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A HISTORY

THE CIVIL WAR

18G1-G5
AND THE CAUSES THAT LED UP TO THE GREAT CONFLICT

BENSON J. LOSSING, LL.D.

A CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD

OF EVERY ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE TROOPS OF THE UNION AND OF THE CONFEDERACY

AND SHOWING THE TOTAL LOSSES AND CASUALTIES TOGETHER

WITH WAR MAPS OF LOCALITIES

COMPILED FROM

THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT

ILLUSTRATED

WITH FAC-SIMILK PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS
OF THE OFFICIAL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS

TAKEN AT THE TIME BY

MATHEW B. BRADY

UNDER THE AL'THORITY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THE

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C.

FROU WHOM SPECIAL PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED TO REPRODUCE THE SAME TO ILLUSTRATE THIS WORK

FROM THE FAMOUS AND AUTHENTIC BRADY WAR PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION THERE HAS BEEN SELECTED PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT COM" VNDERS AND

LEADERS OF BOTH THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES AND NAVIES, AND MANY SCENES OF GREAT HISTORICAL INTEREST, TAKEN FIFTY

YE/VRS AGO AND MAKING A MARVELOUS FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE BATTLEGROUNDS, FORTIFICATIONS, THE DEAD AND

WOUNTJED, HOSPITALS, AND INCIDENTS OF THE GREATEST CONFLICT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER KNOWN AND

FITTINGLY COMMEMORATING I'lIE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT NATIONAL STRUGGLE

THE ENTIRE WORK, ISSUED IN SIXTEEN SECTIONS, WITH SIXTEEN SEPARATE COLOR PLATES OF

GREAT COMMANDERS IN ACTION AND FAMOUS BATTLE SCENES FROM THE PAINTING

OF H. A. OGDEN AND OTHER FAMOUS ARTISTS OF MILITARY SUBJECTS

NEW YORK

THE WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

LOSSING— BRADY— OGDEN

Benson J. Lossing, LL. D.

Benson J. Lossing, LL. D.— the author of A History of the Civil War 1861-65 — was more than a historian,
and he was more than an engagina writer, though to be sure he was both of these. He was also a great authority; a
court of last resort lor facts and data. He knew how to write history and he gathered his material in a manner all
his own. Charles Dudley Warner said of him, "In reading the historical works of Lossing, one is amazed that any
human being could carry so much information, and yet carry it so lightly. His vast array of facts did not seem to
bear him down; he was as buoyant as cork and as light as a feather."

John Murley, in writing of Dr. Lossing, said, "To be interesting and at the same lime authentic — to be patri-
otic and at the same time impartial — to be at once a reader for young and old — this was his peculiar genius, and in
this he was supreme."

Brander Matthews said, "He was the most conscientious and thorough writer of history this country has
produced."

Sir Walter Besant once said that it is easier to make history than it is to write it, and that it is not so diffi-
cult to conduct a battle as it is to describe one. Whether this be literally true or not, there is little doubt that writing
history is one thing, and writing history that the world will read is quite another. The power to state facts accur-
ately, and yet to fill them with charm and interest is the gift that has been given to few men. Dr. Lossing had this
supreme gift. He wrote a score of fascinating books, and his writing was as graceful and natural as the flight of a
bird. He was a veritable wizard of the pen. Such a man was he in his peculiar field that Oliver Wendell Holmes
said of him that he had done more than any other man to make history interesting and popular. His History of the
Civil War was written at the time when the facts were fresh. Lossing was intimately acquainted with the great
leaders of the country. He conversed with President Lincoln, Generals Grant. Sherman, Sheridan, and other
great men of the time. He heard them talk and noted what they told him. He secured the stories and opinions of those who had been concerned in
what he described. He traveled the country over and visited the scenes and battle-grounds of the great National conflict and was able to tell what he had
seen and heard — and with the pen of a genius. As we read, all is alive and real. The events, the battles of the war, the triumphs and defeats are told
faithfully and vividly. It was Lossing 's purpose to make this history familiar to all, and by doing so, to kindle in this natural, wholesome way the spirit of
patriotism. The reader is carried on from page to page, from chapter to chapter, with an ever-compelling interest that makes it difficult to pause. There is
nothing tedious or dull; every character is real, and all the thrilling events and scenes seem to be filled with new interest and life. Lossing put his vast
learning into this work. He wished it to be regarded as a memorial to him. He died loaded with glory and honors. A dozen great colleges had conferred
on him scholarly and honorary degrees, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City had made him an Honorary Fellow for life.

Matiiew B. Brady, who photographed the Civil War 1861-65 and sold his wonderful collection of negatives to
the United States Government, was unique as a photographic artist. The reproduction of his famous War negatives
shows in this History of the Civil War that he was fijty years in advance of his time, for many of his photographs com-
pare favorably with the best quality of work to-day. That he was well equipped for this great work is shown by his
remarkable career. In the early 50's. he was the representative photographic artist of the day. His studios on Broadway.
New York City, were patronized by the famous men and women of the period. The list of famous men and women
who posed before his magic camera is too long to receive more than passing mention in this brief notice. A few of the
prominent negatives now in the possession of the United States Government may, however, be mentioned, such as
portraits of Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman. Charles Dickens, Xathaniel
Hawthorne, William CuUen Bryant, John G. Saxe, John Lothrop Motley, and the great authors and poets of the period.
Among the ex-presidents may be mentioned the portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce. James Buchanan,
James A, Garfield, while the members of the stage contributed to his marvelous collection of celebrities such portraits as
Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Jenny Lind. Dion Boucicault, J, C. Howard, the actor and father of the first little Eva
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." A few of the famous men and women of the time may be mentioned, as Horace Greeley,
Henry Ward Beerher, Clara Barton — the founder of the world-famous Red Cross Society — Edward Everett, Ben Per-
ley Poor, Granville Dodge — the famous engineer — General Sam Houston, Henry Grinnell, famous Arctic Explorer.
This list, taken at random from thousands, shows beyond dispute that Brady was the leader in h-s profession.
The most important of all Brady's work, as General Greeley says, is his marvelous collection of Civil War photographs.
It was Brady who left his profitable business to take pictures of the War. He secured permission from President
Lincoln, and under the protection of Allan Pinkerton of the Secret Service Bureau. Brady and his men started taking
pictures, thinking that the War would not last more than two or three months, but for four long, weary years, they
were actively at work throughout the country, and his wonderful collection of negatives of the great historical scenes
and portraits of the leaders on both sides now attest to his energetic and remarkable work. It was these negatives that he sold to the United States Government,
and by special permission of the War Department, reproductions have been made direct from the originals which so fittingly illustrate, as nothing else could
do, the vivid text of Dr. Lossing in this History of the Civil War. General Grant, Butler and Garfield valued this collection at JlnO.OOO. As it turns out
to-day. this valtiation was remarkably conservative. Yet Brady sold the negatives to the Government for J27,S40. (See General Greeley's report on page
four). The reproduction of these famous negatives at this time by permission of the War Department not only commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the
War for the Nation, bu.; will leave a memorial to Mathcw B. Brady for future generations as the photographic genius of his time.

Henry A. Ocden stands in the front rank of American painters of Colonial and Military subjects. By long
and careful study he developed an ability amounting to genius in the portraiture of Colonial subjects and Army men
and scenes. He is the great grandson of a Revolutionary hero who defended Bunker Hill. His artistic ability in his-
toric art attracted the attention of the Quarter-Master General of the United States Army, by whom he was engaged
under authority of Congress to paint the designs for color plates of all the uniforms of the Army from the time of
Washington. He made them much more than a pictorial record of the various forms of dress which have been used in
the Army since its beginning in 1775. While they show with accurate detail every change in the dress of officers and
soldiers, he has also, whenever possible, made his pictures portraits of men who were prominent in the Army at the
time represented by the picture. And his strong dramatic sense has caused him to portray each group of men as
typical of the time to which they belonged, and to make them appear alive, N-igorous, and intensely interesting. He
did this great work with the complete approval of the Government authorities of the War Department.

Mr. Ogden's famous battlefield collection of the Civil War is reproduced in colors as frontispieces for eight of the
sections of this history, where we find eight great Union commanders not merely in the scenes of battle, but in a critical
moment, in some sharp climax or decisive movement that passes into history in the lives of these military heroes at a
great hour — what a great man is in his greatest moment and measures, sums him, comprehends him. Mr. Ogden has
executed this work with rare ability and skill. As the sections of this work are received, great miUtary events will be
found as colored frontispieces to each section.

Mr. Ogdcn now has his studio in the tall Times Building, New York, in the busiest part of Broadway, where
he looks out over square miles of housetops and in his imagination sees instead the fields and forests of Manhattan
Island as it was in the Colonial days he loves to paint. Among the many of Mr. Ogden's delightful and historical
paintings may be mentioned "Washington's Last Birthday, February 2'2, 1709," which was also the wedding day of
Nellie Custis. Mrs. Washington's granddaughter. It is the most charming in sentiment and delicate detail of all Mr.
Ogden's work.

Mr. Ogden is yet in early middle life and in all human likelihood has before him many fertile years. It is grati-
fying to find him still holding to the best of the old traditions and not afraid to paint an interesting picture that will realize something of the lives and thoughts
and feelings of the men and women of other days.

Additional to Mr. Ogden's famous scries are eight great battle scenes and naval engagements by Mr. Thulstrup, Davidson and other artists of military
subjects.

Mathew B. Brady

Henry A. Ogden

Copyright, 1895, by Charles F. Johnson. Copyright. 1905, by Lossing History Company. Copyright, 1912, by The War Memorial Association.

COPVRICmT. 1B12. BY T

GRANT IN THE WILDERNESS MAY 5, 1864

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD

Of Every Engagement Between the Troops of the Union and of the Confederacy, in the Civil War in the United States, Showing

the Total Losses and Casualties in Each Engagement — The Whole Collated and Compiled from the

Official Records of the War Department at Washington.

APRIL, 1861

12 — Bombardment of Fort Sumter. S. C. No casualties.

Ifi — Evacuation of Fort Sumter, S. C. Union 1 killed, 3 wounded. By

premature explosion of cannon in firing a salute to the United States

flag.
19 — Riots in Baltimore. Md. Gth Mass., 26th Pa. Union 4 killed. 30

wounded. Confed. 9 killed.

MAY. 1861

10 — Camp Jackson, Mo. 1st. 3d and 4th Mo. Reserve Corps, 3d Mo.
Vols. Confed. 639 prisoners.
Riots in St. Louis, Mo. 5th Mo., U. S. Reserves. Union 4 killed.
Confed. 27 killed.

JUNE, 1861

1— Fairfax C. H.. Va. Co. B. 2d U. S. Cav. Union I killed. 4 wounded

Confed. 1 killed. 14 wounded.
■ 3— Philippi, W. Va. 1st W. Va.. 14th and 16th Ohio. 7th and 9th Ind

Union 2 wounded. Confed. 16 wounded.
10— Big Bethel, Va. 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th and 7th X. Y.. 4th Mass. Detach

ment of 2d U. S. Artil. Union 16 killed. 34 wounded. Confed

1 killed, 7 wounded.
11 — Romney. W. Va. 11th Ind. Union 1 wounded. Confed. 2 killed,

1 wounded.
17 — Vienna, Va. 1st Ohio. Union 5 killed, 6 wounded. Confed. 6 killed
Booneville, Mo. 2d Mo. (three months') Volunteers. Batteriei H and

L Mo. Light Artil. Union 2 killed. 19 wounded. Confed. 14 killed,

20 wounded.
Edwards Ferry. Md. 1st Pa. Union 1 killed. 4 wounded. Confed.

15 killed.
18 — Camp Cole, Mo. Home Guards. Union 15 to 25 killed, 25 to 52

wounded. Confed. 4 killed, 20 wounded.
26 — Patterson Creek or Kelley's Island. Va. 11th Ind. Union 1 killed.

1 wounded. Confed. 7 killed, 2 wounded.
27 — Matthias" Point. Va. Gunboats Pawnee and Freeborn. Union 1 killed.

4 wounded.

JtJLY, 1861

2 — ^Falling Waters. Md.. also called Haynesville or Martinsburg, Md. 1st

Wis.. 11th Pa. Union 8 killed, 15 wounded. Confed. 31 killed. 50

wounded.
6 — Carthage or Dry Forks, Mo. 3d and 5th Mo., one battery of Mo. Artil.

Union 13 killed. 31 wounded. Confed. 30 killed, 125 wounded, 45

prisoners.
Newport News, Va. 1st Co. 9th N. Y. Union 6 wounded. Confed.

3 wounded.

■6 — Middle Creek Fork or Buckhannon. W. Va. One Co. 3d Ohio. Union

1 killed. 6 wounded, Confed. 7 killed.
7— Great Falls. Va. 8th N. Y. Union 2 killed. Confed. 12 killed.
8 — Laurel Hill or Bealington. W. Va. 14th Ohio. 9th Ind. Union 2 killed,
6 wounded.
10 — Monroe Station. Mo. 16th III.. 3d la.. Hannibal (Mo.) Home Guards.

Union 3 killed. Confed. 4 killed. 20 wounded, 75 prisoners.
11 — Rich Mountain. Va. 8th. 10th and 13th Ind.. 19th Ohio. Union 11
killed, 35 wounded. Confed. 60 killed, 140 wounded. 100 prisoners.
12 — Barboursville or Red House, Va. 2d Ky. Union 1 killed. Confed. 10
killed.
Beverly. W. Va. 4th and 9th Ohio. Confed. 600 prisoners.
14r— Carrick's Ford. W. Va. 14th Ohio, 7th and 9th Ind. Union 13 killed.

40 wounded. Confed. 20 killed, 10 wounded. 50 prisoners.
16 — Millsville or Wentzville, Mo. 8th Mo. ' Union 7 killed, 1 wounded.

Confed. 7 killed.
17 — Fulton. Mo. 3d Mo. Reserves. Union 1 killed. 15 wounded.

Scarrytown. W. Va. 2d Ky.. 12th and 2lst Ohio. 1st Ohio Battery.

Union 9 killed, 38 wounded.
Martinsburg, Mo. One Co. of 1st Mo. Reserves. Union 1 killed, 1

wounded.
Bunker Hill. Va. Detachment of Gen. Patterson's command. Confed.

4 killed.

18— Blackburn's Ford. Va. 1st Mass., 2d and 3d Mich., 12th N. Y.. De-
tachment of 2d U. S. Cav., Battery E 3d U. S. Artil. Union 19 killed,
38 wounded. Confed. 15 killed, 53 wounded.

18 and 19 — Harrisonville and Parkersville, Mo. Van Home's (Mo.) Bat-
talion. Cass Co. Home Guards. Union 1 killed. Confed. 14 killed.

31— Bull Run or Manassas. Va. 2d Me.. 2d N. H.. 2d Vt., 1st. 4th and 5th
Mass.. 1st and 2d R. I.. 1st, 2d and 3d Conn.. Sth, 11th. 12th, 13th.
16th. 18th, 27th. 29th. 31st, 32d, 35th, 38th. and 39th N. Y., 2d. 8th.
14th. 69th. 71st and 79th N. Y. Militia. 27th Pa.. 1st. 2d and 3d Mich..
1st and 2d Minn.. 2d Wis.. 1st and 2d Ohio, Detachments of 2d, 3d
and Kth U. S. Regulars. Battalion of Marines. Batteries D. E. G and
M. 2d U. S. Artil.. Battery E. 3d Artil.. Battery D. Sth Artil.. 2d R. I.
Battery, Detachments of 1st and 2d Dragoons. Union 481 killed,
1,011 wounded, 1.460 missing and captured. Confed. 269 killed,
1,483 wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gens. Bee and Barton killed.

22 — Forsyth. Mo. 1st la., 2d Kan.. Stanley Dragoons, Totten's Battery.
Union 3 wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 10 wounded.

24 — Blue Mills, Mo. Sth Mo. Reserves. Union 1 killed. 12 wounded.

26 — Lane's Prairie, near Rolla. Mo. Home Guards. Union 3 wounded.
Confed. I killed. 3 wounded.

27— Fort Fillmore. N. Mex. 7th U. S. Inft. and U. S. Mounted Rifles, in all
400 men. captured by Confederates.

AUGUST, 1861

2 — Dutj Springs. Mo. 1st la.. 3d Mo., five batteries of Mo. Light Artil.
Union 4 killed, 37 wounded. Confed. 40 killed. 41 wounded.

3— Messilla. N. Mex. 7th U. S. Inft. and U. 8. Mounted Rifles. Union 3

killed, 6 wounded. Confed. 12 killed.
6 — .A,thens. Mo. Home Guards. 21st Mo. Union 3 killed, 8 wounded.

Confed. 14 killed. 14 wounded.

Point of Rocks, Md. 2Sth N. Y. Confed. 3 killed, 2 wounded.
7— Hampton. Va. 20th N. Y. Confed. 3 killed, 6 wounded.
8— Lovettsville, Va. 19th N, Y. Confed. 1 killed, 5 wounded.

10 — Wilson's Creek. Mo., also called Springfield and Oak Hill. 6th and 10th
Mo. Cav., 2d Kan. Mounted Vols., one Co. of 1st U. S. Cav.. 1st la..
1st Kan.. 1st. 2d. 3d and Sth Mo.. Detachments of 1st and 2d U. S,
Regulars. Mo. Home Guards. 1st Mo. Light Artil.. Battery F 2d U. S.
Artil. Union 223 killed. 721 wounded. 291 missing. Confed. 265
killed. 800 wounded, 30 missing. Union Brig. -Gen. Nathaniel Lyon

killed.

Potosi, Mo.

wounded.

Mo. Home Guards. Union 1 killed. Confed. 2 killed, 3

11th Ohio. Union 3 wounded. Confed. 1 killed.

17 — Brunswick, Mo. Sth Mo. Reserves. Union 1 killed. 7 wounded.

19 — Charlestown or Bird's Point. Mo. 22d 111. Union 1 killed. 6 wounded.
Confed. 40 killed.

20 — Hawk's Nest, W. Va.
3 wounded.

26 — Cross Lanes or Summerville. W. Va. 7th Ohio. Union 5 killed. 40
wounded, 200 captured.

27— Ball's Cross Roads. Va. Two Co.'s 23d N. Y. Union 1 killed, 2
wounded.

28 and 29— Fort Hatteras. N. C. 9th, 20th and 99th N. Y. and Nava! force.
Union 1 killed, 2 wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 51 wounded, 715
prisoners.

29 — Lexington. Mo. Mo. Home Guards. Confed. 8 killed.

31— Munson's Hill. Va. Two Cos. 23d N. Y. Union 2 killed. 2 wounded.

SEPTEMBER, 1861

1 — Bennett's Mills. Mo. Mo. Home Guards. Union 1 killed, 8 wounded.
Boone C. H., W. Va. 1st Ky. Union 6 wounded. Confed. 30 killed.
2— Dallas. Mo. 11th Mo. Union 2 killed.

Dry Wood or Ft. Scott, Mo. Sth and 6th Kan., one Co. of 9th Kan.
Cav.. 1st Kan. Battery. Union 4 killed, 9 wounded.

Beher's Mills. 13th Mass. Confed. 3 killed, 5 wounded.

10— Carnifex Ferry. 9th. 10th. 12th. 13th. 28th and 47th Ohio. Union 16

killed. 102 wounded.
11— Lewinsville. Va. 19th Ind.. 3d Vt., 65th N. Y.. 79th N. Y. Militia.

Union 6 killed. 8 wounded.
12 — Black River, near Ironton, Mo. Three Cos. 1st Ind. Cav. Confed. 5

killed.

12 and 13— Cheat Mountain. W. Va. 13th, 14th. 15th and 17th Ind.. 3d,
6th. 24th and 2Sth Ohio, 2d W. Va. Union 9 killed. 12 wounded.
Confed. 80 wounded.

13 — Booneville, Mo. Mo. Home Guards. Uttion 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Confed. 12 killed, 30 wounded.

14 — Confederate Privateer Judah destroyed near Pensacola, Fla., by the
U. S. Flag-ship Colorado. UnioJi 3 killed. 15 wounded.

16 — Pritchard's Mills, or Darnestown. Va. 28th Pa., 13th Mass. Union 1
killed. Confed. 8 killed, 75 wounded.

12 to 20— Lexington. Mo. 23d 111.. 8th. 25th and 27th Mo., 13th and 14th
Mo. Home Guards. Berry's and Van Home's Mo. Cav., 1st III. Cav.
Union 42 killed. 108 wounded, 1,624 missing and captured. Confed.
25 killed, 75 wounded.

17 — Morristown. Mo. Sth, 6th and 9th Kan. Cav., 1st Kan. Battery.

Union 2 killed, 6 wounded. Confed. 7 killed.
Blue Mills. Mo. 3d la. Union 11 killed. 39 wounded. Confed. 10

killed. 00 wounded.
18 — Barboursville, W. Va. Ky. Home Guards. Union 1 killed. 1 wounded.

Confed. 7 killed.
21 and 22 — Papinsville or Osceola. Mo.

17 killed.

Sth. 6th and 9th Kan. Cav. Union

(Continued in Section 2J

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG

November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conccivcfl in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war; testing whether that nation, or any nation so con-
ceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that
field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — wo cannot consecrate^we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — -
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this naticjn, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom —
and that government of the people, bv the people, for the peoole, shall not perish from the earth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Gen. a. W. Greeley

War Department Library,
Washington, D. C, Febraary i, 1897.

Extracts from the report of A. W. Greeley, Brigadier-General and Chief Signal Officer in supervisory charge of
War Department Library, referring to the photographs in the War Library:

By far the greater number, and by all means the most important, of these negatives

are those generally known as the Brady War Photographs, which reproduce scenes and

r;.;^^ portraits connected with the War of the Union. From their value, importance, and

"•"^jfci present condition a brief post-belkun history of these negatives is most appropriate.

^^B It appears that on January 29, 1S66, the council of the National Academy of Design,

D. Jiuntington, President, adopted a resolution reciting the value of this collection as
a reliable authority for art and as illustrati\-e of American History. They strongly
recommended the proposal to place the collection permanently in the keeping of the
New York Historical Society.

Relative to the proposition of its owner, Mr. Mathew B. Brady, to exhibit the
collection temporarily in the galleries of the New York Historical Society, Lieut. -General
U. S. Grant, in a letter dated Februarj^ 3, 1866, spoke of it as "a collection of photo-
graphic views of battlefields, etc., taken on the spot while the occurrences represented were
taking place" and adds, "I knew when many of these representations were being taken,
and have in my possession most of them, and I can say that the scenes are not only
spirited and correct, but also well chosen. The collection will be valuable to the student
and artist of the present generation, but how much more valuable to future generations."
Brady in his descriptive circular spoke of the collection as then embracing the
results of twenty-five years, including :

First: "Portraits of many distinguished men who figured in the early years of the
present century."

Second: "Likenesses of all prominent actors in the war with Mexico."
Third: "Portraits of eminent men and women of the whole country."
Fourth: "Battlefields of the rebellion and its memorable localities with groups and likenesses of the prominent

actors."

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The first active connection of the Government with the Brady collection appears in the action of the Secretary of

War William W. Belknap who purchased for the War Department in July, 1874, as shown by his letter of August 7th

to the Adjutant-General, a large number of photographic negatives of war \'iews and pictures of prominent men at

an expense of $2,840.00.

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On motion of General Benjamin F. Butler, member of Massachusetts, a paragraph was inserted in the Sundry
Civil Appropriation Bill (Act approved March 3, 1873) reading: To enable the Secretary of War to acquire a full
and perfect title to the Brady collection of photographs of the War, and to secure and purchase the remainder now
in the possession of the artist for $25,000.00. In connection with the amendment. General Butler said:

"The title under which the Secretary of War purchased the part alreadj- obtained was acquired for non-payment
of storage. It is very doubtful whether the Secretary of War has a valid title."

General James A. Garfield joined Butler in the statement "that the commercial value of the entire collection
was $150,000.00 and Garfield stated that the part bought for $2,500.00 covered three-quarters of the collection."

Thesumof $25,000.00 thus appropriated was paid April 15, 1875, the voucher reading, " For the Brady collection

of photographs of the War and a conveyance of a full and perfect title to the same."

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The Comptroller said of these Brady negatives, "The photographic views of the War, showing battlefields,
military divisions, fortifications, etc., are among the most authentic and valuable records of the Rebellion. The
preservation of these interesting records of the War is too important to be intrusted to glass plates, so easily destroyed
by accident or design, and no more eftective means than printing them can be devised to save them from destruction."

This collection cost the United States originally the sum of $27,840.00, and it is a matter of general regret that
these invaluable reproductions of scenes and faces connected with the late civil conflict should remain inaccessible
to the general public. The features of most of the prominent actors connected with the War of the Union have been
preserved in these negatives, where also are portrayed certain physical aspects of the War that are of interest and of
historic value, certain artistic processes now lend themselves to suitable reproduction of these photographs which
could thus be given permanency, impossible for the deteriorating negatives, at an expense whicla a few years since
would have appeared impossibly small.

General Greeley states further, "It is hoped that recommendations already made by Chief Signal Officer of the
Armj^ may at an appropriate time receive the approval of the War Department and that Congress may authorize
the reproduction of the most valuable and important photographs."

The War Department has given permission, and furnished photographs of the most valuable and important pictures
direct from the Brady negatives, for reproduction as shown in this edition of Lossing's "History of the Civil War."

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

V_OMhlihKA Ih

Lines — N'okth ok Atlanta— Between Peach Tree Street and Chattanoooa K.R., 1664.

THE NEW SOUTH*

There was a South of slavcr\- and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, tliank God,
is living, breathing, growing every hour.

These words, deUvered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall in 1866, true then and truer now, I shall
make my text to-night.

Mr. President and Gentlemen — Let me express to you my appreciation of the kindness by which I am permitted to address you.
I make this abrupt acknowledgment advisedly, for I feel that if, when I raise my provincial voice in this ancient and august presence, I
could find courage for no more than the opening sentence, it would be well if in that sentence I had met in a rough sense my obligation
as a guest, and had perished, so to speak, with courtesy on my lips and grace in my heart. Permitted, through your kindness, to catch
my second wind, let me say that I appreciate the significance of being the first Southerner to speak at this board, which bears the substance,
if it surpasses the semblance, of original New England hospitality, and honors the sentiment that in turn honors you, but in which my
personality is lost and the compliment to my people made plain.

My friends, Dr. Talmage has told you that the typical American has yet to come. Let me tell you that he has already come.
Great types, like valuable plants, are slow to flower and fruit. But from the union of these colonies, Puritans and Cavaliers, from the
straightening of their purjjoses and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a centur>', came he who stands as the first typical
American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham
Lincoln.

He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in the depths of his great
soul the faults of both were lost. He was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American, and that in his honest
form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces of his ideal gcjvernmcnt — charging it with such tremendous meaning and elevating
it above human suffering that martyrdom, though infamously aimed, came as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from the cradle to
human liberty. Let us, e;ich cherishing the traditions and honoring his fathers, build with reverend hands to the type of this simple
but sublime life, in which all types are honored, and in our common glory as Americans there will be plenty and to spare for your fore-
fathers and for mine.

Dr. Talmage has drawn for you, with a master's hand, the picture of your returning armies. He has told you how, in the pomp
and circumstance of war, they came back to you, marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glory in a nation's eyes! Will
you bear with me while I tell you of another army that sought its home at the close of the late war — an army that marched home in
defeat and not in victory — in pathos and not in splendor, but in glory that equalled yours, and to hearts as loving as ever welcomed
heroes home! Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier, as, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to
bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865.

Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds, having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders
his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot
old X'irginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What docs he find — let me ask you who
went to your homes eager to find, in the welcome you had justly earned, full payment for four years' sacrifice — what docs he find when,
having followed the battle-stained cross against overwhelming odds, dreading death not half so much as surrender, he reaches the home
he left so prosperous and beautiful?

He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money
worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away; his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the
burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone. Without money, credit, employment, material
or training, and, besides all this, confronted with the gravest problem that ever met hiunan intelligence — the establishing of a status for
the vast body of his liberated slaves.

What does he do — this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely
God, who had stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was
restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow; horses that had charged Federal guns marched licfore the
plow, and fields that ran red with human blood in April were green with the har\'est in June; women reared in luxury- cut up their dresses
and made breeches for their husbands, and, with a patience and heroism that fit women always as a garment, gave their hands to work.
There was little bitterness in all this. Cheerfulness and frankness prevailed.

I want to say to General Sherman, who is considered an able man in our parts, though some people think he is a kind of careless
man about fire, that from the ashes he left us in 1864 we have raised a brave and beautiful city; that somehow or other we have caught
the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our homes, and have builded therein not one ignoble prejudice or memory.

But what is the sum of our work? We have found out that in the summing up the free negro counts more than he did as a slave.
We have planted the schoolhouse on the hill-top and made it free to white and black. We have sowed towns and cities in the place of

* It seems approprt.lte to print in advance of the History of the Civil War extracts from the address delivered by Henry W. Grady, a famous
orator and editor of Atlanta. Ga., before the New England Club, New Vork, December 21, 1886.

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theories, and put business above politics. We have challenged your spinners in Massachusetts and your iron-makers in Pennsylvania.
We have learned that the §400,000,000 annually received from our cotton crop will make us rich when the supplies that make it are
home-raised. We have reduced the commercial rate of interest from twenty-four to six per cent., and are floating four per cent, bonds.

We have learned that one Northern immigrant is worth fifty foreigners; and have smoothed the path to southward, wiped out the
place where Mason and Dixon's line used to be, and hung out our latch-string to you and yours. We have reached the point that marks
perfect harmony in every household, when the husband confesses that the pies which his wife cooks are as good as those his mother used
to bake; and we admit that the sun shines as brightly and the moon as softly as it did before the war. We have established thrift in
city and country. We have fallen in love with our work. We have restored comfort to homes from which culture and elegance never
departed. We have let economy take root and spread among us as rank as the crabgrass which sprung from Sherman's cavalry camps,
until we are ready to lay odds on the Georgia Yankee as he manufactures relics of the battlefield in a one-story shanty and squeezes pure
olive oil out of his cotton seed, against any Down-Easter that ever swapped wooden nutmegs for flannel sausage in the valleys of Vermont.
Above all, we know that we have achieved in these "piping times of peace" a fuller independence for the South than that which our
fathers sought to win in the forum by their eloquence or compel in the field by their swords.

It is a rare privilege, sir, to have had part, however humble, in this work. Never was nobler duty confided to human hands than
the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding South — misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suflEering, and honest, brave,
and generous always. In the record of her social, industrial, and political illustration we await with confidence the verdict of the world.

But what of the negro? Have we solved the problem he presents or progressed in honor and equity toward solution? Let the
record speak to the point. No section shows a more prosperous laboring population than the negroes of the South, none in fuller sjnnpathy
with the employing and land-owning class. He shares our school fund, has the fullest protection of our laws and the friendship of our
people. Self-interest as well as honor demand that he should have this. Our future, our very existence, depend upon working out this
problem in full and exact justice.

We understand that when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, your victory was assured, for he then committed you to
the cause of human liberty, against which the arms of man cannot prevail — while those of our statesmen who trusted to make slavery
the comer-stone of the Confederacy doomed us to defeat as far as they could, committing us to a cause that reason could not defend or
the sword maintain in sight of advancing civilization.

The relations of the Southern people with the negro are close and cordial. We remember with what fidelity for four years he guarded
our defenceless women and children, whose husbands and fathers were fighting against his freedom. To his eternal credit be it said that
whenever he struck a blow for his own liberty he fought in open battle, and when at last he raised his black and humble hands that the
shackles might be struck ofl, those hands were innocent of wrong against his helpless charges, and worthy to be taken in loving grasp
by every man who honors loyalty and devotion.

Ruffians have maltreated him, rascals have misled him, philanthropists established a bank for him, but the South, with the North,
protests against injustice to this simple and sincere people.

But have we kept faith with you? In the fullest sense, yes. When Lee surrendered — I don't say when Johnston surrendered, because
I understand he still alludes to the time when he met General Sherman last as the time when he determined to abandon any further
prosecution of the struggle — when Lee surrendered, I say, and Johnston quit, the South became, and has since been, loyal to this Union.

We fought hard enough to know that we were whipped, and in perfect frankness accept as final the arbitrament of the sword to
which we had appealed. The South found her jewel in the toad's head of defeat. The shackles that had held her in narrow limitations
fell forever when the shackles of the negro slave were broken. Under the old regime the negroes were slaves to the South; the South
was a slave to the system. The old plantation, with its simple police regulations and feudal habit, was the only type possible under
slavery. Thus was gathered in the hands of a splendid and chivalric oligarchy the substance that should have been diffused among the
people, as the rich blood, under certain artificial conditions, is gathered at the heart, filling that with affluent rapture, but leaving the
body chill and colorless.

The old South rested ever\'thing on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth.
The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement — a social system compact and closely knitted,
less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core — a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace — and a diversified
industry that meets the complex need of this complex age.

The new South is enamored of her new work. Her soul is stirred with the breath of a new life. The light of a grander day is
falling fair on her face. She is thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity. As she stands upright, full statured
and equal among the people of the earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the expanded horizon, she understands that her
emancipation came because through the inscrutable wisdom of God her honest purpose was crossed, and her brave armies were beaten.

This is said in no spirit of time-serving or apology. The South has nothing for which to apologize. She believes that the late
struggle between the States was war and not rebellion; revolution and not conspiracy, and that her convictions were as honest as yours.
I should be unjust to the dauntless spirit of the South and to my own convictions if I did not make this plain in this presence. The
South has nothing to take back. In my native town of Athens is a monument that crowns its central hill — a plain, white shaft. Deep
cut into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men — that of a brave and simple man who died in a brave and simple
faith. Not for all the glories of New England, from Plymouth Rock all the way, would I exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier's
death. To the foot of that I shall send my children's children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic blood. But,
sir, speaking from the shadow of that memory which I honor as I do nothing else on earth, I say that the cause in which he suffered
and for which he gave his life was adjudged by higher and fuller wisdom than his or mine, and I am glad that the omniscient God held
the balance of battle in his Almighty hand and that human slavery was swept forever from American soil, the American Union was saved
from the wreck of war.

This message, Mr. President, comes to you from consecrated ground. Every foot of soil about the. city in which I live is as sacred
as a battleground of the republic. Every hill that invests it is hallowed to you by the blood of your brothers who died for your victory,
and doubly hallowed to us by the blood of those who died hopeless, but undaunted in defeat — sacred soil to all of us — rich with memories
that make us purer and stronger and better — silent but staunch witnesses, in its red desolation, of the matchless valor of American hearts
and the deathless glory of American arms — speaking an eloquent witness in its white peace and prosperity to the indissoluble union of
American States and the imperishable brotherhood of the American people.

Now, what answer has New England to this message? Will she permit the prejudice of war to remain in the hearts of the conquerors
when it has died in the hearts of the conquered? Will she transmit this prejudice to the next generation that in their hearts which never
felt the generous ardor of conflict it may perpetuate itself? Will she withhold, save in strained courtesy, the hand which, straight from
his soldier's heart, Grant offered to Lee at Appomattox? Will she make the vision of a restored and happy people, which gathered above
the couch of your dying captain, filling his heart with grace; touching his lips with praise, and glorifying his path to the grave — will she
make this vision on which the last sign of his expiring soul breathed a benediction, a cheat and delusion? If she does the South, never
abject in asking for comradeship, must accept with dignity its refusal; but if she does not refuse to accept in frankness and sincerity this
message of good will and friendship, then will the prophecy of Webster, delivered in this very Society forty years ago amid tremendous
applause, become true, be verified in its fullest sense, when he said: "Standing hand to hand and clasping hands, we should remain united
as we have been for sixty years citizens of the same country-, members of the same government united, all united now and forever."
There have been difficulties, contentions, and controversies, but I tell you that in my judgment — •

"those opened eyes.

Which. like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in th' intestine shock.
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way."

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CHAPTER I.

Causes leading to Secession— The Fugitive-Slave Law — Fillmore's administration — Election of General Pierce — Senator Douglas' bill
for two vast Territories — Raids in Central America — Struggle begun in Kansas.

IT was believed by superficial thinkers and observers that the Compromise Act of 1S50 had quieted,
forever, all controversy on the subject of slaver\'; and during his entire administration, President
Fillmore gave his support to all the measures embraced in that act. When his administration closed
in the spring of 1S53, there seemed to be very little uneasiness in the public mind on the subject of slaver>\
But it was only the ominous calm that precedes the bursting of a tempest. The moral sense of the people
in the free-labor States (and of thousands in the slave-labor States) had been shocked by the passage of
the Ftigitive-Slave Law, which compelled every person to become a slave-catcher, under certain circum-
stances, willing or not willing. That law was so much at variance with Christian ethics and the civilization
of the age, that a multitude of persons in all parts of the Union yearned to see it wiped from our national
statute-books as an ugly blot; and, pondering upon it, many persons who had been indifferent, felt a
desire to have a check put upon the further expansion of the system of slavery in our republic.

This feeling, and the
supporters of that system
not a mere sectional in-
collisions in speech, and,
civil war. The Fugitive-
James M. Mason of Vir-
bringing on that terrible
When Mr. Fillmore's
ing to a close, nominations
made. A Democratic na-
blcd at Baltimore, in June,
Franklin Pierce, of New
and William R. King, of
dent. A Whig national
the same place in the same
General Winfield Scott for
Graham of North Carolina
Democratic nominees were
March, 1853, President
life. One of the most
events of his administra-
act of Congress, of a new
ton, which was carved out

General U. S. Grant, Wife and Son at WixTiiR
QvARTKRs, City Point, 1865

avowed intention of the
to make it a national and
stitution, produced violent
finally, a most sanguinary
Slave Law, framed by
ginia, had much to do with
crisis in our history,
administration was draw-
for his successor were
tional convention assem-
1852, nominated General
Hampshire, for President,
Alabama, for Vice-Presi-
convention assembled at
month, and nominated
President, and William A.
for Vice-President. The
elected, and on the 4th of
Fillmore retired to private
important of the closing
tion was the creation, by
Territory called Washing-
of the northern part of

Oregon. The bill for this purpose became a law on the 2d of IMarch, 1853.

General Pierce took the oath of office as President of the United States, upon a platform of New
Hampshire pine, which had been erected at the eastern portico of the Capitol. It was administered in
the presence of thousands of people, who stood in a storm of driving slcct as witnesses of the august
ceremony. President Pierce chose for his cabinet William L. Marcy, Secretary of State; James Guthrie,
Sccretan.' of the Treasury'; Jefferson Davis, Secretar>' of War; James C. Dobliin, Secretary of the Navy;
Robert McClelland, Secretar>' of the Interior; James Campbell, Postmaster-General, and Caleb Gushing,
Attorney-General.

An unexpected movement now aroused a vehement discussion of the slavcrj^ question. In January,
1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas presented a bill in the Senate for the erection of two vast Territories
in mid-continent, to be called, respectively, Kansas and Nebraska. The bill provided for giving permis-
sion to the inhabitants of those Territories to decide for themselves whether slavery should or should
not exist within their domain. This proposed nullification of the Missouri Compromise produced

Note — EXPLANATIOX FOR COLOR FRON'TISPIECE, GRANT IN THE WILDERNESS.— The Battle of the Wilderness began on the fifth day
of May. 1864. "On the morning of the seventh." writes Grant in his report, "it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied the enemy of
his inability to further maintain the contest in the open field. I determined to push on, therefore, and put my whole force between him and Richmond, and
orders were issued for a movement by his right flank. On the night of the seventh the march was commenced." The artist shows us the great commander
riding along where his weary soldiers are stretched on the earth for rest, after the day's battle. When they sec their indomitable commander they rise and
salute him. On the right a soldier, perhaps wounded, sits up to see his general go by. In the picture a touch of characteristic life is given to the figure of
Grant in the cigar held between his fingers, and the realism of the scene is heightened by the trunks and foliage of the trees beneath which his staff is grouped.

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rancorous controversies in and out of Congress, and the people of the free-labor States became violently
excited. After long and bitter discussions in both Houses of Congress, the bill became a law in May-
following. The people of the North thought they perceived in this measvire a determination to make
slavery national; and the boast of Robert Toombs, of Georgia, that he would yet "call the roll of his
slaves on Bunker Hill," seemed likely not to be an idle one.

In the light of historic events, it is clear to-day, that men who afterward appeared as leaders in the
war against our government, were then concocting and executing schemes for the extension of the domains
of the slave system. It must expand or sufifocate. They contrived and put in motion expeditions for
conquering neighboring provinces, in the southwest, under various pretexts, and their acts were unrebuked
by our government. They formed a design to conquer parts of Mexico, and also Central America; and
the theatre of their first practically successful endeavors was on the northern portion of the great isthmus
between North and South America. The first movement was an armed "emigration" into Nicaragua,
with peaceful professions, led by Colonel H. L. Kinney. This was followed by an armed invasion by

Californians led by Wil-

liam Walker, first, of prov-
inces in Mexico, and then
of the state of Nicaragua.
Walker also made peaceful
professions on landing, but
the next day he cast off the
mask and attempted to
capture a town. He was
soon driven out by Nicara-
guan troops, and escaped
in a schooner. He soon
reappeared with a stronger
force (September, 1855)
when the country was in a
state of revolution, and
pushed his scheme of con-
quest so vigorously that he
seized the capital of the
state (Grenada), in Octo-
ber, and placed one of his
followers (a Nicaraguan)
in the presidential chair.
He also strengthened his
power by armed "emi-
grants" who came from
the slave-labor States.
The other governments on
the isthmus were alarmed for their own safety, and in the winter of 1856 they formed an alliance for
expelling the invaders. Troops from Costa Rica marched into Nicaragua, but were soon driven out by
Walker's forces. So firm was his grasp that he caused himself to be elected President of Nicaragua; and
the government at Washington hastened to acknowledge the new "nation," by cordially receiving Walker's
embassador in the person of a Roman Catholic priest named Vigil. For two years this usurper ruled
that state with a high hand, and offended commercial nations by his interference with trade. At length
the combined powers on the isthmus crushed him. In May, 1857, he was compelled to surrender the
remnant of his army, but escaped himself through the interposition of Commodore Davis of our navy.
Late in the same year he reappeared in Central America, when he was seized, with his followers, by
Commodore Paulding, and sent to New York as an offender against neutrality laws. The President
(Buchanan) privately commended Paulding for his action, but for "prudential reasons," as he said, he
publicly condemned the commander in a message to Congress, for "thus violating the sovereignty of a
foreign country." Walker was allowed to go free, when he fitted out another expedition and sailed from
Mobile. He was arrested only for leaving port without a clearance, and was tried and acquitted b}^ the
supreme court at New Orleans. Then he went again to Nicaragua, where he made much mischief, and
was finallv captured and shot at Truxillo.

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Our country was approaching that great crisis which appeared in the dreadful aspect of civil war —
a tremendous conflict between Freedom and Slavery for supremacy in the republic. With the enactment
and enforcement of the Fugitive-Slave Law and the virtual repeal of the Missouri Compromise Act, in

the case of Kansas and Nebraska, the important question
was forced upon the attention of the whole people of the
land, "Shall the domain of our republic be the theatre of
all free or all slave labor, with the corresponding civiliza-
tion of each as a consequence?" The time had come
when one or the other of these social systems must prevail
in all parts of the land. Part free and part slave was a
condition no longer to be tolerated, for it meant perpetual
war. The supporters of the slave-system, encouraged
by their recent triumphs, had full faith in their ability
to win other and more decisive victories, and did not
permit themselves to doubt their ultimate possession of
the field, so they sounded the trumpet for their hosts to
rally and prepare for the struggle. Kansas was the
chosen field for the preliminary skirmishing. It lay
nearest to the settled States; it was bordered on the east
by a slave-labor State, and it was easy of access from the
South. On the surface of society they saw only insigni-
ficant ripples of opposition. They began to colonize the
Territory; and, flushed with what seemed to be well-
assured success, they cast down the gauntlet of defiance
at the feet of the friends of free-labor in the nation.
That gauntlet was quickly taken up by their opponents, and champions of freedom seemed to spring
from the ground like the harvest from the seed-sowing of dragons' teeth. Enterprising men and women
swarmed out of New England to people the virgin soil of Kansas with the hardy children of toil. They
were joined by those of other free-labor States in the North and West. The then dominant party in
the Union were astonished at the sudden uprising, and clearly perceived that the opponents of slavery
would speedily outvote its supporters. Combinations were formed luider various names, such as "Blue
Lodges," "Friends' Society," "Social Band," "Sons of the South," etc., to counteract the efforts of the
"Emigrant Aid Society" of Massachusetts, to gain numerical supremacy in Kansas — a society which
had been organized immediately after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The supporters of
slavery, conscious that their votes could not secure supremacy in Kansas, where the question of slavery
or no slavery was to be decided at the ballot-box, organized physical force in Missouri to oppose this
moral force. Associations were formed in Missouri, whose members were pledged to be ^ead^^ at all
times, to assist, when called upon by the friends of slavery' in Kansas, in removing from that Territory

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by force every person who should attempt to settle there "under the auspices of the Northern Emigrant

Aid Society."

In the autumn of 1854, A. H. Reeder was sent to govern the Territory of Kansas. He immediately

ordered an election of a Territorial legislature, and with that election
the struggle for supremacy there was finally begun. Alissourians
went into' Kansas to assist the supporters of slavery there in carr\'ing
the election. They went with tents, artillery and other weapons.
There were then eight hundred and thirty-one legal voters in the
Territon,^ but there were more than six thousand votes polled. The
members of the Legislature were all supporters of slavery ; and when
they met at Shawnee, on the borders of Missouri, they proceeded to
enact laws for upholding slavery in Kansas. These laws were regu-
larly vetoed by Governor Reeder, who became so obnoxious that
President Pierce was asked to recall him. The President did so,
and sent Wilson Shannon of Ohio, who was an avowed supporter of
slavery, to fill Reeder's place.

The actual settlers in Kansas, who were chiefly from the free-
labor States, met in mass convention in September, 1855, and
resolved not to recognize the laws passed by the illegally elected
legislature, as binding upon them. They called a delegate conven-
tion to assemble at Topeka on the 19th of October, at which time
and place the convention framed a State constitution which was
approved by the legal voters of the Territory, and which contained
an article making provision for constituting Kansas a free-labor
State. Under this constitution they asked Congress to admit that
Territory into the Union as a State. By this action the contest
between Freedom and Slavery was transferred from Kansas to
Washington, for awhile. The prospect of success for the opponents
of slaver3% in Kansas, was beginning to appear bright, when Presi-
dent Pierce gave the supporters of the institution much comfort by

a message to Congress in January, 1856, in which he declared the action of the legal voters, in adopting

a State constitution, to be open rebellion.

Throughout the spring and summer of 1856, armed men from other States roamed over Kansas,

committing many excesses under pretext of compelling obedience to the laws of the illegal legislature.

There was much violence and bloodshed; but during

the autumn, the Presidential election absorbed so much

of the public attention, that Kansas was allowed a

season of rest. At that election there were three

parties in the field, each of which had a candidate for the

Presidency. One was a party composed of men of all

political creeds, who were opposed to slaver\'. It was

called the Republican party, and it assumed powerful

proportions at the outset. Another powerful political

organization was known as the American or Know-

Nothing party, whose chief bond of union was opposition

to foreign influence. The Democratic party, dating its

organization at the period of the election of President

Jackson in 1828, was then the dominant party in the

Union. The Democratic candidate for the Presidency

was James Buchanan of Pennsylvania; of the Repub-
lican party, John C. Fremont of California, and of

the American party, Ex-President Fillmore. After an

exciting canvass, James Buchanan was elected Presi-
dent, with John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky as Vice-
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CHAPTER II.

A New Era — Skirmishes before the Civil War — The Democratic Party — The Dred Scott Decision — Action of the Supreme Court of the
United States — Early Efforts to Restrict Slavery — Slaves in England — The Status of Slavery Here — President Buchanan's Course
Foreshadowed — Civil War in Kansas and Civil Government There — Lecompton Constitution Adopted and Rejected — Admission
of Kansas as a State — A Judicial Decision Practically Reversed — Reopening of the African Slave-Trade and Action Concerning It —
Working of the Fugitive-Slave Law — Action of State Legislatures.

WHEN James Buchanan, of Pennsj-lvania, was inaugurated the fifteenth President of the United
States on the 4th of March, 1857, and chose, for his constitutional advisers, Lewis Cass, Secretary
of State; Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury ; John B. Floyd, Secretary of War; Isaac Toucey,
Secretary of the Navy ; Jacob Thompson, Secretary
of the Interior; Aaron V. Brown, Postmaster-Gen-
eral, and Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney-General, a
new era in the history of the United States was be-
gun. It was the beginning of a great political and
social revolution in our republic which entirely and
permanently changed the industrial aspects in
many of the States of the Union.

It was during the administration of Mr. Bu-
chanan that the preliminary skirmishes, moral and
physical, which immediately preceded the great
Civil War, occurred. Both parties were then put-
ting on their armor and preparing their weapons for
the mighty struggle. The political organization by
which the new President had been elected had, for
some time, coalesced with the friends and support-
ers of the slave-labor system in their efforts not only
to extend the public domain so as to allow the al-
most indefinite expansion of their cherished insti-
tution, but to make it national. That coalition and
sympathy were manifested in various ways. The
two wings of the Democratic party (one of them leaning toward an anti-slaven,' policy and called the
"Free-Soil Democracy") had been reconciled, and worked together in the national convention at Cincin-
nati in June, 1856, which nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. In their resolutions, put forth as
a platform of principles, they approved the invasion and usurpation of Walker, in Nicaragua, as efforts
of the people of Central America "to regenerate that portion of the continent which covers the pass-
age across the interoceanic isthmus." They approved the doctrine of the "Ostend Manifesto," by re-
solving that "the Democratic party were in favor of the acquisition of Cuba." and Mr. Buchanan was

chosen to be their standard-bearer because of his known
sympathy with these movements for the extension of the
area and perpetuation of the slave system. Senator A. G.
Brown of Mississippi, one of the committee appointed to
call upon Mr. Buchanan and officially inform him of his
nomination, wrote to a friend, saying: "In my judgment
Mr. Buchanan is as worthy of Southern confidence and
Southern votes as ever Mr. Calhoun was."

One of the most vitally important skirmishes before
the Civil War actually began occurred at about the time of
Mr. Buchanan's accession to the Presidency of the Repub-
lic. It was of a moral and not of a physical nature, and is
known in our judicial history as "the Dred Scott case."

Dred Scott was a young negro slave of Dr. Emerson, a
surgeon in the United States Army, living in Missouri.
When the latter was ordered to Rock Island, in Illinois, in
1 83 4, he took Scott with him. There Major Taliaferro, of
the army, had a feminine slave, and when the two masters
were transferred to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) next
Field Telegr.'^ph St.\tion 3'ear, the two slaves were married with the consent of the

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masters. They had two children bom in the free-labor Territory ; and the mother had been bought by Dr.
Emerson, who finally took parents and children back to Missouri, and there sold them to a New Yorker.
Dred sued for his freedom, on the plea of his involuntary residence in a free-labor State and Territory for

several years, and the Circuit Court of St. Louis decided in
his favor. The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed the de-
cision of the inferior court, and it was carried, by an appeal,
to the Supreme Court of the United States, then presided
over by Roger B. Taney, a IMarjdand slaveholder. A ma-
jority of that court were in sympathy with the friends of
the slave-labor system, and their decision, about to be given
in 1856, was, for prudential reasons, withheld until after
the Presidential election that year. When it was known
that Buchanan was elected, the decision was made against
Scott, but it was not promulgated until after the inaugu-
ration of the new President of the Republic. The decision,
through the Chief Justice, declared that any person "whose
ancestors were imported into this country and held as
slaves" had no right to sue in any court of the United
States ; in other words, denying any right of citizenship to a
person who had been a slave or was the descendant of a slave.
The only legitimate business of the court was to decide
the question of jurisdictionin the case ; but the Chief Justice,
with thesanctionof amajority of thecourt, further declared
that the framers and supporters of the Declaration of Independence did not include the negro race in our
country in the great proclamation that "all men are created equal;" that the patriots of the Revolution,
and their progenitors " for more than a century before," regarded the negroes as beings of an inferior order,
and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior
that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might lawfully be reduced
to slaver^'for his (the white man's) benefit. TheChief Justice furtherdeclared that they wereneverspoken of
except as property ; and that in the days of our fathers, even emancipated blacks ' ' were identified in the public
mind with the race to which they belonged, and regarded as a part of the slave population rather than the free."
How much at variance with the plain teachings of history were these statements, let our public records
testify. In the English-American colonies, the most enlightened men looked on slavery with great disfavor,
as a moral wrong, and they made attempts, from time to time, to limit or eradicate it. The utterances and
writings of men like General Washington, Henrj' Laurens, Thomas Jefferson, and other slaveholders, and of Dr.
Franklin, John Jay and many leading patriots of the Revolution, directly refute the assertion of Judge Taney,
that in their time Africans by descent were ' ' never thought or spoken of except as property. ' ' The Declaration
of Independence, framed by a slaveholder, was a solemn protest against human bondage in every form ; and in
his original draft of that document , Mr . Jefferson made the protest stronger than the Congress finally approved.
Among the public acts of the fathers of the Republic in favor of human freedom and restriction of the
slave-system, was the famous Ordinance of 1 78 7 , adopted before the National Constitution was framed, which
was the final result of an effort commenced in the Continental Congress ini 7 84 to restrict slavery. That effort
was made in proposing a plan for the government of a Territory including the whole region west of the old
thirteen States, as far south as the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and embracing several of the late
slave-labor States. The plan was submitted by a committee, of which Thomas Jefferson was chairman. It
contemplated the ultimate division of that Territory' into seventeen States, eight of them below the latitude
of the present city of Louisville, in Kentucky. Among the rules for the government of that region, reported by
Mr. Jefferson, was the following : ' 'That after the year 1 800 of the Christian Era, there shall be neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the
party shall have been convicted to be personally guilty. ' ' On motion of Carolinians, this clause was stricken out.
A majority of the Stateswere in favor of it, but as it required the votes of nine States to carry a proposition, it
was not adopted. This rule, omitting the words ' ' after the year 1 800 of the Christian Era, ' ' was incorporated in
the Ordinance of 1 7 8 7 , above alluded to, and so secured freedom to the territor}^ northward of the Ohio River.
The mother-country, from which a larger portion of the patriots of our Revolution had sprung, had
just swept slaver}^ from the dominions of Great Britain, when the old war for independence was a-kindling.
It was done by a decision of Chief Justice Mansfield in the case of James Somerset, a native of Africa,
who was first carried to Virginia and sold as a slave, then taken to England by his master, and there induced.

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by philanthropic men, to assert his freedom. Chief Justice Mansfield decided that he was a free man.
So early as 1597, it was held by the lawyers in England, that "negroes being usually bought and sold
among merchants as merchandise, and also being infidels, there might be a property in them sufficient

to maintain trover," or the gaining possession of any
goods by whatever means. This position was overruled
by Chief Justice Holt, who decided that "so soon as a
negro lands in England, he is free." It was to this
decision that Cowper alluded in his lines :

"Slaves cannot breathe in England;
That moment they are free they touch our countrj-,
And their shackles fall."

In 1702, Justice Holt also decided that "there is no
such thing as a slave by the laws of England;" but in
1729, an opinion was obtained from the crown-la-nyer,
that negroes legally enslaved elsewhere might be held as
slaves in England, and that baptism was no bar to the
master's claim. This was a sort of fugitive slave-law
for the benefit of the English-American colonists, that
was obeyed until the sweeping decision of Chief Justice
Mansfield, which would have abolished slavery here had
npt the Revolution broken out soon afterward.

After Chief Justice Taney had made his declaration
about the feelings of our forefathers concerning the negro
as a man, he declared that the Missouri Compromise Act
and all other acts for the restriction of slavery were
unconstitutional; and that neither Congress nor local
legislatures had any authority for restricting the spread

of the institution all over the Union. The majority of the Supreme Court sustained not only the legitimate

decision, but the extra-judicial opinion of the Chief Justice; and the dominant party who had elected

Mr. Buchanan assumed that the decision was final — that slavery was a national institution having the

right to exist anywhere in the Union, and that Mr. Toombs might legally "call the roll of his slaves on

Bunker's Hill." It was assumed by the leaders of that party that, in consequence of the promulgated

opinion of five or six fallible men, evidently based upon a perversion of historical facts, the nation was

bound to consent to the turning back of the bright tide of Christian civilization into the darker channels

of a barbarous age from which it had escaped. To this proposition the conscience of the nation refused

acquiescence. Large numbers of the dominant party deserted their leaders, and every lover of freedom

was impelled to prepare for the inevitable conflict which this extra-judicial opinion of the highest court

in the land would certainly arouse. It being

extra-judicial, it was no more binding, in law,

upon the people, than was the opinion of any

citizen of the Republic.

The new President had been informed of

this decision before it was promulgated, and in his

inaugural address he foreshadowed his own course

in the treatment of the subject. Indeed, that

decision was a chief topic of the discourse. He

spoke of the measure as one that would ' ' speedily

and finally" settle the slavery question, and he

announced his intention to cheerfully submit to

it, declaring that the question was wholly a

judicial one, which only the Supreme Court of

the Republic could settle, and that by its decision

the admission or rejection of slavery in any

Territory was to be determined by the legal votes

of the people thereof. "The whole territorial

question," he said, "was thus settled upon the

principle of popular sovereignty — a principle as

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ancient as free government itself." He averred that "everything of a practical nature" had been settled,
and he expressed a sincere hope that the long agitation of the subject of slavery was "approaching its end."

Alas ! it was only the beginning of the dreadful scenes that marked its end. That decision and opinion
of the Chief Justice rekindled the fire spoken of by the Georgian in debate in Congress on the admission
of Missouri, which he said, "all the waters of the ocean would not put out, and which only seas of blood
could extinguish."

As we have observed, there was actual civil war in Kansas in the earlier portions of 1856. It assumed
alarming aspects during the spring and summer of that year, as 'we have noticed. The actual settlers
from free-labor States outnumbered emigrants from elsewhere; and a regiment of young men from Georgia
and South Carolina, under Colonel Buford, fully armed, went into the Territory for the avowed purpose
of making it a slave-labor State ' ' at all hazards. ' ' They were joined by armed Missourians, and for several

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months they spread terror over the land. They sacked the town of Lawrence, and murdered and plundered
individuals in various places. Steamboats ascending the Missouri River with emigrants from free-labor
States were stopped, and the passengers were frequently robbed of their money; and persons of the same
class, crossing the State of Missouri, were arrested and turned back. Lawlessness reigned supreme in all
that region. Justice was bound, and there was general defiance of all mandates of right.

The civil war in Kansas, so begun, was more wasteful than blood3^ and there was only one battle with
any semblance of regularity fought there. That conflict took place on an open prairie. It was waged
between twenty-eight emigrants, led by John Brown, of Ossawattamie, and fift^'-six armed men under
H. Clay Pate, of Virginia. Brown was the victor. Finally, John W. Geary, afterward a major-general,
and Governor of Pennsylvania, who succeeded Shannon as chief magistrate of Kansas, by judicious admin-
istration of affairs there, smothered the flames of civil war, and both parties worked vigorously with moral
forces for the admission of Kansas as a State of the Union, but with ends in view diametrically
opposed.

In September, 1857, the friends of the slave-system met in convention at Lecompton, on the Kansas-
River, and then the Territorial capital, and adopted a State Constitution, in which it was declared that

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"the rights of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with," and it
forbade any amendment of the instrument until 1864. It was submitted to the votes of the people in
December following, but by the terms of the election law then in force, no person could vote agai)ist the

Constitution. The ballots were
endorsed: "For the Constitution
with slavery" and "For the Con-
stitution without slaver}'." In
either case, a constitution that
would foster and protect slavery
would be voted for. The conse-
quence was that a large portion of
the friends of the free-labor system
refused to vote, and the Lecomp-
ton Constitution was adopted by
a ver\' large majority.

R. J. Walker, of Mississippi, had
now succeeded Governor Geary,
and when an election for a new
Territorial Legislature occurred,
he assured the people that justice
should prevail. Encouraged by
these assurances of an honest man,
the friends of free-labor generally
voted, and the law-makers then
elected were composed chiefly of
their political friends. They also elected their candidate for Congress. That Legislature ordered the
Lecompton Constitution to be submitted to the people of Kansas for their adoption or rejection, and it
was rejected by at least ten thousand majority. The President of the Republic, regardless of this expressed
will of the people of Kansas, sent the rejected Constitution into Congress, with a message recommending its
ratification. "It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest tribunal known to our laws," said President
Buchanan, "that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas is,
therefore, at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina." Congress did not ratify
it, but ordered it to be again submitted to the people of Kansas, when they rejected it by an overwhelming
majority. From that hour the controlling pohtical power in Kansas was wielded by the free-labor party.
Their strength steadily increased, and
at near the close of January, 1861, just
as the great Civil War was a-kindling,
that Territory was admitted into the
Union as a free-labor State. The
Republic was now composed of thirty-
four States and several Territories.
Six years after the decision of Judge
Taney and the majorit}^ of the Supreme
Court, which declared that it was im-
possible for a black man to become a
citizen, that decision was practically set
aside by the issuing of a passport by
the Secretary of State, William H.
Seward, to the descendant of a slave
to travel abroad as a "citizen of the
United States."

While the struggle for freedom was
going on in Kansas, the friends of
the slave-labor system, emboldened b}^
the sympathy of the general govern-
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the plain requirements of the National Constitution and the laws made under it. They resolved to reopen
the African slave-trade, which had been closed in 1808 by a provision of the Constitution. Leading
citizens of Louisiana prepared to engage in it, under the guise of the "African Labor-Supply Association,"

and captives, as of old, were actually brought

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across the sea, landed on the shores of the South-
em States, and sold into perpetual bondage.
Newspapers in the slave-labor States openly
defended the measure, and the pulpit uttered its
approval.

The President of the Presbyterian Theo-
logical Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina,
Dr. James H. Thomwell, who died at the begin-
ning of the Civil War, declared that it was his
conviction that ' ' the African slave-trade was the
most worthy of all missionary societies." The
"Southern Commercial Convention," held at
Yicksburg in May, 1859, resolved that "all laws.
State or Federal, prohibiting the African slave-
trade, ought to be abolished." A grand jury in
Savannah, who were compelled by law to indict
several persons charged with complicity in the
slave-trade, actually protested against the laws
they were sworn to support, saying: "We feel
humbled as men in the consciousness that we are freemen but in name, and that we are living, during the
existence of such laws, under a tyranny as supreme as that of the despotic governments of the Old World.
Heretofore the people of the South, firm in their consciousness of right and strength, have failed to place
the stamp of condemnation upon such laws as reflect upon the institution of slavery, but have permitted,
unrebuked, the influence of foreign opinion to prevail in their support." A Mississippi newspaper, the
True Southron, in its earnestness for the cause, suggested the "propriety of stimulating the zeal of the pulpit
by founding a prize for the best sermon in favor of free-trade in negroes," and the proposition was widely
copied, with approval; while in many pulpits "zeal" was exhibited in the service of the slaveholders
without the stimulus of an offered prize. And in the United States Senate, John Slidell, of Louisiana,
one of the most effective civil leaders among the late Confederates, urged the propriety of withdrawing
American cruisers from the coast of Africa, that the slave-traders there might not be molested ; and Presi-
dent Buchanan's administration, inspired by men like Slidell, was made to serve the plans of the supporters
of the slave-labor system, by protesting against the visitation, by British cruisers, of vessels bearing the
American flag, on suspicion that they were "slavers." These visitations were made in accordance with
a positive agreement between the two governments, that under such circumstances, visits should be made
freely by either party.

This arrangement had been made for the purpose of more effectually suppressing the slave-trade
then about to be opened by the "African Labor-Supply Association;" and in the summer of 1858, the
British cruisers in the Gulf of IMexico were unusually vigilant. In the course of a few weeks they boarded
about forty suspected American vessels. It was this activity, which promised to be an effectual bar to
the reviving trade in slaves, that gave a pretext for the President to enter his protest. There was a cry
raised against the "odious British doctrine of the right of search," and the British government, for "pru-
dential reasons," put a stop to it. In this case it was only "the end" that "justified the means."

The Fugitive-Slave Law now began to bear bitter fruit, and it soon became one of the most prolific
causes of the continually increasing controversies between the upholders and opposers of the slave-labor
system. It was made more offensive by the evident intention of the friends of the institution
ever^'where to nationalize slavery; and the perversion of the obvious meaning of the vital doctrine of the
Declaration of Independence, by the judicial branch of the government, while the executive branch was
ready to lend his tremendous power in giving practical effect to the system, awakened in the breasts of
the people of the free-labor States a burning desire to wipe the stain of human bondage from the escutcheon
of the Republic. Seizures under the Fugitive-Slave Law were becoming more and more frequent, with
circumstances of increasing injustice and cruelty. The business of arresting, and remanding to hopeless
slavery, men, women and children, was carried on all over the free-labor States, and the people stood
appalled. By that dreadful law, every man was compelled to become a slave-hunter, under certain

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conditions ; and every kind-hearted woman who might give a cup of cold water or the shelter of a roof to
a suffering sister fleeing from intolerable bondage, incurred the penalty of a felony!

This law became a broad cover under which the kidnapping of free persons of color was extensively
carried on; and scores of men, women and children, bom free, were dragged from their homes and consigned
to hopeless bondage. Our public legal records are stained with the revolting details of the workings of
the law; and the newspapers of the day contained accounts of many stirring events connected with the
execution of it. The following facts will suffice as an illustration :

On a cold day in January, 1856, two slaves, with their wives and four children, all thinly clad, escaped
from Kentucky into Ohio. They crossed the frozen river to Cincinnati, closely pursued by the master
of three of them, on horseback. In Cincinnati, they were harbored by a colored man. Their retreat
was discovered by the pursuing master, who repaired to the house with the United States marshal and his
assistants, and demanded their surrender. They refused; and after a desperate struggle, the door was

Camp of 114TH Pennsylvania Volunteers at Brandv Station, Va.

broken open and the fugitives were secured. They had resolved to die rather than be taken back into
slavery. The mother of the three children, in despair, tried, first to kill her offspring, and then herself.
When she was seized, she had already slain one of her children with a knife — a beautiful little girl, nearly
white in complexion — and had severely wounded the other two. A coroner's jury was called, who decided
that the frantic mother had killed her child, and it was proposed to hold her for trial under the laws of
Ohio. But it was discovered that the Fugitive-Slave Law had been made so absolute by the terms of
its enactment and the opinion of the Chief Justice of the United States, that a State law could not interfere
with it; so the mother and her surviving companions were remanded into slavery. They were taken
across the Ohio River, and all traces of them were lost.

When the hideous character of the Fugitive-Slave Law, in all its aspects, became fully manifest, the
public conscience was aroused to action, and righteous men and women all over the slave-labor States,
shocked by a spectacle that disgraced a free people pretending to be civilized, protested as loudly as they
dared; and the legislatures of several of the free-labor States adopted measures for relieving their citizens
from the penalties imposed upon those who should refuse to become slave-catchers.

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By the terms of the Fugitive-Slave Law, the sacred right of trial by jury was denied to the man who
was alleged to be a slave, and he had no redress. This was logical, for the Chief Justice of the United
States had declared that the black man "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." He
had also declared that no State law could inter-
fere with the operations of the Fugitive-Slave Act,
or with slavery itself. This opinion was directly
adverse to the letter and spirit of a statute in the
code of the State of New York, which declared
the immediate freedom of any slave when brought
involuntarily within its borders. The Legislature
of that State determined to sustain that statute,
and boldly denoiinced the opinion of the Chief
Justice, which denied citizenship to men of color
who had descended from slaves. Ohio took
similar action, and Maine, Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Michigan and Wisconsin took strong
ground in favor of the freedom of the slaves with
in their borders, without assuming an attitude
of actual resistance to the obnoxious act which
every citizen was bound to obey so long as it
remained unrepealed.

This movement in the Northern States
naturally exasperated the slaveholders, and it
was used by the politicians among them to create
hot indignation in the hearts of the people in the
slave-labor States. This, according to the testi-
mony of a personal friend of the author of the Fugitive-Slave Act (James M. Mason, of Virginia), was
precisely what the peculiarly offensive features of that act were intended to effect. It was calculated
that it would finally cause resistance to the measure on the part of the people of the free-labor States,
and so give a plausible pretext for disunion, rebellion, and civil war, if necessar>', on the part of the friends
of the slave-labor system. This testimony was given to me orally, while standing among the ruins of
Mr. Mason's house at Winchester, in 1866.

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CHAPTER III.

Public Quiet Broken by John Brown's Raid — Incidents of that Raid and Its Effects — The Republican Party — A Pretext for Revolution
— ^Convention of Democrats at Charleston — Disruption of the Democratic Party — Incidents of the Plan — Nominations for
President — Principles of the Parties — Lincoln Elected — ^ Action of the Southern Politicians — Yancey's Mission — Fatal Power of
the PoUticians.

IN the fall of 1859, the feverishness in the public mind, excited by the vehement discussion of the topic
of slavery, had somewhat subsided, when suddenly a rumor went out of Baltimore, as startling as a
thunder peal on the genial October air, that the Abolitionists had seized the Government Armory and
Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, and that an insurrection
of the slaves in Virginia was imminent.

The rumor was true. John Brown, of Ossawatamie, who had fought and won a battle on the Kansas

prairie in 1856, had
on Sunday evening, the
was a native of Connec-
year of his age, and had
the AboHtionists (as the
labor system, who
were called) in early life,
fanatical and brave. He
midst of the troubles in
fered much ; and he be-
destined liberator of the
With a few white fol-
from Missouri, he went
at Chatham a conven-
was held in May, 1859,
Constitution and Ordi-
the United States" was
strument declared, "for
government, but simply
This was partof a scheme
ing of the slaves for ob-
Brown spent the

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struck a blow at slavery,
i6th of October. Brown
ticut, in the sixtieth
espoused the cause of
opponents of the slave-
wished to abolish it,
He was enthusiastic,
had been active in the
Kansas, and had suf-
lieved himself to be the
slaves in our Republic,
lowers and twelve slaves
into Canada West, and
tion of sympathizers
whereat a "Provisional
nances for the People of
adopted, not, as the in-
the overthrow of any
to amend and repeal."
for promoting the upris-
taining their freedom,
summer of 1859 in prep-

aration for his work. He hired a farm a few miles from Harper's Ferry, where he was known by the name
of "Smith." There, one by one, a few followers congregated stealthily; and pikes and other weapons
were gathered, and ammunition was provided, with the intention of striking the first blow in Virginia,
and arming the insurgent slaves. Under cover of profound darkness. Brown, at the head of seventeen
white m.en and five negroes, entered the village of Harper's Ferry on that fatal Sunday night, put out the
street lights, seized the Armory and the railway bridge, and quietly arrested and imprisoned in the Govern-
ment buildings the citizens found here and there in the streets at the earliest hours of the next morning,
each one ignorant of what had happened. The invaders had seized Colonel Washington, living a few
miles from Harper's Ferry, with his arms and horses, and liberated his slaves; and at eight o'clock on
Monday morning, the 17th of October, Brown and his few followers (among whom were two of his sons)
had full possession of the village and Goverrmient works. When asked what was his purpose and
by what authority he acted Brown replied, "To free the slaves, and by the authority of God
Almighty." He felt assured that when the blow should be struck, the negroes of the surrounding
country would rise and flock to his standard. He sincerely believed that a general uprising of the
slaves of the whole country would follow, and that he would be a great liberator. He was mistaken.

The news of this alarming affair went speedily abroad, and before Monday night Virginia militia
had gathered at Harper's Ferry in large niunbers. Struggles between these and Brown's little company
ensued, in which the two sons of the leader perished. The invaders were finally driven to the shelter of
a fire-engine house, where Brown defended himself with great bravery. With one son dead by his side,
and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying child with one hand, held his rifle with the other
and issued oral commands to his men with all the composure of a general in his marquee, telling them to
be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as possible.

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Born April 27. l822.

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CHAPTER III.— Continued.

ON Monday evening, Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived at Harper's Ferr3% with ninety United States
marines and two pieces of artillery. The doors of the engine-house were forced open, and Brown and

his followers were captured. He was speedily indicted
for murder and treason; was found guilty, and on the 3d
of December (1859) he was hanged at Charlestown, not
far from the scene of his exploits. The most exaggerated
reports of this raid went over the land. Terror spread
throughout Virginia. Its governor (Henry A. Wise)
was excited almost to madness, and declared that he was
ready to make war on all the free-labor States. In a
letter to President Buchanan, written on the 25 th of
November, he declared he had authority for believing
that a conspiracy to rescue John Brown existed in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York and other States.

Brown was suspected of being an emissary of the
Abolitionists, and attempts were made to implicate
leaders of the Republican party and the inhabitants of
the free-labor States generally in a scheme for liberating
the slaves. A committee of the United States Senate,
with the author of the Fugitive-Slave Law (James
M. Mason) at its head, was appointed to investi-
gate the subject. The result was positive proof that
Brown had no accomplices and only about twenty-five
followers.
John Brown's attempt to free the slaves was a crazy one in itself, and utterly failed, but it led to
events that very soon brought about the result he so much desired. His bitterest enemies acknowledged
that he was sincere, and a real hero, and he became, in a manner, the instrument of deliverance of millions
from bondage. His effort aroused the slumbering party spirit of the combatants for and against slavery
to great activity, and at the beginning of i860, a remarkable and growing strength of the Republican
party was everywhere manifested. Its central idea of universal freedom attracted powerful and influential
men from all other political parties, for it bore a standard around which persons differing in other things
might gather in perfect accord.

The elections held in 1858 and 1859 satisfied the
opponents of this party that they were rapidl}^ passing
to the position of a hopeless minority, and that the domi-
nation in the National Councils which the friends of the
slave-system had so long enjoyed would speedily come
to an end.

The sagacious leaders of the pro-slavery party in the
South, who had been for years forming plans and prepar-
ing a way for a dissolution of the Union, so as to establish
the great slave-empire of their dreams within the Golden
Circle (to be noticed presently) , believed that they wotdd
not be able to elect another President of their choice, and
that the time had come for the execution of their destruc-
tive scheme. A pretext more plausible than that of the
violations of the Fugitive-Slave Act at the North afforded
them, must be had, for that act had become too odious
in the estimation of righteous men and women in all parts
of the Union to inspire them with a desire for its main-
tenance. No such pretext existed, and the politicians in Famous War Bju.loon "Intrepid"

Note— EXPLANATION FOR COLOR FRONTISPIECE SHERIDAN AT FIVE FORKS— General Horace Porter, in "Battles and Leaders of the
CiWl War." says; *' Sheridan was mounted on his favorite black horse, Rienzi. that had carried him from Winchester to Cedar Creek, and which T. Buchanan Read
made famousYor all time in his poem of 'Sheridan's Ride.' The roads were muddy, the fields swampy, the undergrowth dense, and Rienzi. as he plunged and cur-
vetted, dashed the foam from his mouth and the mud from his heels." "Where is my battle flag? " cried Sheridan. It was given him, and now in the picture he is
before us. dashing up to the angle, and leaping over, followed by his troops. The crouching confederates inside the works threw up their hands. The guns are dumb.
More than l ,soo of them surrender there to the rider on the black horse, while the boys in blue hurrah in hoarse notes of victory for gallant Phil Shendan.

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the slave-labor States deliberately prepared to create one, which, thej^ knew, would be powerfiil. At
that time they were in full alHance with the Democratic party of the North, which was then in power.
If it should remain a unit and the fraternal relations with the Southern wing of the party should continue
undisturbed, there might be a chance for
the supremacy of the coalition awhile
longer. But there were omens already of a
speedy dismemberment of the Democratic
party, for the Fugitive-Slave Law and the
attempt to nationalize slavery had pro-
duced wide-spread defection in their ranks.
A large portion of that party, led by
Senator Stephen A. Douglas, showed a
proclivity toward independent action, and
even of affihation with the Republican
party on the subject of slavery; and the
hopes of the friends of that system, of the
undivided support of the Northern Democ-
racy, vanished.

In view of this impending crisis, the
Southern politicians deemed it expedient
to destroy absolutely all unity in the
Democratic party and make it powerless,
when the Republicans might elect their
candidate for the Presidency in the fall of
i860. Then would appear the pretext for
a revolution — the election of a sectional
President. Then the plausible war-cry
might be raised — "No sectional President! No Northern domination! Down with the Abolitionists!"
This would appeal to the hearts and interests of the Southern people, especially to the slave-holding class,
"fire the Southern heart," and produce, as they believed, a "solid South" in favor of breaking up the
old Republic and forming an empire whose "comer-stone should be slaver\-." With this end in view,
leading politicians in the South, who afterward appeared conspicuous among the confederated enemies
of the National Government during the Civil War, entered the Democratic National Convention assembled
at Charleston, South Carolina, on the 23d of April, 1S60, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for
the Presidency of the United States and setting forth an embodiment of political principles.

On the appointed day, almost six hundred chosen representatives of the Democratic party assembled

in ConV'cntion in the hall of the South Carolina Institute, in Charleston,
and chose Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, their chairman. It was
evident from the first hour after the organization of the Convention that
the spirit of Mischief was there enthroned; and observing ones soon
discovered omens of an impending tempest which might topple from its
foundations the organization known as the Democratic party.

The choice of Mr. Cushing as chairman was very satisfactory^ to the
friends of the slave-system in the Convention. He was a statesman of
great experience, and then sixty years of age ; a scholar of wide and varied
culture, and a sagacious observer of men. Because he had joined the
Democratic party at the time of Mr. Tyler's defection ; had been a con-
spicuous advocate of the war with Mexico and other measures for the
extension and perpetuation of the system of slavery, he was regarded by
the Southern men in the Convention as their fast political friend and
coadjutor; but when they made war upon the tmity of the RepubHc the
next year, he gave his influence in support of the National Government.
Mr. Cushing, in his address on taking the chair in the Convention,
declared it to be the mission of the Democratic party ' ' to reconcile popu-
lar freedom with constituted order ' ' and to maintain ' ' the sacred reserved

„ „ ^ rights of the sovereign States." He declared that the Republicans were

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Confederate Cabinet labonng to overthrow the Constitution and aiming to produce m this

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country a permanent sectional conspiracy — a traitorous sectional conspiracy — of one-half of the States
of the Union against the other half; who, impelled by the stupid and half -insane spirit of faction and
fanaticism, would hurry our land on to revolution and to civil war." He declared it to be the "high and
noble part of the Democratic party of the Union to withstand — to strike down and conquer — these banded
enemies of the Constitution."

These utterances were warml}^ applauded by the Convention, excepting by the extreme pro-slavery
wing. Tlicy did not wish to "strike down" the Republican party. They had a more important scheme
to foster. It was their wish to "strike down" the Democratic party, for the moment, by dividing it.
They had come instructed to demand from the Convention a candidate and an avowal of principles which
should promise a guaranty for the speedy recognition by the National Government and the people, in a

practical way, of the system of slavery as
a national institution. They knew that the
most prominent candidate before the Con-
vention, for the nomination, was Stephen A.
Douglas of Illinois, who was committed to
an opposing policy, and that he and his
friends would never vote for such a "plat-
form ' ' — such an avowal of principles. They
also knew that his rejection by the repre-
sentatives of the slaveholders would split
the Democratic party, and they resolved to
act in accordance with these convictions.
They held the dissevering wedge in their

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own hands, and they determined to use it
with effect.

A committee composed of one delegate
from each State was appointed to prepare
a platform of principles for the action of
the Convention. A member from Massa-
chusetts (Mr. Butler) proposed in that
committee to adopt the "Cincinnati Plat-
form" agreed to by the Convention that
nominated Mr. Buchanan, and which com-
mitted the Democratic party to the doctrine
of "Popular Sovereignty;" that is to say,
the doctrine of the right of the people of any

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Territory of the Republic to decide whether slavery should or should not exist within its borders. Now
was ofifered the opportunity for entering the dissevering wedge, and it was applied. When the vote was
taken on the proposition of Mr. Butler, it was rejected by seventeen States (only two of them free-labor
States) against fifteen. This was followed on the part of the majority by an ofTer to adopt the ' ' Cincinnati
Platform," with additional resolutions declaring in the spirit of Judge Taney's opinion, that Congress
nor any other legislative body had a right to interfere with slavery' anywhere, or to impair or destroy the
right of property in slaves by any legislation. This proposition virtually demanded of the Democratic
party the recognition of slavery as a sacred, permanent and national institution.

It was now clearly perceived that the politicians of the slave-labor States were united, evidently by
pre-concert, in a determination to wring from the people of the free-labor States further and more revolting
concessions to the greed of the pro-slavery faction for political domination. The manhood of the minority
was evoked, and they resolved that the limit of concession was reached, and that they would yield no
further. That minority, composed wholly of delegates from the free-labor States, and representing a

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majority of the Presidential electors (172 against 127), offered to adopt the "Cincinnati Platform," and a

resolution expressing a willingness to abide by any decision of the Supreme Court of the United States

on questions of Constitutional law. They also offered to adopt another resolution, denouncing the laws

passed by Northern legislatures in opposi-
tion to the Fugitive Slave Act. Mr. Butler
opposed making even these concessions to
their arrogant demands. The consequence
was, the committee went into the Conven-
tion with three reports — a majority and
minority report, and a report from Mr.
Butler.

The debate upon these reports was
opened by the chairman of the majority
committee (Mr. Avery of North Carolina),
who assured the Convention that if the
doctrine of Popular Sovereignty should be
adopted as the doctrine of the Democratic
party, the members of the Convention from
the slave-labor States and their constitu-
ents, would consider it as dangerous and
subversive of their rights, as the adoption
of the principle of Congressional interfer-
ence or prohibition. The debate continued
until the 29th (April, i860), and on the
morning of the 30th the vote was taken

in the presence of an immense audience with which the hall was packed. INIr. Butler's report was first

acted upon, and rejected. Then the minority report was presented by Mr. Samuels of Iowa, and adopted

by a decided majority. Preconcerted rebellion immediately lifted its head, and the delegates from Alabama,

led by L. Pope Walker (afterward the Confederate Secretan,' of War), seceded and left the Convention.

This secession was followed by

delegates from the other slave-labor

States, and they all reassembled at

St. Andrew's Hall to prepare for an

independent political organization.

The disruption of the Democratic

party represented in the Convention

was now complete. The slaver}^

question had split it beyond hope

of restoration; an event which had

been provided for, in secret, by

the politicians. When D. G. Glenn,

of the Mississippi delegation, an-
nounced the secession of the rep-
resentatives from that State, he

said: "I tell Southern members,

and, for them, I tell the North,

that in less than sixty days you

will find a united South standing

side by side with us." These

utterances called forth long and

vehement cheering, especially from

the South Carolinians; and that

night Charleston was the theatre of

great rejoicings, for the leaders there

comprehended the significance of

the movement.

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seceders, with James A. Bayard of Delaware at their head, organized what they called a ' ' Constitutional
Convention ; ' ' sneered at the body they had left, as a " Rump Convention, ' ' and on the 3 d of May adjourned
to meet in Richmond, Virginia, in June. The regular Convention also adjourned, without making a
nomination, to meet at Baltimore on the i8th
of June.

The seceders reassembled in Richmond on
the nth of June. Robert Toombs and other
Congressmen had issued an address from Wash-
ington city, urging the Richmond Convention to
refrain from all important action there, but to
adjourn to Baltimore, and there re-enter the
Convention from which they had withdrawn, and,
if possible, defeat the nomination of Mr. Douglas ,
This high-handed measure was resorted to; and
when the Richmond Convention adjourned,
most of the delegates hastened to Baltimore, and
claimed the right to re-enter the Convention
from which they had formally withdrawn. The
South Carolina delegates remained in Richmond
to watch the course of events and manage the
scheme.

At the appointed time the regular Conven-
tion assembled at Baltimore, with Mr. Cushing in the chair. The question arose as to the right of the
seceders to re-enter the Convention. Some were favorable to their admission; others proposed to admit
them provided they would pledge themselves to abide by the decision of the majorit3\ A stirring time
ensued, and the matter was referred to a committee, a majority of whom reported in favor of admitting
Douglas delegates from the slave-labor States in place of the seceders. In the course of a vehement
debate that ensued, a slave-trader from Georgia warmly advocated the policy of reopening the African
slave-trade, and his sentiments were loudly applauded. The majority report was adopted, when a large
number of delegates from the border slave-labor States withdrew. This was followed the next morning
(June 23, i860) by the withdrawal of Mr. Cushing and a majority of the Massachusetts delegation. "We
put our withdrawal before you," Mr. Butler said, "upon the simple ground, among others, that there
has been a withdrawal, in fact, of a majority of the States; and further (and that perhaps more personal
to myself) upon the ground that I will not sit in a convention where the African slave trade, which is
piracy by the laws of my country', is approvingly advocated."

Vice-President Tod, of Ohio, now took Mr. Cushing's place at the head of the Convention, which
proceeded to nominate Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for President by an almost unanimous vote.
Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia was afterward nominated for Vice-President. Meanwhile the seceders,
young and old, had reassembled, called Mr. Cushing to the Chair, denominated their body the National
Democratic Convention, and proceeded to nominate John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky for President,
and Joseph Lane of Oregon for Vice-President. A recent political organization calling themselves the
"National Constitutional Party" had already nominated (May 9, i860) John Bell of Tennessee for
President, and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President. A week later (May 16) a vast
concourse of Republicans assembled in an immense building erected for the purpose in Chicago, and called
the "Wigwam," nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for President, and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine
for Vice-President.

By a series of resolutions, the Republican Convention took a position in direct antagonism to the
avowed principles of the friends of the slave-system and the extra-judicial opinion of Chief-Justice
Taney. They declared that each State had absolute control over its own domestic affairs ; that the new
political dogma, averring that the National Constitution, of its own force, carried slavery into the
Territories of the Republic, was a dangerous political heresy, revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive
of the peace and harmony of the country ; that the normal condition of all the territory of the United
States is that of freedom, and that neither Congress, nor a Territorial legislature, nor any individuals have
authority to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the Union; and that the reopening of
the African slave-trade, then recently commenced in the Southern States, as we have seen, under cover
of the National flag, was a crime against humanity, and a burning shame to our country and age.

There were now four candidates for the Presidency in the field. The Democratic party was hopelessly

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Scene at Savage Station, June, 1862

Split in twain. The Douglas wing made no positive utterances concerning the status of slavery in the
Territories; and the party led by Bell and Everett declined to express any opinions upon any subject.
Their motto was — The Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the Enforcement of the Laws.

Only the earnest and determined wing of the
Democratic party led by Breckenridge and of the
Republican party led by Lincoln, showed a really
aggressive spirit bom of absolute convictions.
The Southern portion of the former had resolved
to nationalize slavery or destroy the Union; the
latter declared that there was "an irrepressible
conflict between freedom and slavery'," and that
the Republic could not exist "half slave and half
free. ' ' This was the real issue ; and after one of the
most exciting political campaigns ever witnessed
in our countr>% from June until November, Mr.
Lincoln was elected Chief Magistrate of the
United States by a large majority over the other
candidates, with Mr. Hamlin as Vice-President.
An analysis of the popular vote showed that
three-fourths of the whole number were given to
men opposed to the extension of slavery. This
significant fact notified the friends of the slave-
system that the days of their political domination in the councils of the nation had ended, perhaps forever,
and they acted accordingly.

Such is a brief outline history of the conspiracy of Southern politicians to divide the Democratic party;
give victory to the Republican party ; cause the election of a " sectional President, ' ' and so afford a plausible
pretext for a premeditated attempt to dissolve the Union and destroy the Republic. Thus far their
schemes had worked to their satisfaction; it now remained for them to "fire the Southern heart" and
produce a "solid South" in favor of emancipation from what they were pleased to call the tyranny of a
"sectional party" led by a "sectional President." This accomplished, they would be ready to raise the
arm to give the fatal blow to the existence of the Republic.

The leading men who brought upon the Southern people and those of the whole country the horrors
of a four-years Civil War, with all its terril)le devastation of life, property and national prosperity, were
few in number, but wonderfully productive of their kind. They w^ere then, or had been, connected with
the National Government, some as legislators and others as cabinet ministers. They were not so numerous
at first, said Horace Maynard, a loyal Tennesseean, in a speech in Congress, "as the figures on a chess-
board. There are those within reach of my voice," he said, "who also knew them, and can testify to their
utter perfidy; who have been the victims of their want of principle, and whose self-respect has suffered
from their insolent and overbearing demeanor. No Northern man was ever admitted to their confidence,
and no Southern man unless it became necessary to keep up their numbers; and then not till he was thor-
oughly known by them, and known to be thoroughly corrupt. They, like a certain school of ancient
philosophers, had two sets of principles or doctrines — one for outsiders and one for themselves; the one
was 'Democratic principles' for the Democratic party, the other was for their own and without a name.
Some Northern men and some Southern men were, after a fashion, petted and patronized by them, as a
gentleman throws from his table a bone, or a choice bit, to a favorite dog; and they imagined they were
conferring a great favor thereby, which would be requited only by the abject serviHty of the dog. To
hesitate, to doubt, to hold back, to stop, was to call down a storm of wrath that few men had the nerve
to encoimter, and still fewer the strength to withstand. Not only in political circles, but in social life,
their rule was inexorable, their tryanny absolute. God be thanked for the brave men who had the courage
to meet them and bid them defiance, first at Charleston in April, i860, and then at Baltimore, in June!
To them is due the credit of declaring war against this intolerable despotism."

During the canvass in the summer and autumn of i860, pro-slavery politicians traversed the free-labor
States and disseminated their views without hindrance. Among the most daring and outspoken of these
was William L. Yancey of Alabama, who was a fair type of politicians in other Southern States who, by
vehemence of manner and sophistry in argument, misled the people. He was listened to with patience
by the people of the North, and was treated kindly everywhere; and when he returned to the South, he
labored incessantly with tongue and pen to stir up the people to rebelHon, saying in substance, as he had

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written two years before: "Organize committees all over the Cotton States; fire the Southern heart;
instruct the Southern mind; give courage to each other; and at the proper moment, by one organized,
concerted action, precipitate the Cotton States into revolution."

The "proper moment" was near at hand. Mr. Lincoln was elected by a large majority over each
candidate, and was chosen in accordance with the letter and spirit of the National Constitution; yet,

because he received nearlv a million of votes less

than did all of his opponents combined, the cry
was raised by the Southern politicians, that he
would be a usurper when in office because he had
not received a majority of the aggregate votes of
the people ; that his antecedents, the principles of
the Republican platform, the fanaticism of his
party and his own utterances, all pledged him to
wage an unrelenting warfare upon the system of
slaver\' and rights of the slave-labor States, with
all the powers of the National Government at his
command. They said, in effect, to the people,
through public orator}^ the pulpit, and the press,
"Yovu" rights and liberties are in imminent dan-
ger — 'to your tents, O Israel ! ' "

While these alarming assertions were fear-
fully stirring the inhabitants of the Southern
States, the politicians were rejoicing because their
plans were working so admirably, and they immediately set about the execution of their long-cherished
scheme for the dissolution of the Union. All active loyalty to the Government was speedily suppressed
by an organized system ; and the promise of a North Carolina Senator (Clingman) , that Union men should
be hushed by "the swift attention of Vigilance Committees," was speedily fulfilled. In this work the
Press and the Pulpit were powerful auxiliaries ; and by these accepted oracles of wisdom and truth, thousands
of men and women were led into an attitude of rebellion against their government. To quiet their scruples
the doctrine of "State Supremacy" had been, for a long time, vehemently preached by the politicians
and their allies, and the people were made to believe that their allegiance was primarily due to their
respective States, and not to the National Government. "Perhaps there never was a people," wrote a
resident of a slave-labor State in the third year of the Civil War that ensued, "more bewitched, beguiled
and befooled, than we were when we drifted into this rebellion."

Examining Passes at Georgetown Ferry

CHAPTER IV.

The Pretext for Disunion — ^True Reasons — State-Rights Associations — Desires for a Royal Government and Aristocratic Privileges — •
Early Preparations for Disunion — Secret Conferences — Sentiments of Virginians — Congratulatory Despatches on Lincoln's Election
— Excitement in Charleston — Public Offices Abdicated — A State Convention Authorized — Secret Doings of Secessionists — Move-
ments in South Carolina — State Supremacy and Its Effects — Events in Georgia — Toombs and Stephens — Movements toward
Secession in Various States — Southern Methodists — Initial Steps for Disunion in South Carolina — Dishonorable Propositions —
Vigilance Committees — Secession Assured.

THERE is direct evidence to prove that the politicians of South Carolina and elsewhere had been
making preparations for revolt many years, and that the alleged violations of the Fugitive-Slave
Act and the election of Mr. Lincoln were made only pretexts for stirring up " the common people "
to support and do the fighting for them. The testimony of speakers in the Convention at Charleston
that declared the secession of that State from the Union was clear and explicit. "It is not an event of a
day," said Robert Barnwell Rhett, one of the most violent declaimers of his class; "it is not anything
produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive-Slave Law. It is a matter
which has been gathering head for thirty years. ... In regard to the Fugitive-Slave Law, I myself
doubted its constitutionality', and doubted it on the floor of the Senate when I was a member of that body.
The States, acting in their sovereign capacity, should be responsible for the rendition of slaves. This
was our best security. ' ' Another member of the Convention (Francis S. Parker) said :" It is no spasmodic
effort that has come suddenly upon us ; it has been gradually culminating for a long period of thirty years."
John A. Inglis, the chairman of the committee that drew up the South CaroUna Ordinance of Secession,

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said : ' ' Most of us have had the matter under consideration for the last twenty years. ' ' And Lawrence M.
Keit, one of the most active of the younger poHticians, declared: "I have been engaged in this movement
ever since I entered political life."

