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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 9: proceedings in Congress.--departure of conspirators. (search)
ing, Seward, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, and Wilson. NAYs, Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Bright, Clingman, Crittenden, Fitch, Green, Gwin, Hunter, Johnson of Tennessee, Kennedy, Lane of Oregon, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Rice, Saulsbury, and Sebastian. The leading conspirators in the Senate, who might have defeated the amendment and carried the Crittenden Compromise, did not vote. This reticence was preconcerted. They had resolved not to accept anttenden Compromise was finally rejected by a vote of twenty against nineteen. The vote was as follows:-- ayes.--Messrs. Bayard, Bright, Bigler, Crittenden, Douglas, Gwin, Hunter, Johnson of Tennessee, Kennedy, Lane, Latham, Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian, Thompson, Wigfall--19. noes.--Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Chandler, Clarke, Dixon, Doolittle, Durkie, Fessenden, Foote, Foster, Grimes, Harlan, King. Morrill, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull. Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson--20. It m
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
res, her merchants, her manufacturers, her artists — that New York, by one hundred thousand of her people, declares to the country and to the world, that she will sustain the Government to the last dollar in her treasury — to the last drop of your blood. The National banners leaning from ten thousand windows in your city to-day, proclaim your affection and reverence for the Union. Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, who was Secretary of the Treasury in the Democratic Administration of President Polk, denounced secession as a crime, and said :--Much as I love my party, I love my country infinitely more, and must and will sustain it, at all hazards. Indeed, it is due to the great occasion here frankly to declare that, notwithstanding my earnest opposition to the election of Mr. Lincoln, and my disposition most closely to scrutinize all his acts, I see, thus far, nothing to condemn in his efforts to save the Union. . . . And now let me say, that this Union must, will, and shall be per
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. Treasonable work in Missouri, 538. Bird's Point fortified Generals Pillow, Polk, and Pope, 539. General Lyon's expedition to the Interior of Missouri, 540. battle near Booneville, 541. Governor Jacksolding the commission of a brigadier-general in the service of the conspirators. Pillow was superseded in command by Leonidas Polk, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point, and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Louisiana. Early in July, Polk accepted the commission of major-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, and was appointed to the command of a department, which extended from the mouth of the Arkansas River, on each side ocapital of the Commonwealth, on the Missouri River, and their first business to drive Jackson and Price, with their Leonidas Polk. followers, out of it. These troops were composed of Missouri volunteers, under Colonels Blair and Boernstein; regul
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
Navy should be employed in subjecting or holding as a conquered province any sovereign State now, or lately, one of the United States. Sherman, of Ohio, offered as a substitute a clause, declaring that the purposes of the military establishment provided for in the Act were to preserve the Union, to defend the property, and .to maintain the constitutional authority of the Government. , This was adopted, with only four dissenting voices; Breckinridge and Powell, of Kentucky; and Johnson and Polk, of Missouri. when Breckinridge moved as an additional amendment the substance of Powell's proposition, and the words, or to abolish Slavery therein --that is, in any State lately one of the United States. This was rejected; and the bill, as it came from the Committee of the Whole, was adopted. On the following day the venerable John J. Crittenden, who was now a member of the House of Representatives, offered a joint resolution, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
Notwithstanding the National Capital was filled with fugitives from a shattered army, and it was believed by many that the seat of Government was at the mercy o. its enemies, Congress, on Monday, deliberated as calmly as if assured of perfect safety. Mr. Crittenden's resolution was adopted by a vote of 117 to 2; and two days afterwards, July 24, 1861. one identical with it passed the Senate by a vote almost as decisive. The negatives were Breckinridge and Powell, of Kentucky; Johnson and Polk, of Missouri; and Trumbull, of Illinois. The latter opposed it because of the particular wording of the first clause, and said, the revolt was occasioned, in my opinion, by people who are not here, nor in this vicinity. It was started in South Carolina. I think the resolution limits it to a class of persons [those in arms around the Capital ] who were not the originators of this Rebellion. It was such a solemn declaration of the Government that the conspirators were speaking falsely when
