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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863, October (search)
October 28. Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, by direction of the President of the United States, was appointed to the command of the Eighteenth army corps, and of the Department of Virginia and North-Carolina.--A heavy fire was kept up on the sea face of Fort Sumter during the whole of last night, by the monitors and two guns at battery Gregg, and this morning the bombardment of the rebel works was renewed with great vigor.--correspondence in relation to the depredation of rebel privateers upon the commerce of the United States, passed between the merchants of New York and Secretary Welles of the National Navy Department.--the battle of Lookout Mountain took place this day.--(Doc. 211.)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), National war-song. (search)
be present, the party consisting of the President, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Welles, Mr. Stanton, Mr. L----of New-York, and Mr. F----of Philadelphia.President's absence, by pinching Mr. Stanton's ears and twitching Mr. Welles's beard. He soon returned, but it was some time before harmony wsound very much like the talk of my cabinet — don't you think so, Mr. Welles? Well, I don't know — I will think the matter over and see wh the matter, was spelt out. There was a shout of laughter, and Mr. Welles stroked his beard. That means, Mr. Welles, said the PresidentMr. Welles, said the President, that you are apt to be long-winded, and think the nearest way home is the longest way round. Short cuts in war times. I wish the spirits ce Alabama finally? said the President. It may be possible; but, Mr. Welles, don't let one gunboat or monitor less be built. The spirits cto our navy, anyhow. We've done our best, Mr. President, said Mr. Welles. I'm maturing a plan which, when perfected, I think, if it works
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 II., chapter 6 (search)
at Cross-Keys Jackson crosses the South Fork at Port Republic, and beats Tyler Heth routed by Crook at Lewisburg. the rooted inaction of the Army of the Potomac, See Vol. I., p. 627-9. with the Baltimlore and Ohio Railroad obstructed and broken up on its right, and the navigation of the Potomac precluded Capt. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, as early as July 1st, 1861, notified the War Department that the Potomac would soon be closed by the batteries of the Rebels; and Secretary Welles reiterated the warning on the 20th of August. In October, 1861, the Navy Department again urged the matter upon the consideration of the War Department * * * representing that the question was simply: Would the Army cooperate with the Navy in securing the unobstructed navigation of the Potomac, or, by withholding that cooperation at that time, permit so important a channel of communication to be closed? McClellan at last agreed to spare 4,000 men for the cooperative measure; but,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 190 (search)
With Merryman, Habeas Corpus, and Kane. And as for that crabbed old dotart, Judge Taney, For much I would put him on board of the Pawnee, And make his decisions a little more curt; For the panic's fictitious, and nobody's hurt! And now I'll just say what I'd have you to do In order to put your new President through: First, four hundred millions is wanted by Chase, He cannot run longer the Government's face; And Cameron wants, for the use of old Scott, Some three hundred thousand more men than he's got. Then sixty new iron-plate ships to stand shells Are loudly demanded (must have 'em) by Welles; For England, the bully, won't stand our blockade, And insists that we shall not embarrass her trade. But who fears the British? I'll speedily tune 'em As sure as my name is E Pluribus Unum, For I am myself the whole United States, Constitution, and Laws, (if you doubt it, ask Bates.) The Star-Spangled Banner's my holiday shirt-- Hurrah for Abe Lincoln, there's nobody hurt! --Baltimore South.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), A Fragment--Cabinet council. (search)
Davis! Soft — I did but dream. [Loud knocking heard at the door.] Who knocks thus loudly? Seward--[without.] 'Tis I, my Lord! the White House cock; Thrice have I crowed since the day hath broke. [Enter Seward, Chase, Bates, Blair, Cameron, and Welles.] Cameron — How doth my good Lord? Lincoln — Indifferently well, methinks, good Coz, That confection of homminy and hog, which, as my wont, Late on yester eve I ate, did most wofully affect me. Have I no leech among my councillors chosen, Who cana peevish, complaining people-- A people who know not which side their bread is buttered. Misguided people! who would fain tear away three stripes-- Two of red and one of white — from our Star-spangled Banner. Seward--[aside.] Long may it wave! Welles — O'er the land of the free! Bates — And the home of the brave! Lincoln — And imagine they founded a new nation! And now yon fighting Colonel Davis, With his ragged ragamuffin crew, loudly swears He'll sit in this very chair wherein we sit
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 350 (search)
