MONDAY 21 Mr Yulee was in my room today and asked me if I thought it best to “coerce” the seceding states. I told him that I thought it best to protect the public property. But says he that is coercion in the opinion of the seceding States. I told him that it mattered little [...]
–Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, withdrew from the Senate at Washington to-day. The ordinance of secession having passed the Convention of his State, he felt obliged to obey the summons, and retire from all official connection with the Federal Government.–(Doc. 23.) At the Brooklyn, N. Y., navy yard, the entire force was put under arms, and [...]
P. O. Dept., Jan’y 21, 1861. My Dear Sir,–Yours of the 19th inst. is received. I presume I shall continue to act as P. M. G., as I have been doing since the 1st inst. I do not anticipate that any appointment will be sent to the Senate at least for the present. I cannot [...]
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 21, 1861. Bvt. Col. JUSTIN DIMICK, Lieut. Col., Second Artillery, Commanding Fort Monroe, Va.: SIR: The General-in-Chief directs that you embark, after arrangements with the commander of the sloop-of-war Brooklyn, one company of the First Artillery with at least three officers, with arms, a good supply of ammunition, and [...]
In connection with this subject, I deem it not improper respectfully to suggest that his excellency may do an act of humanity and great kindness if he will permit one of the New York steamers to stop with a lighter and take the women and children of this garrison to that city. The confinement within [...]
. FORT SUMTER, S.C., January 21, 1861. General Jos. G. TOTTEN, Chief Engineer U. S. A., Washington, D.C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to make the following report of the present condition of the batteries around us occupied or being erected by the troops of the State of South Carolina: Fort Moultrie.–Until within eight days [...]
The New York Times, January 21, 1861 GEORGIA DECLARED OUT OF THE UNION.; PASSAGE OF THE SECESSION ORDINANCE BY THE STATE CONVENTION MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Saturday, Jan. 19. The State Convention adopted the secession ordinance at 2 o’clock this afternoon, by Yeas, 208; Nays, 89. It is as follows: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between [...]
January 21, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1861. A volunteer company of planters, residing in Prince Georges county, Md. one of the largest and richest slaveholding counties in that State, a few days since tendered their services to Gov. Pickens, agreeing to pay their own expenses, and to contribute one hundred thousand [...]
January 21, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In our telegraphic columns today our readers will find that which will please every Resistance man in the South. The promptitude and decision with which this great State has moved to the rescue and preservation of her imperiled institutions, brings gladness to the heart and joy to the face [...]
January 21, 1861, The New York Herald PETERSBURG, Va., Jan. 19, 1861. One thousand kegs of powder and twenty thousand pounds of shot and shell from the Tredegar Works, Richmond, left this morning, by special train by the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, destined to Charleston, to the order of Governor Pickens.
January 21, 1861, The New York Herald According to our Washington advices, the war party in the South will not proceed further in their operations until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan’s term of office. This is a sign that the more sensible of the secessionists are getting the upper hand, and that the ardor of [...]
January 21, 1861, The Charleston Mercury On Saturday last a salute was fired on the reception of the news of the secession of Georgia from the Federal Union, by Mr. C.H. SCHWECKE, a member of the German Artillery, and Mr. WILLIAM ROGERS. Both gentlemen assisted in the firing of this gun under the flag of [...]
January 21, 1861, The New York Herald There was a rumor in Washington last night to the effect that fighting had commenced in Florida between the federal and State troops; but whether the rumor is well founded or not we are unable to learn. If any fighting has taken place it must have been at [...]
January 21, 1861 Five senators from Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi bid farewell to their colleagues in the upper house. Among them is Senator Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy. All but 6 of the delegates to Georgia’s Secessionist Convention sign the Ordinances of Secession Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated [...]