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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, May (search)
tizens of the State of Virginia, and at the same time hold ourselves loyal citizens of the United States, and will maintain allegiance to the same as heretofore; that we are willing to pay a license tax so long as Virginia is in the United States, but we are not willing to pay revenue to the present usurped government at Richmond, which, without the consent of the people of Virginia, has assumed to absolve us from allegiance to the United States, recommending the merchants of Wheeling and Ohio county to withhold the payment of taxes for the present. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. A German announced that the commissioner of the revenue resigned to forward the patriotic undertaking.--The World, May 3. Judge Campbell of the United States Supreme Court, who resides in Alabama, sent in his resignation. He is a Unionist, but feels bound to adhere to the fortunes of his State.--N. Y. Tribune, May 3. The Marine Artillery of Rhode Island (flying artillery) arrived in Wa
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863, June. (search)
the Eleventh New York artillery left Rochester, for Harrisburgh. Shippensburgh, Pa., was evacuated by the National troops, and immediately occupied by rebel cavalry.--at Shelbyville, Tenn., the rebels were defeated by the National troops, under General Mitchell.--(Docs. 84 and 112.) The following General Orders were issued from the War Department at Washington: I. By direction of the President, that part of the Middle Department west of Hancock, including the adjacent counties of Ohio, will constitute the Department of West-Virginia. Brigadier-General B. F. Kelley is placed in command of the Department of West-Virginia. II. Major-General W. S. Hancock, U. S. volunteers, is, by direction of the President, assigned to the command of the Second army corps, in place of Major-General D. N. Couch, transferred to another command. The rebel General R. S. Ewell, at Chambersburgh, Pa., issued the following order: First. The sale of intoxicating liquors to this command, w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
he following proposition of a leading paper in Richmond in the interest of the conspirators:--It being necessary to form a ticket of electors, and the time being too short to call a Convention of the people, it was suggested that the Richmond editors should prepare a ticket, thus relieving the people of the trouble of making selections. The ticket thus formed has been presented. Among the names we find those of Wm. L. Goggin, of Bedford, and R. T. Daniel, of Richmond; E. H. Fitzhugh, of Ohio County; John B. Edmunds, of Halifax, and C. W. Newton, of Norfolk City. Every district in the State is embraced in this editorial report. commenced its session under the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States. In this assembly all of the slave-labor States were represented excepting Maryland and Delaware. For a list of the members of the Provisional Congress see page 468. The oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States was administered to the Senators by R. M. T.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheeling, (search)
Wheeling, A city, port of entry, and county seat of Ohio county, W. Va.; on the Ohio River, 63 miles west of Pittsburg, Pa. It was settled by Col. Ebenezer Zane in 1769; provided with a stockade work named Fort Henry to protect it against Indian hostilities in 1774; was the scene of Indian attacks in 1777 and 1781; and was besieged by the British, Sept. 11, 1782, when Colonel Zane successfully defended the fort without loss to his small garrison. Colonel Zane laid out a town here in 1793, which was incorporated in 1806 and 1836, and became the capital of the new government of Virginia in 1861, the place of meeting of the convention from which grew the State of West Virginia, and was the capital of the State in 1863-70 and 1875-85. Population in 1900. 38,878. See Zane, Ebenezer.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
nzo Loring, of Wheeling, David Goff, of Beverley, and F. M. Boykin, of Weston, had been commissioned as field-officers by the Governor of Virginia and assigned to duty in the northwestern part of this State, with written instructions from General R, E. Lee prior to my assignment thereto. I would call attention to the instructions given these gentlemen, especially those to Major Boykin, in regard to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Major Loring had served in the Mexican war, been sheriff of Ohio county, and was a gentleman of influence in the city of Wheeling. Major Goff was a leading citizen of Beverley and the county of Randolph. Major Boykin was a native of eastern Virginia, a graduate of the military institute, and at that time a citizen of Weston. These officers were all paralyzed in their action, and completely silenced by the predominance of the Union sentiment in that part of the State of which they were residents. I neither saw nor had a line from either of them after my arri
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
eld at Wheeling, on the 13th of May. There was no pretense even of a regular election of delegates to this Convention. They were appointed in some cases by public meetings, without reference to the number of qualified voters composing them, in others by papers to which were appended a few signatures requesting certain persons to act as representatives, in yet others without even this faint show of respect for the principle of popular choice. A number of the residents of Wheeling and of Ohio county, in no way more entitled to seats than any similar number of private citizens from any other locality, together with the delegates thus irregularly appointed, composed the motley gathering. Out of one hundred and forty counties and three cities the Committee on Credentials could report representatives from no city and only twenty-six counties. The greater or smaller degree of irregularity in these proceedings is, however, of the less consequence, as it is abundantly evident that there w
The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Census of Wheeling, Va. (search)
Census of Wheeling, Va. --The census returns of the city of Wheeling and Ohio county, Va., give the following results: The population of the county in free is 5,672; slave, 99. Total, 5,741. The city has a free population of 14,283; slaves, 31. Total, 14,314. South Wheeling has a population of 2,640. --Fulton, 312. The population of the whole county and city is 22,595 free and 100 slaves, making a total of 22,695.
