March 17, 1861; The New York Herald We perceive that the States of the Southern confederacy are bestirring themselves in the manufacturing line, with a view to provide for their own wants in those articles for which they were heretofore dependent upon New England. Cotton mills, shoe factories, yarn and twine manufactories are being put [...]
March 17, 1861; The New York Herald Since the administration has decided to evacuate Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens has become the centre of public attention. Reports, received from Washington, were in circulation yesterday, that a collision had occurred between the federal and State forces at Pensacola. These reports were premature. Up to the latest accounts [...]
March 16, 1861, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) Correspondence of The Ranchero. Brownsville, Texas, March 11, 1861. Mr. Ranchero:—Almost everything on this frontier bears a powerful “seedy” appearance. Though warlike, turbulent, and stormy betimes, yet always “seedy.” This or anything else that I lay down as a rule to go by, the ladies are always [...]
March 16, 1861, Texas Republican (Marshall) We learn that as the British shop Peter Maxwell, which was cleared for Liverpool on the 16th inst., by Messrs. D. Wheeler & Co. with 3680 bales of cotton, passed Fort Morgan on Wednesday last, she hoisted the Palmetto flag and dipped it three times. The compliment was returned [...]
March 16, 1861; The New York Herald The forcible revolution of commerce, brought about by the fanatics and unprincipled political demagogues of the North, will result in diverting the whole trade of the country to the South. As if the disturbance naturally resulting from the secession of the cotton States and the low tariff they [...]
March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Latest by Telegraph from Montgomery. MONTGOMERY, March 15. – The injunction of secrecy was today removed from the veto of President DAVIS, of the Act lately passed by Congress, prohibiting the African slave trade. It is as follows: THE VETO. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, February 28, 1861. Gentlemen of the Congress: [...]
March 16, 1861, The Illustrated London News
March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The title of a manual for the use of siege and garrison guns, printed for, and used by, the late United States army. In these days of and rumors of wars, such a book has become a necessity to all military men. As the work is not for sale [...]
March 16, 1861; The New York Herald The government of the seceded States has appointed Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama; Judge P.A. Rost, of Louisiana; Col. A. Dudley Mann and T. Butler King, of Georgia, special Commissioners to proceed to England and France to obtain the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States, [...]
March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury After flirting along in the fogs of a deluded self sufficiency and bouncing about without ballast and rudderless in the shoals and quicksands of senseless vituperation, bellying out and incontinently swelling of the vast strength, independence and general superiority of the great North, belittling the South as infinitely weak, [...]
March 16, 1861, Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA.) The Inkerman Zouaves, about whose identity there can be no dispute, will pay the citizens of Baton Rouge a visit so soon as their engagement at the Academy of Music in New Orleans terminates. There is something about the name of “Zouave” that is highly pleasing [...]
March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury A rumor was current yesterday that Mr. FORSYTH had sent despatches to the Governor, positively assuring him that the garrison would be withdrawn from Fort Sumter. This is incorrect. In his despatch, Mr. FORSYTH merely gave it as his impression that LINCOLN would pursue the course indicated. Per contra, [...]
March 16, 1861; Standard (Clarksville Texas) The State of Texas having resumed her sovereignty; the act being complete, there can be no propriety in the continuance of the Standard of the late Union at our editorial head. We therefore make a change conforming to the change of circumstances, by which, as a citizen of Texas [...]
March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Leavenworth Correspondence. LEAVENWORTH, KAN., March 5, 1861. LINCOLN’S inaugural was received here last night. It means coercion–war. Holding, occupying and possessing government property means quartering an army of occupation throughout the Southern Confederacy; holding forts on Southern soil vi et armis; reinforcing Forts Sumter and Pickens, and retaking [...]
March 16, 1861 Confederate Provisional Congress creates the Confederate Marine Corps. It never numbers more than 600 members and its records are destroyed intentionally near the end of the war Edwin Vose Sumner promoted to Brigadier General and given command of the Department of the Pacific, replacing Albert Sidney Johnston
March 15, 1861; Tri-Weekly Alamo Express , San Antonio, TX There has only been 41,000 votes cast in the State so far as heard from which is about a half vote, and by which we have good reason to infer that a majority of the people are against secession.–A majority of those cast for secession [...]
March 15, 1861; The Charleston Mercury There was quite a rush for THE MERCURY yesterday morning, containing the first copy of the Permanent Constitution published in Charleston. For this opportunity of placing so important a document before the public in advance of all other papers in the city, we are indebted to the Montgomery Advertiser [...]
March 15, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We have received from the Department of State of the Confederate States an official notification that THE CHARLESTON MERCURY has been designated as a proper paper for the publication of the Acts of Congress. Our readers may therefore, look to our advertising columns for the full and official copies [...]
March 15, 1861; The New York Herald The Commissioners of the Southern confederacy, now at Washington, on Wednesday sent a communication to the State Department requesting recognition by the government, with the view to the opening of negotiations, at the same time stating that the Secretary of the Commission would call for an answer at [...]
March 15, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator The Southern Confederacy is gradually progressing in a career of eminent success. With the flower of the American Army in command of 50,000 well drilled troops; the most gifted and experienced statesmen of the age in charge of its civil departments; a treasury well supplied with funds; and sustained [...]
March 15, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator The Washington correspondent of the Richmond Examiner says: In Southern circles here little doubt is entertained as to the policy and purpose of the Inaugural address. It is believed Mr. Lincoln will proceed, without delay, to adopt hostile measures against the South. A collision in less than a week [...]
March 15, 1861 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward responds to the communication requesting a meeting from the CSA Commissioners with a memorandum explaining that the position of the administration is that the CSA states remain a part of the United States and are not a foreign government with whom diplomatic relations ought to [...]
March 14, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 13, 1861. Information has just been received in this city of the most important character from Montgomery. The Southern administration know that the evacuation of Forts Sumter and Pickens has been decided on. Despatches from General Beauregard, represent that it would be utterly impossible for any [...]
March 14, 1861; The New York Herald The Steamer Empire City. The steamer Empire City has been charted by the government for some particular service in the Southern waters, her clearance papers stating Indianola, Texas, as her destination. These papers have been taken out for several days, and the vessel has been lying at the [...]
March 14, 1861; The New York Herald The news from Washington this morning is highly important. The Southern Commissioners are patiently waiting the development of the policy of the administration. It is understood that they will make no move until they learn whether the Southern forts are to be evacuated, and whether an attempt is [...]