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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
lves to be the judges of its justice, is too thin to merit any notice. With rebellion thus sugarcoated, they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, until, at length, they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government, the day after some assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretense of taking their State out of the Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day before. Message to Congress, July 4, 1861. Mr. Carpenter, the artist who painted the picture of The Signig a the Emancipation Proclamation, relates the following anecdote concerning the last sentence in the above quotation from the Message:--Mr. De Frees, the Government printer, told me that when the Message was being printed, he was a good deal disturbed by the use of the term sugar-coated, and finally went to the President about it. Their relations to each other being of the most intimate character, he told Mr. Lincoln frankly
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
efend it with success. State policy, which allowed the President to give a partial explanation three months later, See the President's Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, sixth and seventh paragraphs. commanded silence at that time. The pledges concerning Sumter, and the charge that they had been violated by the Government, weg possession of the same, with a force of less than twenty thousand good and well-disciplined men. Anderson's Ms. Letter-book. President Lincoln's Message, July 4, 1861. This letter was laid before the President and his Cabinet on the 5th, and the first question of importance which that council was called upon to decide was, wpolicy required that the attempt should be made, whether it should succeed or not. It was believed, as the President said in his Message, already referred to, July 4, 1861. that to abandon that position, under the circumstances, would be utterly ruinous; that the necessity under which it was done would not be fully understood; th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., 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. (search)
d delay. But the orders are peremptory, said Isherwood; and he suggested that, after another day's delay, it might be difficult to pass the obstructions which the secessionists were planting between Sewell's Point and Craney Island. But the vessel was kept back, and, to the astonishment of the Engineer-in-chief and other officers, the Commodore finally gave directions not to send the Merrimack away at all, and ordered the fires to be extinguished. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, July 4, 1861. The cause of this refusal to remove the Merrimack, said the Secretary of the Navy, has no explanation other than that of misplaced confidence in his junior officers, who opposed it. McCauley afterward asserted that he was influenced in his action at that time by the advice of several of his junior officers, born in Slave-labor States, believing that they were true to their flag. How could I expect treachery on their part? he said. The fact of their being Southern men was not surely
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)
vy. The blockade of ports along almost three thousand miles of coast, with its numerous harbors and inlets, Report of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, July 4, 1861. had been declared, and must be made as perfect as the law of nations, as they were then construed, required, to command respect. There was no time for the busisted of twenty-one vessels, with an aggregate of two hundred and eighty-two guns and three thousand five hundred men. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, July 4, 1861. The commanders of the squadrons had been instructed to permit the vessels of foreigners to leave the blockaded ports within fifteen days after such blockade eath, and military and naval trophies. while many masters and masters' mates were appointed from the commercial marine. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, July 4, 1861. The Naval School and public property at Annapolis, in Maryland, had been removed to Newport, Rhode Island, because it was unsafe, in the state of public affai
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)
hiladelphia Refreshment saloons, 577. firemen's Ambulance system the Union Army near Washington City, 579. position of the Union forces, 581. position of the Confederate forces, 582. the Army of the Shenandoah, 583. On Thursday, the 4th of July, 1861, which was the eighty-fourth anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States, the Thirty-seventh Congress assembled in the Capitol at Washington City, in extraordinary session, in compliance with the call of the Presieror kept his word; and the powers of Western Europe, regarding him as a promised ally of the Republic, in case of need, behaved prudently. Congress followed the President's suggestions with prompt action. On the first day of the session, July 4, 1861. Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate, gave notice that on the following day he should ask leave to introduce six bills, having for their object the suppression of the rebellion. These were, 1. To ratify