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January 18th (search for this): article 10
sident's reply to a message from me.) Next, it was doubted whether it would be safe to send reinforcements in an unarmed steamer, and the want, as usual, of a suitable naval vessel — the Brooklyn being long held in reserve at Norfolk for some purpose unknown to me. Finally, after I had kept a body of three hundred recruits in New York harbor ready for some time — and they would have been sufficient to reinforce temporarily Fort Pickens, and to occupy Fort McRae also — the President, about January 18, permitted that the sloop of war Brooklyn should take a single company, ninety men, from Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads, and reinforce Lieut Slemmer, in Fort Pickens, but without a surplus man for the neighboring fort, McRae. The Brooklyn, with Captain Vodges's company alone, left the Chesapeake for Fort Pickens about January 22d, and, on the 29th, President Buchanan, having entered into a quasi armistice with certain leading seceders at Pensacola and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Hol<
October 31st (search for this): article 10
Rtg. October 30, 1860, I emphatically called the attention of the President to the necessity of strong garrisons in all forts below the principal commerce cities of the Southern States, Including, by name, the forts in Pensacola a harbor. October 31, I suggested to the Secretary of War that a circular should be sent at once to such of those forts as had garrisons, to be alert against surprises and sudden assaults.--（St my "Views," since printed) After a long confinement to my bed in ble transportation to take them to New York His relative weakness had steadily increased in the last eighteen days. It was not till January 3d"when the first Commissioners from South Carolina withdrew — that the permission I had solicited October 31st was obtained to admonish commanders of the few Southern forts with garrisons to be on the alert against surprises and sudden assaults (Major Anderson was not among the admonished, being already straitly beleaguered) January 3d.--To Lieute
December 30th (search for this): article 10
r greater value even to the more distant points of the Atlantic coast and the people on the upper waters of the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio rivers, than to the State of Florida. There is only a feeble company at Key West for the defence of Fort Taylor, and not a soldier in Fort Jefferson to resist a handful of filibusters or a row-boat of pirates; and the Gulf, soon after the beginning of secession or revolutionary troubles in the adjacent States, will swarm with such nuisances" December 30.--I addressed the President as follows: "Lieutenant-General Scott begs the President of the United States to pardon the irregularity of this communication. It is Sunday, the weather is bad, and General Scott is not well enough to go to church. "But matters of the highest national importance seem to forbid a moment's delay, and, if misled by seal, he hopes for the President's forgiveness. "Will the President permit General Scott, without reference to the War Department, and
March 25th (search for this): article 10
the Chesapeake for Fort Pickens about January 22d, and, on the 29th, President Buchanan, having entered into a quasi armistice with certain leading seceders at Pensacola and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Holt and Touley to instruct, in a joint note, the commanders of the war vessels off Pensacola and Lieut Slemmer, commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no act of hostilities, and not to land Captain Vodges's company unless that fort should be attacked. [That joint note I never saw until March 25th, but suppose the armistice was consequent upon the meeting of the Peace Convention at Washington, and was understood to terminate with it.] Hearing, however, that the most active preparations for hostilities on the part of the seceders at Pensacola, by the erection of new batteries and arming Fort Mcllae--that had not a gun mounted when it was seized — during the Peace Convention and since, I brought the subject to the notice of the new Administration, when this note, dated March 12th
Totten (search for this): article 10
s of South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, &c.; and this truce lasted to the end of that Administration. That plan, and all others, without a squadron of war ships and a considerable army, competent to take and hold the many formidable batteries below Fort Sumter, and before the exhaustion of its subsistence having been pronounced, from the change of circumstances, impracticable by Major Anderson, Captain Foster, (Chief Engineer) and all the other officers of the fort, as well as Brigadier-General Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engineers; and, concurring in that opinion, I did not hesitate to advise (March 12th) that Major Anderson be instructed to evacuate the fort, so long gallantly held by him and his companions, immediately on procuring suitable transportation to take them to New York His relative weakness had steadily increased in the last eighteen days. It was not till January 3d"when the first Commissioners from South Carolina withdrew — that the permission I had solicite
