JULY 3d.—The Secretary said to me to-day that he desired my young friend, the classical teacher, to assist me in writing letters. I told him I needed assistance, and Mr. Jacques was qualified. Major Tyler’s ill health keeps him absent half the time. There was abundance of work for both of us. Mr. J. is [...]
July 3, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 A rebel company (94) captured at Neosho, Mo. Governor of Arkansas called out 10,000 men to repel invasion. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
JULY 2d.—There has been some brilliant fighting by several brothers named Ashby, who led a mounted company near Romney. One of the brothers, Richard, was slain. Turner Ashby put half a dozen Yankees hors du combat with his own arm. He will make a name. We have accounts of an extraordinary exploit of Col. Thomas, [...]
Henry Adams to his brother, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. London, Tuesday, July 2,1861 My letters in the [New York] Times will give you pretty much all I have to say about politics. They are very correctly printed; at least the three first which are all that have reached me. There is no doubt in my [...]
Boston, July 2, 1861 There is little news politically, for I am no longer in the way of getting it. There is a marked improvement in the general feeling and in the tone of the press towards England and my apprehensions of trouble would have entirely subsided but that I cannot but fear future trouble [...]
July 2, 1861 General Robert Patterson crosses the Potomac at Williamsport, Maryland and moves towards Harpers Ferry. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Engagement near Martinsburg between Patterson’s (U.) and Jackson’s (R.) forces: rebels defeated. New Legislature of Virginia met and organized at Wheeling. The new government had already been recognized by [...]
A beehive is seen at top center on this note printed on blue paper. The company was headquartered in Alexandria and was incorporated on March 9, 1850. It is an elusive issuer in any grade. ___________ Mike’s notes: Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following: – fade [...]
JULY 1st.—My family are gone. We have moved the department to Mechanics’ Hall, which will be known hereafter as the War Department. In an evil hour, I selected a room to write my letters in, quite remote from the Secretary’s office. I thought Mr. Walker resented this. He had likewise been piqued at the effect [...]
Cairo, July 1, 1861. Writing letters is getting to be harder work than drilling, and is more dreaded by the boys. Lots of people are visiting the camp now, many of them ladies, but I tell you that they use their fans more than their spy-glasses after a very few looks. I was up to [...]
The railroad, which ultimately ran 87 miles from Mount Jackson to Manassas, VA was begun in 1851 and essentially completed in 1859. It played a role in the audacious Great Train Raid pulled off by Stonewall Jackson in May 1861 which netted 67 locomotives and 386 cars which were removed, captured, or burned at the [...]
July 1, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 C. S. privateer “Sumter” escaped from the “Mississippi.” C. S. privateer “Petrel” escaped from Charleston. Late members of the Baltimore Board of Police arrested and sent to Fort McHenry. Fight at Buckhannon, Va. Skirmish at Falling Waters, Va. Engagement at Haynesville, Va. Skirmish [...]
January 31, 1861; The New York Herald Our late cheering advices from Washington, indicating the seasonable cooperation of the President elect in some compromise arrangement in behalf of the Union, and the peace of the country, were too good, it appears, to be true. With the receipt of these advices at Springfield, the republican newspaper [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury There is something base, on the part of the President, in keeping Major ANDERSON at Fort Sumter under the present circumstances. Knowing him to be a Southron and a slaveholder, he should be offered a furlough or leave of absence, and a substitute sent who is not a Southron. [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Our Richmond Correspondence. RICHMOND, January 29. Richmond Waking Up – Speech of Judge Robertson – What Virginians think of South Carolina – Future Course of the Old Dominion – The Inevitable Botts – A Slow Legislature, etc., etc. At last the darkness seems about to break here. The day [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury FROM WASHINGTON. Treachery of the Administration. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WASHINGTON, January 30 – 10:45 a.m. – The President has replied to the despatch of Senator MALLORY, of Florida. He says the Brooklyn has gone to Pensacola; that she will land provisions at Fort Pickens, and then lay off [...]
January 31, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 1861. Private advices from the South, received tonight, indicate that there will be a fight in less than thirty hours. The President declared to a member of Congress yesterday that he had no doubt that Fort Sumter would be attacked in less than a week, [...]
January 30, 1861, The New York Herald The announcement of the peaceful mission of the steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn to Florida is confirmed by late advices from Washington. The provisions on board the Brooklyn are to be delivered at Fort Pickens, but she is not to enter the harbor of Pensacola, nor to land troops at [...]
January 30, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Government of the United States insists on holding Fort Sumter as property. They pretend to think that this is by no means a hostile attitude against South Carolina. They do not hold it was a military instrumentality by which the waters of our bay and the commerce of [...]
January 30, 1861 Louisiana Secessionist Convention selects 6 delegates to represent the state at the Convention of Seceded States in Montgomery, AL
January 29, 1861, The New York Herald It is now stated that the mission of the war steamer Brooklyn to Pensacola is one of peace. She has been sent out to intercept vessels of the Gulf squadron that have been ordered to Pensacola to prevent them from going there, and thus obviate difficulty and perhaps [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In rainy weather we have frequent complaints that the MERCURY is received in a mutilated condition. This is owing to the fact that so few residences are provided with boxes to receive the paper and protect it from the weather. The carriers have to thrown it into piazzas, gardens, [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Major William H. Chase, formerly of the United States Corps of Engineers, is the leader of the State troops at Pensacola, Florida. He was formerly a resident of Massachusetts, and received the appointment of cadet from that State to the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated March [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Legislature last night again altered the design of the State flag. It now consists of a blue field, with a white palmetto tree in the middle, upright. The white crescent in the upper flag staff corner remains as before, the horns pointing upward. This may be regarded as [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury An officer in the army or navy of the United States is a citizen of a State, appointed by the general agent of all the States (the Government of the United States) to an office, to assist in carrying on this agency. He is not a citizen of the [...]
January 29, 1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state — without slavery.