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Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
o compel obedience to the laws? Now, the War Department had, for nearly eight years prior to the last few weeks, been directed successively by Jefferson Davis and John B. Floyd. The better portion of our little army had been ordered by Floyd to Texas, and there put under the command of Gen. Twiggs, by whom it had already been betrayed into the hands of his fellow-traitors. The arms of the Union had been sedulously transferred by Floyd from the Northern to the Southern arsenals. The most effnfederacy had established its independence beyond dispute, and was about to conquer and lay waste the degenerate, cowardly North. The credit of putting an end to this most unequal contest is due to Louis T. Wigfall, late a Senator from the State of Texas, now styling himself a Confederate Brigadier. Wigfall — a Carolinian by birth, a Nullifier by training, and a duelist by vocation — had the faults and virtues of his caste; and one of the latter is a repugnance to witnessing a conflict betwe
Mexico (Mexico) (search for this): chapter 28
without an absolute necessity. The guns on the parapet — which had been pointed the day before — were fired clandestinely by some of the men slipping up on top. The firing of the rifled guns from the iron battery on Cummings' Point became extremely accurate in the afternoon of Friday, cutting out large quantities of the masonry about the embrasures at every shot, throwing concrete among the cannoneers, and slightly wounding and stunning others. One piece struck Sergeant Kernan, an old Mexican war veteran, hitting him on the head and knocking him down. On being revived, he was asked if he was hurt badly. He replied: No; I was only knocked down temporarily; and he went to work again. * * * For the fourth time, the barracks were set on fire early on Saturday morning, and attempts were made to extinguish the flames; but it was soon discovered that red-hot shot were being thrown into the fort with fearful rapidity, and it became evident that it would be impossible to put out the
Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
Fort Sumter, disabling one ten-inch columbiad [they had but two], one eight-inch columbiad, one forty-two pounder, and two eight-inch seacoast howitzers, and also tearing a large portion of the parapet away. The firing from the batteries on Cummings' Point was scattered over the whole of the gorge or rear of the fort, till it looked like a sieve. The explosion of shells, and the quantity of deadly missiles that were hurled in every direction and at every instant of time, made it almost certaito expose themselves without an absolute necessity. The guns on the parapet — which had been pointed the day before — were fired clandestinely by some of the men slipping up on top. The firing of the rifled guns from the iron battery on Cummings' Point became extremely accurate in the afternoon of Friday, cutting out large quantities of the masonry about the embrasures at every shot, throwing concrete among the cannoneers, and slightly wounding and stunning others. One piece struck Sergea
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
Xxviii. Fort Sumter. Hesitation futile negotiations attempt to provision order to opened, if evacuated at all, the 25th brought to Charleston Col. Ward H. Lamon, a confidential agent of into surrender, if not relieved, returned to Charleston on the 8th, and gave formal notice to Gov. Pg a response from battery after battery, until Sumter appeared the focus of a circle of volcanic firally wounded on the Charleston harbor and Fort Sumter. side of the assailants. So bloodless was ected at the barbette [unsheltered] guns of Fort Sumter, disabling one ten-inch columbiad [they hade well on fire, the batteries directed upon Fort Sumter increased their cannonading to a rapidity gays: Had the surrender not taken place, Fort Sumter would have been stormed to-night. The men its strength and efficiency, as a defense of Charleston after it should have fallen into their handslebrated on Sunday the bloodless victory of Fort Sumter with a Te Deum and congratulatory address. [25 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 28
t down to 1859, Slavery was prohibited by Congress in some portion of the territories of the United States. But now, for the first time in the history of this Government, there is no foot of ground every Republican in the House of Representatives, have organized all the territories of the United States on the principle of non-intervention, by Congress, with the question of Slavery — leaving there now pursuing the policy of excluding the Southern people from all the territories of the United States. * * * There never has been a time since the Government was founded when the right of the slracy would not agree to this, but manifested a disposition to get possession of the fort and United States property therein. The Government would not submit to any such humiliation. It was immedSumter. side of the assailants. So bloodless was the initiation of the bloodiest struggle that America ever witnessed. But, though almost without casualty, the contest was not, on the side of the
Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
proof; the officers constantly warned their men against needless exposure; so that, though the peril from fire and from their own ammunition was even greater than that from the enemy's guns, not one was seriously hurt. And, though Fort Moultrie was considerably damaged, and the little village of Moultrieville — composed of the Summer residences of certain wealthy citizens of Charleston — was badly riddled, it was claimed, and seems undisputed, that no one was mortally wounded on the Charleston harbor and Fort Sumter. side of the assailants. So bloodless was the initiation of the bloodiest struggle that America ever witnessed. But, though almost without casualty, the contest was not, on the side of the Union, a mere mockery of war: it even served to develop traits of heroism. Says one of those who participated in the perils of the defense: The workmen [Irish laborers, hired in New York for other than military service] were at first rather reluctant to assist the soldiers in
Sandy Hook, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
ppily, there was at that lire a premature explosion, whereby one of the gunners was killed, and three more or less seriously wounded. The men were then formed and marched out, preceded by their band, playing inspiring airs, and taken on board the Isabel, whereby they were transferred to the Federal steamship Baltic, awaiting them off the bar, which brought them directly to New York, whence Maj. Anderson dispatched to his Government this brief and manly report: steamship Baltic, off Sandy Hook, April 18, 1861. The Honorable S. Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Sir: Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed, the gorge-wall seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects of the heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only being available, and no provisions but pork remaining, I accepted terms of evacuation offered by Gen. Beauregard (being
Sullivan's Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
itional supplies. This answer was judged unsatisfactory; and, at 3:20 A. M., of the 12th, Major Anderson was duly notified that fire would be opened on Fort Sumter in one hour. Punctual to the appointed moment, the roar of a mortar from Sullivan's Island, quickly followed by the rushing shriek of a shell, gave notice to the world that the era of compromise and diplomacy was ended — that the Slaveholders' Confederacy had appealed from sterile negotiations to the last argument of aristocracie reckless, bootless waste of life. The fire of the fort was so weak, when compared to that of its assailants, as to excite derision rather than apprehension on their part. It was directed at Fort Moultrie, the Cummings' Point battery, and Sullivan's Island, from which a masked battery of heavy columbiads, hitherto unsuspected by the garrison, had opened on their walls with fearful effect. The floating battery, faced with railroad bars, though planted very near to Sumter, and seemingly imperv
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
ssailants, as to excite derision rather than apprehension on their part. It was directed at Fort Moultrie, the Cummings' Point battery, and Sullivan's Island, from which a masked battery of heavy con was even greater than that from the enemy's guns, not one was seriously hurt. And, though Fort Moultrie was considerably damaged, and the little village of Moultrieville — composed of the Summer rork they burst against. The solid-shot firing of the enemy's batteries, and particularly of Fort Moultrie, was directed at the barbette [unsheltered] guns of Fort Sumter, disabling one ten-inch coluhe barrels out of the embrasures. While the powder was being thrown overboard, all the guns of Moultrie, of the iron floating battery, of the enfilade battery, and of the Dahlgren battery, worked witce had no longer any justification, and urged one of the officers to wave his white flag toward Moultrie; and, this being declined, proceeded to wave it himself. Finally, a corporal was induced to re
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 28
s of the Union on every acre of the geographical area of our country. Hence, secessionists in Washington, as well as South of that city, uniformly denounced that manifesto as a declaration of war, orference, it was said, to the terms The New York Herald of April 9th has a dispatch from its Washington correspondent, confirming one sent twenty-four hours earlier to announce the determination of suffice his little garrison only till the middle of April. Col. Lamon returned immediately to Washington, and was said to have reported there, that, in Major Anderson's opinion as well as in his own,eft New York and other Northern ports, under sealed orders. Lieut. Talbot, who had arrived at Washington on the 6th, from Fort Sumter, bearing a message from Major Anderson that his rigidly restrictemship Baltic, off Sandy Hook, April 18, 1861. The Honorable S. Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Sir: Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entire
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