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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 9: (search)
ately with his entire force, first to Gauley Bridge and thence to Lewisburg, reaching the latter place about the 1st of August, and after a retreat which was necessarily much disordered, on account of his meagre means of transportation. Within a few weeks after Gen. Wise fell back to Lewisburg, the Confederate cause in Western Virginia received the aid of a very effective body of men. John B. Floyd, who had been at one time Governor of Virginia, and afterwards Secretary of War under President Buchanan, was commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and had succeeded in raising a command of three regiments of infantry and a battalion of cavalry. This force was intended for service in Western Virginia, and Gen. Floyd soon decided, with the approval of the War Department, that the defence of the Kanawha Valley was the object of first importance. He accordingly advanced to the White Sulphur Springs, nine miles east of Lewisburg, and held conferences with Gen. Wise. An
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 13: (search)
t the bow, and one at the stern. The other vessels of the Confederate squadron in the James river, under command of Captain Buchanan, were the Patrick Henry, six guns; the Jamestown, two guns; the Raleigh, the Beaufort and the Teazer, each of one guf the fleet were anchored off Fortress Monroe, about nine miles east of Newport News. With the force of twenty guns, Capt. Buchanan proposed to engage this formidable fleet, besides the enemy's batteries at Newport News, and several small steamers, e gaff and half-mast, and another at the main. The little gunboat Beaufort was run alongside, with instructions from Capt. Buchanan to take possession of the Congress, secure the officers as prisoners, allow the crew to land, and burn the ship. Theess of that pledge had left their swords with Lieut. Alexander, on board the Beaufort. In the fire from the shore, Capt. Buchanan had received a severe wound in the thigh. He ordered the Congress to be destroyed by hotshot and incendiary shell, h
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 14: (search)
r-general to Gen. Butler; and in that capacity he was at the famous battle of Monterey, and, during the fight, his horse was three times shot under him. After the Mexican war, he obtained the appointment of paymaster of the regular army, with the rank of major. When the army was increased by four new regiments, Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, gave him command of the Second Cavalry, with his headquarters at San Antonio, Texas. In the latter part of 1857, he was appointed by President Buchanan to the command of the Utah expedition, sent to quell the Mormons. In the spring of 1858, he crossed the plains, and arrived at Salt Lake City, where, in consequence of his services, he was brevetted brigadier-general, and full commander of the military district of Utah. He was subsequently sent to California, and assumed command of the Department of the Pacific. There the commencement of the war found him; and on learning of the secession of his adopted State, Texas, he resigned his
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 29: (search)
re to help the enemy; much more, if he talks ambiguously-talks for his country with buts, and ifs, and ands. Of how little value the constitutional provisions I have quoted will be rendered, if arrests shall never be made until defined crimes shall have been committed, may be illustrated by a few notable examples. General John C. Breckinridge, General Robert E. Lee, General Joseph E. Johnston, General John B. Magruder, General William B. Preston, General Simon B. Buckner, and Commodore Franklin Buchanan, now occupying the very highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now. Unquestionably, if we had seized and held them, the insurgent cause would be much weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime defined in the law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on habeas corpus, were the writ allowed to operate. In view of these and
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 33: (search)
he Morgan and Selma were also wooden gunboats, the former carrying six and the latter four heavy guns. At this time the Confederate flagship Tennessee, with Admiral Buchanan on board, was in the neighbourhood of Fort Gaines, beyond signal distance of the Morgan and Selma. Shortly after the time when the Metacomet cast off, two otle in Mobile Bay; and that, while its authenticity is thus put beyond question, it is directly opposed to, and in utter variance with the official report of Admiral Buchanan, to the effect that the Morgan and Selma were engaged in fight, and at one and the same time, with the Metacomet, and that in the midst of that fight the Morull speed; and the Chickasaw was pounding away at her stern. As she was about being struck by the vessels converging upon her, a white flag was hoisted, and Admiral Buchanan surrendered his vessel only after she had been disabled, himself wounded, and his crew almost in a smothering condition. He might have anticipated the resul
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
