Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense.
- A. H. Stephens in the Virginia Convention, 382. -- military league with the conspirators at Montgomery, 383. -- the people at an election awed by bayonets -- Senator Mason's letter, 384. -- North Carolina ruled by usurpers -- Ordinance of Secession adopted, 385. -- seizure of the Arsenal at Fayetteville -- mischievous work begins in Tennessee, 386. -- Tennessee leagued with the “Confederacy,” 387. -- usurpation and fraud in Tennessee, 388. -- designs against Harper's Ferry, 390. -- destruction at Harper's Ferry, 391. -- the Navy Yard and vessels at Gosport, 392. -- effect of treachery and weakness, 394. -- Admiral Paulding -- stormy