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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
greater satisfaction to you than the old, well-known, and highly respected merchant, Mr. Moses H. Grinnell. (Cheers.) Those in favor of having Mr. Grinnell as our presiding officer will please say Aye. A tremendous aye was the response, and amid enthusiastic cheering, Mr. Grinnell assumed the duties of President of the meeting. Mr. Grinnell now said the next thing in order would be the nomination of Vice-Presidents, and the following list was accordingly read:-- Vice-Presidents. James Harper, Wm. V. Brady, C. V. S. Roosevelt, A. R. Eno, Edward J. Jaffray, Eli White, M. O. Roberts, George Briggs, Simeon Baldwin, W. J. Peck, Thomas Adams, Willard Parker, Jas. Watson Webb, A. A. Low, Charles Partridge, Luke Kiernan, U. A. Murdock, Charles Butler, W. C. Wetmore, Hiram Ketchum, Lathrop Sturges, B. W. Bonney, Fred. Schuchardt, John J. Cisco, J. Sampson, Edward Haight, Henry Coullard, John Moncreif, Wm. H. Johnson, C. P. Lever
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 264.-Harper's Ferry. (search)
Doc. 264.-Harper's Ferry. Reason of the evacuation. the Richmond Enquirer says: We are now at liberty, on the best authority, to make public the true motives actuating General Johnston in what the Northern and some of the Southern papers have called the Evacuation of Harper's Ferry. The general, like other military men of education, had long known that Harper's Ferry, in itself, is faulty and untenable, from the facility with which it can be turned. It lies, as it were, in the small end of a funnel, the broader end of which could with great ease be occupied by the enemy. The heads directing the operations of the Yankee forces were well aware of this fact, but forgot that there were fully as astute heads on our side. The minute and able investigations of Major Whiting, chief engineer to General Johnston, had satisfied our leaders of the justness of these views. General Scott's plan was to turn Harper's Ferry by a column from Pennsylvania under General Patterson, effect a