When President Buchanan in his annual message in December, i860, declared that "the long-continued
and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States"
had produced the estrangement which had led to present troubles, the assertion was claimed by the poli-

ticians in the slave-
untrue. Senator
Carolina, had declared
1858, that the discussion
had been very useful to
of the great value of
States, he observed :
the happy results of the
far our gain has been
test, savage and malig-
Now we have solved
of emancipation [from
Northern States] by
exposition of the false
philanthropy, and polit-
barrassed the fathers in
North and in Europe,
let loose upon us all the
stands it now? Why,
a century, our slaves
bers, and each slave has
value." In July, 1859,

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Hammond, of South
in a speech in October,
of slavery at the North
them. After speaking
slavery to the cotton
"Such has been for us
Abolition discussion. So
immense from this con-
nant as it has been.
already the question
connection with the
this re-examination and
theories of religion,
ical economy, which em-
their days. At the
they cried havoc, and
dogs of war. And how
in this very quarter of
have doubled in num-
more than doubled in
Alexander H. Stephens,

of Georgia, said he was not one of those who believed that the South had sustained any injur>' by these
agitations. "So far," he said, "from the institution of African slavery in our section having been weakened
or rendered less secure by the discussion, my deliberate judgment is that it has been greatly strengthened
and fortified." Earl Russell, the British Premier, in a letter to Lord Lyons at Washington, in May, i86r,
said that one of the Confederate commissioners told him that "the principal of the causes which led to
secession was not slavery, but the very high price which, for the sake of protecting Northern manufactures,
the South was obliged to pay for the manufactured goods which they required."

I?e i?ciit''5 i^mrti' was the acknowledged organ of the slave interest. In its issue for February, 1861,
George Fitzhugh, a leading publicist of Virginia, commenting on the President's message, said: "It is a
gross mistake to suppose that Abolition is the cause of dissolution between the North and the South.
The Cavaliers, Jacobites and the Huguenots who settled the South, naturally hate, contemn, and despise
the Puritans who settled the North. The former are master races; the latter a slave race, the descendants
of the Saxon serfs." Mr. Fitzhugh added: "Our women are far in advance of our men in their zeal for
disunion. They fear not war, for every one of them feels confident that when their sons or husbands are
called to the field, they will have a faithful bodj'-guard in their domestic servants. Slaves are the only
body-guard to be relied on. . . . They [the women] and the clergy lead and direct the disunion
movement." The Charleston Mercury, edited by a son of Barnwell Rhett, and the chief organ of the
conspirators of South Carolina, scorning the assertion that anything so harmless as "Abolition twaddle"
had caused any sectional feelings, declared, substantially, that it was an abiding consciousness of the
degradation of the "chivalric Southrons" being placed on an equality in government with "the boors of
the North" that made "Southern gentlemen" desire disunion. It said haughtily, "We are the most
aristocratic people in the world. Pride of caste, and color, and privilege makes every man an aristocrat
in feelings."

It was by men of this cast of mind that "Southern Rights" associations were formed, and were
fostered for nearly thirty years before the Civil War, with disunion as their prime object. The feeling
of contempt for the Northern masses among the "chivalric Southrons " was more intense in South Carolina
than elsewhere. The self-constituted leaders of the people there, who hated democracy and a republican
form of government, who 3'earned for the pomps of royalty and the privileges of an hereditary aristocracy,
and who had persuaded themselves and the "common people" around them that they were superior to

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all others on the continent as patterns of gentility, refinement, courtly manners, grace and every charac-
teristic of the highest ideal of chivalry, had for many years yearned for separation from the vulgar North.
William H. Trescott, who was Assistant Secretary of State under Buchanan, and one of the most active
members of the "Southern Rights Association" of South Carolina (the avowed object of which was the
destruction of the unity of the Republic) , said, in an address before the South Carolina Historical Society
in 1 8 5 9 : " More than once has the calm self-respect of old Carolina breeding been caricatured by the conse-

quential insolence of
This was the com-
among the leading
Russell, writing to the
close of April, i86i,
for monarchical institu-
model, for privileged
aristocracy and gentry,
parently genuine. Many
would go back to-mor-
intense affection for the
love of British habits
for British sentiment,
civilization and litera-
tinguish the inhabitants
ing in their descent from
three islands, whose for-
and with whose mem-
unfrequently, familiar
an aversion which it is
idea of to one who has

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vulgar imitators."
mon tone of thought
South Carolinians. Dr.
London Times at the
said : ' ' Their admiration
tions on the English
classes, and for a landed
is undisguised and ap-
are they who say, 'We
row, if we could.' An
British connections, a
and customs, a respect
law, authority, order,
ture, pre-eminently dis-
of this State, who, glory-
ancient families on the
tunes they still follow,
bers they maintain, not
relations, regard with
impossible to give an
not seen its manifesta-

tions, the people of New England and the population of the Northern States, whom they regard as tainted
beyond cure with the venom of Puritanism." There was a prevailing voice, Dr. Russell wrote, that said,
"If we could only get one of the royal race of England to rule over us, we should be content." That
sentiment, he wrote, "varied a hundred ways, has been repeated to me over and over again."

So early as May, 1851, when there were active preparations in South Carolina for revolt, Muscoe
R. H. Garnett, of Virginia, wrote to Mr. Trescott, then a leader of the "Southern Rights Association"
in the first-named State, expressing his fears that Virginia would not consent to engage in the movement.
The Legislature did not favor it, but he expressed the hopeful opinion that the law-makers did not reflect
the sentiments of the people of the 'State. "In the East, at least," he said, "the great majority believe
in the right of secession, and feel the deepest sympathy with Carolina in opposition to measures which
they regard as she does. But the West — West Virginia — here is the rub! — only sixty thousand slaves to
Jour hundred and ninety-four thousand whites! When I consider this fact, and the kind of argument which
we have heard in this body, I cannot but regard with the greatest fear the question, whether Virginia
would assist Carolina in such an issue. I must acknowledge, my dear sir, that I look to the future with
almost as much apprehension as hope. You will object to the term Democrat. Democracy, in its original
philosophical sense, is incompatible with slavery and the whole system of Southern society. ... I
do not hesitate to say that if the question is raised between Carolina and the Federal Government, and the
latter prevails, the last hope of Republican government and, I fear, of Southern civilization is gone."

The restless spirits of South Carolina continued to confer secretly with the politicians of the slave-labor
States on the subject of disunion; and finally, in November, 1859, the Legislature of that State openly
resolved that "the commonwealth was ready to enter, together with other slave-holding States, or such
as desire prompt action, into the formation of a Southern Confederacy." The Carolinians were specially
anxious to secure the co-operation of the Virginians ; and in January following, at the request of the Legis-
lature, the governor of the State sent C. G. Memminger as a special commissioner to Virginia, for the
purpose of enlisting its representatives in the scheme of disunion. With protestations of attachment
to the Union, Mr. Memminger invited the Virginians to co-operate in a convention of delegates from
slave-labor States to "take action for their defence; " in other words, to secede from the Union. He made
an able plea, addressed to their reason, their passions, and their prejudices, and concluded by saying,
"I have delivered into the keeping of Virginia the cause of the South." But the Virginians did not desire
a Southern Confederacy wherein free-trade in African slaves would prevail, for it would seriously interfere

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with the profitable inter-state traffic in negroes. So they hesitated; and in an autograph letter before me,
Mr. Memminger wrote to the editor of the Charleston Mercury, that the Democratic party in Virginia

was "not a unit," that "Federal politics" made that "great State
comparatively powerless," and that he saw "no men who would
take the position of leaders in a revolution."

I have cited these few utterances from speakers and writers
who were participants or contemporaries with the actors in the
events of the late Civil War, that the reader may have a key to the
real causes which brought about that war. These seem to have
been chiefly a desire on the part of the slave-holders to be freed
from social and political contact with the people of the free-labor
States (whom they regarded as less cultivated, refined, chivalric
and civilized than themselves), with perfect freedom to extend and
perpetuate the system of slave-labor, and revive, without hind-
rance, the African slave-trade. Notwithstanding the Charleston
JSIercury, at the beginning, gave greater prominence to the
first-named cause, after more than three years of war (Feb-
ruar}-, 1864), it was constrained to say: "South Carolina entered
into this struggle /or no other purpose than to maiutain the insti-
tution of slavery. Southern independence has no other object
or meaning. . . . Independence and slavery must stand or
fall together."

When the election of Mr. Lincoln was certified, the political
leaders in South Carolina were eager to begin the contemplated
revolution. To be prepared for immediate action, an extra-
ordinary session of the Legislature was assembled at Columbia
on the 5th of November; and as the news of the result of the election went over the land, the governor
of the State received congratulatory despatches from other commonwealths wherein the politicians were in

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sympathy with the Secessionists. "North Carolina will secede," a despatch from Raleigh said. "A large
number of Bell men have declared for secession; the State will undoubtedly secede," said another from the
capital of Alabama. Another from Milledgeville, Georgia, said : ' ' The hour for action has come. This
State is ready to assert her rights and independence. The leading men are eager for the business. " " There
is a great deal of excitement here," said a despatch from Washington city; "several extreme Southern
men, in office, have donned the palmetto cockades and declared themselves ready to march South." A

despatch
mond said :
State s e-
will send you
volunteers to
" P 1 a c a rds
about the
message
Orleans,
con vention
favorable to
zation of a
minute-
second mes-
Washington
firm; a large
arms will be
South from
here to-mor-
President is
His feelings
South, but he
assist them
So was
fact that simvdtaneous action in favor of disunion had been preconcerted.

Christ Church, Alexandria, Va., Where Washington Attended

from Rich-
" I f 3^ o u r
cedes, we
troops and
aid you."
are posted
city," said a
from New
' ' calling a
of those
the organi-
corps of
men." A
sage from
said : " Be
quantity of
shipped
the Arsenal
row. The
perp 1 e X e d.
are with the
is afraid to
openly."
revealed the
As these despatches came,

one after the other, to Columbia, and were immediately forwarded to Charleston, a blaze of pleasurable
excitement was kindled among the citizens of the latter place. The palmetto flag, the emblem of the
sovereignty of the State, was ever^-where displayed. From the thronged streets went up cheer after cheer
for a Southern Confederacy. All day long on the 7 th of November, when it was known that Mr. Lincoln
was elected, the citizens were harangued in the open air and in public halls, the speakers portraying the
glories of State independence. Flags and banners, martial music, and the roar of cannon attested the
general joy ; and that night blazing bonfires and illuminations lighted up the city. IMultitudes of palmetto
cockades (made of blue silk ribbon, with a button in the centre bearing the figure of a palmetto tree) were
worn in the streets of Charleston. Public offices under the Government of the United States were closed,
or transferred to the "sovereign State" of South Carolina, in the most formal manner. On the 7th of
November, Judge McGrath, of the United States District Court, solemnly resigned his office, saying to
the jurors: "For the last time I have, as judge of the United States, administered the laws of the United
States within the limits of South Carolina. So far as I am concerned, the temple of justice raised under
the Constitution of the United States is now closed." He then laid aside his judicial gown and retired.
The collector of customs at Charleston resigned at the same time ; so also did the attorney-general. So
it was that before a convention to consider the secession of the State from the Union had been authorized,
the Secessionists, with plans matured, acted as if disunion had been already accomplished.

The Legislature of South Carolina assembled at Columbia on the day after Mr. Lincoln's election,
when joint resolutions of both houses providing for a State Convention to consider the withdrawal of the
State from the Union were offered. Some of the more cautious members counselled delaj', but they were
overborne by the more fiery zealots, who did not wish the popular excitement caused by the election to
cool before the decisive step should be taken. One of the latter (Mr. Mullins, of Marion), in a speech
against delay and waiting for the co-operation of other States, revealed the fact that an overwhelming
majority of the inhabitants of the State were opposed to the schemes of the politicians. He also revealed
the important fact that emissaries had been sent to Europe to prepare the way for aid and recognition by
foreign governments of the contemplated Southern Confederacy. "We have it from high authority,"

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General Winfield Scott Hancock

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he said, ' ' that the representative of one of the imperial powers of Europe [France], in view of the prospective
separation of one or more of the Southern States from the present Confederacy, has made propositions
in advance for the establishment of such relations between it and the government about to be established
in this State, as will insure to that power such a supply of cotton for the future as their increasing demand
for that article will require." He urged the importance of immediate action. "If we wait for co-operation,"
he said, "Slavery and State rights will be abandoned; State sovereignty and the cause of the South lost
forever." James Chestnut, a member of the United States Senate, recommended immediate secession;
and W. W. Boyce, of the National House of Representatives, said: "I think the only policy for us is to
arm as soon as we receive authentic intelligence of the election of Lincoln. It is for South Carolina, in
the quickest manner and by the most direct means, to withdraw from the Union."

Other members of the Legislature were equalh' vehement ; and on the 12th of November (i860)
an act was passed authorizing a Convention. The Legislature also formulated the doctrine of "State
Sovereignty" or State Supremacy, in a resolution that declared that a "Sovereign State" of the Union
had a right to secede from it, adopting as its own the doctrine that the States of the Union are not sub-
ordinate to the National Government ; were not created by it, and do not belong to it ; that they created

Captured Guns at Washington Arsenal

the National Government ; from them it derives its powers ; to them it is responsible, and when it abuses
the trust reposed in it, they, as equal sovereigns, have a right to resume the powers respectively delegated
to it by them. This is the sum and substance of the doctrine of State Supremacy ("State Rights," as it
was adroitly called) which dwarfs patriotism to the narrow dimensions of a single State, denationalizes
the American citizen, and opposes the fundamental principles upon which the founders of the Republic
securely built our noble superstructure of a free, powerful and sovereign Commonwealth. And it perverts
the plain meaning of the Preamble to the National Constitution, which declares that the people (not States)
of the whole country had given vitality to that fundamental law of the land, and to the nation. James
Madison, one of the founders of the Republic, in a letter to Edmund Randolph in April, 1787, wrote:
"I hold it for a fundamental point, that an individual independence of the States is utterly irreconcilable
with the idea of aggregate sovereignty." And Washington wrote in a letter to John Jay, in March, 1787,
on the subject of the National Constitution: "A thirst for power, and the bantling — I had liked to have
said the monster — sovereignty, which have taken such fast hold of the States individually, will, when
joined by the many whose personal consequence in the line of State politics will, in a manner, be annihilated,
form a strong phalanx against it."

The politicians in other slave-labor States followed the example of South Carolina in immediate
preparations for secession. Robert Toombs, then a National Senator, was one of the chief conspirators

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against the life of the nation, and by violent harangues aided materially in bringing upon his State (Georgia)
the awful calamities of war. In a speech at Milledgeville on the 13th of November, he exclaimed, "With-
draw 3'our sons from the army, from the nav^^ and from every department of the Federal public service.
Keep your own taxes in your own coffers. Buy arms with them, and throw the bloody spear into this

den of incendiaries and assassins [the Northern people], and let God defend the right Twenty

years of labor, and toils, and taxes, all expended upon preparation, would not make up for the advantage
the enemy would gain if the rising sun on the 5th of March should find j-ou in the Union. Then strike
while it is yet time." Then he cried: "I ask you to give me the sword; for if you do not give it to me,
as God lives, I will take it myself ! " In the war that ensued, the sword was given him, with the commission
of a brigadier-general; and it is on record that IMr. Toombs, acting upon the maxim that "Prudence is the
better part of valor," was never known to remain longer than he was compelled to in a place of danger to
himself. On the following evening, Alexander H. Stephens, a man of conservative views and equal

Company of Indian.^ Volunteers

courage, in a speech in favor of the Union, exposed the many misstatements of Mr. Toombs, and touched
the fiery Georgian and others to the quick, with the Ithuriel spear of truth, when he said: "Some of our
public men have failed in their aspirations; that is true, and from that comes a great part of our troubles."

The Georgia Legislature followed the example of South Carolina in ordering a Convention to consider
secession. So, also, did the Legislatures of Mississippi and Alabama. L. Q. C. Lamar, a representative in
Congress of the people of the first-named State, submitted to the inhabitants, before the close of November,
a plan for a Southern Confederacy ; and a few days before the election of delegates to the Alabama Con-
vention, the Conference of the "Methodist Church South," sitting at Montgomery, resolved that they
believed "African Slavery, as it existed in the Southern States of the Republic, to be a wise, humane and
righteous institution, approved of God, and calculated to promote, in the highest possible degree, the
welfare of the slave." They also resolved: "Our hearts are with the South; and should they ever need our
hands to assist in achieving our independence, we shall not be found wanting in the hour of danger."

The politicians of Florida, with those of Louisiana and Texas, followed in the wake of the leaders in
the other four States named, in preparing for secession, all of them asserting the right of their respective

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States to secede because they had "created the National Government." The fallacy of this claim is
apparent when we remember that Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Florida did not exist,
even in territorial form, as parts of the Union, when the National Government was created, and that three
of them belonged to foreign governments at that time. North Carolina, one of the original thirteen
States, joined South Carolina and Georgia, her ancient sisters, in providing for a Convention; and the
governors of all the slave-labor States, excepting those of Delaware and Maryland, who had been elected
by the Democratic party, showed their readiness to act in concert with the Secessionists. It was soon
ascertained that the President of the Republic, and a majority of his cabinet, were ready to declare that
the National Constitution did not give the Chief Magistrate authority to stay the arm of insurrection
or rebellion by coercive measures.

Such is a brief outline history of the preparations by politicians in the slave-labor States, for marshal-
ling a combined host for the overthrow of the Republic. The important initial step was taken by those
of South Carolina. When the Legislature authorized a Convention, orators of every grade immediately

Views of Fort Pulaski

went out to harangue the people in all parts of the State. Motley crowds of men, women and children —
Caucasian and African — listened, in excited groups, at cross-roads, court-houses, and other usual gathering
places. Every speech was burdened with complaints of ' ' wrongs suffered by South Carolina in the Union ; "
her right and her duty to leave it ; her power to ' ' defy the world in arms ; ' ' and the glory that would illumine
her whole domain in that near future when her independence of the thralls of the "detested Constitution "
should be secured. Their themes were as various as the character of their audiences. One of their orators,
addressing the slaveholders in Charleston, said: "Three thousand millions of property is involved in this
question ; and if you say at the ballot-box that South Carolina shall not secede, you put into the sacrifice

three thousand millions of your property The Union is a dead carcass, stinking in the nostrils

of the South Ay, my friends, a few weeks more, and you will see floating from the fortifications

the ensign that now bears the Palmetto, the emblem of a Southern Confederacy." The Charleston Mercury
called upon all natives of South Carolina in the army or navy to resign their commissions and join in the
revolt. "The mother looks to her sons," said this fiery organ of sedition, "to protect her from outrage.
, . . . She is sick of the Union — disgusted with it, upon any terms within the range of the widest
possibility. " This call was responded to by the resignation of the commissions of many South Carolinians ;

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and the leaders in the revolutionary movements in that State, seemingly unable to comprehend the prin-
ciples of honor and fidelity — the highest virtues of a soldier — boasted that "not a son of that State would
prove loyal to the old flag." They were amazed when men like the late Admiral Shubrick, a native of
South Carolina, refused to do the bidding of disloyal politicians, while they commended the action of
Lieutenant J. R. Hamilton of the navy, another "son" of South Carolina, who, at Fortress Monroe, issued
a circular letter to his fellow "Southrons" in the marine service, in which, after writing much of honor,
counselled them to follow his example, to engage in plundering the Government, in these words: "What
the South asks of you now is, to bring with you every ship and man you can, that we may use them against
the oppressors of our liberties, and the enemies of our aggravated but united people."

Vigilance committees were speedily organized to discover and suppress every anti-secession sentiment
and movement in South Carolina; and before the close of November these committees were in active
operation, clothed with extraordinary powers, as "guardians of Southern rights." Their officers possessed
full authority to decide all questions brought before them, and their decision was "final and conclusive."
The patrols had power to arrest all suspicious white persons and bring them before the Executive Com-
mittee for trial ; to suppress all ' ' negro preachings, prayer-meetings, and all congregations of negroes that
may be considered unlawful by the patrol companies," the latter having unrestricted authority to "correct
and punish all slaves, free negroes, mulattoes and mestizoes, as they may deem proper."

The powers of these vigilance committees were soon felt. Northern men suspected of feelings opposed
to the secession movements were banished from the State, and some who were believed to be "Abolition-
ists" were tarred and feathered. The committees having authority to persecute, soon made the expressed
sentiment in South Carolina "unanimous in favor of secession;" and the Charleston Mercury was justified
in saying to the army and navy officers from that State, in the service of the Republic, when calling them
home: "You need have no more doubt of South Carolina's going out of the Union than of the world's
turning round. Every man that goes to the Convention will be a pledged man — pledged for immediate separate
State secession, in any event whatever."

This promise was uttered before the members of the Convention had been chosen. Everything had
been arranged by the politicians; the people had nothing to do with it. The Southern Presbyterian, a
theological publication of wide influence, issued at Columbia, said, on the 15th of December, that it was
well known that every member of the Convention was pledged to pass an ordinance of secession, and
added: "It is a matter for devout thankfulness that the Convention will embody the very highest wisdom
and character of the State; private gentlemen, judges of her highest legal tribunals and ministers of the
Gospel." Even almost the very day when the ordinance of secession would be adopted was known to
those who were engaged in the business. In a letter to me, written on the 13th of December, the late
WiUiam Gilmore Simms, the distinguished South CaroHna scholar, said: "In ten days more South Carolina
will have certainly seceded ; and in a reasonable interval after that event, if the forts in our harbor are not
surrendered to the State, they will be taken."

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

SEPTEMBER, 1861 — Conlitiued from Section I

22 — Eliott's Mills or Camp Crittenden. Mo. 7th la. Union 1 killed. 5

wounded.
23 — Romney or Hanging Rock. W. Va. 4th and 8th Ohio. Union 3 killed.

50 wounded. Cottfed. 35 killed.
2S — Chapmansville. W. Va. 1st Ky.. 3-Jth Ohio. C/nion 4 killed, 9 wounded.

Confed. 20 killed. 50 wounded.
26 — Lucas Bend. Ky. Stewart's Cavalry. Confed. 4 killed.
29 — Camp Advance, Munson's Hill, Va. 69th Pa., through mistake, fire

into the 71st Pa., killing 9 and wounding 25.

OCTOBER, 1861

3 — Greenbrier, W. Va. 24th. 2.5th and 32d Ohio. 7th. 9th, 13th. 14th.

1.5th and 17th Ind.. Battery G. 4th U. S. Artil.. Battery A. 1st Mich.

Artil. Union 8 killed. 32 wounded. Confed. 100 killed. 75 wounded.

4 — Alamosa, near Ft. Craig. N. Mex. Mink's Cav. and U. S. Regulars.

Confed. 11 killed, 30 wounded.

Buffalo Hill. Ky. Union 20 killed. Confed. 50 killed.

S — Hillsborough. Ky. Home Guards. Union 3 killed, 2 wounded. Confed.

11 killed, 29 wounded.
9— Santa Rosa. Fla. 6th N. Y., Co. A 1st U. S. Artil., Co. H 2d U. S. Artil.,
Co.'s C and E 3d U. S. Inft. I/«ion 14 killed, 29 wounded. Confed.
350 wounded.
12 — Cameron, Mo. James' Cav. I/ni'oti 1 killed. 4 wounded. Con/ed. Skilled.
Upton Hill, Ky. 39th Ind. Confed. 5 killed. 3 wounded.
Bayles' Cross Roads, La. 79th N. Y. Union 4 wounded.
13 — Bcckwith Farm (12 miles from Bird's Point). Mo. Tuft's Cav. Union
2 killed, 5 wounded. Confed. 1 killed. 2 wounded.
West Glaze, also called Shanghai, or Henrytown, or Monday's Hollow,
Mo. 6th and 10th Mo. Cav. Fremont Battalion Cav. Confed.
62 killed.
IB — Big River Bridge, near Potosi, Mo. Forty men of 38th 111. Union 1
killed, 6 wounded, 33 captured. Confed. 5 killed. 4 wounded.
Lime Creek, Mo. 13th 111. Inft., 6th Mo. Cav. Confed. 63 killed. 40
wounded.
16 — Bolivar Heights. Va. Parts of 28th Pa., 3d Wis., 13th Mass. Union 4
killed, 7 wounded.
Warsaw, Mo. Confed. 3 killed.
17 to 21 — Fredericktown and Ironton, Mo. 17th. 20th, 21st, 33d and 3.Sth
111., 8th Wis., 1st Ind. Cav.. Co. A 1st Mo. Light Artil. Union 6
killed. 60 wounded. Confed. 200 wounded.
19 — Big Hurricane Creek, Mo. 18th Mo. Union 2 killed, 14 wounded.

Confed. 14 killed.
21 — Ball's Bluff, also called Edwards Ferry. Harrison's Landing, Leesburg.
Va. 15th. 20th Mass., 40th N. Y., 71st Pa.. Battery B. R. I. Artil.
Union 223 killed. 226 wounded. Confed. 36 killed. 204 wounded,
445 captured and missing. Union Acting Brig-Gen. E. D. Baker killed.
22— Buffalo Mills, Mo. Confed. 17 killed.

23 — West Liberty. Ky. 2d Ohio, 1st and Loughlin's Ohio Cav., 1st Ohio
Artil. Union 2 wounded. Confed. 10 killed. 5 wounded.
Hodgeville. Ky. Detach. 6th Ind. Union 3 wounded. Confed. 3
killed, 5 wounded.
26 — Zagonyi's Charge, Springfield, Mo. Fremont's Body Guard and White's

Prairie Scouts. Union IS killed, 37 wounded. Confed. 106 killed.
26— Romney or Mill Creek Mills, W. Va. 4th and 8th Ohio. 7th W. Va..
Md. Volunteers. 2d Regt. of Potomac Home Guards, and Rmggold
(Pa.) Cav. Union 2 killed, 15 wounded. Confed. 20 killed, 15
wounded. 50 captured.
Saratoga. Ky. 9th 111. Union 4 wounded. Confed. 8 killed, 17
wounded.
27— Plattsburg. Mo. Confed. 8 killed.

Spring Hill. Mo. 1st Co. of 7th Mo. Cav. Union 5 wounded.
29 — Woodbury and Morgantown, Ky. 17th Ky., 3d Ky. Cav. Union 1
wounded.

NOVEMBER, 1861
1 — Renick. Randolph Co., Mo. Union 14 wounded.
6 — Little Santa Fe, Mo. 4th Mo., Sth Kan. Cav., Kowald's Mo. Battery.

Union 2 killed. 6 wounded.
7— Belmont, Mo. 22d. 27th. 30th and 3Ist III., 7th la.. Battery B 1st 111-
Artil., 2d Co. 15th 111. Cav. Union 90 killed. 173 wounded. lib
missing. Confed. 261 killed, 427 wounded. 278 missing.
Galveston Harbor, Tex. U. S. Frigate Santee burned the Royal Yachi.

Union 1 killed. 8 wounded. Confed. 3 wounded.
Port Royal. S. C. Bombardment by U. S. Navy. Union 8 killed. 23
wounded. Confed. 11 killed. 39 wounded.
9_Piketown or Fry Mountain. Kv. 2d, 21st. 33d and 59th Ohio. 16th Ky.
Union 4 killed, 26 wounded. Confed. IS killed. 45 wounded, 200
captured.
10 — Guyandott. W. Va. Recruits of 9th W. Va. Union 7 killed, 20 wounded.
Confed. 3 killed. 10 wounded.
Gauley Bridge, W. Va. 11th Ohio, 2d Ky. Cav. Union 2 killed. 16
wounded.
11 — Little Blue. Mo. 110 men of the 7th Kan. Cav. Union 7 killed. 9

wounded.
12 — Occoquan Creek, Va. Detach. 1st N. Y. Cav. Union 3 killed, 1

wounded.
17 — Cypress Bridge, Ky. Union 10 killed. 15 wounded.
18 — Palmyra, Mo. Detach. 3d Mo. Cav. Confed. 3 killed, 5 wounded.
19_Wirt C. H., W. Va. Detach. 1st W. Va. Cav. Confed. 1 killed. 5

wounded.

23— Ft. Pickens. Pensacola, Fla. Cos. C and E 3d U. S. Inft.. Cos. G and I

6th N. Y., Batteries A, F and L 1st U. S. Artil., and C, H and K 2d

U. S. Artil. £/nion Skilled, 7 wounded. Con/ed. 5 killed. 93 wounded.

24 — Lancaster, Mo. 21st Mo. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded. Confed. 13 killed.

26 — Little Blue. Mo. 7th Kan. Cav. Union 1 killed. 1 wounded.

Drainesville. Va. 1st Pa. Cav. Confed. 2 killed.
29 — Black Walnut Creek, near Sedalia. Mo. 1st Mo. Cav. Union 15
wounded. Confed. 17 killed.

DECEMBER, 1861

3 — Salem. Mo. Detach. 10th Mo. Cav. Union 6 killed. 10 wounded.

Confed. 16 killed. 20 wounded.
Vienna. Va. Detach. 3d Pa. Cav. Union all captured. Confed. 1

killed.
4 — Anandale. Va. 30 men of 3d N. J. Union 1 killed. Confed. 7 killed.
Dunksburg. Mo. Citizens repulse raiders. Confed. 7 killed. 10 wounded.
11 — Bertrand. Mo. 2d 111. Cav. Union 1 wounded.
13 — Camp Allegheny or Buffalo Mountain. W. Va. 9th and 13th Ind.. 25th

and 32d Ohio. 2d W. Va. Union 20 killed, 107 wounded. Confed. 20

killed. 96 wounded.
17 — Rowlett's Station, also called Mumfordsville or Woodsonville. Ky. 32d

Ind. Union 10 killed. 22 wounded. Confed. 33 killed. 50 wounded.
18 — Milford. also called Shawnee Mound, or Blackwater. Mo. 27th Ohio,

Sth, 18th. 22d and 24th Ind.. 31st Kan.. 1st la. Cav.. Detach. U. S.

Cav.. 2 Batteries of 1st Mo. Lt. Artil. Union 2 killed. 8 wounded.

Confed. 1,300 captured.
20 — Drainesville. Va. 1st. fith. 9th. 10th and 12th Pa. Reserve Corps, 1st

Pa. Artil.. 1st Pa. Cav. Union 7 killed, 61 wounded. Confed. 43

killed. 143 wounded.
21 — Hudson. Mo. Detach. 7th Mo. Cav. Union 5 wounded. Confed. 10

killed.
22 — Newmarket Bridge, near Newport News. Va. 20th N. Y. Union 6

wounded. Confed. 10 killed. 20 wounded.
24 — Wadesburg, Mo. Mo. Home Guards. Union 2 wounded.
28 — Sacramento, Ky. 3d Ky. Cav. Union 1 killed, 8 wounded. Confed.

30 killed.
Mt. Zion, Mo. Birge's Sharpshooters. 3d Mo. Cav. Union 5 killed,

63 wounded. Confed. 25 killed. 15U wounded.

JANUARY, 1862

1 — Port Royal. S. C. 3d Mich.. 47th. 4Sth and 79th N. Y.. 50th Pa. Union

1 killed, 10 wounded.
4 — Huntersville. Va. Detachments of 25th Ohio. 2d W. Va. and 1st Ind.
Cav. Union 1 wounded. Confed. 1 killed. 7 wounded.
Bath. Va., also including skirmishes at Great Cacapon Bridge, Alpine
Station and Hancock. 39th 111. Union 2 killed, 2 wounded. Confed.
30 wounded.
Calhoun. Mo. Union 10 wounded. Confed. 30 wounded.
7 — Blue Gap, near Romney, Va. 4th, Sth, 7th and Sth Ohio, 14th Ind.. 1st
W. Va. Cav. Confed. 15 killed.
Jennies' Creek. Ky.. also called Paints\'ille. Four Cos. 1st W. Va. Cav.
Union 3 killed, 1 wounded. Confed. G killed. 14 wounded.
8 — Charleston, Mo. 10th la. Union 8 killed, 16 wounded.

Dry Forks. Cheat River. W. Va. One Co. of 2d W. Va. Cav. Union

6 wounded. Confed. 6 killed.
Silver (Ilreek, Mo., also called Sugar Creek, and Roan's Tan Yard. De-
tachments of 1st and 2d Mo.. 4th Ohio. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 5 killed,
6 wounded. Confed. SO wounded.
9 — Columbus. Mo. 7th Kan. Cav. Union 5 killed.
10 — Middle Creek and Prestonburg. Ky. 40th and 42d Ohio, 14th and 22d

Ky. Union 2 killed. 25 wounded. Confed. 40 killed.
19 and 20 — Mill Springs. Ky.. also called Logan's Cross Roads, Fishing
Creek. Somerset and Beech Grove. 9th Ohio. 2d Minn.. 4th Ky..
10th Ind.. 1st Ky. Cav. Union 38 killed. 194 wounded. Confed. 190
killed. 160 wounded. Confed. Gen. F. K. Zollikoffer killed.
22 — Knob Noster. Mo. 2d Mo. Cav. Union 1 killed.

29 — Occoquan Bridge, Va. Detachments of 37th N. Y. and 1st N. J. Cav.
Union 1 killed. 4 wounded. Confed. 10 killed.

FEBRUARY, 1862

1 — Bowling Green, Ky. One Co. of 2d Ind. Cav. Confed. 3 killed, 2

wounded.
6 — Fort Henry, Tenn. U. S. Gunboats Essex, Carondelet, Sainl Louis,
Cindnnati, Conestoga, Tyler and Lexington. Union 40 wounded.
Confed. 5 killed. 11 wounded.
8 — Linn Creek. Va. Detachment of Sth W. Va. Union 1 killed. 1 wounded.
Conftd. 8 killed, 7 wounded.
Roanoke Island. N. C. 21st, 23d, 24th, 25th and 27th Mass., 10th
Conn.. 9th, 51st and 53d N. Y.. 9th N. J., Slst Pa.. 4th and 5th R. I..
U. S. Gunboats Southfteld, Delaware, Stars and Strifes. Louisiana.
Hetzel, Commodore Perry, Underwriter, Valley City, Commodore
Barney, Hunchback, Ceres, Putnam, Morse, Lcckwood, J. N. Seymour,
Granite. Brinker. Whitehead, Sbawseen. Pirkett, Pioneer. Hussar,
Videtlt. Chasseur. Union 35 killed, 200 wounded. Confed. 16 killed,
39 wounded, 2,527 taken prisoners.

10 — Elizabeth City, or Cobb's Point, N. C. U. S. Gunboats Delaware, Under-
writer. Louisiana, Seymour, Hetzel, Shawseen, Valley City, Putnam, Com-
modore Perry, Ceres, Morse, Whitehead and Brinker. Union 3 killed.

13- Blooming Gap. Va. Sth Ohio. 7th W. Va., 1st W. Va. Cav. Union 2
killed. 5 wounded. Confed. 13 killed.

14— Flat Lick Fords. Ky. 49th Ind.. 6th Ky. Cav. Confed. 4 killed, 4
wounded.

14, 16 and 16— Fort Donelson, Tenn. 17th and 2Sth Ky., 11th, 25th, 31st,
and 44th Ind., 'Id. 7th, l'2th and 14th Iowa. 1st Neb.. 58th and 70th
Ohio, Sth and 13th Mo.. Sth Wis.. Sth. 9th. 11th. 12th. 17th. 18th. 20th.
28th. 29th. 30th. 31st, 41st, 45th. 46th. 48th. 49th. 57th and 58th 111..
Batteries B and D 1st 111. Art.. D and E 2d 111. Artil.. four Cos. 111.
Cav., Birge's Sharpshooters and six gunboats. Union 446 killed,
1,735 wounded, 150 missing. Confed. 231 killed, 1,007 wounded.
13,829 prisoners. Union Maj.-Gen. John A. Logan wounded.

(Continued in Section 3)

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CHAPTER V.

Secession Convention in South Carolina — Proceedings of the Convention — Ordinance of Secession Adopted — Public Excitement — Signing
the Ordinance — Anxiety of the Loyal People — Secretary Cobb's Schemes — President's Message: Its Tone and Reception — The
Attorney-General's Opinion — Movements of the People and the Clergy — Proceedings in South Carolina— Declaration of Independ-
ence — Nationality of South Carolina Proclaimed — Events in Charleston Harbor — Secretary Floyd's Treachery — Transfer of Troops
to Fort Sumter — The Secessionists Foiled — Floyd Succeeded by Holt.

N the 3d of December, i860, delegates to the State Convention of South CaroUna were chosen.
They met at Columbia, the capital, on the 17th, and chose David F. Jamison president of their
body. When he was about to administer an oath to the delegates, a serious difficulty was presented.

Constitu- ^ I tion of the State

' " ' ■ occasions,

The

provided that,
the Constitution
That require-
leaders in the
away by ex-
come here to
port one." The
the object of
without the
scious that the
them to be an
and their acts
binding upon
President
addressed the
taking the chair,
saying: "I can-

anything better, in inaugurating this
the words of Danton at the commence-
French Revolution: 'To dare! and again
without end to dare!'" These brave
followed by considerable excitement in
for intelligence came that the small-pox
epidemic in Coltmibia. It was immedi-
to adjourn to Charleston. One of the
Miles) begged them not to flee. "We
at," he said; and exclaimed, "Is this the
South Carolina?" But chivalry was not
fear of the loathsome disease, and by the
next morning, the delegates all fled to

t^.

tion of the State of South Carolina
on such occasions, an oath to support
of the United States must be taken,
ment was like a cobweb before the
movement ; and the difficulty was swept
Governor Adams, who said: "We have
break down a government, not to sup-
delegates were all of one mind concerning
their assemblage; so they proceeded
solemnity of an oath of any kind, con-
fundamental law of their State declared

unlawful body,
were not
any one.
Jamison briefly
Convention on
and closed by
not offer you
movement, than
ment of the
to dare ! and
words were
the Convention,
was raging as an
ately proposed
delegates (W. P.
shall be sneered
chivalry of
proof against
first train the
Charleston.

Par.vpet and Se.\ View, Fort Sumtek

The Convention proceeded to business by appointing several committees to consider various subjects,
such as the relations of South Carolina to the United States in regard to public property within the limits
of that State, and commercial relations ; also their connection with the people of other slave-holding States.
A committee was also chosen, with John A. Inglis as chairman, to report the form of an ordinance of
secession. After debating some questions, and proposing a provisional government for the States that
might follow the example of South CaroHna in seceding; to send commissioners to Washington city to
negotiate with the National Government for the cession of its property within the State of South Carolina,
and to elect delegates to meet others from slave-labor States for the purpose of forming a Southern Con-

KoTE— EXPLANATION" OF COLORED FRONTISPIECE SHERMAN AT KENESAW MOUNTAIN— General John M. Corse was ordered by
Sherman to move by rail to .\Uatoona, Ga.. and assist the garrison at that point in holding the position against Hood and a superior force of Confederates.
Corse succeeded in reaching Allatoona. where he found himself in command of about 2.000 men. Here he was surrounded by the Confederate forces, and ordered
to surrender in five minutes. Refusing, he was attacked on every side.

This picture represents Sherman sending to General Corse the famous signal, " Hold the fort, for I am coming." The aids with their glasses are straining
their eyes to catch some reply.

In his Memoirs. Sherman describes this hour, while he was waiting to get a reply to his signal, as full of great anxiety. He did not even know whether
Corse had reached Allatoona or not. That pass was of great importance. At last they are able to spell out over the heads of the intervening enemy the word
Corseher, which means "Corse is here." And Corse gave a good account of himself. Without the aid of re-enforcements he repulsed the Cotiederate forces.
and sent this characteristic despatch from the battlefield: "I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet."

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federacy, the proper committee reported an ordinance of secession in the following words, in accordance
with the theory of State supremacy:

'AVe, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is
hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention, on the 23d day of Alay, in the
year of our Lord one thousattd seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States

was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of

the State, ratifying
amendments of the
said Constitution,
are hereby repealed,
and the Union now
subsisting between
South Carolina and
other States, under
the name of the
United States of

America, is here-
by dissolved. "

It was noon
on the 20th of
December, i860,
when this ordi-
nance was sub-
mitted. At a
quarter before
one o'clock, it
was adopted by

the unanimous voice of the Convention, one hundred and sixty-
nine delegates voting in the affirmative. They were then assembled

in St. Andrew's Hall. It was proposed that the members should walk in procession to Institute Hall,
and there, at seven o'clock in the evening, in the presence of the constituted authorities of the State and
of the people, to sign it — "the great Act of Deliverance and Liberty."

The cry at once went forth, "The Union is dissolved!" It was echoed and re-echoed in the streets
of Charleston, and was sent upon the wings of lightning all over the Republic. Placards announcing
the fact were posted throughout the city of Charleston, and again the people of that town were almost
wild with excitement. All business was suspended, and huzzas for a "Southern Confederacy" filled the
air. Women appeared in the streets with secession bonnets, the invention of a Northern milliner in
Charleston. Flags waved; church-bells pealed merrily, and cannon boomed; and some enthusiastic
young men went to the grave of John C. Calhoun, in St. Philip's church-yard, and forming a circle around
it, made a solemn vow to devote their "lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" to the cause of "South
Carolina independence. ' '

Before night the ordinance of secession was engrossed on a sheet of parchment ; and at the appointed
time, in the evening, Institute Hall was crowded with eager spectators to witness the signing of the instru-
ment. Back of the president's chair was suspended a banner of cotton cloth, on which was painted a
significant device. At the bottom was a mass of broken and discolored blocks of hewn stones, on each
of which were the name and arms of a free-labor State. Rising from this mass were two columns made
of perfect blocks of stone, each bearing the name and arms of a slave-labor State. The keystone of an
arch that crowned the two columns had the name and arms of South Carolina upon it, and it bore a figure
of Calhoun. In the space between the columns was a palmetto tree, with a rattlesnake coiled around its
trunk, and on a ribbon the words, "Southern Republic." Beneath all, in large letters, were the significant
words, "Built from the Ruins."

This flag foreshadowed the designs of the Secessionists to overthrow the Republic and build an empire

Destkuciio.v of R.\il Road Rolling Stock on the.
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upon its ruins whose corner-stone should be slavery. To that end the members of the Convention proceeded
to sign the ordinance in the presence of the governor of the State, the members of the Legislature, and
other dignitaries of the land. When the act was finished there was deep silence. Then the Rev. Dr.
Bachman, with white flowing locks, advanced on the platform whereon the president sat, and with uplifted
hands implored Almighty God to bless the people engaged in the act and to favor the undertaking. Then
President Jamison exhibited the instriiment to the people, read it, and said: "The Ordinance of Secession

has been signed and ratified, and I proclaim the
State of South Carolina an independent common-
wealth." The people shouted their approval;
and so closed the first great act in the terrible
drama of the great Civil War. A few months
afterward, every building in Charleston in which
public movements for the destruction of the Union
had taken place was accidentally destroyed by
fire; and late one evening in 1866, after the "Con-
federate States of America," organized in Mont-
gomery early in 1861, had become a thing of the
past, I heard the mournful voice of a screech-owl
in the blackened tower of the Circular Church
which stood within a few rods of the grave of
Calhoun in St. Philip's church-yard.

In the meantime, the National capital had
become the theatre of stirring events. The pro-
ceedings of the Southern politicians had been
watched by the loyal people of the countr>^ with
intense interest and anxiety, especially by the
mercantile and manufacturing classes. To these
the Southern planters and merchants were in-
debted to the amount of full two hundred million
dollars, and at the middle of November, remittances from the South had almost ceased, owing to various
causes. Howell Cobb, one of the most active of the secret enemies of the Republic, was then Mr. Buchan-
an's Secretary of the Treasury, and had adroitly managed to strike a paralyzing blow at the public credit,
months before Mr. Lincoln's election. When he entered the cabinet in 1857, he found the Government
coffers so overflowing, that the treasury'- notes next due were bought in; in the autumn of i860, the treasury
was empty, and he was in the market as a borrower of money to carr>' on the ordinarj^ operations of the
Government. His management had created such distrust in financial circles, that he was compelled to
pay ruinous premiums at a time when money was never more abundant in the country'.

This wrecking of the Government by destroying its credit was a part of Cobb's financial scheme for
the benefit of his associate Secessionists. Another of his schemes for the supposed benefit of the South
was foreshadowed in a letter (the original is before me), written by William H. Trescott, then Assistant
Secretary of State, to the editor of the Charleston Mercury, dated "Washington, Nov. i, 1S60." In that
letter, by permission of Mr. Cobb, Mr. Trescott gives that gentleman's views concerning the situation.
After some remarks about deferring overt acts of rebellion until the 4th of March following, Mr. Trescott
wrote: "Mr. Cobb desires me to impress upon you his conviction that any attempt to precipitate the
actual issue upon this Administration will be most mischievous — calculated to produce differences of
opinion and destroy unanimity. He thinks it of great importance that the cotton crop should go forward at
once, and that the money should be in the hands of tlie people, that the cry of popular distress shall not be heard
at the outset of this move." Mr. Cobb's motive for his recommendation is made apparent by the fact that
it was a common practice for the cotton planter to receive pay for his crops in advance. The crop then
to "go forward" was already paid for. The money to be received on its delivery was for the next year's
crop, which would never be delivered. It was a deliberate scheme to cheat Northern men out of many millions
of dollars — a scheme which the honest cotton-growers would not have sanctioned had they been aware of
it. But in this, as in all other plans then ripening for a rebellion, the politicians would not trust the
people with their secrets.

The meeting of the Thirty-sixth Congress on the 3d of December, drew the attention of the whole
people to the National capital. It was an event of solemn interest to the nation. To the Annual Message
of the President the public looked eagerly for a definite expression of the views of the Government on the

Transports on the James, Monitor in the Distance

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all-absorbing topic. The people sat down to read it with hope, and arose from its perusal with grievous
disappointment. Faint-heartedness and indecision appeared in almost ever>- paragraph. After arguing that
the election of a President who was distasteful to the people of one section of the countrj- afforded no excuse
for the offended ones to rebel, he declared that certain acts of Northern State Legislatures in opposition to
the Fugitive-Slave Law were violations of the Constitution, and if not repealed "the injured States, after
having first used all peaceful and Constitutional
tain redress, would be justified in revolutionary re-
the Government." The Secessionists could ask
The President then considered the right of
and the relative powers of the National Govern-
fore preparing this portion of his message, he
the Attorney-General (Jeremiah S. Black) for
was given in ample measure on the 20th of Novem-
less than three thousand words. It gave much
comfort ' ' to the enemies of the Union, for it yielded
to them. ,It declared, in substance, that any State
inherent right to secede, and when it had seceded,
power known to the Constitu-
pel it to return to the Union. He
by an act of secession a State
disappeared as a part of the Ra-
the power of the National Gov-
being only auxiliar>- to State life
National troops would certainly
use whoU}' illegal." It seemed
an attempt to force the people
the laws of the Republic and to
troy it, would be making war
would be converted into alien
pelled to act accordingly." He
virtuallv to

to become
faction, or
rather than
disposal, for
ty and life,
ing the ad-
doctrine into
of its dan-
against
heresy dan-
doctrine
Confederacy
the first ad-
I n this
ma}' resolve
lies, each
w h e n e V er
a course. By
fragments in
toU, priva-

means to ob-

sistance to

no more.

secession,

ment. Be-

turned to

advice. It

ber, in not

"aid and

everything

possessed an

there was no

tion to com-

argued that

had virtually

public; and

e r n m e n t

and force,

"be out of place, and their

to the Attorney-General that

of a State into submission to

desist from attempts to des-

upon them, by which they

enemies, and would ' ' be com-

counselled the President,

suffer this concrete Republic

disintegrated by the fires of

the blows of actual rebellion,

to use force legitimately at his

the preservation of its integri-

The weak President, accept-

Attomey-General, incorporated the

vice of the

a portion of his Message; but, apparently conscious
gerous tendency, he uttered some brave words
secession as a crime, and State Supremacy as a
gerous to the nationality of the Republic — a
which, if practically carried out, would make "the
a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by
verse wave of public opinion in any of the States,
manner," he truly said, "our thirty-three States
themselves into so many jarring and hostile repub-
one retiring from the Union without responsibility,
am' sudden excitement might impel them to such
this process a Union might be entirely broken into
a few weeks, which cost oiu: fathers m.any years of
tion, and blood to establish."
Seemingly- alarmed at his own outspoken convictions, and the offence it might give his Southern
friends, the perplexed President proposed to conciliate them by allowing them to infuse deadly poison
into the blood of their intended victim, which would more slowly but as surely accomplish their purpose.
To do this he proposed an "explanatory- amendment" to the Constitution on the subject of slavery, which
would give to the enemies of the Union everything which they demanded, namely, the elevation of the slave-
system to the dignity of a National institution, and thus sap the ver^' foundations of our free Government.

Views of Fort Beauregard, Bay Poixt,
November, 1S61

S.C,

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This amendment was to consist of an express recognition of the right of property in slaves in the States
where slaver>^ then existed or might thereafter exist ; of the recognition of the duty of the National Govern-
ment to protect that right in all the Territories throughout their territorial existence; the recognition of
the right of the slave-owner to every privilege and advantage given him in the Fugitive-Slave Law; and
a declaration that all the State laws impairing or defeating that law were violations of the Constitution,
and consequently null and void.

This Message, so indecisive and inconsistent, alarmed the people and pleased nobody. When a
motion was made in the National Senate for its reference, it was spoken lightly of by the friends and foes
of the Union. Senator Clingman, of North CaroHna, who first sounded the tnimpet of disunion in the
Upper House, declared that it fell short of stating the case then before the country. Senator Wigfall, of
Texas, said he could not understand it ; and in the course of debate a few weeks afterward, Senator Jefferson

Davis said that
diplomacy is
he continued,
to reach any
When the coun-
being formed,
power ever to
we have the
trate. One policy
. . . . either
subordinate to
G o V e r nment,
bound to enforce
as a State Rights

he professed to be, holding that the
gave no power to the Federal Gov-
coerce a State. The President should
his opinion to one conclusion or
to-day, oiir country would have been
Senator Hale, of New Hampshire,
understood the meaning of the Message on the subject of
this: — "South Carolina has just cause for seceding from the
the first proposition. The second is, that she has no right to

it had "all the characteristics of a diplomatic paper, for

said to abhor certainty, as nature abhors a vacuum; and,"

"it is not within the power of man

fixed conclusion from that Message.

try was agitated, when opinions are

when we are drifting beyond the

return," he said, "this is not what

right to expect from a Chief Magis-

or the other he ought to have taken

of a Federalist, that every State is

the Federal

and he was

its authority; or

Democrat, which

C o n s t i tution

ernment to

have brought

another, and,

safer than it is."

said that if he

secession, it was

Union; that is

secede. The

He goes on to

Jeffersis Davis,

General Wilcox, C. S. A.

third is, that we have no right to prevent her from seceding,
represent this as a great and powerful country, and that no State has a right to secede from it ; but the
power of the country', if I understand the President, consists in what Dickens makes the English constitu-
tion to be — a power to do anything at all. Now I think it was incumbent on the President of the United
States to point out definitely and to recommend to Congress some rule of action, and to tell us what he
recommended us to do. But, in my judgment, he has entirely avoided it. He has failed to look the thing
in the face. He has acted like the ostrich, which hides her head, and thereby thinks to escape danger."
So thought the people, who perceived that no reliance could be placed upon the arm of the Executive
in defending the integrity of the Union. Had they then comprehended the fearful proportions of the
imminent danger, the}^ would have almost despaired. Patriotic men wrote to their representatives in
Congress, asking them to be firm, yet conciliator^' ; and clerg^'men of every sect exhorted their people to
be "firm in faith, patient in hope, careful in conduct and trustful in God." More than forty of the leading
clerg>'men of various denominations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, united in sending forth
a Circular Letter on New Year's day, 1861, making an appeal to the Churches. "We cannot doubt,"
they said, ' ' that a spirit of candor and forbearance, such as our religion prompts, and the exigencies of the
times demand, would render the speedy adjustment of our difficulties possible, consistently with every
Constitutional right. Unswerving fealty to the Constitution justly interpreted, and a prompt return to
its spirit and requirements whenever these may have been divergent from either, would seem to be the
first duty of citizens and legislators. It is our firm, and, we think, intelligent conviction, that only a very
inconsiderable fraction of the people of the North will hesitate in the discharge of their Constitutional
obHgations; and that whatever enactments are found to be in conflict therewith, will be annulled." This
well-meant missive operated only as the mildest soothing-syrup ; the disease was too malignant and wide-
spread to be touched by anything but the probe and cautery.

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Jeffekson JJavis' Hol'sk in Kiliimund

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While the National Legislature were tossing upon the suddenly raised surges of disunion, and the
people of the free-labor States were listening with breathless anxiety to the roar of the tempest at the
Capitol, the noise of the storm in the far South was like the portentous bellowing of distant thunder. It
was raging vehemently in South Carolina. The Convention at Charleston, after passing the Ordinance
of Secession, appointed commissioners to proceed to Washington to treat for the possession of public
property within the Hmits of South Carolina. They also issued an Address to the people of the other
slave-labor States, and a Declaration of the causes which impelled South Carolina to leave the Union. In

Ritler's Camp, First Brigade Horse Artillery

the former, they said: "South Carolina desires no destiny separate from yours. To be one of a great
slave-holding Confederacy, stretching its arms over territory larger than any power in Europe possesses,
with a population four times greater than that of the whole United States when they achieved their inde-
pendence of the British empire ; with productions which make our existence more important to the world
than that of any other people inhabiting it ; with common institutions to defend and common dangers to

encounter, we ask your sympathy and confederation All we demand of other people, is to

be let alone to work out our own high destinies United, we must be a great, free and

prosperous people, whose renown must spread throughout the civilized world, and pass down, we trust,
to the remotest ages. We ask you to join in forming a Confederacy of Slave-holding States." In their
declaration of causes for the separation, they failed to point out a single act of wrong on the part of the
Government they were intending to destroy, and it consisted chiefly of complaints that the Northern
people did not look upon slavery with favor; were opposed to the Fugitive-Slave Law, and did not believe
a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States was superior in authority to the Divine Law.

On the day when that Declaration was adopted, the governor of South Carolina (Pickens) issued a
proclamation declaring the sovereignty, freedom and independence of that State, and that it was vested
with national functions. The proclamation closed with the words — "Given under my hand, the 24th of
December, i860, and in the eighty-fifth year of the sovereignty and independence of South Carolina."
Then, with perfect consistency, the Charleston newspapers published intelligence from the other States
of the Union, under the head of ' ' Foreign News. ' ' A small medal was struck to commemorate the secession
of the State, and a banner for the new empire was adopted, composed of red silk, bearing a blue silk cross
with fifteen white stars, the number of the slave-labor States. The Convention appointed one commis-
sioner to each of the States to invite the politicians to send delegates to meet those of South Carolina at
Montgomery, Alabama, to form a Southern Confederacy ; authorized Governor Pickens, as chief magistrate

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of the new nation, to receive ambassadors, consuls, etc., from foreign countries, and took other measures
for organizing a national government. The governor chose cabinet ministers, and the South Carolina
nation began its brief career.

"A nationality!" exclaimed the London Morning Star, when commenting upon this Declaration of
the sovereignty of South Carolina. "Was there ever, since the world began, a nation constituted of such
materials — a commonwealth founded on such a basis? The greatest empire of antiquity is said to have
grown up from a group of huts, built in a convenient location by fugitive slaves and robber huntsmen.
But histor>^ nowhere chronicles the establishment of a community of slaveholders solely upon the alleged

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right of maintaining and enlarging their property in man. Paganism at least protected the Old World
from so monstrous a scandal upon free commonwealths, by shutting out the idea of a common humanity
and of individual rights derivable from inalienable duties."

Charleston harbor now became the theatre of stirring events. John B. Floyd of Virginia, one of the
leading conspirators, was then Secretary of War, and was secretly weakening the physical power of the
Government by stripping the arsenals of the North of their arms and ammunition, and strengthening the
Secessionists by filling the arsenals of the South with an abundance of weapons. Of course he paid no
attention to the words of General Winfield Scott, the chief of the army, when, so early as the close of
October, he observed signs of incipient insurrection in South Carolina, and recommended the strengthening
of the forts near Charleston. And when, at the close of the same month, Colonel Gardiner, in command
of the fortifications near that city, attempted to increase his supply of ammunition, Floyd removed him,
and in November placed Major Robert Anderson, a meritorious officer in the war with Mexico, in his place.
That loyal Kentuckian at once perceived by various acts, the designs of the Secessionists to seize the
fortifications in the harbor, and he urged his Government to strengthen them with men and munitions
of war, especially Fort Moultrie, in which he was placed with a feeble garrison. But his constant warnings
were unheeded, even when he wrote : ' ' The clouds are threatening, and the storm may burst at any moment.
I need not say to you how anxious I am, indeed determined, as far as honor will permit, to avoid collision
with the people of South Carolina. Nothing will, however, be better calculated to prevent bloodshed,
than our being found in such an attitude that it would be madness and folly to attack us." He continually
begged the War Department to give him more strength, and send him explicit instructions; and when he
found his warnings treated with contemptuous silence, he wrote: "Unless otherwise directed, I shall make
future communications through the regular channel — the General-in-Chief."

Anderson did not know that he was addressing an enemy and not a protector of his Government,
who was working with all his might to destroy the Republic. On the verj' day when the patriotic Major
wrote to Floyd, the treacherous Secretary sold ten thousand Government muskets to an agent of the

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Secessionists of Georgia. Eight days before he had sold five thousand to the State of Virginia; and vast
numbers were sent to other slave-labor States. The Mobile Advertiser, the organ of the Secessionists in
Alabama, exultingly declared that within twelve months one hundred and thirty -five thousand muskets
had been quietly transferred from the Northern Arsenal at Springfield (Mass.) alone, to those in the
Southern States. "We are much obliged to Mr. Floyd," said the Advertiser, "for the foresight he has
thus displayed in disarming the North and equipping the South for this emergency. There is no telling
the quantity of arms and munitions which were sent South from other arsenals. There is no doubt but
that every man in the South ii'ho can carry a gun can now he supplied from private or public sources." Floyd

also attempted to
supply the Secession-
ists with heavy guns,
but loyal men pre-
vented the outrage.

Secretary Floyd
found Anderson too
loyal for his purpose,
but it was too late to
displace him, so he
left him to his own
feeble resources, sat-
isfied that the mili-
tary companies then
in process of organi-
zation in South Caro-
lina, would be able
to seize the forts in
Charleston harbor in
good time. Moultrie
was weak, and many
of the little garrison
in Sumter were
known to be disloyal.
The latter fort was
by far the stronger
and more important
work ; and as evidence
hourly increased,
especially after the passage of the Ordinance of Secession, that the South Carolinians intended to seize
Fort Sumter, Anderson, being commander of all the forts in the harbor, resolved to transfer the garrison
in Fort Moultrie into that of Sumter, and abandon the former. It was a delicate undertaking, for the
Secessionists had watchboats out upon the waters.

Anderson revealed his secret to only three or foxir of his most trusted officers. Then he resorted to
stratagem to get the women and children first into Fort Sumter. They were taken in a vessel, with ample
provisions, to Fort Johnson on James Island, where, under pretext of difficulty in finding quarters for them,
they were detained on board until evening. Three guns fired at Fort Moultrie was to be the signal for
consigning them immediately to Fort Sumter. The movement was regarded by the people of Charleston
as a natural and prudent measure of Anderson, who, they knew, believed they were about to attack Fort
Moultrie, and so all suspicion was allayed.

At the close of that evening, while the almost full-orbed moon was shining brightly, the greater portion
of the little garrison at Moultrie embarked for Sumter. The three guns were fired ; the women and children
were quickly taken from before Fort Johnson to Sumter, and the movement was successful. Two or three
officers remained at Fort Moultrie to spike the cannon, to destroy the gun-carriages, and to cut down the
flag-staff, that no secession banner might float from the peak from which the National flag had so long
fluttered. When the soldiers and their families and many weeks' provision were safely within the granite
walls of Fort Sumter, Major Anderson wrote to the Secretary of War — "I have the honor to report that
I have just completed, by the blessing of God, the removal to this fort, of all my garrison except the surgeon,,
four North Carolina officers and seven men."

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The telegraph conveyed from the Secessionists to Floyd the astounding intelligence long before
Anderson's despatch reached him. It flashed back the angr>' words of the dismayed and foiled conspirator:
"Intelligence has reached here this morning [December 27] that you have abandoned Fort Moultrie,
spiked your guns, burnt the carriages and gone to Fort Sumter. It is not beheved, because there is no
order for any such movement. Explain the meaning of this report." Anderson calmly replied by tele-
graph: "The telegram is correct. I abandoned Fort Moultrie because I was certain that if attacked my

men must have been sacrificed, and the
command of the harbor lost. I spiked the
guns and destroj^ed the carriages to keep
the guns from being turned against us. If
attacked, the garrison would never have
surrendered without a fight."

The soldiers in Sumter wished to fling
out the National ensign defiantly before
the dawn next morning; but Anderson,
who was a devout man, wishing to impress
upon his followers the lesson that upon
God alone they were to rely in the great
trial that was evidently before them, would
not consent to the act until the return of
I he absent chaplain. He came at noonday,
when the whole company in the fort gath-
ered around the flagstaff, not far from a
huge cannon. The commander, with the
halyards in his hand, knelt at the foot of the
staff, when the chaplain earnestly invoked the sustaining power of the Almighty. A loud Amen ! fell from
the lips of many; and then the brave Major hoisted the flag to the top of the staff. It was greeted with
hearty cheers, and the band saluted it with the air of "Hail Columbia."

A boat now approached the fort from Charleston. It conveyed a messenger who bore to Major
Anderson a demand from Governor Pickens, that the former should immediately leave Fort Sumter, and
return to Fort Moultrie. The demand was courteously refused ; and Anderson was denounced as a "traitor
to the South," he being a native of Kentucky', a slave-labor State. The conspirators in Charleston and
Washington were enraged. At the ver>^ moment when the flag was flung to the breeze over Sumter,
Secretan,' Floyd, in cabinet meeting, was demanding of the President permission to withdraw Anderson
from Charleston harbor. The President refused. A storm suddenly arose which produced a disruption
in the cabinet, and Floyd was succeeded by Joseph Holt, a loyal Kentuckian, who wrote to Major Anderson
that his movement in transferring the garrison from Moultrie to Sumter, "was in every way admirable,
alike for its humanity and patriotism as for its soldiership." Words of cheer came for the Major from
other quarters. The Legislature of Nebraska, sitting two thousand miles away from Fort Sumter, tele-
graphed to him "A Happy New Year; " and cannon were fired in several places in honor of the event.

Pontoon Bridge and Ruins of Stone Bridge Across the Potomac
AT Berlin, October, 1862

CHAPTER VI.

Heroism of Major Anderson — His Wife and Peter Hart — Robbery in the Interior Department — Flight of Secretary Floyd — Cabinet
Changes — South Carolina Commissioners in Washington — Attempt to Reinforce and Supply Fort Sumter — Inauguration of Civil
War at Charleston — Language of the Pohticians — The People Bewildered — Fate of Leaders — "Secession" in Other States — Seizure
of PubUc Property — Northern Sympathizers — Plan of the Secessionists — Dix's Order — Action in the Border States — Concessions —
Peace Convention — Adams's Proposition — Convention at Montgomery — Establishment of a Southern Confederate Government.

MAJOR ANDERSON and his little band of soldiers were in extreme peril from the hour when they
entered Fort Sumter. His friends knew that he was exposed to treachery' within and fierce assault
from without, and were very anxious. His devoted wife, daughter of General Clinch of Georgia,
was an invalid in New York. She resolved to go to her husband with a faithful servant whom he might
trust if she could find him. It was Peter Hart, who had been a sergeant with Anderson in Mexico, and
was warmly attached to his person. After much search Mrs. Anderson found he was attached to the police
force in New York, and she sent for him. He came, accompanied by his wife. "I have sent for you,"

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said Mrs. Anderson, "to ask you to do me a favor." "Anything Mrs. Anderson wishes, I will do," was
Hart's prompt reply. "But it may be more than you imagine," Mrs. Anderson said. Hart again replied,
"Anything Mrs. Anderson wishes." "I want you to go with me to Fort Sumter," she said. Hart looked
at his wife a moment, and then promptly responded, "I will go, madame." Then the earnest woman said,
"But, Hart, I want you to stay with the major. You will leave your family, and give up a good situation."
Again Hart glanced inquiringly toward his wife, and perceiving consent in her expression, he quickly
repHed, "I will go, madame." "But, Margaret," said Mrs. Anderson, turning to Hart's wife, "what do
you say?" "Indade, ma'am, and its Margaret's sorry she can't do as much for you as Pater can," was
the reply of the warm-hearted woman.

Twenty-four hours after this interview, Mrs. Anderson, contrary to the advice of her physician,
started by railway for
Peter Hart in the capacity
day night until Sunday
at Fort Sumter, she neither
the cars in southern Virginia
her ears were frequently as-
band and threats of violence
whom the delicate, pale-
the man they hated, was a
morning, after some dififi-
mission to visit Fort Sumter
little boat touched the
the sallyport, and the name
nounced to the sentry, the
presence, rushed out, and
the exclamation, in a vehe-
her ear only, "My glorious
you Peter Hart," she said,
return to-night." She then
and after resting a few

City of Charleston from Top of ORriiw .\-vum

Charleston, accompanied by
of a servant. From Thurs-
morning, when she arrived
ate, drank, nor slept. In
and through the Carolinas,
sailed by curses of her hus-
against him, by men to
faced woman, the wife of
stranger. On Sunday

cult}', she procured pcr-
with Peter Hart. As the
wharf of the fortress near
of Mrs. Anderson was an-
major, informed of her
clasped her in his arms with
ment whisper intended for
wife!" "I have brought
"The children are well; I
partook of refreshments,
hours, she was on her way
she was threatened with

back to New York, where
brain fever a long time. She had given ner husband the most faithful friend and assistant, under all
circumstances, in the fort, during the three months of severe trial that ensued. She had done what the
Government would not or dared not do — not sent but took a most valuable reinforcement to Fort Sumter.

While excitement was vehement in Washington because of events in Charleston harbor, it was inten-
sified by a new development of bad faith or crime in the Department of the Interior, of which Jacob
Thompson, of Mississippi, was chief. The safe of the Department was rifled of bonds to the amount of
$800,000, which composed the Indian Trust Fund. The wildest rumors prevailed as to the amount
abstracted, making it millions. It was known that Cobb had impoverished the Treasury, and the public
was incHned to believe that plunder was a part of the business of the cabinet, for Secretary Floyd was
deeply implicated in the Bond robbery. The public held Floyd and Thompson responsible for the crime.
The grand jury of Washington city indicted Floyd for "malfeasance in office, complicity in the abstraction
of the Indian Trust Fund, and conspiracy against the Government; and a committee of the House of
Representatives mildly reported that Floyd's conduct was irreconcilable with purity of motives, and
faithfulness to public trusts." But before the action of the grand jury and the report of the committee
were known, the offending Secretary of War had fled to Virginia, where he was received with open arms
by the Secessionists, and made a military leader with the commission of brigadier-general. His place in
the cabinet was filled, as we have observed, by Joseph Holt, a loyal Kentuckian.

General Cass, the Secretary of State, had resigned, and Mr. Black, the Attorney-General, took his
place, when the last-named office was filled by Edwin M. Stanton, afterward the efficient Secretary of War.
John A. Dix, a staimch patriot of New York, was called to the head of the Treasury Department, and
Secretary Thompson left the Department of the Interior and returned to Mississippi to help his fellow
Secessionists make war on the Republic. These changes in the cabinet caused the loyal people of the
country to breathe freer and indulge in hope.

At the same time there was another cause for excitement in the National capital. R. W. Barnwell,
James H. Adams and James L. Orr, appointed commissioners by the Convention of South Carolina to
treat for the disposition of the property of the National Government within the borders of that State,

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communication was
these words : ' ' This
dent, is of such a
it." Thus ended
between the Presi-
bassadors from a
placed in an attitude
Government. These
"ministerial resi-

tumed home to en-
with all their might,

At Fortress Monroe

arrived at Washington, took a house for the transaction
of diplomatic business, and made Wm. H. Trescott
their Secretary'. With the formality of foreign minis-
ters, they announced their presence to the President of
the Republic, and set forth the objects of their mission
in haughty language, and prepared for a long line of
negotiations. The business was cut short by the refusal
of the President to receive them in any other capacity
than as private gentlemen. Their demands had been
uttered in a manner so insulting, that the President was
justly indignant, and wrote them a
letter, courteous in tone but severe
in its facts, which called from them
a most insolent rejoinder. This

returned to them, indorsed with
paper, just presented to the Presi-
character that he declines to receive
the "diplomatic correspondence"
dent of the Republic and the em-
State which its politicians had
of rebellion against the National
embassadors, after occupying their
dence" ten days, left it and re-
gage in the work of the Secessionists
excepting Mr. Orr.
With more loyal elements composing his cabinet, President Buchanan now seemed to act more

decidedly in support of the National authorit\^ ; and listening to the counsels of Generals Dix and Scott,

and other patriotic men, he determined to send

reinforcements and supplies to Fort Sumter. The

Star of the West, a merchant steamship, was em-
ployed for the purpose; and, in order to mislead

spies in New York, she was cleared from that port

for Savannah and New Orleans. But the secret

of her destination, revealed to Secretary Thompson

while he was writing his resignation, was tele-
graphed by him to Charleston; and when, on the

morning of the gth of January, 1861, she entered

that harbor with the National flag flying, she was

fired upon from redoubts which the Secessionists,

now become insurgents, had erected on the shores.

Her commander displayed a large American ensign,

but the assailants had no respect for the insignia of

the Union; and after receiving seventeen shots,

chiefly in her rigging, and being unarmed with

artillery, the Star of the West turned about, put to

sea, and returned to New York. This movement

had been watched by the garrison at Fort Sumter,

with eager curiosity at first, until it was evident

that the steamship was in the Government employ

bringing rehef to the fort, when the guns of the

fortress, all shotted, were brought to bear on the

batteries of the insurgents. Anderson was not

aware of the changed condition of affairs at Wash-
ington, and, restrained by positive orders not to

act until attacked, he withheld fire. Had he

known that his act would have been approved by

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his Government, he would have silenced the hostile batteries and received the soldiers and supplies on
board the Star of the West into Fort Sumter. This overt act of the insurgents was the beginning of the
terrible Civil War that followed.

The South Carolinians struck the first blow (which rebounded so fearfully), and gloried in it. The
commander of the battery on Morris Island (Major Stevens) that caused the Star of the West to put to
sea, loudly boasted of his feat in humbling the flag of his country. The Legislature of the State resolved
that they had learned "with pride and pleasure of the successful resistance of the troops of the State,
acting under orders of the governor, to an attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter. The Charleston Mercury
exclaimed : ' ' Yesterda}', the gth of January, will be remembered in history. Powder has been burnt over
the decree of our State, timber has been crashed, perhaps blood spilled.

"The expulsion of the Star of the West from Charleston harbor yes-
terda}- morning was the opening of the hall of revolution. We

are proud that our har-
bor has been so honored.
We are more proud that the
State of South Carolina, so
long, so bitterly, so contemp-
tuously reviled and scoffed
at, above all others, should
thus proudly have thrown
back the scoff of her enemies.
Intrenched upon her soil, she
has spoken from the mouth
of her cannon and not from
the mouths of scurrilous
demagogues, fanatics and
scribblers. Contemned, the
sanctity of her waters vio-
lated with hostile purpose of
reinforcing enemies in our

,, , harbor, she has not hesitated

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the face of her insulters. Let
the United States Govern-
ment bear, or return it at its good will, the blow still tingling about its ears — the fruit of its own bandit
temerity. We would not exchange or recall that blow for millions! It has wiped out half a century of
scorn and outrage. Again South Carolina maj* be proud of her historic fame and ancestry, without a
blush upon her cheek for her own present honor. The haughty echo of her cannon has ere this reverberated
from Maine to Texas, through every hamlet of the North, and down along the great waters of the southwest.
The decree has gone forth. Upon each acre of the peaceful soil of the South, armed men will spring up
as the sound breaks upon their ears; and it will be found that every word of our insolent foe has been,
indeed, a dragon's tooth sown for their destruction. And though grizzly and traitorous ruffians may cry
on the dogs of war, and treacherous politicians may lend their aid in deceptions, South Carolina will
stand under her own palmetto-tree, unterrified by the snarling growls or assaults of the one, undeceived
or deterred by the wily machinations of the other. And if that red seal of blood be still lacking to the
parchment of our liberties, and blood they want — blood they shall have — and blood enough to stamp it
all in red. For, by the God of our fathers, the soil of South Carolina shall he free!"

Such was the language of the Declaration of War against the Union by the politicians of South Caro-
lina — arrogant, boastful, savage. Unmindful of the wisdom of the injunction of the king of Israel, "Let
not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off," they proceeded in hot haste,
in the spirit of their Declaration, to inaugurate Civil War, and to drag the peaceful inhabitants of the other
slave-labor States into its horrid vortex. The people, whose rights they had violated and whose sover-
eignty they had usurped, were stunned and bewildered by the violence of these self-constituted leaders,
and they found themselves and their millions of property at the mercy of madmen who, as the sequel
proved, were totally unfit to lead in the councils of a free, intelligent and patriotic community. Four
years after the war so boastfully begun by these political leaders in South Carolina, Charleston was a
ghastly ruin, in which not one of these men remained ; Columbia, the capital of the State, was laid in ashes ;

Scenes at Hilton Head and Port Royal, Soith Carollna

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General H. A. Wise, C. S. A.

every slave within the borders of the Republic was liberated ; society in the slave-labor States was wholly
disorganized; the land was filled with the mourning of the deceived and bereaved people; and a large
number of those who signed the Ordinance of Secession and so brought the curse of war's desolation upon
the innocent inhabitants of most of the Southern States, became fugitives from their homes, utterly ruined.
I would gladly draw the veil of oblivion over the folly and wrong-doing of these few crazy leaders, for they
were citizens of our common country; but justice to posterity requires that their actions should be made

warning beacons to others who, in like manner, contemplate rebellion
against the divine law of the Golden Rule, and a total disregard of the
rights of man.

The South Carolina politicians now made frantic appeals to those of
other slave-labor States to follow their example, and bind the people
hand and foot bj^ ordinances of secession. During the first thirty days
of the year 1861, the politicians in six of the other States responded by
calling conventions and passing ordinances of secession, in the following
order: Mississippi, on the gth of January; Florida, on the loth; Alabama,
on the nth; Georgia, on the 19th; Louisiana, on the 26th and Texas on
the first of Februan,-. At the same time the Secessionists of Virginia were
anxious to enroll their State among the seceders; and under the control
of ex-Governor Henry A. Wise, and of others in Maryland under leaders
unknown to the public, large numbers of "Minute-men" were organized
and drilled for the special purpose of seizing Washington city and the
Government Buildings and archives — a prime object of the conspirators
against the life of the nation. Acting upon the suggestions of the poli-
ticians of South Carolina, those of other States caused the seizure of forts,
arsenals and other property of the United States within the borders of
the slave-labor States. In Louisiana the Arsenal, Mint, Custom-house
and Post-office, with all their contents, were seized and turned over to
the State authorities, while the President, evidently bound by ante-election pledges, dared not interfere.
The insurgents everywhere were encouraged by the leaders of the Administration party in the North, by
language such as was used at a large Democratic meeting held in Philadelphia on the i6th of January, 1861,
when one of the resolutions adopted, echoing the sentiments of the decision of the Attorney-General,
declared : ' ' We are utterh^ opposed to any such compulsion as is demanded by a portion of the Republican
party; and the Democratic party of the North will, by all constitutional means, and with its moral and
political influence, oppose any such extreme policy, or a fratricidal war thus to be inaugurated." And a
Democratic State Convention held at the capital of Pennsylvania, on the 2 2d of February, 1861, said by
a resolution: "We will, by all proper and legitimate means, oppose, discountenance and prevent any
attempt on the part of the Republicans in power, to make any armed aggressions upon the Southern
States, especially so long as laws [meaning those concerning the Fugitive-Slave Act] contravening their
rights shall remain unrepealed on the statute books of Northern States, and so long as the just demands
of the South shall continue to be unrecognized by the Republican majorities in those States, and unsecured
by proper amendatory explanations of the Constitution."

Such moral "aid and comfort " everywhere given by Northern politicians, made the insurgents believe
that there would be such a fatally "divided North" that their schemes might be consummated with ease,
and they did not pause in their mad career. They at once set about e.xecuting, with boldness and energy,
their preconcerted plans as set forth in the following words by one of them : ' ' We intend to take possession
of the army and navy, and of the archives of the Government ; not allow the electoral votes to be counted ;
proclaim Buchanan provisional president if he will do as we wish; if not, choose another; seize the Harper's
Ferry Arsenal and the Norfolk Navy-yard simultaneously and sending armed men down from the former
and armed vessels up from the latter, take possession of Washington city and establish anew government."
Many seizures were made; and the value of the public property thus appropriated to the use of the insur-
gents, before the close of Buchanan's administration, was estimated at $30,000,000.

A defiant spirit now prevailed all over the South. When General Dix, the loyal Secretary of the
Treasury, sent a special agent of his department to secure from seizure revenue cutters at New Orleans
and Mobile, with special orders for their commanders, the captain (Breshwood) of one of them at the
former port, haughtily refused to obey. When the agent telegraphed to the Secretary a notice of this
disobedience, the latter immediately sent his famous despatch: "Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain
Breshwood, assume the command of the cutter, and obey the order through you. If Captain Breshwood,

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after arrest, undertakes to interfere with the command of the cutter, tell Lieutenant Caldwell to consider
him as a mutineer. // any one attempts to pull down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!"

This vigorous order was the first sign given by the Executive Government at Washington of a real
determination to quell the rising insurrection; and it gave hopes to the friends of the Union who had
observed, with great anxiety, the President of the Republic sitting with his hands folded in passive acquies-
cence while its enemies were preparing to destroy it. But the conspirators in New Orleans, who had
control of the telegraph, did not allow the despatch to pass. The revenue cutter fell into the hands of
the insurgents; and two days afterward the National Mint and Custom-house at New Orleans, with all

the coin and bullion
to $536,000, were
and the precious
coffers of the State of

While events in
the month of Januar^^
more toward armed
tional Government,
States became fully
danger to the Union.
also deeply agitated,
flicting sentiments,
class of Unionists in
were speedily over-
of the Secessionists ;
see and Missouri were
under the banner of
erac3% by their poli-
with Kentucky, bore
dreadful conflict that en-
Alaryland were in a
one time. The patriotic
the latter fast to her
loyal commonwealths ;
Magoffin of Kentucks',
politician, failing to drag
sion, procured for it an
"neutrality" that was
habitants than a positive
or the other. Governors
Harris of Tennessee and
with their associate poli-
committed their respective States to the fortunes of the enemies of the Union.

Meanwhile the loyal people of the Northern States were holding public meetings and counteracting,
as far as they might, the revolutionarv^ proceedings of their opponents North and South. They loved
peace and desired friendship, and were willing to make almost any concessions to the enemies of the
Government that did not involve their honor. W^hen, as the politicians in State after State adopted
ordinances of secession, and their respective representatives in both Houses of Congress abdicated their
seats and hurled defiance and threats in the face of the Government and its supporters, the latter patiently
yielded, and showed a willingness to conciliate the arrogant leaders of the Secessionists. So early as the
27th of December, Charles Francis Adams, a representative of Massachusetts — a commonwealth against
which the fiercest maledictions of the slave-holders had been hurled for years — offered a resolution in the
House of Representatives, "That it is expedient to propose an amendment to the Constitution, to the
effect that no future amendments of it in regard to slavery shall be made unless proposed b}' a slave State,
and ratified by all the States." And so eager were the loyal men for reconciliation, that when the authori-
ties of Virginia proposed a General Convention at the National capital (which was called a Peace Con-
ference), they readily agreed to the measure and appointed delegates to it, albeit many wise men doubted
the sincerity of the proposers and regarded it as a plan to gain time for the perfecting of plans for seizing
Washington city.

Confederate Dead in Front of Fort Robin'ette, C

they contained, amounting
seized by the Secessionists,
metals were placed in the
Louisiana.

the slave-labor States, in

1 86 1 , were tendingmore and

rebellion against the Na-

the people of the free-labor

arovised to the impending

The Border States were

at the same time, by con-

for there was a very large

each of them. But these

borne by the violence

and Virginia, Tennes-

finally arran ged

the Southern Confed-

ticians, and these,

the brunt of the

sued. Kentucky' and

doubtful position at

Governor Hicks kept

moorings among the

but Governor

who was an adroit

that State into seces-

attitude of so-called

far worse for the in-

position on one side

Letcher of Virginia,

Jackson of Missouri,

ticians, formally

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The Peace Conference assembled at the National capital on the 4th of Februan-, 1S61, in which
delegates from twenty-one States appeared. Ex-President John Tyler of Virginia was appointed chairman

of the Convention. ' ' Your patriotism, ' ' he said, in taking
the chair, "will surmount the difficulties, however great,
if you will but accomplish one triumph in advance, and that
is triumph over party. And what is party, when com-
pared to the work of rescuing one's country from danger?
The Convention heartily reciprocated these patriotic
words. Efforts were made in the Convention to have an
amendment to the National Constitution adopted, that
would nationalize slavery. Itfailcd, and a compromise was
effected by adopting an article that should preserve slavery.
With this compromise, Mr. Tyler and his Virginia friends
professed to be satisfied. "I cannot but hope," he said,
in his closing speech before the Convention, "that the
blessing of God will follow and rest upon the result of your
labors, and that such result will bring to our country that
quiet and peace which everj' patriotic heart so earnestly

desires It is probable that the result to

which you have arrived is the best that, under all
the circumstances, could be expected. So far as in
me lies, therefore, I shall recommend its adoption."
The politicians at Richmond seem not to have responded
kindly to this sentiment, and Mr. Tyler was compelled
to change his views; for, thirty-six hours after the
adjournment of the Convention, in a speech in the Vir-

Gener.\i, Joh.v a. Dix

gmia capi-
tal, he de-
nounced

the Peace Convention, and declared that "the South" had
nothing to hope from the Republican party. Thence-
forth he gave his whole influence for the promotion
of disunion.

On the day when the Peace Convention assembled at
Washington cit3% a band of men, professing to represent
the people of six of the "seceded States," met at Mont-
gomery, in Alabama, to form a Southern Confederacy.
They were chosen by the Secession Conventions of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, ISIississippi, Louisiana, and
Florida; and it is a notable fact that the people of these
States were not allowed to act in the matter. The poli-
ticians would not trust them, and took the whole manage-
ment of public affairs into their own hands. Not a single
ordinance of secession was ever submitted to the people
for ratification or rejection; and the delegates that met at
Montgomery, forty-two in number, assembled wholly
without the sanction of the people. Nevertheless, the}'
proceeded as if they were a body of representatives, legally
chosen by the inhabitants to perfect their plans. Howell
Cobb, of Georgia, was chosen to preside, who, in a short
speech, declared that they represented "sovereign and in-
dependent States;" that the separation was a "fixed and
irrevocable fact — perfect, complete, and perpetual. . . .
With a consciousness of the justice of our cause," he said,
"and with confidence in the guidance and blessings of a
kind Providence, we will this day inaugurate for the South
a new era of peace, security, and prosperity."

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Fac-simile Copy of General Dix's Dispatch

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V'ltWS OF CONKEDEKATE FoRTlFlCATIO.N a

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

FEBRUARY, 1862 — Continued from Section 2

17 — Sugar Creek or Pea Ridge. Mo. 1st and 6th Mo., 3d lU. Cav. Union
5 killed, 9 wounded.

IS — Independence. Mo. 2d Ohio Cav. Union 1 killed. 3 wounded. Confed,
4 killed, 5 wounded.

21 — Ft. Craig or Valverde, X. Max. 1st N. Mex. Cav.. 2d Col. Cav.. De-
tachments of 1st. 2d and 5th N. Mex.. and of 5th, 7th and 10th U. S.
Inft.. Hill's and McRae's Batteries. Union 62 killed, 140 wounded.
Confed. 150 wounded.

24 — Mason's Neck. Occoquan. Va. 37th N. Y. I/ntoM 2 killed. 1 wounded.

26 — Keytesville. Mo. 6th Mo. Cav. Union 2 killed, 1 wounded. Confed.
1 killed.

MARCH, 1862

2 — Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. 32d 111. and U. S. Gunboats Lexington and

Tyler. Union 5 killed. 5 wounded. Confed. 20 killed, 200 wounded.
3_Xew Madrid, Mo. 5th Iowa. 59th Ind.. 39th and 63d Ohio, 2d Mich.

Cav., 7th 111. Cav. Utiion 1 killed, 3 wounded.
6 — Occoquan. Va. Detachment of 63d Pa. Union 2 killed, 2 wounded.
6, 7 and 8 — Pea Ridge. Ark., including engagements at Bentonville. Lee-
town and Elkhorn Tavern. 25th, 35th, 36th. 37th, 44th and 5'Jth

111.. 2d. 3d. 12th. 1.5th. 17th. 24th. and Phelps' Mo., 8th. ISth and

22d Ind., 4th and 9th Iowa. 3d Iowa Cav., 3d and 15th 111. Cav.. 1st.

4th. 5th and 6th Mo. Cav.. Batteries B and F 2d Mo. Light Artil..

2d Ohio Battery, 1st Ind. Battery. Battery A 2d II!. Artil. Union

203 killed, 972 wounded. 174 missing. Confed. 1,100 killed. 2.500

wounded. 1.600 missing and captured. Union Brig-Gen. Asboth and

Actg. Brig.-Gen. Carr wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gen. B. McCuUoch

and Actg. Brig.-Gen. James Mcintosh killed.
7 — Fox Creek, Mo. 4th Mo. Cav. Union 5 wounded.
8 — Near Nashville. Tenn. 1st Wis., 4th Ohio Cav. Union 1 killed. 2

wounded. Confed. 4 killed.
9 — Mountain Grove. Mo. 10th Mo. Cav. Union 10 killed. 2 wounded.
Hampton Roads. Va. 20th Ind.. 7th and 11th N. Y.. U. S. Gunboats

Monitor, Minnesota, Congress and Cumberland, Union 261 killed,

108 wounded. Confed. 7 killed. 17 wounded.
10 — Burke's Station. Va. One Co. 1st N. Y. Cav. Union 1 killed. Confed.

3 killed. 5 wounded.
Jacksborough, Big Creek Gap. Tenn. 2d Tenn. Union 2 wounded.

Confed. 2 killed. 4 wounded.
11 — Paris, Tenn. Detachments of 5th Iowa and 1st Neb. Cav.. Battery K

1st Mo. Art. Union 5 killed. 5 wounded. Confed. 10 wounded.
12 — Lexington. Mo. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, I wounded. Confed. 9

killed, 3 wounded.
Near Lebanon, Mo. Confed. 13 killed. 5 wounded.
13 — New Madrid. Mo. 10th and 10th 111.. 27th. 39th. 43d and 63d Ohio. 3d

Mich. Cav., 1st U. S. Inft., Bissell's Mo. Engineers. Union 50

wounded. Confed. 100 wounded.
14— Newbeme. N. C. 51st N. Y., 8th. 10th and llth Conn., 21st. 23d. 24th.

25th and 27th Mass., 9th N. J.. 51st Pa.. 4th and 5th R. I. Union

91 killed, 466 wounded. Confed. 64 killed, 106 wounded, 413 cap-
tured.
1$ — Black Jack Forest, Tenn. Detachments of 4th 111. and 5th Ohio Cav.

Union 4 wounded.
18 — Salem or Spring River. Ark. Detachments of 6th Mo. and 3d Iowa

Cav. Union 5 killed, 10 wounded. Confed. 100 killed, wounded

and missing.
21 — Mosquito Inlet. Fla. U. S. Gunboats Penguin and Henry Andrew.

Union 8 killed. 8 wounded.
22 — Independence or Little Santa Fe, Mo. 2d Kan. Union 1 killed, 2

wounded. Confed. 7 killed.
23 — Carthage. Mo. 6th Kan. Cav. Union 1 wounded.

Winchester or Keamstown. Va. 1st W. Va., S4th and UOth Pa.. 5th,

7th. Sth, 29th. 62d and 67th Ohio. 7th. 13th and 14th Ind.. 39th III.,

1st Ohio Cav., 1st Mich. Cav.. 1st W. Va. Artil.. 1st Ohio Artil.. Co.

E 4th U. S. Artil. Union 103 killed, 440 wounded, 24 missing.

Confed. 80 killed, 342 wounded. 269 prisoners.
26 — Warrensburg or Briar, Mo. Sixty men of 7th Mo. Militia Cav. Union

1 killed. 22 wounded. Confed. 9 killed, 17 wounded.
Humonsville. Mo. Co. B Sth Mo. Militia Cav. Union 5 wounded.

Confed. 15 wounded.
26, 27 and 28 — Apache Canon or Glorietta. near Santa Fe. N, Mex. 1st and

2d Colo. Cav. Union 32 killed. 75 wounded, 35 missing. Confed.

36 killed, 60 wounded, 93 missing.
28 — Warrensburg, Mo. 1st 111. Cav. Union 3 killed, 1 wounded. Confed.

15 killed.

APRIL, 1862

2 — Putnam's Ferry, near Doniphan. Mn. 21st and 38th 111.. 5th 111. Cav..
16th Ohio Battery and Col. Carlin's Brigade. Confed. 3 killed.

4 — Great Bethel. Va. Advance of 3d Corps Army of Potomac. Union 4
killed, 10 wounded.
Crump's Landing or Adamsville. Tenn. 48th, 70th and 72d Ohio. 5th
Ohio Cav. Union 2 wounded. Confed. 20 wounded.

6 and 7 — Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Army of Western Tennessee,
commanded bv Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant, as follows: 1st Div., Maj.-Gen.
J. A. McClcrnand; 2d Div.. Maj.-Gen. C. F. Smith; 3d Div.. Brig.-Gen.
Lew. Wallace; 4th Div.. Brig.-Gen. S. A. Hurlburt; 5th Div., Brig.-Gen.
W. T. Sherman; fith Div., Brig.-Gen. B. M. Prentiss. Army of the
Ohio commanded bv Maj.-Gen. D. C. Buell, as follows: 2d Div.. Brig.-
Gen. A. M. D. Cook; 4th Div.. Brig.-Gen. W. Nelson; Sth Div., Brig.-
Gen. T. L. Crittenden, 21st Brigade of the 6th Div., Gunboats Tyler
and Lexinclon. Union 1.735 killed, 7.8S2 wounded. 3.956 captured.
Confed. 1.728 killed. 8.012 wounded. 959 captured. Union Brig.-Gen.
W. T. Sherman and W. H. L. Wallace wounded and B. M. Prentiss
captured. Confed. Maj.-Gen. A. S. Johnson, commander-in-chief,
and Brig.-Gen. A. H. Gladden killed; Maj.-Gen. W. S. Cheatham and
Brig.-Gen. C. Clark, B. R. Johnson, and J. S. Bowen wounded.

8 — Island No. 10, Tenn. Maj.-Gen. Pope's command and the Navy, under
Flag-oificer Foote. Confed. 17 killed, 3.000 prisoners.
Near Corinth. Miss. 3d Brigade 5th Div. Army of Western Tennessee
and 4th 111. Cav. Coyifed. 15 killed, 25 wounded, 200 captured.
9— Owen's River, Cal. 2d Cal. Cav. Union 1 killed. 2 wounded
10 — Ft. Pulaski. Ga. 6th and 7th Conn.. 3d R. I.. 46th and 4Sth N. Y.. 8th
Maine. 15th U. S. Inft.. Crew of U. S. S. Wabash. Union 1 killed.
Confed. 4 wounded, 360 prisoners.
11 — Huntsville, Ala. Army of the Ohio 3d Div. Confed. 200 prisoners.
Yorktown. Va. 12th N. Y., 57th and 63d Pa. Union 2 killed. 8
wounded.
12— Little Blue River. Mo. Confed. 5 killed.

Monterey, Va. 75th Ohio. 1st W. Va. Cav. Union 3 wounded.
14 — Pollocksville. N. C. Confed. 7 wounded.

Diamond Grove, Mo. 6th Kan. Cav. Union 1 wounded.
Walkersville, Mo. 2d Mo. Militia Cav. Union 2 killed. 3 wounded.
Montavallo. Mo. Two Cos. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 2 killed. 6 wounded.
Confed. 2 killed. 10 wounded.
16 — Pechacho Pass. Ariz. 1st Cal. Cav. Union 3 killed. 3 wounded.
16 — Savannah, Tenn. Confed. 5 killed, 65 wounded.

White Marsh or Wilmington Island. Ga. Sth Mich.. Battery of R. I.
Light Artil. Union 10 killed, 35 wounded. Confed. 5 killed. 7
wounded.
Lee's Mills. Va. 3d. 4th and 6th Vt., 3d N. Y. Battery and Battery of
Sth U. S. Artil. Union 35 killed, 129 wounded. Confed. 20 killed,
75 wounded, 50 captured.
17— Holly River, W. Va. Union 3 wounded. Confed. 2 killed.
18 — Falmouth, Va. 2d N. Y. Cav. Union 5 killed, 16 wounded. Confed.
19 captured.
Edisto Island, S. C, o5th Pa., 3d N. H., U. S. S. Crusader. Union 3
wounded.
18 to 28. — Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the capture of New Orleans. La.
Commodore Farragut's fleet of war vessels and mortar boats, under
Commander D. D. Porter. Union 36 killed. 193 wounded. Confed.
185 killed. 197 wounded. 400 captured.
19— Talbot's Ferry. Ark. 4th Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed. Confed. 3 killed.
Camden, N. C. also called South Mills. 9th and 89th N. Y.. 21st Mass.,
51st Pa.. 6th N. H. Union 12 killed, 98 wounded. Confed. 6 killed,
19 wounded.
23 — Grass Lick, W. Va. 3d Md., Potomac Home Brigade. Union 3 killed.
25 — Fort Macon. N. C. U. S. Gunboats Daylight, Georgia, Chippewa, the
bark Gemsbok and Gen. Parkes's division. Union 1 killed. 11 wounded.
Confed. 7 killed, 18 wounded, 450 captured.
26 — Turnback Creek. Mo. Sth Kan. Cav. Union 1 killed.

Neosho. Mo. 1st Mo. Cav. Union 3 killed, 3 wounded. Confed.

30 wounded. 62 prisoners.
In front of Yorktown, Va. Three Cos. 1st Mass. Union 3 killed, 16
wounded.
27— Horton's Mills, N. C. 103d N. Y. Union 1 killed, 6 wounded. Confed.

