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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 31: (search)
bands of marauders terrorized the people by gathering up what they claimed to have been Confederate government property. In reality they were stealing cattle, sheep and other things, wherever they could find them. A conflict of citizens took place with some of these, three miles from Staunton, on the 20th, on which day word came to the Valley that Lincoln had been assassinated. There was a general expression of indignation and profound regret, at this sad and untimely event. On the 24th of April the full bench of the justices of the peace of Augusta county, one of the leading ones of Virginia in all respects, met in Staunton, to take steps to prevent the plundering and stealing that was going on throughout the county by these bands of men pretending to gather up public property, and issued an address to all the people, calling on them to abide by the laws; the sheriff was also ordered to go on with the collection of taxes. Many men of the soldier element were still in a state
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 3: (search)
ence of opinion was exhibited among its members in regard to the status of slavery in the Territories. The old Democratic portion, invoking the Dred Scott decision, held that slave property, under the Constitution, was entitled to the same protection therein with any other property; whilst the Douglas delegates, in opposition to this decision, maintained the power of a Territorial Legislature to impair or destroy this property in its discretion. On the day after the Convention assembled (24th April), a committee was appointed, consisting of a delegate from each State, selected by the respective State delegations, to report resolutions as a platform for the party; and on the same day it was resolved unanimously that this Convention will not proceed to ballot for a candidate for the Presidency until the platform shall have been adopted. On the 27th of April the Committee on Resolutions made majority and minority reports. 5th day, p. 45. After a long, able, and eloquent discussion
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 4: (search)
arters. April 17. Pierce (?) reported for duty. April 18. One bay horse died and 2 horses (one chestnut and one bay) shot, per order Capt. Sleeper; disease, glanders. April 19. Orcutt (?) and Stowell reported for dismounted duty; Pierce (?) and Chase reported for quarters. April 20. C. E. Woodis taken to Camp Hospital yesterday; H. Chase reported for dismounted duty. April 22. Pierce (?) Colbath and Stowell reported for duty. April 23. Crawford reported to quarters. April 24. Crawford reported to duty; Thayer to quarters. April 25. White reported for duty, also Thayer. April 26. Corp'l Smith reported to quarters. April 27. Corp'l Smith reported to light duty; Parks started for home on 20 days furlough; John C. Frost sent to hospital. April 28. C. E. Woodis reported for stable duty. T. G. Redfield started for Washington on furlough. April 29. Chas. E. Woodis reported to quarters. One black horse died; disease * * * May 2. Leverett Pierce r
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 9: (search)
lso J. F. Baxter. April 20. E. D. Thresher reported to quarters; J. E. Mugford to duty. John Millett, James Peach sent to General Hospital, Washington, D. C. April 21. H. Orcutt, John Ramsdell, O. Wheelock, J. T. Goodwin reported to quarters. April 22. Corp. B. C. Clark reported to quarters. Henry L. Ewell returned to the Battery from absent sick. April 23. James Ellworth, Dan'l McAllister, H. Orcutt, John Ramsdell reported to duty. James Kay, James S. Bailey to quarters. April 24. John H. Knowland, Chas. Chase reported to duty. John Ramsdell and R. G. Gilley reported to quarters. April 25. Oliver Wheelock, Corp. B. C. Clark and James Kay report to duty. E. F. Damrell and Geo. W. Parks reported to quarters. April 26. E. F. Damrell reported to duty. W. E. Northey on detached service at Artillery Brigade Headquarters, 2nd A. C., as orderly with horse and equipments. April 27. John Ramsdell, James S. Bailey, Jr., reported to duty. Chas. E. Prince reported
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 20: (search)
Two horses died of exhaustion. Received 29 horses from Q. M. Dep't. Turned in 24 horses to Q. M. Dep't. April 17. Received 30 rounds of ammunition from Capt. Meade. April 18. Two men, A. A. Blandin and T. Herlehy reported back for duty from the train. April 20. Private E. D. Thresher reported to quarters. April 21. Private E. D. Thresher reported to quarters. April 22. Private E. D. Thresher reported to quarters. April 23. Private E. D. Thresher reported to quarters. April 24. Private E. D. Thresher and Thomas Smith reported to quarters. Received 300 rounds of ammunition, 70 of * * * 70 H. C., and 160 H. P. from Capt. Meade Q. M. (Ordnance)? Dept. Corporal Estee and seven privates returned to duty from Art'y Brigade Headquarters. April 25. Private T. Smith reported to quarters. Private E. D. Thresher sent to Brigade Hospital. Private S. H. Johnson returned to duty from Ammunition Train. April 26. Two horses died, Black Tongue. Private E. D. Thresher di
