{"id":11045,"date":"2021-01-19T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:51:34","slug":"the-secession-of-alabama-and-mississippi-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-secession-of-alabama-and-mississippi-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secession of Alabama and Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">MOTTLE, ALA., <em>January <\/em>19, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>SIR: I have to state that Fort Gaines was formally taken possession of in name of the State of Alabama yesterday. I was about to send all the hands off on a steamer chartered for the purpose; some provisions, &amp;c., were also to [be] taken to Mobile and sold. Colonel Todd, of the State militia, arrived there in a small boat with four or five officers, at about \u00a0 the same time that the steamer came to take the hands, provisions, &amp;c., and prevented the shipment of anything but personal property, and demanded the surrender of fort and all property pertaining thereto. I gave the sub-overseer directions to turn over keys, &amp;c. Colonel Todd informed me that about 30 men would be left there that day. Fort Morgan has now, I think, at least 400 and perhaps 500 men.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>Respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">C. B. REESE,<br \/>\n<em>Lieutenant of Engineers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>General J. G. TOTTEN,<br \/>\n<em>Chief of Engineers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOTTLE, ALA., January 19, 1861. SIR: I have to state that Fort Gaines was formally taken possession of in name of the State of Alabama yesterday. I was about to send all the hands off on a steamer chartered for the purpose; some provisions, &amp;c., were also to [be] taken to Mobile and sold. Colonel [&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-11045","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\/11045","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=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/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=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}