3 wounded.
28 — Paint Rock Railroad Bridge. Twenty-two men of 10th Wis. Union 7
wounded.
Cumberland Mountain, Tenn. 16th and 42d Ohio. 22d Ky.
Monterey, Tenn. 2d Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, 3 wounded. Confed.
5 killed.
29 — Bridgeport. Ala. 3d Div. Army of the Ohio. Confed. 72 killed and
wounded, 330 captured.

MAY, 1862

-Clarke's Hollow, W. Va. Co. C 23d Ohio. Union 1 killed. 21 wounded.

-Farmington. Miss. 10th, 16th, 22d, 27th, 42d and 51st III.. 10th and

16th Mich., Yates's (III.) Sharpshooters. 2d Mich. Cav.. Battery C

1st III. ArtiL Union 2 killed. 12 wounded. Confed. 30 killed.

Licking. Mo. 24th Mo., 5th Mo., Militia Cav. Union 1 killed. 2

wounded.
Cheese Cake Church. Va. 3d Pa., 1st and 6th U. S, Cav.
6 — Lebanon. Tenn. 1st, 4th and 5th Ky. Cav., Detachment of the 7th Pa.
Union 6 killed, 25 wounded. Confed. 66 prisoners.
Lockridge Mills or Dresden, Ivy. 5th Iowa Cav. Union 4 killed. 16

wounded, 68 missing.
Williamsburg. Va. 3d and 4th Corps. Army of the Potomac. Union
456 killed. 1.400 wounded, 372 missing. Confed. 1,000 killed, wounded,
and captured.
7— West Point or Eltham's Landing. Va. 16th. 31st and 32d N. Y.. 95th
and 96th Pa.. 5th Maine. 1st Mass. Artil.. Battery D 2d U. S. Artil.
Union 49 killed, 104 wounded, 41 missing.
Soraerville Heights, Va. 13th Ind. Union 2 killed, 7 wounded, 24
missing.
8— McDowell or Bull Pasture. Va. 25th, 32d. 75th and 82d Ohio. 3d W.
Va., 1st W, Va. Cav., 1st Conn. Cav.. 1st Ind. Battery. Union 28
killed, 225 wounded. Confed. 100 killed, 200 wounded.
Glendale. near Corinth. Miss. 7th lU. Cav. Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Coyifed. 30 killed and wounded.
9 — Elkton Station, near Athens, Ala. Co. E 37th Ind. Union 5 killed,
43 captured. Confed. 13 killed.
Slatersville or New Kent C. H.. Va. 98th Pa., 2d R. I., 6th U. S. Cav.
Union 4 killed. 3 wounded. Confed. 10 killed, 14 wounded.
10 — Fort Pillow. Tenn. U. S. Gunboats Cincinnati and Mound City. Union

3 wounded. Confed. 2 killed, 1 wounded.
11— Bloomfield. Mo. 1st Wis. Cav. Confed. 1 killed.

13 — Monterey. Tenn. Part of Brig.-Gen. M. L. Smith's Brigade. Union 2
wounded. Confed. 2 killed, 3 wounded.

(Continued in Section 4)

THOMAS AT CHICKAMAUGA. SEPTEMBER 20. 1863

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

ISai ii'.wii'.rt A<;AiHi.i I'liui SiiMiiii

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER VI.— Continued.

Major Robert Anderson

T was soon found that perfect harmony could not be expected
to prevail in that Convention. There were too many ambi-
tious men there to promote serenity of thought and manner,
and the sweetness of concord. They were nearly all aspirants for
high positions in the new empire about to be formed; and each
felt himself, like Bottom the Weaver, capable of sustaining any
character, from that of a "Lion" to "Moonshine." The South
Carolina politicians were particularly clamorous for honors and
emoluments. Their State, they said, had taken the lead — struck
the first blow — in the revolution, and they deserved the highest
seats. Judge McGrath, who laid aside his official robes at
Charleston, sent word that he would like to put them on again
at ^Montgomery as Attorney-General. R. Barnwell Rliett, one of
the most violent of the politicians, thought himself particularly
fitted to be Secretar}- of War; and because his claims were not
allowed, he wrote complaining letters to his son, the editor of the
Charleston Mercury, some of the originals of which are now before
me, and are rich in revelations of disappointed ambition. On the
1 6th of February, Rhett said in a letter, written at Montgomery:
"They have not put me forward for office, it is true. I have two
enemies in the [South Carolina] delegation. One friend, who, I
believe, wants no office himself, and will probably act on the same principle for his friend — and the rest,
personally, are indifferent to me, whilst some of them are not indifferent to themselves. There is no little
jealousy of me by a part of them, and they will never agree to recommend me to any position whatever
under the Confederacy. I expect nothing, therefore, from the delegation, lifting me to position. Good-
bye, my dear son." Rhett and men of his way of thinking had counselled violence and outrage from the
beginning, but they were restrained in the Convention by
more sensible men like Stephens and Hill of Georgia,
B'-ioks of Mississippi, and Perkins of Louisiana.

The sessions of the Convention were mostly held in
secret. A committee of thirteen was appointed, with C.
G. Memminger as chairman, to report a plan for a provi-
sional Confederate government, and it was agreed to call
the Convention a "Congress." The Legislature of Ala-
bama voted a loan of half a million dollars to enable the
Secessionists to set the new government in motion ; and on
the same day (February 7, 1861), the committee reported
a plan, the basis of which was the National Constitution
with some important modifications. They gave the name
of the government organized under it the Confederate
States of America. This was a misnomer ; for no States as
States were parties to the affair; it was only a confedera-
tion of politicians without the sanction of the people.

The constitution of the provisional government was
adopted by the unanimous "vote of the States " on the 8th
of February. On the following day, the members of the
Convention took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate
States of America; and then thej' proceeded to elect
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi provisional president, and
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia vice-president of the
Confederacy. The vast multitude who thronged the

Note— EXPL.^XATION" FOR COLOR FROXTISPIECE— THOMAS AT CHICK.AMAUGA— The scenic setting of this pictute represents a background
of Tennessee hills, flanking the historic battlefield where the Confederate forces beat in vain against the stubborn troops that, under General^ Thomas, stood
like a wall in their path. Against the face of the hill can be seen the smoke of the conflict, one of the most remarkable of the war. General Gordon Granger,
commanding the reserve corps of the Army of the Cumberland, occupied a position several miles away from the battlefield, awaiting orders. He became
exceedingly impatient, and finally turning to one of his staff officers, he said: "I am going to Thomas, orders or no orders." and marched his corps toward
the sound sf the battle. The picture represents General Granger at the moment of his arrival, shaking hands with Thomas, while the troops go forward mto
the battle, finding "lovely fighting all along the line."

General P. G. T. Beauregard, C. S. A.

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PRKsiriENT Lintoi.n's First Cabinet: i. Simox Cameron. Secretary of War. 2. GinEOX Wei.i-s, Secretary of the Navy.
3- S^^\LMON P. Chase, Secretary of the Treaslry. 4. Hannibal Hamlin. N'r-e-President. 5. William H. Seward, Secretary
OF State. 6. Caleb B. S.mith, Secretary of the Interior. 7. Edward Bates. Attorney-General.

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State-House received the announcement of the election with vehement applause, and the same evening
Mr. Stephens was serenaded. In a brief speech he predicted a glorious career for the Confederacy, if it
should be supported by "the virtue, intelligence, and patriotism of the people." Alluding to the slave-
system, he said: "With institutions, so far as regards their organic and social policy, in strict conformity
to nature and the laws of the Creator, whether read in the Book of Inspiration or the great Book of
Manifestations around us, we have all the natural elements essential to the highest attainment in the
highest degree of power and glory. These institutions have been much assailed, and it is our mission to
vindicate the great truths on which they rest, and with them exhibit the highest type of civilization

which it is possible for human society to

reach."

Having appointed standing commit-
tees, the Convention proceeded to choose
a committee to report a form for a perma-
nent government for the Confederacy,
and they and the members warmly dis-
cussed the subject of a proper national
flag and seal. Almost daily, various de-
vices were sent in; and finally they de-
cided that the national flag should consist
of two red and one white stripe of equal
width, running horizontally, with a blue
union spangled with seven white stars,
for, since the beginning of their session,
Texas had joined the Confederacy, ma-
king seven States in their union. This
flag, under which the insurgent hosts

MaJ. j\lLAN I'l.NKtRIUN, SECklil

Service Headquarters

rushed to battle, was first dis-
played over the State-House at
Montgomery on the 4th of March,
1861. The Confederate govern-
ment never possessed a seal, the
emblem of sovereignty. One
which they had ordered from
England arrived at Richmond
just as the Confederacy was bro-
ken up, in April, 1865, and was
never used.

When Jefferson Davis was
apprised, at his home near Vicks-
burg, of his election to the presi-
dency, he hastened to Mont-
gomery, where he was received with great enthusiasm, on the 15th of February. He was welcomed with
the thunder of cannon and shouts of a great multitude; and at the railway station he made a speech, in
which he briefly reviewed the then position of the South. He declared that the time for compromises had
passed. "We are now determined," he said, "to maintain our position, and make all who oppose us smell
Southern powder and feel Southern steel. . . . We will maintain our rights and our government at
all hazards. We ask nothing; we want nothing; and will have no complications. If the other States
join our Confederacy, theiy can freely come in on our terms. Our separation from the old Union is
complete, and no compromise, no reconciliation can now be entertained." He was inaugurated on the
i8th, when he chose for his constitutional advisers, Robert Toombs, Secretary of State; Charles G.
Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury; Le Roy Pope Walker, Secretar}^ of War; Stephen R. Mallory.

Group at Secret Service Headquarters

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101

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND FIRST CONFEDERATE CABINET.

FOUNTAiN AST) STREET IN MUNTOf.lMKRN. Al- A .

Jekfersox Davis' First Caiuxet

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Secretary of the Navy, and John H. Reagan, Postmaster-General. Judah P. Benjamin was appointed
Attorney-General. So was inaugurated the government known as the Confederate States of America,
which carried on war against the life of our Republic for more than four years.

CHAPTER VII.

Lunacy — Yielding to Necessity — Wild Dreams of the Future — Boasting — The Confederates Prepare for War — Permanent Constitution
Adopted — Adjournment of the Montgomery Convention — Principles of the New Government Expounded — Lincoln and Davis — •
Lincoln's Journey to the Capital — Narrative of His Escape — His Inauguration and Inaugural Address — Duties of the Administration
— Condition of the Army and Navy — Benton's Prophecy — Confederate Conunissioners at the Capital — The Virginians — Attemp
to Relieve Fort Sumter and the Result.

THERE were symptoms of real lunacy among some of the leaders in the revolutionary movement,
especially in South Carolina. When that new "nation" v/asonly nine days old, a correspondent
of the Associated Press wrote that it had been proposed to adopt for it a new system of civil time, to
show its independence. Only a week after the organization of the Southern Confederacy at IVIontgomerj',

U, S. Infantry Camp

the editor of the Charleston Courier wrote: "The South mie^ht, under the new Confederacy, treat the
disorganized and demoralized Northern States as itisur gents, and deny them recognition. But if
peaceful division ensues, the South, after taking the Federal Capitol and archives, and being recognized
as the government de facto b}^ all foreign powers, can, if they see proper, recognize the Northern Con-
federacy or Confederacies, and enter into treaty stipulations with them. Were this not done, it would
be difficult for the Northern States to take a place among the nations, and their flag would not be respected
or recognized." There was much "wild talk" of that sort; and the venerable James L. Pettigru of
Charleston, who remained a firm friend of the Union in spite of the madmen around him, was justified
when, on being asked by a stranger in the streets of the city, "Where is the lunatic asylum?" he
said, as he pointed alternately to the east, "It is there;" to the west, "It is there;" to the north, "It is
there;" and to the south, "It is there; the whole State of South Carolina is a lunatic asylum."

Notwithstanding the same arrogant and world-defying spirit was superficially manifested in the
councils of the Confederacy at Montgomery', they were compelled to bow to the behests of prudence and
expediency, and, abandoning the position that they would have free trade with all the world whereby the
riches of the earth would fall at their feet, they proceeded not only to impose a tariff upon imports, but
regarding "King Cotton" as immortal and omniscient, they even went so far as to propose an export duty
on the great staple of the Gulf States. Howell Cobb, who proposed it, said: "I apprehend that we are
conscious of the power we hold in our hands, by reason of our producing that staple so necessary' to the

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Views of Fort Sumter

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world. I doubt not that power will exert an influence mightier than armies or navies. We know that by
an embargo we could soon place not only the United States, but many of the European powers, under the
necessity of electing between such a recognition of our independence as we require, or domestic convulsions
at home." Of this supposed omnipotent power, and the superior courage and prowess in arms of the
people of the slave-labor States, the leaders were continually boasting. Senator Hammond, of South
Carolina, a wealthy slaveholder and a son of a New England schoolmaster, writing to a feminine relative
in Schenectady, New York, on the 5th of Februar>% 1861, after alluding to_ the^issolution of the Union,
and saying, "We absolve you, by this, from all the sins of slaver>% and take upon ourselves all its supposed
sin and evil, openly before the world, and in the sight of God," remarked: "Let us alone. Let me tell
you, my dear cousin, that if there is any attempt at war on the part of the North, we can soundly thrash
them on any field of battle." "One Southron is equal to five Yankees in a fight!" exclaimed Yancey, in
a speech at Selma. And the Convention at Montgomery proceeded to prepare for testing the relative
strength of the two sections.

President Davis
was authorized to
accept one hundred
thousand volunteers
for six months, and
to borrow $15,000.-
000 at the rate of
eight per cent, in-
terest a year. Pro-
vision was made for
a navy and a postal
revenue; and Davis
was authorized to
assume control c'
"all military'' opera
tions between thr
Confederate States
or any of them, and
powers foreign to
them. The Conven-
tion recommended
the several States to
cede the forts and
all other public es-
tablishments within
their limits to the
Confederate States;
and P. G. T. Beaure-
gard, a Louisiana creole, who had abandoned his flag, was appointed brigadier-general and ordered from
New Orleans to the command of the insurgents at Charleston. Early in March a permanent constitution
for the Confederacy was adopted; and a commission was appointed to proceed to Washington and make
a settlement of all questions at issue between the "two governments," while the Confederate secretarj^ of
the treasury prepared to establish custom-houses along the frontiers of the Confederate States. After
agreeing, by resolution, to accept a portion of the mone\^ belonging to the United States which Louisiana
had unlawfully seized, the Convention adjourned. Their proceedings were never published, but constitute
a part of the "Confederate archives" in the possession of the National Government.

Meanwhile Mr. Stephens, the vice-president of the Confederacy, had assumed the office of expounder
of the principles upon which the new government was founded. In a speech at Savannah, on the 21st of
March, 1861, he declared that the immediate cause of the rebellion was African Slaver\' — the rock, he
said, on which Mr. Jefferson declared the Union would split; but he doubted whether Mr. Jefferson
tmderstood the truth on which that rock stood. He believed the founders of the Republic held erroneous
views on the subject of slavery, and that it was a false assumption of the fathers, put forth in the Declara-
tion of Independence, that "all men are created equal." He declared that the comer-stone of the new
Confederacy rested " upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery —

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subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. It is upon this truth," he said,
"on which our fabric is firmly planted; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full
recognition of this principle throughout the civilized world." Then, to give strength to his declaration
that slavery was the comer-stone of the new fabric, he rather irreverently quoted the words of the Apostle

applied to
by the first
in our new

While
ing the Union
serving it. In
in the latter,
persuade the
really organ-
Jefferson Da-
be inaugu-
Montgomer3%
Southern
Lincoln was
Illinois to the
stalled Chief
divided Re-
justice, and

South, in his inaugural address :
friends. We must not be ene-
havc strained, it must not break-
mystic chords of memory,
field and patriot grave to every
all over this broad land, will yet
when again touched, as surely
angels of our nature." They

Jefferson Davis was then
Abraham Lincoln was fifty-two.
was, in person, sinewy and light ,
the middle height, and erect in
Lincoln was tall, thin, large-
six feet four inches in height,
ewy, easily lifting five hundred pounds. His
were disproportionately long, and there was no
movements. The features of Davis were regu-
defined; his face was thin and much wrinkled:
sightless, and the other was dark and piercing
Lincoln's features were angular; his forehead
eyes were dark gray and ver\' expressive, alter-
ling with fun and subdued into sadness.
and Davis were both natives of Kentucky,
life Davis was taken to Mississippi. Raised in
parative luxury, he was educated at the West
tary Academy. He served in the army in Mex-
father-in-law, General Zachary Taylor; held a

Christ, saying: "This stone that was rejected
builders, ' is become the chief stone of the corner '
edifice."

there were preparations in the South for destroy-
there were preparations in the North for pre-
the former section, they were chiefiy material;
they were chiefly moral, for it was difficult to
loyal people that the Southern politicians would
ize an armed rebellion. At the time when
vis was moving from his home in Mississippi to
rated president of the Southern Confederacy at
and to declare "all who oppose us shall smell
powder and feel Southern steel," Abraham
moving from his home in
National capital, to be in-
Magistrate of the whole un-
public, with sublime faith in
to say to the North and the
"We are not enemies, but
mics. Though passion may
our bonds of affection. The
stretching from every battle-
living heart and hearthstone
swell the chorus of the Union
they will be, by the better
were nearly equal in age.
about fif tjf-f our years of age ;
Mr. Davis
a little above
posture; Mr.
boned, and
He was sin-
legs and arms
grace in his
lar and well
one eye was
in expression,
was high; his
nately spark-
Mr. Lincoln
but in earh'
ease and com-
Point Mili-
ico under his
distinguished
dent Pierce's

Interior Views of Fort Sumter

place in the National Congress, and was Presi-
Secretary of War. Lincoln was born in obscurity; passed his early days in poverty, laboring with his
hands on a farm, in the forest, or as a flat-boatman on the Mississippi. He had settled with his father in
Illinois, where he, self-taught, studied law and rose to distinction at the bar, and in the esteem of his
fellow-citizens. Davis was a keen politician; calm, reticent, audacious, polished, cold, sagacious, rich in
experience in the arts of the partisan and the affairs of statecraft, possessed of great concentration of
purpose, an imperious will, abounding pride, and much executive ability. Lincoln was as open as the day;
loved truth supremely, and country above party; abhorred trickery and deception; possessed great

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firmness of will and a childlike reliance upon God ; read the Bible and Shakespeare more than any other
books; with extraordinary conversational powers and exuberant mirthfulness manifested in sparkling
jests, stories and anecdotes, at appropriate times. He was, at one time, a representative in the National
Congress ; and on all occasions appeared as a representative American, illustrating by his own career, in a

most conspicuous and distinguished manner,
cent and elevating operations of republican
and institutions. His last words, w^hen he
his home at Springfield, Illinois, after allu-
Washington, whose seat he was about to
feel that I cannot succeed without the same
which sustained him, and on the same
Being I place my reliance for support ; and I
my friends, will all x^ray that I may receive
assistance without which I cannot succeed,
which success is certain."

On his journey to the National capital
New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg,
was everywhere greeted with affection and
was in Philadelphia on
ton's birthday, and with his
raised the American flag
the consecrated old State-
the presence of a vast as-
people. There, where the
pendence was adopted and
an extraordinary' speech, in
his views of the moral power
ment, and declared his belief
of justice enunciated in it,
saved from ruin. "But," he
country cannot be saved
princiijle, I
I would
on this spot
My friends,
but what I
and, if it be
mighty God,
than four
in I n d e -
sinated be-
principles of

A plot
murder Mr.
through
at Washing-
existence of
ger to meet
danger. The
President's
1864, and
in much

delphia on the 21st of February, where he agreed to stop over night, and hoist the flag on Independence
Hall the next morning. That evening an intimate friend of his from Chicago (Mr. Judd) invited Mr.
Lincoln to his room in the Continental Hotel, where he met Mr. Allan Pinkerton, a shrewd detective
from Chicago. They told Mr. Lincoln of the plot. Mr. Pinkerton had been engaged several days in
Baltimore in ferreting it out. It was fully discovered, but he could not learn the names of the conspirators.

Views of Fortress Monroe

the benefi-
govemment
parted from
ding to
occupy : "I
Divine aid
Almighty
hope you,
that Divine
but with

by way of
Mr. Lincoln
respect. He
Wash ing-
own hands
high above
House, in
semblage of
Declaration of Inde-
proclaimed, he made
which he expounded
of that great instru-
that by the principles
our Republic might be
exclaimed, "if this
w'ithout giving up this
was about to say
rather be assassinated
than surrender it. . . .
I have said nothing
am willing to live by,
the pleasure of Al-
dieby." A little more
years afterward, his body lay in state
pendence Hall. He had been assas-
cause he had firmly supported the
the Declaration of Independence !
had been formed in Baltimore to
Lincoln while he should be passing
that city. General Scott and others
ton were so well satisfied of the
such a plot, that thej^ sent a messen-
Mr. Lincoln and warn him of his
story of his escape was given by the
own lips to the writer in December,
was substantially as follows, though
greater detail: He arrived in Phila-

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Mr. Lincoln had made arrangements to go to Harrisburg from Philadelphia, to meet the Pennsylvania
Legislature there, and from that capital to proceed through Baltimore to Washington. His friends urged
him to go on that night through Baltimore to the capital, and so evade the murderers; but he determined

to adhere to his engagements, for he could not believe there
was a conspiracy to kill him.

When returning to his room at the Continental, Mr.
Lincoln met a son of Senator Seward, the messenger sent
to give him warning. He said the "Washington police had
discovered the plot, but they were not aware of the work
of Mr. Pinkerton. Then Mr. Lincoln was satisfied that
there was danger. After hoisting the flag at the State-
House the next morning, he went to Harrisburg, in com-
pany with Mr. Sumner and others, dined, and waited for
the time to return to Philadelphia, for he determined to
go back to that city, and immediately on to Baltimore,
instead of leaving Harrisburg the next morning for
that place, according to the public arrangements. Mr.
Judd, meanwhile, had obtained such control of the tele-
graph at Harrisburg, that no communication could pass
to Baltimore and give the conspirators a knowledge of the
change in arrangements. In New York Mr. Lincoln had
been presented with a fine beaver hat, and in it had been
placed a soft wool hat. He had the hats in a box in his
room. He had never worn a soft wool hat in his Hfe; so,
after making arrangements for Mr. Lamon (afterward
marshal of the District of Columbia), whom nobody knew, and Mr. Judd, to accompany him, Mr. Lincoln
put on an old overcoat he had with him, and with the soft hat in his pocket, he walked out the back door
of the hotel where he was stopping, bareheaded, without exciting an}^ special curiosity. "Then I put on
the soft hat and joined my friends," said Mr. Lincoln, "for I was not the same man." They returned to
Philadelphia, where they found a despatch from Pinkerton, at Baltimore, that it was doubtful whether
the conspirators had courage to execute their scheme; but as the arrangements had been made, they went
on in a special train. "We were a long time in the station at Baltimore," said the President. "I heard
people talking around, but no one particularly observed me. At an early hour on Saturday morning,
at about the time I was expected to leave Harrisburg, I arrived in Washington."

Mr. Lincoln was warmly welcomed by his friends in Washington city, and when, at an early hour
after his arrival (February 23, 1861), he called on President Buchanan, the latter could hardly believe his
eyes. He gave the President-elect a cordial welcome. So

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also did General Scott, who, the Secessionists thought,
would join them because he was a Virginian; but he was
loyal to the core, and had filled Washington city with
troops in such numbers, it was supposed, that serious in-
terference with Mr. Lincoln's inauguration was made
impossible. That ceremony took place on Monday, the
4th of March, 1861. Chief Justice Taney administered
the oath. There was no disturliance. The scheme of the
Secessionists to prevent Mr. Lincoln's inauguration had
been frustrated, but the plan of the Confederates to ulti-
mately seize the National capital was still a cherished one.
Only "about six hundred troops were there, but as they had
been gathered in small numbers at a time from various
points, and kept concealed, the Secessionists believed there
were many thousands of them; and when the small num-
ber was revealed on the first of March, it was too late to
call together the "minute-men" of Mar^'land and Virginia.
Meanwhile President Buchanan had been greatly harassed
by the Secessionists. Governor Pickens had demanded of
Major Anderson the sxirrender of Fort Sumter. Anderson

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refused ; whereupon the governor sent J. W. Hayne, the attorney-general of South CaroHna, to Washington,
to make tlie same demand. The President's course was vacillating; and in this, as in other matters, he
resolved to cast the responsibility upon his successor. The Secessionists had failed to accomplish, through
the arts of diplomacy, a recognition by the National Government of the sovereignty of any States; and
their efforts ceased early in Februar^\ Mr. Buchanan left the chair of state for private life a deeply
humiliated and sorrowing man. On bidding Senator Fitzpatrick good-b3^e, and with the consciousness of
rare opportunities for winning glory and renown as a patriot forever lost, he said: "The current of public
opinion warns me that we shall never meet again on this side the grave. I have tried to do my duty to
both sections, and have displeased both. I feel isolated in the world."

President Lincoln, standing at the east front of the Capitol, like Saul among the prophets, head and
shoulders above other men, read his inaugural address in a clear, loud voice, in the ears of a vast multitude
of people, who heard him distinctly, and who greeted its sentences with cheer after cheer. It had been

waited for by the loyal peo-
greatest anxiety, for it was
policy of the new adminis-
gave no uncertain sound,
labor States he first ad-
in which he said: "I have
directly, to interfere with
the States where it e.\ists.
right to do so, and I have no
read a resolution of the Re-
nominated him, which de-
States, in order that they
stitutions, should be main-
nouncing as a high crime
force of any State or Terri-
pretext." He reiterated
assured the people that ' ' the
rity of no section" were to
gered by the new incoming
ther that every section of
protection without favor to
Mr. Lincoln then dis-
ture and character of the

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pie of the land with the
expected to foreshadow the
tration. And so it did. It
To the people of the slave-
dressed a few assuring words
no purpose, directly or in-
the institution of slavery in
I believe I have no lawful
inclination to do so." He
publican Convention that
clared that the rights of the
might control their own in-
tained inviolate, and de-
the invasion by an armed
tory , ' ' no matter under what
these sentiments as his own ;
prosperity, peace, and secu-
be "in any wise endan-
Administration," and fur-
the Union should have equal
any.

cussed the political struc-
Republic, showing that the

Union is older than the Constitution ; that it is necessarily perpetual; that there is no inherent power in the
whole or in part to terminate it, and that the secession of a State was impossible. Assuming that the
Republic was unbroken, he declared that, to the extent of his ability, he should take care, as the Consti-
tution required him to do, that the laws should be executed in all the States, performing that duty as far
as practicable, unless his "rightful masters, the American people," should withhold the requisite means,
or, in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. "I trust this will not be regarded as a menace,"
he continued, "but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and
maintain itself. In doing this," he added, "there need be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be
none, unless it be forced upon the National authority." He declared that the power confided to him
should be used "to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and
to collect the duties and imposts."

So, in a frank, generous, kindly manner, did Mr. Lincoln avow his determination to perform the
duties of the Chief Executive of the nation, according to his convictions and his ability. He had said in
a speech at Trenton, on his way from New York to Philadelphia: "I shall do all that may be in my power
to promote a peaceful settlement of all our difficulties. The man does not live who is more devoted to
peace than I am — no one who would do more to preserve it; but it may be necessary to put the foot doTim
firmly." The Springfield Journal, published at the home of Mr. Lincoln, and his accredited "organ," had
said weeks before: "If South Carolina violates the law [by obstructing the collection of the revenue], then
comes the tug of war. The President of the United States, in such an emergency, has a plain duty to
perform. Mr. Buchanan may shirk it, or the emergency may not exist during his administration. If
not, then the Union will last through his term of office. If the overt act, on the part of South Carolina,
takes place on or after the 4th of March, 1861, then the duty of executing the laws will devolve upon

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Mr. Lincoln." So felt all the loyal people of the land; and they were strengthened by hope, given in
the promise of his inaugural address that he should faithfully do his duty.

In that address, the President also declared that he should "endeavor, by justice, to reconcile all
discontents;" and he asked the enemies of the Govern-
ment to point to a single instance where "any right,
plainly written in the Constitution," had ever been de-
nied. He then showed the danger of the precedent
established by secession, for it might lead to infinite
subdivisions by discontented minorities. "Plainly," he
said, "the central idea of secession is anarchy." He re-
ferred to the impossibility of a dissolution of the Union,
physically speaking; and contemplating a state of polit-
ical separation of the sections, he asked, significantly,
"Can treaties be more faithfully enforced among aliens
than laws can among friends? " He reminded them that
their respective territories must remain "face to face;"
that they could not "fight always," and that the causes
of feuds would continue to exist. He begged his country-
men to take time for serious deliberation. ' ' Such of you,"
he said, ' ' as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitu-
tion unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of

your own framing under it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to
change either. ... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the
momentous issue of Civil War. The Government will not assail you. You can have no confiict without
being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government;
whilst I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it."

The Secessionists woiild listen to no words of kindness, of justice, or of warning; they had resolved
to destroy the Union at all hazards; and the prophecj' of Thomas H. Benton, uttered in 1857, was speedily
fulfilled. He knew their schemes, for they had long tried to enlist him in them. "So long as the
people of the North," he said to Senator Wilson, "shall be content to attend to commerce and
manufactures, and accept the policy and rule of the disunionists, they will condescend to remain
in the Union; but should the Northern people attempt to exercise their just influence in the nation,
they would attempt to seize the Government or disrupt the Union; but," he said, with terrible
emphasis, "God and their ou.'n crimes will put them in the hands of the people."

Air. Lincoln chose for his constitutional advisers, Wm. H.
Seward of New York, Secretary of State; Salmon P. Chase of
Ohio, Secretar}^ of the Treasur\-; Simon Cameron of Pennsyl-
vania, Secretary- of War; Gideon Welles of Connecticut, Secretary
of the Navy; Caleb Smith of Indiana, Secretary of the Interior;
Montgomery Blair of Maryland, Postmaster-General; and Ed-
ward Bates of Missouri, Attorney-General. With these men Mr.
Lincoln began his eventful administration. With the close of the
"Inauguration Ball," the night before these appointments were
made, ended the poetr>' of his life; after that it was all the prose
of care, anxiety, and incessant labor incident to the daily life of a
conscientious head of a nation in a state of civil war. The plain
meaning of his inaugural address was distorted by the Confed-
erates to inflame the minds of the people in the slave-labor States.
It was misrepresented and maligned, and the people were bewil-
dered. Meanwhile the President and his cabinet went calmly at
work to ascertain the condition of the ship of state. Means were
planned for replenishing the exhausted Treasury- and to strengthen
the public credit. The condition of the Army and Navy was con-
templated with great solicitude, for it was evident that the Con-
federates had resolved on war. Of the twenty forts in the slave-
labor States, all but four had been seized by them. Every arsenal
Brigadier-General A. J- Slemmer there was in their possession. The entire regular force of the

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Republic, in soldiers, was sixteen thousand men, and these were mostly on the Western frontiers,
guarding the settlers against the Indians; and of this small number. General David E. Twiggs had
treacherously surrendered between two and three thousand, with munitions of war, into the hands of the

Texan insurgents, so early as the middle of Februar}^
The little National na\'y^ like the army, had been
placed far beyond the reach of the Government, for im-
mediate use. It consisted of ninety vessels of all classes,
but only forty-two were in commission. Twenty-eight,
carr^dng an aggregate of nearly nine hundred guns, were
lying in ports, dismantled, and could not be made ready
for sea, some of them, in several months. Most of those
in commission had been sent to distant seas; and the
entire available force for the defence of the whole Atlantic
coast of the Republic was the Brooklyn, 25, and the store-
ship Relief, of two guns. The Brooklyn drew too much
water to enter Charleston harbor, where war had begun,
with safety ; and the Relief had been ordered to the coast of
Africa with stores for the squadron there. Alany of the
naval officers were bom in slave-labor States ; so also were
those of the army ; and many of both arms of the service
deserted their flag at the critical moment, and joined the
enemies of their Government. The amazing fact was
presented that Mr. Buchanan's Secretaries of War and
Navy had so disposed the available military forces of the
Republic that it could not command their services at the
critical moment when the hand of its enem}^ was raised to destroy its life. The public offices were swarming
with disloj-al men, and for a full month the President, knowing the importance of having faithful instru-
ments to work with, was engaged in relieving the Government of these unfaithful servants. He wisely
strengthened his arm bj* calling to his aid loyal men, before he ventured to strike a blow in defence of the
threatened National authority.

We have observed that the Convention at Montgomery appointed commissioners to treat with the
National government upon matters of mutual interest. Two of these (John Forsyth and Martin J.
Crawiord) arrived in Washington city on the 5th of March (1861), and asked for an "unofficial interview"
with the Secretary of State. It was declined, when they sent him a sealed communication setting forth
the object of their mission as representatives of "a government perfect in all its parts, and endowed with
all the means of self-support," and asking for an opportunity to "present their credentials" at an early
day. This communication — this adroit attempt to obtain a recognition of the sovereignty of the
Confederate States from the National Government — failed. In a "memorandum" which he sent to
them, the Secretary referred to the principles laid down in the inaugural address, and, like Mr. Lincoln, he
declared the doctrine that no State as a State had seceded or could secede, and that, consequently,
the "Confederate States government" had no legal existence. The commissioners remained more than
a month in Washington, and then, after giving the Secretary' (Mr. Seward) a lecture on the theory of
government, they left for home on the day when the South Carolinians proceeded to attack Fort Sumter.
Among the first questions that demanded the attention of the new Administration was, "Shall Fort
Sumter be reinforced and supplied? " They were anxious for peace, and the question was kept in abeyance
until late in March, when Gustavus V. Fox (afterward the efficient Assistant Secretary of the Navy) was
sent to Charleston harbor to ascertain the exact condition of things there. He found that Major Anderson
had sufficient supplies to last him until the 12 th of April, and it was understood between them that if not
supplied, he must surrender or evacuate the fort at noon on that day. On his return to Washington Mr.
Fox reported to the President that if succor was to be afforded to Anderson, it must be before the middle
of April. The President, anxious for peace, and not to bring on a collision with the South Carolina
insurgents, had listened favorably to urgent advice to abandon Sumter and not precipitate hostilities.
The Virginia State Convention was then in session considering the propriety of leaving the Union. Mr.
Lincoln sent for a professed Union man in that body, and said to him, "If your Convention shall adjourn,
instead of staying in session menacing the Government, I will immediately direct Major Anderson to
evacuate Fort Sumter." Had the Virginia politicians wanted peace, this request would have been
complied with. On the contrary-, this professed Virginia Unionist replied, "Sir, the United States must

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instantly evacuate Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens, and give assurances that no attempt will be made to
collect revenue in the Southern ports."

This virtual demand for the President to recognize the Southern Confederacy as an independent
nation caused him to "put the foot down firmly." He ordered an expedition to be sent to Charleston
harbor immediately, under the direction of Air. Fox (who had offered a plan for such action) , with provi-
sions and troops for Fort Sumter. Fox sailed from New York with a squadron of eight vessels, on the
pth of April, but only three reached the vicinity of Charleston harbor, which they could not enter because
of a terrible storm that was sweeping over the ocean in that region. While these vessels (the Baltic,
carrying the troops, and the Pawnee and Harriet Lane) were buffeting the tempest, the insurgents attacked
Fort Sumter with bomb-shells and solid shot, with great fury. For three months after the expulsion of
the Star of the West, Anderson had been kept in suspense by the temporizing policy of his Government.
He had seen forts and batteries piled around Fort Sumter for its destruction, and had been compelled to
keep his own great guns muzzled, waiting for an attack. Nearly all that time he was menaced daily with

Fort Putnam, Charleston, S. C.

hostilities; abused by the Southern press; misrepresented by the Northern newspapers, and yet was
forced to passively endure his situation until his supplies were exhausted. He had sent away the women
and children to New York, in February, and had calmly awaited the course of events.

Meanwhile the leaders in the revolutionary movement were impatient to begin their destructive
work. They were vehemently urging Virginia and other Border States to openly and practically espouse
their cause. They feared the cooling effects of delay and hesitation, and aiixiously sought a pretext for
firing the first gun. The crisis was reached on the morning of the 8th of April, when President Lincoln,
with the most generous fairness, telegraphed to Governor Pickens that he was about to send relief to
Fort Sumter. It produced the most intense excitement in Charleston. Beauregard, who was in command
of the armed insurgents there, sent the message to Montgomery, to which L. Pope Walker, the
Confederate Secretary of War, replied on the loth, ordering him to demand the evacuation of the fort.
"If this is refused," he said, "proceed, in such manner as you may determine, to reduce it." Beauregard
repHed, "The demand will be made to-morrow."

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CHAPTER VIII.

Virginians in Charleston — A Crj- for Blood — Events in Charleston — Siege of Fort Sumter — Incidents of the Struggle — Evacuation of
the Fort — Joyful FeeUngs in Charleston — Gratitude of the Loyal People Displayed — Honors to Major Anderson — Attempts to
Capture Fort Pickens — Honors to Lieutenant Slemmer — President's Call for Troops — Responses to the Call — Uprising of the Loyal
People — Boastings of the Northern Press — A Fatal Mistake — Interpretations of Scripture — Proclamations and Counter-Procla-
mations — Privateering Recommended to the Confederates — Action of the Confederate Congress — Privateers Commissioned.

THE hesitation of Virginia to join the Confederacy gave the leaders in South Carolina many
misgivings as to her "patriotism;" but two of her sons, who were in Charleston at this crisis,
gave them assurance of her "fidelity to the cause." These were Edmund Rufhn, a gray -haired
old man, and Roger A. Pryor, a young lawyer, who had served a term in the National Congress. Pr>^or
was serenaded on the evening of the loth of April (iS6i), and in response to the compliment he made a
characteristic speech. "Gentlemen," he said, "I thank you especially that you have at last annihilated
this cursed Union, reeking with corruption and insolent with excess of tyranny. Thank God it is at last

Army IIobPiiAL, Ne.^r Washington

blasted and riven by the lightning wrath of an outraged and indignant people. Not only is it gone, but
gone forever. . . . Do not distrust Virginia. As sure as to-morrow's sun will rise upon us, just so
sure will Virginia be a member of the Southern Confederacy. And I will tell you, gentlemen," said IVlr.
Pryor with great vehemence of marmer, "what will put her in the Southern Confederacy in less than an
hour by Shrewsbury clock — strike a blou.'! The ven,' moment that blood is shed, old \'irginia will make
common cause with her sisters of the South."

This cry for blood was telegraphed to Montgomery, when a member of the Alabama Legislature
(Mr. Gilchrist) said to Davis and his cabinet: "Gentlemen, unless you sprinkle blood in the faces of the
people of Alabama, thej^ will be back in the old Union in less than ten days." Beauregard was at once
ordered to shed blood if necessary, and so "fire the Southern heart." That officer sent a deputation to
Major Anderson to demand the immediate surrender of Fort Sumter. The supplies for the garrison were
nearly exhausted, and Anderson replied: "I will evacuate the fort in five days if I do not receive controlling
instructions from my Government." Davis knew better than Anderson that vessels were on their way
with supplies for the fort, and he instructed Beauregard to act accordingly. So, at a little past three
o'clock in the morning of the 12th of April, that officer announced to Anderson, that within one hour
the batteries, which then formed a semi-circle around Sumter, would open upon the fort. The military
in Charleston had been summoned to their posts early in the evening, in anticipation of this movement,
and a call was made by telegraph to the surrounding country to send four thousand men into the cit}-.

At the appointed hour the heavy booming of a cannon on James Island awakened the sleepers in
Charleston, and the streets were soon thronged with people. From the broad throat of a mortar a fiery

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bomb-shell sped through the black night and exploded over Sumter. After a brief pause, another heavy
gim at Cumming's point, on Morris Island, sent a large round-shot that struck against the granite ■u-all
of the fort with fearful force. That gun was fired by the white-haired Mrginian (Rufiin), ^^'ho had begged
the privilege of firing the first shot against Sumter. He boasted of the deed so long as he lived. In the
early summer of 1865, when he was over seventy years of age, he deliberately blew off the top of his head
with his gun, declaring in a note which he left — "I cannot survive the liberties of my countrv'." His
shot was followed by a tempest of shells and balls from full thirt}^ cannons and mortars which opened at
once upon the fort, but which elicited no response until about seven o'clock in the morning. Then, by
a judicious arrangement of the little garrison, the great guns of Sumter were enabled to play upon all the
hostile batteries at the same time, under the skillful directions of Captain Doubleday, Surgeon Crawford,
and Lieutenant Snyder. Doubleday and Crawford afterward became distinguished major-generals. But

it was evident, after
four hours of hard
and skillful labor at
the guns, that Fort
Sumter could not
seriously injure the
works opposed to
it. On Cumming's
Point was an iron-
plated battery that
was absolutely in-
vulnerable to mis-
siles hurled upon it
from Fort Sumter.

A fearful contest
had now begun. The
walls and parapets
of the fort were
soon shattered; its
barbette guns were
dismounted, and its
barracks and offi-
cers' quarters were
set on fire. News of
the relief squadron
had reachd the gar-
rison, and Surgeon
Crawford bravely
ascended to the par-J
apet to look for it. He distinctly saw the three ships struggling with the storm outside the bar. Theirj
near presence nerved the hearts and muscles of the soldiers, but their hopes were vain. The little!
squadron was compelled to leave the band of brave men in Sumter without relief.

All that day the assault continued, and all that night, which was dark and stormj-, a sluggish bom-
bardment of the fort was kept up; and when, on the following morning (April 13, 1861), on which the!
sun rose in unclouded splendor, it was renewed with increased vigor, the wearied garrison of not morel
than seventy men found their supplies almost exhausted. In three days they must be starved out. On'
that morning the last parcel of rice had been cooked, and nothing but salted pork was left to be eaten.
Red-hot shot were making havoc among the wooden structures of the fort. The flames spread,
and the heat was intolerable. The fire threatened the magazine, and ninety barrels of powder
were rolled into the sea. The smoke and heat were so stifling that the men were often compelled
to lie upon the ground with wet cloths over their faces to enable them to breathe. The old flag was
kept flying until a shot cut its staff, and it fell to the ground at a little past noon. It was caught
up, carried to the ramparts, and there replanted by Sergeant Peter Hart, Major Anderson's
faithful servant and friend.

When the flag of Sumter fell, the insurgents shouted, for they regarded its downfall as a token of
submission. A boat instantly shot out from Cumming's Point, bearing an officer who held a white

Lt. John C. Davis Capt. Abner Doubleday

AssT. Surgeon S. W. Crawford

Capt J. G. Foster
Lt. Truman Seymour

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handkerchief on the point of his sword as a flag of truce. He landed at the wharf at Fort Sumter, and,
hunying to the nearest port-hole, begged a soldier to let him in. The faithful man refused. "I am
General Wigfall, of Beauregard's staff, and want to see Major Anderson!" he cried. The soldier said,
"Stand there until I can call the commander." "For God's sake," cried Wigfall, "let me in! I can't
stand out here in the firing." He ran around to the sallyport, but was there confronted by its blazing
ruins. Then the poor fellow, half dead with fright, ran around the fort waving his white handkerchief

->n it. ^

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Monitor in Trent's Reach, J.^mes River, i86i

toward his fellow-insurgents, to prevent their firing; but it was in vain. At last, out of sheer pity, he
was allowed to crawl into a port-hole, after giving up his sword, where he was met by some of the officers
of the fort. He told them who he was; that he had been sent by Beauregard to stop the firing, and
begged them piteously to raise a white flag. "You are on fire," he said, "and your flag is down." He
was interrupted by one of the officers, who said, "Our flag is not down," and Wigfall saw it where Peter
Hart had replaced it. "Well, well," he said, "I want to stop this." Holding out his sword and hand-j
kerchief, he said to one of the officers, "Will you hoist this?" "No, sir," was the reply; "it is for you,i
General Wigfall, to stop them." "Will any of j^ou hold this out of the embrasure?" he asked. No one
offering the service, he said, "May I hold it there?" "If you wish to," was the cool reply. Wigfall
sprang into the embrasure and waved the handkerchief several times, when a shot striking near him, he
scampered away. He then begged some one else to hold it for him. At length consent was given to hoist
a white flag over the ramparts, for the sole purpose of holding a conference with Major Anderson, who
was sent for. Wigfall repeated his false story that he had come from Beauregard, and on assuring Anderson
that the latter acceded to the major's terms — the evacuation of the fort on the 1 5th — that officer allowed
the white flag to be hoisted, and Wigfall left. Seeing this, a deputation came from Beauregard, who
informed the commander of the fort that Wigfall had not seen their chief in two days. Indignant because
of the foul deception, Anderson declared the white flag should immediately come down, but he was
persuaded to leave it until a conference could be held with Beauregard. Wigfall was a National Senator
from Texas, and was one of the most insolent and boastful men on the floor of Congress. Soon after this
ridiculous display of his mendacity and cowardice, he disappeared from public life, shorn of the confidence
and respect of his more honorable associates. He was on Jefferson Davis's staff for a while.

The conference with Beauregard resulted in an arrangement for the evacuation of Fort Sumter; and
on Sunday, the 14th of April, 1861, the little garrison, with their private property, went on board a small
steamboat that took them to the Baltic that lingered outside the bar, in which they were conveyed to
New York. Major Anderson evacuated the fort, but did not surrender it; and he carried away with him
the garrison flag, which, just four years afterw^ard, tattered and torn, was again raised b}'' the hands of
that gallant officer (then a major-general) over all that remained of Fort Sumter — a heap of ruins.

Governor Pickens had watched the bombardment of the fort on Saturday with a telescope, and that
evening he addressed the excited multitude in Charleston, saying; "Thank God the war is open, and

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Colonel Braxton Bragg.C.S.A., Later Major-General

we will conquer or perish. . . . We have humbled
the flag of the United States. I can here say to you,
it is the first time in the history of this country that
the Stars and Stripes have been humbled. That proud
flag was never lowered before to any nation on the
earth. It has triumphed for seventy years; but to-day,
the 13th of April, it has been humbled, and humbled before
the glorious little State of South Carolina." On the fol-
lowing day, the holy Sabbath, the fall of Fort Simiter was
commemorated in the churches of Charleston. The ven-
erable bishop of the diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church was led by the rector of St. Philip's to the sacred
desk, where he addressed a few words to the peo]3le.
Speaking of the battle, he said, "Your boys were there,
^^. r'v,f^BHj|^B^^^ and mine were there, and it was right they should be

^^B^lWlffn^^B^Hw^ there." Bishop Lynch, of the Roman Catholic church,

^^^^^^fittg^^^BJ^K^^pr^ s]3oke exultingly of the result of the conflict; and a Te

^^^^V«JRr^n|^HDP^K Dcum was chanted in commemoration of the event in the

cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar, where he was
<;)fficiating.

The loyal people of the free-labor States were loud in
their praises of Major Anderson and his men for their gal-
lant defence of the fort ; and their gratitude was shown by
substantial tokens. The citizens of Taunton, Massachu-
setts, and of Philadelphia, each presented Major Anderson
with an elegant sword, richly ornamented. The citizens of
New York presented a beautiful gold medal, and the
authorities of that city gave him the freedom of the corporation in an elegant gold box. The Chamber of
Commerce caused a series of medals to be struck in commemoration of the defence, to be presented to Major
Anderson and his whole command; and from legislative bodies and other sources he received pleasing
testimonials. Better
than all, the Presi-
dent of the United
States gave the ma-
jor, by commission,
the rank and pay of
a brigadier-general
in the army.

While hostili-
ties against Fori
Sumter were occur-
ring, movements
were made for the
capture of strong
Fort Pickens, on
Santa Rosa Island,
commanding the
entrance to the har-
bor of Pensacola, in
Florida. Near it
were two inferior
forts (Fort Barran-
cas, built by the
Spaniards, and
Fort McRee); and
near Pensacola was
a navy-yard.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

MAY, 1862 — Continued from Section 3

16 — Linden, Va. One Co. of 2Sth Pa. Union 1 killed, 3 wounded. 14
missing.

Fort Darling, James River, Va. U. S. Gunboats Galena, Port Royal.
Naugatiick. Monitor and Aroostook. Union 12 killed, 14 wounded.

Cottfed. 7 killed. 8 wounded.

Chalk Bluffs. Mo. 1st Wis. Cav. Union I killed. 3 wounded.
Butler. Bates Co., Mo. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 3 killed, 1 wounded.
16. 16 and 18— Princeton. W. Va. Gen. J. D. Cox's Dii.'ision. Union 30

killed, 70 wounded. Confed. 2 killed, 14 wounded.
17 — In front of Corinth. Miss. Brig. -Gen. M. L. Smith's Brigade. Union

10 killed. 31 wounded. Confed. 12 killed.
19 — Searcy Landing. Ark. Detachments of 3d and 17th Mo. and 4th Mo.
Cav.. Battery B 1st Mo. Light Artil. Union IS killed, 27 wounded.
Confed. 150 killed, wounded and missing.
Clinton, N. C. Union 5 wounded. Confed. 9 killed.
21 — ^Phillip's Creek. Miss. 2d Div. Army of Tennessee. Union 3 wounded.
22 — Florida, Mo. Detachment 3d Iowa Cav. Union 2 wounded.

Near New Berne, N. C. Co. I 17th Mass. Union 3 killed. S wounded.

23— Lewisburg. Va. 36th and 44th Ohio. 2d W. Va. Cav. Union 14 killed,

60 wounded. Confed. 40 killed, 66 wounded, 100 captured.

Front Royal. Va. 1st Md., Detachments of 29th Pa., Capt. Mapes'

Pioneers. 5th N. Y. Cav., and 1st Pa. Artil. Union 32 killed, 122

wounded. 750 missing.

Buckton Station. Va. 3d Wis., 27th Ind. Union 2 killed. 6 wounded.

Confed. 12 killed.
Ft. Craig. New Mex. 3d U. S. Cav. Union 3 wounded.
24 — New Bridge, Va. 4th Mich. Union 1 killed. 10 wounded. Confed. 60
killed and wounded, 27 captured.
Chickahominy. Va. Davidson's Brigade of 4th Corps. Union 2 killed,
4 wounded.
26 — Winchester. Va. 2d Mass.. 29th and 4Gth Pa.. 27th Ind.. 3d Wis.. 28th"
N. Y.. 5th Conn., Battery M 1st N. Y. Artil.. 1st Vt. Cav., 1st Mich.
Cav., 5th N. Y. Cav. Union 38 killed. 155 wounded, 711 missing.
27— Hanover C. H.. Va. 12th. 13th, 14th. 17th. 25th and 44th N. Y.. 62d
and 83d Pa.. lOth Mich.. 9th and 22d Mass.. 5th Mass. Artil.. 2d
Maine Artil.. Battery F 5th U. S. Artil., 1st U. S. Sharpshooters.
Union 53 killed, 344 wounded. Confed. 200 killed and wounded,
730 prisoners.
Big Indian Creek, near Searcy Landing, Ark. 1st Mo. Cav. Union

3 wounded. Confed, 5 killed. 25 wounded.
Osceola, Mo. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 3 killed, 2 wounded.
28 — Wardensville, Va. 3d Md.. Potomac Home Brigade, 3d Ind. Cav.

Confed. 2 killed, 3 wounded.
29— Pocataligo. S. C. 50th Pa.. 79th N. Y., 8th Mich., 1st Mass. Cav.

Union 2 killed. 9 wounded.
30 — Booneville. Miss. 2d Iowa Cav.. 2d Mich. Cav. Confed. 2.000 prisoners.
Front Royal. Va. 1st R. I. Cav. Union 5 killed, 8 wounded. Confed,
156 captured.
31— Neosho. Mo. 10th 111. Cav., 14th Mo. Cav. (MUitia). Union 2 killed.
3 wounded.
Near Washington, N. C. 3d N. Y. Cav. Union 1 wounded. Confed.
3 killed. 2 wounded.
31 and June 1 — Seven Pines and Fair Oaks, Va. 2d Corps, 3d Corps and
4th Corps. Army of the Potomac. Union 890 killed. 3,627 wounded,
1,222 missing. Confed. 2.800 killed. 3,897 wounded, 1.300 missing.
Union Brig. -Gen 'Is O. O. Howard. N'aglee. and Wessells wounded.
Confed. Brig. -Gen. Hatton killed. Gen. J. E. Johnson and Brig.-Gen.
Rhodes wounded. Brig.-Gen. Pettigrew captured.

JUNE, 1862

1 and 2 — Strasburg and Staunton Road, Va. 8th W. Va., 60th Ohio, 1st

N. J. Cav., 1st Pa. Cav. Union 2 wounded.
3— Legare's Point, S. C. 28th Mass., 100th Pa. Union 5 wounded.
4 — Jasper, Sweden's Cove. Tenn. 79th Pa.. 5th Ky. Cav.. 7th Pa. Cav.,
1st Ohio Battery. Union 2 killed, 7 wounded. Confed. 20 killed. 20
wounded.
Blackland, Miss. 2d Iowa Cav.. 2d Mich. Cav. Union 5 killed. 14
wounded.
5- Tranter's Creek. N. C. 24th Mass.. Co. I 3d N. Y. Cav.. Marine Artil.

Union 7 killed, 11 wounded.
€ — Memphis. Tenn. U. S. Gunboats Benton, Louisville, Carondelet, Cairo.
and St. Louis: and Rams Monarch and Queen of the West. Confed. 80
killed and wounded, 100 captured.
Harrisonburg. Va. 1st N. J. Cav., 1st Pa. Rifles, 6th Ohio. 8th W. Va.
Union 63 missing. Confed. 17 killed, 50 wounded. Confed. Gen.
Ashby killed.
8 — Cross Keys or Union Church. Va. 8th. 39th. 41st. 45th. 54th and 58th
N. Y.. 2d, 3d, 5th and 8th W. Va.. 25th. 32d. 55th. 60th, 73d. 75th and
82d Ohio. 1st and 27th Pa., 1st Ohio Battery. Union 125 killed. 500
wounded. Confed. 42 killed, 230 wounded. Confed. Brig. -Gens.
Stewart and Elzey wounded.
9— Port Republic. Va. 5th, 7th. 29th and 66th Ohio. 84th and 110th Pa..
7th Ind.. 1st W. Va.. Batteries E 4th U. S. and A and L 1st Ohio Artil.
Union 67 killed. 361 wounded, 574 missing, Confed. 88 killed, 535
wounded. 34 missing.
10— James Island. S. C. Union 3 killed, 13 wounded. Confed. 17 killed, 30

wounded.
11 — Monterey. Owen Co.. Ky. Capt. Blood's Mounted Provost Guard. 13th

Ind. Battery. Union 2 killed. Confed. 100 captured.
12 — Waddell's Farm, near Village Creek. Ark. Detachment of 9th 111. Cav.

Union 12 wounded. Confed. 28 killed and wounded.
13— Old Church. Va. 5th U. S. Cav. Confed. 1 killed.

James Island. S. C. Union 3 killed. 19 wounded. Confed. 19 killed.
6 wounded.

14 — Tumstall Station, Va. Union 4 killed, S wounded. Bushwackers fire

into railway train.
16 — Secessionville or Fort Johnson. James Island, S. C. 46th. 47th and 79th
N. Y.. 3d R. I.. 3d N. H.. 45th. 97th and 100th Pa.. 6th and 7th Conn.,
8th Mich.. 2Sth Mass.. 1st N. Y. Engineers. 1st Conn. Artil.. Battery
E 3d U. S. and I 3d R. I. Artil., Co. H 1st Mass. Cav. Union 85
killed. 472 wounded, 13S missing. Confed. 51 killed, 144 wounded.
17 — St. Charles. White River, Ark. 43d and 46th Ind., U. S. Gunboats
Lexington, Mouttd City, Conestoga and St- Louis. Union 105 killed,
30 wounded. Confed. 155 killed, wounded and captured.
Warrensburg. Mo. 7th Mo. Cav. (Militia). Union 2 killed, 2 wounded.
Smithville, Ark. Union 2 killed, 4 wounded. Confed. 4 wounded, 15
prisoners.
18 — Williamsburg Road, Va. 16th Mass. Union 7 killed. 57 wounded.

Confed. 5 killed. 9 wounded.
21— Battle Creek. Tenn. 2d and 33d Ohio, 10th Wis., 24th 111.. 4th Ohio
Cav., 4th Ky. Cav., and Edgarton's Battery. Union 4 killed, 3
wounded.
22 — Raceland. near Algiers, La. 8th Vt. Union 3 killed. 8 wounded.
23 — Raytown, Mo. 7th Mo. Cav. Union 1 killed. 1 wounded.
26 — Oak Grove. Va.. also called Kings School House and The Orchards.
Hooker's and Kearney's Divisions of the Third Corps, Palmer's Brigade
of the Fourth Corps, and part of Richardson's Division of the Second
Corps. Union 51 killed, 401 wounded, 64 missing. Confed. 65 killed.
465 wounded. 11 missing.
Germantown. Tenn. 56th Ohio. Union 10 killed.
Little Red River, Ark. 4th Iowa Cav. Union 2 wounded.
26 to 29 — Vicksburg, Miss. U. S. Fleet, under command of Commodore

Farragut. No casualties recorded.
26 to July 1— The Seven Days" Retreat. Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen.
Geo. B. McClellan commanding, including engagements known as
Mechanicsville or Ellison's Mills on the 26th, Gaines" Mills or Cold
Harbor and Chickahominy on the 27th. Peach Orchard and Savage
Station on the 29th. White Oak Swamp, also called Charles City
Cross Roads. Glendale, Nelson's Farm, Frazier's Farm. Turkey Bend
and New Market Cross Roads on the 30th and Malvern Hill on
July 1st.

l/Mion- First Corps. Brig.-Gen. McCall's Div., 253 killed, 1.240
wounded. 1.581 missing.
Second Corps. Maj.-Gen. E. V. Sumner, 187 killed, 1076 wounded,

848 missing.
Third Corps. Maj.-Gen. Heintzleman, 189 killed, 1,051 wounded,

833 missing.
Fourth Corps. Maj.-Gen. E. D. Keyes, 69 killed. 507 wounded, 201

missing.
Fifth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Fitz-John Porter, 620 killed, 2,460 wounded,

1.198 missing.
Sixth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Franklin, 245 killed. 1,313 wounded, 1,179

missing.
Cavalr>-. Brig.-Gen. Stoneman. 19 killed. 60 wounded. 97 missing.
Engineers' Corps, 2 wounded, 21 missing.
Total, 1.582 killed. 7.709 wounded. 5,958 missing.
(Maj.-Gen. Sumner and Brig. -Gens. Mead. Brook and Burns,
( V wounded.)
CoM/tfd.— Maj.-Gen. Hager's Division, 187 killed. 803 wounded, 360
missing.
Maj.-Gen. Magruder's Division, 258 killed, 1,495 wounded, 30

missing.
Maj.-Gen. Longstreet's Division, 763 killed, 3.929 wounded, 239

missing.
Maj.Gen. Hill's Di\*ision, 619 killed. 3.251 wounded.
Maj.-Gen. Jackson's Division, 966 killed, 4.417 wounded, 63

missing.
Maj.-Gen. Holmes' Division. 2 killed. 52 wounded.
Maj.-Gen. Stuart's Cavalry, 15 killed, 30 wounded. 60 missing.
Artillery. Brig.-Gen. Pendleton. 10 killed. 34 wounded.
Total. 2.820 killed. 14.011 wounded, 752 missing.
Brig. -Gens. Griffith, killed, and Anderson, Featherstone and Pender
wounded.
27 — Williams Bridge, Amite River, La. 21st Ind. Union 2 kilted. 4 wounded.
Confed. 4 killed.
Village Creek, Ark. 9th III. Cav. Union 2 killed. 30 wounded.
Waddell's Farm. Ark. Detachment 3d Iowa Cav. Union 4 killed.
4 wounded.
29 — Willis Church. Va. Cavalry advance of Casey's Division. Fourth Corps.

Confed. 2 killed. 15 wounded. 46 captured.
30 — Luray, Va. Detachment of Cavalry of Brig.-Gen. Crawford's Com-
mand. Union 1 killed. 3 wounded.

JULY, 1862

1 — Boonville. Miss. 2d Iowa Cav.. 2d Mich. Cav. Union 45 killed and

wounded. Confed. 17 killed, 65 wounded.
Morning Sun. -Tenn. 57th Ohio. Union 4 wounded. Confed. 1 1

killed. 26 wounded.
3— Haxals or Elvington Heights. Va. 14th Ind.. 7th W. Va.. 4th and 8th

Ohio. Union 8 killed. 32 wounded. Confed. 100 killed and wounded.
6 — Grand Prairie, near Aberdeen, Ark. 24th Ind. Union 1 killed, 21

wounded. Confed. 84 killed and wounded.
7 — Bayou Cache, also called Cotton Plant. Round Hill. Hill's Plantation

and Bayou de View. 11th Wis., 33d lU., Sth Ind.. 1st Mo. Light Artil..

1st Ind. Cav.. 5th and 13th 111. Cav. Union 7 killed, 57 wounded.

Confed. 110 kUled. 200 wounded.
8 — Black River, Mo. 5th Kan. Cav. Union 1 killed. 3 wounded.
9 — Hamilton, N. C. 9th N. Y. and Gunboats Perry, Ceres and Shawseen.

Union 1 killed, 20 wounded.
Aberdeen, Ark. 24th. 34th, 43d and 46th Ind. Casualties not recorded.
Tompkinsville. Ky. 3d Pa. Cav. Union 4 killed, 6 wounded. Confed.

10 killed and wounded.

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CHAPTER VIII.— Continued

THE military works were in charge of Lieutenant Adam Slemmer, and the naval establishment was
under Commodore Armstrong. Slemmer was informed that an attempt to seize the military works

would be made as soon as the Florida politicians should declare the secession of that State ; and he took

measures accordingly. Perceiving it to be impossible to hold all the works with his small garrison, he,

like Major Anderson, abandoned the weaker ones and transferred
his people and supplies to the stronger Fort Pickens. That was
on the loth of January, 1861, the day on which the Florida Con-
vention passed the Ordinance of Secession. On the same morn-
ing, about five hundred insurgents of Florida, Alabama, and
Mississippi appeared at the gate of the na\'>'-yard and demanded
its surrender. Armstrong was powerless, for three-fourths of the
sixty officers under his command were disloyal. Commander
Farrand was actually among the insurgents who demanded the
surrender, and Flag-Officer Renshaw immediately ordered the
National standard to be pulled down. The post, with ordnance
stores valued at $136,000, passed into the hands of the authorities
of Florida; and Forts Barrancas and McRee were taken possession
of by the insurgents.

Lieutenant Slemmer, deprived of the promised aid of the
naval establishment, was now left to his own resources. The fort
was one of the strongest on the Gulf Coast. There were fifty -four
guns in position, and provisions for five months within it ; but the
garrison consisted of only eight^'-one officers and men.

Two days after the seizure of the navy-yard near Pensacola,
a demand was made by insurgent leaders for the surrender of Fort
Pickens. Lieutenant Slemmer refused compHance. Three days

later (January 15) Colonel W. H. Chase of Massachusetts, who was in command of all the insurgents in

that region, obtained an interview with Slemmer, and tried to persuade him to "avoid bloodshed" by

quietly surrendering the fort, saying in conclusion: "Consider this well, and take care that },'Ou will so

act as to have no fearful recollections of a tragedy that you might have avoided; but rather to make the

present moment one of the most glorious, because Christian-like,

of your life." The wily serpent could not seduce the patriot, and

Slemmer did make that a glorious moment of his life by refusing

to give up the fort. On the iSth, another demand was made for

the surrender of the fort and refused, and a siege of that stronghold

was begun.

The number of insurgents at Pensacola rapidly increased, and

the new Administration resolved to send relief to Fort Pickens.

A small squadron was dispatched from New York for the purpose ;

and Lieutenant J. L. Worden of the navy was sent overland to

Pensacola, with orders to Captain Adams, in command of some

vessels off Fort Pickens, to throw reinforcements into that work

immediately. Worden reached Pensacola on the loth of April,

where Colonel Braxton Bragg was in chief command of the Con-
federates. He had observed great excitement and preparations

for war on his journey, and fearing arrest, Worden had made him-
self well acquainted with the contents of the despatches, and then

tore them up. He frankly told Bragg that he was sent by his

Government with orders to Captain Adams, and that they were

not written, but oral. That officer gave the lieutenant a pass for

his destination. His message was timely delivered, for Bragg was

Major-General John E. Wool

M.-^jor-General Benjamin F. Butler

Note— EXPLANATION OF COLORED FRONTISPIECE— HOOKER AT CHANCELLORSVILLE— General Hooker had his headquarters at the
Chancellor House, He says in his own words in the "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War": "I was standing on the steps of the portico on Sunday morning,
the third of May. and was giving direction to the battle which was now raging with great fury, the cannon balls reaching me from both east and west, when a
solid shot struck the pillar near me. splitting it in two. and throwing one-half longitudinally against me. For a few moments I was senseless, and the report
spread that I had been killed, but I soon revived, and to correct the misapprehension I insisted upon being lifted upon my horse." — and, riding along the line,
he allowed the troops to see him, and they are cheering him as he rides by.

Copyright, 1895, by Charles F. Johnson. Copyright, 1905, by Lossing History Company. Copyright. 1912, by The War Memorial Association.

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on the point of attacldng tlie fort. The reinforcements were thrown in, and the plan was foiled. Worden
returned to Pensacola, and was permitted to take the cars for Montgomery, Alabama, when Bragg was
informed by a spy that Fort Pickens had been reinforced. Mortified by his stupid blunder in allowing

Worden to pass to and from the squadron, he violated truth and
honor by telegraphing to the Confederate government at Mont-
gomer\- that Worden had practised falsehood and deception in
gaining access to the squadron, and recommended his arrest. He
was seized on the 15th of April and cast into the common jail,
where he was treated with scorn by the Confederates, and kept a
l)risoner until November following, when he was exchanged.
Worden had acted with the utmost frankness and the nicest sense
i)f honor in the whole matter. He was the first prisoner-of-war
held by the insurgents.

A few days after the reinforcement of Fort Pickens, two ves-
sels, bearing several hundred troops and ample supplies, under
Colonel Harvey Brown, appeared there, when Lieutenant Slemmer
and his brave little band, worn down by fatigue and continued
watchfulness, were relieved, and sent to Fort Hamilton, near New
York, to rest. The grateful people honored them. The Presi-
dent gave Slemmer the commission of major, and afterward of
I)rigadier; and the New York Chamber of Commerce also caused
a series of bronze medals to be struck as presents to the com-
mander and men of the brave little garrison. Reinforcements
continued to be sent to Fort Pickens; and the number of the in-
surgents intended to assail it also increased, until, in May, they
numbered over seven thousand. But events of very little im-
portance occurred in that vicinity during the ensuing summer.

On Sunday morning, the 14th of April, 1861, the tidings of
the dishonoring of the National standa:rd in Charleston harbor
was telegraphed over the land, and created the wildest excitement
cver^-where, North and South. The loyal people were indignant;
tlie disloyal people were jubilant. I was in New Orleans on that
day. The soimd of Sabbath-bells was mingled with the martial-
music of fife and drum. Church-goers and troops in bright uniforms were seen in almost ever>' street,
the latter gathering for an immediate expedition against Fort Pickens. All faces beamed with gladness,
and the pulpits overflowed with words of loyalty to the Southern Confederacy. At the North, the loyal
hearts of the patriotic people beat vehemently with emotion; and ever}'where the momentous question
was asked. What next? It was not long unanswered, for within twenty-four hours after Major Anderson
went out of Fort Sumter, the President of the United States issued a stirring call for seventy-five thousand
troops to suppress the rising rebellion. In that proclamation (April 15, 1861) the President declared that
for some time combinations in several of the States (which he named), "too powerful to be suppressed
by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law," had
opposed the laws of the Republic; and therefore, by virtue of power vested in him, he called out the
militia of the Union, to the number just mentioned, and appealed to the patriotism of the people in support
of the measure. In the same proclamation he summoned the National Congress to meet at Washington
city on the 4th day of July next ensuing, to consider the crisis. At the same time the Secretary of War
sent a despatch to the governors of all the States excepting those mentioned in the President's proclama-
tion, requesting each of them to cause to be detailed from the militia of his State the quota designated in
a table which he appended, to serve as infantr\'men or riflemen for the period of three months, unless
sooner discharged.

This call of the President and the requisition of the Secretary' of War were responded to with
enthusiasm in the free-labor vStates; but in six of the eight slave-labor States not omitted in the call, they
were treated with scorn. The exceptions were Delaware and Maryland. In the other slave-labor States,
disloyal governors held the reins of power. Governor Letcher of Virginia replied; "I have only to say
that the militia of this State will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose
as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me
for such an object will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate Civil War, and, having

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done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the Administration has exhibited toward the South."
Governor Ellis of North Carolina answered : "Your despatch is received, and if genuine, which its extraor-
dinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply, that I regard the levy of troops made by

the Administration for the purpose
of subjugating the States of the
South, as in violation of the Con-
stitution and a usurpation of power.
I can be no party to this wicked
violation of the laws of the countr}-,
and to this war upon the liberties of
a free people. You can get no troops
from North Carolina." Governor
Magoffin of Kentuck}^ answered:
"Your despatch is received. I say
emphatically that Kentucky will
furnish no troops for the wicked pur-
pose of subduing her sister Southern
States." Governor Harris of Ten-
nessee said: "Tennessee will not
furnish a single man for coercion;
but fifty thousand, if necessary, for
the defence of our rights or those of
our Southern brethren." Governor
Rector of Arkansas replied, "In an-
swer to your requisition for troops
from Arkansas, to subjugate the
Southern States, I have to sa}' that
none will be furnished. The de-
mand is only adding insult to in-
jury. The people of this Commonwealth are freemen, not slaves, and will defend, to the last extremity,
their honor, their lives and property against Northern mendacity and usurpation." Governor Jackson
of Missouri responded: "There can be, I apprehend, no doubt that these men are intended to make
war on the seceded States. Your requisition, in my judgment, is illegal, unconstitutional and revolting
in its objects, inhuman and diabolical, and cannot be complied with. Not one man will the State of
Missouri furnish to cany on such an unholy crusade."

It was reported from Montgomery- that Mr. Davis and his compeers received Mr. Lincoln's call for
troops "with derisive laughter." Mr. Hooper, the Secretary' of the Montgomery Convention, in reply to
the question of the agent of the Associated Press at Washington, "What is the feeling there?" said:

"Davis answers, rough and curt,
With Paixhan and petard,
Sumter is ours and nobody hurt,

We tender old Abe our Beau-regard."

And on the day after the call was made (April i6), the Mobile Advertiser contained the following adver-
tisement in one of its inside business columns:

Ch.^in Bridge Over the Potom.\c

"75,000 COFFIN'S W.A.XTED."

"Propos.\ls will be received to supply the Confederacy with 75,000 black coffins.
ty Xo proposals will be entertained coming north of Mason and Dixon's line.

"Direct to Jeff. Davis, Montgomery, Alabama."

This ghastly joke showed the temper of the political leaders in that region. But this feeling of
boastfulness and levitj- was soon changed to seriousness, for there were indications of a wonderful uprising
of the loyal people of the free-labor States in defence of the Union. Men, women, and children shared
in the general enthusiasm. Loyalty was everywhere expressed, as if by preconcert, by the unfurling of
the National flag. That banner was seen all over the land in attestation of devotion to the Union — in
halls of justice and places of public worship. It was displayed from flagstaffs, balconies, windows, and
even from the spires of churches and cathedrals. It was seen at all public gatherings, where cannon
roared and orators spoke eloquently for the preservation of the Republic; and red, vjhite, and blue — the

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Captain Otis and Compwy of 2;d New Vdrk VoLUNitbRs at Hakpfr's I'krrv

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colors of our flag in combination — were the hues of ornaments worn by women in attestation of their
loyalty. And when it was evident to the people of the free-labor States that the National capital was
in danger, organized military- bands were seen hurr\'ing to the banks of the Potomac for the defence of
Washington city.

The foolish boastings of the Southern newspapers were imitated by some of the members of the
Northern press. "The nations of Europe," one said, "may rest assured that Jeff. Davis & Co. will be
swinging from the battlements at Washington, at least by the 21st of July. We spit upon a later or
longer-deferred justice." Another said: "Let us make quick work. The 'rebellion,' as some people
term it, is an unborn tadpole. Let us not fall into the delusion, noted by Hallam, of mistaking a 'local
commotion' for revolution. A strong, active 'pull together' will do our work effectually in thirty days."

And still another
of sense can for
that this much-
ing will end in a
Northern people
vincible. The
bandofragamuf-
like chaff before
approach." And
with particular
speech, said :
get out of the
war of the West,
battle, and suc-
two or three
farthest. Illinois
South by herself,
matter being
us. . . . The
crushed out be-
blage of Con-
Neither sec-
hended the ear-

CONTR.\B.\NDS AND ToLLER's HoTEL

said: "No man
a moment doubt
ado-about-noth -
month. The
are simply in-
rebels — a mere
fins — will fly
the wind, on our
a Chicago paper,
craziness of
"Let the East
way; this is a
We can fight the
cessfuUy, within
months at the
can whip the
We insist on this
turned over to
rebellion will be
fore the assem-
gress."

tion compre-
nestness and

prowess of the other — the pluck that always distinguished the American people, North and South. Each,
in its pride, felt a contempt for the other, each believing the other would not fight. This was a fatal
misapprehension, and led to sad results. Each party appealed to the Almighty to witness the rectitude
of its intentions, and each was quick to discover omens of Heaven's approval of its course. When, on
the Sunday after the President's call for troops went forth, the first lesson in the morning service in the
Protestant Episcopal churches of the land on that day contained this battle-call of the prophet: "Proclaim
ye this among the Gentiles : Prepare for war ; wake up the mighty men ; let all the men of war draw near ;
let them come up; beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak
say, I am strong," the loyal people of Boston, New York, and Cincinnati said: "See, how Revelation
summons us to the conflict!" and the insurgents of Charleston, Mobile, and New Orleans answered: "It
is equally a call for us," adding: "See how specially we are promised victory in another Scripture lesson
in the same church, which says: 'I will remove off from you the Northern Army, and will drive him into
a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the East sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea.
. . . Fear not, O land! be glad and rejoice; for the Lord will do great things.'"

Two days after the President's call was promulgated, the chief of the Southern Confederacy issued a
proclamation, in which, after declaring that Mr. Lincoln had announced the intention of invading the
"Confederate States" for "the purpose of capturing its fortresses and thereby subverting its independence,
and subjecting the free people thereof to the dominion of a foreign power," he invited all persons who felt
so disposed to enter upon a course of legalized piracy called "privateering," and to depredate on the
commerce of the United States. This proclamation was immediately followed by another from the
President, declaring his intention to employ a competent force to blockade all the ports which were claimed
to belong to the Southern Confederacy; also warning all persons who should engage in privateering under
the sanction of a commission from the insurgent chief, that they would be held amenable to the laws of
the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy.

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The "Congress of the Confederate States" had been summoned to meet at Montgomery on the 29th
of April (1861), and a few days after the session began, an act was passed declaring that war existed
between the seven "seceded" States and the United States, and authorized Mr. Davis to employ the
power of their section to "meet the war thus commenced, and to issue to private armed vessels commissions
or letters of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think proper, under the seal of the

Drilling in the Fort

Confederate States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of the Government of the United States, and
of the citizens or inhabitants of the States and Territories thereof." They also offered a bounty of twenty
dollars for each person who might be on board of an armed vessel of the United States that should be
destroyed by a Confederate privateer — in other words, a reward for the destruction of men, women, and
children. "Happily for the credit of humanity," says a historian of the war, "this act has no parallel on
the statute-book of any civilized nation." Mr. Davis did not wait for this authority, but several days
before the assembling of his "Congress," he issued commissions for privateering, signed by himself, and
Robert Toombs, as secretary. With these hostile proclamations of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis, the great
Conflict was fairly begun.

CHAPTER IX.

The Virginia Convention — Union Sentiments Suppressed by Violence — Ordinance of Secession Passed — Bad Faith — Virginia Annexed
to the Confederacy — The People Disfranchised — The National Capital To Be Seized — Davis's Professions — Poetic Comments on
Them — Events at Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navj'-Yard — Response to the Call for Troops — Massachusetts Sends Troops to
Washington — Attack upon Them in Baltimore — Critical Situation of the Capital — The President and Maryland Secessionists —
Prompt and Efficient Action of General Wool — Union Defence Committee — General Butler's Operations in Maryland — He Takes
Possession of Baltimore — Events at the Capital — Preparations for the Struggle.

AT this time Virginia had passed through a fiery ordeal and lay prostrate, bound hand and foot by
her disloyal sons, at the feet of the Southern Confederacy. A State Convention assembled at the
middle of February, and remained in session more than two months. A large majoritj- of the
members were animated by a sincere love for the Union, especially those from the mountain districts in
Western Virginia; and even so late as a fortnight before its adjournment, an Ordinance of Secession was
defeated by a vote of eighty-nine against forty-five. Yet the conspirators persevered with hope, for they
saw one after another of weak Union members converted by their sophistry.

The crisis was reached when Edmund Rufifin fired his gun at Fort Sumter. "That gun," said a
telegraphic despatch from Charleston, "will do more in the cause of secession in Virginia than volumes of
stump speeches." So it did. It set bells ringing and cannon thundering in the Virginia capital, and

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produced the wildest excitement in and out of the Convention. "The war has begun; what will Virginia
do? " asked Governor Pickens, by telegraph. Governor Letcher replied, "The Convention will determine."
That determination was speedily made. When, on Monday the 15th of April, the President's call for
troops to suppress the rising rebellion was read in the Convention, that body was shaken by a fierce
tempest of contending passions. Reason and judgment fled, and the stoutest Union men bent before
the storm like reeds in a gale. Yet when the Convention adjourned that evening, and the question was
pending, Shall Virginia secede at once? there was a strong majority in favor of Union.

The conspirators were now desperate. They perceived that the success of their grand scheme, the
seizure of the National capital, depended upon the action of Virginia at that crisis. Richmond was then
in the hands of an excite \: populace readj' to do the bidding of the leading politicians, and the latter resolved
to act with a high hand. They perceived that the absence of ten Union members from the Convention
would give a majority for secession. Accordingly ten of them were waited upon by the conspirators on
that evening, and informed that they must choose between three modes of action, namely, to vote for
secession, absent themselves, or be hanged. They saw that resistance to these desperate men would be
vain, and they absented themselves. These violent proceedings awed other Union men in the Convention,

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and on Wednesday the 17th of April, 1861, an Ordinance of Secession was adopted. Unlike the conven-
tions of other "seceding" States, it referred the Ordinance to the people to vote on at a future day. But
this show of respect for the popular will was not sincere. A despatch was immediately sent to Jefferson
Davis, telling him that Virginia was "out of the Union"; and within twenty-four hours after the passage
of the Ordinance, and while it was yet under cover of an injunction of secrecy, Governor Letcher set in
motion expeditions to capture the Arsenal at Harper's Ferrs-, and the Navy-yard at Gosport, opposite
Norfolk, preparatory to the seizure of the National capital. Davis sent his lieutenant, Alexander H.
Stephens, from Montgomer\- to Richmond, to urge the Convention to violate its faith pledged to the
people, and to formally annex Virginia to the Confederacy without their consent. This was done within
a week after the passage of the Ordinance of Secession, and a month before the day appointed for the
people to vote upon it.

Stephens arrived in Richmond on the evening of the 23d of April. The Convention appointed a
commission, with ex-President Tyler at its head, to treat with this representative of the "Confederacy"
for the annexation of Virginia to that league. The act was accomplished the next day. The "treaty"
provided that "the whole military force and military operations" of Virginia, "oft'ensive and defensive, in
the impending conflict with the United States," should be under the chief control of Jefferson Davis.
Then they adopted and ratified the "Provisional Constitution of the Confederacy;" appointed delegates
to the "Confederate Congress;" authorized the banks of the State to suspend specie payments; made

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provision for the establishment of a navy for Virginia ; made other provisions for waging war on the Union,
and invited the "government at Montgomery" to make Richmond its future seat. All this was done in
spite of the known will of the people; and when the day approached for them to express that will by
the ballot, they found themselves tied hand and foot by an inexorable despotism. James M. Mason, one
of the most active of the Virginia conspirators, issued a manifesto, in which he declared his State to be
out of the old Union; that a rejection of the Ordinance of Secession would be a violation of a sacred
pledge given to the Confederacy bj- the politicians; and said, concerning those who could not conscien-
tiously vote to separate Virginia from the Union, "Honor and duty alike require that they should not
vote on the question; and if they retain such opinions, they must leave the State." Submission or banish-
ment was the alternative. Mason simply repeated the sentiments of Jefferson Davis in another form:
"All who oppose us shall smell Southern powder, and feel Southern steel."

When the vote was finally taken on the 23d of May, it was in the face of bayonets. Terror reigned
all over Eastern Virginia. Unionists were compelled to fly for their lives before the instruments of the
civil and military power at Richmond, for the "Confederate government" was then seated there. By
these means the enemies of the Union were enabled to report a majority of over one hundred thousand
votes of Virginians in favor of secession, the vote being given by the voice and not by the secret ballot.

Company Drill

Then the governor of South Carolina, with selfish complacency, said to his people: "You may plant your
seed in peace, for Old Virginia will have to bear the brunt of the battle." And so she did much of the
time. Her politicians offered her back to the burden which the Gulf States had rolled from their own
shoulders, and a most grievous one it was.

Prodigious efforts were now made for the seizure of the National capital. On his journey to Richmond,
Alex. H. Stephens had harangued the people at various points, and everywhere raised the cry, "On to
Washington!" That cry was already resounding throughout the slave-labor States. Troops were mar-
shaling for the service, in Virginia; and already Carolina soldiers were treading its soil. The Southern
press, everywhere, urged the measure with the greatest vehemence. On the day when Stephens arrived
in Richmond, one of the newspapers of that city said: "There never was half the unanimity among the
people before, nor a tithe of the zeal upon any subject, that is now manifested to take Washington and
drive from it every Black Republican who is a dweller there. From the mountain tops and valleys to
the shores of the sea, there is one wild shout of fierce resolve to capture Washington city, at all and every
human hazard." Yet in the face of the universal chorus, "On to Washington!" Mr. Jefferson Davis,
president of the Southern Confederacy, speaking more to Europe than to his people, said to his congress
at Montgomery: "We profess solemnly, in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice save
that of honor. ... In independence we seek no conquest, no aggrandizement, no cession of any
kind from the States with which we have lately confederated. .4// we ask is to be let alone — those who
never held power over us, should not now attempt our subjugation by arms."

Harper's Ferry, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where their combined

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Dock at Hii mx lli \i) Brii.T Bv Soldiers

waters flow through the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, had been for years the seat of an Armory and Arsenal
of the United States, where almost ninety thousand muskets were usually stored. At the time we are
considering, the post was in charge of Lieutenant Roger Jones, with some dismounted dragoons and a
few other soldiers. Warned of impending danger, Jones was
vigilant ; and he prepared for any sudden emergency by laying
a train of gunpowder for the destruction of the Government
property, if necessan,^ When, late in the evening of the i8th
of April, about two thousand Virginia militia were within a
mile of the post and were pressing on to seize it, Jones fired his
trains, and in a few minutes the Government buildings were
all in flames, and the little garrison of forty men were crossing
the covered railway bridge into Maryland, in a successful flight
to Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania. The insurgents were
foiled in their attempt to secure a large quantity of fire-arms;
but they seized Harper's Ferry as an important point for
future hostile operations. In May, full eight thousand Con-
federate troops were there.

The expedition against the Nav>^-yard at Gosport was
more successful. It was situated on the Elizabeth River,
opposite Norfolk, and at that time contained two thousand
pieces of heavy cannon fit for service, and a vast amount of
munitions of war, naval stores, and materials for ship-building.
In the waters near and on the stocks were several vessels-of-
war, which the Secessionists attempted to secure by sinlcing
obstructions in the river below to prevent their sailing out.

This was done on the day before the Virginia Ordinance of Secession was adopted. The post was in
command of Commodore C. S. McCauley, who, soothed and deceived by false professions of loyalty by
the officers of Southern birth under him, delayed taking action to protect the Navy-yard and the vessels
until it was too late. When the action of the officers at Pensacola was known, these men said to the
Commodore, "You have no Pensacola officers here; we will never desert you; we will stand by you until
the last, even to the death;" yet these men all resigned when the Virginia Ordinance of Secession was
passed, abandoned their flag, and joined the forces under General Taliaferro, commander of the Virginia
troops in that region, who arrived at Norfolk on the evening of the i8th of April to attempt the seizure
of the naval station. Believing an immediate effort would be made to seize the vessels, McCauley ordered
them to be scuttled and sunk, and this was done. At that critical moment, Captain Paulding of the navy
arrived in the Pawnee as the successor of McCauley, and perceiving all the vessels but the Cumberland

beyond recovery, he ordered them and all
the public property at the Nav\--yard to be
burned or otherwise destroyed. This de-
struction was only partially accomplished.
About seven million dollars' worth of prop-
erty disappeared; but the insurgents
gained a vast number of heavy guns with
which they waged war afterward. They
also saved some of the vessels. Among the
latter was the Merrimac, which was after-
ward converted by the Confederates into a
powerful iron-clad vessel. This important
post was held by the insurgents until early
in May the following A-ear, when it was
recovered by General Wool.

So secretly had the Confederates pre-
pared for the seizure of the National capital
that the sudden development of their
strength was amazing. The Government
was made painfully aware that its call for

Turret and Part of Deck of Original Monitor, Showing Dents Made
BY Pointed Shot from the Guns of the Merrimac

troops had not been made an hour too soon.

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There was a general impression that Washington city was to be the first point of serious attack, and
toward it vast numbers of armed men eagerly pressed to the protection of the President, his cabinet,
the Government archives, and the Capitol. Within three days after the call, full one hundred thousand

young men had dropped their implements of labor to pre-
pare for war.

Those of Massachusetts were first ready. Early in
the year Governor Andrew had put the militia of the State
on a sort of war footing, and five thousand volunteers were
drilled in armories. He invited the other New England
States to do likewise, and they complied, in a degree.
When, on the day the President called for seventy-five
thousand men. Senator Henry Wilson telegraphed to Gov-
ernor Andrew to send twenty companies immediately to
Washington, they were ready. A few hours later the
requisition of the Secretary of War reached the governor,
and before sunset four regiments at different points were
ordered to muster on Boston Common. They were all
there the next day, in charge of Brigadier-General Ben-
jamin F. Butler; and it was arranged for the Sixth Regi-
ment, Colonel Jones of Lowell, to go forward at once to
Washington, through New York, Philadelphia, and Bal-
timore.

On the day (April i8) when the insurgents expected to
seize the arms at Harper's Fern.-, five companies of Penn-
sylvanians passed through Baltimore for the capital.
They were slightly attacked by the mob in that city. They were the first of the loyal troops to reach
Washington city, and were quartered in the Capitol. The Secessionists of ]Mar\-land were then active,
and were determined to place their State as a barrier across the pathway of troops from the North and
East. Their governor (Hicks) was a loyal man, but the mayor of Baltimore was not, and the chief of
police (Kane) was an ally of the disloyal leaders. When the Pennsylvanians had passed through the
city, rumors came that a regiment from Massachusetts were approaching; and when, on the following
day (April 19, 1861), the latter were marching from one railwaj- station to another, in Baltimore, they
were violently assailed with missiles of ever>' sort by an excited populace numbering full ten thousand
persons. The mayor, alarmed at the furious whirlwind that his political friends had raised, vainly
attempted to control it. With a large body of the police, most of whom did not share in the treason of
their chief (Kane), he tried to quell the disturbance, but his power was inoperative. The fight in the
streets was severe. Three of the troops (the Sixth Alassachusetts) were killed or mortally wounded, and
in defence of their own lives the}' slew nine citizens of Baltimore. This tragedy produced intense excite-
ment all over the country. There the first blood was shed in the terrible conflict that ensued. For a
moment the indignation of the loyal people was so hot, that the city seemed doomed to swift destruction.
A cry went forth, "Lay it in ashes I" and Bayard Taylor wrote:

"Bow down in haste thy guilty head!

God's wrath is swift and sure;
The sky with gathering bohs is red.
Cleanse from thy skirts the slaughter shed
Or make thyself an ashen bed,

O Bahimorel"

(jROLP OF (_(>NTK.\LIANDi

The troops from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were not too soon in the National capital ; for all
communication between Washington and the North, by railway and telegraph, was cut oR for a week
after the affray in Baltimore. On the night of the riot the bridges of the railway running northward from
that city were burned, and the telegraph wires were cut, under the sanction of its mayor and chief of
police; and the President of the United States and other officers of government, civil and military, at
the capital, were virtually prisoners in the hands of the enemies of their countn,'. The capital was swarm-
ing with them; and these, with the Minute-men of Marjdand, were barely restrained from violence by
the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts soldiers in Washington.

The Maryland Secessionists now declared that no more troops should pass through that State to
Washington; and the mayor of Baltimore, with the sanction of Governor Hicks, sent a committee to

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President Lincoln to tell him of this decision. The President received them courteously, and yielded
much for the sake of peace, proposing to have the troops go by water to Annapolis, and thence march
through the sparsely settled country to the capital. The Secessionists would not yield an iota of their
demand that "no United States soldier should tread the soil of Maryland." Governor Hicks, a sincere
Unionist, but not in robust bodily health and almost seventy years of age, was overborne by the violent
Secessionists in official position, and was made their passive instrument in some degree. He was induced
to make the degrading proposition that Lord Lyons, the British minister at Washington, "be requested
to act as mediator between the contending parties in our country." In the name of the President, Mr.
Seward reminded the governor that when the capital was in danger in 1814, as it was now, his State
gladly welcomed the United States troops everywhere on its soil, for the defence of Washington. This
mildly drawn but stinging rebuke of the chief magistrate of a State that professed to be a member of the
Union, gave the Secessionists notice that no degrading propositions would, for a moment, be entertained
by the Government.

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the Secessionists. They represented the theological element of Baltimore society, and were led by Rev.
Dr. Fuller of the Baptist Church. When that gentleman assured the President that he might secure
peace by recognizing the independence of the "seceded" States; that thej' would never be a part of the
Union again, and expressed a hope that no more troops would be allowed to pass through IMaryland, the
President listened patiently, and then said significantly: "I must have troops for the defence of the capital.
The Carolinians are now marching across Virginia to seize the capital, and hang me. What am I to do?
I must have troops, I say; and as they can neither crawl under ]Mar\iand nor fl}' over it, they must come
across it." The deputation returned to Baltimore, and the Secessionists of that city never afterward gave
suggestions or advice to President Lincoln.

The critical situation of the capital created intense anxiety throughout the free-labor States. All
communication between Washington and the rest of the world was cut off. General Scott could not send
an order anywhere. What was to be done ? That question .was promptly answered by the veteran
General John E. Wool. He hastened from his headquarters in Troy, New York, to the presence of the
governor of the State (Morgan) at Albany, and they went immediately to the city of New York. Wool
was the commander of the Eastern Department of the Army, which included the whole countr}- eastward
of the Mississippi River. He and the governor held a conference with the "Union Defence Committee,"
composed of some of the leading citizens of New York, with General John A. Dix as chairman and
William jM. Evarts as secretary. A plan of action for the relief of the capital was formed and put into

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immediate operation. Wool, unable to communicate with the General-in-Chief (Scott), assumed the
responsibility of ordering the movements of troops, providing for the safety of Fortress Monroe, and
sending forward immediate military relief and supplies for the menaced capital. The governors of a
dozen States applied to him for relief and munitions of war, as he was the highest military authority then
accessible; and he assisted in arming no less than nine States. By his prodigious and judicious labors
in connection with the liberal "Union Defence Committee" of New York, the capital was saved.

The destruction of bridges north of Baltimore prevented troops from passing that way. So the
Seventh Regiment of New York, Colonel Ellsworth's New York Fire Zouaves and some Massachusetts
troops, under General B. F. Butler, proceeded to Annapolis by water, and saved the frigate Constitution
there, which was about to be seized bj^ the Secessionists. Butler took possession of the railway between
Annapolis and Washington, and first opened communication with the capital; and on the 25th of April he
took possession of the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore, where the Baltimore and Ohio railway
turns toward Harper's Ferry. While he was there, over nine hundred men, with a battery-, under Colonel
F. E. Patterson, sailed from Philadelphia and landed near Fort McHenry, at Baltimore, in the presence

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of the mayor of the city, Chief of Police Kane and many of his force, and a vast crowd of excited citizens.
Latent Unionism in Maryland w-as then astir, and shouts of welcome greeted the Pennsylvanians. That
was on the gth of May — three weeks after the attack on the Massachusetts troops in the streets of Balti-
more. These were the first troops that had passed through since, and were the pioneers of tens of thousands
of Union soldiers who streamed through that city during the war that ensued. Though the ^Maryland
Legislature shielded, by special law, the leaders in the murderous assault on the troops on the igth of
April, from punishment, no such violence was ever attempted afterward.

General Scott had planned a ponderous expedition for seizing and holding Baltimore. It was to
consist of twelve thousand men divided into four columns, who were to approach that city from four
different points at the same time. General Butler saw that a swifter movement was necessary to accom-
plish that end. He obtained permission of General Scott to attempt the seizure of some arms and
ammunition said to be concealed in Baltimore, and to arrest some Secessionists there. Baltimore was in
the Department of Annapolis, of which Butler was commander, and the permission implied the use of
troops. Having promised Colonel Jones, of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, that his men should
again march through Baltimore, he summoned that regiment from the capital to the Relay House. With
these and a few other troops, and two pieces of artillery well manned, in all a little more than a thousand
men, he entered cars headed toward Harper's Ferr\'. They ran up the road a short distance, and then
backed slowly past the Relay House and into Baltimore early in the evening, just as a heavy thunderstorm

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burst upon the city. Few persons were abroad, and the citizens were ignorant of this portentous
arrival. The mayor was soon afterward apprised of it, and sent a note to General Butler inquiring what
he nu-ant by thus threatening the peace of the city by the presence of a large body of troops.

