March 10th.–Mrs. Childs was here to-night (Mary Anderson, from Statesburg), with several children. She is lovely. Her hair is piled up on the top of her head oddly. Fashions from France still creep into Texas across Mexican borders. Mrs. Childs is fresh from Texas. Her husband is an artillery officer, or was. They will be [...]

March 10, 1861, Atlanta Constitution Pensacola, Fla.– The U.S. man-o-war Brooklyn and other U.S. vessels will no longer be able to obtain coal and water at the former U.S. Navy base in Pensacola harbor, the Brooklyn’s commander has been informed. Boats still visit the U.S. ships (which bear supplies and men for Ft. Pickens but [...]

March 10, 1861; The New York Herald The government have received despatches from San Antonio and Fort Brown, Texas. Col. Waite, the commander of the United States forces in Texas, had endeavored to reorganize the troops, but found it impossible to do so, owing to their complete demoralization through the conduct of Gen. Twiggs. The [...]

March 10, 1861, Atlanta Constitution Austin Tex.– Gov. Sam Houston opposes the union of his now-seceded state with the Confederacy, preferring that Texas become an independent republic again. Mr. Houston also has refused to recognize the state convention which voted for secession. It’s job is at an end, he says, and he and the state [...]

Virginia Military Institute Lexington, March 10th My Dear Ma & Pa I received your letter a few days ago & was very glad indeed to hear from you & to hear that you were all well. I have no news to tell you only that I am well and [hearty] & am getting along very [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury (From the New York Tribune.) The address cannot fail to exercise a happy influence upon the country. The tone of almost tenderness with which the South is called upon to return to her allegiance cannot fail to convince even those who differ from Mr. Lincoln that he earnestly and [...]

March 9, 1861; The New York Herald According to our Washington despatches, the reinforcement of Forts Sumter and Pickens has been decided on by the administration of President Lincoln, and the arrangements for carrying out that object are now in active progress. General Scott and the Cabinet secretaries are said to be busy with the [...]

March 9, 1861, The Scientific American In a letter to the Times, referring to the absence of all provisions for the construction of iron-coated ships in the new year’s programme for the American navy, Mr. J. Scott Russell writes as follows:–”The explanation is the simplest possible. The entire mercantile steam navy of Great Britain, with [...]

March 9, 1861, Texas Republican (Marshall) On Friday evening last, there was a general and, we might say, a spontaneous call upon Mrs. Gov. Pickens by her Marshall friends, as it was generally understood she would leave in a few days thereafter for South Carolina. The residence of Col. B. L. Holcomb, noted as it [...]

March 9, 1861, Austin State Gazette On Monday last, a large majority of the delegates to the Convention answered to their names. The Secession Ordinance had been sustained by a vast majority of the people of Texas. In accordance with their decision, the Lone Star banner which had been presented to the Convention by the [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We give below brief sketches of those members of the Cabinet of LINCOLN, with whose history many of our readers may not be familiar: SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Hon. Salmon P. Chase is a native of New Hampshire, born in 1808, and at an early age emigrated to Ohio, [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Montgomery Correspondence. MONTGOMERY, March 6, 1861. Last week a rumor prevailed that the Congress would take a recess. Tomorrow, the Georgia State Convention meets. The Alabama Convention is in session, having assembled on Monday last. But, although members of the Congress are also members of these Conventions, the [...]

March 9, 1861, The Illustrated London News ‘A Barber’s Shop at Richmond, Virginia’ An Engraving from a painting by Eyre Crowe, in the Exhibition of the British Institution London Illustrated News, March 9, 1861 Painting 1853 “This engraving, based on an oil painting by the English artist Eyre Crowe, is titled A Barber’s Shop at [...]

March 9, 1861, The Illustrated London News UNITED STATES. Mr. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, entitled the Confederate States of America, was formally inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 18th ult. The spectacle is described as the grandest ever witnessed in the South. Mr. Davis, in his address on the occasion said:—”The judgment [...]

March 9, 1861 The Coinage Bill is passed by the Confederate Congress, authorizing up to 50 million dollars in Confederate currency to be printed

March 8th.–Judge Campbell,¹ of the United States Supreme Court, has resigned. Lord! how he must have hated to do it. How other men who are resigning high positions must hate to do it. Now we may be sure the bridge is broken. And yet in the Alabama Convention they say Reconstructionists abound and are busy. [...]

March 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Important Notification of the English and French Governments. WASHINGTON, March 4. – I learn that Lord LYONS, the British Minister, has officially notified the American Government that Great Britain will not recognize a blockade of the Southern ports, unless it is thorough and effectual, and that the mere announcement [...]

March 8, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator Judge Jno. Brockenbrough, one of the Commissioners from Virginia to the Peace Congress, passed through Staunton on the 4th, on his way to his home in Lexington. In a brief conversation with the Judge, he expressed it as his opinion that there was very little hope of an adjustment [...]

March 8, 1861; The New York Herald An early attack on Fort Sumter seems to be generally anticipated. Whether the administration will reinforce Major Anderson is not known. It was stated in Washington last night that Major Anderson had sent word to the government that it was useless to send to his assistance less than [...]

March 8, 1861; The New York Herald AFFAIRS AT FORT SUMTER. WASHINGTON, March 7, 1861. A despatch was received here today stating that an attack on Sumter was shortly anticipated. This change of policy, it is understood, is not caused so much by the inaugural as from the fact that Chase and Blair are members [...]

March 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury This ball, which took place in Washington on Monday night, is said to have been well attended. One of the ladies is represented to have been attired in two thousand dollars worth of laces and twenty thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds. A letter says: At 10 3/4 o’clock the [...]

March 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Montgomery Correspondence. MONTGOMERY, March 5. The confirmation of the appointment of the Hon. S.R. MALLORY, of Fla., as Secretary of the Navy, is the chief subject of comment relative to the actions of Congress on yesterday. The confirmation took place in secret session, and I am not prepared [...]

March 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Since the days of TITUS OATES, the great model plot maker, there never has been shown so industrious an effort to find a plot, as the Black Republicans display, in the hope, by a plot invention, to excuse the pussilanimous and skulking process by which LINCOLN made his way [...]

March 7, 2021 American Civil War Chronicles current status: There are 22,960 total posts.  Of these, 1,814 have been published, 9,289 are scheduled, and 11,840 are in draft I’ve just finished scheduling War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, which has 84 total entries. It’s by Dora Richards Miller (image on right)— Born [...]