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
1, Loan to Directors19,135.00 Oct. 1, Loan to Directors15,610.00 Aggregate debt due by the Bank2,286,758.89 Aggregate debt due to the Bank3,021,73.67 We, the undersigned, Directors of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling, do certify the foregoing statement to be correct, according to the best of our knowledge. R. Changle, A. P. Woods, L. S. Delaplain, George T. Tingle, J. C. Acheson, John Reid, Samuel Mason, James R. Baker. Wheeling,Oct. 30th, 1860. Ohio County, to wit: Before me, Wm. B. Quarrier, a Notary Public for the county aforesaid, personally came Sobieski Brady, Cashier of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling, who, being duly affirmed, declared the foregoing to be a just and true statement from the books of the said Bank, and from the statement rendered by the Branches, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 14th of Nov. 1860 Wm. B. Quarrier, Notary Public.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The clerical suicide. (search)
r judgment, to the question involved in the petition of Edward McMahan and other contractors on the Covington and Ohio Railroad; by Mr. Friend, of reporting a bill making it unlawful for negroes to own or keep dogs in the county of Chesterfield. Bills Reported.--A bill for the relief of Emory Edwards, of Washington county, in the State of Maryland; a bill for the relief of T. D. Fendall, Administrator; a bill to increase the pay of the Commonwealth's Attorney for the Circuit Court of Ohio county; a bill authorizing the payment of $147.75 to Captain Wm. H. Werth, of Company A, of the 101st Regiment Virginia Militia; a bill refunding to Samuel A. McMechen and John G. Harness, Jr., a sum of money paid by them on an erroneous assessment of land; a bill exempting from taxation the property of the Virginia Mechanics' Institute; a bill amending the 107th section of chapter 35 of the Code of Virginia, and providing for the correction of erroneous assessments of taxes on land; a bill auth
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The intended evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
of other Banks and Checks81,531 54 Exchange bought and sold from par to 1 per cent gain2,938 66 Contingent Fund46,545 92 Deposits417,381 06 Nov. 1, Loan to Directors17,525 00 Dec. 1, Loan to Directors19,000 00 Jan. 1, Loan to Directors21,075 00 Aggregate debt due by the Bank1,720,692 86 Aggregate debt due to the Bank2,685,080 45 We, Directors of the said Bank, do certify the foregoing statement to be correct, to the best of our knowledge and belief. A. P. Woods, James R. Baker, R. Crangle, J. Gooding, J. C. Acheson, Samuel Mason, Geo. T. Tingle, John Reid. Wheeling,Feb. 19th, 1861. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank, Wheeling, Feb. 26th, 1861. The foregoing is a just and true statement of this Bank, as taken from the books and the returns from the branches, according to the best of my knowledge. S. Brady, Cashier. Ohio County, as: Affirmed to before me, this 28th Feb., 1861. Wm. D. Quarrier. Notary Public.
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