When the mayor's message arrived at the station,
Butler and his men had disappeared in the gloom. Well
piloted, they marched to Federal Hill, an eminence that
commanded the cit}-. The rain fell copiously; the rumble
of the cannon-wheels was mingled with that of the thunder,
and was mistaken for it, and the lightning played around
the points of their bayonets. In his wet clothing, at near
midnight, General Butler sat down and wrote a proclama-
tion to the citizens of Baltimore, assuring all peaceable
citizens full protection, and intimating that a much larger
force was at hand to support the Government in its efforts
to suppress the rebellion. This proclamation (dated May
14, 1 861) was published in a city paper (the Clipper) the

next morning, and gave
the people of Baltimore
the first intimation
that their town was in
of National troops. In
more than a thousand
pHshed, under an auda-
General Scott proposed
thousand men in an in-
jealous pride of the Gen-
fended by the superior
nate. He reproved him
orders, and demanded
Depart-
n a t u r e d
Butler, but
field of oper-
commission.
enabled to
more from
die of May,
well pro-
as absolute-
insurgents.
sumed the
C onf ed-
their ener-
to the field
public. Da-
gress," as we
Montgom-
take meas-
of f ensive
the Confed-
belonging to

the actual possession
a single night, a little
men had accom-
cious leader, what
to do with twelve
definite time. The
eral-in-Chief was of-
action of a subordi-
for acting without
his removal from the
ment. The good-
President did remove
to a more extended
ations, with a higher
From that time, troops were
pass freely through Balti-
the North ; and at the mid-
the National capital was so
tected that it was regarded
ly safe from capture by the
The contest had now as-
dignity of Civil War. The
erates were putting forth all
gies to meet the forces called
by the President of the Re-
vis summoned his "con-
have observed, to meet at
cry on the 29th of April, to
ures for prosecuting the war,
and defensive. At that time

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erates had seized property
the United States valued at $40,000,000, and had forty thousand armed men in the field, more than
one-half of whom were then in Virginia, and forming an irregular line from Norfolk to Harper's Ferry.
At the beginning of May they had sent emissaries abroad to seek recognition and aid from foreign govern-
ments. They had extinguished the lamps of the light-houses, one hundred and thirty-three in number,
all along the coasts of the Republic, from Hampton Roads to the Rio Grande, and had commissioned
numerous "privateers" to prey upon the commerce of the United States. Encouraged by their success at

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Charleston, they were then besieging Fort Pickens, as we have observed, and were using prodigious
exertions to obtain possession of the National capital.

The magnitude of the disaffection to the National Government was now more clearly perceived; and
the President, satisfied that the number of militia called for would not be adequate for the required service
against the wide-spreading rebellion, issued a proclamation on the 3d of May, calling for sixty -four thousand
volunteers for the army, and eighteen thousand for the nav\% to ' ' serve during the war. " Fortress Monroe,
a very important fort in Southeastern Virginia, and Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, were reinforced; and
the blockade of the Southern ports, from which "privateers" were preparing to sail, was proclaimed.
Washington city was made the general rendezvous of all troops raised eastward of the Alleghany mountains.
These came flocking thither by thousands, and were quartered in the Patent-Ofifice building and other
edifices, and the Capitol was made a vast citadel. Its legislative halls, the rotunda, and other rooms were
filled with soldiery; so also was the great East Room in the President's house. The basements of the
Capitol were converted into store-rooms for barrels of flour, beef and pork, and other commissary- stores.
The vaults under the broad terrace on its western front were converted into bakeries, where sixteen
thousand loaves of bread were baked each day.

Before the summer of 186 1 had fairly begun, Washington was an immense garrisoned town, and strong
fortifications were growing upon the hills that surround it. The States westward of the AUeghanies were
also pouring out their thousands of armed men, who were gathered at appointed rendezvous; and every
department of the National Government was active in preparation for the great conflict of mighty hosts
that were to fight, one party for freedom and the other for slaver3\

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CHAPTER X.

Defection of Colonel Lee — Temptation and Fall — First Invasion of Virginia — Death of Colonel Ellsworth — Blockade of the Potomac —
Engagement at Sewall's Point — Loj'alty in Western Virginia — Action of the Secessionists — Conventions — Creation and Admission
of a New State — Troops from Beyond the Ohio — The First Battle on Land — Attitude of the Border States — Kentucky Unionism —
Events in Missouri — General Lyon — The Governor of Missouri Raises the Standard of Revolt — Movements in Tennessee —
Pillow and Polk — Change in the Confederate Seat of Government — ^Jeflferson Davis in Virginia — His Reception in Richmond.

THE Confederates acquired much strength at the beginning, by the defection of Colonel Robert E.
Lee, an accomplished engineer officer in the National army, and one who was greatly beloved and
thoroughly trusted by the General-in-Chief, Scott. Temptation assailed him in the form of an
offer of the supreme command of the military and naval forces of his native State, Virginia. It was
rendered more potent by the doctrine of State supremacy; and it so weakened his patriotism that he

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yielded to the tempter. And when the Convention oi Virginia passed an Ordinance of Secession, he
resigned his commission, deserted his flag, and took up arms against his Government, saying, in the
common language of men of the State-supremacy school : "I must go with m}' State. ' ' He had lingered
in Washington city for a week after the evacuation of Fort Sumter; and received from General Scott,
without giving a hint of his secret determination, all information possible from that confiding friend,
concerning the plans and resources of the Government, to be employed in suppressing the rebellion. With
this precious treasury of important knowledge, Lee hastened to Richmond, and was cordially received
there, with marks of great distinction, by the vice-president of the Confederacy and officers of his State,
and was informed that the supreme command of the forces of the Commonwealth was committed to his
care.

No man had stronger inducements to be a loA'al and patriotic citizen than Robert E. Lee. His
associations with the founders of the Republic he tried to destroy were very strong. He was a son of that
"Lowland Beauty" who was the object of Washington's first love. His father was glorious "Legion
Harr}'" of the Revolution, whose sword had been gallantly used in gaining the independence of the
American people; and he had led an army to crush an insurrection. Colonel Lee's wife was a great-
granddaughter of Mrs. Washington. And his beautiful home, called Arlington, near Washington city,
inherited from the adopted son of Washington, was filled with plate, china and furniture that had been
used by the beloved patriot at Mount Vernon.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

JULY, 18G2—Conti7ined from Section 4
11— Williamsburg, Va. Confed. 3 killed.

Pleasant Hill, Mo. 1st Iowa Cav.. Mo. Militia. Union 10 killed, 19
wounded. Confed. 6 killed, 5 wounded.
12 — Lebanon, Ky. 28th Ky.. Lebanon Home Guards (Morgan's Raid).
L'7tion 2 kUled, 65 prisoners.
Near Culpepper. Va. 1st Md.. 1st Vt.. 1st W. Va.. 5th X. Y. Cav.
Confed. 1 killed. 5 wounded.
13— Murfreesboro*. Tenn. 9th Mich., 3d Minn.. 4th Ky. Cav.. 7th Pa. Cav..
1st Ky. Batterv. Union 33 killed, 62 wounded. 800 missing. Confed
50 killed, 100 wounded.
14 — Batesville, Ark. 4th Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.
16 — Attempt to destroy 4th Wis., Gunboats Carondelet. Queen of the West.
Tyler and Essex. Union 13 killed, 36 wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 9
wounded.
Apache Pass. Ariz. 2d Cal. Cav. Union 1 wounded.
Favetteville. Ark. Detachment of Cavalry, under command of Maj.

W. H. Miller. Confed. 150 captured.
Near Decatur, Tenn. Detachment of 1st Ohio Cav. Union 4 wounded.
17 — Cynthiana, Ky. ISth Ky., 7th Ky. Cav., Cynthiana, Newport, Cincin-
nati and Bracken Co. Home Guards (Morgan's Raid). Union 17
killed, 34 wounded. Confed. 8 killed, 29 wounded.
18 — Memphis, Mo. 2d Mo. Cav.. 9th and 11th Mo. State Militia. Union

13 killed, 35 wounded. Confed. 23 killed.
20 to September 20 — Guerrilla Campaign in Missouri. Gen. Schofield's Com-
mand. Union 77 killed, 156 wounded, 347 missing. Confed. 506
killed. 1.800 wounded. 560 missing.
23 — Florida. Mo. Two Cos. 3d Iowa Cav. Union 22 wounded. Confed.
3 killed.
Columbus, Mo. 7th Mo. Cav, Union 2 wounded.
24r— Trinity. Ala. Co. E 31st Ohio. Union 2 killed. 11 wounded. Confed.
12 killed. 30 wounded.
Near Florida, Mo. 3d Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded. Confed.
1 killed, 12 wounded.

24 and 25 — Santa Fe. Mo. 3d Iowa Cav. Union 2 killed, 13 wounded.
26— Courtland Bridge. Ala. Two Cos. 10th Ky., two Cos. 1st Ohio Cav.

Union 100 captured.

25 and 26 — Mountain Store and Big Piney. Mo. Three Cos. 3d Mo. Cav.,

Battery L 2d Mo. Artil. Confed. 5 killed.
26— Young's Cross Roads. N. C. 9th N. J.. 3d N. Y. Cav. Union 7
wounded. Confed. 4 killed. 13 wounded.
Greenville. Mo. 3d and 12th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 2 killed. 5
wounded. . . ■
28 — Bayou Barnard, Ind. Ter. 1st, 2d and 3d Kan. Home Guards, 1st Kan.
Battery. No casualties recorded.
Moore's Mills, Mo. 9ih Mo.. 3d Iowa Cav.. 2d Mo. Cav., 3d Ind.
Battery. Union 19 killed, 21 wounded. Confed, 30 killed. 100
wounded.
29~Bollinger's Mills. Mo. Two Cos. 13th Mo. Confed. 10 killed.

Russelville, Ky. 7th Ind., RusselviUe Home Guards. Union 1

wounded.
Brownsville, Tenn. One Co. 15th 111. Cav. Union 4 killed, 6 wounded.
Confed. 4 killed, 6 wounded.
SO— Paris, x^y. 9th Pa. Cav. Confed. 27 killed, 39 wounded.
SI — Coggins' Point, opposite Harrison's Landing, Va. U. S. Gunboat
Fleet. Union 10 killed. 15 wounded. Confed. 1 killed. 6 wounded.

AUGUST, 1862

1 — Newark, Mo. Seventy-three men of :he 11th Mo. State Militia.

Union 4 killed, 4 wounded. 60 captured. Confed. 73 killed and

wounded.
2 — Ozark or Fors>'the. Mo. ■14th Mo. State Militia. Union 1 wounded.

Confed. 3 killed, 7 wounded.
Orange C. H.. Va. 5th N. Y. Cav.. 1st Vt. Cav. Union 4 killed. 12

wounded. Confed. II killed, 52 captured.
Clear Creek or TaberviUe, Mo. Four Cos. 1st Iowa Cav. Union 5

killed, 14 wounded. Confed. 11 killed.
Coahomo Co., Miss. 11th Wis. Union 5 wounded.
3 — Sycamore Church, near Petersburg, Va. 3d Pa. Cav.. 5th U. S. Cav.

Union 2 wounded. Confed. 6 wounded.
Chariton Bridge. Mo. 6th Mo. Cav. Union 2 wounded. Confed. 11

killed, 14 wounded.
Jonesboro". Ark. 1st Wis. Cav. Union 4 killed. 2 wounded, 21 missing.
Lauguelle Ferry, Ark. 1st Wis. Cav. Union 17 killed, 38 wounded.
4 — Sparta, Tenn. Detachments of 4th Ky. and 7th Ind. Cav. Union 1

killed.
White Oak Swamp Bridge. Va. 3d Pa. Cav. Confed. 10 wounded. 28

captured.
6 — Baton Rouge, La. 14th Me.. 6th Mich.. 7th Vt.. 21st Ind., 30th Mass..

9th Conn.. 4th Wis.. 2d, 4th and 6th Mass. Batteries. Union 82

killed, 255 wounded. 34 missing. Confed. 84 killed. 316 wounded,

78 missing. Union Brig.-Gen. Thomas Williams killed.
Malvern Hill. Va. Portion of Hooker's Div., Third Corps and Richard-
son's Div., Second Corps and Cavalry. Army of the Potomac. Union

3 killed, 11 wounded. Confed. 100 captured.
6 — Montevallo, Mo. 3d Wis. Cav. Union 1 wounded, 3 missing.

Beech Creek. W. Va. 4th W. Va. Union 3 killed. 8 wounded. Confed.

1 killed, 11 wounded.
Kirksvjlle, Mo. Mo. State Militia. Union 28 killed, 60 wounded.

Confed. 128 killed. 200 wounded.
Matapony or Thomburg. Va. Detachment of King's Division. Union

1 killed, 12 wounded, 72 missing.
Tazewell. Tenn. 16th and 42d Ohio. 14th and 22d Ky., 4th Wis. Bat-
tery. Union 3 killed. 23 wounded, 50 missing. Confed. 9 killed.

40 wounded.

7— Trenton, Tenn. 2d 111. Cav. Confed. 30 killed, 20 wounded.
B — Panther Creek, Mo. 1st Mo. Militia Cav. Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.
9 — Stockton, Mo. Col. McNeil's command of Mo. State Militia. Confed.
13 killed, 36 missing.
Cedar Mountain. Va.. also called Slaughter Mountain. Southwest
Mountain. Cedar Run and Mitchell's Station. Second Corps. Maj.-
Gen. Banks, Third Corps, Maj. -Gen. McDowell. Army of Virginia,
under command of Maj. -Gen. Pope. Unio?i 450 killed. 660 wounded.
290 missing. Conned. 229 killed, 1,047 wounded, 31 missing. Union
Brig. -Gens. Augur, Carroll, and Geary wounded. Confed. Brig.-
Gen. C. S. Winder killed.
10 — Nueces River, Tex. Texas Loyalists. Union 40 killed. Confed. 8

killed. 14 wounded.
10 to 13 — Grand River, Lee's Ford. Chariton River, Walnut Creek, Comp-
ton Ferry, Switzler's Mills and Yellow Creek. Mo. 9th Mo. Militia.
Union 100 killed and wounded.
11 — Independence, Mo. 7th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 14 killed, 18 wounded,
312 missing.
Helena, Ark. 2d Wis. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.
Wyoming C. H., W. Va. Detachment of 37th Ohio. Union 2 killed.
Kinderhook, Tenn. Detachments of 3d Ky. and 1st Tenn. Cav. Union
3 killed. Confed. 7 killed.
12— Galatin. Tenn. 2d Ind., 4th and 5th Ky., 1st Pa. Cav. Ujiion 30

killed. 50 wounded, 200 captured. Confed. 6 killed, 18 wounded.
13— Galatin. Tenn. 13th and 69th Ohio. Uth Mich., drove the Con-
federates from the town with slight loss.
Clarendon, Ark. Brig.-Gen. Hovey's Div. of the 13th Corps. Confed.
700 captured.
16 — Merriweather's Ferry, Tenn. One Co. 2d 111. Cav. Union 3 killed, 6

wounded. Confed. 20 killed.
16 — Lone Jack. Mo. Mo. Militia Cav. Union 60 killed. 100 wounded.

Confed. 110 killed and wounded.
18 — Capture of Rebel steamer Fairplay. near Milliken's Bend. La. 5Sth and

7tith Ohio. Confed. 40 prisoners.
19 — Clarksville, Tenn. 71st Ohio. Union 200 captured.

White Oak Ridge, near Hickman, Ky. 2d III. Cav. Union 2 wounded.
Confed. 4 killed.
20 — Brandy Station, Va. Cavalry of Army of Virginia. Confed. 3 killed. 12
wounded.
Edgefield Junction, Tenn. Detachment of 50th Ind. Confed. S killed,

18 wounded.
Union Mills. Mo. 1st Mo. Cav.. 13th 111. Cav. Union 4 killed. 3
wounded. Confed. 1 killed.
21 — Pinckney Island, S. C. Union 3 killed. 3 wounded.
22— Courtland. Tenn. 42d 111. Union 2 wounded. Confed. 8 killed.
23— Big Hill, Madison Co., Ky. 3d Tenn., 7th Ky. Cav. Union 10 killed,

40 wounded and missing. Confed. 25 killed.
23 to 26 — Skirmishes on the Rappahannock at Waterloo Bridge, Lee Springs,
Freeman's Ford and Sulphur Springs. Va. Army of Virginia, under
Mai. -Gen. Pope. Confed. 27 killed, 94 wounded. Union Brig.-Gen.
Bohlen captured.
23 to Sept. 1 — Pope's Campaign in Virginia. Army of Virginia. Union
7.000 killed, wounded and missing. Confed. 1,500 killed, 8,000
wounded.
24 — Dallas, Mo. 12th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 3 killed, 1 wounded.

Coon Creek or Lamar, Mo. Union 2 killed, 22 wounded.
SS and 26 — Fort Donelson and Cumberland Iron Works, Tenn. 71st Ohio,
5th Iowa Cav. Union 31 killed and wounded. Confed. 30 killed
and wounded.
Bloomfield, Mo. 13th 111. Cav. Confed. 20 killed and wounded.
26 — Rienzi and Kossuth, Miss. 2d Iowa Cav., 7th Kan. Cav. Union 5

killed, 12 wounded.
27— Bull Run Bridge, Va. 11th and 12th Ohio, 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th N. J.
Union Brig.-Gen. G. W. Taylor mortally wounded.

Kettle Run, Va. Maj. -Gen. Hooker's Div. of Third Corps. Union 300
killed and wounded. Confed. 300 killed and wounded.

26 — Readyville or Round Hill, Tenn. 10th Brigade Army of Ohio. Union
5 wounded.

28 and 29 — Groveton and Gainesville, Va. First Corps. Maj. -Gen. Sigel.
Third Corps. Maj. -Gen. McDowell, Army of Virginia. Hooker's and
Kearney's Division of Third Corps, and Reynolds' Division of First
Corps. Army of Potomac. Ninth Corps, Maj. -Gen. Reno. Union 7.000
killed, wounded and missing. Confed. 7.000 killed, wounded and
missing.

29— Manchester, Tenn. Two Cos. 18th Ohio, one Co. 9th Mich. Confed.
100 killed and wounded.

30 — Second Battle of Bull Run or Manassas. Va. Same troops as engaged
at Groveton and Gainesville on the 28th and 29th, with the addition
of Porter's Fifth Corps. Union 800 killed, 4,000 wounded. 3,000
missing. Confed. 700 killed. 3.000 wounded.

Bolivar. Tenn. 20th and 7Sth Ohio. 2d and 11th 111. Cav., 9th Ind. Art.
Union 5 killed, IS woundfid, 64 missing. Confed. 100 killed and
wounded.

McMinnville, Tenn. 26th Ohio, 17th and 58th Ind.. 8th Ind. Battery.
Confed. 1 killed, 20 wounded.

Richmond, Kv. 12th. 16th. 55th, 66th, 69th and 71st Ind., 95th Ohio,
ISth Kv., 6th and 7th Ky. Cav.. Batteries D and G Mich. Art.
Union 200 killed, 700 wounded. 4.000 missing. Confed. 250 killed.
500 wounded.

31 — Medon Station, Tenn. 45th III., 7th Mo. Union 3 killed, 13 wounded.
^3 missing.

Yates' Ford, Ky. 94th Ohio. Union 3 killed, 10 wounded.
{Continued in Section 6)

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CHAPTER X.— Continued.

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Colonel, Later Gene.jai., Lew Wallace

'HESE considerations, so calculated to expand the generous
X soul with National pride and make the possession of citi-
zenship of a great nation a cherished honor and privilege , seem to have
had no influence with Colonel Lee. The narrow political creed of
his class of thinkers taught no broader doctrines of citizenship than
the duty of allegiance to a petty State whose flag is utterly un-
known beyond our shores — an insignificant portion of a great Re-
public whose flag is honored and respected on ever}- sea and in every
port of the civilized world. Acting upon these narrow views,
Colonel Lee said, "I must go with my State;" and going, he took
with him precious information which enabled him to make valuable
suggestions to the insurgents concerning the best methods for
seizing the National capital. In time Colonel Lee became the
general-in-chief of all the armies in rebellion against his Govern-
ment, at w^hose expense he had been educated in the art of war.
Colonel Lee advised the Virginians to erect a battery of heavy
guns on Arlington Heights, not far from his own home, which
would command the cities of Washington and Georgetown. They
were about to follow this advice, when, late in May, their plans
were frustrated by the General-in-Chief, who sent National troops
across the Potomac to the Virginia shore by way of the Long
Bridge at Washington, and the Aqueduct Bridge at Georgetown,
to take possession of Alexandria and Arlington Heights. Ells-
worth's New York Fire Zouaves went to Alexandria in two schooners, at the same time, to be assisted by

a third column that crossed the river at the Long Bridge.

The troops that first passed the Long Bridge constructed a battery at the Virginia end of it, which

they named Fort Runyon, in compliment to General Runyon of New Jersey, who was in command of a

part of them. The troops that passed Aqueduct Bridge were led by General Irwin McDowell; and upon

the spot where Lee proposed to erect a batterv' of siege-guns, to

destroy the capital, the troops erected a redoubt to defend it,

which they named Fort Corcoran, in compliment to the com-
mander of an Irish regiment among them. These were the first

redoubts constructed by the National troops in the Civil War;

and this was the initial movement of the Government forces in

opening the first campaigns of that war. It occurred on the

morning of the 24th of May, 1861.

The troops sent by land and water reached Alexandria about

the same time, and took possession of the citj-. They seized the

Orange and Alexandria railway station and much rolling stock,

with some Virginia cavalry who were guarding it. The Seces-
sionists in the city were defiant ; and one of them, the keeper of a

tavern, persisted in flying the Confederate flag over his house.

The impetuous young Ellsworth proceeded to pull it down with

his own hands, when the proprietor shot him dead, and was

killed, in turn, by one of the Zouaves. This tragedy caused great

bitterness in both sections of the country for a time.

Meanwhile the Confederates had erected batteries on the

Virginia shores of the Potomac River to obstruct its navigation by

National vessels. They had also cast up redoubts near Hampton

Roads, not far from Fortress Ivlonroe. Captain J. H. Ward was colonel B. F. Kei.ley

XoTE— EXPLAXATIOX OF THE COLORED FROXTISPIECE ME.A.DE .\T GETTYSBURG— The scene is the famous "wheat-field." the time
about sunset on July 2. 1863. the second day at Gettysburg. At six o'clrjck General Sickles had been wounded and carried from the field. The despcate
conflict for the possession of Little Round- Top is still going on. The hill in the background of our picture, wreathed in smoke, shows the distant conflict:
General Hancock, in the right foreground, has ridden up to report to General Meade, They face each other while Hancock points to the battlefield. General
Meade, field glasses in hand, is ordering Hancock to take command of Sickles' Third Corps, now under Birney, and engaged in the battle, .\ line of Federal
troops, their colors gleaming in the sun. is just moving down to engage in the conflict. Twice the Federal center had been pierced. The slaughter has been
terrible. That night, when darkness ends the battle, there is still doubt where the advantage lies. But on the next day the tide turned, and Lee. defeated.
was sent marching back toward Virginia.

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sent to the Roads with a flotilla of armed vessels. The insurgents then possessed Norfolk, and had erected
a battery on Sewall's point at the mouth of the Elizabeth River, where, on the morning of the 20th of May,
when Ward's vessels appeared in the Roads, there were about two thousand Confederate soldiers. Ward
opened the guns of his flag-ship (the Freeborn) upon the batterj'. It was soon silenced, and the insurgents
were dispersed. Then Ward proceeded immediatelj^ up the Potomac toward Washington, after reporting
to Commodore Stringham, and patrolled that important stream. At Aquia Creek, about sixty miles
below Washington, he encountered some heavy batteries, and a sharp but indecisive engagement ensued
on the first of June. Soon afterward, in an attack upon other batteries at Matthias's Point, the flotilla
was repulsed, and Captain Ward was killed. At that place and vicinity the Confederates established
batteries which defied the National vessels on those waters; and for many months, the Potomac, as a
highway for supplies for the army near Washington, was effectively blockaded by them.

The Union element in the Virginia Secession Convention was chiefl}' from Western \'irginia, a

mountain district, where the
been profitable; and the
to the old flag gave the Vir-
easiness. At the very be-
perceived the importance of
region, and so control the
way that traversed it, and
the teeming West. For that
from Richmond to restrain
people, when the latter flew
ship of Colonel B. F. Kelley,
shire, who set up his stand-
an important political
ken place which later divi-
Before the adjournment
mond the inhabitants of
the necessity of making a
and their own independence
the State in the interests of
meeting was held at Clarks-

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slave-labor s^-stem had not
loyalty of the people there
ginia conspirators much un-
ginning the Confederates
holding possession of that
Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
connected Maryland with
purpose troops were sent
the active patriotism of the
to arms under the leader-
a native of New Hamp-
ard near Wheeling, where
movement had already ta-
iled the State.
of the Convention at Rich-
Western Virginia perceived
bold stand for the Union
of the oligarchy that ruled
the slaveholders. This first
burg, on the line of the Bal-
the 2 2d of April. John S.

timore and Ohio railway, ok
Carlisle, a member of the Convention then sitting at Richmond, offered a resolution at that meeting
(which was adopted) calling a Convention of delegates at Wheeling on the 13 th of May. Similar meetings
were held at other places. One at Kingswood, Preston county, declared that the separation of Western
from Eastern Virginia was essential to the maintenance of their liberties. They also resolved to elect a
representative to sit in the National Congress; and at a mass Convention held at Wheeling on the 5th of
May, it was resolved to sever all political connection with the conspirators at Richmond.

The Convention of delegates met at Wheeling on the 13th of May. The National flag was unfurled
over the Custom-House there with appropriate demonstrations of loyalt}^; and in the Convention the
chief topic of discussion was the division of the State and the formation of a new Commonwealth composed
of forty or fifty counties of the mountain region. It was asserted in the Convention that the slave oligarchy
eastward of the mountains, and in all the tide-water counties, wielded the political power of the State,
and used it for the promotion of their great interest, in the lev\-ing of taxes, and in lightening their own
burdens at the expense of the labor and thrift of the citizens of West Virginia. These considerations, and
an innate love for the Union, produced such unanimity of sentiment that the labors of the secret emissaries
of the conspirators, and of the open serv'ice of recruiting officers were almost fruitless in Western Virginia.
The Convention itself was a unit in feeling and purpose; but it was too informal in its character to take
decisive action upon the momentous question of a division of the State. So, after condemning the Ordi-
nance of Secession, a resolution was adopted, calling a Provisional Convention, at the same place, on the
nth of June, unless the people should vote adversely to that Ordinance, at the appointed time.

The proceedings at Wheeling alarmed the conspirators. They expected an immediate revolt in
that region; and Governor Letcher ordered Colonel Porterfield, who was in command of State troops at
Grafton, to seize and carry away the arms at Wheeling belonging to the United States, and to use them
in arming such men as might rally around his flag. He also told Porterfield that it was "advisable to cut
off telegraphic communication between Wheeling and W^ashington, so that the disaffected at the former

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place could not communicate with their allies at headquarters." Letcher added: "If troops from Ohio
or Pennsylvania shall be attempted to be passed on the railroads, do not hesitate to obstruct their passage
by all means in your power, even to the destruction
of the road and bridge."

As we have observed, the people in Eastern Vir-
ginia, under the pressure of the bayonet, ratified the
Ordinance of Secession. The Provisional Convention
assembled at Wheeling on the appointed day, when
about forty counties were represented. The meeting
was held in the Custom-house, with Arthur Boreman
president, and G. L. Cranmer secretar>\ A Bill of
Rights, reported by J. S. Carlile, was adopted; all
allegiance to the Southern Confederacy was denied ; a
resolution was passed declaring the determination of
the inhabitants of Virginia never to submit to the Ordi-
nance of Secession, but to maintain the rights of the
Commonwealth in the Union; and all citizens who
had taken up arms against the Na-

tional Government were exhorted to
lay them down and return to their
allegiance. An Ordinance was re-
ported and adopted vacating all the
offices in the State held by State
in hostility to the General Govern-
also providing for a Provisional gov-
the election of officers for a period of
also requiring all officers of the State,
towns, to take an oath of allegiance
tional Government. This move-
formally deposed Governor Letcher
officers in rebellion against the Na-
ernment, but not a secession from
purely revolution-
Convention adopted
of independence of
eminent of Virginia,
signed by fifty-six
on the igth a Pro-
ganized by the
pont. Provisional
Polsley, lieutenant-
Council of five mem-
(June 20, 1861) the
tion from Eastern
lution adopted by
Mr. Pierrepont
He at once notified
States that an insur-
formidable to be
and called for aid
ment to suppress it.
borrowed money for
pledge of his own

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officers acting
ment, and
crnment and
sbc months ;
counties and
to the Na-
ment, which
and all State
tional Gov-
the State, was
ary. The
a declaration
the old gov-
which was
members ;and
visional government was or-
choice of Francis H. Pierre-
governor of the State; Daniel
governor, and an Executive
bers. On the following day
necessity of ultimate separa-
Virginia was favored by reso-
unanimous vote,
was a bold and energetic man.
the President of the United
rection in Virginia was too
suppressed by local power,
from the National Govem-
He organized the militia, and
the public service on the
government" against the extra-

private fortune. He upheld the "restored
ordinary efforts of the conspirators at Richmond to crush the new organization and enslave the loyal
people. A Legislature was chosen, and at its session, begun at Wheeling on the ist of July,
John S. Carlile and Waitman G. Willie were chosen to represent the restored Commonwealth
in the National Congress. Finally a convention of delegates, held in November, 1861, adopted a new

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State Constitution, in which Slavery was prohibited; and on 3d of May following, the people who voted
upon it, ratified it.

The Legislature, at a called session, approved of a division of the State, and the establishment of a
new Commonwealth. All the legal requirements having been complied with, the western counties, by
Act of Congress, organized under a constitution, were admitted into the Union under the title of the State
of West \^ii'ginia, on the 20th of June, 1863; and Arthur J. Boreman was chosen governor of the new
Commonwealth. At midsummer, Old Virginia presented the curious political spectacle of Letcher, at
Richmond, claiming authority over the whole State; Pierrepont, at Alexandria, claiming authority over
the whole old State excepting West Virginia, and Boreman, at Wheeling, the chief executive of the new
Commonwealth, as legal governor.

The Unionists of Western Virginia needed help from the beginning; for the regiment that gathered
around Colonel Kelley at Wheeling, though full eleven hundred strong, were too few to withstand the

Group at Arlington

Confederate forces sent against them. Already General George B. McClellan, who had been called to the
command of the Ohio troops, was assigned to the head of the Department of the Ohio, which included
Western Virginia. With Ohio and Indiana troops he crossed the Ohio River. These, with Kellej^'s
Virginians, moved on Grafton and drove Porterfield and his Confederates to Philippi, closely pursued by
his foes. After a sharp engagement at the latter place, on the 2d of June, the Confederates were dispersed,
and, for a while, matters w'ere quiet in that region. Kelley was severely wounded in the battle at Philippi.
That was the first conflict on land after the President's call for troops.

While events in Western Virginia were assuming the character of open warfare between armed forces,
others of great importance were occurring westward of the Alleghany Mountains; for, so early as the
beginning of June, civil war had begun wherever the system of slavery prevailed. Political leaders in the
"Border States" — slave-labor States bordering on free-labor States — took a position which finally brought
great distress upon the inhabitants of those Commonwealths. A large class of these leaders professed to
be friends of the Union, but conditionally. They would be its friends so long as the National Government
did not interfere with slavery, nor "attempt to bring back the seceded States;" in other words, they were
friends of the Republic so long as its Government did not raise a finger for the salvation of its life. When
the President's call for troops to suppress the rebellion appeared, the Louisville Journal, the organ of
the professed Unionists of Kentucky, hastened to say; "We are struck with mingled amazement and

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indignation. The policy announced in the proclamation deserv^es the unqualified condemnation of every
American citizen. It is unworthy, not merely of a statesman, but of a man. It is a policy utterlj' hare-
brained and ruinous. If Air. Lincoln contemplated this policy in his inaugural address, he is a guilty

dissembler ; if he conceived it under the excitement aroused b}- the
seizure of Fort Sumter, he is a guilty Hotspur. In either case, he is
miserably unfit for the exalted position in which the enemies of the
countn,^ have placed him. Let the people instantly take him and
his administration into their own hands, if they would rescue the
land from bloodshed, and the Union from sudden and irretrievable
destruction." And at a large "Union meeting" at Louisville, over
which James Guthrie and other leading men in the State held con-
trol, it was resolved that "Kentucky reserved to herself the right
to choose her own position; and that, while her natural sym-
pathies are with those who have a common interest in the protec-
tion of slavery, she still acknowledges her loyalty and fealty to the
Government of the United States, which she will cheerfully render
until that Government becomes aggressive, tyrannical, and regardless of
our rights in slave property." They declared that the States were
peers of the National Government ; and gave the world to under-
stand that the latter should not be allowed to "use sanguinary or
coercive" measures to "bring back the seceded States." The
"Kentucky' State Guard," which the governor had organized for
the benefit of the Secessionists, were commended by this Union
meeting as "the bulwark of the safety of the Commonwealth," and
its members were enjoined to remember that they were "pledged
equally" to fidelity to the United States and Kentucky.

The "Guard" was placed under the command of Captain
Simon B. Buckner of the National army, who was then evidently in the secret service of the Confederacy,
for he used his position effectively in seducing large numbers of the members of the "Guard" from their
allegiance to the old flag, and sending them as recruits to the Confederate armies. It was not long
before he led a large portion of them into the camp of the enemy, and he became a Confederate major-
general. Then the Louisville Journal, that had so savagely condemned the President, more savagely
assailed Buckner with curses, saying: "Away with your pledges and assurances — with your protestations,
apologies and proclamations — at once and altogether! Away, parricide! Away, and do penance for-
ever ! — ^be shriven or slain — away ! You have less palliation than Attila — less boldness, magnanimity
and nobleness than Coriolanus. You are the Benedict Arnold of the day! you are the Cataline of
Kentucky! Go, thou miscreant!" And when in February', 1862, Buckner and some of the "State
Guard" were captured at Fort Donelson, and he was sent to Fort Warren, Boston, many of those who
were deceived by the pretence that the "Guard" were the "bulwark of the Commonwealth," demanded
his delivery to the authorities of Kentucky, to be tried for treason against the State. That was after
the Legislature of that State had refused to favor the scheme of the disloyal governor, and Kentucky
was feeling the effects of its peculiar "neutrality;" a sort of Unionism that caused Missouri and Ken-
tucky to become battle-fields, and to suffer untold miseries. Their soil was trodden and ravaged by
contending armies, which had no respect for what was known as "Kentucky neutrality," for, in the hands
of the Secessionists it was only an adroit scheme to mislead and confuse the people, a large majority of
whom were sincerely attached to the Union.

Although the slaves were not more than one-tenth of the population of Missouri and the best interests
of the State were allied to free-labor, the Slave power, wielded by the most active politicians, had such
potential influence that it controlled the destiny of that State. By these the election of Claiborne T.
Jackson, governor of Missouri, was effected, and he was now one of the most active of the Secessionists.
His political friends formed a plan for placing the militia of the State under his absolute control for the
benefit of the Confederacy. The chief leader in this scheme was D. M. Frost, of New York, a graduate
of West Point, who was commissioned a brigadier and placed at the head of that militia. Frost resolved
to seize the Arsenal at St. Louis, and hold possession of that chief city of the Mississippi Valley; and for
this purpose he formed a camp near the town with the pretext of disciplining the men under his command.
At that time the military post at St. Louis was in charge of Captain Nathaniel M. Lyon, who was vigilant
and brave; and when he was satisfied of Frost's treacherous designs, he marched out with a large number
of volunteers, surrounded the insurgent camp, and made the leader and his followers prisoners.

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Fort Beauregard, Near Manassas

It was now late in May, and the Secessionists in Missouri took open issue with the National Govern-
ment. The latter, satisfied that it was the design of the Confederates to hold military possession of that
State and of Kentucky^, fortified Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It
was made impregnable, and became of immense importance to the Union cause ; for there some of the land

and naval expeditions which performed sig-
nal service in the valley of the Mississippi
were fitted out.

General W. S. Harney, a conservative
in feeling, was at the head of the Depart-
ment of the West, with his quarters at St.
Louis. He returned to his post, after a
brief absence, when the excitement was at
its height. Wishing to preserve peace, he
made a compact with the insurgent leaders
not to employ the military' arm so long as
they should preserve public order. The
loyal people were alarmed, for they would
not trust the promises of the Secessionists.
Happily for the Union cause, the National
Government did not sanction the compact.
Appreciating the great services of Lyon, he
was commissioned a brigadier, and at the
close of May he succeeded Harney with the
title of Commander of the Department of
Missouri.

Early in June, General Lyon, Colonel Blair and others, held a conference with Governor Jackson and
General Price, on the subject of pacification. Jackson demanded the disbanding of the Home Guard,
composed of loyal Missourians, and the withdrawal of National troops from the State. Lyon peremptorily
refused, when Jackson and Price returned to JefTerson City, the State capital. The Legislature had placed
the purse and sword of Missouri in the hands of the governor; and on the 12th of June (1861) he issued
a proclamation calling into active service fift}' thousand of the militia, and raised the standard of revolt,
with General Sterling Price as military leader. At the same time he ordered his son to destroy two
important railwa\' bridges, and cut the telegraph wires between St. Louis and the State capital. Then
began those movements of troops within the borders of IMissouri which continued almost incessantly
during the entire period of the war, with the most disastrous results to the peace and prosperity of the
State. At the same time the disloyal governor of Tennessee (Isham G. Harris) had placed that State in
military- relations to the Confederacy, similar to that of Virginia, and was working in concert with Jackson.
General Gideon J. Pillow, an indifferent leader, was placed in chief command of the troops of both States,
and with these he made an unsuccessful efifort to seize Cairo. He was soon superseded by Leonidas Polk,
a graduate of West Point, and then Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Louisiana,
who had been commissioned a major-general, and became an earnest leader of Confederate armies in
the West.

Civil War had now begun in earnest; and in all parts of the Union, North and South, hosts of armed
men were marshaling for the dreadful struggle that ensued. The Confederate government, in order to
be nearer the National capital, their coveted object, had resolved to leave Montgomery and make their
headquarters at Richmond; while their forces, designed for the capture of Washington, were gathering in
large numbers, under General Beauregard, at Manassas, about thirty miles from that city. The president
of the Confederacy (Jefferson Davis) left Montgomerj^ for Virginia, on Sunday the 26th of May, with the
intention, it was said, of taking command of the Confederate troops there, in person. He was accompanied
by his favorite aid, General Wigfall of Fort Sumter fame, and by Robert Toombs, his secretary of state.
His journey was a continual ovation. At ever\' railway station, men, women, and children greeted him
with enthusiasm. A reporter of the Richmond Enquirer was sent to chronicle the events of the journey,
whose admiration of the "presidential party" was very pronounced. He spoke of the "flute-like voice"
of Davis, and of the excessive modesty of Wigfall and Toombs. "In vain he [Wigfall] would seek some
remote part of the cars," said the chronicler; "the crowd hunted him up, and the welkin rang with rejoic-
ings as he addressed them in his emphatic and fervent style of oratory." Of Toombs, he said: "He, too,
sought to avoid the call, but the echo would ring with the name of 'Toombs! Toombs!' and the sturdy

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Georgia statesman had to respond." On the southern verge of Virginia, some of the State riflemen,
designed as an escort to the president, joined the party. With every step the popularity of their "chief
magistrate" seemed to be more and more manifest, for the people felt that "the mantle of Washington
had fallen gracefully upon his shoulders." At Goldsboro', "the Hall," said the reporter, "was thronged
with beautiful girls, and many were decking him with garlands of flowers, while others fanned him. It
was a most interesting occasion. Never were a people more enraptured with their chief magistrate."

At Richmond, Davis was received with equal enthusiasm; and at the Fair-ground he addressed an
immense multitude of people. With a consciousness of power, he spoke bitter words against the Govern-
ment whose kindness he had ever experienced. He flattered the vanity of the Virginians by reminding
them that they had been chosen to ' ' smite the invaders ; ' ' and he assured them there was ' ' not one true

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son of the South who was not ready to shoulder his musket, to bleed, to die, or to conquer in the cause of
liberty here. . . . We have now reached the point, " he continued, ' ' where, arguments being exhausted,
it only remains for us to stand by our weapons. When the time and occasion serve, we shall smite the
smiter with manly arms, as did our fathers before us, and as becomes their sons. To the enemy we leave
the base acts of the assassin and incendiary. To them we leave it to insult helpless women; to us belongs
vengeance upon man." The Virginians were too insane with passion to resent his virtual reiteration of
the selfish words of Pickens : ' ' You may plant your seed in peace, for Old Virginia will have to bear the
brunt of the battle;" and they actually rejoiced with pride in the fact that, as he said, upon even,- hill
around their State Capitol were ' ' camps of soldiers from every State in the Confederacy. ' ' They purchased
an elegant residence for the use of their president, and furnished it sumptuously. There he lived, and
exercised the powers of his office for almost four years.

CHAPTER XI.

Beauregard's Proclamation — Insurgents at Harper's Ferry — E.\ploits of an Indiana Regiment — Events on the Virginia Peninsula — Battle
at Big Bethel — National Troops on the Upper Potomac — The Capital in Danger — A Gunpowder Plot — Action of England and France
"Punch's" Epigram — Conduct of Great Britain and the Western European Powers — Russia — Meeting of Congress — Department
Reports — Appropriations — Increase of the Navy — Enthusiasm of the People — Women's Work — Miss Di.x — Benevolent Work in
Philadelphia.

THE fulfillment of the prediction that "Poor Old Virginia will have to bear the brunt of battle," had
now begtui. Beauregard was in command of a constantly increasing force at Manassas, at the
beginning of June, and there was a general belief that under the instruction of President Davis, he
would attempt the seizure of the capital. In characteristic words, he sent forth a proclamation calculated
to "fire the Southern heart." "A reckless and unprincipled tyrant," he said, "has invaded your soil."
He assured them that Lincoln had thrown "Abolition hosts" among them, and were murdering and

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imprisoning their citizens, confiscating and destroying property, and "committing other acts of violence
and outrage too revolting to humanity to be enumerated. All rules of civilized warfare are abandoned,
and they proclaim by these acts, if not on their banners, that their war-cry is 'Beauty and Booty.' All
that is dear to men — your honor and that of your wives and daughters, your fortune and your lives — are

involved in the momentous contest." No
man knew better than Beauregard that, at
that moment, the only National troops in
Virginia, excepting those in the loyal west-
ern portion, were the handful of men hold-
ing Arlington Heights, the Long Bridge,
Alexandria and the village of Hampton
near Fortress Monroe, in a mereh- defen-
sive attitude, against thousands of insur-
gents who were marshaling under that
leader for the avowed purpose of seizing
the National capital. He knew that the
only "murder" and "outrage" yet com-
mitted b}- National troops was the single
act of killing the assassin of Colonel Ells-
worth. The author of the proclamation
was noted throughout the war for ridicu-
lous boastings, official mendacity, and con-
spicuous military failures.

Late in May, Joseph E. Johnston, a
captain of Topographical Engineers and a
meritorious officer who had deserted his
flag and accepted the commission of brig-
adier-general from its enemies, took com-
mand of the insurgent troops at Harper's Ferry and in the Shenandoah Valley. At the same time General
Robert Patterson, a veteran of two wars, was gathering troops at Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania, to
attack Johnston. He moved forward with fifteen thousand men early in June, under instructions from
General Scott to "attempt nothing without a clear prospect of success," as the enemy were "strongly
posted and equal in numbers." Already, as we have observed, the insurgents had been smitten at Philippi,
in Western Virginia; and just as Patterson began his march, an Indiana Zouave Regiment, led by Colonel
Lewis Wallace, struck the Confederates a blow at Romney, in that mountain region, which gave them
great alarm. That regiment, one of the best disciplined in the field, had been chafing under forced inaction
in Southern Indiana, and Wallace urged their employment in active service. He was gratified by being
ordered to Cumberland, to report to General Patterson. In less than three days after the receipt of the
order, they had traversed Indiana and Ohio; received their ammunition at Grafton, in Western Virginia,
and were at Cumberland. Resting a single day, Wallace proceeded to strike a band of insurgents at
Romney; and on the night of the loth of June, 1861, led by a competent guide, the regiment made a
silent march along a rough and perilous mountain-path, but did not reach the vicinity of the insurgents
until late in the evening of the 12th. They at once attacked the Confederates with such skill and bravery,
that they fled to the shelter of the forests, followed by all the villagers, excepting the few negroes. In the
space of twenty-four hours, Wallace and his men had traveled eighty-four miles (forty-six of them on foot),
engaged in a brisk skirmish, and returned; "and what is more," wrote Colonel Wallace in his report, "my
men are ready to repeat it to-morrow." This dash caused Johnston to evacuate Harper's Ferr>', for he
believed the assailants to be the advance of a much larger force. He moved up the Valley, and took
post near Winchester.

While the campaign was thus opening in Western Virginia, stirring events were occurring near Fortress
Monroe. The possession of that post was of the first importance to both parties; and Colonel J. B.
Magruder, who had deserted his flag, was sent down the Virginia Peninsula, with a considerable force, to
attempt its seizure. General B. F. Butler, who was then in command of the Department of Virginia and
North Carolina, with his headquarters at Fortress Monroe, took measures to oppose him. General E. W.
Pearce was placed in command of an expedition that was to march in two columns against the insurgents.
He was to lead, from near Hampton, Duryea's Fifth (Zouave) New York Regiment, and Townsend's
Third, to Little Bethel, where he was to be joined by detachments from Colonel Phelps's command at

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Newport News. The latter were composed of battalions of Massachusetts and Wrmont troops, Bendix's

Germans of New York, known as the Steuben Rifle Regiment, and a battery of two light field-pieces in

charge of Lieutenant John T. Greble of the regular army, with

eleven artillery men.

Both columns marched at about midnight. An order to

secure mutual recognition was neglected, and as the columns

approached in the gloom, they mistook each other for enemies,

and fired, killing and maiming some of the men. The mistake

was instantly discovered, and the combined columns pressed on

toward Magruder's fortifications at Big Bethel. The noise of the

firing had been heard there, which caused the scattered Confed-
erates to concentrate their forces in time to meet the Nationals.

A sharp engagement ensued. The Nationals were repulsed; and

just as Lieutenant Greble ordered his field-pieces to be made ready

for the retreat, a cannon-ball struck his temple a glancing blow,

and he fell dead. So perished, at the very opening of the great

Civil War, the first of the officers of the regular army who fell in

that conflict. Generous, brave and good, Lieutenant Greble was

beloved by all who knew him. His body was carried to Phila-
delphia, his native city, where it lay in state one day, in Inde-
pendence Hall, and was buried with military honors in Woodland

Cemetery. Major Theodore Winthrop, an accomplished j-oung

officer, was also killed at Bethel, while bravely contending with the

insurgents. He was a member of General Butler's staft", and his

military secretary. When Butler was informed of the action, he

proceeded to join the expedition in person, but at Hamjjton he

received tidings of the disaster. It was a result which alarmed

and mortified the nation ; but the public mind was soon absorbed

in the contemplation of far greater and more momentous move-
ments. The failure at Bethel was undoubtedly chargeable

more to a general eagerness to do, without experience in doing, than to any special shortcomings of

individuals.

For a month after the dash on Romney, Wallace and his men were in a perilous situation ; but by

boldness and audacity of action, a wholesome fear of the Zouaves was created among the Confederates.

By ceaseless activity they guarded the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
way for more than a hundred miles; and so distinguished were
their services, unaided, that General Patterson wrote to Wallace:
' ' I begin to doubt whether the Eleventh Indiana needs reinforce-
ments." Wallace was soon afterward commissioned a brigadier-
general of volunteers.

When Johnston abandoned Harper's Ferr>% General Patter-
son, who had received intimations that he was expected to cross
the Potomac, pushed his columns forw-ard from Hagerstown and
threw about nine thousand troops across the river at Williamsport,
where it was fordable. These were led by General George Cad-
wallader, who commanded five companies of cavalr\\ At that
moment Scott telegraphed to Patterson to send him all his regular
troops and a few others under his command. This order was
repeated; and again it was repeated early in the morning of the
1 7th, when the General-in-Chief said : "We are pressed here; send
the troops I have twice called for, without delay." Patterson
obeyed, but was compelled to call back the remainder of his force
into Maryland.

The danger hinted at by the General-in-Chief was great in-
deed. Beauregard was preparing to move on the capital before
the assembling of Congress on the 4th of July. The Confederate
government, aided by the Secessionists of Virginia and Marj'land,

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were employing even* means in their power to accomplish that end. Washington was swarming with
enemies, open and secret. Plotters were at work. The Confederate archives at the capital reveal some
ugly facts; among others, that the Confederate secretary of war received a proposition to blow up the
Capitol with gunpowder that should be conveyed secretly to its crypts, some time between the 4th and
5th of July, when Congress would be in session and possibly the President might be present. The propo-
sition was entertained, and directions were given for a conference between the conspirators and Judah
P. Benjamin, the Confederate attorney-general. This scheme for wholesale murder was abandoned then,
and Congress assembled quietly at the appointed time.

When Congress met (July 4, 1861) the public welfare demanded immediate and energetic action, and
that legislation should be confined to providing means for the salvation of the Republic. Our foreign
relations were in a critical state. Confederate emissaries at European courts had created a general
impression among statesmen and publicists, that our nation was only a league of States that might be
dissolved when a member became dissatisfied. They had magnified the power and unity of the Confed-

most tempting offer of
Great Britain and
became general that the
shattered. Foreign rep-
ington wrote to their
that the United States
bered; and leaders of
Europe affected to be
folh' of Congress in leg-
"one and inseparable,"
them were anxious to
so diminish the power of
disunity- ; for they were
greatness as a nation,
lican form of govem-
ace of the unstable
world.

France seemed to be
overthrow of the Union,
secret agreement to act
went so far as to apprise
ments of this under-
pectation that the latter
So, at the ver>' begin-
these two professedly
clandestinely entered

into a combination for arraying all Europe on the side of the insurgents, and giving them moral and
material aid. Our loyal people could not, at first, comprehend the unfriendly acts and tone of the British
government and the chief representatives of the British people, until the touchstone of Montesquieu's
assertion was applied: "Other nations have made the interests of commerce 3'ield to those of politics; the
English, on the contrary, have ever made political interests give way to those of commerce." And the
traditional philanthropy of the English in behalf of the slave made the following notable epigram of the
London Punch appear to us, at first, like a good-natured slander:

"Though with the North we sympathize,

It must not be forgotten.
That with the South we've stronger ties

Which are composed of cotton,
Whereof our imports 'mount unto

A sum of many figures;
And where would be our calico

Without the toil of niggers?

The South enslaves their fellow-men.

Whom w-e love all so dearly.
The North keeps commerce bound again,

Which touches us more nearly.
Thus a divided duty we

Perceive in this hard matter —
Free-trade or sable brothers free?

O, will we choose the latter?"

eracy, and had made the
free-trade in cotton to
France. The belief soon
Republic was hopelessly
resentatives at Wash-
respective governments
were hopelessh" dismem-
public sentiment in
amazed at the seeming
islating as if the Union,
had a future. Some of
widen the breach, and
the United States by
jealous of our expanding
and regarded our repub-
ment as a standing men-
monarchies of the okl
Great Britain and
equally anxious for the
and they entered into a
in concert. They even
other European govem-
standing, with the ex-
would concurwith them,
ning of our difficulties,
friendly powers had

Gener.u. R. S. G.\rneit, C. S. a.

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General N. P. Banks

This epigram gave the key to the secret motives of the EngUsh government. The astute Frenchman,
Count Gasparin, clearly perceived them. He knew the seductive influence of the bribe of free cotton on
a manufacturing people like those of Great Britain; and nearly two months before her public acts in favor

of the insurgents were manifested, he gave this warning: "Let
England beware ! It were better for her to lose Malta, Corfu and
Gibraltar, than the glorious position which her struggle against
Slavery and the Slave-trade has secured her in the esteem of the
nations. Even in an age of armored frigates and rifled cannon,
the chief of all powers, thank God ! is moral power. Woe to the
nation that disregards it, and consents to immolate its principles
to its interests I From the beginning of the present conflict the
enemies of England, and they are numerous, have predicted that
the cause of cotton will weigh heavier in her scales than the cause
of justice and liberty. They are preparing to judge her by her
conduct in the American crisis. Once more, let her beware!"

The British ministry did not heed the warning. So earl}' as
the gth of May (1861), Lord John Russell, the Minister for For-
eign Affairs, said in Parliament, in reply to the question. What
position has the government intended to take? "The Attorney
and SoHcitor-General and the Queen's Advocate and the Govern-
ment have come to the opinion that the Southern Confederacy of
America, according to those principles which seem to them to be
just principles, must be treated as a belligerent." This was pre-
paratory to an open recognition of the independence of the Con-
federacy, a motion for which was then pending in Parliament.
The Queen and her beloved husband, the Prince Consort, felt a
real friendship for the Americans, who had treated their son, the Prince of Wales, so kindly only a few
months before, but she yielded to ministerial pressure, and on the 13th of May issued a proclamation of
neutrality, in which belligerent rights were accorded to the insurgents, and a virtual acknowledgment of
the Confederation as a national power. It was followed in the British Parliament, and among the Tory
classes and in the Tor>' newspapers of the realm, by the most dogmatic assertions that the Republic of the
West was hopelessly crumbling into ruins, and was unworthy of respectful consideration.

All this was done with unseemly haste, before Mr. Charles Francis Adams, chosen by the new Admin-
istration to represent the United States at the Court of St. James, had presented his credentials. When
that event occurred, and the tone of Mr. Adams's instructions was known, the British ministry paused,
and took counsel of prudence and expediency. Mr. Adams had
been instructed by the American Secretary' of State (Mr. Seward)
especially to counteract the influence of Confederate agents at
court. "You will in no case," said the instructions, "listen to any
suggestions of compromise by this Government, under foreign
auspices, with its discontented citizens. If, as the President does
not at all apprehend, you shall unhappily find her Majesty's gov-
ernment tolerating the applications of the so-called Confederate
States, or wavering about it, you will not leave them to suppose,
for a moment, that they can grant that application and remain the
friends of the United States. You may even assure them
promptly, in that case, that if they determine to recognize, they
may at the same time prepare to enter into an alliance with the
enemies of this Republic. You, alone, will represent your coun-
try at London, and you will represent the whole of it there.
When you are asked to divide that duty with others, diplomatic
relations between the government of Great Britain and this Gov-
ernment will be suspended, and will remain so until it shall be
seen which of the two is most strongly intrenched in the confi-
dence of their respective nations and of mankind."

The high position taken by Mr. Seward, in the name of his
Government, in that able letter of instructions, was doubtless one

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MajGlm. Frank hBlaik-

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of the chief causes for the fortunate delay of the British government in the matter of recognizing the
independence of the Southern Confederacy. Its puissance was increased by the manifest opposition of
the great mass of the "common people " of Great Britain, to the unfriendty conduct of their government and
the ruling classes toward the real Government of the United States. The frie.idly attitude of Russia toward
the United States was another cause for delay. The cautious Emperor of the French followed Great
Britain, and on the 17th of June issued a decree according belligerent rights to the Confederates; so also

did the Queen of Spain proclaim
and entered upon a scheme with
seeds of monarchical institutions
Repubhc was about to expire,
nized the insurgents as belliger-
enlightened Emperor of Russia
strike the shackles from almost
dominions, instructed (July 10)
to say: "In every event, the
the most cordial sympathy on the
during the important crisis which
The powers of Western Europe,
a promised ally of the Republic of
It was on Thursday, the 4th
fourth anniversary' of the Declara-
Thirty-seventh Congress assem-
extraordinar>' session. It was a
country. Civil War was kindling
miles of the Republic, and ene-
acing its Capitol and its archives
the sotmd of great guns, armies
pose; and secret emissaries of the
trusted with errands of deadliest

BvT. M.\jor-General E. B. Tyler

the neutrality of her government.
Napoleon III. for replanting the
in America now that the great
The King of Portugal also recog-
ents, on the 29th of July; but the
(Alexander II.), who was about to
forty million slaves in his own
his representative at Washington
American nation may count upon
part of our most august master
it is passing through at present."
regarding the Russian Emperor as
the West, behaved prudently,
of July, 1 86 1, and the eighty-
tion of Independence, when the
bled at the National capital, in
critical time in the history- of our
over a quarter of a million square
mies of the nation's life were men-
with utter destruction. Within
were then gathering for that pur-
Confederacy, it was believed, in-
mischief, were prowling about the

halls of Congress and the President's house. As promptly as the militia of the country, the members of
the National Legislature had responded to the President's call. Twenty-three States were represented in
the Senate, and one hundred and fift^'-four members of the Lower House were present on the first day
of the session, while ten slave-labor States were not represented. In both Houses there was a large
working majority of Unionists; yet there was a considerable faction who sympathized with the Confed-
erates in their application of the doctrine of State-supremacy and in opposition to coercive measures.

The President, in his message, after setting forth the causes of trouble, the acts of the insurgents,
and the necessity for giving strength to the Executive arm, said : " It is now recommended, that you give
the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one; that you place at the control of the
Government, for the work, at least four hundred thousand men and four hundred millions of dollars."
That number of men constituted only one-tenth of those of proper age for military' service in the regions
where, apparently, all were willing to engage; and the sum of money asked for was less than a twenty-
third part of the money value owned by the men who seemed willing to devote the whole.

The President's message was accompanied by important reports from three heads of departments.
The Secretary' of War (Simon Cameron) recommended the enlistment of men for three years; appropria-
tions for extraordinary expenses; the appointment of an Assistant Secretar>' of War, and an increase of
the clerical force in his department. The Secretary of the Treasury (Salmon P. Chase) asked for $240,-
000,000 for war purposes, and $80,000,000 for the current expenses of the Government. He proposed
to raise these amounts by three different methods. For the civil service, he proposed to procure a
revenue by increased duties on specified articles and a system of internal taxation; for war purposes,
by a National loan in the form of Treasury notes, bearing an interest of one cent a day on fifty dollars, or
in bonds, made redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after a period not exceeding thirty years,
and bearing an interest not exceeding six per centum a year. He further recommended the issue of
Treasury' notes for a smaller amount.

The Secretary of the Na\^' (Gideon Wells), who had been compelled to resort to extraordinary
measures to save the Republic, asked Congress to sanction his acts; to authorize the appointment of an
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and to appoint commissioners to inquire into the expediency of using
iron-clad steamers or floating batteries.

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The suggestions of the President and the heads of departments were followed by prompt action on the
part of Congress. They at once made provisions for the sinews of war and to strengthen the arm of the
Chief Magistrate of the Republic. They approved of the President's call for militia and volunteers. They
authorized the raising of five hundred thousand troops; and they made an appropriation of $500,000,000
to defray the expenses of the kindling Civil War. They carried out the suggestions of the Secretary of
the Treasury concerning methods for procuring the money, by increased taxes and the issue of interest-
bearing Treasury notes or bonds. Each House was purged of disloyal members by the expulsion of ten
Senators and one Representative. The Secretary of the Navy was upheld by Congress; and, putting
forth extraordinary exertions to increase the naval force of the country, he purchased, before the close of

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the year, and put into commission, no less than one hundred and thirty-seven vessels, and contracted for
the building of a large number of substantial steamships for sea service. He called attention to the
importance of iron-clad vessels; and so promptly were his requisitions for recruits complied with, that no
vessel was ever detained for more than two or three days by want of men. Two hundred and fifty-nine
officers had resigned or been dismissed from the service for disloyalty since the 4th of March, and several
vessels were sent to sea without a full complement of officers; but the want was soon supplied, for many
retired officers, who had engaged in civil pursuits, now came to the aid of their country in its hour of need,
and were re-commissioned. Many masters and mates were appointed from the commercial marine. The
Naval School and public property at Annapolis had been removed to Newport, Rhode Island, for safety,
and the seminary found temporary accommodations in Fort Adams there.

When Congress met, there were about three hundred thousand Union troops in the field, and the enthus-
iasm of the people in the free-labor States was at fever heat. They contributed men, money and soldiers,
with lavish generosity. Women, animated by their natural zeal in labors of mercy, went to work with busy
fingers preparing lint and bandages for the wounded, and hospital garments for the sick and maimed. In
tens of thousands of households in the land, women and children might be seen engaged in the hoty toil;
while hundreds of the gentler sex, many of whom had been tenderly nurtured in the lap of ease and luxur>%
hastened to hospitals in camps and towns, and there, with saintly self-sacrifice, they performed the duties
of nurse, night and day, and administered, in every way, with all the tenderness of affectionate mothers
and sisters, to the wants of the sick, the wounded, and the dying.

Associated efforts in this benevolent work were first organized by Miss Dorothea L. Dix, a woman
extensively known in our country for her labors of love in behalf of the poor, the unfortunate, and the
afflicted. Perceiving war to be inevitable, she offered her services to the Government gratuitously, in
organizing a system for providing comfort for the sick and wounded soldiers. They were accepted. Only
eight days after the President's call for troops, the Secretary of War proclaimed: "Be it known to all
whom it may concern, that the free services of Miss D. L. Dix are accepted by the War Department, and
that she will give, at all times, all necessary aid in organizing military,' hospitals for the care of all the sick
or wounded soldiers, aiding the chief surgeons by supphing nurses and substantial means for the comfort
and relief of the suffering; also, that she is fully authorized to receive, control, and disburse special supplies
bestowed by individuals or associations for the comfort of their friends or the citizen soldiers from all
parts of the United States." Surgeon-General R. C. Wood, recognizing the ability of Miss Dix for the

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task she had volunteered to perform, pubhcly
requested all women who offered their services
as nurses to report to her.

"Like an angel of mercy," says an his-
torian of the war, ' ' this self-sacrificing woman
labored day and night throughout the entire
war for the relief of the suffering soldiers,
without expecting or receiving any pecuniary
reward. She went from battle-field to battle-
field when the carnage was over; from camp
to camp, and from hospital to hospital, super-
intending the operations of the nurses, and
administering with her own hands physical
comforts to the suffering, and soothing the
troubled spirits of the invalid or dying soldier
with a voice low, musical and attractive, and
always burdened with words of heartfelt sym-
pathy and religious consolation. . . . Yet
she was not the only Sister of Mercy engaged
in this holy work. She had hundreds of de-
voted, earnest, self-sacrificing co-workers of
the gentler sex all over the land, serving with
equal zeal in the camp and hospitals of Na-
tional and Confederate armies; and no greater
heroism was displayed by soldiers in the field
than was exhibited by these American women
everj-where. "

The firemen of Philadelphia also did
noble work. When sick and wounded sol-
diers began to be brought to the Government
hospitals in Philadelphia, the Medical De-
partment often found it difficult to provide
vehicles to take them from the vessels to their
destination, and there was much suffering on account of delays. The sympathetic firemen of the city
made arrangements to give a signal when invalid soldiers arrived, when they would turn out with wagons
to convey them to the hospitals. Finally, the Northern Liberties Engine Company had a fine ambulance
constructed for the purpose. Other fire companies of the city followed the example; and in these ambu-
lances, one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers were conveyed tenderly from vessels to the hospitals,
during the war.

Map of Belmont and Vicinity

CHAPTER XII.

Confederates in Virsinia — National Troops in Western Virginia — McClellan's Campaign — Secessionists Repressed in Baltimore — Con-
federate Privateers — Troops near Washington — Manassas Junction — Patterson Crosses the Potomac — Movements of National
Troops — Battle at Blackburn's Ford — Battle of Bull Rim and Its Effects — War in the West — General Lyon's Campaign — Military
Operations in Missouri — -Death of Lyon — L'nion Movement — Movements of a Disloyal Governor.

THE gathering of Confederate troops at Manassas, under Beauregard, required prompt and vigorous
action on the part of the Government. The main Confederate army was there. Johnston was at
Winchester, with a large body, ready to reinforce Beauregard at any moment, unless prevented by
General Patterson, who was at Martinsburg early in July, with eighteen thousand Nationals, keenly
watching the movements of the Confederates. From their grand encampment at Manassas, the latter
had sent out detachments along the line of the Upper Potomac from Georgetown to Leesburg, menacing
various points, and foraging. At Vienna they had a severe skirmish (June 17) with an Ohio regiment, and
were repulsed ; and there the flag of the "Sovereign State of South Carolina" was first seen on a battle-field.
The Confederates soon returned and took possession of Vienna and Falls Church Village, and the latter
became famous for stirring scenes afterward. It was ten days after this event that Captain Ward, of the
Freeborn, was killed at IN.Iatthias Point.

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The Confederates now put forth all their available strength to hold the mountain regions of Virginia.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway was guarded by National troops; and about twenty thousand of these
from Ohio, Indiana and Virginia, were at Grafton, under the command of General George B. McClellan,
at the beginning of July. Porterfield had been superseded by General R. S. Gamett, in command of the

Confederate forces in Western Virginia,
v\-ith his headquarters at Beverly and out-
lying posts at Bealington, Philippi, Buck-
hannon and Romney. In the Great
Kanawha region, a considerable body of
Confederates were led by Ex-Governor H.
A. Wise, where he was confronted by Ohio
troops under General J. D. Cox. At the
same time McClellan began offensive op-
erations. He led ten thousand men to
attack Gamett at Laurel Hill, near Bev-
erly; and sent four thousand men under
General T. A. Morris toward the same
point, by way of Philippi. Another body
under General Hill
was sent to a point
eastward of Philip-
pi , to prevent the es-
over the Alleghany
Johnston at Win-
andoah Valley,
tionals approached
was ascertained
Pegram, with a con-
Confederates, was
in Rich IMountain
chief. McClellan
patched Colonel

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cape of the insurgents
Mountains to join
Chester in the Shen-
When the Na-
Garnett's position, it
that Colonel John
siderable body of
strongly intrenched
Gap in the rear of his
immediately dis-

(afterward General)
W. S. Rosecrans,
with a body of Ohio
and Indiana foot
soldiers and a troop of

cavalry, in light marching order, to dislodge
Pegram. By a circuitous and perilous
mountain march in the darkness, and under
a heav>' rain-storm, they made their way to
the top of a ridge of Rich Mountain, above
Pegram's camp and only a mile from it (July
II, iS6i); but they were not unobserved.
Pegram had discovered their approach, and
now attacked them furiously with nine hun-
dred men armed with muskets and cannon.
A severe engagement ensued. The Confed-
erates were repulsed; and for his gallantry-
on that occasion Rosecrans was commis-
sioned a brigadier-general. The National troops were in a perilous situation on Rich Mountain, for Pegram
confronted them with an overwhelming force. McClellan had heard the sounds of battle, and pushed
forward with troops for their relief. Pegram did not wait to be attacked, but stole away in the night,
and so uncovered Gamett's rear. Advised of this fact, Gamett also withdrew in the darkness,
leaving most of his cannon, tents and wagons behind, and fled toward Huttonsville. Headed off by
McClellan, his forces were scattered in the mountains of the Cheat River region. Meanwhile Pegram
and six hundred of his followers had surrendered (July 14) to McClellan.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

{Conti7tued from Section 3)
SEPTEMBER, 1862.

1— Britton's Lane, Tenn. 20th and 30th 111., 4th 111. Cav., Foster's (Ohio)
Cav., Battery A 2d 111. Art. Union 5 killed, 51 wounded, 52 missing.
Confed. 179 killed. 100 wounded.
Chantillv, Va. McDowell's Corps, Army of Virginia. Hooker's and
Kearn'ev's Divisions of I'hird Corps, .^rmy of Potomac, Reno's Corps.
Union 1,300 killed, wounded, and missing. Confed. SCO killed,
wounded, and missing. Union Maj.-Gen. Kearney and Brig.-Gen.
Stevens killed.

2 — Vienna, Va. 1st Minn. Union 1 killed, 6 wounded.

3 — Slaughterville, Ky. Foster's (Ohio) Cav. Confed. 3 killed. 2 wounded.
25 captured.

6 — Washington, X. C. 24th Mass., 1st \. C, 3d N'. Y. Cav. Union 8
killed, 36 wounded. Confed. 30 killed, 100 wounded.

7 — Poolesville, Md. 3d Ind. and 8th 111. Cav. Union 2 killed, 6 wounded.
Confed. 3 killed, 6 wounded.
Clarksville or Rickett's Hill, Tenn, 11th 111., 13th 'Wis., 71st Ohio,
5th Iowa Cav., and two batteries. No casualties recorded.

9 Columbia, Tenn. 42d 111. Confed. 18 killed, 45 wounded.

Des Allemands, La. 21st Ind., 4th Wis. Confed. 12 killed.
10 — Cold Water. Miss. 0th 111. Cav. Con/cd. 4 killed, SO wounded.

Fayetteville. W. Va. 34th and 37th Ohio, 4th W. Va. Union 13 killed,
80 wounded.
12 to 18— Harper's Ferry, Va. .39th, lllth, 115th, 125th and 126th X. Y.
Militia, 32d, 60th, and S7th Ohio, 9th Vt., 6.5th 111., loth Ind.. 1st
and 3d Md. Home Brigade, 8th X. V. Cav,, 12th 111. Cav., 1st Md.
Cav., four Batteries of Artil. Union .SO killed, 120 wounded, 11,583
missing and captured. Confed. 500 killed and wounded.
14 — Turner's and Crampton's Gap. South Mountain, Md. First Corps,
Maj.-Gen. Hooker; Sixth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Franklin; Xinth Corps,
Maj.-Gen. Reno. Union 443 killed. 1,806 wounded. Confed. 500
killed, 2,343 wounded, 1..W0 captured. Union Maj.-Gen. Reno killed.
Confed. Brig.-Gen. Garland killed.
14 to 16 — Mumfordsville, Ky., 18th U. S. Inft., 28th and 33d Ky., 17th,
50th, 60th, 67th, 6.Sth, 74th, "sth, and syth Ind., Conkle's Battery,
13th Ind. Artil. and Louisville Provost Guard. Union 50 killed.
3,566 captured and missing. Confed. 714 killed and wounded.
17 — Durhamville, Tenn. Detachment of 52d Ind. Union 1 killed, 10
wounded. Confed. 8 killed.
Antietam or Sharpsburg, Md. First Corps, Maj.-Gen. Hooker: Second
Corps, Maj.-Gen. Sumner; Fifth Corps. .Maj.-Gen. Fitz-John Porter;
Sixth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Franklin; Xinth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Burnside;
Twelfth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Williams; Couch's Div., Fourth Corps;
Pleasanton's Div. of Cav. Union 2,010 killed, 9.416 wounded. 1.043
missing. Confed. 3.500 killed. 16,399 wounded. 6,000 missing. Union
Brig.-Gen. Mansfield killed, Maj.-Gens. Hooker and Richardson,
and Brig.-Gens. Rodman, Weber, Sedgwick, Hartsuff, Dana, and
Meagher wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gens. Branch, Anderson, and
Starke killed, Maj.-Gen. Anderson, Brig.-Gens. Toombs, Lawton,
Kipley, Rodes, Gregg, .\rmstead, and Ransom wounded.

19 and 20 — luka. Miss. Stanley's and Hamilton's Divisions. Ar.ny of the
Mississippi, under Maj.-Gen. Rosecrans. L'liioii 144 killed, 598
wounded. Confed. 263 killed. 092 wounded, 561 captured. Confed.
Brig.-Gen. Little killed and Whitfield wounded.

20 — Blackford's Ford. Sheppardstown. Va. Fifth Corps. Griffith's and
Barnes' Brigades. Union 92 killed, 131 wounded, 103 missing.
Confed. 33 killed. 231 wounded.

SO — Xewtonia, Mo. 1st Brigade Army of Kansas, 4th Brigade Mo. Militia
Cav. fj'nio>i 50 killed, SO wounded. 115 missing. Con/ed. 220 killed,
280 wounded.

OCTOBER, 1862.

1 — Floyd's Ford, Ky. 34th 111.. 77th Penna.. 4th Ind. Cav. Xo casualties
recorded.
Sheperdstown. Va. Sth 111., Sth Penna., 3d Ind. Cav., Pennington's
Battery. Union 12 wounded. Confed. 60 killed.

3 and 4 — Corinth, Miss. McKean's, Davies', Hamilton's, and Stanley's
Divisons, Army of the Miss. Union 315 killed, 1.812 wounded, 232
missing. Confed. 1.423 killed. 5,692 wounded. 2.248 missing. Union
Brig.-Gens. Hacklemans killed and Oglesby wounded.
5 — Metamora, on Big Hatchie River, Miss. Hurlburt's and Ord's Divi-
sions. Union 500 killed and wounded. Confed. 400 killed and
wounded.
7 — La Vergne. Tenn. Palmer's Brigade. Union 5 killed, 9 wounded,

Confed. 80 killed and wounded, 175 missing.
8 — Perryville, Ky. First Corps. Army of the Ohio. Maj.-Gen. McCook,
and Third Corps, Brig.-Gen. Gilbert. Union 916 killed. 2.943
wounded, 489 missing. Confed. 2,500 killed, wounded, and missing.
Union Brig.-Gens. J. S. Jackson and Terrill killed. Confed. Brig.-
Gens. Cleburne, Wood, and Brown wounded,

10 — Harrodsburg, Ky. Union troops, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Boyle.
9th Ky. Cav. Confed. 1.600 captured.

11 — La Grange. Ark. Detach. 4th Iowa Cav. Union 4 killed, 13 wounded.

17 — Lexington, Ky. Detach. 3d and 4th Ohio Cav. Union 4 killed. 24
wounded, 350 missing.

18 — Haymarket. Va. Detach. 6th Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, 6 wounded,
23 captured.

22 — Pocotaligo or Yemassee. S. C. 47th, 55th, and 7fith Penna.. 48th N. Y.,
6th and 7th Conn.. 3d and 4th .X. H.. 3d R. I.. 1st .\. Y. Engineers,
1st Mass. Cav.. Batteries D and M 1st U. S. Artil. and E 3d U. S.
Artil. Union 43 killed, 258 wounded. Confed. 14 killed, 102 wounded.

23 — Waverly, Tenn. 83d 111. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded. Confed. 40
killed and wounded.

24 — Grand Prairie. Mo. Two Battalions Mo. Militia Cav. Union 3
wounded. Confed. 8 killed, 20 wounded.

28 — Clarkson, Mo. Detach. 2d 111. Artil. Confed. 10 killed, 2 wounded.

NOVEMBER, 1862.
1 — Philomont, Va. Pleasanton's Cavalry. Union 1 killed, 14 wounded.

Confed. 5 killed, 10 wounded.
2 and 3 — Bloomfield and Union, Loudon Co., Va. Pleasanton's Cavalry.

Union 2 killed, 10 wounded. Confed. 3 killed, 15 wounded.
3 — Harrisonville. Mo. 5th and fith Mo. Cav. Union 10 killed, 3 wounded.

Confed. 6 killed, 20 wounded.
6 — Barbee's Cross Roads and Chester Gap, Va. Pleasanton's Cavalry,
Union 5 killed. 10 wounded. Confed. 36 killed.
Nashville. Tenn. 16th and 51st III.. 69th Ohio. 14th Mich., 78th Pa.,
Sth Tenn. Cav.. 7th Pa. Cav. Union 26 wounded. Confed. 23 cap-
tured.
6 — Garrettsburg. Ky. Sth Ky. Cav. Confed. 17 killed. 85 wounded.
7 — Big Beaver Creek. Mo. 10th III., two Cos. Mo. Militia Cav. Union
300 captured.
Marianna. Ark. 3d and 4th Iowa, 9th III. Cav. Union 3 killed, 20
wounded. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
8 — Hudsonville. Miss. 7th Kan. Cav., 2d Iowa Cav. Confed. 16 killed,
185 captured.
17 — Gloucester. Va. 104th Pa. Union 1 killed, 3 wounded.
18— Rural Hills, Tenn. Sth Ky. Cav. Confed. 16 killed.
24 — Beaver Creek, Mo. 21st Iowa. 3d Mo. Cav. Union 6 killed, 10

wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 20 wounded.
26 — Summerville, Miss. 7th III. Cav. Confed. 2S captured.
28 — Cane Hill. Boston Mountain, and Boonsboro', Ark. 1st Division Army
of the Frontier. Union 4 killed, 36 wounded. Confed. 75 killed, 300
wounded.
Hartwood Church, Va. 3d Pa. Cav. Union 4 killed, 9 wounded, 200
missing.

DECEMBER, 1862.

1 — Charleston and Berryville, Va. 2d Div. 12th Corps. Confed. 5 killed,

18 wounded.
5 — Coffeeville. Miss. 1st, 2d, and 3d Cav. Brigades. Army of the Tennessee.
Union 10 killed, 54 wounded. Confed. 7 killed. 43 wounded.
Helena. Ark. 30th Iowa, 29th Wis. Confed. 8 killed.
7 — Prairie Grove or Favetteville. .^rk. 1st. 2d, and 3d Divisions Army of
the Frontier. Union 167 killed. 798 wounded, 183 missing, Confed.
300 killed. 1.200 wounded and missing.
Hartsville. Tenn. 106th and 108th Ohio. 104th III.. 2d Ind. Cav.. llth
Ky. Cav.. 13th Ind. Battery. Union ba killed. 1.800 captured.
Confed. 21 killed. 114 wounded.
9 — Dobbin's Ferry. Tenn. 35th Ind., 51st Ohio. Sth and 21st Ky., 7th Ind.

Battery. Union 5 killed, 48 wounded.
12 — Little Bear Creek, Ala. 52d 111. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded, Confed.

11 killed, 30 wounded.
12 to 18. — Foster's expedition to Goldsboro", N. C. 1st, 2d, and 3d Brigades
of First Division and Wcssell's Brigade of Peck's Division. Dep't of
.Vorth Carolina, t'liion 90 killed. 478 wounded. Confed. 71 killed.
268 wounded. 400 missing.
13 — Fredericksburg, Va. Army of the Potomac. Maj.-Gen. Burnside;
Second Corps. Maj.-Gen. Couch; Xinth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Wilcox.
Right Grand Div., Maj.-Gen. Sumner; First Corps. Maj.-Gen.
Reynolds; Sixth Corps, Maj.-Gen. W. F. Smith. Left Grand Div.,
Maj.-Gen. Franklin; Fifth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Butterfield; Third Corps,
Maj.-Gen. Stoneman. Center Grand Div.. Maj.-Gen. Hooker.
Union 1,180 killed, 9,028 wounded. 2,145 missing. Confed. 579 killed.
3.870 wounded, 127 missing. Union Brig.-Gens. Jackson and Bayard
killed and Gibbons and Vinton wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gen. T. R. R.
Cobb killed and Maxey Gregg wounded.
14 — Kingston. N. C. 1st, 2d and 3d Brigades 1st Div. and Wessell's Brigade
of Peck's Division. Dep't of Xorth Carolina. Union 40 killed. 120
wounded. Confed. 50 killed, 75 wounded, 400 missing.
18— Lexington, Tenn. llth 111. Cav., Sth Ohio Cav.. 2d Tenn. Cav. Union

7 killed. 10 wounded, 124 missing. Confed. 7 killed, 28 wounded.
20 — Holly Springs, Miss. 2d 111. Cav. Union 1,000 captured,

Trenton. Tenn. Detachments 122d III., 7th Tenn. Cav., and conva-
lescents. Union 1 killed, 250 prisoners. Confed. 17 killed, 50
wounded.
21— Davis's Mills. Miss. Six Cos. 25th Ind.. two Cos. Sth Ohio Cav. Union

3 wounded. Confed. 22 killed. 50 wounded. 20 missing.
24 — Middleburg. Miss, 115 men of 12th Mich, fnion 9 wounded. Confed.
9 killed. 11 wounded.
Glasgow. Ky. Five Cos. 2d Mich. Cav. Union 1 killed, 1 wounded,
Confed. 3 killed. 3 wounded.

26 Green's Chapel. Ky. Detachment of 4th and Sth Ind. Cav. Union I

killed. Confed. 9 killed. 22 wounded.
26— Bacon Creek, Ky. Detachment 2d Mich Cav. Union 23 wounded.
27 — Elizabethtown, Ky, 91st 111. 500 men captured by Morgan.

Dumfries. Va. Sth. 7th and 66th Ohio. 12th III. Cav.. 1st Md. Cav.,
Bth .Maine Battery. Union 3 killed, 8 wounded. Confed. 25 killed.
40 wounded.
28 — Elk Fork. Tenn. 6th and 10th Ky. Cav. Confed. 30 killed, 176

wounded, 51 missing.
28 and 29 — Chickasaw Bayou. Vicksburg. Miss. Army of Tennessee. Maj.-
Gen. W. T. Sherman — Brig.-Gens. G. W. Morgan's, Frederick Steele s,
M. L. Smith's, and A. J. Smith's divisions of the right wing. I niun
191 killed, 982 wounded, 7.56 missing, Con/e<f. 207 wounded. L nion
Maj.-Gen. M. L. Smith wounded.
30 — Wautauga Bridge and Carter's Station, Tenn. 7th Ohio Cav.. 9th Pa.
Cav. Union 1 killed. 2 wounded. Confed. 7 killed, 15 wounded, 273
missing.
Jefferson. Tenn. Second Brigade 1st Division Thomas's corps. Union
20 killed, 40 wounded. Confed. 15 killed, 50 wounded.

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CHAPTER XII.— Continued.

General T. F. "Stonewall" Jackson, C. S. A.

THE other fugitives were pursued b}' General Morris, accompanied by Captain H. W. Benham
(McClellan's chief engineer), and were overtaken at Carricksford, on a branch of the Cheat River.

There a sharp engagement occurred, when Gamett was killed and his forces were dispersed. Another

portion of Gamett's troops had fied toward Staimton, pursued to the summit of the Cheat Range, where

an Indiana regiment established an outpost. Meanwhile Cox had
driven Wise out of the Kanawha region, and at the middle of Juh-
(iS6i) the war in Western Virginia seemed to be at an end. On
the igth, McClellan said, in a dispatch to the War Department,
"We have completely annihilated the enemy in Western Virginia.
Our loss is about thirteen killed and not more than forty wounded ;
while the enemy's loss is not far from two hundred killed; and
the number of prisoners we have taken will amount to at least
one thousand. We have captured seven of the guns of the enemv,
in all."

The Confederates were not disposed to abandon the granary
that would supply Eastern Virginia, without another struggle.
General Robert E. Lee succeeded Gamett in the chief command
in that region. John B. Floyd, the treacherous National Secre-
tary of War, had succeeded Wise as a leader; but he, too, was now
superseded by a better man, and after a while the war in the
mountain region of Virginia was renewed. McClellan had been
called to the command of the Army of the Potomac, and was suc-
ceeded in Western Virginia by General Rosecrans.

At the beginning of June, it was manifest that a powerful

combination of Secessionists in Baltimore were preparing to act with the armed insurgents in Virginia, in

efforts to seize the National capital. The Legislature of the State were in sj^mpathy with the Confederates,

and a committee of that body assured Jefferson Davis that the people of Maryland were with him in

sentiment. The National Government took energetic measures to avert the evil. General N. P. Banks

was appointed to the command of the Department of Annapolis,

with his headquarters in Baltimore; and he was so satisfied of a

conspiracy ripening there, that he sent a force of armed men into

the city, who arrested Chief of Police Kane and put him into Fort

McHenry. At the same time Banks proclaimed that he had

appointed Colonel (afterward General) John R. Kcnly, of the

First Regiment of Marj'land Volunteers, provost-marshal. Kenly

was a well-known and highly respected citizen of Baltimore, and

acted with wisdom and energy-. He was put at the head of the

Police Department; but the old Board of Police Commissioners,

who were Secessionists, refused to acknowledge him and defied

the Government. The}' were arrested and sent as prisoners of

State to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, and verj^ soon afterward

the Unionists of Maryland were encouraged to assert their loyalty.

Banks withdrew the troops, and thereafter Man,iand was justly

counted one of the loyal States of the Union; j'ct for three years

the Confederates were deceived by a belief that the people were

Secessionists at heart. But the delusion was dispelled when, in

1S63, General Lee invaded the State, set up his standard, and ex-
pected thousands would rally around it. On the contrary, he lost

manifold more men by desertion than he gained bj- recruiting.
We have observed that Jefferson Davis issued commissions to

Gexeual .J

B. Stuart,

XoTE— EXPLAN.^TION' OF THE COLORED FRONTISPIECE McCLELLAN' AT AN'TIETAM— The battle of Antietam was one of the bloody
and desperate conflicts of the Civil War. This picture represents a scene that occurred at the hour of eleven o'clock. September 17. 1SG2. The troops shown in
this picture and seen in the foreground and the right background are drawn up in line of battle, awaiting the orders to advance. General McClellan is riding
down the line on his black horse. Daniel Webster, called by McClellan's staS, "that devil Dan." on account of the difficulty of keeping pace with him. In the
background, the Federal troops are seen crossing Antietam Creek in two columns. It was at Burnside's Bridge, a stone structure crossing the creek, that
much of the heaviest fighting occurred. The enthusiasm of the soldiers for "little Mae" is exhibited in the soldier's cap thrust upon a bayonet, and in the
pose Df the Union soldier in the extreme foreground. The heavy smoke of battle in the central background marks the conflict raging on the Federal right.

Copyright, 189S, by Charles F. Johnson. Copyright, 1905, by Lossing History Company. Copyright, 1912, by The War Memorial Association.

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privateers, and that a Confederate naval bureau was established. The first vessel of the Confederate navy
was named the Lady Davis; and when the National Congress assembled on the 4th of July, there were no
less than twenty Confederate armed vessels afloat and depredating upon the commerce of the United
States. So early as the ist of June they had sent twenty vessels,
captured on the sea, into the port of New Orleans alone, as prizes.
One of these privateers (the Savannah) was captured, and her crew
were tried and condemned as pirates; but the Government found
it expedient to treat them as prisoners of war. Another (the
Petrel) went out of Charleston harbor and mistaking the United
States frigate Lawrence for a richly-laden merchantman, attempted
to capture her. She opened her ports, and instantly the Petrel
became a wreck. A flash of fire, a thunder-peal, the crash of tim-
bers and engulfment in the sea, was the experience of a minute for
her crew, four of whom were drowned, while the vessel went
swiftly to the bottom of the ocean. Other privateers active dur-
ing the war will be noticed hereafter.

It was now midsummer, 1861. A large body of troops were
gathered around the National capital. General Irwin McDowell
was in command of the Department of Virginia, with his head-
quarters at Arlington House. At Manassas Junction, about half-
way between the eastern range of the Blue Ridge and the Potomac
at Alexandria, and thirty miles from Washington, were about forty
thousand Confederate troops. It was considered the strongest
military position between Washington and Richmond, and is con-
nected with the capital of Virginia and the fertile Shenandoah
Valley by railways. It was fortified by strong redoubts on which
were mounted heavy Dahlgren guns, which the insurgents had
seized at the Gosport Navj^-yard, and these were managed by
naval officers who had deserted their flag. At Winchester, John-
ston had almost as strong a force, to prevent McClellan and his
troops issuing from the mountain region and joining General Patterson on the Potomac River.

The loyal people had become impatient because of the delaj- of the troops at the capital in moving
against the insurgents. They were delighted when, on the afternoon of the i6th of July, the telegraph
spread the news over the land that fifty thousand soldiers, under General McDowell, had begun to move
toward Manassas, leaving fifteen thousand behind to guard the capital. They were in five divisions,

commanded respectively by Brigadier-Generals Daniel Tyler and
Theodore Runyon, and Colonels David Hunter, Samuel P. Heint-
zelman, and Dixon S. Miles. The Confederate forces against whom
they moved were distributed along Bull Run, a tributary of the
Occoquan, from Union Mills, where the Orange and Alexandria
Railway crosses the stream, to the stone bridge on the Warrenton
turnpike, a distance of about eight miles, with reserves near
Manassas Junction. They also had an outpost at Centreville,
and slight fortifications at Fairfax Court-House, ten miles from
their main army, in the direction of Washington.

General Patterson was at Martinsburg, charged with the duty
of keeping General Johnston from reinforcing Beauregard. He
had crossed the Potomac at Williamsport on the 2d of July; and
near Falling Waters, his advance-guard imder Colonel Abercrom-
bie, chiefly composed of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania troops, horse
and foot, with a section of batter\', encountered Johnston's ad-
vance led by "Stonewall" Jackson, assisted by J. E. B. Stuart
and his afterward famous cavalry corps. They fought sharply
for half an hour, when Colonel George H. Thomas's brigade, com-
ing to the support of Abercrombie, caused the Confederates to
flee. They were hotly pursued five miles, when a heavy Confed-
erate force appearing, the chase was abandoned. On the following

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day General Patterson and his army entered Martinsburg, and were speedily reinforced by troops under
General Sandford of New York. There he remained in enforced inaction for a fortnight.

The aged General Scott was too feeble in mind and body to take command in the field, and that

imbecilitj' caused disaster. The duty devolved upon General
McDowell. The latter ordered General Tj^ler to advance to
Vienna on the evening of the i6th of Jul}'; and early the next
morning the remainder of the army moved in four columns, with
the intention, bj- making feints, to throw the Confederates oft
their guard, gain their rear, seize the railway, and compel both
Beauregard and Johnston to fall back from their positions, so
menacing to the seat of Government. But spies and traitors,
3'et swarming in Washington, kept Beauregard continually ad-
vised not only of the movements, but of the intentions of the
National troops. There were traitors, evidently, in possession
of the secrets of the office of the General-in-Chief, for a copy of
a military' map was found in a deserted Confederate camp only
two days after the original was completed.

McDowell's columns moved by different roads, without
much opposition. They entered the village of Fairfax Court-
House imopposed; and when they approached Centreville, the
Confederates fled. The Nationals were in high spirits, for it
appeared as if the march to Richmond would be a pleasant ex-
cursion. But Beauregard was alluring them into a perilous posi-
tion, as they found, on the i8th, when General Tyler made a
reconnaissance in force at Blackburn's Ford, on Bull Run, which
was guarded by General James Lxjngstreet with a strong force of
men and concealed batteries. A severe conflict ensued, in which Michigan, Massachusetts, and New
York troops, with Ayers's batter^', were engaged. At length the Nationals, defeated, withdrew to Centre-
ville; and McDowell was satisfied that his plan for gaining the rear of the Confederates was impracticable.
The affair at Blackburn's Ford revealed the strength of the Confederates, and McDowell perceived
the necessity for an immediate and vigorous attack upon the enemy, for the term of enlistment of about
ten thousand of his troops was about to expire. He then had thirty-five thousand men under his imme-
diate command. These were massed around Centreville ready to
move; but for want of needed supplies they were detained until
the close of the 20th, when the army had begun to melt away from
the cause just mentioned.

At two o'clock the next morning (July 21, 1861) the troops
moved from Centreville in three columns, the moon shining
brightly, to attack the left flank of the Confederates. General
Tyler, with the brigades of Schenck and Sherman, and the bat-
teries of Ayres and Carlisle, moved on the Warrenton turnpike
toward the stone bridge, leaving MUes and Richardson to watch
and guard BlackbiuTi's Ford. ' The object was to make a feigned
attack near the bridge, while the two columns of Himter and
Heintzelman shoiold cross Bull Run at Sudley Church, and fall
upon the Confederate left. These movements were ver}' slow;
and General McDowell, who was ill, and in a carriage, becoming
impatient, mounted his horse and with his cavalry escort, com-
manded by Colonel A. G. Brackett, he rode forward, passed the
two columns toiling along a rough forest road, and first entered
the open field which became a battle-ground.

Meanwhile important movements had been made on the Con-
federate side, of which McDowell was ignorant. When he ad-
vanced to Fairfax Court-House, Beauregard informed Davis, at
Richmond, of the movement, who ordered Johnston to hasten to
join the forces at Manassas with the army of the Shenandoah. It
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him. He accomplished the latter, and with six thousand infantry he hastened to Manassas, where he
arrived at noon on the 20th, the remainder of his army following at a slower pace. This reinforcement
made Beauregard's army outnumber McDowell's by four thousand men, and being strongly fortified, he
had an important advantage. Johnston, the senior in rank, took chief command.

General Tyler opened the memorable battle by firing a shell among the Confederates near the stone
bridge, commanded by Colonel Evans. Others followed ; and Beauregard, believing it to be a real attack,
sent reinforcements to Evans. At the same time Johnston ordered a quick and vigorous attack upon
McDowell's left wing at Blackburn's Ford, not doubting, because of the superior force of Confederates in
that quarter, that they would win a complete victory. The assailants were led by General Ewell. The
movement miscarried; and from an eminence Johnston and Beauregard watched the opening conflict
with great anxiety. A cloud of dust seen far to the northward gave Johnston apprehensions that Patterson,

I'lHANNON

when he discovered the
given chase or was ha-

Colonel Evans was
nonade below was only
of heavy columns
o'clock scouts told him
ley Church. It was
Hampshire and Massa-
and Reynolds, the whole
pared to meet them;
was sent forw'ard to as-
Nationals appeared in
battle began. Only a
vale separated the com-
Evans's line began to
Bee advanced with fresh
strength. The National
ble, and Colonel Burn-
Colonel Andrew Porter
battalion of regular infantry under Major

The battle now raged furiousl3^ Hunter
and Colonel Slocum of Rhode Island was killed,
Sprague, governor of the little Commonwealth,
troops from that State. At length Porter came
poured such a hea\n,' fire upon Evans's left, that
bend. At that moment the head of Heintzel-
also Sherman's brigade, whom Tyler had sent,
to assist Bumside. These reinforcements were
als, who had been on their feet since midnight,

A furious charge made by a New York regi-
W. Slocum, shattered the bending Confederate line, and the troops fled in confusion to a plateau whereon
General T. J. Jackson had just arrived with reserves. "They are beating us back!" exclaimed General
Bee. "Well, sir," calmly replied Jackson, "we will give them the bayonet!" Bee was encouraged.
"Form! form!" he cried to the fugitives. "There stands Jackson like a stone wall." The effect of these
words was w^onderful. Their flight w^as checked, and order was soon brought out of confusion. Ever
afterward, the calm general was called "Stonewall Jackson."

