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Numidia (Algeria) (search for this): chapter 19
s, lawyers, doctors, and clergymen. They were all young and full of life, and ambitious, quick, shrewd, and enterprising. The regiment adopted the Zouave costume of Colonel Wallace's Crawfordsville Company. The color was steel gray, with a narrow binding of red on their jackets and the top of a small cap. The shirt was of dark blue flannel. The Zouaves, from whom they derived their name, were a body of Algerine soldiers, whom the French incorporated into their army after the conquest of Algeria. They were a wild, reckless set of men, in picturesque costume, and marked for their perfect discipline and particularly active tactics. The native Zouaves finally disappeared from the French army, but their costume and tactics were preserved. When French Zouave regiments performed eminent service in the Crimea, and gained immense popularity, Wallace and Ellsworth introduced the costume and system of maneuvers into this country, and at the beginning of the civil war large numbers of the
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
s from the Slave-labor States of Virginia and Kentucky, between whom and Ohio was only the dividing luence. At that meeting it was resolved that Kentucky reserved to herself the right to choose her oually to fidelity to the United States and to Kentucky. This meeting delighted the conspirators, nded his delivery to the civil authorities of Kentucky, to be tried for treason against the State. osition taken by the Conditional Unionists in Kentucky at that time, saved the State from drifting illy the populous and powerful Commonwealth of Kentucky, accepted the plea of expediency as sufficienhievous. That the Unconditional Unionists in Kentucky and throughout the Slave-labor States were dihem were born in Missouri. Thirteen were from Kentucky, and three were natives of Europe. Notwithstaer, a daughter of Governor George Madison, of Kentucky, whose bravery was conspicuous at Frenchtown,of Illinois. The secessionists, especially of Kentucky and Missouri, were alarmed and chagrined by t[8 more...]
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
to answer. Simon B. Buckner, a captain in the National Service, and a traitor without excuse, and then, evidently, in the secret service of the conspirators at Montgomery, was placed at the head of the Guard, and used his position effectively in seducing large numbers of the members from their allegiance to the old flag, and sends would not trust them. Not content with this usurpation at home, Governor Rector and his associates, acting under the directions of the arch-conspirators at Montgomery, took measures to attach to their cause, by persuasion or coercion, the powerful civilized Indians residing in the Territory adjoining the western boundaries ofe of a treaty made with them, they were entitled to the privilege of having two of their number occupy seats as delegates in the Congress of the conspirators at Montgomery. Two regiments of these Indians were raised, and, under Pike, who was commissioned a brigadier-general, they joined Albert Pike. the army of the conspirator
Fort Smith (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
their treaty obligations to the United States, and urged them to be faithful in the observance of them. He exhorted them to take no part in the exciting Fort Smith, Arkansas. events of the day, but to attend to their ordinary avocations; and not to be alarmed by false reports circulated among them by designing men, but to culthave observed, been abandoned by United States troops, in consequence of the treason of Twiggs, and the Indians were threatened by an invasion from that State. Fort Smith, on the boundary-line, between Arkansas and the Indian Territory, The boundary-line runs through the fort. It is at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, and near it is the city of Fort Smith, at which an immense trade with the Indians and New Mexicans was carried on before the war. It was next to Little Rock, the capital of the State, in population. had also been evacuated, and was now in possession of the insurgents. Their immediate neighbors, the Choctaws and Chickasa
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ice, 470. the militia of Missouri called out, 471. Cairo fortified and garrisoned its importance, 472. Seceo thousand of these State troops to possess and hold Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Riverton had been early informed of a conspiracy to seize Cairo, a small village in Illinois, on the low marshy poins, at an early day, to take possession of and occupy Cairo. See page 456. Cairo is one hundred and seventy-fCairo is one hundred and seventy-five miles below St. Louis. It is situated on a boot-shaped peninsula, which has been formed by the action of twere not less than five thousand Union volunteers at Cairo, under the command of the experienced B. M. Prentissre. Before the close of May, Military position at Cairo. the post at Cairo was considered impregnable againCairo was considered impregnable against any force the Confederates were likely to bring. It soon became a post of immense importance to the Union cd the events at Baltimore, Governor Rector View at Cairo, on the Ohio River front, in 1861. (whose elect
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ward it was addressed by the distinguished United States Senator, Stephen A. Douglas, the rival of rsy. Every man must be on the side of the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals iney were pledged equally to fidelity to the United States and to Kentucky. This meeting delightedStates, separate or united, especially the United States and Confederate States, that he not only fion of Slavery into the Territories of the United States, was deeply regretted, because it threatenth Carolina, who was then commander of the United States military post at St. Louis, and having in ostile designs against the property of the United States or its representatives, and that the idea people of their treaty obligations to the United States, and urged them to be faithful in the obsenimity, declared their allegiance to the Confederate States, and have given their authorities power and to win the liberal confidence of the Confederate States. I have the honor to be, Sir, very re[6 more...]
