TUESDAY 15 Slippery, misty, foggy day. Good skating for the boys this morning in the street. A general impression seems to prevail that that [sic] the troubles of the Country are going to be healed some way, nobody can tell how. But there is a determination manifestly abroad that this Government shall not be broken [...]
January 15, 1861, The New York Herald I do not know that I can find language sufficiently strong to express to you the unanimity and intensity of the feeling in this region in opposition to the perpetuation of the Union under the rule of President Lincoln and a black republican administration. That there are among [...]
January 15, 1861, The New York Herald The Cabinet had a meeting yesterday, and decided to send any reinforcements to major Anderson at present. The instructions to the Major have not yet been completed. Messrs. Hayne and Guardin, messengers from the Governor of South Carolina, and Lieut. Hall, bearer of despatches from Major Anderson, arrived [...]
January 15, 1861, The New York Herald Dark and discouraging as is the present revolutionary condition of the country, there is yet room for the belief that, though we are threatened with civil war, we may escape it, and that the Union, though broken, be restored, sound and enduring, from the crucible of a Southern [...]
January 15, 1861, The Charleston Mercury On last Saturday evening, Colonel W.J. Gunn, of the Seventh Regiment Florida Militia, received orders from Governor Perry to proceed at once to that the United States Arsenal at Chattahoochee, containing about 5300 pounds of powder, 10,000 pounds of lead, 120,000 musket cartridges, a 6 pounder, 57 muskets, cannon [...]
January 15, 1861, The Charleston Mercury That the sole conservative element, in the Government of the former United States of America, was centered in the Southern States of that Confederacy, is now made evident by the present attitude and progress of affairs at Washington. Bereft of that check upon the lawless will of a grasping, [...]
–Major-General Sandford tendered the whole of the First Division New York State Militia to the Commander-in-Chief, to be ready for service in an hour’s notice. –Colonel Hayne, a Commissioner of South Carolina to Washington, was received by the President, and demanded the withdrawal of the garrison of Fort Sumter. He was requested to submit a [...]
WAR DEPARTMENT, January 15, 1861. To his Excellency JOHN W. ELLIS, ……………Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh: SIR: Your letter of the 11th instant, addressed to the President of the United States, has by him been referred to this Department, and he instructs me to express his gratification at the promptitude with which you have ordered [...]
FORT TAYLOR, KEY WEST, FLA., January 15, 1861. SIR: In consequence of the secession of this State and the seizure of the forts and arsenals in other Southern States. I have moved my command to Fort Taylor, and shall defend it to the last moment against any force attempting to capture it. I have four [...]
January 15, 1861 Albert Sidney Johnston assumes command of the Department of the Pacific.