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 2: civil and military operations in Missouri. (search)
federate forces, 61. the Confederates alarmed Polk orders Pillow to fly from Missouri, 62. activi D, end of tube to which the match is applied. Polk was then gathering strength at Randolph and Forw Madrid and Cairo. Autograph letter of Leonidas Polk to Gideon J. Pillow, dated at Memphis, Augs Picayune, writing from Richmond on the day of Polk's appointment as major-general in the Confedera independence, in a measure, of both Pillow and Polk. Pillow and Thompson had set their hearts on t aiming at a similar result in a different way. Polk, at Memphis, alarmed by rumor of an immense arm and Fort Pillow. Pillow demurred, and charged Polk, by implication, with keeping back re-enforcemed to move on Cape Girardeau by the river road. Polk, was annoyed, and wrote him a long letter on ths connnection became so insubordinate, that General Polk submitted a statement of it to the War Depag days changed all plans.--Autograph Letters of Polk, Hardee, Pillow, Thompson, and others, from the[11 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
, and seizing Columbus. On the 30th of August, Polk telegraphed to Pillow, saying: I shall myself b0. This was done, and on the 4th Sept., 1861. Polk seized Hickman and Columbus, and commenced the to Davis, at Richmond, and to The Bluff, and Polk's Headquarters, near Columbus. Governor Hae honor. Walker, the Secretary of War, ordered Polk to withdraw his troops from Kentucky, while Davrn the position of the Confederate forces under Polk, Pillow, Thompson, and Hardee, as to cut off thon hearing of the invasion of that State by General Polk. He had proceeded to strengthen the posititroops from Ironton, and had been informed that Polk was sending re-enforcements to Price from Columon toward Columbus, to attract the attention of Polk, and at the same time he sent a force down the , toward their landing-place in the morning. Polk determined not to allow Grant to escape with hitucky, already alluded to; Zollicoffer, like Polk, made necessity the pretext for scorning the ne[14 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
e region which the Nationals abandoned. See page 84. We left Southern Kentucky, from the mountains to the Mississippi River, in possession of the Confederates. Polk was holding the western portion, with his Headquarters at Columbus; General Buckner, with a strongly intrenched camp at Bowling Green, was holding the center; and oncentrated troops at Bowling Green, and General Hardee was called from Southeastern Missouri, to supersede General Buckner in command there. The forces under General Polk at Columbus were strengthened, and Zollicoffer, having secured the important position of Cumberland Gap, proceeded to occupy the rich mineral and agricultural e combined armies of Halleck and Buell prepared to move. These fortifications had been constructed with skill, as to location and form, under the direction of General Polk, and chiefly by the labor of slaves. The principal works, were redoubts on Island No.10, in the Mississippi River, and at Columbus, on its, eastern bank; Fort
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
f Nashville, 234. expedition against Columbus Polk's preparations to fly from it, 235. capture ofable, the so-called Secretary of War instructed Polk, through Beauregard, to evacuate Columbus, and select a defensive position below. Polk chose that section of the Mississippi and its shores which Number10. So early as the 25th of February, Polk ordered the removal of the sick from Columbus, tary buildings of the post, and, accompanied by Polk and his staff, followed the retiring columns, a the 2d. March, 1862. Report of Major-General Leonidas Polk to Colonel Thomas Jordan, March 18ty. General Cullum's report contradicts that of Polk concerning the removal of nearly all that was v to General McClellan. on the same day. General Polk, in his report, says, The enemy's cavalry, left to hold the post. We have observed that Polk and his confederates, on retiring from Columbus with his fugitive army from Bowling Green, and Polk was trembling in his menaced works at Columbus,[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
ined by several regiments from Louisiana; two divisions from Columbus, under General Polk; and a fine Pensacola, commanded by General Bragg. In numbers, in disciplinender Generals Hardee and Bragg, were massed at Corinth; and his left, under Generals Polk and Hindman, about ten thousand, extended northward from the Memphis and Chive hundred yards. At the distance of about eight hundred yards behind Bragg was Polk's corps; in lines of brigades, deployed with their batteries in rear of each brilry on the left wing. The reserves, commanded by Breckinridge, closely followed Polk's (third) line, its right wing supported by cavalry. In this order the Confedut of the fight. His flanks had been rolled up by fresh troops under Bragg; and Polk, with the third Confederate line, was soon moving toward Sherman's rear, endangeion that the Confederates, commanded by Beauregard in person, assisted by Bragg, Polk, and Breckinridge, made their last decided stand, in the woods beyond Sherman's
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