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Sumterville (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
— for their names had not yet been made public,--whose appointments I had secured from the governors of the other States, and told him that the other governors had made no objection. Governor Andrew was very much astonished. And Governor, I added, I want you to recommend the Hon. Caleb Cushing, who was president of the Charleston convention, as a brigadier-general to go with me into war. He is a friend of Jeff Davis, was the reply. Yes, I said, and immediately after the firing upon Sumter he put himself in his speech at Newburyport wholly on the side of the Union. Well, said the governor, I certainly shall not do that. Oh, well, I said, I know he some time ago called you a one-idea'd abolitionist, and that was true, although it was not a pleasant thing to say. But certainly his ability and his position in the country would seem to entitle him to the place if he would take it, and I think he will. But I will not appoint French, and I will not appoint any other officer
Fort Jackson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ur ports. As to the bombardment of our cities, that is a bug-a-boo which might have been more potent then than it would be now. We have since demonstrated that bombardment does not do a great deal of harm to a city. We bombarded the little city of Charleston for eighteen months steadily, and we did not do $50,000 worth of actual damage; we did not kill as many men in Charleston as we burned tons of powder. There will be no more bombardments of forts even, since the fiasco of Porter at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Bombardments as matters of importance in war will take their place with bayonet wounds and sword cuts. I was casting my eye the other day over a page of the consolidated report of the wounds received at the battles of North Anna, from May 21 to May 26, 1864. In these engagements the total strength of the army was 51,659, and the whole number of wounded was 1,046. There was just one bayonet wound and no sword cut. Yet we all remember we were told how reckless the enem
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
and the rescuers are satisfied. For myself, I am obliged now to declare, as I did then, that it was the most fatal mistake on our part that could have been made, not to have a war with England if she chose. Oh! says one, we would have had the whole English army upon us. To that I answer: England of her own soldiers has never had more than twenty-five thousand men on any one battle-field. The time has gone past for buying Germans to fight her battles. We had more soldiers starve at Andersonville than England had men at Waterloo — and a larger part of those at Waterloo were commanded by an Irishman. We were raising armies by hundreds of thousands. If England had attacked us, the vast advantage would have been that it would have made our war a foreign war, in which everybody must have taken part, North and South, who was not a traitor to his country. No Democrat or Copperhead party could have resolved against the war in that case. It would have been a war in which everybody mu
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
7th, 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 27th, 28th, and 33d, being 14 regiments, estimated at6008,400   6 companies of 8th regiment, 3 companies 49th regiment, and 6 companies Hampton's legion60900   23 companies cavalry601,380     10,680 Tennessee, 1st regiment (1） 600  North Carolina, 5th, 6th, and 11th regiments (3）6001,800  South Carolina, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th regiments (6）6003,600  Georgia, 7th and 8th regiments (2）6001,200  Alabama, 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th regiments (4）e Confederate States, wherever situated, would be, on that day, as follows:-- South Carolina, 8 regiments, at 6004,800 North Carolina,11do.6006,600 Georgia8do.6004,800 Alabama6do.6003,600 Mississippi18do.60010,800 Louisiana7do.6004,200 Tennessee1do.600600 Arkansas1do.600600 Maryland1do.600600          36,600 Add Virginia, 49 regiments, but we know that these are militia numbers, and it is impossible for her to have had more than all the other Confederate St
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ayonet wound and no sword cut. Yet we all remember we were told how reckless the enemy was in charging upon our men sword in hand and with bayonets fixed. As to the expenses of the bombardment of our cities: If England had declared war, by the rules and laws of war that act would have confiscated all the debts our people owed to the subjects of the crown of England, and also all property of English citizens in this country. I think that would have quite offset the loss of plate glass in Broadway by a bombardment. As to the question of soldiers: A Russian fleet lay in our harbor month after month, waiting and ready to take part with us whenever we should say that Great Britain was our declared as well as our actual enemy. England would have wanted all her soldiers, and all that she could have got or paid for, to take care of the Indies against Russia. And the Russian fleet would have made a very respectable defence, and would now, for New York harbor. It may not be out of pl
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 9
