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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)
with the election of delegates. He accordingly recommended the Legislature to adopt such an ordinance at once, and call upon the people to vote upon it speedily. A few days after the Governor's message was submitted to the Legislature, Henry W. Hilliard, a leading member of the Methodist Church South, appeared before that body April 30, 1861. as a commissioner of Jefferson Davis and his confederates, clothed by them with authority to negotiate a treaty of alliance between the State of Tenh the Confederate States, by which the whole military rule of the Commonwealth should be subjected to the will of Davis. He appointed Gustavus A. Henry, Archibald O. W. Totten, and Washington Barrow as commissioners for the purpose. They and Mr. Hilliard negotiated a treaty, and on the 7th May. the Governor announced to the Legislature the conclusion of the business, and submitted to it a copy of the Convention. By it Davis and his confederates were authorized to exercise absolute military c