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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 17 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 14 14 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 9 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 6 Browse Search
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) 4 4 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 4 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 4 4 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 4 4 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
ape, at the confluence of the waters of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, on the seacoast of South Carolina, and far away from the centers of population and the great forces of the Republic. The delegates, almost six hundred in number, and representing thirty-two States, assembled on the 23d of April 1860. in the great hall of the South Carolina Institute, This building, in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signee (it was adopted in St. Andrew's Hall), late in December, 1860, was destroyed by fire in December, 1861. St. Andrew's Hall, in which the conspirators against the Republic who seceded from the Democratic Convention now under consideration assembled, and in which the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was adopted by the unanimous voice of a Convention, was destroyed at the same time. Everything about the site of these buildings, made in famous in history because of the wicked acts performed in them, yet (1865) exhibits a ghastly picture of desolat
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
of the Convention were chosen on the 3d of December. David F. Jamison. Not one had been nominated who was opposed to secession; and when, on the 17th, December, 1860. they assembled in the Baptist Church at Columbia, they were all of one mind in relation to the main question. David F. Jamison, a delegate from Barnwell Discers then in place. By making the Federal agents ours, he said, the machinery will move on. This was finally the arrangement, substantially. On the 21st, December 1860. the Convention appointed Robert W. Barnwell, James I. Adams, and James L. Orr, Commissioners to proceed to Washington, to treat for the possession of the Natin permitted, by legislative decree, to suspend specie payments. According to the returns made to the Controller-general of South Carolina, for the month of December, 1860, the number of banks in that State was only twenty, with an aggregate capital of about fifteen millions of dollars, and a circulation of about seven millions
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. (search)
Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. Fortifications in Charleston harbor, 117. Major Anderson takes command and warns the Government, 118. treasothe Custom House and post office, 139. Events that occurred in the harbor of Charleston during the latter part of December, 1860, were quite as exciting as those in the city of Charleston. There are four military works there belonging to the Natthat name, which defied the British fleet in 1776. At the time we are considering, it was Plan of Fort Moultrie in December, 1860. explanation of the Diagranm.--a, gate and draw-bridge; B, B, B, B, abutments commanding the gate and approaches; ment of the deceived, offended, astonished, and bewildered Charlestonians, who, at dawn, on the morning of the 27th, December, 1860. had seen clouds of heavy smoke rolling up from Fort Moultrie. They had crowded the Battery, the wharves, and the ro
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 6: Affairs at the National Capital.--War commenced in Charleston harbor. (search)
already mentioned, See page 123. where an immense meeting of the citizens was held in the street, in front of the Court House, in the evening of the 27th, December, 1860. and they resolved that it was the duty of the President to purge his Cabinet of every man known to give aid and comfort to, or in any way countenancing, the r, assumed the character of a nightmare, when, on the following day, they heard of Anderson and his gallant little band being in Fort Sumter. On the 28th, December, 1860. the Commissioners addressed a formal diplomatic letter to the President, drawn up, it is said, by Orr, who was once Speaker of the Rebidence of the Commissmed it an improper paper to be offered to the Court. Yet he treated the Commissioners and their letter with marked courtesy in a reply written on the 30th. December, 1860. He referred them to his Annual Message for a definition of his intended course concerning the property of the United States and the collection of the revenue
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
ttee of Thirty-three, when a resolution was passed avowedly intended to counteract the effect of the above dispatch, and, as I believe, to mislead the people of the South. It was one of the many sensation dispatches spoken of by the Georgia journalist. It was also presented by Mr. Davis to the Committee of Thirty-three, with the expectation, no doubt, that it would frighten the Northern men into acquiescence with the demands of those of the South. It failed to do so; and on the 22d, December, 1860. Toombs, who had lately arrived in Washington, telegraphed an address to the people of Georgia, half true and half untrue, in which he said:--I came here to secure your constitutional rights, or to demonstrate to you that you can get no guaranties for these rights from your Northern confederates. He then informed them that the Republicans in the Senate Committee of Thirteen were, to a man, against making any concessions to the South. That Committee is controlled, he said, by Black Repu
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 9: proceedings in Congress.--departure of conspirators. (search)
hroughout the country. The more cautious leaders of the insurgents advised the release of the vessels. In the mean time a larger portion of the arms seized at New York had been given up, and the little tempest of passion was soon allayed. Investigations caused by this transaction revealed the fact that the insurgents were largely armed, through the cupidity of Northern merchants and manufacturers, who had made very extensive sales to the agents of the conspirators during the months of December, 1860, and January, February, and March, 1861. On the 4th of February, John Slidell See page 61. and Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, withdrew from the National Senate they were so dishonoring. Slidell made a speech which was marked by a cool insolence of manner, an insulting exhibition of contempt for the people of the Free-labor States, and a consciousness of power to do all that, in smooth rhetoric, he threatened. He spoke as if there would be a peaceable separation, and sketched a
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)
y government, and hence his commissions were null, and the so-called privateers were pirates, according to the accepted law of nations; but, governed by the dictates of expediency and a wisely directed humanity, it was concluded to treat them as prisoners of war, and they were afterward exchanged. The Petrel was more suddenly checked in her piratical career than the Savannah. She was the United States revenue-cutter Aiken, which had been surrendered to the insurgents at Charleston, in December, 1860, by her disloyal commander. See page 138. She was now manned by a crew of thirty-six men, who were mostly Irishmen, picked up in Charleston while seeking employment. She evaded the blockading squadron off Charleston harbor, and went to sea on the 28th of July, when she was discovered by the National frigate St. Lawrence, that was lying behind one of the islands on that coast. The St. Lawrence was immediately made to assume the appearance of a large merchant vessel. Her heavy spars