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
s to Ben McCulloch, under whom the Indians and some Texan troops were to act, informing him that the Cherokee Nation had espoused the cause of the conspirators. The wife of Ross, a young and well-educated woman, still held out; and when an attempt was made to raise a Confederate flag over the Council House, she opposed the act with so much spirit, that the insurgents desisted. Equally spirited was the head Chief of the Creeks. After fighting the insurgents in the field, he was driven into Kansas, where he died in 1864. During the civil war, the Cherokees suffered terribly, at times, from the depredations of guerrilla bands of rebels, who infested the western borders of Missouri and Arkansas and Upper Texas, roaming through the Indian country, and committing violence and robberies everywhere. Three of the most noted of the leaders of these robber bands were named, respectively, Taylor, Anderson, and Tod, who gave to the bravest of their followers a silver badge, star-shaped, and
Washita (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
vate peace and friendship with the inhabitants of all the States. He earnestly urged them to observe a strict neutrality, and to maintain a trust that God would not only keep from their borders the desolation of war, but stay its ravages among the brotherhood of States. But Ross and his loyal adherents among the Cherokees and Creeks were overborne by the tide of rebellion, and were swept on, powerless, by its tremendous current. The forts on the frontier of Texas (Gibson, Arbuckle, and Washita), used for their defense, had, as we have observed, been abandoned by United States troops, in consequence of the treason of Twiggs, and the Indians were threatened by an invasion from that State. Fort Smith, on the boundary-line, between Arkansas and the Indian Territory, The boundary-line runs through the fort. It is at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, and near it is the city of Fort Smith, at which an immense trade with the Indians and New Mexicans was carried on be
Europe (search for this): chapter 19
tes to the State Convention, which assembled at Jefferson City on the 28th of February. In that Convention there was Jefferson City in 1861. not a single openly avowed disunionist, but there were a few secret ones and many Conditional Unionists. The Convention consisted of one hundred and. four members, of whom fifty-three were lawyers. One-quarter of them were natives of Virginia, and only fourteen of them were born in Missouri. Thirteen were from Kentucky, and three were natives of Europe. Notwithstanding the slaves in Missouri were less than one-tenth of the population, and the real and best interests of the State were in close affinity with free labor, the Slave power, which embraced a large number of active politicians, was potential. These politicians were mostly of the Virginia and South Carolina school, and through their exertions the disloyal Claiborne F. Jackson was elected Governor of the State. See page 201. On the second day of its session the Missouri Conv
Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ges and assurances — with your protestations, apologies, and proclamations, at once and altogether! Away, parricide! Away, and do Simon Bolivar Buckner. penance forever!--be shriven or be slain — away! You have less palliation than Attila-less boldness, magnanimity, and nobleness than Coriolanus. You are the Benedict Arnold of the day! You are the Catiline of Kentucky! Go, thou miscreant! And when, in February, 1862, Buckner and many of the Kentucky State Guard were captured at Fort Donelson, and he was sent a prisoner to Fort Warren, many of those who were deceived by the belief that the Guard was the bulwark of the Commonwealth, demanded his delivery to the civil authorities of Kentucky, to be tried for treason against the State. It has been claimed that the position taken by the Conditional Unionists in Kentucky at that time, saved the State from drifting into secession. The President, estimating the importance of preserving the attachment of the Border Slave-labor St
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