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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alabama. (search)
sts assured the multitude that their constituents would support the ordinance. A Secession flag, which the women of Montgomery had presented to the convention, was raised over the capital. In Mobile, when the news reached that city, 101 guns were fired in honor of Alabama, and fifteen for Florida. At night the city blazed with fireworks, the favorite pieces being the Southern cross and the Lone Star. The convention had voted against the reopening of the slave-trade, and adjourned on Jan. 30, 1861. A week before the Secession Ordinance was adopted, volunteer troops, in accordance with an arrangement made with the governors of Louisiana and Georgia, and by order of the governor of Alabama, had seized the arsenal at Mount Vernon, about 30 miles above Mobile, and Fort Morgan, at the entrance to Mobile Harbor, about 30 miles below the city. The Mount Vernon arsenal was captured by four Confederate companies commanded by Captain Leadbetter, of the United States Engineer Corps, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate privateers (search)
ost formidable of these were the Nashville and Sumter. The former was a sidewheel steamer, carried a crew of eighty men, and was armed with two long 12-pounder rifled cannon. She was destroyed (Feb. 28, 1862) by the Montauk, Captain Worden, in the Ogeechee River. The career of the Sumter was also short, but much more active and destructive. She had a crew of sixty-five men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed. She had run the blockade at the mouth of the Mississippi River (Jan. 30, 1861), ran among the West India islands, making many prizes of vessels bearing the American flag, and became the terror of the Privateer ship Sumter. Confederate naval commission. American merchant service, skilfully eluding National vessels of war sent out to capture her. She crossed the Atlantic and, at the close of 1861, sought the shelter of British guns at Gibraltar. There she was watched by the Tuscarora, United States navy, and was sold early in 1862. Mr. Laird, a ship-build