It was now noon. Alarmed by the unexpected strength of the Nationals, Johnston and Beauregard
sent bodies of troops, under Holmes, Early, and Ewell, in the direction of the sounds of battle, four miles
distant. The two commanders hastened to the plateau, when Johnston, the chief by seniority, after
reorganizing the shattered columns, left Beauregard in command on the field and hastened to a position
from which he had a view of the whole area of operations and of the country toward Manassas, whence
reinforcements from the Shenandoah Valley were momentarily expected. Without these, he had small
hope of success. From his new position he also sent forward reinforcements; and at two o'clock in the
afternoon, when the conflict was renewed, the Confederates had ten thousand soldiers, with twenty-two
heavy guns in battle order on the plateau. Meanwhile the Nationals had been preparing for the struggle.
At one o'clock they had gained possession of the Warrenton Turnpike, the grand objective of the march

departure of the army of the Shenandoah, had
stening to reinforce McDowell,
soon satisfied that Tyler's attack and the can-
a feint. He had been informed of the march
through the forests on his left, and before ten
that one column was crossing Bull Run at Sud-
Hunter's, composed of Rhode Island, New
chusetts troops, with the batteries of Griffin
led by Colonel Bumside. Evans at once pre-
and General Bee, who commanded reserves,
sist him. Verv' soon the
the open field, and a
small stream in a little
hatants. Hard pressed,
waver, when General
troops and gave it
line then began to trem-
side called for help.
responded by sending a
George Sykes.
was severely wounded
when the youthful
took command of the
up with his men and
his line again began to
man's column appeared;
under Colonel Corcoran,
timely; for the Nation-
were nearly exhausted,
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against the Confederate left; but their enemies must be driven from the plateau before victor>' would
be secured. To accomplish this five brigades, namely, Porter's, Howard's, Franklin's, Wilcox's and
Sherman's, with the batteries of Ricketts, Griffin and Arnold, and cavalry under Major Palmer, were

to turn the Confederate left, while Keyes
was sent to annoy them on the right.

Colonel Heintzelman accompanied
IMcDowell as his lieutenant on the field,
and his division began the attack. They
pressed forward in the face of a storm of
balls from batteries, and gained possession
of a portion of the plateau. There was an
elevation near that commanded the whole
plateau, and McDowell ordered Ricketts
and Griffin to plant their batteries upon it,
with the immediate support of Ellsworth's
Fire Zouaves, under Colonel Famham. It
was accomplished, while New York, Massa-
chusetts and Minnesota troops took a posi-
tion to the left of the batteries. As the
artillen,' and Zouaves went boldly forward
in the face of a severe fire from the enemy,
they were suddenly attacked on the flank
by Alabamians in ambush, and then by two
companies of Stuart's Black-horse cavalr\',
in the rear. The Zouaves recoiled, and the
horsemen dashed entirely through the shat-
tered column. Colonel Famham rallied
his men, and with some assistance they at-
tacked the Confederate horsemen so furi-
ously that they were dispersed.

When the Zouaves gave way, Heintzel-
man ordered up a Minnesota regiment to
the support of the batteries. Suddenly the
Confederates, in overwhelming force, deliv-
ered a murderous fire that disabled the bat-
teries by prostrating the men, when the
struggle for the plateau became fearful. Both sides suffered dreadfully. Johnston heard of the slaughter
and lost heart. He had ordered Early up, at eleven o'clock, with three fresh regiments, but they did not
come. It was now three o'clock. "Oh for four regiments!" said Johnston bitterly, to Colonel Cocke.
His wish was more than satisfied. Just then he saw a cloud of dust in the direction of the Manassas Gap
Railway. It was caused by a part of his own Shenandoah army, four thousand strong, under General
E. Kirby Smith. They were received with joy, and were ordered into action immediately. Beauregard's
force was almost doubled by these and other fresh troops; and the blow that now smote McDowell's
troops, just as they were about to grasp the palm of victor3% was sudden, imexpected, heavy, and over-
powering. In fifteen minutes the Nationals were swept from the plateau. As regiment after regiment
gave way and hurried toward the turnpike in confusion, panic seized others, and at four o'clock a greater
portion of the National army were flying across Bull Rtm toward Centreville. With many it was not a
retreat, but a disorderly rout. They left behind them over three thousand men killed, wounded, or made
prisoners. The Confederates lost over two thousand. The Confederate congress had assembled at
Richmond the day before; and Jefferson Davis, who arrived on the battle-field just as the flight began,
sent back to his associates an exultant shout of victor}-, by the telegraph. It was echoed, in var>'ing
notes, over the Confederacj-, while the vanquished army was hastening, in fragments, back to the defence
of the capital. For a moment the gloom of deep despondency settled upon the hearts of the loyal portion
of the nation.

The gravity of the occasion was so little appreciated, that when it was known at Washington that
McDowell was to attack Beauregard on Sunday, the 21st, scores of men, and even women — Congressmen,
officials of every' grade, and plain citizens — went out in carriages as to a spectacular show for amusement.

COLOXEL RiKER

General Xaglee

Ge.veral Patterson
General Pal.mer

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Passes from militar>^ commanders were like tickets to a Roman gladiatorial combat in the circus; and
the vicinity of the battle-field was gay, on Sunday morning, with civilians, who indulged in wine and
cigars at the headquarters of Colonel Miles at Centreville. The heights there were crowded with spectators,
and as the battle went on, and bombs "bursted in air," their cheeks were made to glow with delicious
excitement. Before night those cheeks were made pale by terror as the crowd of spectators rushed back,
pell-mell, toward places of safety, pursued by the Confederates. Soldiers and citizens and well-dressed
women were mingled in picturesque confusion in the line of fugitives who crowded the highways. In
several places the roads were blocked with overturned vehicles or abandoned cannon; and horses and
human kind seemed equally eager to escape from the whirlwind of destruction that followed in fury behind
them for a while. But the pursuit of the Confederates was soon stayed by misinformation. Had they
pressed on, their coveted prize, the National capital, might have been in their possession before Monday
morning.

The battle at Bull Run depressed the loyal people only for a moment, and there was a quick rebound
from despair to hope. Another uprising by the loyalists in favor of the Union took place, and the gaps
in the National armies were more than filled within a fortnight by new recruits. The Confederates were
weakened by their victory, for it gave them undue confidence in their strength and prowess, and made

them neglect to profit by it.
ward caused a "solid South" to
Government, and the Confed-
sustained by the people o f

General Patterson was un-
hold Johnston at Winchester or
the truth was made known by
clear that he did all an obedient
could do under the circtim-
was satisfied, and made no

While the events we have
in the East, the war was making
pecially in Missouri, where Gen-
taken vigorous measures to
loyal governor of Missouri, who
Jefferson City, fled westward
General Price, and took a stand
were attacked by Lyon and de-
toward the southwestern por-
far from the Arkansas border.
over the whole region north-
east of a line from Booneville to
to the Government the impor-

Ge.neral G. H. Tho.m.\s

But circumstances soon after-
be arrayed against the National
erate armies were wonderfully
the whole South,
justly censured for his failure to
to reinforce McDowell. When
positive testimony, it appeared
soldier, bound by instructions,
stances, and the public mind
further criticism.
just considered were occurring
rapid progress in the West, es-
eral L^'on, as we have seen, had
quell the rebellion. The dis-
raiscd the standard of revolt at
with troojjs who were led by
near Booneville. There they
feated, when they retreated
tion of Missouri, and halted not
Lyon now held military' control
ward of the Missouri River, and
the Arkansas border, thus giving
tant points of St. Louis, Hanni-

bal, St. Joseph, and Bird's Point on the Mississippi, as bases of operations, with railways and rivers for
transportation. General Lyon remained about a fortnight at Booneville preparing for a vigorous campaign
against the insurgents whom Jackson was gathering around him in southwestern Missouri. He issued a
proclamation which quieted the people and strengthened the Union cause, for he assured them that his
Government had no other end in view than the maintenance of its authority over the persons and property
of the whole people of the State.

On the ist of July (1861) there were at least ten thousand loyal troops in Missouri, and as many more
might have been thrown into it from camps in Illinois, in the space of forty-eight hours. At the same
time, Colonel Franz Sigel, a German soldier and patriot, was pushing eager soldiers toward insurgent
camps on the borders of Kansas and Arkansas. On the 5 th of July he encountered a considerable force
under Jackson and Brigadier-General Rains, near Carthage. Their force was much greater in number
than his own, and after a sharp fight he was pressed back and retreated in good order to Springfield.
Lyon, who was then at the head of a small force, eighty miles from Springfield, satisfied of Sigel's peril,
hastened forward to his relief, by forced marches, and encamped not far from him on the 13th of July
and took command of the combined forces. In the meantime troops from Texas under Generals McCul-
loch. Rains, Pearce and McBride, had joined Price, making his whole force about twenty thousand men.
They were now marching on Springfield. To confront them Lyon had not more than six thousand men,
horse and foot (the form^cr about five hundred in number), and eighteen pieces of artillery. With this

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General W. T. Sherman

comparatively feeble force Lyon went out to meet his enemies, and
at Dug Springs, about nineteen miles west from Springfield, they
met and fought a desperate battle on the 2d of August. The
Confederates were led by General Rains. So furious was the
charge of Lyon's cavalry, in the engagement, led by Captain
Stanley, that Confederate prisoners seriously inquired : ' ' Are they
menordevils?" The Confederates were beaten and fled to Wilson's
Creek, about ten miles south of Springfield, where they encamped
on the evening of the gtli wearied and half -starved.

The Confederates anxiously sought rest and refreshment, but
Lyon would not grant them the boon. Before the dawn the next
morning he marched against them in two columns, one led by
himself to fall upon their front; the other, under Sigel, twelve
hundred strong, with six field-pieces, to attack their rear. A
battle began at an early hour. Lyon's column bore the brunt of
the conflict. His words and deeds inspired his men to fight val-
iantly. Wherever the storm of battle was raging fiercest, there
Lyon was seen. Ver\^ early in the severe engagement, his horse
was shot under him. Then he received a wound in the leg.
Another in the head soon followed and partially stunned him.
Mounting the horse of one of Major Sturgis's orderlies, and placing
himself at the head of Kansas troops, he swung his hat over his

head, and called upon the men to follow. While dashing forward with a determination to gain the

victory, a rifle-ball passed through his body, near his heart, and he expired in a few minutes. The conflict

continued about two hours longer, and at eleven o'clock it ceased, the Confederates, discomfited,

withdrawing from the field. The loss of the Nationals in the battle was between twelve and thirteen

hundred, and of the Confederates full three thousand. The former

fell back to Springfield, and the next morning (August 11) the whole

Union force, under the general command of Sigel, retreated from

Springfield to Rolla, one hundred and twenty-five miles in the

direction of St. Louis, safely conducting a Government train valued

at $1,500,000.

When Governor Jackson set up the standard of revolt at

the capital of Missouri, the loyal men of the Commonwealth tried

to stay the hand of secession. They had held a State Convention

in Fei3ruar\', at which no openly avowed disunionist appeared.

That Convention reassembled at Jefferson City on the 2 2d of July,

and declared the government of which Jackson was the head to

be illegal. They organized a provisional government for service

until a permanent one might be established by the people. The

Convention issued an address to the inhabitants, in which the

treason of the governor was exposed. Meanwhile General Pillow,

by invitation of the governor, had entered the Commonwealth at

the head of Tennessee troops to act in concert with M. Jefferson

Thompson, the leader of the State militia. The shallow Pillow,

vain as he was incompetent, assumed the pompous title of "Lib-
erator of Missouri," and dated his orders and despatches, "Head-
quarters Army of Liberation." Missouri was not annexed to the

Confederacy; but persons claiming to represent that State sat in

the Confederate Congress at Richmond during a greater part of

the period of the Civil War. General J. C. Fremont

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X'lEw OF Hampton, Vircinia

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CHAPTER XIII.

Fremont in Missouri — Siege and Fall of Lexington — Kentucky Neutrality Violated by the Confederates — Events in Eastern Kentucky —
Buckner's Raid — Fremont Superseded — Battle at Belmont — Military Movements in Northwestern Virginia — Lee, Floyd and Wise —
Civil War Ended in West Virginia — Capture of Hatteras Forts— Events near Fort Pickens and Southwest Pass— Operations on the
Coast of South Carolina — McClellan in Command — "On to Richmond!" — Boldness of the Confederates — They are Pushed Back —
Battle at Ball's Bluff.

JOHN C. FREMONT, the eminent explorer and meritorious soldier, who was in Europe when the war
began, after purchasing arms for the Government there, hastened home and was commissioned major-
general of volunteers. On the 6th of July, he was appointed to the command of the Department of
Missouri, with his headquarters at St. Louis, where, in consequence of General Lyon having taken the
field in person, he found everything in confusion. He entered upon his duties with vigor. He caused

and Bird's Point, oppo-
sissippi, was made se-
of the Confederates,
of General Lyon and the
troops from Springfield
mont perceived the se-
souri to be strong and
as well as the militarj^
into his own hands, and
nents to act with cir-
claimed martial law, and
that it would be vigor-
energ>' created many
representations were
mcnt that his actions,
promised the best re-
and the wholesome
were entirely removed,
ready formed a plan for
souri, but the whole
armed insurgents, and
tion of the great river
structed by Confederate
and elsewhere. His plan

St. Louis to be fortified;
site Cairo, on the Mis-
cure from the operations

When, on the death
retreat of the National
toward St. Louis, Pre-
cession element in Mis-
defiant, he took the civil
power in his department
soon caused his oppo-
cumspection. He pro-
assured the disaffected
ously enforced. His
jealousies ; and such mis-
laid before his Govem-
which, at the outset,
suits, were restrained,
rigors of martial law

Fremont had al-
ridding not only Mis-
Mississippi Valley, of
for opening the naviga-
which was then ob-
batteries at Memphis

GeNEHAL ili-lXTZELMA.N' AND .StaFK

contemplated the capture or dispersion of troops under General Price, in Missouri, and the seizure of
Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas. By so doing Fremont expected to turn the position of the forces
under Pillow and others, in the vicinity of New Madrid, cut off their supplies from the southwest and
compel them to retreat, at which time a flotilla of gunboats then a-building near St. Louis might descend
the Mississippi and assist in military operations against the batteries at Memphis. In the event of this
movement being successful, he proposed to push on toward the Gulf of Mexico, with his army, and take
possession of New Orleans.

After the battle of Wilson's Creek, General McCulloch, the Texan leader, abandoned General Price,
because they could not agree, when the latter, in sole command, called upon the Secessionists to fill up
his ranks. They responded with alacrity; and at the middle of August, Price moved northward in the
direction of Lexington, which was situated in a curve of the Missouri River. It occupied an important
position, and was garrisoned by less than three thousand troops under Colonel James A. Mulligan. Early
in September, when Price had reached its vicinity. Mulligan resolved to defend the place, with his small
army, and cast up intrenchments around his camp. At that time a larger Union force was at the State
capital, under Colonel Jefferson C. Davis, and General John Pope was coming down from the country
northward of the Missouri River, with five thousand more. Price perceived his danger, and pressing
vigorously forward, besieged Lexington on the nth of September, with twenty thousand men, w'hich
number soon increased to twenty-five thousand, by reinforcements. Mulligan was inadequately supplied
with heavy guns and ammunition to sustain a siege; and after a gallant defence of the post against
overwhelming numbers, until the morning of the 20th, he was compelled to surrender. This disaster was

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severely felt by the Unionists; and Fremont, resolving to retrieve it, at once put in motion an army
of more than twenty thousand men to drive Price and his followers out of Missouri.

Early in the summer the disloyal governor of Kentucky
declared that arrangements had been made at Cincinnati, with
General McClellan, that neither National nor Confederate troops
should enter Kentuckj^. AlcClellan denied the truth of the asser-
tions; but for several months the neutrality of Kentucky- was as
much respected as if such an arrangement was in force; and the
purposes of the governors of Kentucky and Tennessee were pro-
moted, for it gave them more time to prepare for war. In the
meantime Pillow had been unsuccessfully trying to capture Cairo
by military'- operations in Missouri. He urged the seizure of the
bluff at Columbus, in Western Kentuckj-, from which he believed
he might take Cairo in reverse, turn its guns upon Bird's Point,
drive out and disperse the Nationals, and so make a free passage
for the Confederates to St. Louis. The solemn pledges of his
masters to respect Kentucky' neutrality, restrained Pillow ; but in
September (1861) the Confederates resolved to violate that neu-
trality. General (Bishop) Polk seized the strong position at
Columbus, w-ith a considerable body of troops, under the pretext
that National forces were preparing to occupy that place. The
Confederate secretary' of war publicly telegraphed to Polk to
withdraw his troops; and at the same time Jefferson Davis pri-
vately telegraphed to him to hold on, saying: "The necessity
must justify the means." So Columbus was held by the Confed-
erates. The loyal members of the Kentucky Legislature requested
the governor to call out the militia of the State to expel the in-
vaders, and asked the National Government to aid him. The
governor did nothing; but General Ulysses S. Grant, then in com-
mand of the district around Cairo, took military possession of Paducah, in Northern Kentucky, at
the mouth of the Tennessee River. The seizure of Columbus by the Confederates opened the v/ay to
all the horrors of war which Kentucky suffered; and the occupation of Paducah by National troops
ended the "neutrality" of that State. Thenceforth Kentucky was numbered among the loyal States.

On the day after Polk seized Columbus, a Confederate force under General Zollicoffer (formerly a
member of Congress) invaded Kentuclcy from East Tennessee, where the loyalists were suffering peculiar
hardships at the hands of the Secessionists. At the same time, Simon B. Buckner, who had been placed
in command of the professed "neutral" Kentucky State Guard, formed a Confederate camp in Tennessee,
just below the Kentucky border, and, acting in co-operation with Polk and Zollicoffer, attempted to seize
Louisville. He was foiled by the vigilance of General Anderson (late of Fort Sumter), who was in command
there, wdth General W. T. Sherman as his lieutenant. Buckner
fell back to Bowling Green, on the Nashville and Louisville Rail-
road, and there established a camp as a nucleus of a powerful
Confederate force that was gathered soon after«-ard.

Buckner's raid and the invasion of Zollicoffer aroused the
Unionists of Eastern Kentucky, who flew to arms under various
leaders. In an attack upon a camp of Kentucky', Indiana and
Ohio troops, under Colonel Garrard, at the Rock Castle Hills, a
picturesque region of the Cumberland IMountains, Zollicoffer was
repulsed, on the 21st of October. Further eastward, near Pike-
ton, the capital of Pike county, a Confederate force under John
S. Williams was dispersed by some Union troops under General
William Nelson, early in November. These successes inspirited
the loyalists of East Tennessee with hopes of a speedy deliverance
from their oppressors ; but they were compelled to wait long for
relief, for toward the close of 1861 the Confederates had estab-
lished a firm military' foothold in Tennessee, and occupied a
considerable portion of Southern Kentucky from the Cumberland H.\kd Tack

Genkhal T. K. An'dehson, C. S. A.

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AND JNlRs. Geo. B. McClellan

Mountains to the Mississippi River, along a line about four hundred miles in length. They also occupied
a greater portion of Missoiori, south of the Missouri River.

Fremont was censured for his failure to reinforce IMulligan. The public knew very little of his
embarrassments at that time. Pressing demands came for reinforce-
ments, from General Grant at Paducah. Cries for help were heard at
various points in his department ; and a peremptory order was received
from General Scott to forward five thousand troops immediately to
Washington city, notwithstanding McClellan (who was in chief command
there) had sevent}' thousand men within easy call. Fremont's forces did
not, at any time, number more than fifty-six thousand, and these were
scattered over his department. Chafing under unjust complaints, he
proceeded to put his plan for ridding the Mississippi Valley of Confed-
erate troops into operation at once. On the 27 th of September, he put
more than twenty thousand soldiers (five thousand of them cavalry) in
motion under the respective commands of Generals Hunter, Pope, Sigel,
McKinstr>- and Asboth, accompanied by eighty-six hea\^- guns. These
five columns were moving southward early in October; and on the nth,
when his army was thirty thousand strong, Fremont wrote to his Govern-
ment: "My plan is New Orleans straight; I would precipitate the war
forward, and end it soon and victoriously."

Fremont felt confident of success. His armj^ were in high spirits,
and small victories were won b}^ his detachments in various places. He
had strengthened the forces in Eastern Missouri, so that St. Louis was
safe; and General Hardee at Greenville, and General Pillow near New
Madrid, dared not advance. He knew the bitterness of his political
enemies, and the jealousies of envious men ; and he was in continual expectation of interference with his
plans. That interference soon came. False accusers, public and private, had such influence in the
military' councils at Washington that, just after his superb body-guard of one hundred and fifty cavalry,
led by Zagonyi, a Hungarian, had charged upon and routed about two thousand Confederates, foot and
horse, at Springfield, Fremont received an order from General Scott, directing him to turn over his com-
mand to General Hunter, then some distance in the rear. Hunter arrived just as the troops were about to
attack Price. He countermanded Fremont's orders for battle; and nine days afterward General H. W.
Halleck was placed in command of the Department of Missouri. The disappointed and disheartened
army were turned back, and made a retrograde march to St. Louis in sullen sadness. Fremont was
afterward presented with an elegant sword, inscribed: 'To the Path-finder, by the Men of the West."

Just before he was deprived of his command, Fremont ordered General Grant to move a co-operative
force along the line of the Mississippi River. It was promptly done. A column, about three thousand

strong, and composed chiefly of Illinois volunteers, under
General John A. McClemand, went down from Cairo in
transports and the wooden gunboats Tyler and Lexington
to menace Columbus by attacking the post at Belmont
opposite; and at the same time another column, under
General C. F. Smith, marched from Paducah to menace
Columbus in the rear. Grant accompanied McClernand's
column. The troops were landed on the morning of No-
vember 7th, three miles above Belmont, and pushed on for
that post, while the gunboats opened fire upon Columbus.
General Polk, still in command there, acted with vigor
and promptness. He sent Pillow across the river with
troops to reinforce the garrison at Belmont. In a sharp
battle that ensued, the Nationals won the victor>% but,
exposed to a sharp fire of artillery on the bluflf at Columbus
that position was untenable; so, giving three cheers for
the Union, they set fire to the Confederate camp, and
withdrew with captured men, horses, and artiller^^ But Polk determined not to let the victors escape. He
opened seven of his heaviest guns upon them, and at the same time sent over fresh troops under General
Cheatham, and crossed over himself with two regiments, making the whole Confederate force about five

Bull Run

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Dk.ck ok Monitor and Group of Ofkickus

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thousand. There was a desperate struggle; but Grant fought his way back to his transports, and escaped
under cover of a fire from the gunboats. These were admirably handled in the engagement respectively
by Commanders Walke and Stemble. The Nationals lost about five hundred men, and the Confederates
over six hundred.

We have observed that the Confederates, though defeated in Western Virginia in the summer of
1 86 1, resolved not to relin-
quish possession of that
granary without another
struggle. It occurred in the
autumn of that j^ear. The
troops left by Gamett and
Pegram were placed in
charge of General Robert E.
Lee, and early in August he
was at the head of about
sixteen thousand fighting
men. John B. Floyd, the
late Secretary of War, was
sent with some troops to
reinforce those under Gen-
eral Wise, and to take the
chief command in the region
of the Gauh^ River. Lee
made his headquarters at
Huntersville, in Pocahontas
county, and he placed a
strong guard on Buffalo
Alountain, at the crossing of
the Staunton turnpike.
Much was expected from
Floyd, for he promised
much. It was expected that he would move swiftly down the Kanawha Valley, and drive General Cox
across the Ohio River; while Lee should disperse the army of ten thousand men under Rosecrans,
WcClellan's successor, at Clarksburg, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and so open a way for an
invading force of Confederates into the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Floyd made his
headquarters a few miles from Summerville.

Early in September, Rosecrans marched southward in search of Floyd. He scaled the Gauly Moun-
tains with great difficulty, and on the loth found his foe at Carnifex Ferry on the Gauly River. Rosecrans
fell upon the Ex-Secretary furiously, and for three hours they fought desperately. The contest ceased at
twilight ; and during the night Floyd stole away under cover of darkness, and did not halt until he reached
the summit of Big Sewell Mountain, thirty miles distant. Meanwhile the Nationals under General J. J.
Reynolds, whom Rosecrans had left to confront Lee in the Cheat Mountain region, were watching the
roads and passes of the more westerly of the Alleghany range of hills. They observed that Lee's scouts
w'ere very active, and that he was evidently preparing to strike a blow somewhere. Finally the object
of his movements was made clear, which was to attack the Nationals at Elkwater, and the outpost of
Indiana troops on the summit of Cheat Mountain, so as to secure the Pass and have a free communication
with the Shenandoah Valley, at Staunton. For that object Lee marched from Huntersville on the night
of the nth of September, with nine thousand men and nearly a dozen pieces of artillery, to strike the post
at Elkwater, the Summit and the Pass at the same moment. A storm was sweeping over the mountains
and favored the enterprise. But it was unsuccessful. Lee was repulsed at Elkwater and the Summit,
when he withdrew and joined Floyd on Big Sewell Mountain between the forks of the Kanawha. Their
combined forces numbered about twenty thousand men, and they were there confronted by about ten
thousand Nationals under Rosecrans, assisted by Generals Cox, Schenck, and Benham.

Very soon afterward. General Lee, whose campaign had been a failure, was recalled and sent to
Georgia. He was succeeded by Floyd. The incompetent Wise was also recalled. Floj-d, as chief
commander in Western Virginia, took post on New River, from which he was driven by Rosecrans on the
1 2th of November, and was pursued about fifty miles. Then he retired from the army, but reappeared

Ge.\'er.\l \V. S.

Harney
Gener.\l C.

W. Stanford

General C. P. Stone

Ge.veral W. S. Morris

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in command at Fort Donelson not long afterward. Vigorous movements made by Generals Kelly and
Milroy, toward the close of the year, were successful in dispersing the Confederate troops in Northwestern
Virginia. A successful expedition sent against a Confederate post at Huntersville (Lee's old quarters) by
Milroy closed the campaign of 1861, in that region, and armed rebellion was effectually crushed in West
Virginia.

In the summer of 1861, the Confederates built two forts on Hatteras Island, off the coast of North
Carolina, which guarded the entrance to Hatteras Inlet, through which the British blockade runners had
begun to carry in supplies to the insurgents. General B. F. Butler, then in command at Fortress Monroe,
proposed the sending of a land and naval force against these forts. It was undertaken late in August;
and when, toward the close of summer (just after the village of Hampton had been laid in ashes by Virginia
troops under Magruder), Butler was succeeded in command at Fortress Monroe by the veteran General

John E. Wool, the former volunteered to com-
mand the land forces for the purpose. An
expedition, composed of eight transports and
war-ships under Commodore Stringham, bear-
ing almost nine hundred land troops com-
manded b}^ Butler, left Hampton Roads for
Hatteras Inlet on the 26th of August, and on
the morning of the 28th the vessels of war
opened fire upon the forts (Hatteras and
Clarke) and some of the troops were landed.
An assault by both arms of the service was
kept up until the 29th, when the forts were
surrendered, and the expedition returned to

Hampton Roads,

garrison the captured
siege, Mr. Fiske, acting
General Butler, per-
deed. When one of the
abandoned, he swam
heavy breakers, with
Weber, who was on the
tered the evacuated
books and papers con-
information. These he
age, strapped it high
and swam back with
The information they
assailants great advan-

'They Died That the Union Might Live'

leaving a portion
of Colonel Hawk-
ins's New York
Zouaves, with their
commander, to
post. During the
aide-de-camp to
formed a gallant
forts (Clarke) was
ashore, through
orders for Colonel
island. Fiske en-
fort, and found
taining valuable
formed into a pack-
upon his shoulders,
them to the ship,
contained gave the

tages.

The victory at Hatteras finally led to important results, as we shall perceive hereafter. The politicians
of North Carolina had annexed that State to the Confederac}-. A conciliatory address to the inhabitants,
issued by Colonel Hawkins, led to a Convention on the Eastern Shore, which, on the i6th of November,
1 86 1, adopted a declaration of independence of the Confederacy. It promised so much good that
President Lincoln authorized the election of a Congressman from that district. But the heel of despotic
power soon crushed this germ of active loyalty among four thousand inhabitants, and it almost disappeared
for a time.

We have observed that Fort Pickens, on Santa Rosa Island off the harbor of Pensacola, was saved
from the insurgents early in 1 86 1 , by the vigilance and bravery of Lieutenant Slemmer. He was furloughed
for rest, and Colonel Harvey Brown took his place. The garrison was reinforced from time to time. In
June, Wilson's Zouaves from New York arrived on Santa Rosa Island to assist in the defence of the fort,
which the Confederates ardently coveted. The latter had gathered in large numbers on the main; and
in October they attempted to surprise and capture Wilson's troops, on a dark night, landing and rushing

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V^iEWS OF Fortifications

HaTTBRY No. ■} IN 1- liONT OF VOKMOWN

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upon their camp with the cr>' of "Death to Wilson! No quarter!" The Zouaves fought desperately in
the gloom, and, with the aid of men from the fort, drove the assailants to their boats. The Confederates
lost one hundred and fifty men; the Nationals, sixty-four. Wilson's camp was burned by the enemy,
and that was the most that the assailants achieved.

These events were followed, late in November, by a severe cannonade and bombardment of the
Confederate works on the main, by Fort Pickens and war-vessels. There were seven thousand men under
General Braxton Bragg, encamped behind these works and in a curved line from the Navy-yard to Fort
McRee, a distance of about four miles. The works consisted of forts and batteries. In the course of
forty-eight hours after the bombardment was begun, most of the heavy guns of the Confederates were

silenced, and a greater por-
the villages of Wolcott and
laid in ashes by shells from
for a few weeks, quiet pre-
when it was broken by an-
ist of Januarj^ 1862. It
but with very little damage
IVIeanwhile a speck of
Southwest Pass at the
River. Captain J. S. Hol-
w-ho had deserted his flag,
Confederate "ram" — an
sharp and hea\^' iron beak
the sides of wooden vessels.
With this formidable mon-
ver\' mischievous in com-
tacked the National block-
tain Pope; but he was soon

Sidley's FoiiD, Bull Run

tion of the Na\n,'-yard, and
Warrington adjoining, were
Fort Pickens. After that,
vailed in Pensacola Bay,
other artillerj' duel on the
lasted about twelve hours,
to either part^^
war had appeared at the
mouth of the Mississippi
lins of the National navy%
was in command there of a
iron-clad gunboat with a
to crush or punch holes in
It was called Alanassas.
stcr, which might have been
potent hands, Hollins at-
ading scjuadron under Cap-
driven uu the river to Fort

Jackson, after doing slight damage to one or two of the vessels of the National Nax'y.

Late in the same month (October, 1S61), another more formidable land and naval armament left
Hampton Roads for a destination unknown to all but the chief commander. It was composed of fifty
war-ships and transports commanded by Admiral S. F. Dupont, and fifteen thousand land troops under
General W. T. Sherman. Dupont's flag-ship, the Wabash, led the way out to sea, and each ship sailed
under sealed orders to be opened in case of the dispersion of the fleet. A terrible tempest smote them
off Cape Hatteras, and very soon only one vessel could be seen from the deck of the flag-ship. The
sealed orders were opened, by which each commander was directed to rendezvous at Port Royal entrance,
on the coast of South Carolina. There all but four transports, which were lost, were gathered around
the Wabash on the evening of the 4th of November. Fortunately no human life perished with the
transports lost.

The entrance to Port Royal Sound is between Hilton Head and Phillips's Island, and was guarded
by a battery on each, erected by the Confederates. Within the Sound was a small flotilla of armed
vessels commanded by the veteran Commodore Tattnall, late of the United States navy, who had espoused
the Confederate cause. On the morning of the 7th of November, Dupont's ships attacked the guarding
forts, the guns of which were soon silenced, when the fleet moved into the Sound and drove Tattnall's
vessels into shallow water. The National forces took possession of Port Royal Island and the neighboring
ones, and found them deserted by the planters and their families. Most of the slaves remained. They
had refused to follow their masters, who tried to frighten them by horrible stories about the people of
the North — the "Yankees" — who, they told them, were coming to steal and sell the negroes in Cuba, or
to kill them and bury them in the sand. The colored people did not believe these tales; and when the
National ships approached, and the masters and mistresses of the slaves fled in terror, these simple people
• — men, women, and children — stood in groups on the sea-shore, with little bundles of clothing in their
hands, desiring to go on board.

The last efforts of the Confederates to defend the Sea Islands below Charleston, where the most
valuable cotton was raised, was made at Port Royal Ferry, between Port Royal Island and the main, on
the ist of January, 1862. After a severe conflict the Confederates were defeated and dispersed. Dupont,
in the meantime, had taken possession of Big Tybee Island, near Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of the
Savannah River; and before the close of 1861, the National authority was supreme over the coast islands
from Warsaw Sound to the mouth of the North Edisto River. A fleet of twenty old wooden ships,

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chiefly whalers, heavily laden with rough blocks of granite, which had been sent from New England to
be sunk in the four channels of the entrance to Charleston harbor, and so assist in the blockade services,
arrived at their destination at about this time. It was when this "stone fleet" approached, that a fire
which laid a large portion of Charleston in ashes (an event already mentioned) was raging. Quicksands

swallowed the "stone fleet," and its ser-
very little account.

We have seen that General McClellan
from Western Virginia to take charge of the
Potomac, as the forces around Washington
after the battle of Bull Run. He assumed
the 2 7th of July. He brought to the service
spotless moral character, robust health, a
retic military education with some practical
untiring industry, the prestige of recent
the field, and the unlimited confidence
people. He found at his disposal about
sand infantry, less than one thousand cav-
hundred and fifty artillerymen, and thirty
cannon. He was very popu-
called a ' ' Young Napoleon ; ' '
the ist of November, i86i,
Scott resigned his place as
armies, McClellan was ap-
The act was hailed as a
nation of the conflict, for he
be "short, sharp, and deci-
ganized the army wliich had
ble blow of Bull Run; and it
mond, which had become the
be in the possession of the
close of September. But
The Con-

Johnston rc-
nassas, and
for want of
the National
at the rate of
ing free-la-
tions of war.
National for-
Washington ,
and while
see a forward
raised and
mond!" the
m e n t , r e-
circumspect
two princi-
other, the
occasional skirmish

vices were of

B.\TTLEFIELD, ThORBURN's HoUSE AND M.\TTHEWS

HoL'SE AT Bill Run

was called
army of the
were called
command on
youth, a
sound theo-
experience,
success in
of the loyal
fifty thou-
al r y , six
pieces of
lar, and was
and when on
General
General-in-Chief of the
pointed to fill that office,
promise of a speedy termi-
had said that the war should
sive." He thoroughly reor-
been shattered by the terri-
was believed that Rich-
Confederate capital, would
National troops before the
such was not to be.
federates under General
mained encamped at Ma-
were compelled to be idle
cavalry and adequate subsistence; while
army was hourly increasing in strength
two thousand men a day from the teem-
bor States, with ample supplies of muni-
Beaurcgard urged Johnston to attack the
tifications which were rising around
but the wise leader prudently refused;
the hearts of the loyal people yearned to
movement, and some of the newspapers
prolonged the insane cry of ' ' On to Rich-
civil and military leaders of the Govem-
membering the disaster at Bull Run, were
and cautious. For several months these
pal armies lay within thirty miles of each

quiet of camp life broken only by an
or midnight alarm. Detachments of Confederates reconnoitering, sometimes
approached within a few miles of Washington; and they held possession of Munson's Hill, within six
miles of the dome of the Capitol, as the bird flies. They also kept up the blockade of the Potomac
River by batteries on the Virginia shore, already alluded to — a state of things not only perilous to the
capital and the army that surrounded it, but exceedingly disgraceful to that great army. So felt the
Government, and in September it was resolved to remove these obstructions.

McClellan was ordered to co-operate with the naval force on the river, in the necessary business;
but his unfortunate habit of procrastination paralyzed the efforts of the naval commanders, and the

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blockade was kept up until the Confederates voluntarily abandoned their position in front of Washington,
in the spring of 1862.

When the Government ordered the removal of the blockade of the Potomac, the National troops
began to push back the Confederate advance on the Virginia side of the river. Late in September the
latter retired from Munson's Hill; and struggles for the possession of the Upper Potomac occurred at
Lewinsville in Virginia, and Darnestown in Maryland. In these struggles the Nationals won the victory;
and by the middle of October (1861) they occupied a line from Fairfax Court-House well up toward
Leesburg, and the most advanced outpost of the Confederates was at or near Centreville. Meanwhile

some National troops
mac at Harper's Ferry
when they were men-
Confederates. Colonel
Geary went over with
invaders, and on the
he had a severe engage-
gents, and repulsed
Nationals recrossed the
This event was soon
portant one at Ball's
tomac. The left wing of
was commanded by
Evans. It lay at Lees-
fronted by a National
Charles P.
between Con-

General
camped
ferries.

had crossed the Poto-
to seize some wheat,
aced by a large body of
(afterward General)
reinforcements for the
hills back of the village
ment with the insur-
them. Then all the
river with their spoils,
followed by a more im-
Rluff on the Upper Po-
thc Confederate army
General (late Colonel)
Inirg, and was con-
force, commanded by
Stone, who were en-
rad's and Edwards's

His headquarters were at Poolesville. Misinformation had caused a belief that the Confederates
had left Leesburg at a little past the middle of October, when McClellan ordered General McCall, who
commanded the advance of the right of the National forces in Virginia, to move forward and occupy
Drainsville. At the same time he ordered General Stone to co-operate with General McCall, which he
did by making a feint of crossing the river at the two ferries above named, on the afternoon of Sunday
the 20th of October. At the same time a part of a Massachusetts regiment, under Colonel Devens, was
ordered to take post on Harrison's Island in the Potomac, abreast of Ball's Bluff. Devens went with
four companies in flat-boats taken from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Three thousand men com-
manded by Colonel E. D. Baker, a member of the National Senate, acting as a brigadier, were held in
readiness as a reserve, in the event of a battle.

These movements of the Nationals caused an opposing one on the part of the Confederates, who
had watched their antagonists with keen vigilance, at a point of concealment not far off. Misinformed
as to the position of the insurgents, and supposing McCall to be near enough to give aid, if necessary,
Stone, on the morning of the 21st, ordered some Massachusetts troops under Colonels Lee and Devens,
to cross to the Virginia main, from Harrison's Island, to reconnoitre. They did not find the foe in the
neighborhood. But Evans, unperceived, lay near with a strong force; and when the detachment fell
back to the vicinity of Ball's Bluff, he attacked them. It was at a little past noon. Colonel Baker had
been sent to Harrison's Island, with his reserves, invested with discretionary power to withdraw or
reinforce the other troops. He concluded to go forward, supposing the forces of McCall and others to
be near; and on reaching the field he took the chief command by virtue of his rank. Very soon afterward
he was instantly killed by a bullet that pierced his brain. His troops, unsupported by others, were
crushed by a superior force. Pressed back to the verge of the bluff" and down the declivity, they fought
desperately for a while at twilight, for they had no means for transportation across the swollen floo,d.
They were soon overpowered. A large number of the Nationals were made prisoners, and many perished
in trying to escape by swimming in the dark. Some were shot in the water, and others were drowned.
A large flat-boat, overloaded with the wounded and others, was riddled by bullets, and sank. In this
affair, the Nationals lost full one thousand men and two pieces of artillery. The loss of Colonel Baker
was irreparable. He was a genuine patriot, an acute statesman, and eloquent orator. His death caused
sadness wherever his worth was appreciated.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

DECEMBER, 1862 — Continued from Section 6.

Parker's Cross Roads or Red Mound. Tenn. 18th. 106th. llQth and
122d in.. 27th, 39th and 63d Ohio. 50th Ind.. 39th Iowa. 7th Tenn.,
7th Wis. Battery. Union 23 killed. 139 wounded, 58 missing. Con-
fed. 50 killed. 150 wounded. 300 missing,
81 to Jan. 2 — Murfreesboro' or Stone River. Tenn. Army of the Cumber-
land. Maj.C.en. Rosecrans. Right Wing. McCook's Corps; Center.
Thomas's Corps; Left Wing. Crittenden's Corps. Union 1,533 killed.
7.245 wounded. 2.800 missing. Confed. 14.560 killed, wounded and
missing. Union Brig. -Gen. Sill killed and Kirk wounded. Confed.
Brig. -Gens. Raines and Hanson killed and Chalmers and Davis
wounded.

JANUARY, 1863

1— Galveston. Tex. Three Cos. 42d Mass.. U. S. Gunboats Weslfield,

Harriet Lane, Owasco. Sachem, Clifton, and Coryphceus. Union 600

killed, wounded and missing. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
7 and 8 — Springfield. Mo. Mo. Militia, convalescents and citizens. Union

14 killed. 144 wounded. Confed. 40 killed, 206 wounded and missing.

Unio7i Brig. -Gen. Brown wounded.
11 — Port Hindman. Ark. Thirteenth Corps, Maj.-Gen. McClemand;

Fifteenth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Sherman and gunboats Mississippi

squadron. Union 129 killed. 831 wounded. Confed. 100 killed. 400

wounded. 5,000 prisoners.
Hartsville or Wood's Fork. Mo. 21st Iowa. 99th III.. 3d Iowa Cav., 3d

Mo. Cav.. Battery L 2d Mo. Artil. Union 7 killed, 64 wounded.

Confed. Brig. -Gen. McDonald killed.
14— Bayou Teche. La. 8th Vt.. 16th and 75th X. Y.. 19th Conn.. 6th Mich..

21st Ind.. 1st La. Cav., 4th and Gth Mass. Battery. 1st Maine Battery.

and U. S. Gunboats Calhoun. Diana. Kinsmati and Estrella. Union

10 killed. 27 wounded. Confed. 15 killed. Union Commodore

Buchanan killed. Confed. Gunboat Cotton destroyed.
S4 — Woodbury. Tenn. Second Division Crittenden's Corps. Union 2

killed. 1 wounded. Confed. 35 killed, 100 missing.
80 — Deserted House or Kelly's Store, near Suffolk. Va. Portion of Maj.-Gen.

Peck's forces. Union 24 killed. 80 wounded. Confed. 50 wounded.
81— Rover. Tenn. 4th Ohio Cav. Confed. 12 killed, 12 wounded. 300

captured.

FEBRUARY, 1863

8— Fort Donelson or Cumberland Iron Works. Tenn. S3d 111.. 2d 111.

Artil.. one battalion 5th Iowa Cav. Union 16 killed. 60 wounded, 50

missing. Confed. 140 killed, 400 wounded, 130 missing.
14 — Brentsville. Va. 1st Mich. Cav. Union 15 wounded.
16 — Near Romney. W. Va. Detachments 116th and 122d Ohio. Union 72

wounded and captured.
21 — Prairie Station, Miss. 2d Iowa Cav. Union 1 killed, 3 wounded.
84 — Mississippi River below Vicksburg. U. S. Gunboat Indianola. Union

1 killed, 1 wounded. Confed. 35 killed.

MARCH, 1863

1 — Bradyville, Tenn. 3d and 4th Ohio Cav.. 1st Tenn. Cav. Union 1

killed, 6 wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 27 wounded, 100 captured.
*— Skeet, N. C. 3d X. Y. Cav. Union 3 killed, 15 wounded. Confed. 28

wounded.
4 and 6 — Thompson's Station, also called Spring Hill and Unionville. Tenn.
33d and 85th Ind.. 22d Wis.. 19th Mich.. 124th Ohio, 18th Ohio
Battery, 2d Mich. Cav.. 9th Penna. Cav., 4th Ky. Cav. Union 100
killed, 300 wounded. 1,306 captured. Confed. 150 killed. 450 wounded.
8 — Fairfax C. H.. Va. Brig. -Gen. Stoughton and thirty-three men cap-
tured by Mosby in his midnight raid.
10— Covington. Tenn. 6th and 7th 111. Cav. Confed. 25 killed.
13 to April 6 — Fort Pemberton. Miss. Thirteenth Corps. Brig. -Gen. Ross;
Seventeenth Corps, Brig.-Gen. Quimby, U. S. Gunboats Chillicothe
and DeKalb. Casualties not recorded.
14 — Port Hudson. La. Mai. -Gen. Banks' troops and Admiral Farragut's

fleet. U7tion 65 wounded.
IS to 22 — Expedition up Steele's Bayou and at Deer Creek. Miss. 2d
Division Fifteenth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Sherman, gunboat fleet. Admiral
Porter. Casualties not recorded.
17— Kelly's Ford. Va. 1st and 5th U. S. Regulars. 3d. 4th and 16th Penna.,
1st R. I.. 6th Ohio, 4th X. Y. Cav.. 6th X. Y. Battery. Union 9
killed, 35 wounded. Confed. 11 killed, 88 wounded.
SO — Vaught's Hill, near Milton. Tenn. 105th Ohio, 101st Ind.. 80th and
123d III., 1st Tenn. Cav.. 9th Ind. Battery. Union 7 killed. 48
wounded. Confed. 63 killed, 300 wounded.
81— Mt. Sterling. Ky. 10th Ky. Cav. Union 4 killed, 10 wounded. Con-
fed. 8 killed, 13 wounded.
84— Danville. Ky. 18th and 22d Mich., 1st Ky. Cav.. 2d Tenn. Cav.. 1st
Ind. Battery.
Ponchatoula. La. 127th and 165th X. Y., 9th Conn., 14th and 24th
Maine, Gth Mich. Union 6 wounded. Confed. 3 killed. 11 wounded.
85 — Brentwood, Tenn. Detachment 22d Wis. and 19th Mich. Union 1
killed, 4 wounded, 300 prisoners. Confed. 1 killed, 5 wounded.
Franklin and Little Harpeth, Tenn. 4th and 6th Ky. Cav., 9th Penna.
Cav., 2d Mich. Cav. Union 4 killed, 19 wounded, 40 missing.
88 — Pattersonville. La. Gunboat Diana with Detachment of 12th Conn,
and 160th X. Y. on board. Union 4 killed, 14 wounded, 99 missing.
39 — Somerville. Tenn. 6th 111. Cav. Union 9 killed, 29 wounded.
80— Dutton's Hill or Somerset, Ky. 1st Ky. Cav.. 7th Ohio Cav., 44th and
45th Ohio Mounted Vol. Union 10 killed, 25 wounded. Confed. 290
killed, wounded and missing.
Point Pleasant, W. Va. One Co. 13th W. Va. I/kiom 1 killed, 3 wounded.
Confed. 20 killed, 25 wounded.
80 to April 4 — Washington and Rodman's Point, N. C. Maj.-Gen. Foster's
command. Casualties not recorded.

APRIL. 1863

2 and 3 — Woodbury and Snow Hill. Tenn. 3d and 4th Ohio Cav. Union

1 killed, 8 wounded. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
7 — Bombardment Fort Sumter, S. C. South Atlantic squadron; Keokuk,
Weehau-ken. Passaic, Moniauk, Patapsco, New Ironsides, Catskill,
Nantucket and Nahanf. Union 2 killed, 20 wounded. Confed. 4
killed, 10 wounded.

10 — Franklin and Harpeth River. Tenn. 40th Ohio and portion of Granger's
Cavalry. Union 100 killed and wounded. Confed. 19 killed, 35
wounded, S3 missing.
Antioch Station, Tenn, Detachment 10th Mich. Union 8 killed. 12
wounded.

12 to 14 — Irish Bend and Bisland, La., also called Indian Ridge and Centre-
ville. Xineteenth Corps. Grover's. Emory's. Weitzel's Divisions.
Union 350 killed, wounded and missing. Confed. 400 wounded, 2,000
missing and captured.

12 to May 4 — Siege of Suffolk. Va. Troops. Army of Virginia and Depart-
ment of Xorth Carolina. Union 44 killed. 202 wounded. Confed.
500 killed and wounded. 400 captured.

16 — Dunbar's Plantation, La. 2d 111. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.

17 to May 2 — Grierson's expedition from La Grange, Tenn.. to Baton Rouge,

La. 6th and 7th 111. Cav.. 2d Iowa Cav. Confed. 100 killed and
wounded, 500 prisoners.

18 and 19 — Hernando and Coldwater, Miss. Portion of Sixteenth Corps,

detachment of Artil., 2d Brigade Cavalry Division, Casualties not
recorded.

20 — Patterson. Mo. 3d Mo. Militia Cav. Union 12 killed. 7 wounded. 41
missing.

24 — Tuscumbia. Ala. Sixteenth Corps, 2d Division. Maj.-Gen. Dodge.
White Water, Mo. 1st Wis. Cav. Union 2 killed. 6 wounded.

26— Cape Girardeau. Mo. 32d Iowa. 1st Wis. Cav.. 2d Mo. Cav.. Batteries
D and L 1st Mo. Lt. Artil. Union 6 killed. 6 wounded. Confed. 60
killed, 275 wounded and missing.

27 to May 3 — Streight's Raid, Tuscumbia. Ala., to Rome. Ga.. including
skirmishes at Day's Gap, April 30th; Black Warrior Creek. May 1st
and Blount's Farm. May 2d. 3d Ohio. 51st and 73d Ind.. SOth 111.,
Mounted Inft.. two Cos. 1st Ala. Cav. Union 12 killed. 69 wounded,
1,466 missing and captured.

27 to May 8 — Stoneman's Cavalry Raid in Virginia.

29— Fairmount. W. Va. Detachments 106th X. Y., Gth W. Va. and Va.
Militia. Union 1 killed, 6 wounded. Confed. 100 killed and wounded.
Grand Gulf, Miss. Gunboat fleet. Union 26 killed. 54 wounded.

30 — Spottsylvania C. H., Va. 6th N. Y. Cav. Union 58 killed and
wounded.

30 and May 1— Chalk Bluff and St. Francois River, Mo. 2d Mo. Militia.
3d Mo. Cav.. 1st Iowa Cav., Battery E 1st Mo. Lt. Artil. Union 2
killed, 11 wounded.

MAY, 1863
1 — Port Gibson, Miss, (the first engagement in Grant's Campaign against
Vicksburg). Thirteenth Corps. Maj.-Gen. McClernand. and 3d
Division Seventeenth Corps. Maj.-Gen. McPherson. Union 130
killed. 718 wounded. Confed. 1.150 killed and wounded. 500 missing.
Confed. Brig.-Gen. Tracy killed.
1 — LaGrange, Ark. 3d Iowa Cav. Union 3 killed, 9 wounded, 30 missing.
Monticello. Ky. 2d Tenn. Cav., 1st Ky. Cav., 2d and 7th Ohio Cav..
45th Ohio and 112th 111. Mounted Inft.

1 to 4 — Chancellorsville. Va.. including battles of Sixth Corps at Fredericks-
burg and Salem Heights. Army of the Potomac. Maj.-Gen. Hooker;
First Corps, Maj.-Gen. Reynolds; Second Corps. Maj.-Gen. Couch;
Third Corps, Maj.-Gen. Sickles; Fifth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Meade;
Sixth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Sedgwick; Eleventh Corps. Maj.-Gen. How-
ard; Twelfth Corps. Mai. -Gen. Slocum. Union 1.512 killed, 9.518
wounded. 5,000 missing. Confed. 1,581 killed. 8,700 wounded, 2,000
missing. Union Maj.-Gen. Berry and Brig.-Gen. Whipple killed.
Devens and Ktrby wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gen. Paxton killed.
Lieut. -Gen. T. J. Jackson, Maj.-Gen. A. P. Hill, Brig.-Gens. Hoke.
Xichols, Ramseur. McGowan. Heth. and Pender wounded.
3 — Warrenton Junction. Va. 1st W. Va. Cav., 5th X. Y. Cav. Union 1

killed, 16 wounded. Confed. 15 wounded.
4 — Siege of Suffolk, Va., raised. (See April 12.)

11 — Horse Shoe Bend, Ky. Detachment commanded by Col. R. T. Jacobs.
Union 10 killed, 20 wounded. 40 missing. Confed. 100 killed. wounded,
and missing.

12 — Raymond, Miss. Seventeenth Corps. Maj.-Gen. McPherson. Union
69 killed. 341 wounded. Confed. 969 killed and wounded. Confed.
Gen. Telghman killed.

13— Hall's Ferry. 2d 111. Cav. Confed. 12 kdled.

14 — Jackson, Miss. Fifteenth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Sherman; Seventeenth
Corps. Maj.-Gen. McPherson. Union 40 killed, 240 wounded.
Confed. 450 killed and wounded.

16 — Champian Hills, Miss. Hovey's Div. Thirteenth Corps and Seven-
teenth Corps. Union 426 killed, 1,842 wounded. 189 missing.
Confed. 2,500 killed and wounded, 1,800 missing.

17 — Big Black River, Miss. Carr's and Osterhaus's Divisions. Thirteenth
Corps. Maj.-Gen. McClernand. Union 29 killed, 242 wounded.
Confed. 600 killed and wounded, 2,500 captured.

18 to July 4 — Siege of Vicksburg. Thirteenth Corps, Fifteenth Corps, and
Seventeenth Corps, commanded by Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant, and gun-
boat fleet, commanded by Admiral Porter. Assault on Fort Hill on
May 19th and general assault on the 20th. in which Confed. Brig.-Gen.
Green was killed. Three divisions of the Sixteenth Corps and two
divisions of the Xinth Corps, and Maj.-Gen. Herron's Division were
then added to the besieging forces. Union 545 killed, 3.688 wounded,
303 missing. Confed. 21.277 killed, wounded, and missing.

20 to 28 — Clendenin's raid, below Fredericksburg. Va. 8th 111. Cav.
Confed. 100 prisoners.

{Continued in Section 8.)

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CHAPTER XIV.

Inaction of the Army of the Potomac — Capture of Mason and Slidell — Conduct of the British Government and Press — President Lincoln's
Wisdom — Release of the Captives — Expedition to the Coast of Xorth CaroUna — Capture of Roanoke Island — Proclamation to the
People of Eastern North Carolina — Department Commanders West of the Mississippi — Missouri Purged of Armed Insurgents — The
Campaign in Missouri — Insurgents Chased into Arkansas — Battle of Pea Ridge — Military Operations in New Mexico — Battle at
Valverde — Insurgents Expelled from New Mexico — Civil and Militar>' Transactions in Kentucky — Battle of Mill Spring — The Con-
federate Line Across Kentucky Broken and Shortened — Beauregard in the West.

OR the space of almost two months after the battle at Ball's Bluff, the ears of the lo^'al people were
vexed with the unsatisfying announcement made every morning, "All is quiet along the Potomac!"

The autumn was dry
were never in a better con-
troops, and particularly of
ton seemed to be perfectly
ample supply of troops not
make an easy conquest of
the year (1861) there were
men in the Army of the Po-
erates that opposed them
thousand strong. The poli-
latter a mob, and plain peo-
such a rabble could hold so
soldiers, under a "young
ised that the war should be
sive," so long and so tightly
capital. The}^ were impa-
the promised forward move-
Potomac; and there was a
to joyfulness, when, at near
was broken for a moment by
tween the brigade of Na-
Ord, and a smaller force of
Colonel J. E. B. Stuart, the
excitement was only mo-
erates, worsted in the sharp
were again teased with the
along the Potomac I" Their
with hopes deferred, when
awakened the liveliest feel-
public mind. These were

A Wounded Boy

and the roads in Mrginia
dition for the movement of
heav>' artiller>^ Washing-
secure, and there was an
only for its defence, but to
Richmond. At the close of
full two hundred thousand
tomac, while the Confed-
were never more than sixty
ticians sneeringly called the
pie naturally wondered how
large an arm\' of disciplined
Napoleon" who had prom-
" short, sharp, and deci-
in and near the National
tient because of the dela}' in
ment of the Army of the
sense of relief that amounted
Christmas, the monotony
a fight at Drainsville be-
tionals under Gen. E. O. C.
Confederate foragers led by
famous cavalr\' leader. The
mentary. The Confed-

conflict, fled, and the people
daily croon — "All is quiet
hearts were becoming sick
two events occurred which
ings of satisfaction in the
the capture of two Confed-

erate embassadors and leading conspirators, and the permanent lodgement of the National power on the
coast of North Carolina.

We have seen that the Confederates, at an early period in the contest, sent diplomatic agents to
European courts. These proved to be incompetent, and the Confederate government undertook to correct
the mistake by sending two of their ablest men to represent their cause at the courts of Great Britain and
France, respectively. These were James M. Mason, of Virginia, author of the Fugitive-Slave Act, and
John Slidell, who was deeply interested in the scheme for opening the African slave-trade. The embas-
sadors, each accompanied by a "secretar\^ of legation," left Charleston harbor on a stormy night (the
12th of October, 1861), eluded the blockading squadron, and landed at Havana, Cuba, where they were
cordialh' greeted by the British consul and other sympathizers. There the}^ embarked for St. Thomas,
in the British mail-steamer Trent, intending to go to England in the regtilar packet from the latter port.

Note— EXPL.\X.\TIOX OF THE COLORED FROXTISPIECE BURXSIDE AT FREDERICKSBURG — This picture represents General Burnside
standing near his headquarters on the northern bank of the Rappahannock River. General Hooker is expostulating with him against the charge of Marye's
Heights, which had been ordered by Burnside. The inspiration of this picture is well expressed by the Count of Paris where he says: "The officers who
surrounded him, silent witnesses of the scene which they have often related since, saw with terror the unfortunate Burnside striding up and down the terrace
from whence he could survey the whole battlefield. Pointing to the Heights, wreathed with smoke, whence the Confederate Artillery was battering his troops.
he repeated mechanically. 'That Height must be carried this evening.' Hooker failed to obtain any other reply to his representations, and nothing was left
for him but to obey." The result of this fatal determination to carry the well-protected Confederate position was the terrific slaughter that marks the battle
of Fredericksburg as one of the most disastrous to the Federal arms of the entire war.

Copyright, 1895, by Charles F. Joh.nson. Copyright, 1905, by Lossing History Company. Copyright. 1912. by The War Memorial Association.

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Captain, Later Commander Wh.kes

While the Trent was on her way to St. Thomas, and when off the northern coast of Cuba, she fell in with
the American war-ship San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes, then on his way home from the coast of Africa.
He touched at Havana, where he heard of the movements of the Confederate embassadors. Satisfied

that the English rule concerning neutrals and belligerents would
justify him in seizing these two men on board the Trent, and trans-
ferring them to his o-v^ti vessel, he had gone out in search of that
steamship. He found her on the Sth of November, and brought
her to by a shell fired across her bow. Then he sent Lieutenant
Fairfax, a kinsman of Mason, on board the Trent to demand the
delivery of the embassadors and their secretaries to Captain
Wilkes. The officers of the Trent protested, and the embassadors
refused to leave the ship unless forced by physical power to do so.
Lieutenant Greer and a few marines were sent to the aid of Fair-
fax, who then took Mason by the shoulder and placed him in a
boat belonging to the San Jacinto. Then the lieutenant returned
for Slidell. The passengers were greatly excited. They gathered
around him, some making contemptuous allusions to the lieu-
tenant, and some crying out, "Shoot him!" The daughter of
Slidell slapped Fairfax in the face three times as she clung to the
neck oi her father. The marines were called, and Slidell and the
two secretaries were compelled to go, when the Trent proceeded on
her voyage to St. Thomas. The captive embassadors were con-
veyed to Boston and confined in Fort Warren, as prisoners of
State.

The act of Captain Wilkes was applauded by all loyal men.
It was in exact accordance with the British interpretation of the
law of nations, as exhibited theoretically and practically by that
government, yet it made a great ado about the "outrage." By most of the writers on international law
in the United States, instructed by the doctrines and practices of Great Britain, the essays of British
publicists, the decision of British courts, and by the law as laid down by the Queen's recent proclamation,
the act of Captain Wilkes was decided to be abundantly justified; yet, with the same "unseemly haste"
that characterized the issuing of the royal proclamation on the i.^th of the previous May, the British
government prepared for war. It did not wait for a communi-
cation on the subject to be received from the United States, but
made extensive provisions for hostilities preparatory' to sending a
peremptory' demand for the release of the prisoners ; and the Tory-
press of Great Britain, conducted in the interest of the govern-
ment, abused the Americans without stint. A single specimen
from the columns of the London Times will suffice. Speaking of
the courteous and accomplished gentleman. Captain Wilkes, the
London Times said : ' ' He is, unfortunately, but too faithful a type
of a people in whose foul mission he is engaged. He is an ideal
Yankee. Swagger and ferocit3^ built upon a foundation of vul-
garity and cowardice — these are his characteristics, and these are
the most prominent marks by which his covmtrymen, general!}-
speaking, are known all over the world. To bully the weak, to
triumph over the helpless, to trample on every law of country and
custom, wilfully to violate the most sacred interests of human
nature, to defy as long as danger does not appear, and, as soon as
real peril shows itself, to sneak aside and run away — these are the
virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader
of civilization and the prophet of human progress in these latter
days. By Captain Wilkes, let the Yankee breed be judged."

While the British government was preparing for war, and our
Congress was officially thanking Captain Wilkes for his conduct,
and other public bodies were bestowing honors upon him, our
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and true to its long-cherished principles, proceeded to disavow the act of Wilkes and to release the

prisoners. That act was in violation of a principle for the maintenance of which, as we have seen, the

United States went to war with Great Britain — the principle that
the flag of a neutral vessel is a protection to all beneath it. A few
hours after the news of the capture reached Washington, the calm
and thoughtful President said to the writer : "I fear the traitors
will prove to be white elephants. We must stick to American
principles concerning the rights of neutrals. We fought Great
Britain, for insisting, by theory and practice, on the right to do
precisely what Captain Wilkes has done. If Great Britain shall
now protest against the act, and demand their release, we must
give them up, apologize for the act as a violation of our doctrine,
and thus forever bind her to keep the peace in relation to neutrals, '
and so acknowledge she has been wrong for at least sixty years."
Under the instructions of the President, the Secretary of State
(Mr. Seward) acted in accordance with these utterances. The
prisoners were released, and the British people blushed for shame
because of the impotent bluster of their government, when the
fact w-as promulgated by the American minister, Mr. Adams.
Then the London Times, which had called most vehemently for
war on "the insolent Republic," in speaking of the demand of the
British government for the release of the embassadors, super-
ciliously declared that they were "worthless booty;" and added,
"England would have done as much for two negroes." The
embassadors were treated, in England, with a coolness that
amounted to contempt, and they soon passed into obscurity.

The British government acted not only unwisely but dishon-
orably in the matter. Lord John Russell, the Foreign Secretary,
wrote to Lord Lyons, the British minister at Washington, to

demand from our Government the liberation of the captives and "a suitable apology for the aggressions

which had been committed; " and if the demand should not be speedily complied with, to leave Washington,

with all the members of the legation. On the day of the date of

Earl Russell's despatch, Mr. Seward wrote a confidential note to

Mr. Adams, calling attention to the fact that Captain Wilkes did

not act under orders from his Government, and expressed a hope

that the British government would consider the subject in a

friendly manner. He gave Mr. Adams permission to read his

note to Lord Russell and the Prime Minister. Mr. Adams did so;

and yet the British government, with this voluntary assurance that

a satisfactory arrangement of the difficulties might be made, con-
tinued its preparations for war with vigor, to the alarm and dis-
tress of the people. The fact that such assurance had reached the

government was not only suppressed, but, when rimiors of it were

whispered, it was semi-officially denied. And when the fact could

no longer be concealed, it was, by the same authority, affirmed,

without a shadow of justice, that Mr. Adams had suppressed it,

at the same time suggesting, as a reason, that the American

minister might profit by the purchase of American stocks at panic

prices I

When the excitement, in our countr\% caused by the "Trent

affair," was subsiding, early in 1862, public attention was at-
tracted by the fitting out of a third naval armament at Hampton

Roads. It was composed of over one hundred war-vessels and

transports commanded by Commodore L. M. Goldsborough, and

bearing sixteen thousand land troops under General Ambrose E.

Burnside, of Rhode Island. The armament left the Roads on

the nth of January (1862), with its destination unknown except General Franz Sigel

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to proper officers. That destination was Roanoke Island and Pamlico Sound, on the coast of North

Carolina. Off Cape Hatteras the fleet encountered a heavy gale, and it was several days before the whole

armament had entered the Inlet.

The Confederates had strongly fortified Roanoke Island
with batteries that commanded the Sounds on each side of it.
There was also a fortified camp that extended across a narrow
part of the island. These fortifications were garrisoned by
North Carolina troops then under the command of Colonel H.
M. Shaw, and mounted about forty guns. They had also
placed obstructions in the channel leading to the island; and
above them, in Croatan Sound, was a flotilla of small gunboats
— a sort of "mosquito fleet" like Tattnall's in Port Royal
Sound — commanded by Lieutenant W. F. Lynch, late of the
National nav>-. Preparations were made for an attack by land
and sea, the first week in February. Goldsborough drew up
his fleet of seventy vessels in Croatan Sound, and opened a bom-
bardment upon the batteries. It was kept up all the afternoon,
the flotilla and the batteries responding to Goldsborough 's guns.
At midnight, while a cold storm of wind and rain was sweeping
over the land and water, about eleven thousand troops were
landed on the island, many of them wading ashore. These
were New England, New York, and New Jersey troops. They
were without shelter, and were drenched. At dawn, led by
General J. G. Foster (Bumside's lieutenant), they moved for-
ward to attack the line of intrenchments that crossed the island.
The Confederates, far inferior in number, made a gallant de-
fence, going from redoubt to redoutit as one after another fell
into the hands of the Nationals. They made a vigorous stand

in a well-situated redoubt that was approached by a causeway. There was to be the last struggle in

defence of the line. At the head of a part of Hawkins's Zouaves, Major Kimball (a veteran of the war

with Mexico) undertook to take it by storm. Colonel Hawkins was then leading a flank movement with

a part of his command. Seeing Major Kimball pushing forward, the Colonel joined him, when the whole

battaHon shouted, "Zou I Zou! Zou!" and pressed to the redoubt. The affrighted Confederates fled and

were pursued by Foster five or six miles, when they surrendered, and Roanoke Island passed into the

possession of the National forces, with three thousand prisoners and forty-two cannon. The Confederate

flotilla went up Albemarle Sound, followed by National gunboats under

Commodore Rowan.

Near Elizabeth, not far from the Dismal Swamp, Rowan attacked the

flotilla and some land batteries, driving the Confederates from both, when

Lynch and his followers retired into the interior. Then the United States

flag was placed upon a shore battery, and this was the first portion of the

main of North Carolina that was "repossessed" by the Government.

Other portions of the coast of that State were speedily recovered ; and on

the 1 8th of February, 1862, Bumside and Goldsborough issued a procla-
mation jointty to the inhabitants of eastern North Carolina, assuring

them that the Government forces were there not as enemies but as friends,

and inviting them to separate themselves from the Confederacy and to

return to their allegiance. This disaster, worked by the National forces,

produced great depression throughout the Confederacy, for it exposed

nearly the whole of the North Carolina main, and opened a way by which

Norfolk might be smitten in the rear.

Let us now return to the Mississippi Valley, where we left Fremont's

disappointed army sullenly marching back to St. Louis.

Late in 1861, the Department of Missouri was enlarged, and General

H. W. Halleck was appointed to the command of it. General Hunter was

assigned to the Department of Kansas; General Don Carlos Buell to that

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Halleck's headquarters were at St. Louis, and he restrained the Secessionists with a vigorous hand. Since
the retrograde movement of Hunter, with Fremont's army, Price had been gathering a Confederate force
in Missouri, and General John Pope was placed in command of a considerable body of troops to oppose
him. Pope acted with great vigor and skill. He made a short, sharp, and effective campaign. Detach-
ments from his army struck some blows here and there that were telling. One was inflicted by troops
under General J. C. Davis, on the Blackwater, near Milford, which gave a stunning blow to the insurgents
in that State. Davis found the enemy in a wooded bottom opposite his own forces. He carried a well-
guarded bridge by storm, and struck the Confederates so hard that they fled in much confusion; and
when they were closely pursued, they surrendered, in number about thirteen hundred, cavaln,' and infantry.
The spoils of victory were eight hundred horses and mules, a thousand stand of arms, and over seventy
wagons loaded with tents, baggage, ammunition, and supplies of every kind. In a brief space of time,
the power of the insurgents in that quarter was paralyzed, and Halleck complimented Pope on his
"brilliant campaign."

Pope had not only prevented organized troops from joining Price, but had compelled the latter to
withdraw to the borders of Arkansas for supplies and safety. Feeling strengthened by Pope's success,
Halleck prepared to put forth more vigorous efforts to suppress the insurrection. On |the 3d of December
he declared martial law in St. Louis; and, by a subsequent proclamation, he extended that system of rule

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to all railroads and their vicinities. Meanwhile, Price, relieved from immediate danger, and being
promised reinforcements from Arkansas, moved back to Springfield, and there concentrated about twelve
thousand men, halted his army, and prepared to spend the winter there. Halleck sent troops in that
direction under General S. R. Curtis, assisted by Generals Davis, Sigel, Asboth, and Prentiss. They
moved in three columns early in February (1862), when Price fled southward, and did not halt until he
reached a good position in northern Arkansas. Curtis pursued him, and drove him further south; and
Halleck was enabled to write to his Government, late in February', that he had "purged Missouri," and
that the flag of the Union was "waving in triumph over the soil of Arkansas." The campaign in Missouri,
for a few months, had been verj'^ active, beginning with Lyon's pursuit of the fugitive governor and his
followers. From June, 1861, until late in February, 1862, there had been fought on Missouri soil sixty
battles and skirmishes, with an aggregate loss on both sides, in killed, wounded and prisoners, of about
twelve thousand men.

Curtis crossed the Arkansas line on the i8th of February in pursuit of Price, and had driven him and
his followers over a range of hills known as the Boston Mountains. He then fell back and encamped in
a strong position in the vicinity of Pea Ridge, a spur of the Ozark Mountains. In the meantime Price
had been joined by General Earl Van Dom, a dashing young officer, who was his senior in rank and now
took the chief command. Forty heavy guns thundered a welcome. "Soldiers I" cried Van Dom, in
response, "behold your leader! He comes to show you the way to glory and immortal renown. He
comes to hurl back the minions of the despots at Washington, whose ignorance, licentiousness, and brutality
are equalled only by their craven natures. They come to free your slaves, lay waste your plantations,
bum your villages, and abuse your loving wives and beautiful daughters."

\"an Dom came from western Arkansas with Generals McCulloch, Mcintosh, and Pike. The latter

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was a New Englander and poet, who had joined the Confederate army on the borders of the Indian country-

with a body of savages whom he had lured into the service. The whole insurgent force now numbered

twenty-five thousand; the National troops, soon to measure strength with them, did not exceed eleven

thousand men in number with fifty pieces of artillery.

When, on the 5th of March (1S62), Curtis's scouts told him of the
swift approach of the Confederates in overwhelming force, he concen-
trated his little arm}' in the Sugar Creek Valley. He perceived his perils,
but there was only the alternative to fight or make a disastrous retreat.
Choosing the former, he prepared to meet the foe from whatever quarter
he might approach. Meanwhile Van Dom, by a quick and stealthy
movement, flanked Curtis and gained his rear; and on the morning of
the 7 th he advanced to attack the Nationals, not doubting his abiht}^ to
vanquish them and seize their train of two hundred wagons. He found
Curtis in battle order, his first and second division being on his left and
commanded by Generals Asboth and Sigel; the third, under General
Davis, composing his centre, and the fourth, commanded b}' Colonel Carr,
formed his right. His line of battle extended about four miles, and was
confronted by the heavy Confederate force with onlj- a broad and deep
ravine covered with fallen trees separating the two armies. The battle
was opened toward noon by a simultaneous attack bj- the Nationals and
Confederates. A very severe conflict ensued, which continued a greater
part of the day with var\'ing fortunes to each party, the lines of strife
swaying like a pendulum. Generals McCulloch and Mcintosh of the
Confederates were killed, and the slaughter on both sides was dreadful.

At night the Confederates fired the last shot, but the Nationals held the field, slept on their arms, and

anxiousl}^ awaited the dawn to renew the battle.

Both armies lay among the dead and dying that night. At dawn (March 8, 1862) the conflict was

renewed, when the Nationals hurled such a destructive tempest of shot and shell upon the Confederates,

that the latter soon broke and fled in almost every direction in wildest confusion. The Confederate army,

so strong, and confident of victory twenty-four hours before, was broken into fragments. The losses of

each were about the same. Curtis's was thirteen hundred and eighty men. Pike's Indians, who had

been maddened with liquor before the battle, tomahawked and scalped a number of the Nationals, and

were the first to fly from the field, in terror.

While Halleck was purging Missouri of armed insurgents. Hunter, with his headquarters at Fort

Leavenworth, was vigorously at work suppressing the insurrection on the borders of Kansas. Active

and armed rebellion was now co-extensive with the slave-labor States. Civil War was kindling in General

Canby's Department of New Mexico. An attempt was there made to

attach that Territorj' to the Confederacy by the method emploj'ed b}'

General Twiggs in Texas, when he betrayed the National forces under

his command. Disloyal officers had been sent by Secretar\' Floyd, for

that purpose, a year before the insurrection broke out; but failing to

corrupt the troops (for not one of the twelve hundred men abandoned

his flag), and incurring their hot displeasure, these leaders fled from their

wrath toward Texas. On the borders of that State they found the com-
mander and other officers of Fort Fillmore ready to co-operate with them.

These men led out their unsuspecting men and betrayed them into the

power of Texan insurgents.

Miguel A. Otero, the representative of New Mexico in the National

Congress, was in practical, active sympathy with the Secessionists; and

the success of the Confederate cause in that quarter seemed to be assured,

until Canby appeared and raised the standard of the Union, in strength.

Around it the loyal people of the Territor>' gathered; and his regular

troops, New Mexican levies, and volunteers, gave him a force sufficient

to meet over two thousand Texans, most of them rough rangers under

Colonel H. H. Siblej^ a Louisianian, who invaded the Territorj' at the

middle of February. He had twenty-three hundred followers, many of

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Canby was then at Fort Craig, on the Rio Grande. Sibley issued a proclamation to the people of
New Mexico, in which he denounced the National Government, and demanded from the inhabitants
allegiance to the Confederacy and support for his troops. Feeling confident of success, he moved slowly

toward Fort Craig to attack Canby, when he was aston-
ished to find the general prepared to meet him. He per-
ceived that his light field-pieces would have no effect upon
the fort. Unable to retreat or to remain with safety, and
unwilling to leave a well-garrisoned post behind him,
Sibley was perplexed. At length he forded the Rio
Grande, and took a position out of reach of Canby's guns,
for the purpose of drawing out the latter. In this he was
successful. After some skirmishing, there was a severe
conflict at Valverde, about seven miles from the fort, on
the 2 1 St of February. Canby was about to make a general
advance, with an assurance of victory, when about a thou-
sand Texans, horse and foot, armed with carbines, revol-
vers and bowie-knives, suddenly burst from a thick wood
and attacked two of the National batteries commanded
respectively by Captains McRea and Hall. The cavalry
were repulsed ; but the insurgent infantry pressed forward
\\hile the grape-shot were making fearful lanes through
their ranks, and captured the battery of McRea. The
brave captain defended his guns with great courage.
Seated upon one of them, he fought the assailants with a
pistol until he was shot dead. At length the Nationals,
panic-stricken by the fierceness of the charge, broke and fled, and did not halt until they reached the
shelter of Fort Craig. That flight was one of the most disgraceful scenes of the war; and Canby was
compelled to see the victory- snatched from him, just as it seemed to be secured. But Sibley, alarmed at
the sudden and unexpected development of Canby's strength by accessions to his ranks, hurried toward
Santa Fe, the capital of the Territory, which he captured but could not hold; and he was soon afterward
driven over the mountains into Texas. The Civil War now extended from Mar\'land in the northeast to
New Mexico in the southwest, and was ever>'where marked by the vigor and malevolence which generally
distinguish such wars.

While these events were occurring westward of the Mississippi, others of great importance had been
in progress immediately eastward of its waters, where efforts had been made to expel the CorfpHrrntes
from Kentucky and release Tennessee from their grasp. The region of

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southern and western Kentucky was then held by the Confederates.
They were commanded by an able officer and veteran soldier, A. S. John-
ston, who was in charge of the Confederate Western Department, with
his headquarters at Nashville. Under the shadow of his military power
the Secessionists of Kentucky' had met in Convention in November, 1861,
and performed the farce of declaring the State to be independent. They
passed an ordinance of secession; organized a provisional government;
chose George W. Johnson provisional governor; appointed delegates to
the Confederate congress at Richmond, and called Bowling Green the
State capital. Fifty-one counties were represented in that "Sovereignty
Convention" by about two hundred men, without the sanction of the
people. At the same time General Johnston had concentrated a large force
at Bowling Green, and strengthened the position of Polk at Columbus.
General Hardee superseded General Buckner; and General Zollicoffer
was firmly planted at Cumberland Gap, the chief passage between East-
tern Kentucky and East Tennessee. Between the extremes of the Con-
federate line across Kentucky were fortified posts, the most important of
which were Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, and Fort Henry on
the Tennessee River.

Early in the year. General Buell had organized a large force at Louis-
ville and its vicinity, by which he was enabled to strengthen various

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advanced posts, and throw forward, along the line of the Nashville and Louisville Railway, a large force
destined to break the Confederate line across the State. The whole number of troops under his command
was one hundred and fourteen thousand, arranged in four columns, commanded respectively by Brigadier-
Generals Alexander McDowell McCook, Ormsby M. Mitchell, George H. Thomas and Thomas L. Crit-
tenden acting as major-generals, and aided by twenty brigade commanders. These troops, who were
citizens of States northward of the Ohio River, with loyalists of Kentucky and Tennessee, occupied an
irregular line across the first-named State, almost parallel with that of the Confederates.

General McCook was sent, with fifty thousand troops, down the railway toward Bowding Green, and
pushed back the Confederate outposts to the south side of the Green River, at Mumfordsville, where a
sharp contest occurred, when the insurgents were compelled to move on to Bowling Green. In the

meantime stirrmg events
Kentucky. On the 7 th of
Confederates under Hum-
by Union troops, infantry
James A. Garfield, near
Sandy River. The Confed-
disheartened, and there
ended. The gallant services
that occasion won for him
adier-general. A few days
important event occurred
berland River, further west-
Mill Spring. Near there
tablished a strongly in-
in January he was super-
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force, and if successful there
berland Mountains, into
Secessionists were persecu-
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tie. The Confederates had
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were occurring m eastern
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later (January ig) a more
on the borders of the Cum-
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General Zollicoft'er had es-
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the duty of attacking this
to push on over the Cum-
East Tennessee, where the
ting the Union people with-
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by ZollicofTer, and at early
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with great persistency on
Thomas won the battle after

both sides, for the winner would gain an immense advantage for his cause.

a fierce contest, in which ZollicofTer was slain; and the discomfited Confederates fled into northeastern

Tennessee, suffering intensely for lack of food and shelter in their flight across an almost barren country.

This blow effectually severed the Confederate line in Kentucky, and opened the way for a series of
successful movements by which the insurgents were soon driven out of that State, and also Tennessee.
The loss of the Nationals was two hundred and forty-seven men; and of the Confederates, three hundred
and forty-nine. The spoils of victor>' were twelve pieces of artillery, a large amount of munitions of war,
and more than a thousand horses, with wagons, intrenching tools, camp equipage, etc. For their bravery
in the battle of Mill Spring or Somerset, the President publicly thanked General Thomas and his men.
They had paralyzed the power of the Confederate line eastward of Bowling Green, and shortened it full
one-half. The bulk of the insurgents and their chief fortifications were then between Nashville and
Bowling Green, and the Mississippi River. The defeat was severely felt by the Confederates. They
perceived the urgent necessity for a bold, able, and dashing commander in the west, and supposing
Beauregard to be such an one, he was ordered to Johnston's Department late in January (1862), and
General G. W. Smith, who had been an active Democratic politician in New York City, was appointed
to succeed him at Manassas.

The Confederates attributed their disaster at Mill Spring to the misconduct of the leader of the
troops. General Crittenden. Some loudly accused him of treachery to the Confederate cause ; while others,
more charitable and better informed, charged his intemperate habits with the calamity. It was acknowl-
edged by aU to be an almost irretrievable misfortune.

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expressing a hope that he would be among them again, soon. "I am anxious that my brave countr^^men
here in arms, ' ' he said, ' ' fronting the haughty arra}^ and muster of Northern mercenaries, should thoroughly
appreciate the exigency." In allusion to the disquietude that was manifested by them because of their
long enforced inaction, he said that it was no time for that army "to stack their arms, and furl, even for
a brief period, the standards they had made glorious by their manhood." But they were much dispirited
by the defeat of their armies at Mill Spring, and this was deepened by the capture of Roanoke Island
soon afterward. This feeling amounted almost to despair when a more important reverse to their arms
occurred on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers at the middle of February.

Co.STKAISAND CaMP .XtAK -MaNCHHSIEK, \'a.

CHAPTER XV.

A Gunboat Fleet — Expedition against Forts Henry and Donelson — Capture of Forts Henrj- and Hieman — Naval Expedition up the
Tennessee — Its Discoveries — Army Reorganized — Siege of Fort Donelson — Change in Temperature — Engagements on Land and
Water — ^A Desperate Measure Attempted — Council of War — Cowardice — Surrender of Fort Donelson — Army Postal Service —
Panic at Nashville — Surrender of the City — ^Provisional Government for Tennessee — Events on the Mississippi River — Siege and
Capture of Island Number Ten — Movement toward Corinth — National Army at Pittsburg Landing — Buell's Army on the March.

WHEN the Confederate line in Kentucky was broken, the National Government determined to
concentrate the forces of Halleck and Buell for a great forward movement to push the Confed-
erates toward the Gulf of Mexico. Fremont's plan for providing gunboats for the western rivers,
to co-operate with the armies, had been carried out. Twelve of these vessels (some of them covered
with iron plates) had been constructed at St. Louis and Cairo, and at the close of Januar>- these were
armed with one hundred and twenty-six heay\^ guns and some lighter artillery, and were placed under
the command of flag-oflficer A. H. Foote of the National navy. When everj'thing was in readiness, some
feints were made to deceive the Confederates. These were reconnaissances down each side of the
Mississippi River from Cairo; and Thomas feigned a movement in force against East Tennessee.

In the meantime an expedition against Fort Henr\' on the Tennessee River, and Fort Donelson on
the Cimiberland River, where those streams approach each other to within a distance of about twelve
miles, had been prepared. The land troops were placed under the command of General U. S. Grant,
assisted by General C. F. Smith. Commodore Foote was called tc the Tennessee with his flotilla of
gunboats; and at dawn on the 3d of February-, 1862, a portion of that flotilla was only a few miles below
Fort Henr>', on that stream, and the land troops were disembarking from transports. The fort lay at
the bend of the stream, on the right bank, and its guns commanded a reach of the river for about two
miles. It was armed with seventeen guns, twelve of which could sweep the river. At the time we are
considering, the garrison in the fort and troops encamped around it numbered less than three thousand,
commanded by General Tilghman, of Maryland, a graduate of the West Point Academy. Grant and

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Foote had asked and obtained permission of Halleck to attack Fort Henry, and that was the task which
they attempted on the morning of the 3d of February.

Both arms of the service proceeded to strike Fort Henry simultaneously. The land force was
composed of the divisions of McClernand and Smith. The armed flotilla in hand consisted of the gunboats
Essex, St. Louis, Carondelet and Cincinnati. The river below Fort Henry had been strewn with torpedoes,
but these were successfully fished up before the attack. Opposite Fort Henry was Fort Hieman, situated
upon a great hill, from which artillery might be brought to bear upon assailants of the former. To silence
its batteries, a portion of the land troops went up that side of the river, while others proceeded to gain a
point between Forts Henr>' and Donelson. The flotilla moved forward and opened the contest at noon
on the 6th, and before the land troops could reach a position to co-operate, the fort, wdth its little garrison,
had been surrendered to Foote. A tremendous rain-storm, with thunder and wind, which occurred the
night before, had made the roads so heavy, and so swelled the little streams, that the march of the troops
was difficult and slow. The garrison made a gallant defence; but at the end of one hour's conflict, they
were compelled to strike their flag. Fort Hieman was also surrendered. This was a naval victory of
great importance, because it proved the efficiency of gunboats on the narrow western rivers in co-operation
with land forces. Therefore the fall of Fort Henry was hailed as a most happy omen of the success of the
Union cause. Halleck telegraphed to McClellan : ^^^^^^^^^_^^_ ' ' Fort Henry is ours ! the flag

of the Union is re-established on the soil of Ten-
moved!" The Secretary of the Navy wrote to
dates your gallant deeds; and this department
your brave associates its profound thanks for the

This victory inflicted a severe blow upon the
gave to the Nationals the pos-
portant posts ; also a firm foot-
Fort Donelson and in the rear
There was now no obstacle to
the Tennessee to the fertile
toward the heart of the Con-
sent Lieutenant-Commander S.
capture of the fort, with three
ders of the river. Those vessels
vessels and destroying Confed-
Alabama, at the foot of the
perfect success, for it discovered
region, and developed a most
ing among the inhabitants of
Confederate despotism. Phelps
reign of terror kept thousands

The report of Phelps's re

General John .\. Log.^n
Gener.\l R. J. Oglesby

nessee. It will never be re-
Foote: "The country appre-
desires to convey to you and
service you have rendered."
power of the Confederates. It
.session of formidable and im-
ing in the vicinity' of stronger
of Columbus, on the Mississippi,
the river navy in its passage up
regions of northern Alabama
federacy. Thitherward Foote
L. Phelps, on the night after the
vessels, to reconnoitre the bor-
went steadily onward, seizing Confederate
erate propertj-, as far up as Florence, in
Mussel Shoals. The reconnaissance was a
the weakness of the Confederacy in that
gratifying evidence of genuine Union feel-
Tennessee which had been repressed by
was assured that nothing but the dreadful
from manifesting their love for the old flag.
connaissance was very cheering, and it was

determined to attack Fort Donelson, near Dover, the capital of Stewart County, Tennessee. It was a
formidable work, situated with a front on the high left bank of the Cumberland River, among hills
furrowed by deep ravines, and its irregular lines of outlying intrenchments covering about one hundred
acres. General Grant reorganized his army in three divisions, under Generals McClernand, Smith, and
Lewis Wallace; and Commodore Foote hurried back to Cairo with three of his gunboats to take his
mortar-boats to the Cumberland River to assist in the attack on Fort Donelson.

The divisions of McClernand and Smith left Fort Henry on the morning of the 12th of February
(1862), and marched for Fort Donelson, leaving Wallace with a brigade to hold the vanquished forts on
the Tennessee. They invested Fort Donelson the same evening; and after some picket-firing the next
morning. General Grant resolved to wait for the arrival of the flotilla (bearing troops that would complete
Wallace's division) before making a general attack. On the same morning Ex-Secretary Floyd arrived
from Virginia, with troops, and superseded General Pillow, who was in command of Fort Donelson.
Floyd and Pillow were materially assisted by General S. B. Buckner, a better soldier than either of them,
but he was subordinate to both of the inefficient commanders. All that day (February 13th) there was
skirmishing, and toward evening an unexpected enemy appeared in the form of severe frost. The morning
had dawned in uncommon splendor, and the air was as balmy as that of late spring; but toward evening
a violent rain-storm arose, the temperature fell, and before morning the ground became frozen almost as
hard as iron and everything was mailed in ice. The National troops were bivouacked without tents, and

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Battery on the James in WintI'

they dared not light fires for fear of exposing themselves to the guns of the fort. They were without
sufficient food and clothing, and their sufferings were so dreadful that they anxiously awaited the dawn

and expected reinforcements.

General Grant perceived the peril of his situation, and had
sent to General Wallace to bring his troops over from the Ten-
nessee. The latter moved at daybreak on the 14th, the ground
encrusted with frozen sleet and the air filled with drifting frost.
These troops were in high spirits. With cheering and singing of
songs they pressed forward, and at noon their commander dined
with General Grant on crackers and coffee. Meantime the
armored flotilla, with the transports, had arrived, and Wallace's
division was perfected. It was immediately posted between the
divisions of McClernand and Smith, and so the thorough invest-
ment of the fort was completed. At three o'clock that afternoon,
the Carondelci, Captain Walke, began the assault on Fort Donel-
son, and was soon joined b^' the 5/. Louis, Pittsburg, and Louisville.
Unarmored vessels formed a second line; and the flotilla boldly
attacked the \\-ater-batteries, but without much effect. The
mortar-boats had not arrived ; and never were war-vessels exposed
to a more tremendous pounding than were the four aimored gunboats in this fight by missiles from the
shore batteries. They received, in the aggregate, one hundred and forty wounds, and fifty-four men
were killed or wounded. Foote was compelled to withdraw, when he hastened to Cairo to have damages
repaired, and to bring up a competent naval force to assist in carrying Dn the siege. Grant resolved to
await Foote's return and for expected reinforcements.

The night of the 14th was an anxious one for both parties. The Confederates, perceiving their peril,
held a council of war. Floyd's opinion was that the fort was untenable with less than fifty thousand men
to defend it ; and that the garrison might be saved only by a sortie the next morning to rout or destroy
the investing army, or to cut through it and escape to the open coimtr>- in the direction of Nashville.
This desperate measure was attempted at five o'clock on the morning of the 15th, by about ten thousand
men, led by Pillow and Buckner, the former striking McClernand on the right of the Nationals, and the
latter prepared to attack Wallace in the centre. Pillow had boasted that he would "roll the enemy in
full retreat over upon Buckner, when the latter, attacking them on the flank and rear, would cut up the
Federals and put them completely to rout." The attack was quick and furious; but the troops that
first received the shock of battle (Oglesby's brigade), maintained their ground gallantly until their
ammunition began to fail. Relief was sent, but the pressure was so great that the whole line gave way
excepting the extreme left held by Colonel John A. Logan's Illinois regiment, which stood as firm as a
wall and prevented a panic. The good service of the Hght batteries of Taylor, McAllister and Dresser,
made the Confederate line recoil again and again. But fresh troops continually strengthened it, until
at length the whole of McClemand's division were in great peril. Then he called upon Wallace for help,
and it was given so effectually, that after a hard and skillful struggle on the part of the Nationals, with
the Confederate forces of Buckner and Pillow combined, the latter
were compelled to fall back to their trenches. "I speak ad-
visedly," wrote Colonel Hillyer (Grant's aide-de-camp) to Wal-
lace, the next day, "God bless you! You did save the day on
the right."

In the meantime General Smith had been smiting the Con-
federate right such telling blows, that when darkness fell upon the
scene, the Nationals were victorious and the vanquished Confed-
erates were imprisoned within their trenches, unable to escape.

Finding themselves closely held by Grant, the question,
"How shall we escape?" was a paramount one in the minds of
the Confederates, especially of Floyd and Pillow. They were both
terror-stricken by the impending danger of falling into the hands
of their outraged Government. At midnight, Floyd, Pillow, and
Buckner held a private council at Pillow's quarters in Dover,
where it was concluded that the garrison must be surrendered. "But, gentlemen," said Floyd nervously,
"7 cannot surrender; you know my position with the Federals; it won't do, it won't do." Pillow then

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said: "I will not surrender myself nor my command — will die first." "Then," said Buckner, coolly, "I
suppose, gentlemen, the surrender will devolve upon me." The terrified Floyd said, quickly, "General,
if you are put in command, will you allow me to take out, by the river, my brigade?" "If you will move

before I offer to surrender," Buckner replied. "Then, sir,"
answered Floyd, "I surrender the command." Pillow, who was
next in rank, and to whom Floyd offered to transfer the command,
quickly exclaimed, "I will not accept it — I will never surrender."
As he spoke he turned toward Buckner, when the latter, with the
courage, the manliness and the honor of a soldier, said: "I will
accept, and share the fate of my command."

Within one hour after that conference, Floyd, with a part of
his Virginians, deserted his companions-in-arms and fled up the
river, toward Nashville, in a steamboat. At the same time Pillow
sneaked away in the darkness, after declaring he would "die"
before he would surrender, and finally escaped to his home in
Tennessee. History affords no meaner picture than this. The
indignant authorities at Richmond suspended both the cowards
from command ; and an epigrammatist of the day wrote as follows
concerning Floyd's escape :

"The thief is a coward by Nature's law;

Who betrays the State, to no one is true:
And the brave foe at Donelson saw,

Their light-fingered Floyd was light-footed too."

Early the next morning — the Christian Sabbath — Buckner asked
for the appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms of
surrender. Grant replied: "No terms other than unconditional
and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move
immediately upon your works." This answer was followed by
the speedy surrender of the fort, and of thirteen thousand five
hundred men as prisoners of war; and the spoils of victory were
three thousand horses, forty-eight field-pieces, seventeen heavy guns, twenty thousand muskets, and a
large quantity of militar>' stores. This catastrophe greatly dispirited the Confederates; and from the
time when the fact became known in Europe, no court ever entertained an idea of recognizing the inde-
pendence of the Southern Confederacy. It was estimated that during the siege the Confederates lost
two hundred and thirty-seven killed and one thousand wounded. The estimated loss of the Nationals
was four hundred and forty-six killed, seventeen hundred and fifty-five wounded, and one hundred and
fifty who were made prisoners, and who, being sent across the river, were not recaptured.

The admirably arranged army mail-service was begun at Forts Henry and Donelson, under the
auspices of General Grant, to whom it was suggested by Colonel A. H. Markland, special agent of the
National Post-office. In the following letter to me, dated "July
30, 1866," General Grant gives a brief account of its origin:

"De.vr Sir —

"Among the subiects that occupied my mind when I assumed
command at Cairo, in the fall of 1861, was the regular supply of
mails to and from the troops; not only those in garrison, but those
on the march when active movements should begin. When I com-
menced the movement on Fort Henry, on January 7, 1862, a
plan was proposed by which the mails should promptly follo\\',
and as proinptly be sent from the army. So perfect was the
organization that the mails were delivered to the army imme-
diately upon its occupation of the fort. Within one hour after
the troops began to march into Fort Donelson, the mail was being
distributed to them from the mail wagons. The same promptness
was always observed in the armies under my command, up to the

period of the final disbandment. It is a source of congratulation that the postal service was so conducted,
that officers and men were in constant communication with kindred and friends at home, and with as

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much regularity as the most favored in the large cities of the Union. The postal system of the army, so
far as I know, was not attended with any additional expense to the service. The system adopted by me
was suggested and ably superintended by A. H. Markland, special agent of the Post-office Department.

"Respectfully, .^u. s. Grant, General."

