Found 605 total hits in 256 results.
essage to Congress, 19, 23 et seq.; interview with the South Carolina Commissioners, 28, 30, 31; correspondence with the Waseech of, at Richmond, 169
Declaration of Causes by South Carolina, 5 et seq.
Dennison, Governor, 140
Dix, Secretary, 8, 12; secession of, 13 et seq.
Gist, Governor of South Carolina, his circular letter, 1, 8, 27
Gosport Navy Yard, e Southern States, 15; seizure of, by secessionists, 16; S. Carolina Commissioners treat for delivery of, 27
Nelson, Lieua, 16, 38, 51, 53
Pickens, Franois W., Governor of South Carolina, 5, 32; demands surrender of Fort Sumter, 35, 56 et seion, causes of, 1 et seq.; passage of ordinance of, in South Carolina, 5 et seq., 14; true character of, 8; cabal in Washingith, General G. W., 211
Smith, General, Kirby, 194
South Carolina, attitude of, with regard to secession, 1; secession of, 5, 14
South Carolina Commissioners have an interview with President Buchanan, 30; their blindness to their opportunit
rd to Fort Sumter, 55; his letter to Major Anderson, 58; communication to Gov. Pickens, 59; his first war proclamation, 73; interviews with Douglas, 76; blockades the insurgent ports, 78; interview with Baltimore committee, 100; issues a second call for volunteers, 106; his orders to P. F. Blair, Jr., 122; his measures to save the Border States, 131
Liverpool cotton merchants, 79
Longstreet, General, 179
Louisiana, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Louisville, 135
Lyon, Captain, Nathaniel, 116 et seq., 122 et seq., 123
Lyons, Lord, 94
M.
Magoffin, Governor, 126 et seq., 132, 134 et seq.
Mallory, Senator, 37 et seq., 40
Manassas, first movement against, 162 et seq.; description of, 175 et seq.
Manchester, Eng., cotton operators of, 79
Martinsburg, W. Va., 162, 163
Maryland, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 83, 80; rebel conspiracies to gain, 107, 108; Union enlistments in, 131
Mason, Senator, 25, 91,
Liverpool cotton merchants, 79
Longstreet, General, 179
Louisiana, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Louisville, 135
Lyon, Captain, Nathaniel, 116 et seq., 122 et seq., 123
Lyons, Lord, 94
M.
Magoffin, Governor, 126 et seq., 132, 134 et seq.
Mallory, Senator, 37 et seq., 40
Manassas, first movement against, 162 et seq.; description of, 175 et seq.
Manchester, Eng., cotton operators of, 79
Martinsburg, W. Va., 162, 163
Maryland, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 83, 80; rebel conspiracies to gain, 107, 108; Union enlistments in, 131
Mason, Senator, 25, 91, 142
Massachusetts Eighth Infantry, 92, 103
Massachusetts Sixth Infantry, 84; attack upon, in Baltimore, 85 et seq.; map of its route through Baltimore, 85, 99
McCauley, Commandant, 96
McClellan, Gen. George B., placed in command of Dept. of the Ohio, 140; in West Va., 143, 140 et seq., 153 et seq.; appointed to command the army of the Po
Index.
A.
Abercrombie, Colonel, 166
Alabama, attitude of with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Alexandria, Va., 102; fortified, 167
Alleghany Mountains, 126; 137
Anderson, Major, Robert, 22; transfers his forces to Fort Summer, 28 et seq.; his letter to Governor Pickens, 35; his reply to President Lincoln's letter, 58; his reply to Confederate authorities, 61, 131, 135
Annapolis, 100, 102 et seq.; route by, to the capital, 106 et seq.
Arkansas, 80, 121
Arlington Heights, Va., occupied by Union forces, 110; fortified, 169
Ashby's Gap, 168
B.
Baker, Edward D., 76
Ball's Bluff, engagement at, 210
Baltimore, 83; attack on the Massachusetts soldiers in, 85 et seq., 98; authorities burn R. R. bridges, 89
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 141
Bates, Attorney-General, 122
Banks, General N. P., 208
Barrancas, Fort, 88
Beauregard, General G. T., 56; directs operations against Fort Sumter, 57, 59; placed in command at Manassas, 1
, Colonel, 142 et seq.
Kentucky, 80; attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 129 et seq.; Union Legislature of, 130 et seq., 134
Keyes, General E. D., 174
Key's Ferry, Va., 163
L.
Laurel Hill, 147, 151 et seq.
Lee, General Robert E., 108; appointed to command of Virginia forces, 109; his plans in W. Va., 146; plans of, 169, 170
Leedsville, 151
Leesburg, Va., 163
Lefferts, Colonel, 92 et seq.
Letcher, Governor, 82, 91, 109, 141
Lewis' Ford, 176, note
Liberty, Mo., United States Arsenal at, 117
Lincoln, Abraham, election of, 4; his progress to Washington, 45 et seq.; his early career, 46; his character and person, 47 et seq.; his speeches before inauguration, 48; inauguration of, 49; anxiety about Fort Sumter, 50 et seq.; orders the relief of Forts Sumter and Pickens, 53; his final resolution with regard to Fort Sumter, 55; his letter to Major Anderson, 58; communication to Gov. Pickens, 59; his first war proclamation, 73; interviews with Dougl
Polk, General, Leonidas, 134 et seq.
