{"id":3895,"date":"2021-04-11T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2021-04-06T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:01:16","slug":"the-impending-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-impending-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impending War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 11, 1861; <em>The New York Herald<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The News from Charleston.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Latest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">CHARLESTON, April 10\u2013Evening.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The floating battery finished, mounted and manned, was taken out of the dock last evening, and anchored in the cove near Sullivan\u2019s Island.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our people are not excited, but there is a fixed determination to meet the issue.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">An additional regiment of one thousand men is hourly expected from the interior.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Convention has just adjourned subject to the call of the President. Before adjourning it passed resolutions approving the conduct of General Twiggs in reseigning his commission and turning over the public property under his control to the authorities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Governor Pickens was in secret session with the Convention today.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">About 1,000 troops were sent to the fortifications today. 1,800 more go down tomorrow.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Messrs. Wigfall, Chesnut, Means, Manning, McGowan and Boyleston have received appointments in General Beauregard staff.<br \/>\nA large number of the members of the Convention, after adjournment, volunteered as privates.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">About seven thousand troops are now at the fortifications. The beginning of the end is coming to a final end.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 1861; The New York Herald The News from Charleston. The Latest. CHARLESTON, April 10\u2013Evening. The floating battery finished, mounted and manned, was taken out of the dock last evening, and anchored in the cove near Sullivan\u2019s Island. Our people are not excited, but there is a fixed determination to meet the issue. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1863\/02\/New-York-Herald.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}