Armstrong (search for this): article 10
mer, commanding in Pensacola harbor: "The General-in-Chief directs that you take measures to do the utmost in your power to prevent the of either of the forts in Pensacola harbor, By on assault, conducting first with the commander of the navy-yard, who will probably have received instructions to co-operate with you." (This order was signed by Aide-de-camp Lay.) It was just before the surrender of the Pensacola navy-yard (January 12. ) that Lieutenant Slemmer, calling upon Commander Armstrong, obtained the aid of some thirty common seamen or laborers, (but no marines,) which, added to his forty-six soldiers, made up his numbers to seventy-six men, with whom this meritorious officer has since held Fort Pickens, and performed, working night and day, an immense amount of labor in mounting guns, keeping up a strong guard, &c., &c Early in January I renewed, as has been seen, my solicitations to be allowed to reinforce Fort Pickens, but a good deal of time was lost in vaci
Jackson (search for this): article 10
ed to say this morning at the interview with which he was honored by the President."Long prior to the force bill, (March 2, 1833,) prior to the issue of his proclamation, and, in part, prior to the passage of the ordinance of nullification, President Jackson, under the act of March 8, 1807, authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces, caused reinforcements to be sent to Fort and a sloop-of-war, (the Natchez) with two revenue cutters, to be cent to Charleston harbor, in order, 1, t 2, to enforce the execution of the revenue laws. Gen. Scott himself arrived at Charleston the day after the passage of the ordinance of nullification, and many of the additional companies were then on route for the same destination. "President Jackson familiarly said at the time that, by the assemblage of those forces for lawful purposes, he was not making war upon South Carolina; but that if South Carolina attacked them it would be South Carolina that made war upon the United States.
McRae (search for this): article 10
orfolk for some purpose unknown to me. Finally, after I had kept a body of three hundred recruits in New York harbor ready for some time — and they would have been sufficient to reinforce temporarily Fort Pickens, and to occupy Fort McRae also — the President, about January 18, permitted that the sloop of war Brooklyn should take a single company, ninety men, from Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads, and reinforce Lieut Slemmer, in Fort Pickens, but without a surplus man for the neighboring fort, McRae. The Brooklyn, with Captain Vodges's company alone, left the Chesapeake for Fort Pickens about January 22d, and, on the 29th, President Buchanan, having entered into a quasi armistice with certain leading seceders at Pensacola and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Holt and Touley to instruct, in a joint note, the commanders of the war vessels off Pensacola and Lieut Slemmer, commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no act of hostilities, and not to land Captain Vodges's company unless that fort s
Lay (search for this): article 10
and sudden assaults (Major Anderson was not among the admonished, being already straitly beleaguered) January 3d.--To Lieutenant Slemmer, commanding in Pensacola harbor: "The General-in-Chief directs that you take measures to do the utmost in your power to prevent the of either of the forts in Pensacola harbor, By on assault, conducting first with the commander of the navy-yard, who will probably have received instructions to co-operate with you." (This order was signed by Aide-de-camp Lay.) It was just before the surrender of the Pensacola navy-yard (January 12. ) that Lieutenant Slemmer, calling upon Commander Armstrong, obtained the aid of some thirty common seamen or laborers, (but no marines,) which, added to his forty-six soldiers, made up his numbers to seventy-six men, with whom this meritorious officer has since held Fort Pickens, and performed, working night and day, an immense amount of labor in mounting guns, keeping up a strong guard, &c., &c Early
Foster (search for this): article 10
d Pensacola harbors, agreed upon between the late President and certain principal seceders of South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, &c.; and this truce lasted to the end of that Administration. That plan, and all others, without a squadron of war ships and a considerable army, competent to take and hold the many formidable batteries below Fort Sumter, and before the exhaustion of its subsistence having been pronounced, from the change of circumstances, impracticable by Major Anderson, Captain Foster, (Chief Engineer) and all the other officers of the fort, as well as Brigadier-General Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engineers; and, concurring in that opinion, I did not hesitate to advise (March 12th) that Major Anderson be instructed to evacuate the fort, so long gallantly held by him and his companions, immediately on procuring suitable transportation to take them to New York His relative weakness had steadily increased in the last eighteen days. It was not till January 3d"when
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