to use for that purpose, and their government held it and did so use it. The last loan was the Cotton loan, which could not have been taken for a dollar if this article had not been kept in the South, and its price raised by our blockade. Indeed, in all the markets of the world for the production of cotton goods, cotton so increased in price during the war that it was a serious temptation to England to acknowledge Southern independence in order to get cotton to supply the industries of Manchester. The South did not suffer for arms, neither heavy ordnance nor infantry, weapons nor munitions, during the latter years of the war. The greatly enhanced price of cotton made blockade running immensely profitable; and as the Confederate government had half of all the cotton which ran the blockade with which to buy arms and munitions of war, that supplied the South very fully. It will be remembered that at the opening of the war the wise men who governed the country through the newspaper
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ffice. I walked down with him to his house and congratulated him upon his appointment, with which he was as pleased as a child with a rattle. I went thence to Vermont and met Governor Fairbanks. I talked to him pretty much as I had to Governor Buckingham. I told him that I wanted two gentlemen who had been my associates in the Charleston convention appointed colonel and lieutenant-colonel of a regiment which I desired to raise in Vermont. You shall have them, said he. And I want from Vermont a battery in addition,--you have good horses here,--and I will have my men select their own horses; I have a right to pay for them. The cause of the War.Vermont a battery in addition,--you have good horses here,--and I will have my men select their own horses; I have a right to pay for them. The cause of the War. To this he agreed. Col. Stephen Thomas was appointed colonel of that regiment. I then came down through New Hampshire, and met Governor Roby; and he agreed that I might have my selection of colonel of the New Hampshire regiment. I had in that State a very long-time Democratic friend, Capt. Paul R. George, who had been a
Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 9
h neutral vessel, and proceeded on his mission. He was captured by an English frigate and carried to England. His papers were taken from him, and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for three years, not being allowed to communicate with his family or his country. He was exposed to every indignity, and regained his liberty only when the War of the Revolution ceased after the signing of the treaty of peace between England and her former rebels. More than that, England declared war on Holland on the ground of the papers her officers took from Laurens. From the first England would look at the Trent affair only as a cause of war. The whole country desired that our government should hold Mason and Slidell, and for a time we did hold them. But after much consideration Mr. Seward, always fearful that England would do something against us, consented to return Mason and Slidell, upon the ground that the Trent, although captured, was not brought in. That was a subterfuge on our side
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
egiment Tennessee volunteers600    1st Arkansas volunteers600         2,645  D. R. Jones' Brigade--     5th regiment South Carolina volunteers600    15thdo.Mississippivolunteers600    18thdo.do.do.600    2 guns, Walton's battery, 6 pounders30    1 company cavalry60         1,890  Early's Brigade--     7th regiment Virginina, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th regiments (6）6003,600  Georgia, 7th and 8th regiments (2）6001,200  Alabama, 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th regiments (4）6002,400  Mississippi, 2d, 15th, and 18th regiments (3）6001,800   2 companies of the 11th regiment60120 Louisiana, 6th and 7th regiments (2）6001,200   Wheat's battalion, 4 companiuated, would be, on that day, as follows:-- South Carolina, 8 regiments, at 6004,800 North Carolina,11do.6006,600 Georgia8do.6004,800 Alabama6do.6003,600 Mississippi18do.60010,800 Louisiana7do.6004,200 Tennessee1do.600600 Arkansas1do.600600 Maryland1do.600600     
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
y troops ready early enough to take General Dix's place in the expedition to the eastern peninsula. The attention of the government had also been called toward Mobile, but an expedition thither did not seem to be a matter which would make a diversion of the enemy's plans. General McClellan suggested Texas, and asked me to get . I caught at the idea at once when it was made known to me. But it was necessary to conceal the movement, and accordingly after I was assigned to it, I talked Mobile louder than ever, and gave out that my expedition was to go to Ship Island, near Mobile. But Ship Island was equally as effective against New Orleans. Ship IslaMobile. But Ship Island was equally as effective against New Orleans. Ship Island was selected by Pakenham for a rendezvous for the British fleet in his attack on New Orleans when defended by Jackson, and by carefully examining his reports to his government, it was easy to get the knowledge necessary for a movement in that direction. I had my transportation all engaged and was ready to make sail whenever
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