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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Message of the President of the United States, of the 8th of January, 1861. (search)
ur information, copies of a communication, dated December 28, 1860, addressed to me by R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams, and J. L. Orr, Commissioners from South Carolina, with the accompanying documents, and copies of my answer thereto, dated December 31. In further explanation of Major Anderson's removal from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, it is proper to state that, after my answer to the South Carolina Commissioners, the War Department received a letter from that gallant officer, dated December 27, 1860, the day after this movement, from which the following is an extract: I will add, as my opinion, that many things convinced me that the authorities of the State designed to proceed to a hostile act [evidently referring to the orders dated December 11, of the late Secretary of War]. Under this impression, I could not hesitate that it was my solemn duty to move my command from a fort which we could not probably have held longer than forty-eight or sixty hours to this one, where my pow
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
ersal resolve was the determination to maintain the secession of the State at any and every cost. The militia of the State was, at the time, her only arm of defense, and every part of it was put under orders. Of the State militia, the largest organized body was the Fourth brigade of Charleston, commanded by Brig.-Gen. James Simons. This body of troops was well organized, well drilled and armed, and was constantly under the orders of the governor and in active service from the 27th of December, 1860, to the last of April, 1861. Some of the commands continued in service until the Confederate regiments, battalions and batteries were organized and finally absorbed all the effective material of the brigade. This efficient brigade was composed of the following commands: First regiment of rifles: Col. J. J. Pettigrew, Lieut.-Col. John L. Branch, Maj. Ellison Capers, Adjt. Theodore G. Barker, Quartermaster Allen Hanckel, Commissary L. G. Young, Surg. George Trescot, Asst. Surg.
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
rleston, S. C. He entered the State service on December 27, 1860, enlisting in the First regiment of South Caro street church, Charleston. By his marriage, December 27, 1860, to Julia C., daughter of Ebenezer Rhane, he hte he enlisted in the Carolina light infantry, December 27, 1860, and after about thirty days service as a privctober 30, 1841. He entered the State service December 27, 1860, as a private in the Carolina light infantry, e the arms and other property on its soil. On December 27, 1860, he was with the three companies of Washingtonmetto Guards he went on duty in the State Army December 27, 1860, and was assigned to the iron battery on Morrind he entered the active service of the State, December 27, 1860, going on duty at Sullivan's island, where he Charleston, and was with that company when, on December 27, 1860, it went to Sullivan's island and occupied Forh Carolina. Mr. Ward entered the State service December 27, 1860, being then eighteen years of age, as a privat
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
the meeting of the convention called by the citizens. His reasons assigned for the call were that there was great excitement in the public mind in reference to our relations to the Federal government, and he wished measures provided for a free expression of the popular will; also that the necessary means might be provided for the protection of the frontier against the depredations of the Indians. Obviously to produce a diversion from immediate State action, the governor, on the 27th of December, 1860, issued his proclamation founded upon the joint resolutions of the legislature, approved by Governor Runnels, February 16, 1858, relating to the trouble in Kansas, in which he ordered an election to be held on the 4th day of January, 1861, for seven delegates to represent Texas in a consultation with delegates from the other Southern States as to the best mode of maintaining the equal rights of such States in the Union. No such election was held and no such consultation took place;
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
w militia companies. The Army of Northern Virginia in Charleston harbor around Fort Sumter, and the army of the West at Pensacola before Fort Pickens. When South Carolina seceded, and Major Anderson made the first move of the war, on the 27th December, 1860, abandoning and burning Fort Moultrie, and taking possession of Fort Sumter, the State of South Carolina had but the volunteer companies of the city of Charleston available for seizing and occupying the other strategic points around Charlese formed the nucleus of the army so long commanded by General Bragg, who may be said to have organized them there. The volunteer companies of the Fourth brigade, South Carolina militia, that is the Charleston volunteer companies, on the 27th December, 1860, seized Castle Pinckney, Fort Moultrie, Morris Island, Fort Johnson and the arsenal in the city. They thus took the field without an hour's notice, and held these points until relieved by other troops raised by the State; and indeed were o
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Sale of Slaves at Amelia Court-House, December 27th, 1860 --We will as Trustees, sell, upon a credit of six months, several likely Negroes, at the Court-House of Amelia, at December Court. the 27th B. W. Finney, Trustees. L. Masters, Trustees. de 24--3t
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Sale of Slaves at Amelia Court-House, December 27th, 1860. --We will, as Trustees, sell, upon a credit of six months, several likely Negroes, at the Court-House of Amelia, at December Court, the 27th. B. W. Finney, Trustees. L. Masters, Trustees. de 24--3t
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
From Washington. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Dec. 27, 1860. Seward's proposition about dividing the Territories and admitting them as States immediately, as given in my telegraphic dispatch of yesterday, seems to be yet unkown to the papers. I see they do not mention it this morning. But my informant assures me that he received it from a most reliable source — from Winter Davis, and from two gentlemen more trustworthy than he. I passed Senators Hunter and Toombs yesterday as they were walking down from the Capitol after the session of the Committee of Thirteen. Their faces were clouded and sad. If Seward submitted his proposal, they doubtless considered it as a "Yankee trick," in which no confidence was to be placed. They, and the people of Virginia as well, cannot forget that the Northern presses have declared, in language most positive, that any concessions made now will be "snatched back" the moment our troubles are over. Bailey is i
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
o vindicate our honor, and prevent civil war. It is in vain now to hope for confidence on the part of the people of South Carolina in any further pledges as to the action of the military. One remedy only is left and that is to withdraw the garrison from the harbor of Charleston altogether. I hope the President will allow me to make that order at once. This order, in my judgment, can alone prevent bloodshed and civil war. "John B. Floyd, Secretary of War. "To the President, Dec. 27, 1860." I then considered the honor of the Administration pledged to maintain the troops in the position they occupied; for such had been the assurances given to the gentlemen of South Carolina who had a right to speak for her. South Carolina, on the other hand, gave reciprocal pledges that no force should be brought by them against the troops or against the property of the United States. The sole object of both parties to these reciprocal pledges was to prevent collision, and the effusi
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Statement of Ex-Secretary Floyd. (search)
Statement of Ex-Secretary Floyd. The following communication was received in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday: War Department, Dec. 27, 1860. Sir --So much has been said very recently about the policy of this Department in granting acceptances to contractors for transportation across the plains, that I deem it due alike to Congress, the public and myself, to make a short, plain statement of the facts connected with the subject. At one time in the year 1858, It became absolutely necessary to start large trains of transportation across the plains to Utah, when there was no available means to put those trains in motion. Acceptances were given to contractors then to enable them to start, and they did so. The practice thus begun was continued a good while from necessity, and was afterwards followed to afford accommodation to contractors in their very large and extensive work. --Their purport is to give preference to the holder when filed in the Department,
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