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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 272 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
village, and strengthened the purpose of resistance. With the year 1778, South Carolina, which for two years had been unvisited by an enemy, after long deliberatio78. In F. Moore's Materials for History, 94, 103-106. Ramsay's History of South Carolina, i. 129-138. The new constitution might be altered by legislative authot. Till this time the church of England had been the established church in South Carolina. The toleration of Locke and Shaftesbury was now mixed with the religious r property. In October, 1778, after the intention of the British to reduce South Carolina became known, death was made the penalty for refusing to depart from the state, or for returning without permission. Statutes of South Carolina, i. 150; IV. 452. The planters of South Carolina still partook of their usual pastimes andSouth Carolina still partook of their usual pastimes and cares; while the British ministry, resigning the hope of reducing the north, indulged the expectation of conquering all the states to the south of the Susquehanna.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
the four New England states, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, against the unanimous vote of New York, Maryland, and North Carolina; while Delaware, Virginia, and South Carolina were equally divided. The French minister now intervened, and on the twenty-seventh of May congress went back 27. o its resolve, that in no case, by any tart, but by the votes of the four New England states and Pennsylvania against New York, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, with New Jersey, Delaware, and South Carolina divided, they affirmed the common right of the Americans to fish on the grand banks; and they asked for that right the guarantee of France in the form of an eI. 263. On the twenty-sixth of September, congress pro- 26. ceeded to ballot for a minister to negotiate peace; John Adams being nominated by Laurens, of South Carolina, while Smith, of Virginia, proposed Jay, who was the candidate favored by the French minister. On two ballots no election was made. A compromise reconcile
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
tish standard, or flee to the upland or to South Carolina. The captive soldiers, refusing to enlist, sent emissaries to encourage a rising in South Carolina. A party of abandoned men, whose chief obn the slaves. No sooner was the danger of South Carolina known in the camp of Washington, than younCongress listened to Huger, the agent from South Carolina, as he explained that his state was weak, by the wish of congress, the entreaties of South Carolina, and his own neverfail-ing good-will. On British ships of war. To the government of South Carolina he announced his readiness to assist in re detained long off so dangerous a coast. South Carolina glowed with joy in the fixed belief, that what remained of his army; the militia of South Carolina returned to their homes; its continental rNow that they held Georgia and Beaufort in South Carolina, they might have gained an enduring masterd them, and bring them in. All families in South Carolina were subjected to the visits of successive[8 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
: The siege of Charleston. 1779-1780. South Carolina moved onward to independence Chap. XIV.} 1779.r Christmas, 1779, set sail for the conquest of South Carolina. The admiral led the van into the adverse currhird of February, 1780, the general assembly of South Carolina intrusted the executive of the state with powery the life of a citizen without legal trial. South Carolina, Statutes at Large, IV. 505. But the calls on t when he should send for them again. Simms's South Carolina in the Revolution, 122. Before he met them agaia capitulation. A proposal to allow the men of South Carolina, who did not choose to reside under British rulfered their congratulations on the reduction of South Carolina, were counted and paroled as prisoners. In thialty. For six weeks all opposition ceased in South Carolina. One expedition was sent by Clinton up the Savar their services in arms. There are few men in South Carolina who are not either our prisoners or in arms wit
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
command in North America. All opposition in South Carolina was for the moment at an end, when Cornwallis ey valued, was deputed to visit each district in South Carolina to procure on the spot lists of its militia, ann at Williams's plantation in the upper part of South Carolina, and burned every bible into which the Scottishnquestioned. The chain of posts for holding South Carolina consisted of Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, led from the country. Determined patriots of South Carolina took refuge in the state on their north. Amongo the Catawba settlement, and from all parts of South Carolina patriots flocked to his standard. Thus far tormation received at Hillsborough from Huger of South Carolina, Gates formed his plan to march directly to Ca having detached Marion towards the interior of South Carolina to watch the motions of the enemy and furnish id had kept his small command on the frontier of South Carolina, having found means to subsist then and to mai
