{"id":10966,"date":"2021-01-04T01:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:38:37","slug":"the-secession-of-alabama-and-mississippi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-secession-of-alabama-and-mississippi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secession of Alabama and Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">MOUNT VERNON ARSENAL, <em>January <\/em>4, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>SIR: I have the honor to inform you that this arsenal was taken possession of by four companies of volunteers from Mobile at daylight this morning. I did not make, nor could I have made, any resistance, as they had scaled the walls and taken possession before I knew anything about the movement.<\/p>\n<p>The governor has demanded all the public property, and his men now have entire possession of the arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>I telegraphed to you today for orders as to what disposition is to be made of the enlisted men and of myself. If, unfortunately, my telegram should not be answered, I will wait here a few days in hopes of hearing from you; but in the event the mails should be stopped, I will discharge all those that desire it, and bring the others with me to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The men have not been paid, and I fear that now there is no prospect of it at present.<br \/>\nI shall probably leave here by the 11th instant, unless I should receive other orders. As it was impossible for me to hold this place with my seventeen men, I trust that the Department will not hold me responsible for this unexpected catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>Very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">J. L. RENO,<br \/>\n<em>Captain, Ordnance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Capt. WM MAYNADIER, <em>Ordnance Office<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT VERNON ARSENAL, January 4, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to inform you that this arsenal was taken possession of by four companies of volunteers from Mobile at daylight this morning. I did not make, nor could I have made, any resistance, as they had scaled the walls and taken possession before I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-10966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies","8":"tag-the-secession-of-alabama-and-mississippi"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/War-of-the-Rebellion-Official-Records-e1617334712502.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}