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Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ing 2,849 in the aggregate, though of the States which were among the first to secede several received none of either kind of arms. Mr. Stanton, in his report, says: There are a good deal of rumors, and speculations, and misapprehensions, as to the true state of facts in regard to this matter. It does not appear that any cannon were sent South by Governor Floyd, but it appears that about the 20th of December, 1860, he gave orders for the guns necessary for the armament of the forts on Ship Island and at Galveston to be sent to these forts. The orders were, however, countermanded by his successor before they were carried into effect or a single gun had been sent. The author has very probably adopted as true some statements of General Soott's, made after he had become a dotard, though it is not believed that even he went to the extent of asserting that the United States had not a musket, a coat, or a pair of shoes for the improvised defenders. If the United States did not hav
Springfield, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
that were made in regard to the sending of arms South for the purpose of aiding the Secessionists. The majority of the House of Representatives was then Republican, with a Republican Speaker, and Mr. Stanton and a majority of his committee were Republicans, and of course with no bias to induce them to misstate the facts to screen Governor Floyd. From those reports, and the evidence accompanying them, it appears that the United States had on hand in its arsenals at the North--mostly at Springfield--499,554 muskets of the old percussion and flint-lock patterns, and under orders given by Governor Floyd in December, 1859--several months before Mr. Lincoln was nominated, and when the Democratic party was confident of carrying the next presidential election--105,000 of these muskets were removed to arsenals in the South, which were comparatively empty, and at the same time there were removed to the same arsenals 10,000 old percussion rifles. These constituted the 115,000 muskets which
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 3.22
lue. We trust that it will be followed by papers from the same able pen on the succeeding volumes of the Count of Paris' history.] History of the civil War in America. By the Comte de Paris. Translated, with the approval of the author, by Louis F. Tasistro. Edited by Henry Coppee, Ll. D. Volume I. Philadelphia: Joseph H. Coatwork of fiction entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, that literary ghoul who has shocked the moral sense of all decent people in England and America by exhuming and gloating over that horrible story about Byron and his sister, which, even if true, should have been allowed to rest in that oblivion into which itm to adopt as his conclusions the most unfounded slanders of our bitterest and most prejudiced enemies. If he desires to continue his History of the civil War in America, and to produce a work of real historic value, he had better consign to the flames all that he has so far published, and begin his task de novo, after devoting hi
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
and arms to the same extent as its adversary. But at the outset of the war they possessed a very great advantage. As we have stated elsewhere, Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War under President Buchanan, had taken care, a few weeks before the insurrection broke out, to send to the South all the arms which the Government possessed. He thus forwarded one hundred and fifteen thousand muskets, which, being added to those already in the arsenals of Charleston, Fayetteville, Augusta, Mount Vernon, Baton Rouge, etc., secured a complete armament for the Confederate armies of superior quality. Here again the author manifests the exceeding carelessness he has exhibited in ascertaining his facts. The army of the United States had always been very small in time of peace, and after 1855, up to the beginning of the war, consisted of only eight regiments of infantry, four regiments of artillery, and five mounted regiments, numbering about ten or eleven thousand men in all. The great bulk of that
Galveston (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ggregate, though of the States which were among the first to secede several received none of either kind of arms. Mr. Stanton, in his report, says: There are a good deal of rumors, and speculations, and misapprehensions, as to the true state of facts in regard to this matter. It does not appear that any cannon were sent South by Governor Floyd, but it appears that about the 20th of December, 1860, he gave orders for the guns necessary for the armament of the forts on Ship Island and at Galveston to be sent to these forts. The orders were, however, countermanded by his successor before they were carried into effect or a single gun had been sent. The author has very probably adopted as true some statements of General Soott's, made after he had become a dotard, though it is not believed that even he went to the extent of asserting that the United States had not a musket, a coat, or a pair of shoes for the improvised defenders. If the United States did not have arms to issue to
