April 1, 1861, Southern Confederacy Gen. J. H. Rice, on the part of the ladies, made the presentation speech as follows: CAPTAIN EZZARD AND SOLDIERS OF THE GATE-CITY GUARDS: Why the assemblage here? Why peals forth the note of martial music? Why this Paraphernalia of War which I see before me? But a few short [...]
March 31, 1861; The New York Herald The predominant power just now at Washington is Wall street. The question of money is one that this government as well as all others must look squarely in the face. Money has been aptly defined as the sinews of war, and it is very certain that the Lincoln [...]
March 31, 1861; The New York Herald The steamship Daniel Webster, from the Rio Grande via Key West and the Tortugas forts, with United States troops, arrived at this port yesterday. She left Brazos on the 19th, Fort Jefferson on the 24th and Fort Taylor on the 25th of March. She landed two companies of [...]
March 31, 1861 General John Bankhead Magruder reassigned from Arkansas to Texas.
Wednesday.–I have been mobbed by my own house servants. Some of them are at the plantation, some hired out at the Camden hotel, some are at Mulberry. They agreed to come in a body and beg me to stay at home to keep my own house once more, “as I ought not to have them [...]
March 30, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Crescent City WE present characteristic sketches of the Crescent City. The traveler who approaches by the Pontchartrain Railway sees the domes, spires, and chimney-tops of the city peering over tufts of grass and shrubbery, looking as though a town had been sown there and was just coming up. Upon [...]
March 30, 1861; The New York Herald From our Washington despatches, it appears that Col. Lamon, the President’s envoy to Charleston, declined to exercise the discretionary power with which he was clothed, and issue the order to Major Anderson for the evacuation of Fort Sumter. He returned to Washington and reported the facts respecting the [...]
March 30, 1861; The New York Herald The republican papers are continually representing that the slave owners of the South are all aristocrats, and comprise an odious oligarchy, while all the democracy of the country is to be found at the North. If the possession of wealth constitutes an aristocracy in the owners thereof we [...]
March 30, 1861; Standard (Clarksville Texas) Mr. Howard, of the firm of Howard & Buchardt, showed us this morning a neat silken model of the Flag of the Confederate States of America; originated by the Congressional Committee, and adopted unanimously. It is as follows: Blue union, with seven white stars; three horizontal stripes, red, white [...]
March 30, 1861; The Illustrated London News No decided action had, according to the latest accounts from America, been taken by either the Northern or Southern States, but both seemed drifting towards a collision. President Lincoln has declined to hold any intercourse with the Southern commissioners. According to the New York Herald it has been [...]
March 30, 1861, Harper’s Weekly THE accompanying portrait of General SAM HOUSTON, Governor of Texas, will be recognized by all who know the old hero. Even those who remember him as he was two years ago, when he wore a heavy mustache, will readily recall the noble brow and the fierce eye. Probably no man [...]
March 29, 1861; The New York Herald In the United States Senate yesterday Mr. Trumbull offered a resolution declaring that in the opinion of the Senate the true way to preserve the Union is to enforce the laws of the Union; that resistance to their enforcement, whether under the name of anti-coercion or any other [...]
March 29, 2004; Tri-Weekly Alamo Express, San Antonio, TX On Thursday morning two more companies of regulars passed through our city. One company under command of Maj. Shepherd, halted on the Main Plaza, where a crowd of people had spontaneously gathered, and played “auld lang syne” with fife and drum, receiving the enthusiastic cheers of [...]
March 29, 1861 After days of deliberation and careful consultation with his cabinet, Lincoln decides to re-supply Forts Sumter and Pickens. In an 89 to 45 vote, the Virginia State Convention rejects an ordinance of secession. Mississippi ratifies the Confederate Constitution
March 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In striving to arouse the South to the fatuity of the policy, which may be perpetrated under the Confederate States Constitution, by a two-thirds vote of future Congresses, we have already noticed the gross ignorance of the people of the North in regard to the true principles of republican [...]
March 28, 1861; The New York Herald Col. Lamon, President Lincoln’s special envoy to Fort Sumter, returned to Washington yesterday afternoon. The particulars of the result of his mission have not been made public, but it is known that Fort Sumter will be evacuated as soon as the vessel detailed to convey away the garrison [...]
March 28, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 27, 1861. Colonel Ward H. Lamon, bearer of despatches from President Lincoln to Fort Sumter, returned this afternoon, and reported himself to the President while the Cabinet was present. The Colonel brought with him a large palmetto tree which was presented to him at Charleston. Colonel [...]
March 28, 1861; The Charleston Mercury MONTGOMERY, March 25. It is a matter of some pride her, at the capitol, to know that the new government loan of five million dollars has been taken, or at least the money has already been tendered, and is now waiting the time when the bonds can be issued [...]
March 27, 1861, Albany Evening Journal Capt. Fox, who visited Fort Sumter on the requisition of the War Department, has returned here and reported the result of his mission. It is very well understood that he had a plan for introducing reenforcements, which had [...]
March 27, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The South is fully aware that the peoples of the Northern States are fundamentally unsound on the question of slavery. They universally regard it as immoral and sinful to hold property in man. They believe it unrighteous and unjustifiable in the Caucasians at the South to hold Africans in [...]
March 27, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The business men of Charleston are already beginning to reap the advantages of the independent position which the South has taken, in consequence of the refusal of the North to grant her constitutional rights. The results of the last few weeks have demonstrated conclusively that the commercial prosperity and [...]
March 27, 1861; The Charleston Mercury As another evidence of the direction given to the public mind by the independent action of the South, we would call attention to the advertisement of this Manufacturing Company in another column. It is a movement of great importance to the whole South. This is a corporation which will [...]
March 27, 1861; The New York Herald We are informed from a reliable source that numerous companies are now being organized within the precincts of the Confederate States with a view of developing their water power resources and the establishment of manufactories in the republic for the fabrication of those kinds of goods usually furnished [...]
March 27, 1861 Tri-Weekly Alamo Express , San Antonio, TX Our dull and gloomy city was enlivened by a pleasant and stiring event on Tuesday last; some four companies of the 3d, Infantry, Maj. Brooks in command, passed through our city with the flag of our country flying gaily on the breeze and the fife [...]
March 27, 1861; The New York Herald Our despatches from Washington state that the Cabinet have had under consideration of evacuating Fort Pickens, and there is good reason to believe that the fort will be abandoned by the federal troops within thirty days, thus removing the last immediate cause for hostilities between the two confederacies. [...]