The chaplain of each regiment was recognized at first as "Regimental Postmaster." Afterward,
the mails were "brigaded." They were placed in canvas bags at the General Post-office and sent to
each brigade, under charge of military' authorit^^ The Post-office Department had no further control
of the army mails after they left the office at Washington city. The regularity with which the great
armies of Grant, Sherman, Thomas and others in the West, as well as those in the Atlantic States, were
supplied with mails, under the general superintendence of Colonel Markland, was marvelous. He and
his assistants encountered dangers as appalling as those to which the soldiers were exposed — perils from
bullets, fatigue and privations — yet they never lost a mail by capture, over which they had personal
control. The mail was nearly always in advance of the armies, or moving in a direction to meet them.
The number of letters thus carried was enormous. "For months," wrote Mr. S. J. Bowen, the Post-
master of Washington city, in a letter to me dated July 26, 1866, "we received and sent an average of

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250,000 military' letters per da}'. It is believed that this number was exceeded after General Sherman's
army reached Savannah, and up to the time of the review of the troops in this citj^ in the month of May,
1865." He says that the vast number of packages of clothing and articles of ever>' kind which were sent
by the mails, reached their destination as regularly as if the recipient lived in a large city. The only
loss of any moment which this extra service inflicted upon the Post-office Department, was in mail-bags.
"It is estimated," wrote Mr. Bowen, "that at least thirty thousand of these were sent out which never
found their way back to this office, though every effort was made by us to have them returned." This
army mail-service presents one of the moral wonders of the great conflict ; and its value, in keeping whole
armies in continual communication with friends at home, is incalculable. It was a powerful preventive
of that terrible home-sickness with which, at first, raw troops are often prostrated; and it brought the
sweet influence of the domestic circle to bear most powerfully in strengthening the men against the
multifarious temptations of army life.

It was clearly perceived by General A. S. Johnston, that the fall of Fort Donelson rendered Bowling
Green and Columbus untenable, and their evacuation w'as ordered to take place immediately. The
troops at Bowling Green, who were menaced by the swiftly approaching advance of Buell's army under
the energetic General Mitchel, were ordered to retire to Nashville. They did so, in haste, after destroying
their property at Bowling Green valued at half a million dollars, and were followed by the Army of the
Ohio. At the same time National gunboats ascended the Cumberland River and co-operated with troops
marching on that place. These movements created a fearful panic among the Secessionists. The governor
of Tennessee (Harris) was made almost crazy by alarm. He rode through the streets of Nashville, with

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Professor Lowe in His Balloon "Intrepid"
Watching Battle of Seven Pines

his horse at full speed, crying out that the papers in the Capitol must be removed, for he well knew what
evidences of his treason they contained. He and his guilty compeers gathered as many of the archives
as possible and fled by railway to Memphis, while officers of the banks in Nashville bore away the specie

from the vaults of those institutions. Citizens with their
most valuable possessions that were portable, crowded the
stations of railways that extended to Decatur and Chat-
tanooga. Ever\' kind of wheeled vehicle was brought into
requisition, and the price of hack hire was raised to twenty-
five dollars an hour. The authorities gave up all as lost.
The public stores were thrown wide open, and everybody
was allowed to carry off provisions and clothing without
hindrance. The panic was more intense because of the
sudden reaction from joy occasioned by a foolish boast of
Pillow, on Saturday, that victory for the Confederates was
sure. It was followed by a despatch from him while the
armies were yet struggling and the Confederates had
gained a slight advantage, in which he said: "Enemy re-
treating! Glorious result! Our boys following and pepper-
ing their rear! ! A complete victory!!" The people were
comfortabl}' seated in the churches, and the ministers
were prepared to preach congratulatory sermons, when the
astounding news of the fall of Fort Donclson and the cow-
ardly desertion of the post by Floyd and Pillow reached
them. Pillow's act was a crushing commentary on his fool-
ish boast, and the people pronounced his doom of disgrace
before the authorities at Richmond had promulgated it.
Johnston and his troops moved rapidly southward from Nashville, and the city was surrendered
to the Nationals by the municipal authorities, on the 26th of February, 1862. These events, following
so closely upon the capture of Roanoke Island and the operations in its vicinit}-, produced great alarm
throughout the Confederacy. The loyal people of the land were elated; and the Confederates being
virtually expelled from Tennessee, the State government abdicated hv its fugitive governor, and much
latent loyalty being displayed, the National Government proceeded to re-establish civil government there.
Andrew Johnson, of East Tennessee, was appointed provisional governor with the military rank of brig-
adier-general, and he entered upon his duties, at Nashville, on the 4th of March, 1862.

The Mississippi River now became the theatre of stirring events. Beauregard, as we have observed,
had been sent West, and was now in command of troops on the borders of the mighty stream, above
Memphis; and, obedient to orders from Richmond, he directed General Polk to evacuate Columbus, and
transfer his troops and as much of the munitions of war as possible to places of greater safety. New
Madrid, Madrid Bend, and Island Number Ten were chosen for this purpose. Meanwhile Commodore
Foote had put in motion a fleet of gunboats on the Mississippi,
and accompanying transports bore two thousand troops under
General W. T. Sherman. When, on the 4th of March, this arma-
ment approached Columbus, the Union flag was seen floating
there. It had been unfurled the previous evening by a scouting
party of Illinois troops from Paducah, who found the fortifications
deserted. Sherman left a garrison at Columbus, and Foote re-
turned to Cairo to prepare for a siege of New Madrid and Island
Number Ten, which constituted the key to the Lower Mississippi.
The Confederates at the former place were commanded by Gen-
eral McCoun, and those on Island Number Ten were under the
charge of General Beauregard, in person, who sent forth pompous
proclamations to the inhabitants. He called for bells wherewith
to make cannon, and there was a liberal response. "In some
cities," wrote a Confederate soldier, "every church gave up its
bells. Court-houses, public institutions, and plantations sent
theirs. And the people furnished large quantities of old brass of
every description — andirons, candlesticks, gas-fixtures, and even klilgh.s

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door-knobs. I have seen wagon-loads of these lying at depots waiting shipment to the foundries." They
were all sent to New Orleans. There they were found by General Butler, who sent them to Boston,
where they were sold at auction.

General Pope, dispatched from St. Louis by General Halleck, drove the Confederates from New

Madrid on the night of the 13th of March. They fled to Island
Number Ten, which then became the chief object of attack by the
Nationals. Beauregard had thoroughly fortified it, and Foote
attacked it with heavy guns and inortars on the morning of the
1 6th of March. The siege went on with varying fortunes for both
parties until early in April. While Foote was pounding and
rending the fortifications of Beauregard, Pope at New Madrid
was chafing with impatience to participate in the siege. His guns
easily blockaded the river (there a mile wide, and then flowing at
the rate of seven or eight miles an hour) ; but he desired to cross
it to the peninsula and attack the Island in the rear, and so insure
its capture with its dependencies, their garrisons and munitions
of war. But the Tennessee shore was lined with batteries gar-
nished with heavy' guns; and until these could be silenced, it
would be madness to attempt to cross the river with any means
at Pope's command. Pope was at his wits' end, when General
Schuyler Hamilton made the extraordinary proposition to cut a canal from the bend of the Mississippi,
near Island Number Eight, across the neck of a swampy peninsula, to the vicinity of New Madrid, of
sufficient capacity to allow the passage of gunboats and transports, and thereby effectually flank Island
Number Ten, and insure its capture. Hamilton offered to do the work with his division of soldiers, and
to have it completed in the space of a fortnight. Pope sanctioned the measure, and it was performed in
nineteen days under the direction of Colonel Bissell of the Engineers. The labor was most fatiguing.
The canal was twelve miles long, one-half the distance through a growth of heavy timber, where a way
was made, fifty feet wide, by sawing off trees in some places four feet under water.

Meanwhile Foote had not been idle, but made preparations for closer assaults than the long reach of
great guns and mortars afforded. On the night of the first of April an expedition composed of Illinois
troops and seamen, to the number of one hundred, proceeded to take one of the seven formidable redoubts
on the Kentucky shore, and were successful. This daring feat was followed, on the night of the 3d, by
another. Pope had frequently called upon Foote to send gunboats to his assistance. At length the
gallant Captain Walke, of the Carondelet, obtained permission of his commander to attempt to run by
the Confederate batteries with his vessel. The feat was successfully performed at midnight while a
fearful thunder-storm was raging. The flashes of lightning revealed her passage to the commanders of
batteries on the shore, and she was

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compelled to run the gauntlet of a
tremendous cannonade from them all.
The Carondelet did not return a shot.
Only after she had reached a place of
safety below were her guns heard;
then three of them announced to anx-
ious Commodore Foote that she had
escaped all perils. She was welcomed
by the troops at New Madrid with
wildest huzzas.

Perceiving the peril that awaited
them when the canal should be com-
pleted, the Confederates sunk steam-
boats in the channel of the river to pre-
vent gunboats descending it, and they
unsuccessfully attempted to escape.
After the Carondelet had passed the bat-
teries, Beauregard was satisfied that the
siege must end in disaster and he was
not disposed to bear the responsibility.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

MAY, 1863 — Continued from Section 7

21 — Middleton. Tenn. 4th Mich.. 3d Ind.. 7th Pa.. 3d and 4th Ohio and

4th U. S. Cav., 39th Ind. Mounted Inft. Casualties not recorded.
25 — Near Helena. Ark. 3d Iowa and 5th Kan. Cav. Union 10 killed. 14

wounded.
27 — Lake Providence. La. 47th U. S. Colored. Union 1 killed, 1 wounded.
27 to July 9 — Siege of Port Hudson. La. Union 500 killed. 2.500 wounded.

Confcd. 100 killed. 700 wounded. 6,408 prisoners. Union Brig. -Gens.

W. T. Sherman and H. E. Paine wounded.

JUNE, 1863

4 — Franklin. Tenn. S5th Ind., 7th Ky. Cav., 4th and 6th Ky. Cav.. 9th
Pa. Cav.. 2d Mich. Cav. Union 25 killed and wounded. Confed.
200 killed and wounded.
5 — Franklin's Crossing, Rappahannock River, Va. 26th X. J., 5th Vt.,
l.>th and 50th N. Y. Engineers, supported by 6th Corps. Union 6
killed, 35 wounded.

6 to 8 — Milliken's Bend. La. 23d Iowa and three regts. colored troops.
(No quarter shown.) Union 1,54 killed. 223 wounded, 115 missing.
Confed. 125 killed, 400 wounded, 200 missing.
9 — Monticello and Rocky Gap, Ky. 2d and 7th Ohio Cav., 1st Ky. Cav.,
45th Ohio and 2d Tenn. Mounted Inft. Union 4 killed, 26 wounded.
Confed. 20 killed. SO wounded.
Beverly Ford and Brandy Station. Va. 2d, 3d. and 7th Wis., 2d and
33d Mass.. 6th Maine. S6th and 104th X. Y.. 1st, 2d. 5th. and 6th
U. S. Cav., 2d, 6th. 8th. 9th, and lOth X. Y. Cav.. 1st, 6th. and 17th
Pa. Cav.. 1st Md.. Sth 111.. 3d Ind.. 1st X. J., 1st Maine Cav. and 3d
W. Va. Cav. Union 500 killed, wounded, and missing. Confed. 700
killed, wounded, and missing.

11— Middleton. Va. 87th Pa., 13th Pa. Cav.. Battery L, 5th U. S. Artil.
Confed. 8 killed, 42 wounded.

13 and 16— Winchester. Va. 2d, 67th. and S7th Pa., ISth Conn.. 12th W.
Va.. 110th. 116th, 122d, and 123d Ohio. 3d. 5th. and 6th Md., 12th
and 13th Pa. Cav.. 1st X. Y. Cav., 1st and 3d W. Va. Cav., Battery
L 5th U. S. Artil.. 1st W. Va. Battery. Baltimore Battery, one Co.
14th Mass. Heavy Artil. Union 3.000 killed, wounded, and missing.
Confed. 850 killed, wounded, and missing.

14— Martinsburg. Va. 106th X. Y.. 126th Ohio, W. Va. Battery. Union
200 missing. Confed. I killed. 2 wounded.

16— Tripletfs Bridge. Ky. 1.5th Mich.. 10th and 14th Ky. Cav.. 7th and
9th Mich. Cav., 11th Mich. Battery. Union 15 killed, 30 wounded.

17 — Aldie. Va. Kilpatrick's Cavalry. Union 24 killed. 41 wounded, 89
missing. Confed. 100 wounded.
Westport, Mo. Two Cos. 9th Kan. Union 14 killed, 6 wounded.
Capture of rebel gunboat Atlanta by U. S. ironclad Weehaxvken. Confed.
1 killed, 17 wounded, 145 prisoners.

20 — Rocky Crossing, Miss. Sth Ohio Cav.. 9th III. Mounted Inft. Union
7 killed, 28 wounded, 30 missing.

20 and 21 — La Fourche Crossing. La. Detachments 23d Conn.. 176th X. Y..
26th. 42d. and 47th Mass., 21st Ind. Union 8 killed, 40 wounded.
Confed. 53 killed, 150 wounded.

21 — Upperville. Va. Pleasanton's Cavalry. Union 94 wounded. Confed.
20 killed. 100 wounded, 60 missing.

22 — Hill's Plantation. Miss. Detachment of 4th Iowa Cav. Union 4 killed,
10 wounded, 28 missing.

23— Brashear City, La. Detachments of lUth and 176th X. Y.. 23d Conn.,
42d Mass.. 21st Ind. Union 46 killed. 40 wounded. 300 missing.
Confed. 3 killed, IS wounded.

23 to 30 — Rosecrans' Campaign. Murfreesboro to Tullahoma, Tenn.. in-
cluding Middleton. Hoover's Gap. Beech Grove, Liberty Gap, and
Gray's Gap. Army of the Cumberland: Fourteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty-first Corps. Granger's Reserve Corps, and Stanley's Cavalry.
Union So killed. 462 wounded. Confed. 1.634 killed, wounded, and
captured.

28 — Donaldsonville, La. 28th Maine and convalescents, assisted by gun-
boats. Confed. 39 killed. 112 wounded. 150 missing.

29 — Westminster, Md. Detachments 1st Del. Cav. Union 2 killed, 7
wounded. Confed. 3 killed, 15 wounded.

30 — Hanover, Pa. Cavalry Corps. Union 12 killed, 43 wounded. Confed.
75 wounded, 60 missing.

JXJLY, 1863

1 to 3 — Gettysburg, Pa. Army of the Pntomac. Maj.-Gen. Geo. G. Meade
First Corps, Maj. Gen. Reynolds; Second Corps, Maj. Gen. Hancock
Third Corps. Maj.-Gen. Sickles; Sixth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Sedgwick;
Eleventh Corps, Maj.-Gen. Howard; Twelfth Corps, Mai. -Gen.
Slocum; Cavalrv Corps, Maj.-Gen. Pleasanton. Uytion 2,834'killed,
13.709 wounded. 6.643 missing. Confed. 3.500 killed. 14.500 wounded,
13.621 missing. Union Maj.-Gen. Reynolds. Brig.-Gens. Weed. Zook,
and Farnsworth killed; Maj. -Gens. Sickles and Hancock. Brig.-Gens.
Paul, Rowley, Gibbons, and Barlow wounded. (Gen. Lucius Fair-
child, Commander-in-Chief Grand Army of the Republic, lost his
arm on the first day.) Confed. Maj.-Gen. Pender, Brig.-Gens. Gur-
nett, Barksdale. and Semmes killed; Maj. -Gens. Hood, Trimble, and
Heth, Brig.-Gens. Kemper, Scales. Anderson, Hampton. Jones,
Jenkins, Pettigrew, and Posey wounded.

1 to 26 — Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, finally captured
at Xew Lisbon. Ohio, bv Brig.-Gen. Shackleford's Cavalry. Union
22 killed, SO wounded, 790 missing. Confed. 86 killed, 385 wounded,
3.000 captured.
4 — Helena. Ark. Maj.-Gen. Prentiss's Division of Sixteenth Corps and
gunboat Tyler. Union 57 killed. 117 wounded, 32 missing. Confed.
173 killed, 6S7 wounded, 776 missing.

4 and 6 — Bolton and Birdsong Ferry, Miss. Maj.-Gen. Sherman's forces.
Confed. 2,000 captured.

4 and S — Monterey Gap and Smithsburg, Md.. and Fairfield, Pa. Kilpat-
rick's Cavalry. Union 30 killed and wounded. Confed. 30 killed and
%vounded, 100 prisoners.
6 — Lebanon. Ky. 20th Ky. Union 9 killed, 15 wounded, 400 missing.
Confed. 3 killed. 6 wounded.

6— Quaker Bridge. X. C. 17th, 23d. and 27th Mass., 9th X. J., Slst and
loSth X. y.. Belger's and Angel's Batteries.
Hagerstown and Williamsport. Md. Kilpatrick's Cavalry.
7 and 9— luka. Miss. 10th Mo. and 7th Kan. Cav. Union 5 killed. 3
wounded.

7 to 9 — Boonsboro, Md. Buford's and Kilpatrick's Cavalry. Union 9
killed. 45 wounded.

9 to 16 — Jackson. Miss., including engagements at Rienzi. Bolton Depot,

Canton, and Clinton. 9th. 13th. loth, and part of 16th Corps. Union
100 killed. 800 wounded. 100 missing. Confed. 71 killed. 504 wounded,
764 missing.

10 to Sept. 6— Siege of Fort Wagner. Morris Island. S. C. Troops Depart-

ment of the South, under command of Maj.-Gen. Gilmore. and U. S.

Xavy under Admiral Dahlgren. Union 1,757 killed, wounded, and

missing. Confed. 561 killed, wounded, and missing.
12 — Ashby Gap, Va. 2d Mass. Cav. Union 2 killed, 8 wounded.
13 — Yazoo City. Miss. Maj.-Gen. Herron's Division and three gunboats.

Confed. 250 captured.

Jackson, Tenn. 9th 111,, 3d Mich. Cav.. 2d Iowa Cav., and 1st Tenn.

Cav. Union 2 killed, 20 wounded. Confed. 38 killed, 150 wounded.

Donaldsonville. La. Portions of Weitxel's and Grover's Divisions,

Xineteenth Corps. Union 450 killed, wounded, and missing.

13 to 16 — Draft riots in Xew York City, in which over 1,000 rioters were

killed.

14 — Falling Waters. Md. 3d Cav. Division Army of the Potomac. Union
29 killed. 36 v.'ounded. Confed. 125 killed and wounded, 1.500 pris-
oners. Confed. Maj.-Gen. Pettigrew killed.

14 — Elk River, Tenn. Advance of the Fourteenth Corps Army of the Cum-
berland. Union 10 killed, 30 wounded. Confed. 60 killed, 24
wounded, 100 missing.

Xear Bolivar Heights, Va. 1st Conn. Cav. Confed. 25 killed.
15 — Pulaski. Ala. 3d Ohio and 5th Tenn. Cav. Confed. 3 killed, 50 missing.
Halltown. Va. 16th Pa. and 1st Maine Cav. Union 25 killed and

wounded. Confed. 20 killed and wounded.
16 — Sheppardstown. Va. 1st, 4th, and 16th Pa.. 10th X. Y. and 1st Maine

Cav. Confed, 25 killed, 75 wounded.
17— Honey Springs. Ind. Ten 2d. 6th. and 9th Kan. Cav.. 2d and 3d Kan.

Batteries. 2d and 3d Kan. Indian Home Guards. Union 17 killed.

GO wounded. Confed. 150 killed, 400 wounded.
Wytheville, W. Va. 34th Ohio, 1st and 2d W. Va. Cav. Union 17

killed, 61 wounded. Confed. 75 killed, 125 missing.
Canton, Miss. 76th Ohio. 2.5th and 31st Iowa, 3d, 13th and 17th Mo.,

2d Wis. Cav.. Sth III. Cav.. 3d and 4th Iowa Cav., one battery of

artillery. Casualties not recorded.
18 to 21— Potter's Cavalry Raid to Tar River and Rocky Mount. X. C. 3d

and 12th X. Y. Cav., 1st X. C. Cav. Union 60 wounded.
18 to 26 — Morgan's Raid into Kentucky. Indiana, and Ohio pursued and

captured by Brig.-Gens. Hobson and Shackleford's Cavalry, including

skirmishes at Burkesville. ("olumbia. Green River Bridge, Lebanon,

and Bradenburg, Ky.. Corydon and Vernon. Ind., capture of the

larger part at Buffington Island. Ohio, and final capture at New

Lisbon. Ohio, on the 26th. Union 33 killed. 97 wounded, 805 missing.

Confed. 795 killed and wounded, 4,104 captured.
21 to 23 — Manassas Gap and Chester Gap, Va. Cavalry advance and Third

Corps Army of the Potomac. Union 35 killed, 102 wounded. Confed.

300 killed and wounded.
26— Pattacassey Creek, X. C. Brig.-Gen. Heckman's troops. Union 3

killed. 17 wounded.
30 — Irv-ine, Ky. 14th Ky. Cav. Union 4 killed, 5 wounded. Confed. 7

killed, 18 wounded.

AUGUST, 1863

1 to 3 — Rappahannock Station. Brandy Station, and Kelly's Ford, Va.

Brig.-Gen. Buford's Cav. Union 16 killed, 134 wounded.
3 — Jackson. La. 73d. 7.5th. and 7Sth U. S. Colored Troops. Union 2 killed,

2 wounded. 27 missing.

6 — Dutch Gap, James River. Va. V. S. Gunboats Commodore Barney and

Cohasselt. Union 3 killed, 1 wounded.
7 — Xew Madrid. Mo. One company 24th Mo. Union 1 killed, 1 wounded.
9 — Sparta. Tenn. Cavalry Army o£ the Cumberland. Union 6 killed, 25
wounded.
13 — Lrrenaaa. Miss. 9th III.. 2d lowa cav., 3d Mich. Cav., 3d, 4th, 9th, and
11th 111. Cav. Casualties not recorded.
Pineville, Mo. 6th Mo. Militia Cav. Confed. 05 wounded.
14 — West Point, White River. Ark. 32d Iowa, with U. S. Gunboats Lex-
ington, Cricket, and Mariner. Union 2 killed, 7 wounded.
21 — Ouantrell's plunder and massacre of Lawrence. Kansas, in which 140
citizens were killed and 24 wounded. Confed. 40 killed.
Coldwater. Miss. 3d and 4th Iowa Cav., oth 111. Cav. Union 10
wounded.
24— Coyle Tavern, near Fairfax C. H.. Va. 2d Mass. Cav. Union 2 killed,

3 wounded. Confed. 2 killed, 4 wounded.

25 to 30— Averill's Raid in W. Va. Union 3 killed, 10 wounded, 60 missing.
26 — Rockv Gap. near White Sulphur Springs. Va. 3d and Sth W. Va., 2d

and 3d W. Va. Cav.. 14th Pa. Cav. Union 16 killed. 113 wounded.

Confed. 156 killed and wounded.
25 to 31 — Brownsville, Bayou Metoe and Austin, Ark. Davidson's Cavalry.

Union 13 killed, 72 wounded.

SEPTEMBER, 1863

1 — Barbee's Cross Roads, Va. Detachment 6th Ohio Cav. Union 2 killed,

4 wounded.

Devil's Back Bone, Ark. 1st Ark.. 6th Mo. Militia, 2d Kan. Cav., 2d
Ind. Battery. Union 4 killed, 12 wounded. Confed, 25 killed. 40
wounded.

(Conlittned in Section 9)

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CHAPTER XV.— Continued.

Commodore A. H. Foote, U. S. \.

AFTER turning over the command on the Island to General McCall, and leaving the troops on the
Kentucky and Tennessee shores in charge of General McCoun, Beauregard, with a considerable number
of the best soldiers, departed for Corinth to check a formidable movement of National troops through
middle Tennessee toward northern Alabama and Mississippi. McCall, on assuming the command, issued

a flaming proclamation; but within thirtj'-six hours he and his troops
prepared to escape from the Island. They were interrupted in their
movements by General Pope's forces under Generals Stanley, Hamilton,
and Paine; and Island Number Ten, with the troops, batteries and sup-
ports on the main, were surrendered to the Nationals on the 8th of April.
Over seven thousand men were surrendered prisoners of war; and the
spoils of victory were one hundred and twenty-three cannons and mortars,
seven thousand small arms, many hundred horses and mules, four steam-
boats afloat, and a ven.- large amount of ammunition.

The fall of Island Number Ten was a calamity to the Confederacy
from which it never recovered. It produced widespread alarm in the
Southern States; for it appeared probable that Memphis, one of their
strongholds on the Mississippi, where they had immense workshops and
armories, would soon share the fate of Columbus, and that National war-
vessels would speedily patrol the great river from Cairo to New Orleans.
Alartial law was proclaimed at Memphis, and the specie in the banks there
was taken to places of supposed safety. Troops that guarded the city
and panic-stricken residents proposed to lay the town in ashes if it could
not be saved from "northern invaders." The zeal of these madmen was
cooled by the sensible Mayor Park, who publicly proclaimed that "he who
attempts to fire his neighbor's house, or even his own whereby it endangers his neighbor's, regardless of
judge, jur>-, or the benefit of clergy, I will have him hung to the first lamp-post, tree, or awning." At
Vicksburg, preparations were made for flight, and the disloyal inhabitants of New Orleans were oppressed
with fearful forebodings of impending calamity. The governor of Louisiana, who was a leading Secession-
ist, issued a despairing appeal to the people. "An insolent and powerful foe is already at the castle gate,"
he said. "The current of the mighty river speaks to us of his fieets advancing for our destruction, and
the telegraph wires tremble with the news of his advancing columns. In the iiame of all most dear to us,
I entreat you to go and meet him." But there was little disposition to comply with the governor's wishes;
and when a letter from Beauregard, which he sent by his surgeon-general, making an urgent demand for
New Orleans to send five thousand troops to him, at once, "to save the cit3%" was read to the First and
Second City Brigades, who were called out, their reply was, "We decline to go." Their city then needed
defenders below instead of above it.

It seemed as if the plan devised bj- Fremont was about to be success-
fully carried out. Curtis had already broken the military power of the
Confederacy^ weft of the Mississippi, at the battle of Pea Ridge; and a
heavy' force was then making its way up the Tennessee toward Alabama
and Mississippi, and had, at the moment of the surrender of the famous
Island, achieved a most important victor\' on the left bank of that stream
not a score of miles from Corinth. Curtis, after the battle and the flight
of the vanquished Confederates, finding no «nemy to fight in that region,
gave his army ample time to rest, and then marched in a southeasterly
direction toward the Mississippi River and encamped at Batesville, the
capital of Independence county, Arkansas, on the White River.

After the capture of Fort Donelson, General Grant had prepared
to push toward Corinth, an important position on the line of the Charles-
ton and Memphis Railway. Troops had been sent up the Tennessee
River; and finally, at the beginning of April, the main body of Grant's
army were encamped between Pittsburgh Landing, on the left bank of
that stream, and the Shiloh Meeting-House, the latter in the forest two
miles from the river. The grand objective was Corinth. There the
Mobile and Ohio Railway intersected the Charleston and Memphis Commander C. S. Boggs, U. S. N.

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roads. The seizure of that point, as a strategic position of vital im-
portance, was Grant's design. It would give the National forces control
of the great railway communication between the Mississippi and the
East, and the border slave-labor States and the Gulf of Mexico. It
would also facilitate the capture of Memphis, toward the accomplish-
ment of which Foote was now bending his energies, and it would add
strength to the movements of Curtis in Arkansas.

In the meantime General Buell's army had slowly made prepara-
tions to march southward and join Grant's forces, which were, at first,
encamped at Savannah, on the right bank of the Tennessee; but it
was not until near the close of March, when Grant's position had become
really perilous, that Buell left Nashville. He sent part of his force
under General Mitchel in the direction of Huntsville, in northern Ala-
bama, to seize and hold the Charleston and Memphis Railway; while
the main body, composed of the divisions of Generals Thomas, McCook,
Nelson, Crittenden and T. J. Wood, moved more to the westward by
way of Columbia, at which place the troops left the railway and marched
slowly toward the Tennessee River.

General T. VV. Sherm.\n

CHAPTER XVI.

The Nationals and Confederates at Shiloh — Battle of Shiloh: Its Events and Results — The Confederate Retreat to Corinth — Siege and
Capture of Corinth — General Mitchel's Raid into Alabama — Recovered Territory — Raid upon a Railway — Capture of Memphis —
Capture of New Berne and Fort Macon — Events on the Coast of North Carolina — ^Sicge and Capture of Fort Pulaski — Conquests
on the Southern Coasts — Expedition against New Orleans — Capture of Forts on the Mississippi — Destruction of the Confederate
Flotilla — Seizure of New Orleans — Hatred of General Butler.

GENERAL BEAUREGARD, who had left Island Number Ten with a considerable body of Confed-
erate troops, and had hastened to Corinth to prepare for resisting the grand movement of the
Nationals southward, now confronted the latter near Shiloh Meeting-House with a very large
force. He had been joined by the troops under General A. S. Johnston that fled from Nashville, and
that officer was now Beauregard's chief lieutenant, assisted by Generals Polk, Hardee, Bragg, and
Breckenridge. With these expert leaders, the Confederates came up from Corinth in a heavy rain-storm
in separate columns, and concentrated a few miles from Shiloh Meeting-House. They came so stealthily'
that they were within four miles of the National camp before they were discovered by Grant's sentinels.
There they halted on the 5th of April, 1862, to await the arrival of Van Dom and Price, who were
approaching Memphis with a large force from central Arkansas. Already
the Confederate army of eleven thousand men at Corinth a short time
before had increased to forty thousand men.

Intelligence came of Buell's march to join Grant, and on the evening
of the sth it was resolved to strike the Nationals before the dawn next
morning, for it was evident the latter were not aware of the near presence
of the strong force of the Confederates. At a council of war that made
this decision, Beauregard, pointing toward the Union army, said: "Gen-
tlemen, we sleep in the enemy's camp to-morrow night." At that time
General W. T. Sherman's division was lying in the woods near Shiloh
Meeting-House. General Prentiss's division was planted across the road
leading directly to Corinth, and General McClernand's division was
behind Prentiss's right. In the rear of these and between them and
Pittsburg Landing lay General Hurlburt's division, and that of General
Smith led by General W. H. L. Wallace. General David Stuart's brigade
of Sherman's division lay upon a road leading to Hamburg, above Pitts-
burg Landing, and General Lewis Wallace, with his division, was at
Crump's Landing, several miles below, observing Confederate movements
at Purdy, and covering the river connections between Pittsburg Landing General S A. Hurlburt

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Colonel Locke (Standing), Major Kirkland (Sitting), Major Monteith, General Fitzjohn Porter, Doctor McMillan,

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and Savannah. To the latter place General Halleck forwarded supplies for the National army. So little
was an attack by the Confederates suspected, that no intrenchments had been cast up by the Nationals,
and Buell's army was marching leisurely across Tennessee.

Almost the first intimation of the near presence of the Confederates was the wild cry of pickets
flying into camp and a sharp attack upon Sherman's troops by Hardee's division, before the day had fairly
dawned on Sunday morning, the 6th of April. Some of the officers were slumbering; some were dressing;
a portion of the troops were washing and cooking, and others were eating breakfast. Screaming shells
crashed through the forest, and bullets whistled among the tents. Hardee's troops poured into the camp
of the bewildered Nationals, fighting desperately, driving half -dressed and half-armed troops before them.

and dealing death and ter-
results followed. Prentiss's
His column was shattered;
of his followers were made
occupied by the Confed-
became general, and for ten
varying fortunes on both
Wallace of the Nationals
the Confederates had been
both sides had been severe,
pushed back to the Tennes-
with a spring flood, and the
Unicn troops. The victo-
all the Union camps except-
lace, where General McAr-
In the rear of this division
gathered in a space not
acres in extent, on the verge
pushed back no further ; and
Beauregard of his final
a shout of victory to head-
General Grant had di-
National side with great
light, were in a most peril-
orous blow, then given by
justified his shout of vic-
one, that was parried by
Tyler and Lexington, which
those of a hastilv formed

Gener.\l U. S. Grant

ror on every hand. Fearful
division was next attacked,
himself and a large portion
prisoners, and his camp was
crates. The struggle soon
hours the battle raged, with
sides. General W. H. L.
and General Johnston of
killed, and the slaughter on
The National army was
see River, then brimful!
day was fairly lost by the
rious Confederates occupied
ing that of the slain Wal-
thur was now in command.
the smitten army had now
more than four hundred
of the river. They could be
so certain was General
triumph , that he telegraphed
quarters at Richmond,
rected the storm on the
skill, but his forces, at twi-
ous position. A single vig-
Beauregard, might have
tory; but he dealt a feeble
the guns of two boats, the
had just appeared, and by
batterv on the shore.

Grant's safety was fully assured when, at evening, the van of the slow-moving army of Buell appeared on
the opposite shore of the Tennessee, and other portions of it came up the river during the night. At
midnight General Lewig Wallace arrived with his division, and then the palm of victory was snatched
from the hands of Beauregard.

In the morning twilight of the 7th, Wallace opened the contest anew on the Confederate left, where
Beauregard commanded in person. Others soon joined in the battle, and it became general all along the
line. The Confederates fought gallantly, but were speedily pushed back by a superior force; and when
they perceived that all was lost, they fled, under a storm of blinding sleet and cold rain, to the heights of
Monterey in the direction of Corinth. They were covered, in their retreat, by a rear-guard of twelve
thousand men, commanded by Ex-President Breckenridge. The Confederates had lost over ten thousand
men in the engagement, of whom full three thousand died during the retreat of nine miles. Fifteen
thousand Nationals were killed, wounded, or made prisoners. The slain on the battle-field were soon
buried, the dead horses were burnt, and the hospital-vessels sent down the Tennessee by the Nationals
were crowded with the sick and maimed. Beauregard's shattered army fell back to Corinth, and Grant
was about to pursue and capture it. when General Halleck, his superior in rank, who had come up from
St. Louis and took the supreme command, caused the impatient troops to loiter until the Confederates,
recuperated, were prepared for another contest.

Twenty days after the battle, Halleck and his army had advanced nine miles toward Corinth; and a
week later (May 3) they were near that place, making vigorous use of pickaxe and spade in piling up

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fortifications for prosecuting a siege. This labor continued twenty-seven days longer, interrupted by
frequent sorties from Corinth, when the Confederates were driven from their advanced batteries, and
Halleck prepared for a sanguinary conflict the next day. The Confederates had been much strengthened
by delay; but Beauregard was not disposed to fight the Grand Army oj the Tennessee, as it was now called.
All the night of the 29th of May, the National sentinels had heard and reported the unceasing roar of
moving cars at Corinth; and at daybreak, just as Halleck sent out skirmishers to "feel the enemy," the
earth was shaken by a series of explosions, and dense columns of smoke rose above the town. There
was no enemy to "feel." Beauregard had evacuated Corinth during the night, burnt and blown up
whatever of stores he could not carrj- away, and fled, in haste, to Tupelo, many miles southward from
Corinth, where he left General Bragg in command, and retired to mineral springs in Alabama, for the
restoration of his impaired health. Halleck took possession of Corinth, and was soon afterward called
to Washington to perform the duties of General-in-Chief of all the armies of the Republic. He left General

1^^

General R. S. K\\ i
C. S. A.

Thomas in command at
enlarged powers. General

When General Buell
energetic General Mitchel
left the more cautious Buell,
pushed on vigorously. On
sixty miles from Nashville,
There he left the railway,
train, he crossed the State
Huntsville on the morning
up the railway at each end
into the place. The unsus-
the horses' hoofs in the
tants, wrote an eye-witness,
dew, exclaiming, with
ing tongue, 'They come!
come!' Men rushed into
women fainted, the children screamed, the
time a scene of perfect terror reigned." The
tory were seventeen locomotives, more than a
a large amount of supplies of ever>- kind ; also one
By it Mitchel secured the control of the Charles-
from Tuscumbia on the west to Stevenson on the
hundred miles. He also won the control of the
the same distance. Mitchell met with no

This work was accomplished without the
when Corinth fell into the possession of the Na-
June, all Kentucky, western and middle Ten-
sissippi and northern Alabama, were recovered
was confidently expected that East Tennessee
leased from the power of the insurgents; but
joined Mitchel, would not listen to the earnest entreaties of that officer, to add that loyal and sorely
oppressed region to the emancipated territors'. The way had been prepared by General Negley and
others. Negley had climbed over the almost impassable mountains northeast of Stevenson, driven the
Confederates from Jasper (June 7), and appeared on the Tennessee River opposite Chattanooga. He
needed only a little help to enable him to seize and hold that key to East Tennessee and Northern Georgia.
The help was refused by General Buell. When, at the middle of June, the. East Tennesseeans saw the
insurgents evacuate Cumberland Gap, voluntarily, they surely expected the long-hoped-for deliverance,
by the advent of National troops; but Buell refused to walk in at that open door. That cautious leader
and the fiery Mitchel could not work in harmon}', and the latter was now transferred to another field
of duty.

Mitchel had performed important services for the National cause by the exercise of judicious audacity.
He smote so swiftly and effectually, that he appalled his enemies; and one of the most daring enterprises
undertaken during the war was put in motion by that general. It was an effort to break up railway
communication between Chattanooga and Atlanta. For this purpose he employed J. J. Andrews, who

Corinth, and General Grant of his old army, with
Buell was ordered to join Grant,
moved from Nashville to meet Grant, he sent the
southward, as we have observed. After Mitchel
his was a sort of independent command, and he
the 4th of April, he was at Shelby ville, Tennessee,
where he established a depository of supplies,
and after rapid marches with a light supply-
line on the loth into Alabama, and was in front of
of the nth before the dawn. Fatigue parties tore
of the town, while the cavalry marched directly
picious sleepers were awakened by the clatter of
streets. The surprise was complete. The inhabi-
" flocked to door and win-
blanched cheek and falter-
they come! the Yankees
the streets half-dressed, the
darkies laughed, and for a
spoils of this bloodless vic-
hundred passenger cars, and
hundred and sixty prisoners,
ton and Memphis Railway
east, a distance of about one
Tennessee River for about
resistance.

loss of a single man; and
tionals at the beginning of
nessee, and northern Mis-
from the Confederates. It
would be immediately re-
General Buell, who had now

General Edw. [. |(jilnstox,
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HkALKiL AKlhKh Ob- THE ArMV OK TllIC I'oh'MAi: IN FrONT OK YoRKTOWN

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had been in the secret service of General Buell. With twenty-two picked men Andrews walked to
Marietta in the guise of Confederate citizens of Kentucky seeking in Georgia freedom from persecution.
At Marietta they took the cars for a station not far from the foot of the Great Kenesaw Mountain, and
there, while the conductor and engineer were at breakfast, they uncoupled the engine, tender and a
box-car, from the passenger train, and started up the road at full speed, answering questions where they
were compelled to stop by saying thej- were conveying powder to Beauregard. They had passed several
trains before they began their destructive work. Then the next train that reached the broken spot
had its engine reversed and became a pursuer. Onward they sped with the speed of a gale, passing
other trains, when, at an important curve in the road, after destroying the track, Andrews said,
exultingly, " Only one more train to pass, boys, and then we will put our engine to full speed, burn the

bridges after us, dash
and on to Mitchel, at
The exciting chase
The pursued, having
pursuers, were fleetest;
lost in stopping to cut
up the track, that at
were prevented from
suers were close upon
lubricating oil became
was the speed of the en-
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from Chattanooga,
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passes were picketed ;
men and foot-soldiers.

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through Chattanooga,
Huntsville."
continued many miles,
less burden than the
but so much time was
telegraph wires and tear
length the pursued
doing either, for the pur-
thcm. Finally their
exhausted ; and such
gines that the brass
axles revolved were
the fugitives were corn-
conveyance fifteen miles
They took refuge in the
amauga Creek. A great
ized. The mountain
and thousands of horse-
with several blood-

hounds, scoured the country in all directions. The whole party were finally captured, and thus ended
one of the most exciting events in human history. The sequel was that Andrews and seven of his
companions were hanged. To each of the survivors of that daring raid, the Secretary of War presented
a bronze medal, in token of approval.

While these events were occurring in the interior of Tennessee, Commodore Foote had been busy
on the Mississippi River. He went down that stream from Island Number Ten, with his armed vessels,
and transports bearing Pope's army, to attempt the capture of Memphis, but was confronted at the first
Chickasaw Bluffs, eighty miles above that city, by a Confederate flotilla under Captain Hollins, and
three thousand troops under General Jeff. Thompson, who occupied a military work on the bluff,
called Fort Pillow, then in command of General Villepigue, an accomplished engineer. Foote began
an attack on the 14th; but General Pope's troops, who had landed on the Arkansas shore, could not
co-operate because the country' was flooded. Pope was soon called by Halleck to Shiloh, and the navy
was left to do the best it could. Foote was soon obliged to turn over the command to Captain C. H.
Davis, on account of the painfulness of his foot from a wound received at Fort Donelson.

On the loth of May, HolHns, who had reorganized his flotilla, attacked Foote, and was assisted by
the heavy guns of Fort Pillow, but the Confederate vessels were repulsed. For a fortnight afterward
the belligerent fleets watched each other, when a "ram" squadron, prepared by Colonel Charles Ellet,
Jr. (the builder of the Niagara Suspension Bridge), joined Foote's flotilla, and prepared to attack the foe.
The Confederates, having heard of their disaster at Corinth, fled precipitately to Memphis on the 4th
of June. Two days afterward the National flotilla won a victory over the Confederate squadron in front
of that city, when Memphis passed into the possession of the Union forces, and it was speedily occupied
by troops commanded by General Lewis Wallace. For a short time after these events, there was a lull
in the storm of war westward of the Alleghany Mountains.

We left General Bumside and Commodore Rowan in Albemarle Sound after the capture of Roanoke
Island and Elizabeth City and vicinity, preparing to make other important movements on the coast of
North Carolina. They appeared in the Neuse River, eighteen miles below New Berne, on the evening
of the 12th of March (1862); and early the next morning National troops led by Generals Foster, Reno
and Parke, about fifteen thousand strong, were landed and marched against the defences of that town.

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The Confederates, under General Branch, who were inferior in numbers, occupied a strongly intrenched
position. The Nationals moved against them at daylight on the morning of the 14th. The Confederates
sustained a severe battle with great bravery and skill until, closely pressed on all sides by superior numbers,

they broke, and fled across the Trent closely pursued by Foster. They
burned the bridges behind them, and so escaped, leaving their killed and
wounded and two hundred men, \\-ho were made prisoners. The Na-
tionals then took possession of New Berne; when General Parke pro-
ceeded to capture Fort Macon, on a point of Bogue Island near the
entrance to Beaufort harbor. In this enterprise the National troops
were assisted by gunboats controlled by Commander Samuel Lockwood.
The garrison made but slight resistance, and on the 25th of April, it was
surrendered. At the same time the National troops tmder General Reno
were quietly taking possession of important places on the coast of North
Carolina, and threatening Norfolk in the rear. Plj-mouth, Winton and
Washington were occupied by the National forces. Garrisons for these
places so widely dispersed Bumside's troops, that he could no longer make
aggressive movements, and he remained quietly in his department until
he was summoned to Fortress Monroe at the middle of July. He held
almost undisputed sway over the coast region from the Dismal Swamp
to the Cape Fear River.

At the close of 1861, the National authority (as we have observed)
was supreme along the Southern coast from Warsaw Sound, below the
Savannah River, to the North Edisto well up toward Charleston. At the
close of the year. General T. W. Sherman, in command in that region, directed his chief engineer, General
Q. A. Gillmore, to reconnoitre Fort Pulaski, and report upon the feasibility of a bombardment of it. It
was done, and Gillmore reported that it might be reduced by planting batteries of rifled guns and mortars
on Big Tybee Island southeast of Cockspur Island, on which the fort stood. Explorations were made to
discover some channel by which gunboats might get in the rear of the fort, and a New York regiment was
sent to occupy Big Tybee Island. A channel was found, and land troops under General Viele, borne
by gunboats commanded by Captain John Rodgers, went through it to reconnoitre. Another expedition
composed of land troops under General Wright, and gunboats commanded by Fleet-Captain Davis, were
sent by Admiral Dupont up to the Savannah River, by way of Warsaw Sound, Wilmington River and
St. Augustine Creek, in rear of Fort Pulaski. The gunboats of Rodgers and Davis had a skirmish with
Tattnall's "mosquito" fleet; and having accomplished their object, the whole National force returned
to Hilton Head, to the great relief of the inhabitants of Savannah, who supposed the expedition was
abandoned. Soon afterward, however, the Nationals made a lodgement on Jones's Island, and erected
a heavy batter}- at Venus's point, also a smaller one on Bird Island, and so effectually closed the Savannah
River in the rear of Fort Pulaski. It was absolutely blockaded near the close of February (1862); and

on the 8th of March General David Hunter arrived as successor of General

Sherman in command of the Department of the South, and he and Com-
modore Dupont, who was in command of the navy on that coast, acted
in concert.

With great skill General Gillmore had planted his siege-guns on Big
Tybee Island that commanded the fort; and on the loth of April (1862),
after Hunter had demanded its surrender and the commander of the for-
tress had refused compliance, thirty-six heavy rifled cannons and mortars
were opened upon it under the direction of Generals Gillmore and Viele.
It was gallantly defended until the 12th, when it was so battered that
it was untenable, and it was surrendered. This was an important vic-
tory, for it enabled the Nationals to close the port of Savannah against
the blockade-runners, which had become numerous and bold all along
our coast.

In the meantime Commodore Dupont and General Wright had
been making easy conquests on the coast of Florida. Early in February'
the}' captured Fort Clinch, on Amelia Island, which the Confederates
had seized, and drove the insurgents from Femandina. The Confed-
erates speedily abandoned their other forts along the coast of Florida Genekal Don C. Buell

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General Meade and Other Generals of the Army of the Potomac

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and Georgia, which the Nationals took possession of; and a flotilla of gunboats and transports, bearing
land troops under Lieutenant T. H. Stevens, went up the St. John's River and captured Jacksonville on
the nth of March. St. Augustine was taken possession of at about the same time by Commander C. P.
Rodgers, and the alarmed Confederates abandoned Pensacola and all their fortifications on the main
opposite Fort Pickens. When Dupont returned to Port Royal, he found General T. W. Sherman in
possession of Edisto Island ; and before the first anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter, the whole
coast from Cape Hatteras to Perdido Bay west of Fort Pickens, excepting at Charleston and its immediate
vicinity, had been abandoned by the Confederates.

At the beginning of 1862 the National Government had determined to repossess itself of the important
positions of Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Galveston, by which it might maintain the National

General \V. Nelson

General T. L. Crittenden General A. M. Mitchell

Gener.al a. G. McCook

Lower Mississippi, and
of Texas. General Ben-
placed in command of
Gulf, which included
prised the whole theatre
He was directed to co-
in the important enter-
object of the expedition
suggested Ship Island, off
as a rendezvous for the
He gathered his troops
When all was in readi-
ington, and on leaving
' ' ( lood-bye ; we shall
will never see me again."
"The man who takes
a lieutenant-general."
Fortress Monroe, with
about fourteen thousand
cent steamship Missis-

supremacy over the

attempt the occupancy

jamin F. Butler was

the Department of the

these points, and com-

of proposed operations.

operate with the navy

prise; and as the first

was New Orleans, he

the coast of Mississippi,

land and naval forces.

at Fortress Monroe.

ness, he visited Wash-

the President, he said:

take New Orleans or you

Secretary Stanton said:

New Orleans is made

Butler embarked at

his wife, his staff, and

troops, in the magnifi-

sippi. He suffered vexatious delays at Port Royal; and it was thirty days before he reached Ship

Island, a desolate sand-bar, without a house; and only a few charred boards could be found to make a

shanty for the shelter of Mrs. Butler. General Phelps was there with Massachusetts and Connecticut

troops, and had strengthened an unfinished fort on the Island. Admiral Farragut had also arrived with

a naval force; also a fleet of bomb-vessels commanded bj^ Commodore David D. Porter, prepared to

co-operate with the land and naval forces.

At a short bend in the Mississippi River, seventy-six miles from its passage into the Gulf of Mexico, were
two forts — Jackson and St. Philip. These, with some fortifications above and obstructions in the river
below, seemed to the Confederates to make the stream absolutely impassable by vessels of an enemy;
and they believed New Orleans, where there were ten thousand insurgent troops under General Mansfield
Lovell (a former politician of New York), to be perfectly safe from invasion. The people continued
their occupations, as usual; and one of the journals said: "Our only fear is, that the northern invaders
may not appear. We have made such extensive preparations to receive them that it were vexation if
their invincible armada escapes the fate we have in store for it." The test was soon made.

General Butler and the two naval commanders arranged a' plan for the capture of New Orleans,
which comprehended an attack on the forts below the city, first, by Porter's bomb-vessels, Farragut
with his stronger vessels remaining as a reserve until the guns of the fort should be silenced. Failing
in this, Farragut was to attempt to run by the forts, clear the river of Confederate vessels, isolate the
forts and cut off their supplies and supports. Then General Butler was to land his troops in the rear
of Fort St. Philip (the weaker one), and attempt to«carr\- it by assault. This done, the land and naval
forces were to press on toward New Orleans. The general command of the river defences of the Confed-
erates was intrusted to General J. K. Duncan, formerly an office-holder in New York.

On the 17th of April the fleets of Farragut and Porter were in the river, with the former as chief
commander of the naval forces; and Butler, with about nine thousand troops, was at the Southwest Pass.
The fleets comprised forty-seven armed vessels, and these, with transports bearing troops, went up the
river. Porter's mortar-boats leading. When these approached the forts, their hulls were besmeared with
Mississippi mud; and the masts, yards and rigging were so covered with the branches of trees, that under

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Mississii'i'i RiVF.R Fleet of Iron Clab Gu.nuoai

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this disguise they were enabled to take a position near the forts unsuspected. As when "Birnam
Wood" moved "toward Dunsinane," the stratagem was successful. The Mississippi was full to the
brim; and a boom and other obstructions near Fort Jackson were swept away by the flood.

A battle was begun on the morning of the i8th (April, 1862), by a
shot from Fort Jackson. Porter's mortar-boats responded. The latter
were supported by the gunboats; but after pounding the fortifications
several days, Farragut, satisfied that he could not reduce them, prepared
to run by them in the night of the 23 d. The mortar-boats led the way,
and the remainder of the navy followed, gallantly breasting the swift-flowing
current that went over the river banks and flooded every bayou. The
perilous passage of the forts was begun at two o'clock in the morning. The
mortar-boats were to cover the movement of the gunboats. Farragut,
in his flag-ship Hartford, with two other strong vessels, was dest

to keep near the right bank of the river and fight Fort Jackson
while Captain Theodorus Bailey, commanding eight gunboat
was to keep closely to the eastern bank and fight Fort St,
Philip. To Captain Bell was assigned the duty of attacking
the Confederate fleet above the forts, with six gunboats.

The night was intensely dark, and a tremendous
battle was waged between the mortar-boats and the forts.
The gunboats as they came up gave the latter heavj-
broadsides of grape and canister shot, which drove the
garrison from their barbette guns. The scene soon became
rible. Fire-rafts, sent down by the Confederates, blazed
"rams " plunged against the National vessels with terrible force
(Farragut's flag-ship), which was a wooden vessel, was set on
were soon extinguished. The fleet had scarcely passed the fori
by a large flotilla of "rams" and gunboats. A grand and awful
noise of twenty mortars and two hundred and sixty great guns,
made a terrific sound. The explosion of shells that struck
ground, shook the land and water like an earthquake. ' ' Combine

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fire, but the flames
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scene followed. The
afloat and ashore,
deep in the oozy
wrote an eye-witness, "all that you
ever heard of thunder, and add to it all that you have ever seen of lightning, and you have, perhaps, a
conception of the scene," in the darkness before daylight.

In that fearful struggle, the Nationals were victorious. From the fore-rigging of his ship Farragut
had watched the combat through his night-glass, and conducted it as far as possible. Within the space

of half an hour after the National vessels had left their anchorage, the
forts were passed, the great struggle had occurred, and eleven vessels —
nearly the whole of the Confederate flotilla — were destroyed. For a
while Captain Bailey sustained the fight with the Confederate flotilla
almost imsupported, when Captain Boggs came to his assistance with
the gunboat Varuna, which immediately became the chief object of the
wrath of the enemy. In his report Captain Boggs said that immediately
after passing the forts, he found himself "amid a nest of rebel steamers."
Tlie Varuna rushed in among them (for the river was too narrow to
permit her to avoid them), and fired broadsides right and left as she
passed. The first one that received her fire was crowded with troops.
Its boiler was exploded, and the vessel was run ashore. The Varuna ran
three other gunboats ashore, and had desperate struggles with the "rams,"
until, badly wounded, she began to sink, when her commander tied her
bow to trees and took out her crew and the wounded, while his latest
antagonist was burning to the water's edge. So ended one of the fiercest
combats of the war. It was "short, sharp, and decisive." In that
struggle on the bosom of the river, the Nationals lost only thirty killed
and not more than one hundred and twenty -five wounded. The fleet,
after the fight, rendezvoused at Quarantine, just above Fort St. Philip,
and that was the first public property "repossessed" by the Government,
General W. it. L. Wallace in Louisiana.

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273

Commander William Jeffries and Officers of .Monitor

Crew on Deck of thi: Original Monitor

Smoke Stack of Confederate Ram Riddled nv Shots

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A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Commander Franklin Buchanan,

C. S. N., Commanding the

"Merrimac"

While the battle was raging near the forts. General Butler landed his troops, and in small boats
they went through narrow and shallow bayous in the rear of Fort St. Philip. The alarmed garrison
mutinied, spiked the guns, and sallying out surrendered to Butler's pickets, declaring that they had been

pressed into the service, and would fight no more. Porter had continued
to bombard Fort Jackson, and after the fall of Fort St. Philip, it was
surrendered to that officer with nearh' one thousand men.

Meanwhile Farragut (who had thirteen vessels in safety above the
forts) had gone up to New Orleans with his fleet, where a fearful panic
prevailed, for the inhabitants had heard of the disasters below. Drums
were beating; soldiers were seen hurrying to and fro; merchants had
fled from their stores; women without bonnets and brandishing pistols
were seen in the streets crying, ' ' Bum the city ! Bum the city ! Never
mind us! Bum the city!" Military officers impressed vehicles into the
service of carr\-ing cotton to the levees to be burned; and specie to the
amount of $4,000,000 was sent out of the city by railway. Millions
worth of other property, with a large number of citizens, had left the
doomed town, among them General Twiggs, who betrayed his troops in
Texas. Like Floyd, he feared the wrath of his injured Government, and
fled, leaving behind him the two swords which had been awarded him for
gallantry' in Mexico, to fall into the hands of the invaders. And when,
on the 25th of April, 1862, Farragut approached the city with nine vessels,
General Lovell and his troops fled, the torch was applied to the cotton
on the levee, and along the river front for miles a sheet of roaring flames
burst forth. In that conflagration fifteen thousand bales of cotton, a
dozen large ships and as many fine steamboats, with unfinished gunboats and other large vessels, were
burnt. The value of cotton, sugar, and other products destroyed was immense. The citizens were held
in durance by Farragut's guns, until the arrival of General Butler on the first of May, when the latter
landed with his troops, took formal possession of the defenceless town, and made his headquarters at the
St. Charles hotel. Butler ruled New Orleans with the rigor of martial law. Informed that a man named
Mumford had pulled down the National flag where Farragut had unfurled it over the Mint, and had
treated it in derision, Butler caused his arrest and his immediate trial on a charge of treason. He was
convicted and hanged ; the only man who has ever suffered death for that crime since the establishment
of our National Government.

The loss of New Orleans was a terrible blow for the Confederates. "It annihilated us in Louisiana,"
wrote a Confederate historian, "diminished our resources and supplies by the loss of one of the greatest
grain and cattle countries within the limits of the Confederacy, gave to the enemy the Mississippi River
with all its means of navigation for a base of operations, and finally led, by plain and irresistible con-
clusions, to our virtual abandonment of the great and fruitful valley of
the Mississippi."

The loss of New Orleans produced the greatest irritation in the
public mind throughout the Confederacy, and the rigor of Butler's rule
there excited the most violent personal hatred of the general. When
he was about to leave New Orleans, Jefferson Davis, the chief of the
Confederacy, issued a proclamation in which he pronounced Butler to
be "a felon deserving of capital punishment"; and he ordered that he
should not be "treated simply as a public enemy of the Confederate
States of America, but as an outlaw, and common enemy of mankind";
and that, "in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the
capturing force, do cause him to be immediate^ executed, by hanging."
He also ordered that the same treatment should be awarded to all
commissioned officers serving under Butler. A "Georgian" offered a
reward of $10,000 "for the infamous Butler." Richard Yeadon, a
prominent citizen of Charleston, publicly offered a reward of $10,000
"for the capture and delivery of the said Benjamin F. Butler, dead
or alive, to any Confederate authority." A "Daughter of South
Carolina," in a letter to the Charleston Courier, said: "I propose to

spin the thread to make the cord to execute the order of our noble

Commander John L. Worden, U.S.N.,
Commanding the "Monitor"

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President Davis, when old Butler is caught; and my daughter asks that she may be allowed to adjust it
around his neck." And Paul R. Hayne, a South Carolina poet, wrote:

"Yes! but there is one who shall not die

In battle harness! One for whom
Lurks in the darkness silently

Another and a sterner doom!
A warrior's end should crown the brave;
For him, swift cord and felon's grave!"

CHAPTER XVII.

Army of the Potomac — Armies Ordered to Move — JVIcClellan's Plan of Operations — Evacuation of Manassas — "Promenade" of the
Union Army — McClellan ReUeved — The "Monitor" and "Merrimac" — Events in the Shenandoah Valley — Battle at Kernstown —
Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula — Siege of Yorktown — Magruder's Strategy — Battle at Williamsburg — Tardy Movements —
McClellan and the President — Capture of Norfolk — Military Events in the 'Valley — Battles at Winchester, Cross Keys and Port
Republic — The "White House" — On the Chickahominy — Confederate Government Rebuked — Fatal Hesitation — Battle at Fair
Oaks — Stuart's Raid.

WHILE great activity prevailed in the valley of the Mississippi, the Grand Army of the Potomac,
under General McClellan, had been lying almost inactive much of the time, in the vicinity
of the National capital. It had, however, been growing in numbers and discipline;
and early in 1862, it was composed of full two hundred thoufand men. The battles of Ball's
Bluff and Drainsville, already mentioned, had prevented its rusting into absolute immobility;
and the troops were gladdened, from time to time, by promises of an immediate advance
upon the Confederates at Manassas. On account of that expectation, very little had been done toward
placing the troops in winter quarters, and much
suffering and discontent were the consequence.
Efforts were made by many officers to break the
monotony of camp-life ; and the Secretary of War
(Mr. Cameron) permitted the musical Hutchinson
family to visit the camps and sing their simjjle and
stirring songs. They were diffusing sunshine
through the gloom of the army by delighting
crowds of soldiers who listened to their sweet
melody, when their career was suddenly checked
by the following order :

"By direction of General McClellan, the per-
mit given to the 'Hutchinson Family' to sing in
the camps, and their pass to cross the Potomac,
are revoked, and they will not be allowed to sing
to the troops."

Why not? Because a few of the officers of
the army were afraid of offending the confederated
slaveholders, and the Hutchinsons had been guilty

of singing Whittier's stirring song, then lately written, to the tune of Luther's Hymn,
ist unser Gott," in which, among eight similar verses, was the following:

"What gives the wheat-fields blades of steel?
What points the rebel cannon?
What sets the roaring rabble's heel
On th' old star-spangled pennon?

What breaks th' oath
Of th' men o' th' South?
What whets the knife
For the Union's life?
Hark to the answer: Slavery."

On the 13th of January, 1862, the energetic Edwin M. Stanton succeeded Simon Cameron, as Secretary
of War, and infused new life into the service. The people had become impatient; and the President,
satisfied that longer delay was unnecessary^ issued a general order on the 27th of January, in which he
directed a simultaneous forward movement of "all the land and naval forces of the United States against
the insurgent forces on the 2 2d day of February next ensuing. This order sent a thrill of joy through
the hearts of the loyal people, and it was heightened when the President ordered McClellan to move

General J. L. Reno

General J. C. Parke

General J. G. Foster

'Kin feste burg

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Admiral Farragut and Capt^vin Drayton on U. S. S. Hartford

Group of Officers ox Deck of Monitor After a Hunting Trip. Who Can Recognize Them?

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Admiral D. G. Farragut, U. S. N.

against the inferior force of Confederates at Manassas. Instead of obeying, McClellan remonstrated,
and proposed to take his army to Richmond by the circuitous route of Fortress Monroe and the Peninsula,
between the York and James rivers, instead of attempting, with his large and well-equipped army, to press

the Confederates back to their Capital. The President strongly urged
the trial of the direct movement, as less expensive in time and money,
and less perilous to the army ; but McClellan so steadily resisted this plan,
that the patient Lincoln consented to submit the matter to a council of
officers. They decided in favor of McClellan's plan by a vote of eight
to four. The President acquiesced, but with many misgivings, which
the result justified. The General-in-Chief had declared that he intended
to wait for the forces in the West to gain victories before he should move
upon Richmond. Well, the Grand Army of the Potomac had not fairly
inaugurated its campaign in the spring of 1862, before the active little
army of General Grant, and the forces under Generals Pope, and Buell,
and Mitchel, and the gunboats of Foote, had accomplished far more in
the West than McClellan ever dreamed of being possible.

Informed that McClellan (who would not trust his commander-in-
chief with his military secrets) intended to take to the Peninsula nearly
the entire Grand Army of the Potomac, the President issued an order on
the Sth of IMarch, that no change of base in the operations of that army
should be made without leaving a competent force for the protection of
the Capital, that not more than fifty thousand troops should be removed
toward the Peninsula until the navigation of the Potomac from Washing-
ton to the Chesapeake should be freed from the enemy's batteries and other obstructions; that
the new movement should begin as early as the i8th of March and that the army and nav^' should
co-operate in an immediate attack upon the Confederate batteries on the Potomac. Meanwhile
the Confederates at Manassas had retired, and were falling back toward Richmond, in fear of
the execution of the President's order to move upon them on the 2 2d of February. When McClellan
heard of this evacuation he crossed the Potomac and ordered his whole army to advance, not, as he after-
ward explained, to pursue the alarmed fugitives and to take Richmond, but to give his own army a little
active experience "preparatory to the campaign!" After making a grand display of power at abandoned
Manassas and a little beyond, the army moved back to Alexandria. This "promenade" (as one of
McClellan's aids, a scion of the royal Orleans family of France called it) of the Grand Army of the Potomac
disappointed the people and disgusted the President, who, s,atisfied that McClellan's official burdens were
greater than he could profitably bear, kindty relieved him of the chief care of the armies, on the nth of
March, giving him command of the Department of the Potomac.

At the moment when the Confederates evacuated Manassas, a strange naval battle occurred in
Hampton Roads. The insurgents had raised the Merrimac, one of the vessels that was sunk in the river
at Norfolk, and had converted it into an iron-clad warrior, which they
named Virginia, commanded by Captain Buchanan of our nav^^ On
the Sth of March, this vessel attacked and destroyed the wooden sailing
frigates Congress and Ciimherlaiid, at the mouth of the James River, and
it was expected she would annihilate other transports and war vessels in
Hampton Roads, the next morning. Anxiously the army and nav\'
officers in that vicinity passed the night of the Sth. There seemed to be
no competent human agency near to arrest the impending disaster, when,
at a little past midnight, a strange craft entered the Roads, from the sea,
unheralded and unknown. It appeared like a floating platform, sharp
at both ends, lying almost level with the surface of the water, and having
a round tower made of heavy iron. This tower was pierced for two guns.
It was twenty feet in diameter, and about ten feet in height above the
platform; and it was made to revolve so as to bring its heav^^ guns within
to bear upon an object, independently of the position of the vessel. This
strange craft had been constructed at New York, under the direction
of the eminent civil engineer and scientist. Captain John Ericsson, and
took the name, so appropriate after its first display of power, of Monitor.
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the navy, and had been towed to the Roads, after encountering a heavy gale and rolHng sea, by a
steamship. It was her trial trip.

On his arrival, Worden reported to the flag-officer in the Roads, and learning the situation of affairs
there, he promptly prepared to meet the iron-clad monster from Norfolk
the next morning — the Sabbath. That morning dawned brightly, and in
the gray twilight (March o, 1862), the Merrimac was seen sweeping out
of the Elizabeth River on its destructive errand. The Monitor, like a
little David, moved to meet the Confederate Goliath, whose commander
looked with contempt upon the "floating cheese-box," as he called his
strange antagonist ; but he soon found it to be a citadel, strong and well
filled with destructive energy. Her revolving turret was invulner-
able to the heaviest shot and shell thrown by her antagonist, and they
glanced from the tower like pebbles from granite. The conflict that
ensued was terrific. The ponderous missiles hurled from the Monitor
soon bruised the Merrimac so fatally, that she fled up to Norfolk, her
wounded commander confounded by the energy of his mysterious little
antagonist. The Merrimac did not venture out again. The gallant
Worden, who was regarded as the savior of his coimtry at a critical
moment, was severely injured by having cement around the "peep-hole"
in the turret, through which he was watching his antagonist, thrown
violentl}^ in his face by a heav}^ shot that struck that point. He was
afterwards rewarded with the commission of Admiral.

The exploit of the Monitor seemed to promise safety to National
vessels navigating the James River; and INIcClellan prepared to transfer the Armj^ of the Potomac to
Fortress Monroe, which place he designed to make a base of supplies for his army while marching on
Richmond. To secure Washington city, it was necessary to hold the Confederates in check in the
Shenandoah Valley, where they were led b}^ the zealous and gallant "Stonewall Jackson." He had been
defeated by the dashing General Lander, at Blooming Gap, on the 14th of February-; and when Johnston
and his Confederates evacuated Alanassas, Jackson had taken post at Winchester. General N. P. Banks
was then in command of National troops near Harper's Ferry% destined for operations in the Shenandoah
Valley; and when Jackson went further up that valley, he sent General Shields in pursuit. Shields soon
turned back, and with a considerable body of troops encamped at Winchester. Jackson, reinforced,
came down the valley in force, infantry and cavalry, and attacked Shields at Kemstown just west of
Winchester. Shields had only about seven thousand men, and twenty-four heavv' guns. The battle
that ensued (March 22, 1862) was short and severe. Shields was badly wounded. The Confederates
were defeated, and fled up the valley closely pursued by Banks, who remained in that region to watch
the insurgents while AlcClellan should move upon Richmond.

It was not until April when the Army of the Potomac began its campaign on the Virginia Peninsula.

General McClellan had transferred a larger part of that army to Fortress
IMonroe, leaving about seventj'-three thousand troops for the defence of
Washington. At the beginning of April there were one hundred and
twenty-one thousand men at Fortress Monroe (exclusive of the forces
of General Wool), and a large portion of these now moved, in two col-
umns, up the Peninsula; one column under General Heintzelman march-
ing near the York River, and another under General Keyes, near the
James River. A comparatively small Confederate force, under General
J. B. Magruder, had formed a fortified line across the Peninsula, in the
pathway of the Nationals; and by skillful tricks, Magruder so deceived
rvlcClellan as to the number of the Confederates, that the invaders were
kept at bay, below Yorktown, nearl}' a month, while their leader was
calHng for reinforcements to enable him to break through the opposing
line. Yorktown was regularly besieged under the direction of General
Fitz John Porter, though the number of the Nationals was ten times as
large as that of the Confederates. An attempt to carr\- the intrench-
ments on the Warwick River, by a division under General Smith of Keyes's
column, caused a sharp engagement. It failed; and finally Magruder
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where, on the 3d of May, he wrote, after describing his strategy' : "Thus, with five thousand men, exclusive
of the garrison, we stopped and held in check over one hundred thousand of the enemy. ... I was
amused when I saw McClellan, with his magnificent army, begin to break ground before miserable

earthworks [at Yorktown! defended by only eight thousand men."
General Sumner, with the main body of the Nationals, had pursued
the Confederates to Williamsburg, while AlcClellan remained at
Yorktown to forward troops under General Franklin up the York
River, to strike the left flank of the insurgents.

General Joseph E. Johnston, who had hastened to the
Peninsula after the evacuation of Manassas, was now in chief
command in front of McClellan. Leaving a strong guard at
Williamsburg to check the pursuers, Johnston fell back with his
main army toward Richmond, with the intention of fighting the
Nationals when they should approach that city. But he was
compelled to fight sooner than he expected, for gallant and ener-
getic men — Generals Hooker, Kearney and Hancock — attacked
that rear-guard on the 5th of May. Hard pressed, Johnston sent
back a large portion of his army to help them. A sanguinary
battle followed. Hooker began the assault, knowing a large body
of troops were within supporting distance, and for full nine hours
he bore the brunt of the battle. Then Kearney came to his aid,
and, Hancock having turned the flank of the Confederates, the
latter precipitately retreated. In this perilous movement they were led by General James Longstreet,
the ablest and best of the Confederate leaders in the war.

On the morning after the conflict, McClellan came upon the battle-field, just as the victors were
about to press on in pursuit of the fugitives, who had left about eight hundred of their wounded behind
them in their flight. He had kept Franklin so long at Yorktown, that the latter could not flank the
Confederates; and now, when the latter were flying evidentl}- in a panic, the Commander-in-Chief would
not allow a pursuit, but moved leisurely forward during the next ten or twelve days, reaching the Chicka-
hominy River when Johnston was safely encamped beyond it. Experts on both sides declared, that had
a vigorous pursuit followed the events at Williamsburg, the Confederate army might have been captured
or dispersed. Franklin had secured a firm foothold at near the head of the York River, which was made
the base of supplies for the Army of the Potomac in its earlier operations against Richmond. In the
battle at Williamsburg, the Nationals lost twenty-two hundred men, of whom four hundred and fifty-six
were killed. The Confederate loss was about one thousand.

More than a month, after General McClellan arrived at Fortress Monroe, had been consumed in
moving only thirty-six miles toward Richmond, and the army had suffered fearful losses by sickness.
Very few perished by the weapons of the enemy during the month's siege of Yorktown, "but disease,"
said General J. G. Barnard, McClellan's chief engineer, in his report at
the close of the campaign, ' ' took a fearful hold of the army ; and toil and
hardships, unredeemed by the excitement of combat, impaired their
morale. We did not carry with us from Yorktown so good an army as
we took there. Of the bitter fruits of that month gained by the enemy,
we have tasted to our heart's content." Twenty of the thirty da^-s that
the army lay before Yorktown were marked by heavy thunder-showers,
following in quick succession. The troops, wearied and overheated by
labor, lay on the damp ground at night, and were chilled. "In a short
time," wrote Dr. Marks, a participant, "the sick in our hospitals were
numbered by thousands, and many died so suddenly that the disease
had all the aspects of a plague."

One cause of McClellan's tardy advance was his constant fear of not
kaving troops enough to meet the energetic Johnston. Before his army
left Washington, Blenker's division of ten thousand men were taken from
it to strengthen Fremont, who was in command of the Mountain Depart-
ment beyond the Blue Ridge; and soon afterward McDowell's army
corps were detached from McClellan's immediate command, and its
leader instructed to report directly to the Secretary of War. McDowell

General Horatio G. W kiuiit

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was ordered to a position where he might assist in the defence of the Capital, or in an attack upon
Richmond, as circumstances might require. General Wool, with his ten thousand men at Fortress
Monroe, was also made independent of McClellan's orders, although, like McDowell, he was directed to
co-operate with the Army of the Potomac as far as possible.
General McClellan, perceiving these indications of a lack of im-
plicit confidence in his judgment, and feeling that he might be
denied support at any time, startled the President on the 7th of
April by telegraphing to the Secretary of War that he had only
eighty-five thousand effective men, and might be called upon to
confront one hundred thousand Confederates. He had just
reported that he had over one hundred thousand effective troops.
The President asked him to explain, and urged him to strike the
foe before they should gather in greater strength on his front.
Instead of that, McClellan continued to halt and complain of a
want of troops. The President urged him to act. "The country
will note — it is now noting," Mr. Lincoln said, "that the present
hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the stor\- of
Manassas repeated." The President expressed the kindest feel-
ings toward the general, and closed his letter with the remark,
"But you must act." Still he hesitated and complained; and
although, at the close of April, just before the Confederates evac-
uated Yorktown, he reported one hundred and twelve thousand soldiers on the Peninsula fit for duty, he
complained that the lack of McDowell's force prevented Franklin striking the fugitives from Williamsburg
on the flank. It is asserted that the chief cause of the failure was McClellan's hesitancy in deciding
whether he should smite the Confederates on their front, or flank them, until it was too late to attempt
either.

The veteran General John E. Wool had now been in command at Fortress Monroe for some time.
He felt certain that the Confederate soldiers might easily be driven out of Norfolk ; and after the aft'air at
Williamsburg he obtained leave to make an effort to dislodge them. Having made a personal recon-
naissance, he crossed Hampton Roads and landed a few regiments in the rear of Confederate works below
that city. General Huger, in command at Norfolk, had already perceived his peril, with Burnside in
his rear and McClellan on his flank, and he retreated. So Wool gained a bloodless victory on the gth
of May. The Confederate vessels in the James River hastened toward Richmond. The Confederates
set fire to the battered Merrimac, and the troops fled from the city of Norfolk. A flotilla of National
gunboats, commanded by Commodore Rodgers, chased the Confederate vessels as far as Drewry's BlufT,
eight miles below Richmond, where a strong fort and river obstructions checked the pursuers.

The wisdom of detaching McDowell's corps from the Army of the Potomac

was soon made apparent. After the departure of Johnston, with his troops,

from Manassas, which relieved Washington from immediate danger, McDowell

advanced to Fredericksburg, with thirty thousand men, to assist McClellan or

cover the Capital, as he might be ordered. Fremont among the mountains and

Banks in the Shenandoah Valley had, in the aggregate, about the same number

of troops; and at the beginning of May, Stonewall Jackson had

been joined by the skillful General Ewell, near Harrisonburg, in

the upper part of the Valley. Ewell was ordered to hold Banks,

while General Robert E. Lee, who had been recalled from

Georgia, should push across the Rappahannock with a strong

column and cut ofT all communication between Winchester and

Alexandria.

While Jackson was watching Banks he was startled bj'- the
approach of one of Fremont's brigades under General Milroy,
evidently for the purpose of joining the Nationals in the Valley.
Jackson immediately moved against Milroy; and at McDowell,
west of Staunton, he struck the brigade a severe blow on the
8th of May. A sharp engagement occurred, lasting about five
hours. Neither party won a victof>^ The Nationals lost in
Colonel C. W. LeGendre killed and wounded two hundred and fifty-six men, and the

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Headquarters of General Macrider at Yorktown

of the Confederates in the Shenandoah Valley.

Confederates, four hundred and sixty-one. Notwithstanding it was a drawn battle, Jackson sent a
note to Ewell the next morning, saying: "Yesterday, God gave us the victory at McDowell."

Meanwhile General Banks had been pressed back by Ewell, to Strasburg; and a fortnight later

(May 23d) a National force under Colonel J. R. Kenly,
of Baltimore, was captured or dispersed at Front Royal
by the combined troops of Jackson and EweU. Per-
ceiving his peril, Banks fled down the Shenandoah Valley
in swift marches, pursued by twenty thousand Confed-
erates, and won the race to Winchester, where he made
a stand with seven thousand men, ten Parrott guns, and
a battery of 6-pound smooth-bore cannon. There he
was attacked by Ewell, on the 25th of May. Contem-
plating the contingency of a retreat, he had sent his
trains toward the Potomac. Very soon Jackson ap-
proached with an overwhelming force, when Banks or-
dered a retreat, after his troops had fought gallantly for
several hours. It was done in a masterly manner. They
were pursued as far as RIartinsburg, where the chase was
ended. The Nationals reached the Potomac, at Wil-
liamsport, where, on the hill-sides, the wearied troops
rested behind a thousand blazing camp-fires that night.
The National capital was now in real danger, and it
could only be relieved from peril by the retreat or capture
AIcDowell sent a force over the Blue Ridge to intercept
them if they should retreat, and Fremont pressed on from the west, toward Strasburg, with the same
object in view. Perceiving the threatened danger, Jackson fled uy3 the Valley with his whole force, hotly
pursued by the Nationals; and at Cross Keys, beyond Harrisonburg, Fremont overtook Ewell, when a
sharp but indecisive battle occurred on the 7th of Jiuie. Jackson was then at Port Republic, beyond
the Shenandoah River, only a few miles distant, so closely pressed by troops under Generals Carroll and
Tyler, that he called upon Ewell for help. The latter retired from Cross Keys under cover of night,
closely followed by the vigilant Fremont; but Ewell fired the bridge over the Shenandoah near Port
Republic, before' his pursuer could reach that stream. Jackson, having overwhelming numbers, rouled
the Nationals after a severe battle at Port Republic, and then the latter retraced their steps toward
Winchester. So ended the second great race of contending troops in the Shenandoah Valley.

General McClellan, with the head of his pursuing army, reached the "White House," at the head
of navigation of the Pamunkey River, on the i6th of May. The "White House" and surrounding lands
belonged to General Robert E. LeeV wife, which she inherited from Mrs. Washington. It was not the
"White House" in which the first months of Washington's married life were spent, for that had been
burned more than thirty years before. It was a modern dwelling near the spot; but by McClellan's
order it was carefully protected from harm, not a sick soldier being allowed to find shelter beneath its
roof. From that point, the general pressed forward to Cold
Harbor, near the Chickahominy River, where he made his head-
quarters, within nine miles of Richmond. General Casey's
division of General Keyes's corps crossed the river, and occupied
heights on the Richmond side of the stream, supported by
troops under General Heintzelman. Along the line of the Chick-
ahominy the armies of McClellan and Johnston confronted each
other toward the close of May, separated by a narrow stream
liable to a sudden overflow of its banks and filling of the adjacent
swamps. There the two commanders waited for decisive results
in the Shenandoah Valley, each expecting reinforcements from
that region.

In the meantime the Confederate government at Richmond,
alarmed by the approach of the Nationals by land and water,
had prepared to fiy into South Carolina. They had actually
sent their "archives" to Columbia, and to Lynchburg, in Vir-
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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

SEPTEMBER, 1S6Z— Continued frorn Section 8

5 — Limestone Station, Tenn. Five Cos. 100th Ohio. Union 12 killed, 20
wounded, 240 missing. Confed. G killed. 10 wounded.

8 — Night attack on Fort Sumter, S. C. Four hundred and thirteen marines
and sailors, commanded by Commander Stevens. U. S. N. Union 3
killed. 114 missing.

9 — Cumberland Gap, Tenn. Shackleford's Cavalry. Confed. 2.000 cap-
tured.

10 — Little Rock, Ark. Maj.-Gen. Steele's troops and Davidson's Cavalry.

11 — Ringgold. Ga. Advance of Twenty-first Corps. Union 8 killed, 19

wounded. Confed. 3 killed, 18 missing.
12 — Sterling's Plantation, La. Battery E 1st Mo. Artil. Union 3 killed, 3

wounded.
13 — Culpeper. Va. 1st. 2d. and 3d Divisions, Cavalry Corps Army of the

Potomac. Union 3 killed. 40 wounded. Confed. 10 killed, 40

wounded. 75 missing.
Lett's Tan Yard, near Chickamauga. Ga. Wilder's Mounted Brigade.

Union 50 killed and wounded. Confed. 10 killed. 40 wounded.
14 — Rapidan Station. Va. Cavalry Army of the Potomac. Union 8 killed,

40 wounded.
Vidalia, La. 2d Mo. Union 2 killed, 4 wounded. Confed. 6 killed,

11 wounded.

19 — Rapidan Station. Va. Buford's Cavalry. Union 4 killed, 19 wounded.

19 and 20 — Chickamauga. Ga. Army of the Cumberland. Maj.-Gen. Rose-
crans; Fourteenth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Thomas; Twentieth Corps,
Maj.-Gen. McCook; Twenty-first Corps. Maj.-Gen. Crittenden, and
Reserve Corps, Maj.-Gen. Granger. Union 1.644 killed. 9,262
wounded, 4,945 missing. Coiifed, 2,389 killed. 13.412 wounded. 2,003
mi^^sing. Union Brig.-Gen. Lytic killed, and Starkweather. Whit-
taker, and King wounded. Confed. Brig. -Gens. Preston, Smith,
Deshler, and Helm killed, and Maj.-Gen. Hood. Brig. -Gens. Adams,
Gregg, Brown, McXair. Bunn. Preston, Clerburne. Benning. and
Clayton wounded.

21 — Bristol. Tenn. Shackleford's and Foster's Cavalry. Casualties not
recorded.

S2 — Madison C, H.. Tenn. 1st Division Buford's Cav. Union 1 killed. 20
wounded.
Blountsville, Tenn. Foster's 2d Brigade Cav. Union 5 killed, 22

wounded. Confed. 15 killed, 50 wounded. 100 missing.
Rockville. Md. 11th N. Y. Cav. Confed. 34 killed and wounded.

16 — Calhoun. Tenn. Cavalry Army of the Ohio. Union 6 killed, 20
wounded, 40 missing.

27— Moffat's Station. Ark. Detachment 1st Ark. Union 2 killed, 2
wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 20 wounded.

19 — Near Morganzia, La. 19th Iowa. 2f)th Ind. Union 14 killed, 40
wounded. 400 missing.

OCTOBER, 1863
1 — Anderson's Gap, Tenn. 21st Ky. Union 38 killed and wounded.
2 — Anderson's Cross Roads, Tenn. McCook's Cavalry Corps. Union 70

killed and wounded. Confed. 200 killed and wounded.
3 — McMinnville, Tenn. 4th Tenn. Union 7 killed, 31 wounded, 350

missing. Confed. 23 killed and wounded.
4— Neosho. Mo. Three Cos. 6th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 1 killed. 14

wounded. 43 missing.
6 — Stockade at Stone River. Tenn. One Co. 19th Mich. Union 6

wounded, 44 captured.

Glasgow. Ky. 37th Ky. Mounted Inft. Union 3 wounded. 100 miss-
ing. Confed. 13 wounded.
6 — Quantrell's attack on the escort of Maj.-Gen. Blunt, at Baxter Springs,

Ark., robbing and murdering the prisoners. Union 54 killed, 18

wounded, 5 missing.
7— Near Farmington. Tenn. 1st. 3d. and 4th Ohio Cav., 2d Ky. Cav.,

Long's 2d Cav. Division, and Wilder's Brigade Mounted Inft. Union

15 killed. 60 wounded. Confed. 10 killed, 60 wounded, 240 missing.
10 — Rapidan, Va. Buford's Cavalry. Union 20 wounded.

James City, also called Robertson's Run. Va. Pleasanton's Cavalry.

Union 10 killed. 40 wounded.
Blue Springs, Tenn. Ninth Corps Army of the Ohio and Shackleford's

Cav. Union 100 killed, wounded, and missing. Confed. 66 killed

and wounded. 150 missing.
11 — Henderson's Mill, Tenn. 5th Ind. Cav. Union 11 wounded. Confed.

30 killed and wounded.
Colliersville. Tenn. 66th Ind.. 13th U. S. Reg. Union 15 killed. 50

wounded.
12 — Jefferson. Va. 2d Cavalry Division Army of the Potomac. Union 12

killed, SO wounded. 400 missing.
12 and 13 — Ingham's Mills and Wyatts, Miss. 2d Iowa Cav. Union 45

killed and wounded. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
Culpeper and White Sulphur Springs. Va. Cavalry Corps Army of the

Potomac. Union 8 killed. 46 wounded.
Merrill's Crossing to Lamine Crossing. Mo. Mo. Enrolled Militia. 1st

Mo. Militia Battery. 1st. 4th. and 7th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 16

killed. Confed. 53 killed, 70 wounded.
Blountville, Tenn. 3d Brigade of Shackleford's Cavalry. Union 6

wounded. Confed. 8 killed, 26 wounded.
Bulltown, Va. Detachments of 6th and 11th W. Va. Confed. 9 killed.

60 wounded.
14 — Auburn. Va. Portion of 1st Division Second Corps. Union 11 killed,

42 wounded. Confed. 8 killed, 24 wounded.
Bristoe Station, Va. Second Corps, portion of 5th Corps, 2d Cavalry

Division Army of the Potomac. Union 51 killed, 329 wounded.

Confed. 750 killed and wounded. 450 missing. Union Brig.-Gen.

Malone killed. Confed. Brig.-Gens. Cooke, Posey, and Kirkland

wounded.

15 — McLean's Ford or Liberty Mills. Va. New Jersey Brigade of Third
Corps. Union 2 killed. 25 wounded. Confed. 00 killed and wounded.

15 to 18 — Canton. Brownsville, and Clinton, Miss. Portion of Fifteenth and
Seventeenth Corps. Confed. 200 killed and wounded.

16 — Cross Timbers. Mo. 18th Iowa. Confed. 2 killed. 8 wounded.

17 — Tampa Bay. Fla. Destruction of two blockade runners by U. S. Gun-
boats Tahoma and Adele. Union 3 killed, 10 wounded.

18 — Chariestown. W. Va. 9th Md. Union 12 killed. 13 wounded, 379
missing.

Berrysville. Va. 34th Mass.. 17th Ind. Battery. Union 2 killed, 4

wounded. Confed. 5 killed, 20 wounded.
19 — Buckland Mills. Va. 3d Division of Kilpatrick's Cav. Union 20 killed,

60 wounded. 100 missing. Confed. 10 killed. 40 wounded.
20 and 22— Philadelphia. Tenn. 45th Ohio Mounted Inft., 1st, 11th. and

12th Ky. Cav.. 24th Ind. Battery. Union 20 killed. SO wounded. 354

missing. Confed. 15 killed. 82 wounded. Ill missing.
21 — Cherokee Station. Ala. 1st Division Fifteenth Corps. Union 7 killed,

37 wounded. Confed. 40 killed and wounded.
22— Beveriy Ford, Va. 2d Penna. and 1st Me. Cav. Union 6 killed.
26 — Pine Bluff. Ark. 5th Kan. and 1st Ind. Cav. Union 11 killed, 27

wounded. Confed. 53 killed. 164 wounded.
26 — Cane Creek. Ala. 1st Division Fifteenth Corps. Union 2 killed, 6

wounded. Confed. 10 killed, 30 wounded.
Vincent's Cross Roads, or Bay Springs. Miss. 1st Alabama (Union)

Cav. Union 14 killed, 25 wounded.
27 — Brown's Ferry. Tenn. Detachment of 2d Brigade, 2d Division of

Fourth Corps. Union 5 killed. 21 wounded.
Wauhatchie. Tenn. Eleventh Corps and 2d Division of Twelfth Corps.

Union 77 killed, 339 wounded. Confed. 300 killed. 1.200 wounded.

28— Leiper's Ferry. Tenn. 11th and 37th Ky.. 112th III. Union 2 killed,

5 wounded.
29 — Cherokee Station, Ala. First Division of Fifteenth Corps. Casualties

not recorded.

NOVEMBER, 1863

3 — Centerville and Piney Factory. Tenn. Detachments from various regi-
ments, under Lieut. -Col. Scully. Confed. 15 killed.
Grand Coteau. La. 3d and 4th Divisions of Thirteenth Corps. Union
26 killed. 124 wounded, 576 missing. Confed. 60 killed, 320 wounded,
65 missing.

3 and 4 — Colliersville. and Moscow. Tenn. Cavalry Brigade of Sixteenth
Corps. Union 6 killed, 57 wounded. Confed. 100 wounded.

6— Rogersville. Tenn. 7th Ohio Cav.. 2d Tenn. Mounted Inft.. 2d 111.
Battery. Union 5 killed, 12 wounded. 650 missing. Confed. 10 killed,
20 wounded.
Droop Mountain. Va. 10th W. Va.. 28th Ohio. 14th Penna. Cav., 2d
and 5th W. Va. Cav.. Battery B, W. Va. Artil. Union 31 killed, 94
wounded. Confed. 50 killed. 250 wounded. 100 missing.

7 — Rappahannock Station. Va. 5th Wis.. 5th and 6th Maine, 49th and
119th Penna.. 121st N. Y.. supported by balance of Sixth and portion
of Fifth Corps. Ujtion 370 killed and wounded. Confed. 11 killed.
98 wounded, 1.629 missing.
Kelly's Ford. Va. 1st U. S. Sharpshooters. 40th N. Y.. 1st and 20th
Ind., 3d and 5th Mich., 110th Penna.. supported by remainder of
Third Corps. Union 70 killed and wounded. Confed. 5 killed. 59
wounded, 295 missing.

8— Clarksville. Ark. 3d Wis. Cav. Union 2 killed.

Muddy Run, near Culpeper, Va. 1st Division Cavalry Division Army

of the Potomac. Union 4 killed, 25 wounded.
11— Natchez. Miss. 58th U. S. Colored. Union 4 killed, 6 wounded.

Confed. 4 killed. 8 wounded.
13— Trinity River, Cal. Two Cos. 1st Battalion Cal. Inft. Union 2

wounded.
14— Huff's Ferry. Tenn. 111th Ohio. 107th 111.. 11th and 13th Ky., 23d

Mich., 24th Mich. Battery. Union 100 killed and wounded.
Rockford. Tenn. 1st Ky. Cav., 45th Ohio Mounted Inft. Union 25

wounded.
Marysville, Tenn. 11th Ky. Cav. Union 100 killed and wounded.
16 — Loudon Creek. Tenn. UUh Ohio. Union 4 killed. 12 wounded.

Confed. 6 killed, 10 wounded.
16 — Campbell's Station. Tenn. Ninth Corps. 2d Division of Twenty-third

Corps. Sanders' Cav. Union 60 killed, 340 wounded. Confed. 570

killed and wounded.
17 — Mount Jackson. Va. 1st N. Y. Cav. Union 2 killed. 3 wounded.

Confed. 27 missing.
17 to Dec. 4 — Siege of Knoxville. Tenn. Army of the Ohio, commanded by

Maj.-Gen. Burnside. complete casualties not recorded. At Fort

Sanders. Nov. 2yth. the losses were. Union 20 killed, 80 wounded.

Confed. 80 killed, 400 wounded. 300 captured.

19— Union City. Tenn. 2d 111. Cav. Union 1 killed. Confed. 11 killed,
53 captured.

23 to 26 — Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain. Orchard Knob and Missionary
Ridge. Tenn. Fourth and Fourteenth Corps. Army of the Cumber-
land. Maj.-Gen. Geo. H. Thomas; Eleventh, Geary's Division of the
Twelfth, and the Fifteenth Corps Army of the Tennessee. Maj.-Gen.
W. T. Sherman. Union 757 killed, 4.529 wounded. 330 missing.
Confed. 361 killed. 2,181 wounded, 6,142 missing.

24— Sparta. Tenn. 1st Tenn. and 9th Penna. Cav. Confed. 1 killed. 2

wounded.
26 to 28 — Operations at Mine Run, Va.. including Raccoon Ford. New Hope.

Robertson's Tavern. Bartlett's Mills and Locust Grove. First Corps.

Second Corps. Third Corps. Fifth Corps. Sixth Corps, and 1st and 2d

Cavalry Divisions Army of the Potomac. Union 100 killed. 400

wounded. Confed. 100 killed, 400 wounded.

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CHAPTER XVII.— Continued.

A Cook House

THE Virginia Legislature, disgusted with the cowardice and perfidy of President Davis and his
colleagues, passed resolutions (May 14) calling upon them to defend Richmond at all hazards,
and resolved, with a clearness that deprived the trembling government of even.' excuse but fear, that
"the President be assured that whatever destruction or loss of property of the State or individual shall

thereby result, will be cheerfully submitted to." It is
believed that this act was inspired by General Johnston,
who saw with indignation the railroad bridge at Richmond
covered with plank, for facilitating the flight of artillery
across them, and a train of cars in constant readiness for
the flight of Davis and his cabinet.

The first collision between the two armies near the
Chickahominy occurred on the 23d and 24th of May, one
at New Bridge and the other at and near Mechanicsville,
less than eight miles from Richmond. The Confederates
were driven beyond the Chickahominy at Mechanicsville,
and a large part of the Nationals took possession of the
Richmond side of the stream. This bold dash was fol-
lowed the next morning by a stirring order by McClellan
for an immediate advance on Richmond. The loyal peo-
ple rejoiced. He had said to the Secretary of War, tea
days before, "I will fight the enemy, whatever their force may be, with whatever force we may have."
Everything was in readiness for an advance and every circumstance was favorable, for panic had seized
the inhabitants in Richmond, and the Confederate troops were not sanguine of a successful defence. But
the over-cautious general hesitated until the golden opportunity was lost forever. This chronic hesitancy
President Lincoln evidently anticipated, for about the time when McClellan issued his inspiring order,
the former, anxious for the safety of the Capital, telegraphed to the general, "I think the time is near
when you must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington."

For several days afterward, operations on the flank of the great army made the sum of its action.
General Fitz John Porter was sent to Hanover Court-House with a considerable force to keep the way
open for McDowell to join the army, which McClellan pcrsistenth- demanded. Porter had some sharp
skirmishes near the Court-House, and cut railway communications with Richmond, all but the important
one with Fredericksburg. The general telegraphed to the Secretary of War, that Washington was not
in danger, and that it was "the policy and the duty of the Government" to send him "all the well-drilled
troops available." When the raids on the Confederate communications had been eftected. Porter rejoined
the main army lying quietly on the Chickahominy, and
McClellan again telegraphed to the Secretary of War,
saying: "I will do all that quick movements can accom-
plish, but you must send me all the troops you can, and
leave me full latitude as to choice of commanders."

Three days afterward there were "quick movements"
in the Army of the Potomac. General Johnston, perceiving
McClellan's apparent timidity and the real peril of his
army so injudiciously divided by the fickle Chickahominy,
marched boldly out from his intrenchments in front of
Richmond, to attack the Nationals on the city side of the
stream. On the 31st of May he fell with great vigor upon
the National advance under General Silas Casey, lying
upon each side of the Williamsburg road, half a mile be-
yond a point known as the Seven Pines, and six miles from
Richmond. General Couch's division was at Seven Pines,
his right resting at Fair Oaks Station. Kearney's division ^^''^'^ °^ Arsen.u. at h.^rper's Ferry

of Heintzelman's corps was near Savage's Station, and Hooker's division of the latter corps was guarding;
the approaches to the White Oak Swamp. The country around was quite level and mostly wooded.

