, based on mutual helpfulness, between the Southern negro and the Union volunteer; and as fast as the Union troops advanced, and secession masters fled, more or less slaves found liberation and refuge in the Union camps. At some points, indeed, this tendency created an embarrassment to Union commanders. A few days after General Butler assumed command of the Union troops at Fortress Monroe, the agent of a rebel master who had fled from the neighborhood came to demand, under the provisions of the fugitive-slave law, three field hands alleged to be in Butler's camp. Butler responded that as Virginia claimed to be a foreign country, the fugitive-slave law was clearly inoperative, unless the owner would come and take an oath of allegiance to the United States. In connection with this incident, the newspaper report stated that as the breastworks and batteries which had been
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
e going on, another campaign was also slowly shaping itself in Western Virginia; but before either of them reached any decisive results the ThI Pennsylvania, moving toward Harper's Ferry, and McClellan in West Virginia, in order to reassure non-combatants, severally issued orders tty and political action of the border slave States of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. In solving the problem, President Linssigned to the command of a military department extending from Western Virginia to Missouri. Though this was a leap in military title, rank, t a part of his duty to encourage and support the Unionists of Western Virginia in their political movement to divide the State and erect a Unratively insignificant skirmishes permanently recovered the State of West Virginia to the Union. The main credit was, of course, due to the so on Memphis. Meanwhile, General McClellan was ordered from West Virginia to Washington, where he arrived on July 26, and assumed command
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
McDowell Bull Run Patterson's failure McClellan at Washington While these preparations for a Virginia campaign wered sharpened the eager expectation of the authorities at Washington of similar results from the projected Virginia campaign.July 16, he began his advance from the fortifications of Washington, with a marching column of about twenty-eight thousand mp to late Sunday afternoon favorable reports had come to Washington from the battle-field, and every one believed in an assuomparatively orderly march back to the fortifications of Washington, while on the following day a horde of stragglers found ile, General McClellan was ordered from West Virginia to Washington, where he arrived on July 26, and assumed command of thesion of the Potomac, comprising the troops in and around Washington, on both sides of the river. He quickly cleared the citom the new three years volunteers that were pouring into Washington by every train. He was received by the administration a
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
Chapter 16. Congress the President's message men and money voted the contraband Dennison Appoints McClellan rich Mountain McDowell Bull Run Patterson's failure McClellan at Washington While these preparations for a Virginia campaign were going on, another campaign was also slowly shaping itself in Wests necessarily cautious and cumbersome. The enemy, under Beauregard, had collected about twenty-three thousand men and thirty-five guns, and was posted behind Bull Run. A preliminary engagement occurred on Thursday, July 18, at Blackburn's Ford on that stream, which served to develop the enemy's strong position, but only delayce reached Centreville. Here McDowell halted, spent Friday and Saturday in reconnoitering, and on Sunday, July 21, began the battle by a circuitous march across Bull Run and attacking the enemy's left flank. It proved that the plan was correctly chosen, but, by a confusion in the march, the attack, intended for daybreak, was
Wheeling, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
l and activity. His instructions made it a part of his duty to encourage and support the Unionists of Western Virginia in their political movement to divide the State and erect a Union commonwealth out of that portion of it lying northwest of the Alleghanies. General Lee, not fully informed of the adverse popular sentiment, sent a few Confederate regiments into that legion to gather recruits and hold the important mountain passes. McClellan, in turn, advanced a detachment eastward from Wheeling, to protect the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; and at the beginning of June, an expedition of two regiments, led by Colonel Kelly, made a spirited dash upon Philippi, where, by a complete surprise, he routed and scattered Porterfield's recruiting detachment of one thousand Confederates. Following up this initial success, McClellan threw additional forces across the Ohio, and about a month later had the good fortune, on July I I, by a flank movement under Rosecrans, to drive a regiment of th
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
en the Union troops began their movements, Generals Butler in Maryland and Patterson III Pennsylvania, moving toward Harper's Ferry, and McClellan in West Virginia, in order to reassure non-combatants, severally issued orders that all attempts at sl from an entirely unexpected direction, suddenly impressed the Union troops with the belief that Johnston's army from Harper's Ferry had reached the battle-field; and, demoralized by this belief, the Union commands, by a common impulse, gave up the f known, it was found that through the want of skill and courage on the part of General Patterson in his operations at Harper's Ferry, General Johnston, with his whole Confederate army, had been allowed to slip away; and so far from coming suddenly inoon as practicable; the organization of the new three years forces be pushed forward both east and west; Manassas and Harper's Ferry and the intermediate lines of communication be seized and held; and a joint movement organized from Cincinnati on Eas
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ally made up his judgment of the battle and its probable results, and the action dictated by the untoward event. This was, in brief, that the militia regiments enlisted under the three months call should be mustered out as soon as practicable; the organization of the new three years forces be pushed forward both east and west; Manassas and Harper's Ferry and the intermediate lines of communication be seized and held; and a joint movement organized from Cincinnati on East Tennessee, and from Cairo on Memphis. Meanwhile, General McClellan was ordered from West Virginia to Washington, where he arrived on July 26, and assumed command of the Division of the Potomac, comprising the troops in and around Washington, on both sides of the river. He quickly cleared the city of stragglers, and displayed a gratifying activity in beginning the organization of the Army of the Potomac from the new three years volunteers that were pouring into Washington by every train. He was received by the
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