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West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
nd forty-seven thousand two hundred and thirty-eight against it, or a majority in favor of disunion of fifty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-eight. The items of the vote, as given in the proclamation, were as follows:--  separation.no separation. East Tennessee14,78032,923 Middle Tennessee58,2628,198 West Tennessee29,1576,117 Military Camps2,714(none)   Total104,91347,238 Even this false report showed that East Tennessee--the mountain region of the State, which, like Western Virginia, was not seriously poisoned by the virus of the Slave system — was loyal to the Republic by a heavy majority. It is said that one-half of the votes cast in favor of Separation in East Tennessee were illegal, having been given by soldiers of the insurgent army, who had no right to vote anywhere. See Sketches of the Rise. Progress, and Decline of Secession, et coetera: by W. G. Brownlow, now (1865) Governor of Tennessee, page 222. All through the war that ensued East Tennessee remain
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ess, 394. Admiral Paulding stormy events at Norfolk, 395. burning of the Gosport Navy Yard, 396., on the side of the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk. It was a sheltered spot on the margin of a e entire harbor, the Navy Yard, the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and the channel through whiche forces in southeastern Virginia, arrived at Norfolk with his staff on the evening of the 18th, aneir flag joined him, and the secessionists of Norfolk were eager for the drama to open. On the fole burst upon the vision of the inhabitants of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and of the country for leaguerder prohibiting the Collector of the port of Norfolk from accepting drafts from the National Govere. At the same time troops were hastening to Norfolk from lower Virginia; and on the 22d, three coance to the Elizabeth River and the harbor of Norfolk. The insurgents had now secured a most importal an apparently easy achievement. Map of Norfolk and vicinity. Let us consider the events [9 more...]
Europe (search for this): chapter 16
n that day. If we lose then, our liberties are gone, and we are swallowed up by a-military despotism more odious than any now existing in any of the monarchies of Europe. The Governor was empowered to raise fifty-five thousand volunteers for the defense of the State, and, if it should become necessary, to call out the whole avaie National Observatory at Washington. The records of that office, it is said, disclosed the fact that he had impressed upon the minds of the scientific bodies in Europe that the dissolution of the Union and the destruction of the Republic were inevitable. So said the New York World. The career of Maury, after he abandoned his fishonorable. Before he resigned, and while he was yet trusted and honored by his countrymen, he was perfidiously working to overthrow the Government. He went to Europe, and there used every means in his power, by the grossest misrepresentations, to injure the character of his Government. Finally, on the 25th of May, 1865, when
Chesapeake Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ssels at the Gosport Navy Yard. this view shows the position of some of the vessels on Sunday morning, the 21st of April. The large vessel on the right is the Pennsylvania. on the extreme left is seen the bow of the United States. in the center is seen the Pawnee steam-frigate, and the Cumberland with the Yankee at her side. This is from a picture in Harper's Weekly, May 11, 1861. roar could be heard for miles, and its light was seen far at sea, far up the James and York Rivers, and Chesapeake Bay, and far beyond the Dismal Swamp. The ships and the ship-houses, and other large buildings in the Navy Yard, were involved in one grand ruin. To add to the sublimity of the fiery tempest, frequent discharges were heard from the monster ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania, as the flames reached her loaded heavy guns. When the conflagration was fairly under way, the Pawnee and the Cumberland, towed by the Yankee, went down the river, and all who were left on shore, excepting two, reaching t
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 16
nary grounds. He likened the action of the Government servants, who hastily fired and abandoned the Navy Yard and vessels, to the panic of the Syrians on one occasion, when the Lord, in order to deliver Israel, made them hear a noise like that of a mighty host coming upon them:--Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. The preacher did not heed the wise injunction of the king of Israel (1 Kings, XX. 11):--Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. Only a portion of the vessels at the Gosport station were absolutely destroyed. The New York, on the stocks in one of the ship-houses, was totally consumed. The Pennsylvania, Dolphin, and Columbia had nothing saved but the lower bottom timbers; the Raritan was burnt to the water's edge; the Merrimack was burnt to her copper-line and sunk; the Germantown was also burnt and sunk; while th
Chambersburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