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The "WHiit House"
Oaks, or Seven Pines, as it is sometimes called.

General Longstreet led the Confederate advance, and fell suddenly upon Casey. A most sanguinary
battle ensued. Casey fought valiantly until full one-third of his command was disabled, and he was
driven back by overwhelming numbers. Ke^-es sent troops to aid him, but they could not withstand the

pressure, and the whole body was pushed back to Fair
Oaks Station on the Richmond and York Railway. Re-
inforcements sent b}^ Heintzelman and Kearney were met
by fresh Confederates, and the victory seemed about to be
given to the latter, when General Sumner appeared with
the divisions of Generals Sedgwick and Richardson.
Sumner had seen the peril, and without waiting orders
from RIcClellan, had moved rapidly to the scene of action.
He was just in time to check the Confederate advance.
The battle still raged furiously. General Johnston was se-
verely wounded and borne from the field; and early in the
evening, a bayonet charge by the Nationals broke the
Confederate line into confusion. The fighting then ceased
for the night, but it was resumed in the morning (June i,
1862), when General Hooker and his troops took a con-
spicuous part in the struggle, which lasted several hours.
Finally, the Confederates withdrew to Richmond, and the
Nationals remained masters of the battle-field of Fair
The losses were nearly equal on both sides, and amounted
to about seven thousand each. In that conflict General O. O. Howard lost his right arm.

The Army of the Potomac lay on the borders of the Chickahominy, in a most unhealthy position, for
nearly a month after the battle of Fair Oaks, quietly besieging Richmond; and the public expectation
was continuallj' fed by the frequent announcement that the decisive battle would be fought "to-morrow."
General Robert E. Lee had succeeded the wounded Johnston in the command of the Confederate troops,
and had been joined by Generals Jackson and Ewell from the Shenandoah Valley. Thus strengthened,
Lee prepared to strike the Nationals a deadly blow. A large body of his cavalry under the dashing leader
General J. E. B. Stuart, rode aU around McCleUan's army. He had fifteen hundred mounted men, and
four pieces of horse-artillery. He swept around almost to the "White House;" seized and burned
fourteen wagons and two schooners laden with forage, in the Pamunkey, above the "White House;"
captured and carried away one hundred and sixty-five prisoners and two hundred and sixt}'' mules and
horses; rested three hours, and during the night crossed the Chickahominy and returned to Richmond
by the Charles City Road, on the morning of the 15th of June. This raid, the first of similar and more
destructive ones by both parties during the war, produced great commotion in the Army oj the Potomac.
In the meantime reinforcements had been called for by McClellan,
and sent, yet that commander hesitated to strike.

CHAPTER XVIII.

'Battles of Mechanicsville and Gaines's Mill — Transfer of the Army to the James
River — Battles at Savage's Station, White-Oak Swamp and Glendale — Battle
at Malvern Hill — The Army at Harrison's Landing — "Army of Virginia" —
Battle of Cedar Mountain — Washington in Danger — McClellan and the Govern-
ment — Flank Movement — Battles at Groveton, Bull Run and Chantilly — Call
for Volunteers — Barbara Frietchie — Baltics on South Mountain andAntietam
Creek — Burnside Succeeds McClellan — The Army at Fredericksburg and Battle
There.

GENERAL LEE put General ^McClellan on the defensive
when, on the 26th of June (1862), he sent "Stonewall
Jackson," with a considerable force from Hanover Court-
house, to turn the right wing of the National army and fall upon their
base of supplies at the ' ' White House. ' ' Jackson had been quietly
withdrawn from the Shenandoah Valley, and at the proper time
made the aggressive movement with much celerity. At the same
time a heavier force, under General Longstreet and others, crossed the Chickahominy near Mechanicsville,
and attacked McClellan's right wing commanded by General Fitz John Porter. Near Ellison's Mill, not

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far from Mechanicsville, a terrific battle was fought that day, in which the Confederates were defeated
with a loss of between three and four thousand men. The Nationals, advantageously posted, ]ost about
four hundred. This event is known in history as the battle of Mechanics-
ville.

By this victory, Richmond was placed at the mercy of the National
troops; but McClellan, considering his army and stores in peril, imme-
diately prepared to transfer both to the James River. This movement
was so secretly and skillfully made, that Lee was not certified of the fact
until twenty-four hours after it was actually begun on the morning of
the 27th of June. McClellan ordered his stores at the White House to
be destroyed if they could not be taken away; and the duty of protecting
them in their removal was assigned to the corps of Fitz John Porter.
That corps was also charged with the duty of carrying awaj' the siege
guns and covering the army in its march for the James River. These
troops were accordingly arranged on the rising ground near Gaines's Mill,
on the arc of a circle between Cold Harbor and the Chickahominj', where
they were attacked in the afternoon (June 27) by a heavy Confederate
force led by Generals Longstreet and Hill. The battle that ensued was
very severe. Hard pressed, Porter sent to McClellan, who was on the
opposite side of the river, for help; but the latter, believing Magruder's
twenty-five thousand men at Richmond to be sixty thousand, sent only '^'»'^'^^^"'^-« R- ^'- P- Rodger.s, u.S.N.
Slocum's division of Franklin's corps. Finding that the battle still raged with great fury, and doubtful
of the issue, the commander-in-chief then sent the brigades of Richardson and Meagher across the river.
They arrived just in time to save Porter's corps from destruction. His shattered column was falling back
in disorder, closely pressed, when the shouts of the fresh troops checked the pursuers and so inspirited the
fugitives that they rallied and drove the Confederates back to the field they had won. So ended the
battle of Gaines's Mill, with a loss to the Nationals of eight thousand men, and to the Confederates of
about five thousand. Porter also lost twenty-two siege guns. During the night succeeding the battle
his corps withdrew to the right side of the Chickahominy, destroying the bridges behind them. 1 1 1

Before the dawn of the 28th the National army moved toward Turkey Bend of the James River.
General Keyes led the way through White Oak Swamp, followed by Porter's shattered corps. Then
came a train of five thousand wagons laden with ammunition, stores and baggage, and a drove of twenty-
five hundred head of beef cattle. This movement was so skillfully masked that General Lee, who
suspected McClellan was about to give battle on the northern side of the Chickahominy, in defence of
his stores at the "White House," or was preparing to retreat down the Peninsula, was completely deceived;
and it was late in the night of the 28th (June, 1862) when the astounding fact was announced to him
that the Army of the Potomac were far on their way toward a new position on the James River. He
had then just been informed that a large ])ortion of the stores at the "White House" had been removed,
and that the remainder, with the mansion itself, were in flames. To overtake and destroy the retiring

army was now Lee's first duty, and he prosecuted the effort with so
much vigor, that the Nationals had a desperate struggle to escape.

The divisions of Sedgwick, Richardson, Heintzelman and Smith, of
Franklin's corps, were at Savage's Station, tinder the general command
of Sumner. These formed McClellan's rear-guard. There they were
assailed by a Confederate force under Magruder, whom Lee had sent for
the purpose, and who first attacked Sedgwick at about nine o'clock on
the 29th. Then a battle of great severity was fought, and it ended only
at evening, after darkness had come on. Magruder was repulsed by the
brigade of General Burns, supported by those of Brooke and Hancock.
The Nationals fell back to White Oak Swamp covered by French's
brigade, leaving twenty-five hundred of them wounded at Savage's Sta-
tion, who became prisoners to the Confederates. By five o'clock the next
morning the entire army had passed the Swamp, and destroyed the bridge
behind them that spanned a creek which they had crossed in the passage.
There were severe contests on the morning of the 30th of June, at
the main bridge in White Oak Swamp and at Glendale, near by. McClel-
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carry IMalvern Hill by storm.

Malvern Hill. General Franklin had been left with a rear- guard to protect the passage of the bridge
and cover the withdrawal of the wagon-trains from that point, and it was with him that the Confederate
pursuers had a sharp contest which lasted nearly all day. The latter were kept back; and that night,

the Nationals, having destroyed the bridge, withdrew, leaving behind
them three hundred of their sick and wounded and some disabled guns.
While the strife was going on there, a sanguinary battle was fought at
Glendale, not far off, between the Nationals and a column of Confederates
led by Longstreet and Hill. In that conflict, Pennsylvania troops, under
General McCall, suffered much. That leader was captured, and General
Meade was severeh^ wounded. Fresh troops under Hooker, IVIeagher
and Taylor, arrived in time to give the victory at Glendale to the Na-
tionals; and the next day (July i, 1862) the Army of the Potomac, united
for the first time since it was divided by the Chickahominy, were in a
strong position on Malvern Hill, within the reach of National gunboats
on the James River. But General McClellan thought the position not a
safe one, notwithstanding it is a high plateau, with a bold bank sloping^
toward the river and flanked by deep ravines; and on the morning of the
first of July he went down the James River on the gunboat Galena and
selected a spot at Harrison's Landing, not far from Malvern Hill, as a
secure place for his army and base of supplies.

By vigorous movements, Lee compelled the Nationals to fight while
their chief leader was away. The Confederates were concentrated at
Glendale, and were moved, in a heavy Hne under Lee's best generals, ta
They fell with intense fury upon the Nationals, and one of the most
terrible battles of the war was there fought. The brunt of it was borne by the troops of Porter, Couch,
and Kearney, until toward evening, when Meagher and Richardson came to their aid with fresh soldiers.
The Confederates were sorely smitten by w-ell-directed bomb-shells from the gunboats.

This fierce contest continued, with var>'ing fortunes for both parties, until nine o'clock in the evening,
when the Confederates were driven to the shelter of the woods and swamps, utterly broken and dispirited.
The victory for the Nationals was so decisive that their leaders expected to pursue Lee's shattered army
in the morning, and march into Richmond within twenty-four hours. Their disappointment was grievous
when General McClellan, who had been on board the Galena nearly all day while the army w-as fighting,
ordered that army to fall back and encamp at Harrison's Landing. The chief ofificers felt that the prize
for which they were contending, namely, the defeat of Lee's army and the capture of Richmond, now
within their grasp, was snatched from them by a timid hand, and obedience was reluctantl}^ but promptly
given. It seemed to be a fitting ending of a campaign which had been a scries of signal failures, with,
little fruit, excepting the loss since the 23d of May of more than fifteen thousand men. The army lingered
long among the malarious vapors of the James River, until many more had fallen victims of disease.

When Halleck succeeded McClellan as chief of the armies, he ar-
ranged the troops for the defence of Washington in three corps; and
placing them under the command of General John Pope, who had been
called from the West, named these forces the Army of Virginia. These
corps were commanded respectively by Generals McDowell, Banks and
Sigel. When McClellan had retreated to Harrison's Landing, the Con-
federates at Richmond, satirfied that no further attempts to take that
city would be made at that time, ordered Lee to make a dash on Wash-
ington. Having information of Lee's preparations for a raid to the
northward, Halleck ordered Pope, at the middle of July, to meet the
invaders at the outset of the raid. National cavalry were first sent by
General Rufus King, at Fredericksburg, who made excursions to within
thirt}^ or forty miles of the Confederate capital, and destroyed railway
tracks and bridges.

At that time "Stonewall Jackson" was at Gordonsville with a heavy
force, and Pope's main army was near Culpepper Court-House. The
former, by Lee's orders, crossed the Rapidan ; and at the foot of Cedar

Mountain, a few miles west of the Court-House, he was met by General „ , „ ,, ,-

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the most sanguinary battles of the war. Some of the time the struggle was carried on hand-to-hand, under
an awful pall of smoke which, after nightfall, obscured the light of the moon. Banks was pressed back
by overwhelming numbers, and sorely pressed, until the timely arrival of Rickett's division of McDowell's-

corps, which checked the pursuers. In this conflict Banks was ably
assisted by Generals Crawford, Augur, Geary and others. The battle
ceased at nine o'clock in the evening, though cannonading was kept up
until midnight. ' ' I have witnessed many battles during the war," wrote
a newspaper correspondent, "but I have seen none where the tenacious
obstinacy of the American character was so fully displayed." The
National loss was about two thousand men, killed and wounded, and
that of the Confederates was about the same.

Jackson held fast to his mountain position until the night of the i ith
(August, 1862) when, hearing of the approach of National troops from
the Rappahannock, he fell back behind the Rapidan. Pope took
jjosition along the line of that stream, where he was reinforced by troops
from the Carolinas under Generals Bumside and Stevens. The Confed-
erates were now concentrated for a march on Washington, in heavy
columns. Halleck, meanwhile, perceiving possible danger to the capital,
had issued a positive order to McClellan, on the 3d of August, for the
immediate transtev o{ the Army of the Potomac to the vicinity of Wash-
ington. That commander instructed his superior officer that "the true
defence of Washington ' ' was ' ' on the banks of the James. ' ' The order was
repeated with urgency; but it took twenty days to accomplish the transfer.
In the meantime there had been stirring events in the direction of the capital. Alarmed at the force
which Lee had concentrated on his front, Pope retired behind the forks of the Rappahannock. Lee
pushed forward to that river with heavy columns, and on the 20th and 21st of August, a severe artillery
duel was fought above Fredericksburg, for seven or eight miles along that stream. Finding that they could
not force a passage of the river, the Confederates took a circuitous route toward the mountains to flank
the Nationals, when Pope made skillful movements to thwart them. But danger to the National Capital
increased every hour. Troops were coming with tardy pace from the Peninsula; and on the 25th, when
those of Franklin, Heintzelman and Porter had arrived. Pope's army, somewhat scattered, numbered
about sixty thousand men. On that day, Jackson, leading the great flanking force, crossed the Rappa-
hannock. By a swift march he went over the Bull Run Mountain at Thoroughfare Gap, and at daylight
the next morning he was at Manassas Junction on the railwa}^ between the Army of Virginia and the
National Capital. Pope took measures for the capture of Jackson or to prevent his uniting \A'itli
Longstreet, then coming to support him; but the latter event soon occurred at Groveton, not far from
the Bull Run battle-ground. There, on the 29th of August (1862), the combined Confederates-
fought the whole of Pope's army excepting Banks's troops. The struggle was severe but indecisive.
The loss in the battle at Groveton was about seven thousand men on
each side.

Not doubting that he would be instantly reinforced b}'- McClellan,
who wasat Alexandria, Popepreparedtorenewtheconflictthenextmoming.
He confidently expected rations and forage from Alexandria, for McClel-
lan had been ordered to supply them; but on the morning of the 30th,
when it was too late to retreat and perilous to stand still. Pope received
an astounding note from General Franklin, written by direction of
McClellan, that "rations and forage would be loaded into the available
wagons and cars" as soon as he (Pope) should send a cavalry escort for the
train! It was impossible. Assured that he would not receive support
from McClellan, Pope was compelled to fight under great disadvantages.
Deceived by what appeared to be a retreat of Lee's army, he was drawn
into an ambuscade on a part of the former battle-ground of Bull Run,
not far from Groveton, and there a most sanguinary conflict ensued.
The Nationals were defeated; and flying across BuU Run to Centreville,
they were there reinforced by the troops of Franklin and Sumner. Pope
had labored hard under many difficulties; and he complained bitterly
of a lack of co-operation with him, in his later struggles, by McClellan

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and some of his subordinates. After the most strenuous efforts of the President and General Halleck to
have the Army of the Potomac join the Army of Virginia in confronting Lee, Pope was joined by only
about twenty thousand of the ninety-one thousand who were at Harrison's Landing. McClellan seemed
more ready to give advice than to obey orders. "I am not responsible for the past, and cannot be for
the future," he wrote to Halleck, "unless I receive authority to dispose of the available troops according
to my judgment." And after, by delays, he had thwarted the efforts of the government to get Franklin's
corps in a position to give Pope much -needed aid on the 29th, and Halleck had urged him to act promptly
in finding out where the enemy was, for he was "tired of guesses," McClellan telegraphed to the President,
saying: "I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted. First to concentrate all our available
forces to open communication with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use
all our means to make the Capital safe."

Lee was afraid to attack the Nationals at Centreville, so he sent Jackson on another flank movement
which brought on a battle at Chantilly, north of
Fairfax Court-House. It was fought in a cold and
drenching rain. For a while the conflict was very-
severe, and in it Generals Philip Kearney and Isaac
A. Stephens perished. The losses on each side
were large. The Nationals, under General Bimey,
held the field that night, and the next day the
broken and demoralized army was sheltered be-
hind the fortifications around Washington city.
Pope now repeated, with great earnestness, a re-
quest to leave the Army of Virginia and return to
the West. His desire was gratified. Then the
Army of Virginia disappeared as a separate organi-
zation and became a part of the Army of the Poto-
mac, and McClellan was placed in command of all
the troops defending the Capital. The disasters
which had befallen the armies of the Potomac
and of Virginia caused a momentar\' gloom to fall

upon the spirits of the loyal people, but it was soon dispelled. Public opinion throughout the loyal states
demanded that it was time for more aggressive work; the vexatious delays had become unbearable.
) At the request of the governors of many States, the President, on the first of July (1862),
called for three hundred thousand volunteers to serve during the war; and in August he called
for three hundred thousand more, for three months, with the understanding that an equal number
would be drafted from the citizens who were between eighteen and forty-five years of age, if
they did not appear among the volunteers. These calls were cheerfully responded to; and the
Confederate government, alarmed, ordered General Lee to make a desperate effort to capture
Washington city before the new army should be brought into the field. Lee was immediately reinforced.
Perceiving the folly of making a direct attack upon the well-fortified National Capital, he crossed
the Potomac above that city (near the Point of Rocks) into Maryland to assail Baltimore, and if
successful, to fall upon Washington in the rear. He made the passage with almost his entire army, and
on the 7th of September was encamped at Frederick, on the Monocacy. There, on tl.e 8th, he
issued a stirring appeal, in the form of a proclamation, to the people of Marv'land, and raised the
standard of revolt. He did not doubt that thousands would resort to it; on the contrary, he lost
more men by desertion than he gained by recruiting there.

When General McClellan heard of Lee's invasion of Maryland, he left General Banks,
with some troops, to defend Washington, and crossing the Potomac above the National Capital,
with about ninety thousand men, he advanced cautiously toward Frederick, which Lee evacuated
at their approach. There McClellan discovered Lee's plan for seizing Washington. It was
to take possession of Harper's Ferry and open communication with Richmond by way ot the
Shenandoah Valley, and then marching toward Pennsylvania, entice McClellan far in that direction.
At a proper moment Lee was to turn suddenly, smite and defeat his antagonist, and then march
upon Washington.

It is related that when the head of Lee's army led by "Stonewall Jackson" entered Frederick,
Barbara Frietchie, a very old woman, in defiance of an order for hauling down every Union flag, kept
one flying from the dormer window of her house near the bridge over the Monocacy Creek, in the town.

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Seeing it, Jackson ordered his riflemen to shoot away the staff. When it fell the patriotic Barbara
snatched it up, and leaning, says Whittier,

"Far out on the window sill,
She shook it forth with a royal will ;
' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag,' she said.
A shade of sadness, a blush of shame.
Over the face of the leader came:
The nobler nature within him stirr'd
To life at that woman's deed and word;
' Who touches a hair of yon gray head.
Dies Hke a dog! March on!' he said.
All day long through Frederick street
Sounded the tread of marching feet.
All day long that free flag tost
Over the head of the rebel host."

The Nationals followed the Confed-
federates from Frederick, in two columns,
over the South Mountain into the beatiti-
ful valley of the Antietam Creek. The
right and centre of the Nationals moved
by the way of Turner's Gap, Burnside
leading the advance; and the left, com-
posed of Franklin's corps, by way of
Crampton's Gap, on the same range,
nearer Harper's Ferry. At Turner's Gap,
Burnside fought a desperate battle on the 14th of September; and at the same time Franklin was trying
to force his way at Crampton's Gap, to get between General Lee and Harper's Ferry, where Colonel
Miles, a Marylander, was in command of National troops. The strife at Turner's Gap ceased at
dark, with a loss to the Nationals of about fifteen hundred men, of whom a little more than three hundred
were killed. Among the latter was the gallant General Reno. The Nationals intended to renew the
battle in the morning; but the Confederates withdrew under cover of the night, and Lee concentrated
his forces on Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg. Franklin, in the meantime, had fought his way over the
Mountain into Pleasant Valley; and on the evening of the 14th (September) was within six miles of
Harper's Ferry, which was then invested by a strong force under "Stonewall" Jackson. The Confederates
held the advantageous positions of Man,-land and Loudon Heights on each side of the Potomac, which
commanded the post at Harper's Ferry, and the latter could be preserved from capture only by help
from outside. This Franklin was about to give; but before he could do so. Miles surrendered the post
to Jackson, after sending away his cavalry. This unfortunate and unnecessary movement deprived the
Nationals of a vast advantage which they might have gained by the apparentl}^ easy possession of Harper's
Ferry, at that time. Miles's conduct was such, that his loyalty to the RepubHc was justly suspected.

On the 1 6th of September, the Confederate army was well posted on the heights near Sharpsburg,
on the western side of the Antietam Creek. The Confederates had been followed from South Mountain
cautiously, for McClellan professed to believe them to be in overwhelming numbers on his front. But
Lee's army then numbered only sixty thousand, while McClellan's effective force was eighty-seven
thousand. The latter hesitated to attack; and w-hen he was put upon the defensive by a sharp artillery
assault by Confederate cannon, the crisis had passed before he was ready to respond. Then the brave
and energetic Hooker was permitted to cross the Antietam with a part of his corps, commanded by
Generals Ricketts, Meade, and Doubleday. This passage was made on the extreme right of the
Confederates, where he had a sharp and successful combat with the foe led by General Hood.
Hooker's men lay upon their arms that night. Other National troops passed over under cover of the
darkness. These were the divisions of Williams and Greene, of Mansfield's corps, who bivouacked a
mile in Hooker's rear.

The best of McClellan's generals, expecting a heavy engagement in the morning, awaited these
movements with great anxiety. In this feeling the army of Lee concurred. At dawn on the morning
of the 17th (September, 1862), Hooker opened the battle bj^ assailing the Confederate left with about
eighteen thousand men. The enemy were led by Jackson. Hooker had Doubleday on his right, Meade
on his left, and Ricketts in the centre. With varying fortunes the contest raged on that wing of the
army and along the centre until late in the afternoon. The National chief, with a lofty faith that all
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the hills had been echoing the cannon-thunder for hours. Then he went out and viewed the progress of the
battle from the opposite side of the Antietam, where he held Porter's corps, with artillery, and Pleasanton's
cavalry in reserve until toward evening, when he sent some troops to assist the fighters.

Aleanwhile General Burnside, with the left wing of the Nationals, had been holding in check, and
fighting the Confederate right under Longstreet, since eight o'clock in the morning, with varying success;
and he was on the point of gaining a victory there, when the Confederates were reinforced by General
A. P. Hill's division, which had hurried up from Harper's Ferry to the support of Lee. Darkness ended
the struggle, which had lasted from twelve to fourteen hours. Both armies were severely smitten. The
Nationals lost twelve thousand four hundred and seventy men, and McClellan estimated the Confederate
loss to have been much greater. The advantage was decidedly with the Nationals that night. Lee's
army, shattered and disorganized, and his supplies nearly exhausted, was without reinforcements near;
while McClellan's was joined the next morning by fourteen thousand fresh troops. A vigorous movement
on his part, that morning, might have put the whole Confederate force into McClellan's hands as

prisoners of war; but with chronic hesitation and
indecision, he refused to allow his army to pursue
the retreating foe until thirty-six hours after the
battle. His reasons for his dilatoriness were given
in an apologetic tone, in his report, as follows:
"Virginia was lost, Washington was menaced,
Marj'land invaded — the National cause could
afford no risks of defeat."

When, on the morning of the igth of Septem-
lier, McClellan advanced, Lee had fled, under
cover of the night, and was with his shattered army
behind strong batteries on the Virginia side of the
Potomac. A feeble pursuit was attempted and
abandoned. Two brigades crossed the river, and
were surprised and driven back into Maryland,
when Lee, counting upon McClellan's habitual
>lowness, moved leisurely up the Shenandoah Val-
ley. McClellan took possession of abandoned
Harper's Ferry, and called for reinforcements and
supplies to enable him to pursue the fugitives; and
ten days afterward, when the news was hourly ex-
pected that the Army of the Potomac were in swift
pursuit of Lee's shattered columns,Tthe commander of the National army proclaimed that he intended
to hold his troops where they were, and "attack the enemy should he attempt to cross into Maryland."
The President, astounded by this declaration, hastened to McClellan's headquarters, in person, ta
ascertain the true state of the case. He was so well satisfied that the army was capable of a successful
pursuit at once, that he ordered McClellan (October 6, 1862) to cross the Potomac immediately for that
purpose. Twenty precious days were afterward spent in correspondence between the disobedient general
and his patient superiors, before the former obeyed, during which time Lee's army was thoroughly
recruited in every way, and his communications with Richmond were well established.

The beautiful month of October passed away. The roads in Virginia were never in a finer condition;
and the loyal people were becoming exceedingly impatient, when, on the 2d of November, McClellan
announced that his great army was once more on the soil of Virginia, prepared to move southward on
the east side of the Blue Ridge instead of up the Shenandoah Valley, as he had been ordered to do. The
patience of the Government and its friends was now exhausted. They had lost faith in McClellan's
ability or disposition to achieve a decisive victory over the Confederates, and on the sth of November
he was superseded in the command of the Army of the Potomac by General Ambrose E. Burnside, of
Rhode Island. So ended General McClellan's unsuccessful military career. He then entered the field
of politics in opposition to the administration, and was equally unsuccessful there.

The Army of the Potomac was now about one hundred and twenty thousand in number. It was
reorganized by Burnside; and he took measures for the early seizure of the Confederate capital rather
than for the capture or destruction of the Confederate army. He made Aquia Creek, on the Potomac,
his base of supplies; and he hastened to place his army at or near Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock,
from which he might march on Richmond. Lee, in the meanrime, had gathered about eighty thousand

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men on the Heights in the rear of Fredericksburg, with three hundred cannon, and had destroyed all
the bridges that spanned the Rappahannock in that vicinity.

It was the second week in December when the opposing great armies in Virginia were Ij'ing in parallel
lines within cannon-shot of each other, with a narrow river between them. Sixty thousand National
troops, tmder Generals Sumner and Hooker, laj- in front of Fredericksburg, with one hundred and fifty
cannon on Stafford Heights under the chief direction of General Hunt; and the corps of Franklin, about
forty thousand strong, was encamped aljout two miles below. The troops could cross the river onh- on
pontoons or floating bridges; and on the nth of December, early in the morning, the engineers went
quietly at work to construct five of them. These men were assailed and driven away by sharp-shooiers
concealed in buildings on the opposite shore. The batteries on Stafford Heights then opened a heavy
fire on the town to drive out the enemy, and the city was set on fire, in many places, by the shells; but
the sharp-shooters remained. Then a party of vohmteers went across the river in open boats, in the face
of flying bullets from Mississippi rifles, to dislodge the sharp-shooters. A drummer-boy from Michigan,
named Hendershot, begged leave to go along, but was refused permission. Then he asked and obtained
permission to push off one of the boats, when he allowed himself to be dragged into the water. Clinging

to the vessel, he was conveyed to the opposite shore. Several
men in the boat were killed; and when the boy was climbing
the bank, his drum was torn in pieces by a flj'ing fragment of
an exploded shell. Then he seized the musket of a slain com-
panion, and fought gallantly until the sharp-shooters were
driven away or captured. The bridges were finished, and by
the evening of the 12th a greater portion of the National army
occupied Fredericksburg.

On the morning of the 13th the National army made a
simultaneous assault all along the National line, where a most
sanguinary battle occurred, which ended with a repulse of
Bumside's forces with a loss of almost fourteen
thousand men. In this struggle, Generals Frank-
lin, Couch, Hooker, Sumner, Meade, Doubleday,
Howard, Humphrey, Wilcox, Hancock, French,
Sturgis, Getty, Meagher and others were con-
spicuous. In the fight, the Confederates lost
about half as many as the number lost by the
Nationals. Bumside, anxious to gain a victory,
was disposed to renew the battle the next day, but
was dissuaded by some of his best officers, and his
troops remained on the city side of the river until
the night of the 15th unmolested b}^ the Confed-
erates. Then, under cover of darkness, they
crossed the stream with all their cannon, taking
up the pontoons behind them.

This failure produced some dissatisfaction,
and Bumside was soon afterward superseded in
the command of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. It was the misfortune, not the fault
of the gallant Bumside, that he did not succeed at Fredericksburg. The Army of the Potomac now went
into winter quarters on the borders of the Rappahannock.

Hooker's first care was to prevent desertion, secure the return of absentees on furlough, and to weed
noxious materials out of the army. Disloyal officers were dismissed as soon as they were discovered;
and the evils of idleness were prevented by keeping the soldiers employed. The express trains in the
service of the Government were regularly searched, and all property belonging to private citizens was
confiscated or destroyed. The army was comfortably hutted; and important changes A\-ere made in
its organization and its staff department. The cavalry, hitherto scattered among the grand divisions
and without organization, as a corps, were consolidated, and were soon placed in a condition of greater
efficiency than had ever before been known in the service; and to improve them, they were sent out
upon raids within the Confederate lines whenever the condition of the roads would permit. The region
between Bull Run and the Rapidan became the theatre of many daring exploits by the horsemen
of both armies.

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CHAPTER XIX.

National Rule in the Southwest — Guerrillas — Invasion of Kentucky — Cincinnati Saved — Battle at Mumfordsville and Perryville —
Army of the Cumberland — Battle at luka Springs — General Ord's Movements — Battle at Corinth and Operations near — Capture
of Baton Rouge — Destruction of the "Arkansas" — Operations in Arkansas and Louisiana — Battle at Murfreesboro' — Emancipation
Proclamation — The Confederate Government — Davis President — Doings of the Confederate Congress — British Sympathy with
the Confederates — The "Alabama" — Operations against Vicksburg — Operations on the Mississippi — Battles at Port Gibson, Ray-
mond, Jackson, Champion Hills and Big Black River — Vicksburg Invested.

THE Lower Mississippi, from its mouth to New Orleans, was in the possession of the National
miHtary and naval forces under General Butler and Commodore Farragut, at the beginning of
the summer of 1S62. So, also, was the same river, from Memphis to St. Louis, controlled by
the Government troops and vessels; while the National forces held sway over southern Tennessee, and
northern Alabama and Mississippi.

Although the great armies of the Confederates had been driven from Kentttcky and Tennessee,
the absence of any considerable Union force excepting on the southern border of the latter State, permitted
a most distressing guerrilla warfare to be carried on within the borders of those commonwealths by

mounted bands, who, with gallant leaders,

hovered upon the rear and flanks of the
National forces, or roamed at will over the
whole country, pltmdering the Union in-
habitants. One of their leaders was John
Morgan, a bold Alabamian, at the head of
dashing mounted men, who appeared in
Kentucky, and raiding through that State
prepared the way for the advance of an in-
vading army from Chattanooga, led by
General Braxton Bragg. Another mounted
force, led by N. B. Forrest, was sweeping
over a portion of Tennessee for the same
purpose at the same time; and at the mid-
dle of July he threatened the Union post at
Nashville, then in command of General
Negley. In the meantime. General Bragg

was pushing toward Kentucky by a route eastward of Nashville, while General Btiell was moving in the
same direction, on a parallel line, to foil the invaders.

General E. Kirby Smith, a native of Connecticut, leading the van of Bragg's army, entered Kentucky
from East Tennessee, and ptished on rapidly to Lexington, fighting and defeating a National force, on
the 30th of August, under General M. D. Manson, near Richmond in that State. The Secessionists
of Kentucky warmly welcomed the invaders, and swelled their ranks at every step. The alarmed Legis-
lature of Kentuck;;', sitting at Frankfort, fled to Louisville, while Smith pressed vigorously on in the
direction of the Ohio River, with the intention of capturing and plundering Cincinnati. He was unex-
pectedly confronted on the southern side of the Ohio by strong fortifications and a considerable National
force under the energetic General Lewis Wallace, who had proclaimed martial law in Cincinnati,
Covington and Newport, and in a stirring proclamation, demanded the instant co-operation of the
people, "Citizens for the labor — soldiers for the battle," was the principle announced. The response
was wonderftil. In the cotirse of a few hours he had at his command an army of workers and fighters
forty thousand strong. The invader recoiled; and falling back to the Kentucky State capital (Frankfort),
seized it, and there awaited the arrival of Bragg, who crossed the Cumberland River and entered Kentucky
on the sth of September, with forty regiments and forty cannon.

Bragg's advance, eight thousand strong, under General J. R. Chalmers, encountered a National
force under Colonel T. J. Wilder, at Mumfordsville, on the 14th of September. It was on the fine of
the Nashville and Louisville Railway. A battle began at dawn and lasted about five hours, when the
Confederates were repulsed; but two days afterward a stronger force under General (Bishop) Polk fell
upon Wilder, and after a severe struggle he was compelled to yield to vastly superior numbers. Bragg
was elated by this success, and joining Smith, at Frankfort, he prepared to make a supposed easy march.

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to Louisville, his destination. His army then numbered about sixty-five thousand efifective men, and
the movements of Buell seemed too tardy to promise serious impediments. Bragg was mistaken. Buell,
who had kept abreast of Bragg, suddenly turned upon him with about sixty thousand men, and near
the little town of Perrj^ville, in Boyle county, they had a fierce combat on the 8th of October. In that
battle the Nationals lost about four thousand three hundred and fifty men ; but the invaders were so
roughly handled that they fled in haste,
that night, toward East Tennessee, fol-
lowed by their marauding bands, who had
jjlundered the inhabitants in every direc-
tion. They started in their retreat with a
wagon-train of stolen property, forty miles
in length, but were compelled to leave a
large portion of it behind. The whole ex-
pedition seems to have had no higher aims
than that of a plundering raid. It proved
disastrous to Bragg's army, and would
have caused its total ruin if that army ha( 1
been vigorously pursued. Soon afterward,
General Rosecrans, who had won substan-
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ceeded Buell in the command of the Army
of the Ohio, and its name was changed to
that of the Army of the Cumberland.

While General Bragg was plundering
the Kentuckians, bands of Confederates
were raiding through western Tennessee to
draw attention from the invaders; and the army in northern Mississippi, now led by General Beauregard,
had advanced toward Tennessee under Generals Van Dorn and Price. General Rosecrans was then in
command of the Army of the Mississippi, charged with the dut\' of holding the region lately repossessed
by the Nationals in consequence of the evacuation of Corinth and the valor of Mitchel.

Rosecrans was at Tuscumbia when General Grant informed him that danger was gathering westward
of him; and when he moved toward Corinth, Price advanced toward luka Springs, a summer watering-
place in northern Mississippi, to meet him. Near the village of that name, Rosecrans and Price met
on the igth of September, and fought a most severe battle. The disparity in numbers was very great.
Price had full eleven thousand men, while Rosecrans did not have more than three thousand men
actually engaged in the struggle. During the battle, which was extermely fierce, there was a desperate
contest for the possession of an Indiana battery which the Confederates had seized after all the horses
belonging to it, and seventy-two of its artillerymen, were killed. It was fought for hand-to-hand.
Charges and counter-charges were made; until, at length, the Confederate soldiers dragged the cannon
off the field, with ropes. But the Confederates were so badly beaten in the battle, that they fled south-
ward in great haste and confusion. The National loss was nearly eight hundred; that of the Confederates
over fourteen hundred. IMeanwhile General Ord, whom Grant had sent to aid Rosecrans, had been
watching the movements of a body of the Confederates who were making feints against Corinth. He
had, according to orders, marched within four miles of luka; instructed to wait there until he should
hear Rosecrans's great guns. A high wind from the north prevented their sounds reaching him. Ord
lay there until the next morning, when he pushed on toward luka and found Rosecrans a victor and
his foe departed. Then Ord retired to Bolivar, between Corinth and Memphis, while Rosecrans con-
centrated his troops at Corinth and prejjared to meet an impending attack by the combined forces of
Van Dorn and Price. These, about forty thousand in number, were united at Ripley, and at the close
of September they moved on Corinth. At that place the opposing armies battled fiercely on the 3d
and 4th of October, when the result was the repulse of the Confederates, the pursuit of them to Ripley,
and a loss on the part of the Nationals of more than twenty-three hundred men. The Confederates
lost about nine thousand men, including prisoners. On their retreat a part of Van Dorn's troops fought
the forces of Ord at the Hatchee River, where the latter was severely wounded. For a while after this
event there was comparative repose in General Grant's department.

The only obstructions to the free navigation of the Mississippi River, in the spring of 1862, were
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eminences known as the Walnut Hills, on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, at a bold turn in

the stream, was a point of great military importance, for it had been fortified by the Confederates and

was daily growing stronger. It promised to become impregnable for those who were opposing the grand

scheme of the National Government for gaining the absolute control of that
great stream, and thus securing important portions of the Confederacy.
Toward the seizure of that point, operations in the southwest were soon
tending. To remove these obstructions, Farragut, in command of National
vessels, bent his energies. So early as the 7th of May (1S62), Baton Rouge,
the capital of Louisiana, had been captured by the National forces by land
and water, when Farragut went up the river to Vicksburg and there held
communication with the commanders of gunboats above.
Finally, he attacked the batteries there (June 26) ; and he
also attempted to cut a canal across a peninsula in front
of Vicksburg, so as to avoid the Confederate guns at the
city altogether; but he failed in his undertakings, and de-
scended the river with his vessels. This movement was
followed, early in August, by an attack upon Baton Rouge,
by a Confederate force led by General J. C. Breckinridge.
The post was then in command of General Thomas Wil-
liams. There \\-as a desperate struggle for about two
hours, in which the Twenty-first Indiana Regiment was
conspicuous. It lost all of its field officers before the end
of the action. Seeing this, General Williams placed him-
self at its head, exclaiming, "Boys, your field-officers are
all gone; I will lead you!" They gave him three hearty
cheers, when a bullet passed through his breast and he fell
dead. He had just issued orders for the line to fall back,
which it did, in good order, with Colonel Cahill of the
Ninth Connecticut in chief command. The Confederates,
dreadfully smitten, also fell back, and then retreated.
The insurgents had constructed a formidable "ram," which they named Arkansas. With it they

expected to sweep every National vessel from the Mississippi, and "drive the Yankees from New

Orleans." It did not arrive at Baton Rouge in time to engage in the attack upon the National forces

there; but on the morning after the battle. Commodore Porter, with the gunboat Essex, accompanied

by the Cayuga and Siinitcr, went up the river to meet her. They found her five miles above Baton Rouge.

After a short and sharp fight, she became unmanageable, and was headed toward the river bank and

set on fire. Just as she touched the shore her magazine exploded, and the monster was blown into

fragments.

During the summer and autumn of 1862, there were some stirring events in Missouri and Arkansas.

After the battle at Pea Ridge, Curtis marched eastward, with his army, to

assist in military operations on the borders of the Mississippi River; but he

remained some time at Helena, menacing Little Rock and smiting guerrilla

bands that roamed that State. Missouri was equally infested with guerrillas;

and in June (1862) that Commonwealth was erected into a separate military

district, with General J. M. Schofield at its head. He was

vigilant and active; and with a force thirty thousand

strong, scattered over the State in six divisions, he soon

subdued, in a great degree, the numerous roaming bands

that overran it. From April until September, about one

hundred battles and skirmishes were fought in that State.

Schofield drove out troops that came over the southern

border to help the Missourians in arms, and these fugitives

formed the nucleus of a force, about fortj' thousand strong,

which gathered in Arkansas under General T. C. Hindman,

formerly a member of Congress.

Leaving Curtis in command of the Missouri district,

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troops under General J. G. Blunt, in southern Missouri. With these he sought the shy Confederates in
the vicinity of the Ozark Mountains. Blunt attacked a portion of them at Fort Wayne, near Maysville,
■on the 2 2d of October, and drove them into the Indian country. A week later a cavalry force, under
General F. T. Herron, struck another portion on the White River, eight miles from Fayetteville, and
■drove them into the mountains. Soon after this, ill health compelled Schofield to leave the field, when
the command devolved upon General Blunt.

Hindman now determined to strike a decisive blow for the recovery of his State from National
control. Late in November he had gathered about twenty thousand men on the western borders of
Arkansas. He moved against Blunt, and on the 28th his advance, composed of Marmaduke's cavalry,
was attacked and defeated by Blunt, on Boston Mountains. The latter then took position at Cane
Hill, when Hindman, with eleven thousand men, prepared to crush him. Blunt sent for General Herron,
then just over the border, in Missouri, to come and help him. Herron promptly complied, and the
combined forces fought and defeated Hindman at
a little settlement called Prairie Grove. The
Confederates were driven in confusion over the
mountains.

Meanwhile there had been stirring events
nearer the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Mississippi.
Texas was then under Confederate rule. So early
as May, 1862, Commander Eagle, with a small
squadron of National vessels, appeared before Gal-
veston, and demanded its surrender. There was
a prompt refusal to comply; and so the matter
remained until October following, when the civil
authorities of that city surrendered it to Commo-
dore Renshaw of the National navy. At the same
time General Butler sent aggressive expeditions
into the interior of Louisiana. The most impor-
tant of them was led by General Godfrey Weitzel,
who went with a strong force to "repossess" the

rich La Fourche parish. This was accompHshed, after a severe engagement at Labadievillc, on the 27th
of October. Very soon afterward the eastern portions of Louisiana, along the borders of the Mississippi,
were brought under National control. On the loth of December following. General Butler was succeeded
in the command of the Department of the Gulf by General N. P. Banks.

The year 1862 was now drawing to a close. General Grant had concentrated the bulk of his army
at Holly Springs, in Mississippi, where he was confronted by Van Dorn; at about the same time. General
Rosecrans, with a greater part of the Army of the Cumberland, was moving southward to attack Bragg
at Murfreesboro', below Nashville. Rosecrans was assisted by Generals Thomas, McCook, Crittenden,
Rousseau, Palmer, Sheridan, J. C. Davis, Wood, Van Cleve, Hazen, Negley, Mathews and others; and
Bragg had, as his lieutenants, Generals Polk, Breckenridge, Hardee, Kirby Smith, Cheatham, Withers,
Cleburne, and Wharton.

On the 30th of December, the two armies lay within cannon-shot of each other on opposite sides of
Stone River, near Murfreesboro'. On the following morning a sanguinary battle was begun, and continued
tmtil evening, with varied success and fearful losses. Rosecrans had gallantly conducted the fight in
person, and he and Bragg prepared to renew the contest on the following morning, the first of January,
1863. That day was spent in heavy skirmishing; but on the morning of the 2d a terrific struggle was
begun. The batteries on both sides were massed, and they were worked with destructive energy. The
dead and wounded strewed the ground over scores of acres, for the carnage was dreadful; and, at one
time, it seemed as if the total destruction of both armies would be the result. At length seven National
regiments made a simultaneous charge, by which the Confederate line was broken into fragments and
scattered in confusion. These regiments were the Nineteenth lUinois; Eighteenth, Twenty-first, and
Seventy-fourth Ohio; Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania; Eleventh Michigan, and Thirty-seventh Indiana.
Victory remained with Rosecrans, and Bragg retreated southward to Tullahoma, while his antagonist
occupied the battle-field and Murfreesboro'. The National loss in the battle of Stone River was twelve
thousand men, and that of the Confederates ten thousand. The relative position of the two armies
immediately after the battle remained so for several months afterward.

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slave-labor States for the purpose of perpetuating the slave-system, which gave to the Confederate cause
the chief sinews of its strength. It nurtured a producing class that fed, by its labor, the armies arrayed
against the life of the Republic; and only a ver\^ small proportion of that class were drawn from the
pursuits of agriculture to the camps. Perceiving this, the President of the United States and the loyal
people resolved to destroy the system b}- some method of abolition. The kind-hearted Lincoln proposed
to give pecuniary aid to an^- State government which might provide for the abolition of slavery; but the
interested friends of that system ever\-where refused to listen. Congress proceeded to abolish slavery

in the District of Columbia,
direct control; and, finally,
discretionary powers to de-
the slaves in States wherein
nally, late in September
issued a proclamation, in
tice that it was his purpose to
on the first of January, 1863,
wherever a state of insurrec-

over which that body had
they gave the President
clare the emancipation of
insurrection existed. Fi-
(1862), President Lincoln
which he gave public no-
declare such emancipatioa
to take effect immediately
tion might then exist, un-

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less the offenders should lay down their arms. This friendly warning — this forbearance to strike the blow that
was to remove the manacles from millions of bondsmen — was treated by the masters of the slaves with scorn.
It was sneered at by them, as an act of sheer impuissance. It was compared to "the Pope's Bull against
the comet;" and, because of this menace, resistance to the Government was more rampant than ever.
It was evident that the warning would be ineflfectual. The President prepared a proclamation of emanci-
pation. It was submitted to his cabinet and approved; and on the first of January, 1863, it was promul-
gated with the whole force of the Republic — ^its army, its navy^ and its judiciary; its Executive and
Legislative powers — back of it to enforce its provisions. The moral force of that proclamation was
tremendous. By that act the shackles were taken from the personal freedom of over three million slaves.
From the hour of the promulgation of the proclamation of emancipation, the power of the enemies of
the Government began to wane, and the star of their owti future prosperity arose with beams of promise.

Early in 1862, the Confederate government was changed from a "provisional" to a "permanent
one." The "provisional congress," made up of delegates chosen by conventions of politicians and
legislatures of States, had been in continuous session from the i8th of November, 1861, until the i8th of
February-, 1862, when its term expired by limitation. On the same da}^ a congress, professedly elected
by the people, commenced its session under the "permanent constitution of the Confederate States." I
say "professedly elected by the people." The following was the method pursued in Virginia, as presented
in an editorial article in a leading Richmond journal, in carn-ing on a popular election:

' ' It being necessary to form a ticket of electors, and the time being too short to call a convention of
the people, it was suggested that the Richmond editors should prepare a ticket, thus relieving the people of
the trouble of making selections. The ticket thus formed has been presented." Here several of the nom-
inees were named. "Every district in the State," said the journal, "is embraced in this editorial report."

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In the permanent Confederate congress, all of the slave-labor States were represented excepting
Maryland and Delaware. The oath to support the constitution of the Confederate States was admin-
istered to the senators by R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, and to the representatives, by Howell Cobb of

Georgia. Thomas Bocock, of Virginia, was elected Speaker of the House.
On the following day (February 19) the votes for president of the Con-
federacy were counted, and were found to be one hundred and nine in
number, all of which were cast for Jefferson Davis. Three days after-
ward Davis was inaugurated president for six years. He chose for his
cabinet Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, secretary of state; George W.
Randolph of Virginia, secretary of war; S. R. Mallory of Florida, secre-
tary of the na\'\'; Charles G. Memminger of South Carolina, secretary
of the treasury, and Thomas H. Watts of Alabama, attorney-general.
Randolph resigned, and James A. Seddon, a wealthy citizen of Richmond,
who was conspicuous in the famous "Peace Convention" at Washington,
was chosen to fill his place.

Measures were adopted by the Confederate Congress to prosecute
the war against the Union with vigor. It was declared, by joint resolu-
tion, that it was the unalterable determination of the people of the Con-
federate States ' ' to suffer all the calamities of the most protracted war ; ' '
and that they would never, "on any terms, politically affiliate with a
people who were guilty of an invasion of their soil and the butchery of
their citizens." With this spirit they prosecuted the war on land; and
with the aid of the British aristocracy, ship-builders and merchants, and
the tacit consent of the British government, they were enabled to keep
ITJ afloat, on the ocean, some active vessels for plundering American com-

merce. The hoped-for and expected result was the driving of the carr>'ing-trade between the United
States and Europe into British bottoms, and so enriching the British shipping merchants. This was the
end to be accomplished, and it was effected.

The most formidable of these Anglo-Confederate plunderers of the sea was the Alabama, which was
built, armed, manned and victualled in England. She sailed under the British flag, and was received
with favor in every British port that she entered. In the last three months of the year 1862, she destroyed
by fire twenty-eight helpless American merchant vessels. While these incendiary fires, kindled by
Englishmen in a ship fitted out as a sea-rover by Englishmen commanded by a Confederate leader, were
illuminating the bosom of the Atlantic Ocean, a merchant ship (the George Griswold), laden with provisions
as a gift for starving English operatives in Lancashire, who had been deprived of work and food by the
Civil War in America, and whose necessities their own government failed to relieve, was sent from the
city of New York, convoyed by a national war vessel to save her from the fury of the British sea-rover! The
sequel of the Alabama story will be told hereafter.

At the beginning of 1863, the National Government had more than seven hundred thousand soldiers
in its service; and up to that time the loyal people had furnished twelve hundred thousand troops, mostly
volunteers, for the salvation of the life of the Republic. The theatre of war had become co-extensive
with the slave-labor States; and at that time the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, on the Mississippi
River, was a chief object of the Government. Only

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between these places was that river free from the
patrol of National gunboats ; and it was desirable
to break this connection between the insurgents
on each side of the stream. To this end General
Grant concentrated his forces near the Talla-
hatchee River, in northern Mississippi, where Gen-
erals Hovey and Washburne had been operating
with troops whom they had led from Helena, in
Arkansas. Grant had a large quantity of supplies
at Holly Springs. These, through carelessness or
treachery, fell into the hands of Van Dom on the
20th of December (1862), and Grant was com-
pelled to fall back to Grand Junction to save his
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Chancellorsville

TAKING advantage of this movement, a large force of Confederates gathered at Vicksburg under
General J. C. Pemberton, for the protection of that post. On the day when Grant's supplies were
seized at Holly Springs, about twenty thousand National troops, led bj- General W. T. Sherman, left
Memphis in transports, with siege guns, to beleaguer Vicksburg. At Friar's Point they were joined by

troops from Helena, and were met by Commodore Porter,
whose fleet of gunboats were at the mouth of the Yazoo
River, just above Vicksburg. The two commanders ar-
ranged a plan for attacking the city in the rear, and pro-
ceeded to execute it. The troops and fleet went up the
Yazoo River to capture some batteries which disputed the
way to that rear; but Sherman was repulsed after a sharp
battle at Chickasaw Bayou (December 28), and the project
was abandoned for a time.

General John A. IMcClernand, the senior of Sherman
in rank, arrived at headquarters, near Vicksburg, early in
January, 1863, and took the chief command. He and
Porter went up the Arkansas River with their forces, and
on the nth captured the important Fort Hindman at
Arkansas Post. In the meantime General Grant had ar-
ranged his army into four corps, and with it descended the
river from Memphis to prosecute the siege of Vicksburg with vigor. He was soon convinced that it could
not be taken by direct assault. He tried to perfect the canal begun by Farragut, but failed; and then
he sent a considerable land and naval force up the Yazoo to capture batteries at Haines's Bluff, and so
gain a footing in the rear of Vicksburg. These were repulsed at Fort Pemberton, near Greenwood, late
in March . Other channels among the brimming bayous and small rivers were diligently sought by the
indomitable Porter, to gain the rear of the foredoomed city, but in vain, and again the enterprise was
abandoned. The details of these efforts of the army and na\w, during the spring of 1863, form one of
the most wonderful chapters in the history of the war. The waters were then redundant, and the voyages
were sometimes wild and perilous, the gunboats sweeping on strong currents through overflowed swamps
under lofty overarching trees draped with the trailing Spanish moss, and having their smoke-stacks
leveled at times, and their wheels fearfully bruised.

While these operations against Vicksburg were in progress, there had been lively times on the bosom
of the Mississippi. In February' (1863), iron-clad vessels of Porter's fleet
ran by the batteries at Vicksburg, and made considerable havoc among
Confederate transports below that were suppljnng the troops there
and at Port Hudson with stores. These venturesome National vessels
were lost, and their crews were made prisoners. Later, when Grant had
sent a strong land force down the west side of the river. Porter successfully
ran by the batteries at Vicksburg with nearly his whole fleet and the
transports, on the night of the i6th of April. Then Grant prepared for
vigorous operations on the flank and rear of Vicksburg, on the line of the
Big Black River. Porter also attacked and ran by the Confederate bat-
teries at Grand Gulf, on the 27th of April, when Grant's army crossed
the Mississippi a little below, pressed fonvard, and at Port Gibson gained
a decisive victor}' in a battle fought there on the first of May.

In the meantime, Sherman, who had made another unsuccessful effort
to capture the batteries at Haines's Bluff, by order of General Grant,
marched down the w-est side of the Mississippi, crossed it, and joined the
main army on the 8th of May. Then the whole force pushed rapidly
toward Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, where General Joseph E.
Johnston was in command of a Confederate army. After a severe battle General James S. Negley

at Raymond, on the 12th of May, in which the Confederates were defeated, and another near Jackson,
on the 14th, when the insurgents were driven northward, the Nationals seized the State capital, and

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destroyed a large quantity of public property there. Then the victorious army turned toward Vicksburg,
and after defeating the Confederates under Pemberton at Champion Hills on the i6th of May, and at the
passage of the Black River on the 1 7th, the National army swept on and closely invested Vicksburg, in
the rear, on the 19th, receiving their supplies from a base on the Yazoo, established by Porter. For a

fortnight the army had drawn its subsistence from the country through
which it had passed. It now rested for a brief space after a wonderful
week's work. Then, after two unsuccessful and disastrous assaults on
Vicksburg, Grant began a regular siege of the works there, with the co-
operation of Porter's fleet.

CHAPTER XX.

Investment and Siege of Vicksburg — Galveston — Banks in Louisiana — Siege and Surrender of
Port Hudson — The Two Armies in Virginia — Peck and Longstreet at Suffolk — Moseby at
Fairfax Court-House — Cavalry Battle — Cavalry Raids — ^Movements on Chancellorsville
— Battle There — Death of "Stonewall Jackson" — Sedgwick's Escape — Retreat of the
Army of the Potomac — Siege of Suffolk — The Confederate Army and Service — Power of
the Confederates Abroad — Davis Recognized by the Pope — Napoleon, Mexico, and the
Confederacy — Napoleon's Real Designs — Confederates Invade Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania — Panic — Operations in Pennsylvania— Battle at Gettysburg — Seward's Circular.

General U. S. Grant

FTER Grant's last assault on Mcksburg, his effective men did not
exceed twenty thousand in number. He determined to make the
capture of Vicksburg an event of the near future, and called in
reinforcements. They came in such numbers, that by the middle of June
the investment of Vicksburg was made absolute. Sherman's corps was on the extreme right, McPherson's
next and extending to the railway, and Ord's (late McClernand's) on the left, the investment in that
direction being made complete by the divisions of Herron and Lanman, the latter lying across Stout's
Bayou, and touching the bluffs on the river. Parke's corps, and the divisions of Smith and Kimball,
were sent to Haines's Bluff, where fortifications commanding the land side had been erected to confront
any attempt that Johnston might make in that direction. Meanwhile Vice-Admiral Porter had made
complete and ample arrangements for the most efficient co-operation on the river, and his skill and zeal
were felt tliroughout the siege, which continued until the first week in July.

Every day, shot and shell were hurled upon the city and the insurgent camps, from land and water.
The inhabitants were compelled to seek shelter in caves dug out of the clay hills on which the city stands.
In these, whole families, free and bond, lived for many weeks, while their houses without were perforated
b}^ the iron hail. Therein children were bom, and persons died, and soldiers sought shelter from the
tempest of war. Verj' soon famine affiicted the citizens. Fourteen ounces of food became a regular
allowance for each person for forty-eight hours. The flesh of mules made savorj^ dishes toward the end
of the siege. Finally the besiegers undermined one of the principal forts of the enemy, in the line of the
defences on the land side, and it was blown up with fearful effect. Other mines were made ready for
the infernal work, when Pemberton, despairing of expected aid from Johnston, made a proposition to
Grant to stirrender the post and his army. The generals met under the shadow of a live-oak tree in the
rear of the town on the 3d of July to arrange the terms of surrender, and on the 4th the stronghold of
Vicksburg, with twenty-seven thousand men and a vast amoimt of ordnance, and other public property,
were surrendered to the leader of the National forces.

From the time of the battle at Port Gibson to the fall of Vicksburg, General Grant had captured
thirty thousand prisoners (among them fifteen general officers), with arms and ammunition for an army
of sixty thousand men; also steamboats, locomotives, railroads, a vast amount of cotton, etc. He had
lost, during that time, nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-three men, of whom one thousand two
hundred and thirty-three had been killed. B\' the experience of those few weeks, he had ascertained
the real weakness of the Confederacy in that region.

On the night of the 4th of July (1S63), the powerful fleet of Vice-Admiral Porter was h'ing quietly
at the levee at Vicksburg, and in commemoration of that National holiday our troops regaled the citizens
with a fine display of fireworks more harmless than those which, for more than forty nights, had coursed
the heavens above them like malignant meteors.

Galveston had been recaptured by the Confederates on the first of January, 1863 ; but that victory
was rendered almost fruitless by a close blockade of the port by National vessels. From that time
General Banks had been co-operating with General Grant, and making efforts to "repossess" Louisiana.

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An expedition under General Weitzel and Commodore McKean Buchanan took possession of the remark-
able Teche country in that State, when Banks concentrated his troops, about twelve thousand in number,
at Baton Rouge (which was then held by General Grover), for the purpose of assisting Commodore
Farragut in an attempt to pass the formidable batteries at Port Hudson, twenty-five miles up the
Mississippi. That attempt was made on the night of the 13th of March, when a terrible contest occurred,

in the darkness, between the vessels and the land bat-
teries. Only Farragut 's flag-ship (the Hartford) and
another succeeded in passing by.

Banks now sent a large portion of his available
troops into the interior of Louisiana, where General
Richard Ta^dor was in command of a Confederate force.
The Nationals were concentrated at Brashear City, on
the Atchafalaya, and from that point they marched tri-
umphantly to the Red River, accompanied by Banks in
person. From Alexandria, early in May, that general
wrote to his Government that the Confederate power in
northern and central Louisiana was broken; and with
this impression he moved eastward with his troops,
crossed the Mississippi River, and late in May (1863)
invested Port Hudson, then in command of the Confed-
erate general, Frank Gardner. For forty days he be-
sieged that post, during which time many gallant deeds
were performed on each side. Banks was ably assisted
by the squadron of Farragut — the Hartford, Albatross, Monongahela, Richnwud, Essex and Tennessee,
and some mortar-boats. Finally, at the close of June, the ammunition of the closely invested garrison
was almost exhausted. When news of the fall of Vicksburg reached Gardner, he perceived that further
attempts at resistance would be futile; and on the Qth of July he surrendered the post to Banks, with
much spoil. The National loss during the siege was about three thousand men, and that of the Confed-
erates, exclusive of prisoners, was about eight hundred. The loss of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was a
severe calamity for the Confederates. It gave the final blow in the removal of the obstructions to the
navigation of the Mississippi River by Confederate batteries, and thenceforth it was free. Powerful
portions of the Confederacy were "repossessed" by the National Government, and wise men among the
enemies of the Republic clearly perceived that their cause was hopeless.

At the moment when Vicksburg fell, the Army of the Potomac gained an equally important victory
on the soil of Pennsylvania. We left that army on the northern side of the Rappahannock River, near
Fredericksburg, in charge of General Joseph Hooker. From January to April (1863), he was engaged
in preparing for a vigorous summer campaign. His forces remained in comparative quiet for about
three months, during which time they were reorganized and well-disciplined ; and at the close of April,
his army numbered one hundred thousand effective men. General Lee's army, on the other side of the
river, had been divided ; a large force under General Longstreet being required to watch the movements
of the Nationals under General Peck, in the vicinity of Norfolk. Lee had in hand about sixty thousand
well-drilled troops, lying behind strong intrenchments extending twenty-five miles along the line of the
Rappahannock. For the space of three months some cavalry movements only, disturbed the two armies.
General W. H. F. Lee, with a mounted force, attacked National troops at Gloucester, opposite Yorktown,
early in February; and at midnight of the 8th of March, Colonel Moseby, at the head of a band of
guerrillas, dashed into the village of Fairfax Court-House and carried ofif the commander of the Union
forces there. A little later National cavalry' under General Averill and Confederate horsemen led by
General Fitzhugh Lee, had a severe battle near Kelly's Ford, on the Rappahannock, in which the former
were repulsed. That was the first purely cavalry contest of the war.

Hooker became impatient. The time of the enlistment of many of his troops would soon expire,
and he determined to put his army in motion toward Richmond early in April, notwithstanding his ranks
were not full. Cavalry, under General Stoneman, were sent to destroy railways in Lee's rear, but were
foiled by the high water in the streams. After a pause, Hooker determined to attempt to turn Lee's
flank, and for that purpose he sent ten thousand mounted men to raid in his rear. Then he threw
thirty-six thousand troops of his own right wing across the Rappahannock, with orders to halt and
intrench at Chancellorsville between the Confederate army and Richmond. This movement was so
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right was well advanced before Lee was aware of his peril. These troops reached Chancellorsville in a
region known as The Wilderness, on the evening of the 30th of April, when Hooker expected to see Lee,
conscious of danger, fly toward Richmond. He did no such thing, but proceeded to strike the National
army a heavy blow, for the twofold purpose of seizing the communications between the two parts of
that army and compelling its commander to fight at a
disadvantage, with only a portion of his troops in hand.
For this purpose, "Stonewall Jackson" was sent with
a heavy force, early in the morning of the first of May,
to attack the Nationals, when Hooker sent out his
troops to meet them. The Confederates moved upon
Chancellorsville by two
roads. A sharp en-
gagement ensued, when
the Nationals were
pushed back to a de-
fensive ]30sition behind
their intrenchments;
but the efforts of Lee

to seize these works were foiled.
Both armies were now in a
perilous position. Hooker re-
solved to rest on the defensive ;
but Lee boldly detached the
whole of Jackson's command, on the morning of the 2d
of Ma3% and sent it under cover of the forest-curtain of
The Wilderness to make a secret flank movement and
gain the rear of the Nationals. It was observed by the
latter. Suddenly, Jackson burst from the woods with
twenty-five thousand men, and falling upon Hooker's right, crumbled it, and sent the astounded column
in confusion upon the remainder of the line. A desperate battle, in w^hich nearly all the troops on both
sides participated, was the consequence. It lasted until late in the evening, when Jackson fell, mortally
wounded by a bullet sent by mistake, in the gloom, by one of his own men. Jackson had been engaged
in a personal reconnaissance with his staff and an escort; and when returning, in the darkness, to his
lines, he and his companions were mistaken by their friends for Union cavalry.

Hooker now made disposition for a renewal of the conflict on the morning of the 3d. He had called
Reynolds's corps of more than twenty thousand men from Sedgwick, and these arrived late on Saturday
evening (the 2d), swelling his army to sixty thousand. Sedgwick, by Hooker's order, had crossed the
Rappahannock, seized Fredericksburg and the Heights, and was pushing on toward Chancellorsville,
when he was checked by troops sent by Lee, and compelled to retreat across the river at Banks's Ford,
to save his army. This was accomplished on the night of the 4th and 5th of May. In the meantime
there had been hard fighting at Chancellorsville. At dawn on Stmday morning, the 3d of May, the
dashing General Stuart, leading the column of the slain commander so much loved, shouted, when he
saw the Nationals, "Charge, and remember Jackson!" and then fell heavily upon the troops commanded
by General Sickles. The conflict was desperate and soon became general ; and the National army, after
a long struggle, was finally pushed from the field to a strong position on the roads back of Chancellorsville.
Lee's army was now united; that of Hooker was yet divided; and hearing of Sedgwick's critical
situation, the latter determined to retreat to the north .side of the Rappahannock. The Army 0} the
Potomac passed the river in safety on the night of the 4th, when Lee, unable to follow, resumed his former
position on the Heights of Fredericksburg. Both armies had lost heavily — the Nationals over seventeen
thousand men including prisoners, and the Confederates about fifteen thousand. Meanwhile Stoneman's
cavalr>' had been raiding on Lee's communications with Richmond, and a part of them, under Colonel
Judson Kilpatrick, had swept down within two miles of that city. They destroyed much property, but
failed to break up the railway communication between Lee and the Confederate capital. So far the
raiding was a failure.

Longstreet, as we have observed, had been sent to confront General Peck in southeastern Virginia.
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expected to drive the Nationals from that post, and seizing Norfolk and its vicinity, make a demonstration
against Fortress Monroe. . He failed; and hearing of the struggle at Chancellorsville, he abandoned the
siege and joined Lee with his large detachment.

Lee's arm}' was now strong in material and moral force. Recent successes had greatly inspirited
it. It was reorganized into three army corps, commanded respectively by Generals Longstreet, A. P.

Hill, and Ewell. These were

all able leaders, and each
bore the commission of lieu-
tenant-general. And at no
time, probably, during the
war was the Confederate
army more complete in
numbers, equipment and
discipline, or furnished with
more ample materials for
carr^'ing on the conflict,
than it was at the middle of
June, 1863. According to
the most careful estimates
made from the Confederate
official returns, there were
then at least five hundred
tlioiisaiid men on the army
rolls, and more than Uiree
hundred thousand "present
and fit for duty." Fully one-
half of the white men of the
Confederacy eligible to mili-
tar},' duty were then en-
rolled for active service,
while a large proportion of the other half were in the civil and military service in other capacities.
Doubtless at least seven-tenths of the white adults were then in public business; while a large number of
slaves, though legall}' emancipated, were employed in various labors, such as working on fortifications, as
teamsters, etc. The following is the form of a voucher held by the Confederate government as the
employer of slaves for such purposes. It is copied from the original before me:

"We, the subscribers, acknowledge'to have received of John B. Stannard, First Corps of Engineers, the sums set opposite our names
respectively, being in full for the services of our slaves on Drewry's Bluff, during the months of March and April, 1863, having signed
dupUcate receipts.

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Richmond seemed secure from harm. Charleston was defiant, and with reason. Vicksburg and
Port Hudson on the Mississippi, though seriously menaced, seemed impregnable against any force Grant
or Banks might array before them; and the appeals of General Johnston, near Jackson, for reinforcements,
were regarded as notes of unnecessar^• alarm. The Confederates were encouraged by their friends in
Europe with promises of aid; and the desires of these for the acknowledgment of the independence of
the "Confederate States of America" were strongly manifested. In England, public movements in favor
of the Confederates were then prominent. Open-air meetings, organized by members of the aristocracy,
were held, for the purpose of urging the British government to declare such recognition; and in the
spring of 1864 a "Southern Independence Association" was formed with a British peer (Lord Whamcliflfe)
as president, and a membership composed of powerful representatives of the Church, State, and Trade.

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But the British government wisely hesitated; and notwithstanding the unpatriotic Peace-Faction in the
city of New York had, six months before (November, 1862), waited upon Lord Lyons, the British minister
at Washington, with an evident desire to have his government interfere in our affairs, and thus secure

the independence of the Confederates, and the emissaries of the con-
spirators were specially active in Europe, the British ministry, restrained
by the good Queen, steadih' refused to take decided action in the matter.
Only the Roman Pontiff, then a temporal prince, of all the rulers of the
earth officially recognized Jefferson Davis as the head of a real govern-
ment.

At the same time, a scheme of the emperor of the French for the
destruction of the Republic of Mexico, and the establishment there of a
monarchy ruled bj' a man of his own selection, and pledged to act in the
interests of despotism, the Roman Catholic Church and the promotion of
the domination of the Latin race, was in successful operation, by means
of twenty thousand French soldiers and five thousand allied Mexicans.
In this movement, it is alleged, the leaders of the great insurrection were
^^■^ the secret allies of the emperor, it being understood that as soon as he

^^^E . should obtain a firm footing in Mexico he should, for valuable commercial

^^^K J considerations agreed upon, acknowledge the independence of the Con-

^^Vk^. , 'y '^*^ federate States, and uphold it by force of arms if necessary; it also being

^Bi SJg .- -^-^-mJI understood that the government which Davis and his associates were to

John C. Breckenridge, C. S. A. establish at the close of hostilities should, in no wise, offend Napoleon's

imperialistic ideas. The slave-holding class were to be a privileged one,
and be the rulers, and the great mass of the people were to be subordinated to the interests of that class.
Therefore, the triumphal march of the French invaders of Mexico, in the spring of 1863, was hailed with
delight by the governuicut at Richmond, while the great mass of the people were ignorant of the conspiracy
on foot to deprive them of their sacred rights.

At the same time the perfidious emperor was deceiving the Confederate leaders concerning his real
and deeper designs, which were both political and ecclesiastical. His political design evidently was to
arrest the march of empire southward on the part of the United States. His religious design was to
assist the Church party in Mexico, which had been defeated in 1857, in a recovery of its power, that the
Roman Catholic Church might have undisputed sway in Central America. In a letter to the Spanish
General Prim, in July, 1862, the Emperor, after saying that the United States fed the factories of Europe
with cotton, and asserting that it was not the interest of European governments to have our country
hold dominion over the Gulf of Mexico, the Antilles, and the adjacent continent, he declared that if,
with the assistance of France, Mexico should have a "stable government" — that is, a monarchy — "we
shall have restored to the Latin race upon the opposite side of the ocean, its strength and prestige; we shall
have guaranteed then security to our colonies in the Antilles, and to those of Spain; we shall have
established our beneficent influence in the centre of America; and in this
influence, by creating immense openings to our commerce, will procure to
7(5 the matter indispensable to our industry" — that is, cotton. This con-
templated blow against our great cotton interest w-as a prime element in
Napoleon's scheme, for the consummation of which he coquetted with
the Confederate leaders, and deceived them.

The Confederate government, greatly elated by the events at
Chancellorsville, ordered Lee to invade Maryland again. His force was
now almost equal in numbers to that of his antagonist, and in better
spirits than were the A rmy of the Potomac. By a sudden flank movement,
Lee caused Hooker to break up his encampment on the Rappahannock
and move toward Washington, after some sharp cavalry fights above
Fredericksburg. General Ewell, in command of Lee's left wing, was sent
into the Shenandoah Valley through Chester Gap, and sweeping down
toward the Potomac, drove General Milroy and seven thousand National
troops across that stream, on the 15th of June. Meanwhile Longstreet,
with a strong force, moved along the eastern bases of the Blue Ridge,
watching for an opportunity to fall on Washington city; while Hooker
moved in a parallel line to thwart him. Several cavalry engagements General j. B. McPherson

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ensued; and fifteen hundred mounted Confederates dashed across the Potomac in pursuit of Milroy's
wagon-train. They pushed up the Cumberland Valley as far as Chambersburg, plundering the people
and causing intense alarm in all Pennsylvania.

Lee had, by skillful movements, kept Hooker in doubt as to his real object, until Ewell's corps had
crossed the Potomac above Harper's Ferry on the 2 2d and 23d of June,
and marched rapidly up the Cumberland Valley to within a few iniles
of the Susquehanna opposite Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania.
Another large body of Confederates, led by General Early, pushed on
through Gettysburg to York, on the Susquehanna, le\r3'ing contributions
on friend and foe alike. Ewell and Early were speedity followed by
Hill and Longstreet (June 25, 1863), and again the whole of Lee's army
was in Maryland and Pennsylvania. It seemed, at one time, as if
nothing could prevent that arm}' penetrating to the Schujdkill and even
to the Hudson. The panic north of the Potomac was intense. Valuable
goods that were portable were sent from Philadelphia to points above
the Hudson Highlands, for safety. The people flew to arms everj^where
to oppose the invaders.

The Ar»iy of the Potomac was now one hundred thousand strong.
It was thrown across the river into Marydand, at and near Edwards's
Ferry. Halleck (the general-in-chief) and Hooker differed most de-
cidedly in opinions about some important military movements that were
proposed, when the latter resigned and was succeeded by General George
G. Meade, who held the command of that army until the close of the
war. Meade entered upon his duties at Frederick (June 28) in Mar>'-

land, where the Army of the Potomac lay, ready to strike Lee's communications or to attack him
circumstances might dictate.

Lee was preparing to cross the Susquehanna and push on to Philadelphia, when news reached him
that the reinforced Army of the Potomac was threatening his flank and rear. Alarmed by this intelligence
and the rapid gathering of the yeomanry on his front, he ordered the concentration of his army near
Gettysburg, with the intention of crushing Meade's forces by a single blow, and then marching on
Baltimore and Washington; or, in case of failure, to secure a direct line of retreat into Virginia. In the
meantime Meade was pushing toward the Susquehanna with cautious movement; and on the evening
of the 30th of June he discovered Lee's evident intention to give battle at once.

The National cavalrj', meanwhile, had been carefully reconnoitering ; and on the previous day,
Kilpatrick's mounted men had a sharp fight at Hanover, a few miles from Gettysburg, with some of
Stuart's cavalry, and, assisted bj^ General Custer, defeated them. Buford's division of National cavalry
entered Gettysburg the same day; and the next day the left wing of Meade's army, led by General J. F.

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Reynolds, arrived near there.

General John McA. Schofield

At the same time the corps of Hill and Longstreet were approaching
from Chambersburg, and Ewell was marching down from Carlisle in full
force. That night Buford's cavalry, six thousand strong, encamped be-
tween Reynolds and Hill.

On the morning of the first of July, Buford met the van of Lee's
army, led by General Heth, between Seminary Ridge, a little out of
Gettysburg, and a parallel ridge a little further west, when a sharp
skirmish ensued. Reynolds, who was a few miles distant, hastened to
the relief of Buford, and in a severe battle that followed, he was killed,
and General Abner Doubleday took command of his troops. In the
meantime General O. O. Howard came up with his corps. Lee's troops
were then concentrated there, and the battle soon assumed grander pro-
portions. The Nationals were finally pressed back; and under the
general direction of Howard, they took a strong position on a range of
rocky hills near Gettysburg, of which Gulp's Hill and Little Round Top
were the two extremes of the line, and Cemetery Hill, at the village, was
the apex. There the Nationals rested that night, and the Confederates
occupied Seminary Ridge.

General Meade, with the remainder of the Arjny of the Potomac, now
hastened to Gettysburg, and he and Lee prepared cautiously to renew

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the battle. It did not begin until the middle of the afternoon of the 2d, when Lee fell, with great'weight,
upon Meade's left w^ng commanded by General Sickles. A most sanguinan," battle ensued, extending
to the centre on Cemetery Hill, where General Hancock was in command. Heavy masses of Confederates
were hurled against him, and these were thrown back with fearful losses on both sides. Meanwhile there
had been a terrible struggle on the right and centre of the Nationals, where Generals Slocum and Howard
were in command, the former on Gulp's Hill, and the latter on Cemetery Hill. Against these a large
portion of Ewell's corps had been sent. The latter were pushed back by Howard, but seized and occupied
the works of Slocum, on the extreme right of Gulp's Hill, that night. The battle ended at sunset on
the left, but it was continued until about ten o'clock that night on the right.

Slocum renewed the battle at four o'clock on the morning of the 3d, when he drove the Confederates
out of his lines after a hard struggle for four hours. There he held Ewell in check, while the contest raged
elsewhere. Lee, perceiving the Little Round Top — a steep, rocky eminence — to be impregnable, proceeded,
at a little past noon, to attack the more vulnerable centre. Upon this he opened one hundred and forty-five
heavy cannon, chiefly against Cemetery Hill and its vicinity, occupied by Meade's centre. A hundred
National great guns quickl}^ answered; and for two hours a fearful cannonade that shook the country
around was kept up. Then the Confederates, in hea\y columns, preceded by a cloud of skirmishers,

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swept over the plain and assailed the National line with great furv'. It was intended by Lee to give a
crushing blow that should ensure victory. A terrible struggle followed, that covered the ground with
the slain — men and horses. At sunset the Confederates were repulsed at all points; and the decisive
battle of Gettysburg ended in triumph for the Army of the Potomac. In that fearful struggle, the Nationals
lost in killed, wounded and missing, over twenty-three thousand men; the Confederates lost about thirty
thousand, including fourteen thousand prisoners.

On the evening of the day after the battle (July 4, 1863) Lee began a retreat toward Virginia, followed
the next day by IMeade, who pursued as far as the Potomac, which had been filled to the brim by heavy
rains; but the Confederate leader, by skillful management, kept the Nationals at bay until he had made
ready to cross that stream by pontoons and fording. This he did wath his shattered army, his artillery
and trains, on the 14th of July, much to the disappointment of the loyal people. Perceiving the battle
to be a decisive one in favor of the Union cause, and beheving it to be a turning point in the war, the
President of the United States recommended the people to observe the 15 th of August next ensuing as
a day for public National thanksgiving, praise and prayer. And the Secretary of State (Mr. Seward),
satisfied that the insurrection would soon be ended by the discomfiture of its supporters, sent a cheering
circular to the diplomatic agents of the Republic abroad, in which he recited the most important events
of the war to that time; declared that "the country' showed no sign of exhaustion of money, material
or men"; that one loan was "purchased at par by our citizens at the rate of $1,200,000 daily"; and
that gold was selling in our markets at 23 to 28 per centum premium.

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CHAPTER XXI.

Partisan Opposition to the Government — Knights of the Golden Circle — The Draft Riots in New York — Colored Troops in New York —
Morgan's Great Raid — Meade and Lee in Virginia — Operations of the Two Armies in Virginia — Raid in Western Virginia — Rose-
crans and Bragg in Tennessee — Streight's Great Raid — Bragg Driven to and from Chattanooga — Burnside in East Tennessee —
Battle of Chickamauga — The Army at Chattanooga — Division of Mississippi — Battle at Wauhatchie — The Mule Charge — Events
in East Tennessee — Battle on Lookout Mountain and on Missionary Ridge — Operations against Charleston — Robert Small— Death
of General Mitchel.

WHILE the loyal peoiDle were rejoicing because of the great deliverance at Gettysburg, and the
Government was preparing for a final and decisive struggle with its foes, leading politicians of
the Peace-Faction, evidenth- in affiliation w4th members of the disloyal organization known as
Knights oj the Golden Circle, were using every means in their power to defeat the patriotic purposes of the
National Administration, and to
stir up the people of the free-labor
States to engage in a counter-revo-
lution.

The association called Knights
of the Golden Circle was organized,
it is said, as early as 1835, bj^ some
•of the leaders who were engaged in
the nullification movements in
South Carolina two or three years
before. Its chief objects were
the separation of the Union politi-
•cally, at the line between the
free-labor and slave-labor States;
the seizure of some of the richest
portions of Mexico and the Island
of Cuba, and the establishment of
an empire whose comer - stone
should be Slavery. The bounds of
that empire were within a circle,
the centre of which was at Havana,
in Cuba, with a radius of sixteen
■degrees of latitude and longitude,
reaching northward to the Penn-
sylvania border and southward to
the Isthmus of Darien and even
beyond. It would include the
West India Islands and those of
the Caribbean Sea, with a large
part of Eastern Mexico and the
whole of Central America. The

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limits of this empire the projectors
called "The Golden Circle," and
the members of the association, "Knights of the Golden Circle," who formed the soul of all the "fili-
bustering" operations before the breaking out of the Civil War, from 1850 to 1857. When these failed,
their energies were put forth for the destruction of the Union. "Castles" or "lodges," with a secret
ritual, were formed in various Southern States, and their membership included many active politicians
north of the Ohio River, in 1863.

These disloyal men in the northern States, countenanced by the unpatriotic Peace-Faction, became
ver\^ vehement in their opposition to the Government when, in the summer of 1S63, a draft or conscription
to fill up the ranks of the army, which had been authorized by Congress, was put into operation by the
President. This act, the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the arrest of seditious
men, and other measures which the Government deemed necessan,' for the maintenance of the National
authority, were denounced by the leaders of the party opposed to Mr. Lincoln's administration, as

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unconstitutional and outrageous. Instigated by raving political leaders, inflammatory speeches, and the
daily utterances of the press that was in sympathy with the opponents of the draft, a mob, composed
largely of the lower class of the Irish population in the city of New York, entered upon a fearful riot there
early in July. It prevailed for almost three days. The immediate pretext for the disturbance was the
alleged oppression of the draft. The riot was begun by destroying the telegraph wires extending out of
the city. Then the rioters paraded some of the streets and forced citizens to join them; and after first
uttering cries against the draft, they yelled, ' ' Down with the Abolitionists ! Down with the nigger ! Hurrah
for Jeff Davis!" The special objects of their wrath were the innocent colored people and their friends.
Arson and plunder, maiming and murder, were their business and recreation. Men and women were
clubbed to death in the streets, hung on lamp-posts or butchered in their houses. The infuriated rioters
laid in ashes an asylum for colored orphan children; and the terrified inmates, who fled in every direction,
were pursued, and some of the poor children were cruelly beaten and maimed. The colored people
throughout the city were hunted and treated as if they were noxious wild beasts, and many fled to the
country. Finally the police, aided b}' troops, suppressed the insurrection in the city, but not until several
hundred human lives had been lost, and property to the amount of at least $2,000,000 was destroyed.

This riot seems to have
been only an irregular mani-
festation of an organized
outbreak in New York city
simultaneously with a sim-
ilar insurrection projected
in some of the western cities.
But the draft went on in
spite of all opposition; and
the Knights of the Golden
Circle and the Peace-Fac-
tion were discomfited. The
turn of affairs at Gettysburg
made them more circum-
spect . The}' hesitated ; and
finally they postponed in-
definitely an attempt to ex-
ecute their scheme. And
six months after the terrible
"three days of July" —
13th, 14th and 15th — in the
city of New York, when no
colored person's life was
considered safe there, a reg-
iment of negro soldiers,
raised and equipped by the Loyal League of that city, marched down Broadway — its great thoroughfare — •
for the field of battle, escorted by many of the leading citizens of the metropolis, and cheered by thousands
who covered the sidewalks and filled windows and balconies.

At about that time, the notorious guerrilla chief, John Morgan, made a famous raid through KentucKV,
Southern Indiana and Ohio, entering Indiana from Kentucky, below Louisville, on the 8th of July, with
about four thousand mounted men. This raid was intended as a signal for the uprising of the disloyal
men in those States in favor of the Confederates. The lesson taught at Gettysburg was heeded, and
they were quiet. But there was a marvellous uprising of sixty thousand loyal yeomen of Indiana and
Ohio to capture or expel the invaders. Morgan went swiftly through the country', from village to village,
plundering, destroying, and le\'vnng contributions. He first encountered stout resistance from Indiana
militia, and was soon closely pursued by those of Ohio. Finally this bold raider was hemmed in and
made a prisoner, with many of his followers, in southeastern Ohio, late in July, and the remainder were
killed or dispersed.

Three days after General Lee escaped into Virginia, General Meade crossed the Potomac to follow
his flying antagonist. The Nationals marched rapidly along the eastern base of the Blue Ridge, while
the Confederates as rapidly went up the Shenandoah Valley, after trying to check Meade by threatening
to re-enter Marjdand. Failing in this, Lee hastened to avert the danger that menaced his front and

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flank. During that exciting race, several skirmishes occurred in the mountain passes; when Lee, by a
quick and skillful movement while Meade was detained at ]Manassas Gap by a heavy skirmish, darted
through Chester Gap, and crossing the Rappahannock, took a position between that stream and
the Rapid an.
Meade advanced
cautiously, and at
the middle of Sep-
tember, he crossed
the Rappahannock
and drove Lee be-
yond the Rapi-
dan, when the lat-
ter took a strongly
defensive position.
Meanwhile the Na-
tional cavalry un-
der Buf ord and Kil-
patrick had been
active between the
two rivers, and had
frequent skirmishes
with Stuart's
mounted troops.

Lee now at-
tempted to turn the
right flank of the
Army of the Poto-
mac to gain its rear
and march rapidly

on Washington. He had moved some distance for this purpose before Meade discovered his peril. Then
a third race for the National Capital by the two armies over nearly the same course occurred. The
Army of the Potomac won it, reaching Centreville Heights on the 15th of October. It was a race marked
by the most stirring incidents, for there was much scouting and skirmishing on the way. At JefTersonton,
the National cavalr>' under General Gregg were routed ; and at Auburn, the seat of John Minor Botts,
a prominent Virginia statesman, Stuart, with two thousand Confederate cavalr\', came ver>' near being
captured. From that point to Bristow's Station the race was sharp, for Centreville Heights was the goal.
At Bristow's, a severe engagement occurred between the corps of Generals Warren and Hill. The latter
was joined by that of Ewell; but before they could fall upon Warren, he withdrew in the night (October
14) and joined Meade at Centreville on the morning of the 15th.

The race was ended at Bristow's Station. Lee was beaten, and fell back to the Rappahannock,
destroying the railway behind him. Meade repaired the road, and following Lee slowly, attacked him at
Rappahannock Station early in November. A very sharp battle ensued. It was fought by detachments
of the Fifth and Si.xth corps, under General Sedgwick; and it was ended by a gallant charge on a redoubt
and rifle-trenches. These were carried in the face of a tempest of grape-shot and minie bullets, when the
Nationals swept down to a pontoon bridge, cut off the retreat of the Confederates from the abandoned
works, made over sixteen hundred of them prisoners, and drove Lee's army toward Culpepper Court-
House. There the latter had proposed to go into winter quarters; but this disaster alarmed him, and
he sought safety from his pursuer behind the Rapidan. His force was then fifty thousand strong,
and Meade's numbered seventy thousand. With these the latter crossed the Rappahannock and lay
quietly between the two rivers until late in November, while Lee occupied a line of strong defences along
Mine Run.

Feeling strong enough for the enterprise, Meade proceeded, on the 26th of November, to attempt a
dislodgment of his antagonist. He crossed the Rapidan on that day, and pushed on in the direction
of his foe. General Warren, in the advance, opened a battle; but Meade soon perceived that the Con-
federates were too strongly intrenched and weighty in numbers to give him hopes of success, and he
withdrew. The Army of the Potomac went into winter-quarters on the north side of the Rapidan:
and so was ended the campaign of that army for the year 1863.

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There had been comparative quiet in Western Virginia since the autumn of 1861 ; but in the summer
and fall of 1863, that quiet was broken by an extensive raid over that region by National cavalry led by
General W. W. Averill, who, before the close of the year, nearly purged West Virginia of armed Confed-
erates, and seriously interrupted railway communication between the army of Lee in Virginia and Bragg
in Tennessee. We left the last-named officer and Rosecrans confronting each other in Tennessee, after
the battle of Murfreesboro' ; Bragg below the Duck River and Rosecrans at the scene of the battle. The
two armies held that relative position from January to June, 1863 ; while the cavalry forces of each were
active in minor operations. Confederate cavalry, four thousand strong, led by Generals Wharton and
Forrest, attempted to capture Fort Donelson early in February, but failed. A little later General Van
Dorn, with a considerable force of cavalry, was near FrankHn, below Nashville, threatening Rosecrans's
supplies at the latter place. In March,
General Sheridan drove Van Dorn south
of the Duck River; and in the same
month Morgan was operating with con-
siderable effect eastward of Murfrees-
boro'. Van Dorn reappeared near
Franklin, early in April, with about
nine thousand Confederates; and on
the loth he attacked the Nationals
there, who were commanded by General
Gordon Granger. \'an Dorn intended,
if he won, to push on and seize Nash-
ville; but he was repulsed, and retired
to Spring Hill with a loss of about three
hundred men.

In the meantime Rosecrans had
sent out expeditions in various ways,
the most remarkable of which was led
by Colonel A. D. Streight, who left
Nashville in steamers, debarked his
troops at Fort Donelson, marched over
to the Tennessee River, and moved up
that stream to the borders of Mississippi and Alabama, getting horses by the way for the purpose of
mounting his men. The latter service was nearly completed at Tuscumbia; and from that point Streight,
with his troopers, swept in a curve bending eastward, through Alabama into Georgia, in the rear of
Bragg's army. Their chief objects were Rome, where the Confederates had extensive iron-works, and
Atlanta, the centre of an important system of railroads. They were pursued by the cavalrj'^ of Forrest
and Roddy, and these parties skirmished and raced until Streight was within a few miles of Rome, when
his exhausted horses and his ammunition failed him. Manj^ of the poor beasts died; and when, on the
3d of May (1863), the raiders were struck by their pursuers, the former were compelled to surrender.
The captives were sent to Richmond and confined in the loathsome Libby Prison, from which Streight
and one hundred of his officers escaped by burrowing under the foundations of that edifice.

The Army of the Cumberland, in three divisions, commanded respectively by Generals Thomas,
McCook and Crittenden, began its march from Murfreesboro' to Chattanooga, in northern Georgia,
late in June. Bragg was then strongly intrenched on the line of the Duck River, but was pushed back
to Tullahoma; and when he saw Rosecrans seize the mountain passes on his front, and seriously menace
his flank, he turned and fled without giving a blow, his antagonist pressing hard upon his rear. Having
the advantage of railway communication, the retreating army ver>' easily kept ahead of their pursuers,
and passing rapidly over the Cumberland Mountains toward the Tennessee River, they crossed that
stream at Bridgeport, destroying the bridge behind them, and made a rapid march to Chattanooga.

The expulsion of Bragg's army from Tennessee alarmed and disheartened the Confederates, and
they felt that everything depended on their holding Chattanooga, the key to East Tennessee and northern
Georgia. Toward that point the Army of the Cumberland moved slowh^; and late in August it had crossed
the mountains, and was stretched along the Tennessee River from above Chattanooga, many a league
westward. On the 21st of August, National artillery' placed on the eminence opposite Chattanooga
awakened the mountain echoes with their thunder, and sent screaming shells over the Confederate camp.
Bragg was startled by a sense of immediate danger; and when, soon afterward, Generals Thomas and

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McCook crossed the Tennessee, with their corps, and took possession of the passes of Lookout Mountain
■on Bragg's flank, and Crittenden took post at Wauhatchie, in Lookout Valley, nearer the river, the
'Confederates abandoned Chattanooga, passed through the gaps of Missionary Ridge and encamped on

the Chickamauga Creek near Lafayette, in northern Georgia, there to
meet expected National forces when pressing through the gaps of Look-
out Mountain and threatening their communications with Dalton and
Resaca. From the lofty summit of Lookout Mountain, Crittenden had
observed the retreat of Bragg from the Tennessee River, and he imme-
diately led his forces into the Chattanooga Valley and encamped at
Ross's Gap in Missionary Ridge, within three miles of the town.

General Bumside was then in command of the Army of the Ohio, and
had been ordered to co-operate with Rosecrans. With twenty thousand
men he climbed over the Cumberland Mountains into the magnificent
Valley of East Tennessee, his baggage and stores carried, in many places,
on the backs of pack-mules. On his entering the Valley, twenty thou-
sand Confederates in East Tennessee, commanded by General Buckner,
fled to Georgia and joined Bragg, when Bumside took a position near
the Tennessee River, so as to have easy communication with Rosecrans
at Chattanooga. The latter, meanwhile, erroneoush' supposing Bragg
had begun a retreat toward Rome, had pushed through the mountain
passes, when he was surprised to find that general, instead of retreating,
concentrating his forces to attack the attenuated line of the Nationals,
the extremities of which were fifty miles apart. Rosecrans proceeded at
■once to concentrate his own forces ; and very soon the two armies were confronting each other in battle
array, on each side of Chickamauga Creek, in the vicinity of Crawfish Spring, each line extending toward
the slopes of Missionary Ridge. General Thomas, who was on the extreme left of the National line,
opened the battle on the morning of the 19th of September. It raged with great fierceness until dark,
when the Nationals seemed to have the advantage. That night General Longstreet, whom Lee had
sent from Virginia to assist Bragg, arrived with fresh troops which swelled the Confederate army to
seventy thousand men, and gave to it a far better soldier than the chief leader. Rosecrans's army did
not then exceed, in number, fifty-five thousand men.

On the morning of the 20th the contest was renewed after a thick fog had risen from the earth.
There was a fearful struggle. A furious charge upon the National right had shattered it into frag-
ments, and these fled in disorder toward Chattanooga. This tide carried with it the troops led by
Rosecrans, Crittenden and McCook; and the commanding-general, unable to join Thomas, and
believing the whole army would speedily be hurr\-ing pell-mell toward Chattanooga, hastened to
that place to provide for
rallying them there. Gen-
erals Sheridan and J. C.
Davis rallied a part of these
troops, and Thomas stood
Arm, frustrating ever>' effort
to turn his flank. Fort}^-
eight hours after the battle
the army, which had been
withdrawn to Chattanooga,
was strongly intrenched
there.

Victory crowned the
Confederates in the battle
of Chickamauga, but at the
fearful cost of about twenty-
one thousand men killed,
wounded, and made pris-
oners. The Nationals lost
about nineteen thousand
men. During the contest a

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little volunteer soldier named John Clem, then about twelve years of age, performed a deed of daring.
He had been in the thickest of the fight when, separated from his companions, he was seen running with
a musket in his hand by a mounted Confederate colonel, who called out, "Stop! you little Yankee devil!"

The boy halted, with his musket to an order, when the colonel rode up
to make him a prisoner. Young Clem, with swift motion, brought up
his gun and shot the colonel dead. The boy escaped; and for this
achievement he was made a sergeant, put on duty at the headquarters-
of the Army of the Cumberland, and placed on the roll of honor by General
Rosecrans. He grew to manhood, married, and held a position in one
of the departments of Government in Washington.

For a time the vanquished army suffered much at Chattanooga, for
communication with their supplies by the Tennessee was cut off, the
Confederates occupying Lookout Mountain and commanding that
stream. Bragg hoped to starve his foes into submission. He strove to
deprive them of all supplies, and severe struggles between detachment ;
of the two armies were the consequences. Bragg failed. The National
Government had determined to hold Chattanooga, and orders were given
for the consolidation of the armies of the Ciunberland and Tennessee,
constituting the military division of the Mississippi, with General Grant
as commander-in-chief. He had secured the free navigation of the Mis-
sissippi River, after the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, by driving^
the Confederates, under Johnston, from the vicinity and strongly forti-
fying the first-named place; and when he took command of the new
division, General Sherman was made the leader of the Army of the Tennessee, and General Thomas was
placed in command of the Army of the Cumberland, Rosecrans having been ordered to St. Louis.

