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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
on from the State by West Virginia that she had not more than 150,000 fighting men to respond to her call for troops after the secession from the Union in 1861. Prior to the first census Virginia had 10 representatives in the United States Congress; the first census, that of 1790, gave her 19, the second 22, the third 23, the fourth 22, the fifth 21, the sixth 5, the seventh 13, and the eighth, that of 1860,1. The center of population of the United States at each of the five decades, from 1810 to 1850, was within her borders. Her density of population in 1860 was about 25 to the square mile. From the historical standpoint, Virginia occupied an enviable position. From the threshold of 1860 she looked back upon an heroic and glorious past. Her Capt. John Smith—leader, diplomat, fighter, explorer, geographer, historian and adventurer—would have been a notable figure in any age. In 1619, before the establishing of any other English colony in America, she assembled an elected hous
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 4: (search)
ered to and again reaffirmed by Mr. Adams. In this connection we may cite the speech delivered by Mr. Josiah Quincy, a leading and influential Representative from Massachusetts, on the 14th January, 1811. Gales & Seaton's Annals of Congress, 1810-11, 8d session, p. 524. In this he boldly avows and defends both the right and the duty of States to separate from the Union, should Congress pass the bill then pending before them, to enable the people of the Territory of Orleans to form a Constipublic law better settled, or more conformable to the plainest suggestions of reason, than that the violation of a contract by one of the parties may be considered as exempting the other from its obligations Gales & Seaton's Annals of Congress, 1810-11, 3d session, p. 577. Thirty-five members united with Mr. Quincy in voting against this bill, but it passed the House by a vote of 77 to 36. We shall not refer specially to the proceedings of the Hartford Convention, which assembled in De
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
y eight minie balls. He had a soldier's burial and his remains are now a part of Virginia's sacred soil. James Jackson Kennedy, a citizen of Edgefield county who with three sons were soldiers of the Confederacy, was born in Edgefield county in 1810, married Mary Ann King, and as a blacksmith and farmer was prosperous and happy at the beginning of the Southern struggle for independence. In 1862, however, being staunchly devoted to the cause of his State, he enlisted as a private in a companyty and the latter of Pickens county. The father, who was a carriagemaker by trade, served as postmaster of Pendleton for thirty-two years, and during the war acted as receiver of sequestration for the upper half of South Carolina. He was born in 1810 and died in 1892. The mother of Mr. Sitton was the daughter of Jeptha Norton, a colonel in the war of 1812. She died in 1862. Augustus J. Sitton was the eldest of eight children, five sons and three daughters, six of whom, four sons and two dau
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
ne to which international law does not make a definite answer. The rule, roughly stated, which has the general support of text-writers, declares that neutral vessels employed in transporting persons or despatches of the enemy, in connection with the operations of war, are liable to capture and condemnation. But the rule is subject to many important limitations, and as far as precedent is concerned, it rests exclusively upon ten cases, decided in the English Admiralty Court between 1802 and 1810, in seven of which the vessels were condemned. The judgments of Lord Stowell in these cases may be said to have created the rule. None of them covered exactly the case of the Trent, though in one or two there were enough points of resemblance to make the question a fair subject of consideration by a prize-court. But the question could only be brought before a court by capturing the vessel and sending her in for adjudication. Wilkes probably had some such idea in his mind, for he excused
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
Farragut of Tennessee; and frequently it happened that brothers were arrayed on opposite sides, as in the case of the Crittendens of Kentucky, and the McIntoshes of Florida. It is this fact that makes the term civil war appropriate for the great struggle of 1861-65, although in other and greater features the war between the States resembled an international conflict. Albert G. Blanchard, who in the Confederate records is credited to the State of Louisiana, was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1810. There he received his early education. When quite young he entered the United States military academy, where he was graduated in 1829 as brevet second-lieutenant of the Third infantry, being a classmate of Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston. He served on frontier duty, in recruiting services and in improving Sabine river and lake. In 1840 he resigned the rank of first-lieutenant, Third infantry, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1846, being also director of public schools i
