April 6, 1861; Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA) The Petersburg Express says that a popular restaurant in that city has concocted a drink called the “secession trump.” It is made up of an equal proportion of brandy and sherry wine, well mixed with small pieces of lemon and orange, and flavored with a few [...]

April 6, 1861; The Scientific American At this time public attention is considerably interested in all that relates to the art of war. We have kept our readers pretty well supplied with intellectual munitions of this sort, and we believe many of them will be much interested in the following report of a lecture recently [...]

April 6, 1861 Lincoln dispatches a State Department employee to inform South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens that the federal government will re-provision Fort Sumter. The president makes it clear that no additional troops will be sent to the fort if supply ships are allowed to land, but that if the effort is resisted the fort [...]

April 5, 1861; The Charleston Mercury In our remarks yesterday, we lost sight, in consequence of his absence from the city, of one of our native artists, of whom our State may well be proud. LAWRENCE L. COHEN is a pupil of the great modern school. He completed his studies at Dusseldorff. COHEN’S absence from [...]

April 5, 1861, Tri-Weekly Alamo Express (San Antonio) Today, Friday, we had quite a lively demonstration of two kinds of rains–rain from Heaven and the reign of Terror. The first in a refreshing shower, which imparted a pleasant spring-like softness to the air and comfortable moisture to the earth.–Reign of terror, in the marching through [...]

April 5, 1861; The Harrisburg Pennsylvania Telegraph “The delay in the aggression of the secessionists and the pause in the action of the Federal administration, have left all sections of the country in a state of perplexity, in which they cannot exist much longer and preserve their equanimity. With all due respect to the administration [...]

April 5, 1861; The Constitutional Union (Des Arc, Arkansas.) This corps, at their last meeting, adopted as their name, The Des Arc Rangers. On last Saturday they paraded through our streets, for the first time, in their uniforms, presenting quite a soldier-like appearance. The uniform adopted by the Rangers is a red flannel shirt, with [...]

April 5, 1861; Tri-Weekly Alamo Express (San Antonio) The last of the 2nd Cavalry, consisting of two companies, under command of Capt. Johnson, passed through our city this morning, Friday, on their way to the coast. They were accompanied by a fine brass band. The people cheered them lustily thro’ the city and accompanied them [...]

April 5, 1861; The Charleston Mercury When it became generally known yesterday morning that the companies now on duty at Sullivan’s Island had been ordered to fill up their ranks without delay, and that the reserves belonging to the several corps were to join their comrades already on duty by the four o’clock boat, people [...]

April 5, 1861; The New York Herald Our Washington despatches reiterate that the administration has a policy, and that an unmistakeable revelation of it is soon to be made. The public will be glad to learn what the government intends to do. The Southern Commissioners at Washington, doubtful of the sincerity of the assurances given [...]

April 5, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our readers have already been informed that a vote on the Constitution has been taken in the South Carolina State Convention, and that it has been accepted by a vote of some twenty against one hundred and fifty. The Convention is almost unanimous, we understand, in objecting to two [...]

April 5, 1861; The New York Herald By the telegraphic despatches from Washington, which we publish today and published yesterday, and the day before, and by intelligence from all points of the compass, including the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, it appears that the policy of inactivity, of which we have so much experience of late, [...]

Executive Mansion April 5th 1861 Hon. S. P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury Dear Sir On today, and on the first fifth1 of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary as President of the United States. Your Obt. Servt. A. Lincoln Scrupulously honest, Abraham Lincoln noticed that the pay [...]

April 5, 1861 South Carolina State Convention ratified the Constitution of the Confederate States (146 v. 16, 10 absent). A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863

April 4th.—Mr. Hayne said his wife moaned over the hardness of the chaperones’ seats at St. Andrew’s Hall at a Cecilia Ball.¹ She was hopelessly deposited on one for hours. “And the walls are harder, my dear. What are your feelings to those of the poor old fellows leaning there, with their beautiful young wives [...]

April 4, 1861; The New York Herald The accounts from Washington this morning are of an important character. The Cabinet were in session yesterday, and Gen. Scott participated in their deliberations. The War and Navy Departments were unusually active, and Secretary Cameron and the President held frequent private consultations. It seems clear that the administration [...]

April 4, 1861; The Charleston Mercury An invasion, a campaign, or war, by land or sea, of the North on the South, is, in our opinion, gammon. Coercion is manifestly so nonsensical and absurd, that if it were practicable, it would not be attempted. And it is utterly impracticable for Mr. LINCOLN and his Rump [...]

April 4, 1861; Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) A friend connected with one of the Mississippi regiments of volunteers, writes to us from Mobile under date of the 31st ult., as follows: “Two regiments of Mississippi troops are now assembled in Mobile under the command of Maj. Gen. Clark, and quartered, some in cotton sheds, [...]

April 4, 1861; The Charleston Mercury It has been suggested that the signers of the Secession Ordinance should have their likenesses painted by some competent artist, either in one large piece, as an historical picture, or as separate individual portraits. It has been suggested, too, that, if possible, a native artist should be engaged in [...]

April 4, 1861; The Charleston Mercury MONTGOMERY, April 1, 1861. As you have been apprised by telegraph, the War Department is vigorously concentrating men and munitions of war at the most important points, for the purpose of being prepared for a systematic defence of the Indian frontier. Several competent officers and influential agents have been [...]

April 4, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Another suspicious vessel was fired into yesterday. We furnish the following statements, from reliable parties, for the information of our readers: FIRST STATEMENT. Yesterday morning, General BEAUREGARD, with his Aids, Captains FERGUSON and CHISOLM, and Governor PICKENS, with his Aid Colonel LUCAS, visited Sullivan’s Island and the batteries there. [...]

April 4, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, April 1, 1861. Northern politicians, not bound hand and foot to the Abolition Juggernaut, begin to decry the indecisive policy of the LINCOLN Administration. It takes strong ground neither on one side nor the other. Cabinet councils are held, and the duration of their sittings is proclaimed with [...]

April 4, 1861; The New York Herald  WASHINGTON, April 3, 1861. At last the ball has opened. The corps of Sappers and Miners left here this morning, and today three of the batteries now in this city received orders to leave forthwith, all being required to report at Fort Hamilton, New York. That these troops [...]

April 4, 1861 Legislature of Kentucky ratified the amendment1 to the Federal Constitution passed by Congress.2 Virginia State Convention refused, by a vote 89 to 45, to submit a secession ordinance to the people. 2 A proposed 13th Amendment to the Constitution that was never ratified, the Corwin Amendment,  which would shield “domestic institutions” of [...]