hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
United States (United States) 1,668 0 Browse Search
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) 440 0 Browse Search
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) 256 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis 239 3 Browse Search
Missouri (Missouri, United States) 172 0 Browse Search
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 168 0 Browse Search
J. E. Johnston 166 0 Browse Search
P. G. T. Beauregard 158 6 Browse Search
Robert Anderson 136 6 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln 124 2 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Search the whole document.

Found 812 total hits in 102 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
signed to command our Department of the West, which included the states of Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian country, and the western part of Mississippi. General Johnston, on his arrival aes taken to concentrate and recruit his forces. General Hardee's command was moved from northeastern Arkansas and sent to Bowling Green, which added four thousand men to the troops there. The regimon for thirty thousand men from Tennessee, ten thousand from Mississippi, and ten thousand from Arkansas. The Arkansas troops were directed to be sent to General McCulloch for the defense of their owArkansas troops were directed to be sent to General McCulloch for the defense of their own frontier. The governor of Mississippi sent four regiments, when this source of supply was closed. Up to the middle of November only three regiments were mustered in under this call from Tennesseelve to fifteen thousand. Two regiments, fifteen hundred strong, had joined General Polk. In Arkansas five companies and a battalion had been organized, and were ready to join General McCulloch.
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
as possible, at this point, with every arm it may be in your power to provide—I mean small-arms for infantry and cavalry. The governor replied, It is out of the power of Alabama to afford you any assistance in the way of arms. The governor of Georgia replied to the same request on September 18th, It is utterly impossible for me to comply with your request. General Bragg, in command at Pensacola, writes in reply on September 27th: The mission of Colonel Buckner will not be successful, I fearlied: The whole number received by us, by that steamer, was eighteen hundred, and we purchased of the owners seventeen hundred and eighty, making in all thirty-five hundred Enfield rifles, of which we have been compelled to allow the governor of Georgia to have one thousand for arming troops to repel an attack now hourly threatened at Brunswick. Of the remaining twenty-five hundred, I have ordered one thousand sent to you, leaving us but fifteen hundred for arming several regiments now encampe
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
g the right to resume the powers they had delegated to a general agent and the claims set up by that agent to coerce states, his creators, and for whom he held a trust. He was a native of Kentucky, but his first military appointment was from Louisiana, and he was a volunteer in the war for independence by Texas, and for a time resided in that state. Much of his military service had been in the West, and he felt most identified with it. On September 10, 1861, he was assigned to command our e measures taken to concentrate and recruit his forces. General Hardee's command was moved from northeastern Arkansas and sent to Bowling Green, which added four thousand men to the troops there. The regiment of Texan rangers was brought from Louisiana, and supplied with horses and sent to the front. Five hundred Kentuckians joined General Buckner on his advance, and five regiments were gradually formed and filled up. A cavalry company under John H. Morgan was also added. At this time (Sept
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
ortant because it commanded the opposite shore in Missouri and was the gateway on the border of Tennessee. Two states of the Confederacy were therefore threatened by the anticipated movement of the enemy to get possession of Columbus. Major General Polk, therefore, crossed the state line, took possession of Hickman on September 3d, and on the 4th secured Columbus. General Grant, who took command at Cairo on September 2d, being thus anticipated, seized Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee River, and occupied it in force on the 5th and 6th. After the occupation, under date of September 4th, I received the following dispatch from Major General Polk: The enemy having descended the Mississippi River some three or four days since, and seated himself with cannon and intrenched lines opposite the town of Columbus, Kentucky, making such demonstrations as left no doubt upon the minds of any of their intention to seize and forcibly possess said town, I thought proper, under the plena
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
eutrality of the state: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Executive Department. Frankfort, August 19, d in military camps in the central portion of Kentucky. This movement was preceded by the active orr. Now, therefore, as Governor of the State of Kentucky, and in the name of the people I have tht, I do not believe it is the popular wish of Kentucky that this force shall be removed beyond her lagree to withdraw the Confederate troops from Kentucky, provided that she will agree that the troopsnot be allowed to enter or occupy any part of Kentucky in the future. I have the honor to be, resections voted for the neutrality and peace of Kentucky. The press, the public speakers, the candidaressor. Witness the fate of Morehead and his Kentucky associates in their distant and gloomy prisonpossession of the position. This invasion of Kentucky was an act of self-defense rendered necessarying their forces from western Virginia and east Kentucky, they have managed to add them to the new [86 more...]