When this work was accomplished, Jones and his little garrison of forty men crossed the Potomac over the covered bridge, followed by an excited crowd of citizens, who threatened him with direst vengeance. He wheeled his men at the bridge, and threatened to fire upon the pursuers, when they fell back. He then fled up the canal, crossed the hills, and, wading streams and swamps, reached Hagerstown at about seven o'clock in the morning. There he procured vehicles to convey his command to Chambersburg, Report of Lieutenant Jones to the Secretary of War, April 20, 1861. Communication of D. H. Strother (well known by the title of Port Crayon to the readers of Harper's Magazine) in Harper's Weekly. Mr. Strother was an eye-witness of the scenes described, and made some graphic sketches of the conflagration. and from thence they went by railway to Carlisle Barracks, their destination, where they arrived at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the 19th. The Government highly commended
Mecklenburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
he consent of the Legislature, and in holding or executing any office in such government. The Convention assembled on the 20th of May, the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, In 1775 a Convention of the representatives of the citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, held at Charlotte, passed a Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, held at Charlotte, passed a series of patriotic resolutions, equivalent in words and spirit to a declaration of independence of the Government of Great Britain. There is a well-founded dispute as to the day on which that declaration was adopted, one party declaring it to be the 20th of May, and another the 31st of May. For a minute account of that affair, l with the staff, on which was a single star, and the dates arranged as seen in the engraving, May 20, 1775, which was that of the promulgation of the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (mentioned in note 2, page 885), and May 20, 1861, on which day the politicians of North Carolina declared the bond that bound that
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
d Ohio Canal, the powerful commercial links which connect Maryland, and especially Baltimore, with the great West. There isters of the Shenandoah, it passes through the Blue Ridge. Maryland Hights, which have become famous in history, are seen on Armory and Arsenal that night, and a march in force into Maryland, when the Minute-men of that State were expected to join ckians, Alabamians, and South Carolinians. They occupied Maryland Hights and other prominent points near the Ferry, on boths too well known that leading and powerful politicians in Maryland and Virginia were secretly preparing to seize the Capitalreached the Government that the Minutemen of Virginia and Maryland, and their sympathizers in the District of Columbia, wereive defenders of the Capital entered a hostile territory--Maryland being essentially such at that time. At home and on theiy had been full of rumors of the movement of Virginia and Maryland secessionists for the seizure of the Capital, and many fa
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
vantage of the excitement caused by the attack on Fort Sumter, and the call of the President for troops, they reously, but had, from the moment of the attack on Fort Sumter, labored zealously and vigorously in preliminary ailed at Harper's Ferry until after the attack on Fort Sumter, when it was disturbed by rumors that the Virginien it was resolved to give aid to Forts Pickens and Sumter, Commodore Charles S. McCauley, who was in command on of the National Army in Texas; the downfall of Fort Sumter; the easy manner in which the Confederates had being conspirators everywhere, before the attack on Fort Sumter, that they had no aggressive designs against the n apparent danger. That exigency occurred when Fort Sumter was attacked; and on the day when the President c the State. When intelligence of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Philadelphia, the chief city of Pennsylvaood shed in the rebellion, that of the wounded at Fort Sumter being the first by a few days. in military dress,
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 16
e Commonwealth of Virginia and the Confederate States of America, which provided that, until the unwealth, in the impending conflict with the United States, should be under the chief control and dir cannot vote to separate Virginia from the United States? the answer is simple and plain. Honor aunder the permanent Constitution of said Confederate States, if the same shall occur, turn over to said Confederate States all the public property, naval stores, and munitions of war, of which she maydest and most extensive of its kind in the United States. The establishment covered an area of thr, eighty-four, on the stocks: the frigates United States, fifty; Columbia, fifty; and Raritan, fifton the extreme left is seen the bow of the United States. in the center is seen the Pawnee steam-frthe forts, mints, and custom houses of the United States, in the absence of competent force to protable prelate saw God's presence with the Confederate States, and spoke of the failure of a handful o[12 more...]
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