rspiring at each pore! Hall waves his gleaming sword, looks proud defiance at his foes, Then sinks exhausted, bleeding most profusely — at his nose; And Doubleday, his longing eye fixed on the distant ships, Collapses, with “My stomach! oh, my stomach!” on his lips. Canto III. A telegram is flying North, 'tis pithy, sharp and curt-- “Fort Sumter's taken — tell Old Abe that no-bod-y is hurt.” A panic strikes the Cabinet, they wriggle in their chairs; Seward mutters “curses deep, not loud” --Welles tries to say his prayers; Old Uncle Abe, their royal liege, grows pallid at the news; Uneasy twitch the nimble feet within his nimble shoes; All downward through his spindle-shanks a nervous tremor flows, And fast the courage oozes from the hero's valiant toes; His hair begins to stand on end, his eyes are full of dread; Already in the streets he hears the Southern. cohorts tread; Already through the White House gates he sees the legions pour; Already dreams their battle-axe is thu
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 1.9 (search)
service, the army had chartered the City of Memphis as a hospital boat to take the wounded at Fort Henry to Paducah, St. Louis, and Mound City. There were several other hospital steamers, such as the Louisiana, the D. A. January, the Empress, and the Imperial, in service. Hospital ships and Smallpox barges. A United States general hospital was constructed at Mound City, on the Ohio, a few miles above its junction with the Mississippi, early in the war. On September 29, 1862, Secretary Welles authorized the construction of a marine hospital also. The place was so named because of the existence of a slightly elevated bit of ground covered with trees, though at the beginning of the war only a few houses made up the city. Smallpox epidemics caused 12,236 admissions to the Union hospitals, with 4,717 deaths. The patients were quarantined in separate hospitals or on boats and barges along the rivers, and the utmost care was taken to prevent the spread of the disease which was
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Private agencies of relief: the sanitary commission and other relief agencies (search)
service, the army had chartered the City of Memphis as a hospital boat to take the wounded at Fort Henry to Paducah, St. Louis, and Mound City. There were several other hospital steamers, such as the Louisiana, the D. A. January, the Empress, and the Imperial, in service. Hospital ships and Smallpox barges. A United States general hospital was constructed at Mound City, on the Ohio, a few miles above its junction with the Mississippi, early in the war. On September 29, 1862, Secretary Welles authorized the construction of a marine hospital also. The place was so named because of the existence of a slightly elevated bit of ground covered with trees, though at the beginning of the war only a few houses made up the city. Smallpox epidemics caused 12,236 admissions to the Union hospitals, with 4,717 deaths. The patients were quarantined in separate hospitals or on boats and barges along the rivers, and the utmost care was taken to prevent the spread of the disease which was
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 23: the fall of 1864 (search)
d that on Feb. 5, immediately after the failure of the Fortress Monroe Conference, he submitted to his cabinet a proposition to offer the South $400,000,000 in six per cent bonds in payment for peace with the abolition of slavery. His cabinet unanimously disapproved it, to his surprise and chagrin, whereon he dropped the matter, saying sadly, You are all opposed to me. Told by Nicolay and Hay, X., 137. Few cabinet secrets were better kept than this, Nicolay says, but the diary of Sec. Welles refers to it as follows: — The President had matured a scheme which he hoped would be useful in promoting peace. It was a proposition for paying the expense of the war for 200 days, or $400,000,000, to the rebel States to be for the extinguishment of slavery, or for such purpose as the States were disposed. This in a few words was the scheme. It did not meet with favor, but was dropped. . . . Early in March, Sherman's army moved into N. C. where it was confronted by Gen. Joseph
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 30: (search)
soon spread abroad. It was known that, thirty minutes after the action commenced, Admiral Dupont became convinced of the utter impracticability of taking the city of Charleston with the force under his command, and that all his officers were of a like opinion. He had even declared that a renewal of the attack on Charleston would be attended with disastrous results, involving the loss of this (the South Carolina) coast. The reports of Admiral Dupont and of his officers accompanying Secretary Welles's Report for the year 1863, appear, in substance, in the second volume of Boynton The revulsion of feeling in the North was complete, and exaggerated hope was changed into despondency, openly expressed. The New York Herald characterized the repulse of the monitors, though almost bloodless, as one of our most discouraging disasters. The Baltimore American, denounced it as a shameful abandonment of the siege. When day dawned on the morning of the 8th, says General Ripley, in his rep
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