Memphis Daily Appeal Tennessee May 8, 1861 Another begger was arrested in the streets yesterday. She was a stout, hearty woman, and was seen by the police to enter many places, and accost many persons asking for charity to a distressed woman. In the evening she became so much intoxicated that it became necessary to [...]
Pl. CXXI (121): Views of forts in Charelston Harbor (SC) Atlas Title The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Other Title Official records of the Union and Confederate armies Atlas to Accompany the Official Records (Image 146 of 203) ___________ Mike’s notes: Note – This [...]
The city was startled on Saturday by the intelligence that the President-elect, instead of proceeding on his journey to Washington from Harrisburg, in accordance with the published programme, on Saturday morning, had left the latter city secretly, on a special train, on Friday night, and returning to Philadelphia, had passed thence, unrecognized, through Baltimore, and [...]
From The New-York Times February 19, 1861: BANGOR, Me., Monday, Feb. 18. Vice-President HAMLIN and lady left here this morning on route for Washington. He will arrive at Boston this evening, and leave for the West to-morrow morning. He was escorted from Hampden to our city by a large-number of his fellow-townsmen, and was received [...]
Richard H. Clark[i] to Howell Cobb. Albany, Ga, Feb. 16th, 1861. My Dear Sir: I observe that the Montgomery Congress has taken charge of our difficulties with the administration at Washington and perhaps will pursue the policy of making demands of the Lincoln administration. It has for sometime been my suspicion—it is now my conviction, [...]
Junius Hillyer to Howell Cobb. Washington [D. C], Monday, Feb. 11th [1861]. Dear Sir: Before I close my official term I will use one more frank to you, and that will end a very convenient privilege which I was never fully satisfied ought to have been allowed me. There is I think a growing tendency [...]
Boston Courier, December 29, 1860 We must own that the news of the transaction in Charleston harbor was learned by us yesterday with a prouder beating of the heart. We could not but feel once more that we had a country—a fact which has been to a certain degree in suspense for some weeks past. [...]
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The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], December 29, 1860 We clip the following touching tribute to a worthy old gentleman deceased, from the Memphis Avalanch [sic]. Requiescat in pace: Died.—On the 6th of November last, at the ripe old age of 84 years, 4 months and two days, UNCLE SAM, leaving a numerous and respectable set of [...]
The Charleston Daily News, Dec. 27, 1860 It was given out yesterday at Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s Island, that an attack was expected to be made upon it by the people of this city, and that therefore it would be necessary to remove the wives and children of the men to a more secure place. [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], December 22, 1860 Will the ship of the driver be heard this year, will his footprint be found on the chimney side, and the tap at the door when the new year comes, clothed in the garments of promise? Santa Claus, will come, young folks. He will visit [...]
The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], December 22, 1860 Within the last forty years country life has quietly and almost imperceptibly undergone great changes, and, under the influence of modern discoveries and inventions, will, ere long, be wholly revolutionized. The pursuits and amusements of our parents are not our pursuits and amusements, nor has anything new come [...]
[Marshall] Texas Republican, December 22, 1860 The following letter from a lady, published in the Charleston Mercury, exhibits the determined feeling in South Carolina in favor of secession, In your paper of yesterday you paid an eloquent, and I would fain believe, a deserved tribute to the patriotic devotion of women. At this period, our [...]
[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, December 22, 1860 Young Man, you look healthy, hearty, why don’t you go to work? You are able to drink whisky and smoke cigars, why don’t you earn the money to pay for them, instead of being a constant drain on your daddy’s pocket? How long do you expect your daddy [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 21, 1860 We make the following extract from a letter received by Maj. W. P. Darling from Parker county. It speaks for itself. They need assistance. Will our citizens, who are beyond danger, extend it to them? Dec. 2nd, 1860 Maj. H. P. Darling, Sir: —Our country is in a [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 21, 1860 A military company was formed in this place last Saturday, immediately upon the adjournment of the meeting. They are to hold themselves in readiness to fight for the State at any point desired. The officers elected are as follows: W. W. McPhaill, Captain; H. D. Garden, First Lieutenant; [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], December 20, 1860 It is generally understood that there is a secret organization in the State of Georgia, known as “The Choctaws,” pledged to precipitate the State into a revolution, even should the sovereign people in convention, decided against immediate secession. The organization is said to number, at [...]
Charleston Mercury broadside, December 20, 1860 We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty [...]
Bellville [TX] Countryman, December 19, 1860 Gen. Portis addressed a considerable meeting at Millheim yesterday, on the subject of the present crisis. The Lone Star flag was flung to the breeze.
The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], December 15, 1860 From the Cincinnati Enquirer. It seems but recently since we were in the midst of the political campaign of 1840, yet twenty years have flown since that year of humbug, log cabins, hard cider and gold spoons. Twenty years is a great period in the life of man, [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 14, 1860 The Dallas Herald urges the County Court to arm and equip a company of men, to be held n readiness to repel the threatened invasion of Montgomery and his gang of marauders. We learn also that the inhabitants along the borders of Missouri, in great numbers, have fled [...]
Memphis Daily Appeal [Memphis, TN], December 9, 1860 A gentleman of this city, now travelling in Mississippi, says the Nashville Gazette, writes back to a friend as follows: The further down I get, the more secession I see. Not content with wearing the blue cockade themselves, the people put them up on wagons, carriages, riding [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 8, 1860 The Hartford Times, of the 19th ult., says the steamer City of Hartford takes, this afternoon, as freight, one hundred and eighty cases of Sharpe’s patent carbines, containing ten pieces each, amounting to arms for one thousand eight hundred men, and forty cases of conical balls, containing [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 8, 1860 The minute men of Gonzales county met at Gonzales on the 1st instant, for the purpose of organizing a regiment. So says the Inquirer. Companies of minute men are being formed in nearly every county in the State. Are there none of Corpus Christi’s chivalrous spirits ready [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 7, 1860 Week before last we urged the propriety of the military companies now being formed throughout the State uniforming themselves in home made jeans. Last Monday our enterprising friend, Wm. T. Patton, of Flowerdale, Freestone county, orderly sergeant in a new company organized in that neighborhood called the Prairie [...]