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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 2: (search)
you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. Buchanan's Administration, Chapt. IX, p. 166. These instructions were afterward modified—as we are informed by Buchanan—so as, instead of requiring him to defend himself to the last extremity, to direct him to do so as long as any reasonable hope remained of saving the fort. Ibid. Immediately after the secession of the state, the convention of South Carolina deputed three distinguished citizens of that state—Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, and James L. Orr—to proceed to Washington, to treat with the Government of the United States for the delivery of the forts, magazines, lighthouses, and other real estate, with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the public debt, and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States, as agent of the confederated States, of which South Carolina was recently a member; and generally to n
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
tion of close personal friendship, or had political claims upon me; indeed, with two of them I had no previous acquaintance. It was my wish that the Hon. Robert W. Barnwell of South Carolina should be Secretary of State. I had known him intimately during a trying period of our joint service in the United States Senate, and he in this connection the delegation of South Carolina, of which he was a member, had resolved to recommend one of their number to be Secretary of the Treasury, and Barnwell, with characteristic delicacy, declined to accept my offer to him. I had intended to offer the Treasury Department to Toombs of Georgia, whose knowledge on subjects of finance had particularly attracted my notice when we served together in the United States Senate. Barnwell having declined the State Department, and a colleague of his, said to be peculiarly qualified for the Treasury Department, having been recommended for it, Toombs was offered the State Department, for which others b
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix G (search)
a bloody issue questions which ought to be settled with temperance and judgment. We have the honor, sir, to be, very respectfully, your obedient servants, R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams, Commissioners. James L. Orr, To the President of the United States. reply of the President to the commissioners Washington City, December can be construed into a menace against the city of Charleston. With great personal regard, I remain Yours, very respectfully, James Buchanan. To Honorable Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, James L. Orr. reply of the commissioners to the President Washington, D. C., January 1, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknoctfully inform you that we propose returning to Charleston on to-morrow afternoon. We have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servants, R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams, Commissioners. James L. Orr, To his Excellency the President of the United States. The last communication is endorsed as follows: Exe
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
dministration of government, 164. Atchison, Gen. D., 370. B Baker, Col., Edward, 377. Ball, Armistead M., 271, 275-76, 406. Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 377. Baltimore Conflict between citizens and Federal troops, 288. Bridges destroyed, 288. Occupation by Federal troops, 289-91. Bancroft, —, 99. Banks, General, 290, 291, 389, 394. Procedure against Maryland, 290-92. Barbour, James, 9. Philip P., 9. Barksdale, Colonel, 376. Dr. Randolph, 329. Barnwell, Robert W., 182, 206, 207. Bartow, Colonel, 263, 310. Bates, —, 231. Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 233, 236, 295, 299, 300, 301,302, 303, 305, 306,307, 308, 309, 312, 315, 317, 382, 386, 387, 396. Dispatches from Confederate Commissioners at Washington, 238. Correspondence concerning bombardment of Fort Sumter, 244-49. Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 252-53. Conference with Davis, 312-13. Letters from Davis concerning Manassas, 317-18. Plan for Manassas and endorsement, 319-21. Letter fr