WEDNESDAY 2 Matters look more hopeful for the Country today. It is now known that the President refused to acknowledge the Commissioners as being anything more than distinguished citizens from the State of S.C. Their last communication to him yesterday was returned to them unanswered. It struck them like a bomshell it was so unexpected. [...]
–The steam frigate Brooklyn and another vessel at Norfolk are ordered to be in readiness for immediate departure to Charleston. The secession leaders discovered the intention to start these vessels, and notified their sympathizers at Norfolk to have minute-men ready to seize them if they attempted to go to sea. The Administration is on the [...]
January 2nd, 1861.—Uncle Richard and Uncle Tom spent the morning with Father, the three brothers are going to Tallahassee tomorrow to the opening of the Secession Convention. They are so deeply interested. Susan Bradford is nearly 15 when this entry was made.
[WASHINGTON], January 2, 1861. Hon. M. L. BONHAM, Charleston, S.C.: Holt succeeds Floyd. It means war. Cut off supplies from Anderson and take Sumter soon as possible. LOUIS T. WIGFALL.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 2, 1861. Memorandum of arrangements ¹ Telegram sent to Mr. A. H. Schultz, 64 Cedar street, P.O. box 3462, New York City, that his propositions are entertained, and that a staff officer will be in the city to-morrow evening to conclude arrangements. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas is directed, first, to satisfy [...]
SENATE CHAMBER, January 2, 1861. TO the SECRETARY OF WAR: SIR: We respectfully request you to inform us what is the numerical force of the troops now in garrison at the various posts in the State of Florida, and the amount of arms, heavy and small, and ammunition, fixed and loose, at the various forts [...]
January 2, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 1861. The President’s reply to the Commissioners of South Carolina has just been communicated. They demanded, as a preliminary step to the initiation of negotiations, that the troops be withdrawn from the forts in Charleston harbor. The President positively refuses to do this, and reiterates [...]