Camp Wright, Hulton, Penn., Thursday, June 27, 1861. Dear Father:– One of the items of interest in the editor’s visit to Colonel McLane yesterday, is found in the Gazette of this morning, viz.: that throughout the whole day (yesterday) no marching orders or countermands were received. For a week or ten days the camp has [...]
Camp Wright, Hulton, Penn., Thursday, June 27, 1861. Dear Brother E.:– We’ve had pretty spicy times in camp for a week or ten days. Marching orders are given and immediately countermanded. It’s pack up, then unpack and make fun of it. One of the boys stuck up a picture–a courier driving at the top of [...]
June 27, 1861 Baltimore Marshal of Police George Proctor Kane arrested in Baltimore on the charge of treason, and sent to Fort McHenry. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Engagement between U. S. gun-boats Freeborn and Pawnee and the rebel batteries at Matthias Point, Va. : Capt. Ward, commander of the Potomac [...]
JUNE 26th.—The President revised one of my articles for the press to-day, suggesting some slight modifications, which, perhaps, improved it. It was not a political article; but designed exclusively to advance the cause by inciting the people of Virginia and elsewhere to volunteer for the war. Such volunteers are accepted, and ordered into active service [...]
JUNE 25th.—More accounts of battles and massacres in Missouri and Kansas. I never thought the Yankees would be permitted to ascend the Missouri River. What has become of the marksmen and deer hunters of Missouri? There has been also a fight at Leesburg, and one near Romney, Va. Blood has been shed in all of [...]
June 24th.–Last night I was awakened by loud talking and candles flashing, tramping of feet, growls dying away in the distance, loud calls from point to point in the yard. Up I started, my heart in my mouth. Some dreadful thing had happened, a battle, a death, a horrible accident. Some one was screaming aloft–that [...]
JUNE 24th.—To-day I was startled by the announcement from Col. Bledsoe that he would resign soon, and that it was his purpose to ask the President to appoint me chief of the bureau in his place. I said I preferred a less conspicuous position—and less labor—but thanked him. He said he had no influence with [...]
June 24, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Bank riots in Milwaukee, Wis.2 Gov. Harris proclaimed Tennessee out of the Union, the vote of the people being—for separation 104,019, and against 47,238. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863 [...]
JUNE 23d.—Every day as soon as the first press of business is over, the Secretary comes out of his office and taps me on the shoulder, and invites me to ride with him in quest of a house. We go to those offered for rent; but he cannot be suited.
Camp Wright, Hulton, Penn., Saturday. June 22, 1861. Dear Mother:– None of the boys have had any letters for a week. At last they begin to come and all bring news, “we heard you were coming home.” Well, the origin of that story was this: Colonel McLane received orders to start for Harrisburg, where his [...]
Cairo, June 23, 1861. Camp is very dull now, and we are more closely confined in it than ever. Not a soldier goes out now except in company with a commissioned officer or on a pass from the general. The latter not one in a thousand can get and the former maybe one in five [...]
June 23, 1861 Confederates under Col. Thomas J. Jackson begin a systematic destruction of the B&O Railroad at Martinsburg, including burning 42 locomotives and numerous cars. (Baltimore American, Stover—Johnston says 6/20–21 56 locos and 386 cars—that was the total haul including those taken south)1 Baer, Christopher, A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, its [...]
JUNE 22d.—The Convention has appointed ten additional members to the Provisional Congress—President Tyler among them. It will be observed that my Diary goes on, including every day. Fighting for our homes and holy altars, there is no intermission on Sunday. It is true, Mr. Memminger came in the other day with a proposition to cease [...]
JUNE 21st.—A large, well-proportioned gentleman with florid complexion and intellectual face, who has been whispering with Col. Bledsoe several times during the last week, attracted my attention to-day. And when he retired, Colonel B. informed me it was Bishop Polk, a classmate of his and the President’s at West Point. He had just been appointed [...]
Charles Francis Adams To His Son London, June 21,1861 With respect to his [Sumner’s] language about Governor Seward I very much regret it for the sake of the public interest. He is sowing the seeds of discord where we ought to have a more perfect union. He is disseminating distrust in our Government when it [...]
June 21, 1861 North Carolina Secession Convention votes to unfurl a new flag, a blue field with red and white bars with an insignia and two dates: May 20th, 1775 (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence) and May 20th, 1861 (Secession from the United States). A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 In Greenville, on [...]
JUNE 20th.—Gov. Wise has been appointed brigadier-general, of a subsequent date to General Floyd’s commission. He goes to the West, where laurels grow; but I think it will be difficult to win them by any one acting in a subordinate capacity, and especially by generals appointed from civil life. They are the aversion of the [...]
June 20, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Major-Gen. McClellan took command of the Union forces in Western Virginia. Wheeling Convention elected Frank H. Pierpont governor of the Restored Government of Virginia. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
June 19th.–In England Mr. Gregory and Mr. Lyndsey rise to say a good word for us. Heaven reward them; shower down its choicest blessings on their devoted heads, as the fiction folks say. Barnwell Heyward telegraphed me to meet him at Kingsville, but I was at Cool Spring, Johnny’s plantation, and all my clothes were [...]
JUNE 19th.—Yesterday I saw Colonel Bartow, still accompanied by young Lamar, his aid. I wish all our officers were inspired by the same zeal and determination that they are. And are they not?
June 19, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Rebels occupied Piedmont, Va. Wheeling Convention passed an ordinance reorganizing the State government. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
Paris. New York, June 18, 1861. As far as it lies in my power, I shall continue to give you the most accurate information of the march of events here. I have already expressed to you, repeatedly, my conviction, that unless aided by the moral support of France and England the Southern rebellion has no [...]
Secretary af the Treasury, Washington, D. C. New York, June 18, 1861. My Dear Sir,–I have the pleasure of handing you inclosed copies of the decrees of the Emperor Napoleon, and of the report of his Minister of Finance, relative to the last national loan of five hundred millions of francs, issued during the last [...]
London New York, June 18, 1861 While I was in Washington I had a two hours’ interview with our Secretary of State. Mr. Seward is clear in the position which he has taken with reference to the rebellion and the attitude into which the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, by any European government, will place [...]
JUNE 18th.—The city is content at the evacuation. The people have unbounded confidence in the wisdom of the administration, and the ability of our generals. Beauregard is the especial favorite. The soldiers, now arming daily, are eager for the fray; and it is understood a great battle must come off before many weeks; as it [...]