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, A slave Hunter Defeated. (search)
A slave Hunter Defeated. In 1810, a slave escaped from Virginia to Philadelphia. In a few months, his master heard where he was, and caused him to be arrested. He was a fine looking young man, apparently about thirty years old. When he was brought before Alderman Shoemaker, that magistrate's sympathy was so much excited, that he refused to try the case unless some one was present to defend the slave. Isaac T. Hopper was accordingly sent for. When he had heard a statement of the case, he asked the agent of the slaveholder to let him examine the Power of Attorney by which he had been authorized to arrest a fugitive from labor, and carry him to Virginia. The agent denied his right to interfere, but Alderman Shoemaker informed him that Mr. Hopper was a member of the Emancipation Society, and had a right to be satisfied. The Power of Attorney was correctly drawn, and had been acknowledged in Washington, before Bushrod Washington, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the Un
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, Marry Morris. (search)
Marry Morris. A woman, who was born too early to derive benefit from the gradual emancipation law of Pennsylvania, escaped from bondage in Lancaster County to Philadelphia. There she married a free colored man by the name of Abraham Morris. They lived together very comfortably for several years, and seemed to enjoy life as much as many of their more wealthy neighbors. But in the year 1810, it unfortunately happened that Mary's master ascertained where she lived, and sent a man to arrest her, with directions either to sell her, or bring her back to him. Abraham Morris was a very intelligent, industrious man, and had laid up some money. He offered one hundred and fifty dollars of his earnings to purchase the freedom of his wife. The sum was accepted, and the parties applied to Daniel Bussier, a magistrate in the District of Southwark, to draw up a deed of manumission. The money was paid, and the deed given; but the agent employed to sell the woman absconded with the money.
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The slave of Dr. Rich. (search)
ted at more than one thousand the number of cases in which he had been employed for fugitives, in one way or another, during his forty years residence in Philadelphia. But enough have been told to illustrate the active benevolence, uncompromising boldness, and ready wit, which characterized this friend of humanity. His accurate knowledge of all laws connected with slavery was so proverbial, that magistrates and lawyers were generally averse to any collision with him on such subjects. In 1810, Benjamin Donahue of Delaware applied to Mr. Barker, mayor of Philadelphia, to assist him in recovering a fugitive, with whose place of residence he was perfectly sure Isaac T. Hopper was acquainted. After a brief correspondence with Friend Hopper, the mayor said to Mr. Donahue, We had better drop this business, like a hot potato; for Mr. Hopper knows more law in such cases as this, than you and I put together. He would often resort to the most unexpected expedients. Upon one occasion, a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
d not have been formed. 16 Peters. It must, therefore, of course, have been a condition of the Union's continuance. We will see how this provision of the Constitution was observed and treated by the abolition or free States. Between the years 1810 and 1850 the losses to the South in fugitive slaves amounted to $22,000,000, an annual loss for that period of $550,000. The ratio of loss increased as the slave population increased. To what it amounted at the date of secession I am unable to state just now. The curious, however, may readily ascertain. The census for 1810 gave a slave population of 1,191,400; that of 1820, 1,538,100; that of 1830, 2,009,030; that of 1840, 2,487,500; that of 1850, 3,204,300; that of 1860, 3,979,700. Estimating the average value at $300, the South lost by the emancipation $1,193,910,000, exclusive of at least $6,500,000 in fugitives between the years 1850 and 1861. The claim of the party of coercion, that morality justified the infliction of that lo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
‘62, Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 31, ‘62, Fair Ground Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 25, ‘63, cancelled. Marshall, B. T., Surgeon, com'd to rank Sept. 29, ‘63, assigned by Med. Ex. Board, Dec. 31, ‘62, Gano Cavalry Regiment. Jan. 13, ‘64, resigned. Mauzy, Chas. K., Assistant Surgeon, appointed by Secretary of War Nov. 14, ‘61, to rank as A. S. 16th Tennessee Regiment, Feb. 14, ‘63, Jones' com'd. Passed Board at Charleston, Feb. ‘62. Nov. 30, ‘63, 16th Tennessee Regiment. McCrary, Lyman B., born 1810 in Lawrence county, Alabama, Assistant Surgeon. Passed Board at Murfreesboro Dec. 5, ‘62. Dec. 6, ‘62, ordered to report to Gen. Polk. Dec. 31, ‘62, 16th Tennessee Regiment (Cairn's Battery), April 22, ‘63, Artillery Corps, 16th Tennessee. Appointed by Secretary of War to rank Dec. 5, ‘62. March 31, ‘64, Marshall's Battery, served until May 1865. means, Hudson J., Assistant Surgeon, com'd Sept. 13, ‘61. Dec. 31, ‘62, Cleveland, Tenn., Jan. 10, ‘63, Academy
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