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
merly in the army, but taken from civil life; all the others taken from the army.) These two regiments, from the appointments made during Mr. Davis' administration of the War Department, furnished to the United States army during the war-- 9Major-Generals, 9Brigadier-Generals, 1Inspector-General, and 12Field and staff officers.   31in all. Among the major-generals was one commander-in-chief of the army, and afterwards of the Army of the Potomac; one commander of an army in Tennessee, and three corps commanders. They furnished to the Confederate army-- 5Full Generals, 1Lieutenant-General, 6Major-Generals, 10Brigadier-Generals, and 2Colonels.   24in all. There were three lieutenants — P. Stockton and J. R. Church, first cavalry, and J. T. Sharf, second cavalry--in Confederate States army, but there is no record of their rank, probably on the staff. In addition, the following persons appointed second lieutenants declined, preferring to remain in other
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ties of freemen. Page 87. Really it is hard to conceive from what source the Comte could have derived this information. The census of 1860 shows that in all the slave States, except South Carolina and Mississippi, the white population exceeded not only the slaves, but the entire colored population, and in some of them very largely — the white population in the eleven States that regularly seceded being 5,447,199, the free colored 132,760, and the slaves 3,521,110, while in Kentucky and Missouri the white population was from four to eight times the number of slaves. Now it is well known that the slaveholders constituted a very small minority of the white population. How was it, then, that the non-slaveholding whites subsisted at all, if they owned no land and would not work? Does the Comte mean to intimate that the large slaveholders fed and clothed all the whites who were not slaveholders? And yet his American editor says: In a large and philosophic view of American institutio
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
n the recently emancipated slaves — by which the latter were entrusted with the formation of constitutions and governments for all the Southern States? What does he think of the fact that some of those emancipated slaves, within whom the light of intelligence had been extinguished forever, have even occupied seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United States? Nay, what can he think of the further fact, that the votes of the negroes of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana (where they are certainly more ignorant and depraved than in other part of the South), as ascertained and declared by certain returning boards, composed in one case of half negroes, have recently settled the question of the election of a President of the United States, against a majority of at least one million of the white votes of the country? Either he must be mistaken in his estimate of the effects of slavery on the negro's mental and moral faculties, or the people whom he so admire
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
army he was too much influenced by his partiality for the officers of the old army, and especially for the graduates of West Point. When the first dragoons was organized in 1833 (not 1832), a civilian, who had served with distinction as colonel of Confederate States army. *Junius B. Wheeler, Major Engineers and Professor of Engineering and the Science of War at West Point. †A. Parker Porter, Lieutenant-Colonel of staff, United States army. †Wesley Owens, Lieutenant-Colonel of staff, itzhugh Lee, Major-General Confederate States army. (Those marked with * taken from civil life — with † graduates of West Point 1855 and 1856--with ‡ formerly in the army, but taken from civil life; all the others taken from the army.) These ttant General's Department, and Colonel by brevet. Junius B. Wheeler, Professor of Engineering and Sciences of War at West Point, Colonel by brevet. The foregoing exposition shows how unjust, both to Mr. Davis and the officers appointed at h
Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ns, equipments and arms to the same extent as its adversary. But at the outset of the war they possessed a very great advantage. As we have stated elsewhere, Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War under President Buchanan, had taken care, a few weeks before the insurrection broke out, to send to the South all the arms which the Government possessed. He thus forwarded one hundred and fifteen thousand muskets, which, being added to those already in the arsenals of Charleston, Fayetteville, Augusta, Mount Vernon, Baton Rouge, etc., secured a complete armament for the Confederate armies of superior quality. Here again the author manifests the exceeding carelessness he has exhibited in ascertaining his facts. The army of the United States had always been very small in time of peace, and after 1855, up to the beginning of the war, consisted of only eight regiments of infantry, four regiments of artillery, and five mounted regiments, numbering about ten or eleven thousand men in all. The great
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