New York Herald April 19, 1861 WASHINGTON, April 18, 1861. The mustering of men is going on briskly tonight. All the Northern and Western men in the city are organized for active service. General Lane, United States Senator from Kansas, commands about one hundred Kansas, Illinois and Massachusetts men. His colleague, General Pomeroy, is a [...]

New York Herald April 19, 1861 Rarely has New York harbor been the scene of so interesting an occurrence as on yesterday afternoon. The bulletins announced that the steam transport Baltic was below, and would soon be up. This was like a match applied to a magazine in the effect it produced on the patriotic [...]

New York Herald April 19, 1861 This crack corps leaves today in all its strength for Washington. It has long been the pride of the city; its superior drill and discipline placed it at the head of our militia regiments. As the Guards, the Queen’s Household troops, in England, were the first to proceed to [...]

New York Herald April 19, 1861 Virginia has seceded. She has taken this dreadful leap in the dark, and terrible to her, we fear, will be the consequences. A revolutionary army, under Governor Wise, is supposed to be moving upon Washington; the federal forts and other property in North Carolina, it is reported, have been [...]

New York Herald April 19, 1861 The  steamer Baltic arrived off Sandy Hook at twelve M. yesterday, and was boarded off Quarantine by our special reporter. The Bavaria, from Hamburg, preceded the Baltic by a few moments, and this steamer, as well as all the craft in the bay and the houses along the shore, [...]

FORT MACON, N. C., April 19, 1861. Dear Mother: Our company arrived here this morning at 8 o’clock. We had to stay at Beaufort last night, the water being too rough to carry us over last night. I intended to have written last night while at Beaufort, but we were so completely worn out with [...]

April 19th.–Dispatches from Montgomery indicate that President Davis is as firm a States right man as any other, perfectly content to bear the burdens of government six years, and hence I apprehend he will not budge in the business of guarding Virginia until after the ratification of the secession ordinance. Thus a month’s precious time [...]

April 19, 1861 Virginia forces take control of Harpers Ferry A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Attack on the 6th Massachusetts Regiment at Baltimore, of which two were killed and seven wounded. Eleven of the rioters killed and many wounded. Baltimore in the hands of the mob, and the mayor informed the [...]

Richmond Enquirer April 18, 1861 CHARLES CITY COUNTY, APRIL 16, 1861. To the People of New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, Elizabeth City and the City of Williamsburg: I published, during the month of October last, in the Richmond Whig, a card, indicating that I would be a candidate, at the ensuing election, [...]

Richmond Enquirer April 18, 1861 WASHINGTON, April 17.—It is reported, but as yet unconfirmed, that the Government has called out 150,000 additional troops. It is also stated that the corps of Engineers have selected positions for the erection of batteries in and around Washington for the protection of the city. Col. Chas. Lee, and Adjutant-General [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 (From Our Own Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 17.—The National Intelligencer of this morning throws off the mask, and comes out boldly in favor of coercion. The streets are lined with the military—regulars and volunteers—and squads are seen everywhere anxiously discussing the probable action of Virginia. It is the impression here that [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 MONTGOMERY, April 17.—The Proclamation of LINCOLN having at last been received here in a form sufficiently authentic to leave no doubt of its being genuine, President DAVIS has in turn issued today the following highly important and spirited Proclamation. PROCLAMATION. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. WHEREAS, [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 The News conveyed to our despatches this morning is important. While the LINCOLN Administration is rapidly concentrating the hungry hordes with which it proposes to subjugate the South, and draining the pockets of the anxious stock-jobbers who have staked their all in the success of the mad scheme of coercion, [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 Yesterday morning Mr. RUSSELL, the correspondent of the London Times, now in this city, visited Fort Sumter. He was accompanied by Colonel MILES, Colonel CHESNUT, Colonel MANNING and Colonel WHITING, Aids to General BEAUREGARD, and Colonel LUCAS, Aid to Governor PICKENS. Mr. FONTAINE, of the New York Herald, and others, [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 MONTGOMERY, April 15. The excitement in this city since the first gun was fired at Fort Sumter, has been great, and every facility for obtaining news is grasped at eagerly. The bulletin boards at the newspaper offices are besieged at all hours of the day, and every despatch that leaves [...]

Charleston Mercury April 18, 1861 A FULL ACCOUNT of the Battle of Fort Sumter, with all the stirring incidents of the bombardment and subsequent surrender, has been compiled in a complete form, chiefly from the very full and interesting details published in the journals of this city, and will be issued from the press of [...]

Albany Patriot (Georgia) April 18, 1861 The Holly Spring Herald learns that the county of Chickasaw, Miss., has ten companies of volunteer soldiers ready to be mustered into the service of the State. It adds that, in addition to these: “The county has a regularly officered and drilled company of young ladies, who have pledged [...]

New York Herald April 18, 1861 WASHINGTON, April 17, 1861. The administration is considerably alarmed today lest an attempt be made by the secessionists in Virginia to seize the government vessels now at Norfolk. Intimations of such a purpose on their part were received here this morning. There are now six vessels of war at [...]

New York Herald April 18, 1861 Great preparations are being made to defend Washington against the anticipated attack of a Confederate army. Among these is the enrolment of a regiment of Zouaves from the Fire Department of this city, and Colonel Ellsworth, of the Chicago Zouaves, has arrived here for the purpose. Without any disparagement [...]

New York Herald April 18, 1861 Yesterday morning a preliminary meeting of the merchants of our city and of the members of the Stock Exchange was held at the Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose of making arrangements for a grand mass meeting of our citizens in support of the war policy of the administration. [...]

New York Herald April 18, 1861 President Davis, of the Confederate States, has issued a proclamation inviting privateers to take service with the revolutionists. The document is given in another column. It is reported that several vessels are now fitting out at New Orleans for privateers. There is a report from Texas that all the [...]

Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #003 Mary Anna Custis Lee (C. 1854)? Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1808 – November 5, 1873) was a third cousin and the wife of Robert E. Lee, the prominent career military officer who subsequently commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American [...]

April 18th.–In spite of every precaution, it is currently whispered in the streets to-day that Virginia has seceded from the Union; and that the act is to be submitted to the people for ratification a month hence. This is perhaps a blunder. If the Southern States are to adhere to the old distinct sovereignty doctrine, [...]

April 18, 1861 Robert E. Lee is unofficially offered command of the thousands of soldiers being called up to protect Washington by presidential adviser Francis P. Blair. Lee immediately refuses.1 Federal forces withdraw from Harpers Ferry Federal marshals seize records of telegraphs sent from major northern cities, leading to the arrest of southern sympathizers. A [...]