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
e department and army of the Cumberland. From Washington, Grant wrote to Sherman a private and confidential letter, saying: I propose for you to move against Johnston's army, to break it up and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources. About the same time Sherman received a map marked to show the contemplated movements, indicating that he was expected to advance to Atlanta, and thence to Savannah. On April 24th he reported that he was ready except getting up McPherson's command from Cairo, mostly on furlough. He also stated his opinion that in the coming campaign Johnston would be compelled to hang to his railroad, the only possible avenue of supply to the Southern army, estimated from 45,000 to 65,000 men. Sherman's army numbered nearly 100,000 men. About the middle of April, Johnston sent his adjutant-general, Col. B. S. Ewell, to Richmond to state the situation and his own position of re
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter II (search)
ial ports, supplemented by a force of vessels cruising up and down the coast. The number of points to be covered would thus be reduced to four or five on the Atlantic and as many more on the Gulf. Had this expectation been realized, the blockade would have been by no means the stupendous undertaking that it seemed to observers abroad. Acting upon such a belief, the Government entered upon its task with confidence and proceeded with despatch. The Niagara, which had returned from Japan on April 24, was sent to cruise off Charleston. The Brooklyn and Powhatan moved westward along the Gulf. Before the 1st of May, seven steamers of considerable size had been chartered in New York and Philadelphia. One of these, the Keystone State, chartered by Lieutenant Woodhull, and intended especially for use at Norfolk, was at her station in Hampton Roads in forty-eight hours after Woodhull had received his orders in Washington to secure a vessel. The screw-steamer South Carolina, of eleven hun
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
ch must be committed to your judgment and discretion. Commodore Mervine will shortly proceed to the Gulf with the [steamer] Mississippi and other vessels will be speedily despatched to reinforce the blockading squadron, and close Galveston and other ports. No time was therefore lost in making a beginning. But for the first three months it was only a beginning; and at some points it cannot be said to have gone so far as that. The Niagara, under Captain McKean, had arrived at Boston, April 24, and was sent to New York for necessary repairs. These were hurriedly completed and she proceeded to Charleston to set on foot the blockade at that point. She arrived at her post on May 11. After lying off the bar four days, and warning several vessels off the whole Southern coast, for which, as already mentioned, the Government afterward paid heavy damages, she was directed to proceed to sea to intercept certain shiploads of arms and munitions of war, which were known to be on their way
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
rengthen the forts on the river, he had applied to Beauregard for the ram Manassas, which was sent down the river in time, and took a part in the bombardment of April 24th, to be referred to presently. In connection with the defense of the forts, a raft of logs and chains—popularly supposed to be invincible—had been placed acrore powerful than either, did not even see the enemy. She is remembered as the Confederate States steamer-ram Mississippi. Still on the ways at New Orleans, on April 24th, without guns or men, she was hastily taken up the river to avoid capture by the enemy, where she was burned before she had begun to act. Of the other two—the M Second failure of the fire-barges to appear. Day and night the terrible shelling grew heavier and harder to bear with each renewal of the storm, until Thursday, April 24th, on which day before dawn a sinister silence fell for a moment upon the river. At 3:30 a. m. it was broken by a portentous warning coming into the forts f<
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
er took this reply to the Hartford early on the morning of April 29th. On the ship Mr. Soule favored the flag-officer with a learned discussion of international law. That same evening, General Lovell had come down to the mayor's residence from Camp Moore with a plan for making a combined night attack upon the fleet. Lovell's plan contemplated, as the attacking machine, a flotilla of ferryboats. Ammunition of the fleet was supposed to have been exhausted through the fierce broadsides of April 24th. Lovell was eager to try this plan; but discussion on the details was postponed until next day. Early next morning word came from Captain Farragut notifying the mayor that the forts had surrendered, adding that he was about to raise the United States flag on the mint and custom house. He was for making the lowering of the State flag over the city hall the work of those who had hoisted it Before Baker had left the Hartford, however, he had prevailed upon Farragut to yield that point. In
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