Porter, General, Andrew, 174
Porter, General, Fitz-John, 157, 166
Porterfield, Colonel, 142 et. seq., 146
Potomac River, 126
Price, Sterling, 121 et seq., 124
Provisional Congress of the rebel States, 37, 39 et seq.
Pulaski, Fort, 80
R.
Rebellion, the beginning of, 1; first formal proposal of, 26
Relay House, 90
Richardson, General J. B., 174, 178
Richmond, 92; Confederate seat of government transferred to, 169
Rich Mountain, 147, 151, 153
Ricketts, Captain, 188, 191, 192
Roaring Creek, 149
Robinson, Camp Dick, 182
Robinson House, the, 187
Rosecrans, General W. S., 149, 154, 208
Runyon, General, Theodore, commands Fourth Division in advance to Manassas, 174
Russell, Dr. W. H., 202
S.
Sandford, General, 168
Santa Rosa Island, 38
Schenck, General R. C., 74
Scott, General, Winfield, at Washington, 24, 49; views on the relief of Fort Sumter, 51; orders the reinforcement of Harper's
ave the Border States, 131
Liverpool cotton merchants, 79
Longstreet, General, 179
Louisiana, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Louisville, 135
Lyon, Captain, Nathaniel, 116 et seq., 122 et seq., 123
Lyons, Lord, 94
M.
Magoffin, Governor, 126 et seq., 132, 134 et seq.
Mallory, Senator, 37 et seq., 40
Manassas, first movement against, 162 et seq.; description of, 175 et seq.
Manchester, Eng., cotton operators of, 79
Martinsburg, W. Va., 162, 163
Maryland, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 83, 80; rebel conspiracies to gain, 107, 108; Union enlistments in, 131
Mason, Senator, 25, 91, 142
Massachusetts Eighth Infantry, 92, 103
Massachusetts Sixth Infantry, 84; attack upon, in Baltimore, 85 et seq.; map of its route through Baltimore, 85, 99
McCauley, Commandant, 96
McClellan, Gen. George B., placed in command of Dept. of the Ohio, 140; in West Va., 143, 140 et seq., 153 et seq.; appointed to
misconduct and suspension of, 199, 204
Militia, first call for, 73 et seq.
Milroy, Colonel, 152 et seq.
Melvale, 90
Mississippi, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Missouri, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 80, 115; Unionists of, 120; without local government, 124; rescued from secessionists, 125, 131, 133
Mitchell's Ford, 176, note
Montgomery, 92
Morgan, Fort, 79
Morris, General, 143, 147, 151
Morton, Governor, 129
Moultrie, Fort, 21 et seq., 28; seizure of, 32
N.
National property in the Southern States, 15; seizure of, by secessionists, 16; S. Carolina Commissioners treat for delivery of, 27
Nelson, Lieut., William, U. S. N., 131 et seq.
New York City, proposition for secession of, 71; war meeting in, 92
New York Seventh Regiment, 103
Norfolk Navy Yard, 83; destroyed, 96
North Carolina, attitude of, with regard to secession, 1, 80
North, its misapprehension of Southern opinion, 71 et
, 140
Dix, Secretary John A., 33, 76, 208
Doubleday, Captain (afterward General) Abner, 29, 64
Douglas, Stephen A., adherents of, 8; his interview with President Lincoln, 76
Dogan Heights, 191
Duke, Captain, 117
Dumont, Colonel, 143, 15
E.
Ellsworth, Col. E. E., 110 et seq.; shot at Alexandria, 113; buried from the White House, 114
Ellsworth's Zouaves, 110
Elzey, General, 194
Evans, Colonel, 183
Evarts, Wm. M., 76
Everett, Edward, 76
F.
Falling Waters, W. Va., skirmish at, 162
Federal Hill, Baltimore, 108
Field, David Dudley, 76
Fitzpatrick, Senator, 37
Florida, attitude of, with regard to secession, 2, 8; secession of, 14
Floyd, Secretary, 6, 17, 20, 23 et seq., 26, 30; his malfeasance in office, 31; resigns, 32
Follansbee, Captain, 86 et seq.
Foster, Captain, 28, 63
Fox, Captain G. V., 51; sails in command of expedition for relief of Fort Sumter, 59
Franklin, General W. B., 174
Fremont, General J. C., 133
on of, 4; his progress to Washington, 45 et seq.; his early career, 46; his character and person, 47 et seq.; his speeches before inauguration, 48; inauguration of, 49; anxiety about Fort Sumter, 50 et seq.; orders the relief of Forts Sumter and Pickens, 53; his final resolution with regard to Fort Sumter, 55; his letter to Major Anderson, 58; communication to Gov. Pickens, 59; his first war proclamation, 73; interviews with Douglas, 76; blockades the insurgent ports, 78; interview with Baltimo to, 163 et seq.
Pawnee, the, 110
Pegram, Colonel, 147
Peirpont, F. H., Governor, 145
Pensacola, 38, 79
Pennsylvania, Military Department of, 155
Philippi, 143 et seq.; battle of, 144, 146 et seq.
Phillips, Wendell, 76
Pickens, Fort, at Pensacola, 16, 38, 51, 53
Pickens, Franois W., Governor of South Carolina, 5, 32; demands surrender of Fort Sumter, 35, 56 et seq., 59
Pierce, ex-President, 76
Pillow, General, 133, 134
Pinckney, Castle, 20; seizure of, 32