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
ned by the anticipated movement of the enemy to get possession of Columbus. Major General Polk, therefore, crossed the state line, took possession of Hickman on September 3d, and on the 4th secured Columbus. General Grant, who took command at Cairo on September 2d, being thus anticipated, seized Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee River, and occupied it in force on the 5th and 6th. After the occupation, under date of September 4th, I received the following dispatch from Major General giment, and Beltzhoover's battery, were thrown across the Mississippi to occupy and hold the village, in the state of Missouri, then an ally, and soon to become a member, of the Confederacy. On November 6th General Grant left his headquarters at Cairo with a land and naval force, and encamped on the Kentucky shore. This act and a demonstration made by detachments from his force at Paducah were probably intended to induce the belief that he contemplated an attack on Columbus, thus concealing
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
he Indian country, and the western part of Mississippi. General Johnston, on his arrival at Nashville, found that he lacked not only men, but the munitions of war and the means of obtaining them. t was to General A. S. Johnston procure arms and men. On the next day after his arrival at Nashville, he wrote to the Governor of Alabama, I shall beg to rely on your Excellency to furnish us as ennessee. A cap factory, ordnance shops, and workshops were established. The powder mills at Nashville turned out about four hundred pounds a day. Twelve or fourteen batteries were fitted out at Me river will probably render it comparatively secure. The enemy will energetically push toward Nashville the heavy masses. of troops now assembled between Louisville and Bowling Green. The general en, nor line of defense as good as the Barren River, between the Barren and the Cumberland at Nashville; so that it can not be abandoned without exposing Tennessee, and giving vastly the vantage-gro
Paducah (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
mbus. General Grant, who took command at Cairo on September 2d, being thus anticipated, seized Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee River, and occupied it in force on the 5th and 6th. After then and other points in Kentucky by Confederate troops, take into consideration the occupation of Paducah and other places in Kentucky by the Federal authorities, and report thereon when the true statecky by the Confederate troops, and that they take into consideration the reported occupation of Paducah and other points in Kentucky by the Federal authorities, and report thereon; also, that they be position she assumed. Since the election, however, she has allowed the seizure in her port (Paducah) of property of citizens of the Confederate States; she has, by her members in the Congress of ped on the Kentucky shore. This act and a demonstration made by detachments from his force at Paducah were probably intended to induce the belief that he contemplated an attack on Columbus, thus co
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
has been proved by the course of that Government in the States of Maryland and Missouri, and more recently in Kentucky itself, in which, as you inform me, a military That position was doubly important because it commanded the opposite shore in Missouri and was the gateway on the border of Tennessee. Two states of the Confederaernor of Kentucky, and his subsequent letter to the Kentucky commissioners. Missouri, like Kentucky, had wished to preserve peaceful relations in the contest which other acts of invasion, the Federal troops had occupied Belmont, a village in Missouri opposite to Columbus, and with artillery threatened that town, inspiring terrowere thrown across the Mississippi to occupy and hold the village, in the state of Missouri, then an ally, and soon to become a member, of the Confederacy. On Novemto command our Department of the West, which included the states of Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian country, and the western part of Mississippi. General
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.45
a fraction over one thousand stand of arms, with knapsacks, ammunition, and other military stores. Our loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was six hundred and forty-one; that of the enemy was probably not less than twelve hundred. Meanwhile Albert Sidney Johnston, a soldier of great distinction in the United States army, where he had attained the rank of brigadier general by brevet, and was in command of the Department of California, resigned his commission, and came overland from San Francisco to Richmond, to tender his services to the Confederate States. Though he had been bred a soldier, and most of his life had been spent in the army, he had not neglected such study of political affairs as properly belongs to the citizen of a republic, and appreciated the issue made between states claiming the right to resume the powers they had delegated to a general agent and the claims set up by that agent to coerce states, his creators, and for whom he held a trust. He was a native
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...