Bruce, Robert, 502 Brundage, L. A., 443 Bryan, Peter, 338 Bryant, A. S., 48, 49 Bryant, A. T., 338 Bryant, D. W., 444 Bryant, E. G., 490 Bryant, E. K., 444 Bryant, F. M., 502 Bryant, G. W., 502 Bryant, George, 502 Bryant, J. H., 444 Bryant, John, 1st Mass. H. A., 338 Bryant, John, 18th Mass. Inf., 338 Bryant, Lyman, 502 Bryant, S. C., 444 Bryant, W. A., 502 Bryant, W. E., Jr., 338 Bryant, W. W., 445 Bryson, Thomas, 502 Bubler, J. B., 502 Buchanan, Archibald, 445 Buchanan, Franklin, 43, 46 Buchanan, J. H., 338 Buchanan, James, 445 Buchanan, John, 502 Buck, W. E., 339 Buckley, James, 445 Buckley, John, 2d Mass. Inf., 502 Buckley, John, 20th Mass. Inf., 445 Buckshot, John, 502 Buffum, Amos, 124, 339 Buffum, Cincinnatus, 339 Buffum, E. R., 339 Bullard, Francis, 339 Bullard, I. B., 491 Bullard, M. H., 339 Bullard, W. H., 491 Bullard, W. T., 339 Bullen, J. W., 502 Bullen, Joseph W., 502 Bullfin, John, 502 Bullies, James, 502 Bullock, A. H., 81 Bu
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix (search)
South was able to draw upon the supplies stored in the arsenals, which had been well stocked by the provident treason of Buchanan's minister of war. Senator Sherman, in his Recollections, repeats the absurd story and says that in the early days of tctable people that the Confederate States fought with cannon, rifles and muskets treacherously placed in their hands. Mr. Buchanan says, and there can be no better authority, in the book on his administration, page 220: This delusion presents a string every right and proper expedient for averting or postponing it. His diary of the secret meetings and discussions of Mr. Buchanan's cabinet, during November, 1860, shows how averse he was to what he regarded the unwise and precipitate action of Soug the pernicious views of many in his own state. （Pollard's Lee and His Lieutenants, pp. 790-796, and Administration of Buchanan, p. 220.) It may not be impossible that this persistent perversion of history is intended to shield the North from an
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
ive Northern presidents, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan, the views of Webster and Clay, and the doctrtion through their territorial legislature; Mr. Buchanan's view was that the power to exclude slave o cause their certain overthrow. Douglas and Buchanan were expected to fight each other to the bittsion lost. Yet four months of power Buchanan's vacillation opinion against coercion Scot It is just to say that the administration of Buchanan did enough in November toward strengthening tarolina seceded. (Life of Buchanan.) President Buchanan fortified his policy by asking very earlngthen Fort Sumter cabinet officers resign Buchanan's policy looks warlike Seward calls secessio after Mr. Crawford had ascertained that President Buchanan had in a panic recalled his promise and nt de facto, and which was acted upon by President Buchanan with the intention to throw troops, armsrate States government. The weakness of President Buchanan in attempting to counterpoise secession [39 more...]
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
him for not taking a leading part in secession. Mr. Buchanan sent for him on account of his known conservatis for four years, during the administration of President Buchanan, he served as assistant secretary of the trea the surrender of the Congress; and presented Commodore Buchanan's verbal report to President Davis. After thduring his visit occurred the John Brown raid President Buchanan selected him to suppress the movement, which miration and love of the united nation. Admiral Franklin Buchanan Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Confederate States navy, was born at Baltimore, September 11, 1800. He was a grandson of Governor McKean of Pennsylvania, reating the grade of admiral in the navy, to which Buchanan was nominated by the President and confirmed by thte to the Democratic national convention. By President Buchanan he was appointed minister to Russia in 1858. when he promptly tendered his resignation to President Buchanan. In his letter of this effect, dated Novembe
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: the Maryland Line. (search)
iven back, until at last the only order of going was sauve qui peut. Out of two hundred and fifty men carried in they left seventy killed, wounded or missing. There was a larger percentage of killed than is usual in battle, for the fighting, as Jackson said about the Bucktail fight, was close and bloody. Some of the finest young men of the Maryland Line lost their lives that day. Alexander Young, private in Company D, son of a former comptroller of the treasury of the United States under Buchanan's administration, was a model of manly beauty, of chivalry and grace, of courage and accomplishment. Beautiful as he was brave, refined as highly educated; intellectually, physically and morally he was a pattern gentleman. He died in his tracks, dismounted on the skirmish line, holding his place against a charge of mounted cavalry. This was known in the traditions of the Maryland Line as the fight at Pollard's Farm on May 27, 1864. On the 1st of June following a force of Federal caval
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