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
onciled Great Britain to America, had their springs in South Carolina. Cornwallis, elated with success and hope, preparedornwallis was a reign of terror. Professing to regard South Carolina as restored to the dominion of George the Third, he acn and ruin. Charles Pinckney, lately president of the South Carolina senate, classing himself among those who from the hurr but a few months before had been president of the state of South Carolina, excused himself for having reluctantly given way an himself as a faithful subject. But the people of South Carolina were never conquered. From the moment of the fall of Chap. XVI.} 1780. torian of the war, who was then in South Carolina, relates that almost the whole country seemed upon the with two hundred of the best troops to the uplands of South Carolina, where he enlisted young men of that country, loyalist that he might eradicate the spirit of patriotism from South Carolina before he passed beyond its borders, he, on the sixtee
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
nce was rejected by the congress of 1776 1776. in deference to South Carolina and Georgia. A few days later, in the earliest debates on thom the north spoke freely of the evil of slavery, a member from South Carolina declared that if property in slaves should be questioned, theretion appears to have been adopted without opposition, North and South Carolina having both been represented in the committee that reported it. But South Carolina refused by great majorities to give effect to the scheme. So long as Jefferson was in congress he kept Virginia and Masorth and south. Massachusetts expressed itself as absolutely as South Carolina. As a consequence, the confederation could contain no interdicand perpetual prohibition. They are found as little in that of South Carolina (which was already the leading champion of negro bondage) as in they had been grievously disfranchised. The constitution of South Carolina of 1778 contained no bill of rights, and confined political pow
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
the penalty of death, he used these threats: I shall think myself bound by every tie of duty and honor to retaliate on such unhappy persons of your army as may fall within my Chap. XVIII.} 1780. power. Forty of the principal inhabitants of South Carolina have justly forfeited their lives; Sir Henry Clinton cannot in justice extend his mercy to them any longer, if Major Andre suffers. Meantime Andre entreated with touching earnestness that he might not die on the gibbet. Washington and evethe gallows. At the beginning of the war, their officers in America threatened the highest American officers and statesmen with the cord. It was the only mode of execution authorized by them. Under the orders of Clinton, Lord Cornwallis in South Carolina had set up the gallows for those whom he styled deserters, without regard to rank. Neither the sentence of the court nor the order of Washington names death on the gallows; the execution took place in the manner that was alone in use on both
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
nding emissions was but a little short of one hundred and sixty millions, limited paper money to two hundred mil- Chap. XIX.} 1779. Oct. lions; and the limit was reached before the end of the year. In October, it appointed Henry Laurens of South Carolina to negotiate a loan of ten millions in the Netherlands. In November, it further resolved Nov. to draw upon him for one hundred thousand pounds sterling; and to draw on Jay at Madrid, for as much more. The two were instructed mutually to suasing distresses of the army, to set them before the government of France in the most striking light. Hamilton, Chap. XIX.} 1781. Jan. the fittest man for the office, was not known to congress; and its choice fell on the younger Laurens of South Carolina. To the agent Washington confided a statement of the condition of the country; and with dignity and candor avowed that it had reached a crisis out of which it could not rise by its own unassisted strength. Without an immediate, ample, and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
urth milliard. Environed by difficulties, Vergennes attempted a compromise with England on the basis of a long truce of at least twenty years, during which South Carolina and Georgia would remain with the English in return for the evacuation of New York. He had sounded Washington and others in America on the subject, and they of its gift of six millions; but he refused a trust which would have roused the jealousy of congress. The first use made of the money was a spendthrift one. South Carolina had an unexecuted contract in Holland for supplies. Laurens, acting for that state, and for the United States, made a transfer of it to the latter, and, withand the condition of the business and without superintending it, paid all arrears out of the fund which Franklin had obtained from France. Chap. XXI.} 1781. South Carolina was relieved from a burdensome engagement; while great and, as it proved, useless expenses were thrown on the United States. During these negotiations, Nec
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