When Grant arrived at Chattanooga, he ordered Hooker, who was at Bridgeport, to advance ta
Lookout Valley, menace Bragg's flank, and protect the passage of supplies up the Tennessee to within
a short distance from the famishing armies. This was promptly done. Hooker's main force took post
at Wauhatchie, where he was attacked before daylight on the morning of the 2Qth of October. After a
battle for three hours in the darkness, the Confederates were beaten and driven away. An amusing
incident of this struggle occurred. When it began, about two hundred mules, frightened by tlic noise,
broke from their tethers and dashed into the ranks of Wade Hampton's legion, and produced a great
panic. The Confederates supposed it to be a charge of Hooker's cavalry, and fell back, at first, in great
confusion. The incident was a theme for a mock-heroic poem of six stanzas in imitation of Tennyson's
"Charge of the Light Brigade," two verses of which were as follows:

Gener.\l J. C. Pemberton

"Forward, the mule brigade — ■
Was there a mule dismay'd?
Not when their long ears felt
All their ropes sundered.
Theirs not to make reply —
Theirs not to reason why —
Theirs but to make them fly —
On! to the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.

' Mules to the right of them —
Mules to the left of them —
Mules all behind thcm^

Paw'd, neigh'd, and thundered;
Breaking their own confines —
Breaking through Longstrect's lines-
Testing chivalric spines,
Into the Georgia troops

Storm'd the two hunjred."

After this battle, the Tennessee was free for vessels with supplies for the National troops, and the
two armies lay confronting each other, only about three
miles apart.

Meanwhile there had been stirring events in the Val-
ley of East Tennessee, where Burnside was trying to expel
the Confederates. In these efforts he had spread his army
considerably. Perceiving this, Bragg sent Longstreet to
the Valley with a strong force to seize Knox vi lie and drive
out the Nationals. He advanced swiftly and secretly;
and on the 20th of October he struck a startling blow at
Burnside's outposts at Philadelphia. In obedience to a
command from Grant, the latter concentrated his forces
(Ninth Army Corps), fell back to Knoxville, and there
intrenched. Longstreet pressed forward, and after some Genlkal I'lmi.l.ki.

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John Burns' Cottage at Gettysburg

fighting by the way, he began a regular siege of Knoxville at the middle of November. He continued it
to the close of the month, when Generals Granger and Sherman were sent to the relief of Bumside, and

caused the swift flight of Longstreet toward Virginia.
By this blunder, Bragg had lost the support of this superior
commander.

Hostilities had again occurred near Chattanooga.
General Sherman arrived there, with his army, from the
West. So strengthened. Grant determined to attack
Bragg in the absence of Longstreet. On the 23d of No-
vember, General Thomas seized a commanding eminence
in front of Missionary Ridge, called Orchard Knob, and
fortified it; and Hooker was ordered to attack Bragg's
left, on Lookout Mountain, the next morning, to divert
attention from the movements of Sherman, who was to
cross the Tennessee, above Chattanooga, and fall upon
Bragg's right, on the Ridge. Hooker moved with vigor,
fighting his way up the rugged wooded steeps of Lookout Mountain with musket, rifie and cannon, driving
the Confederates before him. During the heaviest of the struggle the mountain was hooded in vapor
that arose from the Tennessee and hid the combatants from the view of the anxious spectators at Chat-
tanooga. They could hear the thunders of the artillery, but the warriors were invisible. It was literally
a battle in the clouds. Finally the Confederates were driven to the summit; and that night they fled
down the northern slopes to the Chattanooga Valle}', and joined their commander on Missionary Ridge.
In the crisp air and the sunlight, the next morning, the Stars and Stripes was seen waving over "Pulpit
Rock," on the crest of Lookout IMountain, from which, a few days before, Jefferson Davis had harangued
the troops, assuring them that all was well with the Confederacy.

Sherman, in the meantime, had crossed the Tennessee River and secured a position on the northern
end of Missionary Ridge, on which Bragg had concentrated all his forces, and there the Confederates were
attacked on front and flank on the 25th of November. Hooker came down from Lookout Mountain, and
entering Ross's Gap, attacked Bragg's left, while Sherman was assailing his right. There was a fearful
struggle, beheld with intense interest by General Grant, who stood on Orchard Knob and directed the
movements of the National army. At length the centre, under General Thomas, moved up the declivities;
and very soon the Confederates were driven from the Ridge, when they fled toward Ringgold, followed by a
portion of the National army. At Ringgold, a sharp engagement occurred, when the Confederates retreated
to Dalton, the Nationals fell back, and Sherman hastened to the relief of Bumside, as already mentioned.
General Grant reported the Union loss, in the series of struggles which ended in victory at Missionary
Ridge, at five thousand six hundred and sixteen, in killed, wounded, and missing. The Confederate loss-
was about three thousand one hundied killed and wounded, and a little more than six thousand prisoners.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

APRIL, 1864 — Continued from Section 10
6 — Quicksand Creek. Ky. Co. I 14th Ky. Confed. 10 killed, 7 wounded.
7 — Wilson's Farm, La. Advance Cavalry of Nineteenth Corps. Union 14

killed, 39 wounded. Confed. 15 killed. 40 wounded. 100 captured.
Near Port Hudson. La. Detachment USth 111.. 3d 111. Cav.. 21st N. Y.

Battery. Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.
8 and 9 — Sabine Cross Roads and. Pleasant Hills, La. Portions of Thir-
teenth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth Corps and Cavalrv Division j^rmy

of Dept. of the Gulf. Uyiion 300 killed. 1,600 wounded. 2.100 missing.

Confed. 600 killed. 2.400 wounded. 500 missing. Union Ma3.-Gen.

Franklin and Brig. -Gen. Ransom wounded. Confed. Maj.-Gen.

Moulton and Brig. -Gen. Parsons killed.
10 to 13 — Prairie D'Ann. Ark. 3d Division Seventh Corps. Union 100

killed and wounded. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
12 — Pleasant Hill Landing. La. Seventeenth Corps and U. S. Gunboats

Osa^e and Lexington. Union 7 wounded. Confed. 200 killed and

wounded.
13 — Moscow. Ark. ISth Iowa, 6th Kan. Cav.. 2d Ind. Battery. Union 5

killed, 17 wounded. Confed. 30 killed and wounded.
13 and 14 — Paintsville and Half-Mount. Ky. Ky. Volunteers. Union 4

wounded. Confed. 25 killed, 25 wounded.
14— Smithfield or Cherry Grove. Va. 9th N. J.. 23d and 25th Mass., 118th

N. Y. Union 5 wounded. Confed. G wounded.
15 — Bristoe Station, Va. 13th Pa. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.
15 and 16 — Liberty P. O., and occupation of Camden, Ark. 29th Iowa. 50th

Ind., 9th Wis. Union 255 killed and wounded.
17 — Decatur, Ala. 25th Wis. Union 2 wounded.
17 to 20— Plymouth. N. C. 85th N. Y., 103d Pa.. 16th Conn, and the Navy.

Union 20 killed. 80 wounded, 1,500 missing. Confed. 500 killed,

wounded and missing. Lieut. -Com. Flusser, U. S. N.. killed.
18 — Poison Springs, eight miles from Camden. Ark. Forage train guarded

by ISth Iowa, 79th U. S. Colored. 6th Kan. Cav. Union 113 killed,

88 wounded, 68 missing.
Boyken's Mills, S. C. 54th Mass., U. S. Colored. Union 2 killed, IS

wounded.
21— Cotton Plate. Cache River, Ark. 8th Mo. Cav. U7tion 5 killed. 2

wounded.
Red Bone. Miss.. 2d Wis. Cav. Union 1 killed, 6 wounded.
M — Near Tunica Bend. Red River, La. Three Cos. 3d R. I. Cav. Union 2

killed, 17 wounded,
as— Nickajack Trace. Ga. Detachment of 92d 111. Union 5 killed. 9

wounded. 22 taken prisoners, of whom 12 were shot down and 6 died

from wounds.
23 and 24 — Moneti's Bluff, Cane River and Cloutersville, La. Portion of

Thirteenth, Seventh and Nineteenth Corps. Union 350 killed and

ivounded. Confed. 400 killed and wounded.
25— Mark's Mills. Ark. 36th Iowa, 77th Ohio. 43d III.. 1st Ind. Cav.. 7th

Mo. Cav., Battery E 2d Mo. Light Artil. Union 100 killed. 2.i0

wounded. 100 missing. Confed. 110 killed. 22S wounded, 40 missing.
26 and 26 — Wautauga Bridge, Tenn. 10th Mich. Cav. Union 3 killed. 9

wounded.
26 — Moro Creek. Ark. 33d and 40th Iowa. 5th Kan.. 2d and 4th Mo.. 1st

Iowa Cav. Union 5 killed, 14 wounded.
29— Princeton. Ark. 40th Iowa. 43d 111.. 6th Kan. Cav., 3d 111. Battery.

Casualties not recorded.
30 — Jenkins' Ferry. Saline River, Ark. 3d Division of Seventh Corps

Union 200 killed, 955 wounded. Confed. 300 killed, 800 wounded.

MAY, 1864

1 — Jackson\'ille, Fla. 7th U. S. Colored. Union 1 killed.

1 to 8 — Hudnots Plantation and near Alexandria, La. Cavalry of Thir-
teenth and Nineteenth Corps. Union 33 killed, 87 wounded. Coji-
fed. 25 killed. 100 wounded.

2 — Gov. Moor's Plantation. La. Foraging of Detachment of 83d Ohio
and 3d R. I. Cav. Union 2 killed, 10 wounded.

3 — Red Clay, Ga. 1st Division of McCook's Cav. Union 10 killed and
wounded.
Richland. Ark. 2d Ark. Cav. Union 20 killed.

4 — Doubtful Caiion, Ariz. Detachment of 5th Cav. and 1st Cal. Cav.
Union 1 killed. 6 wounded. Confed. 10 killed. 20 wounded.

4 to 12 — Kautz's Cavalry Raid from Suffolk. Wall's Bridge. Stoney Creek
Station. Jarrett's Station, White's Bridge to Citv Point, Va. 5th and
11th Pa. Cav., 3d N. Y. Cav.. 1st D. C. Cav., 8th N. Y. Battery.
Union 10 killed, wounded and missing. Confed. 20 wounded. 50
prisoners.

4 to 13^ — ^Yazoo City expedition, including Benton and Vaughn, Miss. 1 1th,

72d and 76th 111., 5th III. Cav., 3d U. S. Colored Cav., 7th Ohio
Battery. Union 5 killed. 20 wounded.
5 — Ram Albermarle. Roanoke River, N. C. U. S. Gunboats, Ceres, Com-
modore Hull, Maltabesett. Sassacus, Seymour, '\Vyalitsi7ig, Miama and
Whitehead. Union 5 killed, 26 wounded. Confed. 57 captured.
Dunn's Bayou, Red River. La. 56th Ohio, on board U. S. Gunboat
Signal, steamer Covington and transport Warner. Union 35 killed. 65
wounded. 150 missing.

5 to 7 — Wilderness, Va. Army of the Potomac. Maj.-Gen. George G.

Meade; Second Corps. Maj.-Gen. Hancock; Fifth Corps. Maj.-Gen.
Warren; Sixth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Sedgwick; Ninth Corps. Maj.-Gen.
Burnside and Sheridan's Cavalry. Union 5,597 killed. 21,463
wounded. 10.677 missing. Confed. 2.000 killed. 6.000 wounded, 3.400
missing. Union Brig.-Gens. Wadsworth. Hays and Webb killed.
Confed. Gens. Jones and Pickett killed, and Longstreet, Pegram ,
Stafford, Hunter and Jennings wounded.

6 to 9 — Rocky Face Ridge. Ga.. including Tunnel Hill, Mill Creek Gap and

Buzzard's Roost. Army of the Cumberland. Maj-Gen. Thomas;
Army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. McPherson. Army of the Mis-
sissippi, Maj.-Gen. Sherman. Union 200 killed, 637 wounded. Confed.
600 killed and wounded.
• 6 — ^James River, near City Point. Va. U. S. Gunboat Commodore Jones.
Union 23 killed. 48 wounded.

6 and 7 — Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, near Chester Station, Va.

Portion of Tenth and Eighteenth Corps. Union 48 killed, 256

wounded. Confed. 50 killed, 200 wounded.
7 — Bayou La Mourie, La. Portion of Sixteenth Corps. Union 10 killed,

31 wounded.
8 — Todd's Tavern. Va. 2d Division Cavalry Corps Army of the Potomac.

Uyiion 40 killed, 150 wounded. Confed. 30 killed, 150 wounded.

8 to 18 — Spottsylvania. Fredericksburg Road. Laurel Hill and Ny River,

Va. Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen. Meade; Second Corps, Maj.-
Gen. Hancock; Fifth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Warren; Sixth Corps, Maj.-
Gen. Wright; Ninth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Burnside and Sheridan's
Cavalrv. Union 4,177 killed. 19.687 wounded. 2,577 missing. Confed.
1.000 'killed. 5,000 wounded. 3.000 missing. Union Maj.-Gen.
Sedgwick and Brig.-Gens. Rice. Owens, and Stevenson killed; Brig.-
Gens. Robertson, Bartlett, Morris and Baxter wounded. Confed,
Gens. Daniels and Perrin killed, Hayes and Walker wounded and
Maj.-Gen. Ed. Johnson and Brig-Gen. Stewart captured.
9 — Varnell's Station, Ga. 1st Div. McCook's Cav. Union 4 killed, 25
wounded.

9 and 10 — Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church, Va. Tenth and Eighteenth

Corps. Union 90 killed. 400 wounded. Confed. 500 missing.
Cloyd's Mountain and New River Bridge. Va. 12th. 23d. 34th and
36th Ohio. 9th Uth, 14th and 15th W. Va.. 3d and 4th Pa. Reserves.
Union 126 killed, 585 wounded. Confed. 600 killed and wounded,
300 missing.
9 to 13 — Sheridan's Cavalry Raid in Virginia, engagements Beaver Dam
Station. South Anna Bridge. Ashland and Yellow Tavern. Union
50 killed. 174 wounded. 200 missing. Confed. killed and wounded
not recorded, 100 prisoners. Confed. Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart
killed and J. B. Gordon wounded.
12 to 16 — Fort Darling, Drury's Bluff. Va. Tenth and Eighteenth Corps.
Union 422 killed. 2.380 wounded. 210 missing. Confed. 400 killed.
2,000 wounded. 100 missing,

12 to 17 — Kautz's Raid on Petersburg and Lynchburg Railroad. Va. Union

6 killed, 2S wounded.

13 to 16 — Resaca. Ga. Fourth. Fourteenth. T^rentieth and Cavalry Corps.

Army of the Cumberland, Maj.-Gen. I'homas; Fifteenth and Six-
teenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. McPherson, and
Twenty-third Corps. Army of the Ohio. Maj.-Gen. Schofield. Union
600 killed. 2.147 wounded. Confed. 300 killed, 1.500 wounded. I.OOO
missing. Confed. Brig.-Gen. Wadkins kil ed.
15 — Mount Pleasant Landing, La. 07th U. S. Colored. Union 3 killed, 5
wounded.

New Market. Va. Maj.-Gen. Sigel's command. Union 120 killed, 5G0
wounded, 240 missing. Confed. 85 killed, 320 wounded.

Tanner's Bridge, Ga. 2d Division Cavalrj', Army of the Cumberland.
Union 2 killed, 16 wounded.

IS to 30 — Bermuda Hundred, Va. Tenth and Eighteenth Corps. Army of

the James. Union 200 killed. 1,000 wounded. Confed. 3,000 killed,

wounded and missing.
17 and 18 — Adairsville and Calhoun, Ga. Fourtn Corps, Maj.-Gen. Howard.

Casualties not recorded.
IS — Rome and Kingston. Ga. 2d Division of Fourteenth Corps and Cavalry

Army of the Cumberland. Union 16 killed, 59 wounded.
Bayou De Glaize or Calhoun Station, Li. Portions of Sixteenth,

Seventeenth and Cavalry of Nineteenth Corps. Union 60 killed, 300

wounded. Confed. 500 killed and woundi.d.

19 to 22 — Cassville, Ga. Twentieth Corps. Maj.-Gen. Hooker. Union 10

killed, 40 wounded.
21 — Mt. Pleasant, Miss. 4th Mo. Cav. Union 2 killed, 1 wounded.
23 to 27 — North Anna River, Jericho Ford or Taylor's Bridge and Talo-

potomy Creek. Va. Second. Fifth and Ninth Corps. Army of the

Potomac. Maj.-Gen. Meade. Union 223 killed, 1.4G0 wounded, 290

missing. Confed. 2,000 killed and wounded.
24 — Holly Springs. Miss. 4th Mo. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.'

Wilson's Wharf. Va. 10th U. S. Colored, 1st D. C. Cavalry. Battery B

U. S. Colored Artil. Union 2 killed. 24 wounded. Confed. 20 killed,

100 wounded.
Nashville. Tenn. 15th U. S. Colored. Union 4 killed, 8 wounded.

25 to June 4 — Dallas, Ga.. also called New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills.

Fourth. Fourteenth. Twentieth and Cavalry Corps, Army of the
Cumberland. Maj.-Gen. Thomas; Twenty-third Corps. Maj.-Gen.
Schofield; Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps Army of the
Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. McPherson — Army of the Mississippi, Maj.-
Gen. Sherman. Union 2,400 killed, wounded and missing. Confed.
3,000 killed, wounded and missing. Confed. Maj.-Gen. Walker killed.

26 — Cassville Station, Ga. 1st and 11th Ky. Cav. Union 8 killed, 16
wounded. Confed. 2 killed, 6 wounded.

26 — Torpedo explosion on Bachelor's Creek, N. C. 132d and 158th N. Y.,
5Sth Pa. Union 35 killed, 19 wounded.

26 to 29 — Decatur and Moulton. Ala. 1st. 3d and 4th Ohio Cav., 2d Cavalry

Division. Union 48 killed and wounded. Confed. 60 killed and
wounded.

27 and 28 — Hanoverton, Hawe's Shop and Salem Church, Va. 1st and

Second Divisions Cavalry Corps, Maj.-Gen. Sheridan. Union 25
killed, 119 wounded. 200 missing. Confed. 475 killed, wounded and
missing.
30 — Hanover and Ashland, Va. Wilson's Cavalry. Union 26 killed, 13C
wounded.
Old Church, Va. Tofbetfs Cavalry. Union 16 killed, 74 wounded.

JUNE, 1864 n

1 to 12 — Cold Harbor. Va.. including Gaines's Mills, Salem Church and
Hawe's Shop. Second. Fifth, Sixth. .Ninth and Eighteenth Corps
and Sheridan's Cavalry. Union 1.905 killed. 10,570 wounded. 2.456
missing. Confed. 1,200 killed and wounded, 500 missing. Union
Brig.-Gens. Brookes and Byrnes killed and Tyler. Stannard and
Johnson wounded. Confed. Brig.-Gens. Doles and Keitt killed and
Kirkland. Finnegan. Law and Lane wounde'^.
{Continued in Section 12)

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CHAPTER XXL— Continued.

GRANT had also captured forty pieces of artillery and about seven thousand small arms. In a
letter to the victorious general, the President thanked him and his men for their skill and bravery
in securing "a lodgment at Chattanooga and Knoxville." Congress voted thanks and a gold medal for
Grant, and directed the President of the Republic to cause the latter to be struck, "with suitable emblems,

devices, and inscrip-

tions." The general
was the recipient of
other tokens of re-
gard, of various
kinds ; and the legis-
latures of New York
and Ohio voted him
thanks in the name
of the people of
those great States.

During the first
half of 1S63, General
J. G. Foster was in
command of the Na-
tional troops in
North Carohna,with
his headquarters at
New Berne, from
which point he sent
out raiding parties
to scatter Confed-
erate forces who
were gathering here
and there to recover
lost posts in that
State. In these ex-
peditions, many
sharp skirmishes
took place. The
Nationals were gen-
erally successful, and
confined their an-
tagonists to the in-
terior of the State.
Finally, in July
(1863), Foster was
called to the com-
mand at Fortress

Monroe, and left his troops in charge of General Palmer. Meanwhile there had been important occur-
rences in the vicinity.of Charleston, South Carolina, the capture of that city being one objective of the
National Government. Attempts had been made the previous year by General David Hunter (com-
manding the Department of the South) and Admiral Dupont, to seize that city, but failed. Dupont
had received important inform.ation concerning military affairs at Charleston, from Robert Small, a
slave, who was a pilot in the Confederate serv-ice. One night, in the middle of May (1862), assisted
by some fellow-bondsmen, Small took the Confederate steamer Planter out of Charleston harbor, deHvered
her to Dupont, gave him valuable information, and entered the service of the Republic. Soon afterward
the National land troops took a position on James Island, near Charleston; and at Secessionville,

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General Benham, with a small force, fought the Confederates at the middle of June, and was defeated.
Further attempts to capture Charleston were then suspended.

Hunter was succeeded in the command of the department by General O. M. Mitchel, who, as we
have observed, was called to Washington from Tennessee, where he chafed under Buell's command. He
reached Hilton Head on the i6th of September, and with his usual vigor he devised plans and prepared
to execute them for the public good. Hilton Head Island was swarming with refugee slaves, and he at
once took measures for their relief, laying out a village, causing neat and comfortable log-houses to be
built for their residences, and finding employment for them. He was preparing to use his military force
with vigor in his department; but before his arrangements were completed, he was smitten with a disease
similar to the yellow fever, when he was conveyed to the more healthy locality of Beaufort, where he

died on the 30th of October. From that time, until the spring of
1864, very little of importance occurred in the Department of the
South, of which Hunter again became the commander.

CHAPTER XXII.

Efforts to Capture Charleston — "The Swamp Angel" — Siege of Fort Wagner —
Sumter in Ruins — Events West of the Mississippi — Invasion of Missouri —
Lawrence Sacked — Events in Arkansas and in the Indian Territory — Raid
into Missouri — Struggle for Louisiana — Grant in New Orleans — Designs
against Texas — Forrest in Tennessee — Strength of the Nationals and Confed-
erates Compared — High-Handcd Measures — The British and the Confed-
erates — Good Signs — Grant Lieutenant-General — Campaign of 1864 — Sher-
man's Raid in Mississippi — Massacre at Fort Pillow — Forrest's E.\ploits —
Red River Expedition — The Expedition Abandoned — Negro Troops.

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LTHOUGH Charleston had become a comparatively un-
important point in the grand theatre of the war, its posses-
sion was coveted by the National Government because of
the salutary moral effect which such conquest would produce. A
strong effort to accomplish that purpose was made in the spring
of 1863. On the 6th of April, Admiral Dupont crossed Charles-
ton Bar with nine "monitor" or turreted iron vessels, leaving
five gunboats outside as a reserve, and proceeded to attack Fort
Sumter, the most formidable obstacle in his way to the city. At the same time a co-operating force of
land troops, four thousand strong, under General Truman Seymour, took a masked position on Folly
Island. As Dupont approached, the cannon of the Confederates on Sumter and the adjacent batteries
were silent txntil the vessels were entangled in an unsuspected network of torpedoes and other obstructions,
when nearly three hundred guns opened a concentric fire upon the fleet, driving them back to the ocean
and destroying the Keokuk, one of the smallest of the iron-clads. The land troops could do nothing
until Fort Sumter was reduced, and the enterprise was a failure.

In June following, General Quince}' A. Gillmore succeeded General Hunter in the command of the
Southern Department. He found himself at the head of eighteen thousand men, with a generous supply
of ordnance, small arms, and stores. An expedition against Charleston, by land and water, was imme-
diately planned. Gillmore determined to seize Morris Island, on which was strong Fort Wagner that
commanded Fort Sumter. That island and its militar>' works in his possession, he might batter down
Fort Sumter with heavy siege guns, and lay Charleston in ashes with his shells, if it was not surrendered.
Dupont did not approve the plan ; and early in July, Admiral John A. Dahlgren took his place. General
Alfred H. Terry was sent with a force to James Island to mask Gillmore's intentions, when National
troops were suddenly landed on Morris Island, and, with the aid of batteries on Folly Island, they drove
the Confederates into Fort Wagner. Then Gillmore planted a line of batteries across Morris Island to
confront that fort, which he found to be much stronger than he suspected. The Nationals assaulted it
(July 11) and were repulsed, when a simultaneous bombardment by sea and land was determined on.
This was done on the 18th of July, when a hundred great gims opened on the fort from the ships and the
land-batteries. Meanwhile General Terry had been attacked by a force sent from Charleston, by Beaure-
gard, to surprise him. But the vigilance of Terry never slept, and the Confederates were easily repulsed.
The Nationals were then withdrawn from James Island and joined the main body of troops on Morris
Island.

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thunder-storm was raging. One column was led by General Strong, the other by Colonel H. L. Putnam,
acting as brigadier. The struggle was brief but fearful. Both columns of the Nationals were repulsed,
with great slaughter in their ranks, losing, in the aggregate, full fifteen hundred men. Strong and Putnam

were mortally wounded; and Colonel Robert G. Shaw, w'ho was at the
head of the first regiment of colored troops organized in the free-labor
States, was instantly killed. Because he commanded colored troops,
Shaw was intensely hated by the Confederates; and they foolishly
thought they had dishonored him when, as they proclaimed, they had
buried his body "in a pit under a heap of his niggers."

Gillmore now abandoned the plan for capturing Fort Wagner by
direct assault, and began a regular siege. With infinite labor a battery
'\\as constructed in a morass half-way between Morris and James islands,
upon a platform of heaw timbers standing in the deep black mud.
When a Heutenant of engineers was ordered to construct it he said, "It
is impossible." His commanding officer replied, "There is no such word
as impossible; call for what you need." The lieutenant, who was a wag,
made a requisition on the quartermaster for "one hundred men eighteen
feet high to wade in mud sixteen feet deep"; and he gravely inquired
of the engineer whether these men might be spliced, if required. The
lieutenant was arrested for contempt, but was soon released, and he built
a redoubt with the services of men of ordinary height. Upon the redoubt
was erected a Parrott gun, which they called "The Swamp Angel," that
sent shells into Charleston, five miles distant. One of these entered St.
Michael's Church near the roof, and destroj-ed the tablet on the wall that contained the ten command-
ments, obliterating all of them excepting two — "Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery."
General Gillmore was ready for another attack on Forts Wagner and Sumter on the 17th of August,
and on that daj- the guns of twelve batteries and of the fleet opened upon them. Before night the granite
walls of Fort Sumter began to crumble and its cannons ceased to roar, under the pressure of Dahlgren's
guns. The land troops pushed their parallels nearer and nearer Fort Wagner; while the fleet guns
continually pounded away, day after day, until the 6th of September, when General Terry was prepared
to storm the latter work. Then it was ascertained that the Confederates had evacuated it and fled from
Morris Island. Gillmore took possession of Fort Wagner and turned its guns on Fort Sumter, battering
it dreadfully and driving away (it was supposed) its garrison. But that sentinel, which had so long guarded
the gate to Charleston harbor, only slumbered; and when, on the night of the 8th, an armed force from
the ships, in small boats, attempted to take possession of it, a vigilant garrison that had been lying quietly
there, suddenly arose and repulsed the assailants with great loss to the latter. Finally, late in October
(1863), Gillmore brought his heaviest guns to bear on Sumter, and reduced the once proud fort to a heap
of ruins. Charleston now, as a commercial
mart, had no existence. For months not a
blockade-runner had entered its harbor,
and its wealth and trade had departed. In
a military point of view, as we have ob-
served, it was absolutely of very little im-
portance. Let us leave the Atlantic coast,
and consider stirring events in the interior.
A thousand miles westward of the sea-
coast the war was still going on, but
more feebly than at first. The Confed-
erates reoccupied all Texas in 1863, and
carried on a sort of guerrilla warfare in
Arkansas and Missouri during a part of
that year. In the earlier months, Marma-
duke was active with his mounted men.
He rushed over the border from Arkansas
into Missouri, and fell upon Springfield in
January, but was repulsed with a loss of
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reverses, he fell back; and at Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, he planned a formidable raid into
Missouri, chiefly for the purpose of seizing National stores at Cape Girardeau, on the Mississippi. He
invaded the State with eight thousand men, and was met at the Cape by General McNeil, on the 20th of
April, who, after a sharp engagement, drove Marmaduke out of Missouri. Other bands of Confederates,
under various leaders, roamed over the western borders of Arkansas, and, at one time, seriously menaced
Fort Blunt, in the Indian Territor>^ There was a sharp engagement at Honey Springs, in that Territory',
on the 17th of July, between Nationals under General Blunt and Confederates in strong force led by
General Cooper, in which the latter were defeated, and a part of them fled into northern Texas. Guerrilla
bands in Blunt 's rear did much mischief. One of them, led by a white savage named Ouantrell, fell upon
the defenceless town of Lawrence, in Kansas, on the 13th of August, and murdered one hundred and forty
of the inhabitants. They also laid one hundred and eighty-five buildings in ashes, and escaped.

Earlier than this, the strongly fortified post of Helena, on the Mississippi, in eastern Arkansas, became

a coveted object; and on the 3d of
Juh' (1S63) eight thousand Con-
federates, under General Price and
others, ignorant of the strength of
the post, attacked it. General
Steele was in command there.
After a sharp fight, the Confed-
erates were repulsed with a loss of
twenty per cent, of their number.
That section of Arkansas was then
abandoned by the Confederates;
and on the loth of August, Steele
left Helena with twelve thousand
troops and forty pieces of cannon,
to attempt the capture of Little
Rock. He pushed back Marma-
duke, who confronted him; and
early in September he moved on
the State capital in two columns,
one on each side of the Arkansas
River. The Confederates there,
after setting fire to several steam-
boats, abandoned the place on the
evening of the loth (September) and fled to Arkadelphia, on the Wachita River. Meanwhile General
Blunt had been tr^-ing to bring the Confederates and their Indian allies in western Arkansas to battle,
but had failed. He took possession of Fort Smith (September i) and garrisoned it; and on the 4th of
October, while he was on his way from Kansas to that post with an escort of one hundred cavalry, they
iwere attacked near Baxter's Springs, on the Cherokee Resers^ation, and scattered, by six hundred guerrillas
led by the notorious Ouantrell, who plundered and burnt the accompanying train of the Nationals.
Blunt's forces were nearly all killed or disabled in the conflict. The wounded were murdered; and Blunt
and only about a dozen followers barely escaped, with their lives, to Little Fort Blair. Some of Blunt's
escort fled, at first, without firing a shot. Had they acted more bravely, they could have driven off their
assailants in ten minutes. Blunt declared.

Finding their supplies nearlj' exhausted, the Confederates in that region made a raid into Missouri
as far as Booneville, at the close of September; but they were driven back into Arkansas by Generals
E. B. Brown and McNeil. No other military movements of much importance occurred in Missouri and
Arkansas for some time after this, excepting an attack made b}^ Marmaduke upon Pine Bluff, on the
Arkansas River, on the 25th of October, 1S63. The little garrison there was coinmanded by Colonel
Powell Cla^i;on, and these, with the assistance of two hundred negroes in making barricades, fought the
assailants (who were two thousand strong, -n-ith twelve pieces of artillery) for several hours, and drove
them away. Quiet prevailed for some time afterward.

When General Banks left Alexandria, on the Red River, and marched to the siege of Port Hudson,
General Taylor, whom he had driven into the wilds of western Louisiana, returned, occupied that
abandoned city and Opelousas. and garrisoned Fort de Russy. Then he swept vigorously over the country
in the direction of the Mississippi River and New Orleans. With a part of his command he captured

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Brashear City on the 24th of June (1863), with an immense amount of public property, and made a
thousand National troops prisoners. At about the same time another portion of the Confederates, imder
General Green, operating in the vicinity of Donaldsonville, on the Mississippi, were driven out of the
district. Finally, at the middle of July, when Banks's troops were released, on the fall of Port Hudson,
they expelled Taylor and his forces from the country eastward of the Atchafalaya. This was the last
struggle of Taylor's forces to gain a foothold on the Mississippi.

General Banks now turned his thoughts to aggressive movements. General Grant visited him at
New Orleans early in September, and was in that city when he was summoned to Chattanooga. There
it was determined that Banks should make an attempt to recover Texas: and he speedily sent four

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thousand troops under General Franklin, accompanied by four gunboats commanded by Lieutenant
Crocker, to seize the Confederate post at Sabine Pass, on the boundary line between Louisiana and Texas.
Owing to a premature attack by the gunboats, the expedition was a disastrous failure. Then Banks
concentrated his land forces on the Atchafalaya, for the purpose of penetrating Texas from the east by
way of Shreveport, on the Red River; but this design was abandoned for a time, and it was concluded
to attempt to seize and hold the coast harbor of that Commonwealth. To mask this movement. General
C. C. Washburne, with a considerable body of troops, moved across Louisiana toward Alexandria, when
about six thousand other Nationals under General Dana, with some war-vessels, sailed for the Rio Grande.
The troops landed, and drove Confederate cavalry up that river. The Nationals pressed on; and on
the 6th of November encamped at Brownsville, opposite Matamoras. At the close of the year, the
National troops occupied all the strong positions on the Texan coast excepting Galveston Island and a
formidable work near the mouth of the Brazos; and the Confederates had abandoned all Texas west
of the Colorado River. Meanwhile N. B. Forrest, who had become a noted guerrilla chief, had broken
into western Tennessee, from Mississippi, with four thousand Confederate soldiers, and making Jackson,
in the first-mentioned State, his headquarters (December, 1863), had sent out foraging parties in various
directions. General Hurlburt, at Memphis, tried to catch him, but failed.

There were many hopeful signs of success for the defenders of the life of the Republic at the opening
of the third year of the Civil War, 1864. The debt of the National Government was then more than
$1,000,000,000; but the public credit never stood higher. The loyal people stood by the Government,
and trusted it with a fidelity and faith that was truly sublime. At the same time the Confederate debt
was at least $1,000,000,000, with a prospective increase during the year to double that amount. The
Confederate Government had contracted loans abroad to the amount almost of $15,000,000, of which
sum the members of the Southern Independence Association in England (composed chiefly of the British
aristocracy) loaned a large share and lost it, the security offered for the Confederate bonds being cotton
to be forwarded, and which was never delivered. The producers of the Confederacy, better informed
than their English sympathizers, were unwilling to trust the promise of their government and withheld

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supplies, for they preconceived the worthlessness of the bonds and paper currency of the Confederates.
The people there were no longer willing to volunteer for the military service ; and Davis and his associates
at Richmond, in their desperation, proceeded to the exercise of a despotic act that has no parallel in the
history of civilized nations. By the passage of a law they declared that every white man in the Confederacy,

liable to bear arms, to be in the military service; and that, upon
hia J'ailure to report for duty at a military station within a certain
time, he was liable to the penalty of death as a deserter! They
devised schemes of retaliation; also cruel measures toward
the colored troops in the National service and their white com-
manders, were proposed. They refused to regard captive
negro troops as prisoners of war; and by threats of dire
vengeance, they tried to deter the colored men from enlisting

in the National service.

While the authorities at Rich-
mond were preparing to carr>' out
these measures, they received a
despatch from Lord John Russell,
the British Foreign Secretary,
which deprived them of the last
prop of hope for the recognition of
the independence of the Confed-
erate States from any foreign State
excepting that of the Roman Pon-
tiff. That despatch gave them
notice that no more vessels should
1 le fitted out in Great Britain (nor
tolerated in British waters), for
depredating on the commerce of
the United States by persons em-
ployed by the "so-called Confed-
erate States." The last expression, which absolutely ignored the very existence of the "Confederate
States" was very significant, and also very offensive to Davis and his associates. The latter replied
sharply, protesting against the "studied insult;" and thenceforward the Confederates regarded the
British government as their enemy. That government, perceiving the weakness of the Confederacy which
it had tried to foster, stood firm, and .so did our own. Regardless of the menaces of the Confederate
leaders, the President determined to defend the colored troops against the vengeance of their late masters,
and to prosecute the war with greater vigor. "The signs," he said, "look better." More than fifty
thousand square miles of territory had already been recovered from the Confederates. There were about
eight hundred thousand National troops in the field, while the Confederates had only about half that
number; and the former were disposed to act on the offensive, while the latter were generally standing
on the defensive.

Early in 1864, Congress created the office of lieutenant-general. The President nominated Ulysses
S. Grant to fill it, and the Senate confirmed the nomination. Grant was made general-in-chief of the
armies of the Republic, and he fixed his headquarters with that of the Army of the Potomac. He believed
that mercy required that war should be made sharp and decisive, so as to end it speedily, and he acted
accordingly. He believed his government to be right and its assailants wrong; and with all the zeal
born of positive convictions, he prepared for the campaign of 1864. Two grand expeditions were planned
— one for the capture of Richmond, the other for the seizure of the great railroad centre, Atlanta, in
Georgia. To the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General Meade, was assigned the task of taking
Richmond; and to General Sherman was given the command of the forces destined for Atlanta. Mean-
while important events had occurred in the Valley of the Mississippi.

When General Sherman was called to Chattanooga, he left General J. B. McPherson in command
at Vicksburg; but soon after Bragg was driven southward from Chattanooga, Sherman suddenly reap-
peared in Mississippi; and at the head of twenty thousand troops, he made a most destructive raid
(February, 1864) from Jackson to the intersection of important railways at Meridian, in that State. His
object was to inflict as much injury as possible upon the Confederate cause and its physical strength.
Like Grant, he believed in the righteousness and efficacy of making war terrible. The line of his march

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General Trleman" Seymour

from Jackson, eastward, presented a black path of desolation. No public property of the Confederates
was spared. The station-houses and the rolling stock of the railway were burned. The track was torn
up, and the rails, heated by the burning ties cast into heaps, were twisted and ruined ; and were often, by

bending them, while red-hot, around a sapling, converted into what the
men called "Jeff. Davis's neckties." General Sherman intended to push
on to Montgomery, Alabama, and then, if circumstances appeared favor-
able, to go southward and attack Mobile.

At Meridian, General Sherman waited for General W. S. Smith to
join him with a considerable force of cavalry; but that officer was held
back by Forrest and others. After waiting in vain for a week, Sherman
laid Meridian in ashes and returned to Vicksburg with four hundred
prisoners and five thousand liberated slaves. This raid spread great
alarm over the Confederacy; for General (Bishop) Polk, in command of
the insurgents in that region, made but a feeble resistance. General
Joseph E. Johnston, in command of Bragg's army in northern Georgia,
had sent troops to reinforce Polk ; but was compelled to recall them when
his own army was menaced b}^ a National force under General Palmer,
which had been sent down from Chattanooga. Johnston fought Palmer
between Ringgold and Dalton (FebruarA*, 1864), and drove him back
to Chattanooga.

Some weeks later, General Forrest, having an enlarged command,
made a rapid raid through Tennessee and Kentucky; and on the T3th of
April he laid siege to Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi, above Memphis, which was garrisoned chiefly by
colored troops. He assailed it successfully, with a cry of "No quarter"; and when the garrison threw
down their arms and begged for mercy, they w-ere nearly all slaughtered. "Forrest's motto," said Major
Charles W. Gibson, of his command, to the writer, was, "War means fight, and fight means kill — we want
but Jew prisoners." An unsuccessful attempt was made to intercept him in his retreat from the scene of
the massacre. Troops sent out from Memphis, a few weeks later, by General Smith, to hunt him up and
beat him, in Mississippi, were defeated in a severe battle with him on the loth of June, at Gun Town, on
the Mobile and Ohio Railway, and were driven back with great loss. Twelve thousand men, led by
General A. J Smith, went out for the same purpose, and fought and defeated Forrest near Tupelo on the
14th of June, and then retreated to Memphis; and not long afterward, when Smith was in Mississippi
with ten thousand men, the bold raider, at the head of three thousand cavalry, flanked him, dashed into
Memphis in broad daylight, in search of National officers, and escaped into Mississippi.

At the beginning of 1864, another attempt was made to recover Te.xas, by an invasion by way of the
Red River and Shreveport. General Banks was ordered to organize an expedition for the purpose, and
General Sherman was directed to send troops to aid him. Admiral Porter was also directed to place a fleet
of gunboats on the Red River to assist in the enterprise; and General Steele, at Little Rock, Arkansas,
was ordered to co-operate with the expedition. Banks's column, led b}- General Frankhn, moved from
Erashear City by way of Opelousas, and reached Alexandria on the 26th of March. The detachment
frcm Sherman's army, led by Gen-
eral A. J. Smith, had already gone
up the Red River in transports,
captured Fort de Russy, and taken
possession of Alexandria on the
1 6th of March, followed by Porter's
fleet of gunboats.

Banks moved forward with his
whole force; and early in April the
army was at Natchitoches, eighty
miles further up the river, at which
point Porter's vessels arrived, after
encountering much difficulty in
passing the rapids at Alexandria on
account of low w^ater. His larger
gunboats could proceed no further
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on toward Shreveport, and Porter's lighter vessels went up the river with a body of troops under
E. Kirby Smith. The Confederates had been gathering force under Generals Taylor, Price and Green,
and were driven before the Nationals until they reached Sabine Cross Roads, where they made a stand
on the 8th of April. A sharp battle ensued between them and the ad-
vance of Banks's army. There was a hard struggle for the mastery.
Franklin's troops came to the aid of the latter late in the afternoon; but
their antagonists fought so well and desperately that the whole body of
the Nationals were routed, with heax'^' loss, and fled in some confusion.
The fugitives were received three miles from the battle-field, at a place
called Pleasant Grove, by the division of General Emon,'; and there
another severe engagement took place, in which the Nationals were vic-
torious. The latter fell back, however, fifteen miles, pursued by the
Confederates; and the next day (April 9) another heavy battle was fought
at Pleasant Hill, which resulted in a victon,- for Banks. That oflficer now
wished to renew the march for Texas; but his associates counselled a still
further retreat to the Red River, at Grand Ecore, where Porter's larger
vessels lay. There they were joined by the troops under E. Kirby Smith,
that went up the river in transports, and had some sharp fighting.

The river was still falling. Food and water for man and beast, in
that region, could not be procured excepting with great difficulty, and it
was determined to continue the retreat to Alexandria. After much dififi-
culty the fleet passed the bar at Grand Ecore on the 1 7th of April. The
army moved from that point on the 21st, and entered Alexandria on the 27th, after an encounter with the
Confederates at the passage of the Cane River. So many difficulties lay before the National army, that
the expedition against Shreveport was abandoned, and the land and naval forces prepared to return to
the Mississippi River.

A serious impediment to such a movement now presented itself. The water in the rapids of the Red
River at Alexandria was so shallow that the fleet could not repass them. General Hunter had just appeared
at Alexandria with orders to close the Red River campaign as speedily as possible, for the troops from
General Sherman were wanted eastward of the Mississippi. The call was urgent. To get the fleet below
the rapids was now the first work to be done. It was proposed to dam the river above the rapids, and
send the vessels over the rocks upon the bosom of a flood that might be set free through sluices. Porter
did not believe in the feasibility of such a project. Banks did, and set Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bailey,
of a IMichigan regiment, to attempt it. By skill and industry the work was accompHshed; and every
gunboat, great and small, reached the deep water below the rapids in safety, the crowd of spectators on
the shores greeting the achievement with loud huzzas. The whole expedition now pushed toward the
Mississippi River, where Porter resumed the service of patrolling that stream. General E. R. S. Canby
took command of Banks's forces on the Atchafalaya; and General Smith, with his detachment, returned
to Mississippi. A strong confronting force of Confederates had kept Steele from co-operating with the
expedition. He had moved from Little Rock

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with eight thousand men, pushed back the Con-
federates, and on the 15th of April captured the
important post of Camden on the Wachita River;
but after a severe battle at Jenkinson's Ferr\', on
the Sabine River, Steele abandoned Camden and
returned to Little Rock. So ended this disas-
trous campaign.

We have observed that colored troops were
employed as soldiers in the National service, and
that the Confederates were disposed to treat them
and their white leaders wdth cruelty. Let us take
a hasty glance at the history of their employment
in the army.

When the President called for troops, in
April, 1 86 1, to put down the rising insurrection,
some colored men in the city of New York hired
a room and began to drill in military tactics. The

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General Braxton Bragg, C. S. A.

servile work on fortifications.

sympathizers with the insurgents threatened them with violence; and the Superintendent of Police felt
compelled, in order to secure the public peace, to order them to cease drilling. So they waited until they
were called for.

More than a year afterward, General Hunter, in command of the Department of the South, ordered

the organization of negro regiments in his department. This measure
raised a tempest of indignation in the National Congress among the sym-
pathizers with the insurgents. On motion of Wickliffe of Kentucky, the
Secretary of War was asked whether Hunter had organized a regiment of
fugitive slaves, and whether the Government had authorized the
act. Hunter was allowed to make explicit answers himself. To
the first question he replied : ' ' No regiment ■ of ' fugitive slaves ' has
been or is laeing organized in this department. There is, however, a fine
regiment of persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels — men who
everywhere fly before the appearance of the National flag, leaving their
servants behind them to shift for themselves as best they can." A few
weeks later. Secretary Stanton, by special order, directed General Rufus
Saxton, military governor of the sea-coast islands, to "arm, uniform,
equip and receive into the service of the United States, such number of
volunteers of African descent, not exceeding five thousand," as would be
useful.

General G. W. Phelps, in command above New Orleans, in the sum-
mer of 1S62, finding crowds of colored people flocking to his camp, asked
permission of General Butler to arm and equip negro regiments. Butler
had no authority to do so. He recommended Phelps to employ them in
Phelps replied : "I am not willing to become the slave-driver you propose,
having no qualifications that way, ' ' and throwing up his commission, returned to Vermont. Soon afterward
Butler called for negro volunteers from the free colored men in New Orleans, and regiments were formed.
Another year passed by, and yet very few of the thousands of colored men made free by the procla-
mation of emancipation were found in arms. There was a universal prejudice against them; but as the
war went on that prejudice, like others, gave way, and in the summer of 1863 the President was authorized
by Congress to accept colored volunteers. From that time such troops were freely enlisted wherever the
Government authority prevailed; and nearly two hundred thousand of them fought in the ranks for the
preservation of the Republic, and their own freedom. Their brethren, who were yet in bondage, were
then freely used by the Confederates, in the military service; not, however, with arms in their hands.
The Confederates never armed theni. It might have been a fatal experiment. They were organized
under white leaders, and were "armed and equipped" with axes, shovels, spades, pick-axes, and blankets.
The natural docility of the negro made him an excellent man to discipline for a soldier; and his
faithfulness and courage were never surpassed, in strength and endurance, by the white man's faith-
fulness and courage. Their conduct throughout the war was most remarkable. Their numbers, in some
of the revolted States, were nearly equal to those of the white people; and in the absence of the men of
the latter race, in the army, the whole region which they occupied was absoluteh' at their mercy. There
were, at first, apprehensions that the negroes, perceiving their opportunity and advantage, would rise in
insurrection and assert their right to freedom. On the contrary, they worked faithfully and patiently for
their masters, on the plantations, and there is no record of an attempt, by individuals or in numbers, of
that vast servile population, to gain their liberty. Not a woman
or child was injured by their slaves ; on the contrary, they were the
trusted protectors from violence, of the wives and children of the
Confederate soldiers. They had faith that God would, in his own
good time, deliver them from bondage; and in that faith they
patiently waited and suffered. Because of their faithfulness and
forbearance, when they might have filled the land with horror, the
colored population of the South deserve the everlasting gratitude
and good-will of the white people there, whose families they pro-
tected and by their labor supplied with food and clothing during
the terrible Civil War. History furnishes no parallel to the noble
conduct of the negroes toward those who were making war for the
purpose of perpetuating the slavery of their race.

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CHAPTER XXIII.

Another Invasion of Missouri and Its Results — Morgan in East Tennessee — Morgan Killed at Greenville — Cavalry Operations against
Richmond — Campaign of the Army of the Potomac Begun — Battles in the Wilderness and near Spottsylvania Court-House —
Sheridan's Raid — Operations between Petersburg and Richmond — Kautz's Raid — Struggles of Grant and Lee — Battle at Cold Harbor
— The Nationals Cross the James and Invest Petersburg — Confederate Invasion of Mar\dand — Salvation of Washington — A Plun-
dering Raid to Chambersburg — Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley — His Brilliant Campaign — Richmond Threatened — Siege of
Petersburg — Capture of Fort Harrison — Medal to Colored Troops — Losses — Sherman's Campaign in Georgia.

THE Confederates were emboldened by the failure of the Red River expedition and the expulsion of
Steele from the region below the Arkansas River; and raiding bands awed the Unionists into
silence and inactivity. This state of things gave Price an opportunity early in the autumn to
invade Missouri again, this time chiefly with a political object in view. Secret societies, in sympathy
with the Knights of the Golden Circle, had been formed in Missouri and neighboring Southern States,
whose object was to give aid to the Confederate cause and assist in the election of General McClellan
(who had been nominated by the Democratic party) to the office of President of the United States. Price

had been promised twenty thousand recruits, if he should enter
Missouri with a respectable militar>^ force. He and General
vShelby went over the Missouri border late in September (1864),
with twenty thousand followers, and pushed on to Pilot Knob,
half-way to St. Louis. But the promised recruits did not appear.
The vigilant Rosecrans, in command of the Department of the Mis-
souri, had discovered the plans of the disloyalists, and by some
arrests had so frightened them that they prudently remained in
concealment. Price was sorely disappointed; and he soon per-
ceived that a web of great peril was gathering around him. At
Pilot Knob, General Ewing, with a brigade of National troops,
struck him an astounding blow. Soon afterward, these, with
other troops under Generals A. J. Smith and Mower, sent Price
flying westward toward Kansas, closely pursued. The exciting
chase was enlivened by severe skirmishes; and late in November,
Price was a fugitive in western Arkansas, with a broken and dis-
])irited army. This was the last invasion of Missouri.

When Longstreet retired from Knoxville, he lingered awhile
between there and the Virginia border ; but he finally went to the
aid of Lee's menaced army. Morgan, the guerrilla chief, re-
mained in East Tennessee until the close of the following May
I 1S64), when he went over the mountains and raided through the
richest portions of Kentucky. General Burbridge went after him,
and soon drove him and his shattered columns back into East
Tennessee. He was surprised at Greenville, where he was shot
dead in a vineyard while attempting to escape. Soon afterward the region between Knoxville and the
Virginia line became the theatre of some stirring minor events while General Breckenridge was in com-
mand of the Confederates there.

Let us now resume the consideration of the military movements against Richmond and Atlanta.
The campaign of the Army of the Potomac under General Meade, against the Army of Northern
Virginia led by General Lee, in the spring of 1S64, was preceded by some movements for the capture of
Richmond and the Uberation of Union soldiers confined in Libby Prison, and on Belle Isle in the James
River at that city. Treachery defeated the purpose for which, in February, General B. F. Butler, in
command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, sent fifteen hundred troops, foot and horse,
under General Wistar, against Richmond. General Kilpatrick, with five thousand of his cavalry, came
from the Army of the Potomac to co-operate with him. They swept within the outer lines of the defences
of Richmond, on the first of March; and Colonel Dahlgren, son of the admiral of that name, with another
portion of that cavalr>% was repulsed the next day, and was killed. A few days later. General Custer,
with his horsemen, threatened Lee's communications in the direction of the Shenandoah Valley. The
movements of Wistar were made fruitless, owing to a deserter, who gave the Confederates warning of it,
and they were prepared to meet it.

The grand movement of the .4 r;m' 0/ </z(? Potomac began in May. When it crossed the Rapidan
and tried to go swiftly by Lee's flank under cover of the dense woods of the Wilderness, and plant itself

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between the Confederate army and Richmond, the vigilant Lee discovered the movement and boldly-
attacked the Nationals. The two armies numbered, in the aggregate, about two hundred thousand men;
and that mighty host fought desperately for almost two days (May 5th and 6th) on one of the most

remarkable battlefields ever known. The ground was covered with a
thick growth of pines, cedars, and scrub-oaks, with tangled underbrush
and vines, wherein regular military movements were impossible. Cav-
alry could not contend; and no single vision could discern a thousand
men at one time. In that mysterious land the brave General Wadsworth
of the Genesee Valley was killed, and the slaughter of troops was fearful.
Both armies were badly shattered ; and there was no victory for either.
The Confederates withdrew to their intrenchments; and the Nationals,
led by General Warren, hastened to the open country near Spottsylvania
Court-House.

Lieutenant-General Grant was the guiding-spirit in the National
army. He was determined to fiank Lee; but when his troops emerged
from the Wilderness, he found the Confederates in heavy force and rap-
idly gathering athwart his path. Arrangements were immediately made
for another battle, during which the gallant General Sedgwick, leader of
the Sixth Corps, was killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter. Both armies
were cautious in their movements; and finally, on the morning of the
loth (May, 1864), when all was in readiness, a furious conflict began and
raged all day with dreadful losses on each side. On the following morn-
ing, General Grant sent to the President the famous despatch, in which he said: "/ propose to figJit it out
on this line, if it takes all summer."

On the 12th, another sanguinary battle was opened. General Hancock, after the most gallant
struggle, broke through the Confederate line and gained a great advantage ; but the fierce conflict continued
until twilight, and did not entirely cease until midnight, when Lee suddenly withdrew behind a second
line of entrenchments, and appeared as strong as ever. Yet Grant, stubborn and bold, was not disheart-
ened. He sent cheering despatches to the government ; and pressing forward, fought another desperate
battle on the Ny, not far from Spottsylvania Court-House. Lee was repulsed. Grant's flanking move-
ment was temporarily checked, but he speedily resumed it. The losses on both sides, during about a
fortnight, had been fearful. That of the Army of the Potomae was about forty thousand men, killed,
wounded, and prisoners; and that of the Army of Northern Virginia was about thirty thousand.

In the meantime, General Sheridan had been raiding in Lee's rear with a greater part of the National
cavalry. Like Kilpatrick, he swept down into the Confederate outworks at Richmond, but with more
successful results, for he destroyed the railway communication between
Lee's army and that city. At the same time there was a co-operating
force in the Shenandoah Valley, first under General Sigel and then under
General Hunter; but they did not accomplish much of importance besides
destroying a vast amount of property. There was another co-operating
force below Richmond, commanded by General Butler. He had been
joined by Gillmore's troops, which had been ordered up from Charleston;
and with about twenty-five thousand men he went up the James River
in armed transports, seized City Point at the mouth of the Apjjomattox
River, and took possession of the Peninsula of Bermuda Hundred. He
cast up a line of intrenchments across it from the Appomattox to the
James and destroyed the railway between Petersburg and Richmond, so
cutting off direct communication between the Confederate capital and the
South. At the same time General A. V. Kautz went up from SufTolk
with three thousand cavalry, to destroy the railways south and west from
Petersburg; but before he struck them, Beauregard, who had been called
from Charleston, had filled that city with defenders. The withdrawal of
Gillmore's troops relieved Charleston of immediate danger; and when
Butler went up the James, Beauregard was summoned to Richmond.
At Petersburg he received hourly reinforcements, and some of them he
massed in front of Butler's forces, along the line of the railway. Finally,
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country, he attempted to turn Butler's right flank. A sharp conflict ensued, in which the Nationals had
about four thousand men engaged, and the Confederates about three thousand. It ended by the retirement
of Butler's forces within their intrenchments. For several days afterward there was considerable skirmish-
ing in front of Butler's lines, when he received orders to send nearly two-
thirds of his effective men to the north side of the James River to assist
the army contending with Lee in the vicinity of the Chickahominy.
Butler complied with the requisition, which deprived him of all power to
make further offensive movements. "The necessities of the Army of the
Potomac," he said, "have bottled me up at Bermuda Hundred."

While General Butler's main army was making movements toward
Richmond, Kautz was out upon another raid on the railways leading to
that city from the south and southwest. He left Bermuda Hundred
on the 1 2th of May, with two mounted brigades; passed near Fort
Darling, on Drewry's Bluff, and sweeping on an arc of a circle by Chester-
field Court-House, struck the Richmond and Danville Railway eleven
miles west of the Confederate capital. After again striking it at other
points, he swept around eastward, divided his forces, and with a part of
them crossed to the Southside Railway, while another portion proceeded
to the junction of the Danville and Southside roads. Then he went
eastward with his whole force, striking and destroying the Weldon Rail-
way far toward the North Carolina line, and then made his way back to
City Point. In this raid Kautz had seriously damaged the railroads that
lay in his track, and took to City Point one hundred and fifty prisoners.

After the struggles near Spottsylvania Court-House, Grant moved steadily on toward Richmond,
while Lee moved on a parallel line to thwart his antagonist's plans At the passage of the North Anna,
they fought a severe battle on the 23d of May. There, in close communication with the Central Virginia
Railway, Lee had evidently determined to make a stand. Over that railway, Breckenridge, who had
beaten Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley, was hastening to reinforce Lee, and Grant resolved to dislodge
his antagonist before aid should reach him. This was accomplished, when Lee withdrew to a stronger
position where Grant did not attack him. The Army of the Potomac pressed steadily forward, with
Sheridan's cavalry in advance, and on the 28th of Ma}', the entire force of the Nationals were south of
the Pamunkey River, with an uninterrupted communication with their new base of supplies at the ruins
of the "White House" near the mouth of that stream. Lee had moved by a shorter road, and occupied
a strong position on the Chickahominy River, which commanded a turnpike and two railways that led
to Richmond.

Across the Chickahominy River was the only direct pathway to the Confederate capital, and to
pursue it, Lee must be dislodged. The cavalry of both armies had sharp engagements at the close of May,
while reconnaissances were going on; when Grant, believing he could not successfully assail his antagonist

in his strong position, began another flanking movement with the inten-
tion of crossing the Chickahominy near Cold Harbor where Sheridan had
gained an advantageous foothold. There the army was reinforced by ten
thousand men sent from Bermuda Hundred, led by General W. F. Smith;
and there, from the ist to the 3d of June (1864), there was a fearful
struggle on the old battle-ground of Lee and McClellan two years before.
On the 3d, one of the most sanguinary battles of the war was fought. It
was brief, but terrible. Within the space of twenty minutes after the
first shot was fired, ten thousand Union soldiers were killed or wounded.
The battle ended at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Nationals holding
their ground. They moved gradually to the left, and on the 7th of June
that wing touched the Chickahominy River. Then Sheridan was sent
to destroy the railways on Lee's left, which he did as far as Gordonsville.
General Grant now determined to transfer his army to the south side
of the James River, cut off the chief sources of supply of men and provi-
sions for Lee's army from the South, and attempt the capture of Rich-
mond from that direction. At near the middle of June the whole army
crossed the Chickahominy at Long Bridge, and moved to the James by
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on pontoon bridges; and on the i6th of June, when the entire army was over, General Grant made his
headquarters at City Point. A portion of the Army of the James, under General Butler, had made an
unsuccessful attempt to capture Petersburg before Lee should send down troops to reinforce Beauregard,
who had cast up strong lines of intrenchments around that city. These
works were confronted by the Army of the Potomac on the evening of the
i6th of June; and from that time until the 30th of July, there was much
severe fighting, with great loss of life, in unsuccessful attempts of the
Union troops to take the place by storm and destroy railway communi-
cations with it.

There was a brief lull in the operations against Petersburg and Rich-
mond, at about the beginning of July. During that time, General Early,
with about fifteen thousand Confederate troops, swept down the Shenan-
doah Valley and across the Potomac atWilliamsport, driving General Sigel
before him, and penetrating Maryland to Hagerstown and Frederick.
This formidable raid was designed to draw^ a large body of troops from
Grant to the defence of the National capital ; also for plunder. When
Grant heard of it, he sent General Wright, with the Sixth corps, to protect
Washington. General Lewis Wallace, then in command of the Middle
Department, with his headquarters at Baltimore, proceeded from that
city, with a few troops hastily collected, to confront the invaders, and on
the 9th of July he met and fought Early's host on the Monocacy River
not far from Frederick. Wallace had been joined by a portion of Rick-
ett's brigade from the advance of the Sixth corps. This handful of warriors, after fighting overwhelming
numbers eight hours, were defeated, with heav'^^ loss, when Early pushed on toward Washington. But
the vanquished troops had really won a victory for their country, for the}' detained the invaders long
enough to allow the Sixth and Nineteenth corps to reach and secure the National Capital. When General
Early perceived this, he pushed across the Potomac with a large amount of plunder, closely pursued by
General Wright to the Shenandoah Valley, through Snicker's Gap, where, after a sharp conflict on the
igth (July), the invaders retreated up the Valley and the pursuers returned to Washington.

It was soon discovered that Early had not gone to join Lee, as was suspected, but remained in the
Valley with all his force. Some of his troops w-ere worsted in a fight with Nationals under General Averill,
near Winchester, on the 20th; and they soon afterward pushed General Crook, in command of the Army
of Western Virginia, back toward the Potomac, with considerable loss. Then Early sent General McCaus-
land, Bradley Johnson and other officers, with three thousand followers, all mounted, on a plundering
tour in Maryland and Pennsylvania. They swept, in eccentric lines, over the country, thereby distracting
the armed defenders of it, and on the 30th of July entered the defenceless and almost deserted village of
Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania, where they demanded a tribute of $200,000 in gold, or $500,000 in paper
currency, to insure the town from destruction. It was impossible to give the tribute, and two-thirds of
the village was laid in ashes. No time was given for the removal of the infirm, the sick, or the women
and children. The incendiaries did not remain long enough to see the ruin the}' had initiated ; for General
Averill, who was ten miles distant, moved against them, and chased them back into Virginia. This raid

caused the Sixth and Nineteenth corps, commanded re-
spectively by Generals Wright and Emory, to be sent
into the Shenandoah Valley, where the National forces,
now thirty thousand strong, were placed under the chief
command of General Sheridan, early in August.

At the middle of September, General Grant visited
Sheridan, at Charlestown. He found him ready for
action against Early. Satisfied that his plan of opera-
tions was feasible, the lieutenant-general said to the
energetic leader, ' ' Go in. " In these two words the chief
expressed his confidence in Sheridan's judgment and
skill. He did "go in;" and very soon he sent Early
' ' whirling up the Valley, " as he expressed it. He fought
and conquered him at Winchester on the i gth of Septem-
ber ( I S64) , when the Confederates fell back to the strong
position of Fisher's Hill, near Strasburg. Sheridan

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drove them from there on the 2 2d, at the end of a sharp battle, in which Early lost heavily, and was chased
to Port Republic, near which the pursuers burned his wagon-trains. The National cavalry followed him
to Staunton, where the Confederates took refuge in the ranges of the Blue Ridge. Sheridan's forces fell

back to a strong position behind Cedar Creek, and that
leader departed for Washington city with the behef that
the Valle}^ was purged of Confederates in arms. It was
a mistake. A month later, Early, reinforced, fell with
crushing weight upon the Nationals at Cedar Creek, com-
manded by General Wright, and, for a time, their destruc-
tion seemed inevitable. They fell back to Middletown
and beyond, where they turned upon the pursuers, and
a desperate battle ensued.

When the battle commenced, Sheridan was in Win-
chester on his way to the army. The sound of conflict
fell upon his ear, and, mounting his powerful black horse,
he pushed on toward Cedar Creek. Presently he met the
van of fugitives hurrj-ing from the lost battle-field, at
that stream, who told him a piteous tale of disaster.
Sheridan ordered the retreating artillery to be parked on
each side of the turnpike, and telling his escort to follow,
he dashed forward, his horse on a swinging gallop, and at
that pace he rode nearly twelve miles to the scene of con-
flict. The fugitives became thicker and thicker every
moment. But Sheridan did not stop to chide nor coax;
but as his pow-erful black steed thundered over that mag-
nificent stone road which traverses the Shenandoah Valley, he waved his hat and shouted to the tumultuous
crowds : ' ' Face the other way, boys , face the other way ! We are going back to our camp to Hck them out
of their boots ! " The man and the act were marvellously magnetic in their effects. The tide of disordered
troops was instantly turned, and flowed swiftly in the wake of their young commander. As he dashed
into the lines, and rode along the front of forming regiments, he gave to each most stirring words of cheer
and encouragement, and declared in substance, "We'll have all those camps and cannon back again."
The men believed him, and showing their faith by their works, secured a speedy fulfilment of the prophecy.
General Wright had already brought order out of confusion. A very severe struggle ensued, and very
soon Early was again sent "whirling" up the Valley. The National cavalry of Emory's corps, falling
upon both flanks, caused the Confederates to flee in hot haste up the Valley pike, in great disorder, to
Fisher's Hill, leaving the highway strewn with abandoned hindrances to flight. The road was clogged
with masses of men, wagons, cannon and caissons, in utter confusion, and these were left behind. This
short but brilliant campaign of Sheridan, which nearly annihilated Early's force, ended hostilities in
the Shenandoah Valley.

Let us now turn again toward Petersburg and Richmond, for a moment.

General Butler had thrown a pontoon-bridge across the James River at Deep Bottom, within ten
miles of Richmond, over which troops passed to the north side of that stream and menaced the Confederate
capital. Lee was alarmed by the movement and withdrew a large force from Petersburg to defend
Richmond, believing the latter city would be immediately attacked; and there it was that General Grant
made the unsuccessful attempts just men-

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tioned, to penetrate the Confederate lines
before Petersburg. He had mined under
one of the principal forts, and it was blown
up on the morning of the ,soth of July, with
terrible effect. In the place of the fortifi-
cation was left a crater of loose earth two
hundred feet in length, full fifty feet in
width, and from twenty-five to thirty feet
in depth. The fort, its guns and other
munitions of war, with three hundred men,
had been thrown high in air, and annihi-
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Exterior of Fort Sumter While in
Possession of Confederate Forces

opened a heavy cannonade upon the remainder of the works, with precision and fearful effect, all along
the lines; but owing partly to the slowness of motion of a portion of the assaulting force, the result was a
most disastrous failure on the part of the assailants.

A fortnight later Grant sent another expedition to the north side of the James, at Deep Bottom,
composed of the divisions of Birney and Hancock, with cavalry
led by General Gregg. They had sharp engagements with the
Confederates on the 13th, i6th and iSth of August, in which the
Nationals lost about five thousand men without gaining any
special advantage excepting the incidental one of giving assistance
to troops sent to seize the Weldon railway, south of Petersburg.
This General Warren effected on the i8th of August. Three days
afterward he repulsed a Confederate force who attempted to repos-
sess the portion of the road held by the Unionists; and on the
same day General Hancock, who had returned from the north side
of the James, struck the Weldon road at Reams's Station, and
destroyed the track for some distance. The Nationals were finally
driver^-from the road with considerable loss.

For little more than a month after this, there was comparative
quiet in the vicinity of Petersburg and Richmond. The National
troops were moved simultaneously toward each city. General
Butler, with the Tenth Army Corps under General Birney, and
the Eighteenth corps under General Ord, moved upon Fort Harri-
son, on the north side of the James, and captured it on the 29th
of September. These troops charged upon another fort near by, and were repulsed with heavy loss.
Among the slain was General Burnham. General Ord was severely wounded. The captured Fort
Harrison was named Fort Burnham in honor of the slain general. In these assaults the gallantry of the
colored troops was so conspicuous, that General Butler presented to each of the more meritorious ones a
silver medal, which bore a device commemorative of their valor.

In the meantime, General Meade had sent General Warren with two divisions of his corps. General

■Parke with two divisions of the Ninth corps, and General Gregg with his cavalry, to attempt the extension

of the National left on the Weldon road. The chief object of the movement was to mask the more

important operations of Butler at that time. But it resulted in severe fighting on the first and second

days of October (1864), with varying fortunes for both parties.

Now there was another pause but not a settled rest for about a month, when the greater portion of the
Ai'J'iy of the Potomac was massed on the Confederate right, south of the James; and on the 27th of October,
they assailed Lee's works on Hatcher's Run, westward of the Weldon road. A severe struggle ensued.
The Nationals were repulsed, and on the 29th they withdrew to their intrenchments in front of Petersburg.
Very little of importance, was done by the Army of the Potomac after that, until the opening of the campaign
in the spring of 1865, excepting the extension of their line to Hatcher's Run. The losses of that army
had been fearful during six months, from the beginning of May until November, 1864. The aggregate
number in killed, wounded, missing and prisoners, was over eighty-eight tliousaud men, of whom nearly ten

thousand were killed in battle. Add to these the
losses in the A rmy of the James during the same
time, and the sum would be full one hundred
thousand men.

The command of the troops engaged in
the campaign against Atlanta was, as we have
observed, entrusted to General Wm. T. Sher-
man, who had succeeded General Grant in com-
mand of the Military Division of the Mississippi.
With a force composed of the Army of the
Cumberland led by General George H. Thomas,
the Army of the Tennessee led by General J. B.
McPherson, and the Army of the Ohio com-
manded by General J. M. Schofield, Sherman
moved southward from the vicinity of Chatta-
nooga on the 6th of May, 1864.

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

JUNE, 1864 — Continued from Section 11

2 — Bermuda Hundred, Va. Tenth Corps. Union 25 killed. 100 wounded.
Confed. 100 killed and wounded.

3 to 6 — Panther Gap and Buffalo Gap. W. Va. Hayes's Brigade of 2d
Division Army of West Virginia. Union 25 killed and wounded.
Confed. 25 killed and wounded.

5 — Piedmont, W. Va. Portion of Army of West Virginia, commanded by
Maj.-Gen. Hunter. Union 130 killed, 650 wounded. Confed. 400
killed, 1,450 wounded, 1,060 missing. Confed. Gen. W. E. Jones
killed.

6 — Lake Chicot, Ark. Sixteenth Corps. Union 40 killed. 70 wounded.
Confed. 100 killed and wounded.

9— Point of Rocks, Md. 2d U. S. Colored Cav. Union 2 killed.

Mt. Sterling. Ky. Burbridge's Cavalry. Union 35 killed. 150 wounded.
Confed. 50 killed, 200 wounded, 250 captured.

9 to 30 — Kenesaw Mountain. Marietta or Big Shanty. Ga., including
general assault on the 27th, Pine Mt., Golgotha. Gulp's House and
Powder Springs. Fourth, Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps. Army
of the Cumberland, Maj.-Gen. Thomas; Fifteenth. Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Corps. Army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. McPherson;
Twentv-third Corps. Maj.-Gen. Schofield; Army of the Mississippi.
Maj.-Gen. W. T. Sherman. Union 1.370 killed. 6,500 wounded. 800
missing. Confed. 1.100 killed and wounded. 3.500 missing. Union
Brig. -Gens. Harker and McCook killed. Confed. Lieut. -Gen. Leonidas
Polk killed.
10 — Petersburg. Va. Portion of Tenth Corps and Kautz's Cav. Union 20
killed, 67 wounded.
Brice's Cross Roads, near Guntown. Miss. 81st. 95th. I08th. 113th,
114th and 120th 111.. 72d and 95th Ohio. 9th Minn.. 93d Ind., 55th
and 59th U. S. Colored, Brig. -Gen. Grierson's Cavalry, the 4th Mo.,
2d N. J., 19th Pa.. 7th and 9th III.. 7th Ind.. 3d and 4th Iowa, and
10th Kan. Cav.. 1st 111. and 6th Ind. Batteries. Battery F 2d U. S.
Colored Artil. Union 223 killed. 394 wounded. 1.623 missing. Con-
fed. 131 killed. 475 wounded.
Cynthiana and Kellar's Bridge. Ky. 168th and 171st Ohio. Union
21 killed, 71 wounded. 980 captured by Morgan's Raiders.

10 and 11 — Lexington, W. Va. 2d Division Army of West Virginia. Union

6 killed, IS wounded.
11 — Cynthiana. Ky. Burbridge's Cav. Attack on Morgan's Raiders.
Union 150 killed and wounded. Confed. 300 killed and wounded,
400 captured.

11 and 12 — Trevilian Station. Va. Sheridan's Cavalry. Union 85 killed,

490 wounded. IGO missing. Confed. 370 missing.
13 — White Oak Swamp Bridge, Va. Wilson's and Crawford's Cav. Union

50 killed, 250 wounded.
14 — Lexington, Mo. Detachment 1st Mo. Cav. Union 8 killed, 1 wounded.
16 — Samaria Church, Malvern Hill, Va. Wilson's Cav. Union 25 killed,

3 wounded. Confed. 100 killed and wounded.

16 to 19 — Petersburg, Va. (Commencement of the siege that continued to

its fall, April 2, 1865). Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, Army of the
James, Maj.-Gen. B. F. Butler; Second. Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Corps.
Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen. Geo. G. Meade. Union 1.298 killed.
7,474 wounded, 1.814 missing.
16 — Otter Creek, near Liberty. Va. Hunter's Command in advance of the
Army of West Virginia. Unio7i 3 killed, 15 wounded.

17 and 18 — Lynchburg. Va. Sullivan's and Crook's Divisions and Averill's

and Duffie's Cav., Army of the West Virginia. Union 100 killed. 500

wounded. 100 missing. Confed. 200 killed amd wounded.
19 — Capture of the Alabama, off Cherbourg. France, by U. S. Steamer

Kearsarfie. Union 3 wounded. Confed. 9 killed, 21 wounded. 70

captured.
20 to 30 — In front of Petersburg, Va. Fifth. Ninth. Tenth and Eighteenth

Corps. Union 112 killed, 506 wounded, 800 missing. Union Gens.

Chamberlain and Eagan wounded.
21 — Salem. Va. Averill's Cav. Union 6 killed, 10 wounded. Confed. 10

killed and wounded.
Naval engagement on the James River, near Dutch Gap. Casualties

not recorded.
Buford's Gap, Va. 23d Ohio. Union 15 killed.
22 — White River, Ark. Three Cos. 12th Iowa, and U. S. Gunboat Lexington.

Union 2 killed. 4 wounded. Confed. 2 killed. 3 wounded.
22 and 23 — Weldon Railroad, Williams' Farm or Jerusalem Plank Road, Va.

Second. Sixth and 1st Division of Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac.

Union 604 killed, 2.494 wounded, 2.217 missing. Confed. 300 wounded.

200 missing.
22 to 30 — Wilson's Raid on the Weldon Railroad, Va. Kautz's and Wilson's

Cav. Union 92 killed. 317 wounded. 734 missing. Confed. 365 killed

and wounded.
S3 and 24 — Jones's Bridge and Samaria Church. Va. Torbett's and Gregg's

Cavalry Divisions. Union 54 killed. 235 wounded, 300 missing.

Confed. 250 killed and wounded.

26 to 29— Clarendon, St. Charles River. Ark. 126th 111. and 11th Mo.. 9th
Iowa and 3d Mich. Cav.. Battery D 2d Mo. Artil. Union 200
wounded. Confed. 200 wounded, 200 missing.

JULY, 1864

1 to 31 — In front of Petersburg, including Deep Bottom, New Market, and

Malvern Hill, on the 27th, and mine explosion on the 30th. Second,
Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eighteenth Corps. Union 898 killed. 4.060
wounded, 3,110 missing. Confed. loss at Deep Bottom. 400 killed,
600 wounded, 200 missing.
2— Pine Bluff, Ark. 64th U. S. Col. Union 6 killed.

Fort Johnson. James Island. S. C. Troops of Department of the South.
Union 19 killed, 97 wounded. 135 missing.

2 to 6 — Nickaiack Creek or Smyrna, Ga. Troops under command of Maj.-

Gen. Sherman. Union 60 killed. 310 wounded. Confed. 100 killed
and wounded.

3 — Leetown. Va. 10th W. Va., 1st N. Y. Cav. Union 3 killed. 12 wounded.
Hammack's Mills. W. Va. 153d Ohio Natl. Guard. Union 3 killed. 7
wounded.

3 to 9 — Expedition from Vicksburg to Jackson. Miss. 1st Divis'^n Seven-

teenth Corps. Union 150 wounded. Confed. 200 wounded.
4 — Vicksburg. Miss. 48th U. S. Colored. Union 1 killed. 7 wounded.

4 to 6 — Coleman's Plantation, near Port Gibson, Miss. 52d U. S. Colored.

Union 6 killed. 18 wounded.
4 to 7 — Bolivar and Maryland Heights. Maj.-Gen. Slgel's Reserve

Division. Union 20 killed. SO wounded.
6 — Hagerstown. Md. 1st Md. Cavalry. Potomac Home Brigad .. Union

2 killed. G wounded.

6 to 7 — John's Island. S. C. Maj.-Gen. Foster's troops. Union 16 killed,
82 wounded. Confed. 20 killed, 80 wounded.

6 to 18 — Smith's Expedition, La Grange. Tenn., to Tupelo. Miss. 1st and
3d Divisions Sixteenth Corps, one Brigade U. S. Colored Troops and
Grierson's Cavalry. Union 85 killed, 567 wounded. Confed. 110
killed, 600 wounded.

6— Little Blue, Mo. 2d Col. Cav. Union 8 killed. 1 wounded.

6 to 10 — Chattahoochee River, Ga. Army of the Ohio. Maj.-Gen. Scho-
field; Army of the Tennessee. Maj.-Gen. McPherson; Army of the
Cumberland. Maj.-Gen. Thomas; Army of the Mississippi. Maj.-Gen.
W. T. Sherman. Union SO killed, 450 wounded. 200 missing.

7 — Solomon's Gap and Middleton. Md. 8th III. Cav., Potomac Home
Brigade and Alexander's Baltimore Battery. Union 5 killed, 20
wounded.

9 — Monocacy, Md. 1st and 2d Brigades of 3d Division Sixth Corps, and
Detachment of Eighth Corps. Union 90 killed. 579 wounded, 1,290
missing. Confed. 400 wounded.
11 to 22 — Rosseau's Raid in Alabama and Georgia, including Ten Islands and
Stone's Ferry, Ala., and Auburn and Chewa Station. Ga. 8th Ind..
.5th Iowa. 8th Ohio. 2d Ky. and 4th Tenn Cav.. Battery E 1st Mich.
Artil. Union 3 killed. 30 wounded. Confed. 95 killed and wounded.
12 — Fort Stevens. Washington, D. C. Twenty-second Corps. 1st and 2d
Divisions Sixth Corps, Marines. Home Guards, citizens and convales-
cents. Union 54 killed, 319 wounded. Confed. 500 killed and
wounded.
Lee's Mills, near Ream's Station. Va. 2d Division Gregg's Cav. Union

3 killed. 13 wounded. Confed. 25 killed and wounded.

14 — Farr's Mills. Ark. One Co. 4th Ark. Cav. Union 1 killed, 7 wounded.

Confed. 4 killed, 6 wounded,
14 and 16 — Ozark, Mo. 14th Kan. Cav. Union 2 killed, I wounded.

16 and 17— Grand Gulf. Port Gibson. Miss. 72d' and 76th III.. 53d U. S.

Colored. 2d Wis. Cav. Casualties not recorded.

17 and 18 — Snicker's Gap and Island Ford. Va. Army of West Virginia,

Maj.-Gen. Crook and portion of Sixth Corps. Union 30 killed, 181

wounded, 100 missing.
18 — Ashby's Gap. Va. Duffie's Cav. Union 200 killed and wounded.
19 and 20 — Darksville, Stevenson's Depot and Winchester. Va. Averill's

Cav. Union 38 killed, 175 wounded. Confed. 300 wounded, 300

captured.
20-^Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Fourth, Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps,

Maj.-Gen. Geo. H. Thomas. Union 300 killed, 1.410 wounded.

Confed. 1,113 killed, 2,5fX) wounded. 1,183 missing. Confed. Brig.-

Gens. Featherstone. Long. Pettis and Stevens killed.
22 — Atlanta, Ga. (Hood's first sortie.) Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth Corps, Mai. -Gen. McPherson. Union 500 killed. 2.141

wounded, 1,000 missing. Confed. 2.482 killed, 4,000 wounded, 2.017

missing. Union Maj.-Gen. McPherson and Brig. -Gen. Greathouse

killed.
22 — Decatur. Ga. 2d Brigade of the 4th Division of Sixteenth Corps.

Confed. Maj.-Gen. Walker killed.
23 and 24 — Kernstown and Winchester. Va. Portion of Army of West Vir-
ginia. Union 1.200 killed and wounded. Confed. 600 killed and

wounded.
2e— Wallace's Ferry, Ark. 15th 111. Cav.. 60th and 56th U. S. Colored

Troops. Co. E 2d U. S. Colored Artil. Union 10 killed. 32 wounded.

Confed. 150 wounded.
26 to 31 — Stoneman's Raid to Macon. Ga. Stoneman's and Garrard's Cav.

Union 100 killed and wounded, 900 missing.
26 to 31 — McCook's Raid to Lovejoy Station. Ga. 1st Wis., 5th and 8th

Iowa. 2d and Sth Ind.. 1st and 4th Tenn.. and 4th Ky. Cavalry.

Union 100 killed and wounded, 500 missing.
27 — Mazzard Prairie. Fort Smith. Ark. Two hundred men of 6th Kan. Cav.

Union 12 killed, 17 wounded, 152 captured. Confed. 12 killed, 20

wounded.
28 — Atlanta. Ga. (Second sortie at Ezra Chapel.) Fifteenth. Sixteenth

and Seventeenth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Howard. Union 100 killed, 600

wounded. Confed. 642 killed. 3,000 wounded. 1.000 missing.
28 to Sept. 22 — ^Siege of Atlanta. Ga. Army of the Military Division of the

Mississippi, Maj.-Gen. W. T. Sherman. Casualties not recorded.
29— Clear Springs, Md. 12th and 14th Penna. Cav. Confed. 17 killed and

wounded.
30 — Lee's Mills. Va. Davis's Cav. Union 2 killed. 11 wounded.

Lebanon, Ky. One Co. 12th Ohio Cav. Confed. 6 killed.

AUGUST, 1864

1 to 31 — In front of Petersburg. Va. Second, Fifth. Ninth and Eighteenth

Corps. Union 87 kdled, 484 wounded.
2 — Green Springs, W. Va. 153d Ohio. Union 1 killed, 5 wounded, 90

missing. Confed. 5 killed, 22 wounded.
6— Donaldsonville. La. 11th N. Y. Cav. Union 60 missing.
6 to 23 — Forts Gaines and Morgan. Mobile Harbor, Ala. Thirteenth Corps

and Admiral Farragut's fleet of war vessels. Union 75 killed. 100

drowned by sinking of the Tecumseh. 170 wounded. Confed. 2.344

captured.

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THE aggregate number of Sherman's soldiers was about one hundred thousand men. These were con-
fronted by about fifty-fave thousand men, led by General Joseph E. Johnston, and arranged in three
corps commanded respectively b}^ Generals Hardee, Hood, and Polk. This army then lay at Dalton, at the
parting of the ways, one leading into East Tennessee, and the other into West Tennessee. To strike

that position in front was impracticable, or, at least,
perilous, for the Confederates were very strongly posted ;
and Sherman began there a series of successful flank
movements. When he menaced the flanks of the Con-
federates at Dalton by seeking a passage through Snake
Hill Gap, on the left, the insurgents fell back to a point
near Resaca Station at the Oostenaula River, on the line
of the railway between Chattanooga and Atlanta. At
that place a sharp battle occurred on the 15th of j\lay,
when the Confederates were driven across the Oostenaula.
Johnston fired the bridge that spanned that stream, cutting
off direct pursuit immediately. Generals Thomas, Hooker,
McPherson, Schofield, and other noted leaders were en-
gaged in the fight ; and as soon as a temporary bridge was constructed, the next morning, Thomas pursued
Hardee (who covered the retreat) directly, while McPherson and Schofield kept on their flanks. The
Confederates fled from post to post, burning bridges behind them, until they reached a mountainous
region covering the Allatoona Pass. There Johnston halted, with the Etowah River between his troops
and the National forces; and then both armies took a brief rest.

These flanking movements had resulted so favorably to the Nationals, that Sherman resolved
to pursue them. He determined to flank Johnston out of his strong position at Allatoona Pass,
by concentrating his forces at Dallas, westward of him. In attempting to thwart this movement,
the Confederates brought on an engagement near Dallas, on the 25th of May. The battle was
indecisive, and was followed by a very stormy night, during which Johnston's men used the pick-axe
and spade so industriously that by morning Sherman found his antagonist strongly intrenched, with
lines extending from Dallas to Marietta. Between these towns was a broken, wooded country, and
in that region there was much severe fighting for several days. At length Johnston was compelled to
evacuate Allatoona Pass (June i, 1864), when it was garrisoned by Sherman and made his second base of
supplies, the first being at Chattanooga. The burned bridges were rebuilt and well guarded, and full
possession of the railway in his rear was obtained by Sherman. At Allatoona he was reinforced on the
8th by troops under General Frank Blair, which made his number of effective men nearly what it was
when he moved" from Chattanooga.

CHAPTER XXIV.

The Armies at Marietta — Death of Bishop Polk — Hood in Command — Battles around
Atlanta — Thomas Sent to Nashville — Hood Chased into Alabama — Sherman's March
to the Sea — Evacuation of Savannah — Events in Florida and North CaroUna — Invasion
of Tennessee — Hood's Defeats and Escape — Confederate Cruisers — Capture of the
"Alabama" — Farragut near Mobile — Election of President — Sherman in the CaroUnas —
Evacuation of Charleston — Grierson's Raid — Capture of Fort Fisher — Battles at Averj's-
boro' and Bentonville — Wilson's Raid — Capture of Mobile — Operations Below Petersburg
— Sheridan's Raid — Lee's Attempt to Escape — Stoncman's Raid — Movements for Peace.

SOON after evacuating Allatoona Pass, General Johnston was com-
pelled to abandon other posts before the approach of Sherman's
strengthened arm}'. The latter pressed vigorously forward toward
the Kenesaw Mountains that overlook Marietta. Around these great
hills and upon their slopes and summits, and also upon Lost and Pine
Mountains, the Confederates had cast up intrenchments and planted

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signal stations; but after a desperate struggle — fighting battle after battle for the space of about a month,
while rain was falling copiously almost without intermission — the Confederates were forced to leave all
these strong positions. They fled toward the Chattahoochee River, in the direction of Atlanta, closely
pursued by the Nationals. One of their corps com-
manders (Bishop Polk) had been instantly killed by a
shell on the summit of Pine Mountain, and the insurgent
armies had suffered fearful losses in that terrible struggle.
So persistently did Johnston dispute the way from Dalton,
in northern Georgia, to Atlanta, that when he reached the
intrenchments at the latter place, he had lost nearty one-
fourth of his army.

When, on the evening of July 2d, Sherman's cavalry
threatened Johnston's flanks and menaced the ferry of the
Chattahoochee, the Confederates abandoned the Great
Kenesaw and fled; and at dawn the next morning, when
National skirmishers planted the Stars and Stripes over the
Confederate batter}^ on the summit of that eminence, the}'
saw the hosts of their enemies flying in hot haste toward
Atlanta. At eight o'clock Sherman rode into Marietta, a
conqueror, close upon the heels of Johnston's army. He
hoped to strike the Confederates a fatal blow while they
were crossing the Chattahoochee; but Johnston, by quick
and skillful movements, passed that stream without mo-
lestation, and made a stand along the line of it. General
Howard laid a pontoon bridge two miles above the ferry
where Johnston had crossed, and at the same time there was a general movement of Sherman's forces all
along his line. The imperilled Confederates were compelled to abandon the works which they had thrown
up near the Chattahoochee, and retreat to a new line that covered Atlanta, their left resting on the
Chattahoochee and their right on Peach Tree Creek. Now, toward the middle of July, the two armies
rested; and Johnston, an able and judicious leader, was succeeded by General J. B. Hood, of Texas, a
dashing and less cautious officer than his predecessor. At that time (July 10), or sixty-five days after
Sherman put his army in motion southward, he was master of the whole countr\' north and west of the
river on the banks of which he was resting (or nearly one-half of Georgia), and had accomplished one of
the major objects of the campaign, namely, the advancement of the National lines from the Tennessee
to the Chattahoochee.

The possession of Atlanta, the key-point of military' advantage in the campaign in that region, was
the next prize to be contended for. The Nationals advanced at a little past the middle of July, destroying
railways and skirmishing bravely; and on the 20th the Confederates, led by Hood in person, fell upon

the corps of Howard, Hooker and Palmer, with heav>' force. The assail-
ants were repulsed after a sharp battle, in which both parties suffered
severely.

There were now indications that Hood intended to evacuate Atlanta,
when the Nationals moved rapidh' toward the city, encountering strong
intrenchments. Before these a part of Hood's army held their antag-
onists; while the main bod}', led by General Hardee, made a long night
march, gained the rear of Sherman's forces on the morning of the 22d of
July, and fell upon them with crushing weight of numbers that day. A
terrific battle ensued, lasting many hours; and after a brief interval, one
still more sanguinar}^ was begun, which resulted in victory for the Na-
tionals and the retreat of the Confederates to their works. During that
day. General McPherson, who was at the head of the Army of the Ten-
nessee, while reconnoitering in a wood, was shot dead by a Confederate
sharp-shooter (Major McPherson) ; and General Logan took his place in
command. Yet another sanguinan,- battle was fought on the 28th of
July, before Atlanta, when the Confederates were again driven to their
lines, with heav}^ losses; and from that time until the close of August,
hostilities in that region were confined, chiefly, to raids upon railways

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and the interruption of the communications of each army with its supplies. Finally, on the 31st of
August, the forces of Howard and Hardee had a severe battle at Jonesboro', twenty miles below Atlanta,
in which the Confederates were defeated. When Hood heard of this disaster, he perceived his peril, and

lilowing up his magazine at Atlanta, formed a junction with Hardee, and
with his whole army soon recrossed the Chattahoochee. By his rash acts,
Hood had wasted nearly one-half of his infantry in the space of a few
weeks. The Nationals entered Atlanta on the 2d of September, 1864.

The chief object of the Southern campaign was now in possession of
the National forces. Much of September was passed in the reorganiza-
tion of the two armies, with the Chattahoochee separating them. Satis-
fied that Hood was preparing to attempt the seizure of Tennessee,
Sherman sent General Thomas to Nashville to organize new troops that
were to be concentrated there. Meanwhile Hood had planned and
attempted the seizure of stores at Allatoona Pass, but had been foiled.
Sherman started after him and chased him into northern Alabama, and
there relinquishing the pursuit, returned to Atlanta, destroying the rail-
way behind him.

Late in October, Sherman prepared for his famous march from
Atlanta to the sea. To General Thomas he assigned the absolute com-
mand of a large portion of his army, cut loose from all communications
with the North, and on the morning of the 14th of November marched
from Atlanta with .sixtj^-five thousand men, in two columns, commanded
respectively by Generals Howard and Slocum, preceded by General
Kilpatrick with five thousand cavalry. The army subsisted off the country, wherein they found ample
supplies. They also met with very little opposition in its march of thirty-six days through the heart of
Georgia. It was a military promenade, requiring very little miHtary skill in the performance, and as
little personal prowess. Finally, as the Nationals approached the Atlantic seaboard, they attacked and
captured Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee River. That was on the 13th of December; and four days
afterward, the army being before Savannah, Sherman demanded its surrender. Hardee was there with
fifteen thousand men, and on the 20th (December, 1864) they evacuated the city and fled to Charleston.
On the following day, Sherman entered the city in triumph. By his march through Georgia, he had
discovered that the Confederacy was a mere shell in that region. Here we will leave him, and consider
events elsewhere.

Early in 1864, intimations came from Florida that its citizens desired reunion with the National
Government, but were hindered by Confederate troops there, led by General Finnegan. General Gillmore,
then holding Charleston tightly in his grasp, sent General Truman Seymour to assist the Floridians. At
the head of six thousand troops, Seymour went up the St. John's River, drove the Confederates from
Jacksonville, and pursued them into the interior. In the heart of a cypress swamp at Olustee Station,
on a railway that crossed the Peninsula, Seymour encountered Finnegan
strongly posted. A sharp battle occurred on the 20th of February
(1864), when the Nationals were repulsed and retreated to Jacksonville,
destroying Confederate stores valued at $1,000,000. At about the same
time. Admiral Bailey destroyed Confederate salt-works on the coast of
Florida, valued at $3,000,000.

In the spring of 1864, some stirring events occurred on the coast of
North Carolina, the most notable of which was the capture of Plymouth
(April 17), near the mouth of the Roanoke River, with .sixteen hundred
National troops, by the Confederate General Hoke. The Union troops
were commanded by General Wessels. Hoke was assisted by the Albe-
marle, a powerful "ram." This vessel well guarded these waters for
several months, when, on the night of the 27th of October, it was
destroyed with a torpedo by Lieutenant Gushing of the National navy.
The night was intensely dark. Gushing, with thirteen men, went into
Plymouth harbor in a boat, with a torpedo, and made for the "ram"
through a barricade of logs. When they were within twenty yards of
the "ram," they were discovered; but in the face of a terrible .shower
of bullets, they thrust the torpedo under the Albemarle, and it exploded

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with fatal effect. At that moment, a bolt from the "ram" went crashing through Cushing's boat. He
and his men leaped into the water ; but only himself and another escaped death from bullets and drowning,
and were saved on a cutter that accompanied the torpedo boat. After that the war in that region consisted
chiefly of skirmishes between detachments of the two armies. Gillmore's
guns kept watch and ward over Charleston, while he and some of his
troops, as we have observed, w-ent to the James River.

General Hood, according to Sherman's expectations, pushed across
the Tennessee River, near Florence, preceded by Forrest and his cavalry,
who raided in lower Tennessee for some time, eluding National troops
sent against him. He cc-operated with Hood's army after its passage of
the river, late in October; and at Johnsville, on the Tennessee, he
destroyed National stores valued at $1,500,000. Hood had been rein-
forced by General Taylor, from Louisiana, and pushed vigorously on
toward Nashville with fifty thousand troops. General Thomas was at
that place with twenty thousand troops ; and he had as many more under
his command scattered over Tennessee and northern Alabama, in active
service against the invading army.

General Schofield, who had advanced to the Duck River, first en-
countered Hood, and fell back gradually to Franklin, where he took a
stand on the 30th of November, and cast up intrenchments. His chief
care had been to impede the march of the invaders, and to cover his train
until it should reach Nashville. Hood came up in the afternoon of that
day and a desperate battle was fought, which raged until near midnight.

At the first onset, the Confederates drove the Nationals from their works and captured all their guns;
but in a gallant counter-charge, all that the latter had lost were recovered, with ten battle-flags and three
hundred captive insurgents as trophies of \'ictory. Hood had lost one-sixth of his available force in the
struggle. Schofield retreated to Nashville, with all his guns, closely pursued by Hood, who invested that
post with forty thousand men at the beginning of December.

In the meantime. General Thomas had been reinforced by troops under General A. J. Smith, who
had been driving Price out of Missouri. Hood's cavalry was superior to that of Thomas in numbers, and
the latter kept the invaders in front of Nashville as long as possible, to enable him to collect there, horses
and means for transportation. Finally, at the middle of December, the Nationals moved upon the
Confederates. The Fourth corps, led by General T. J. Wood, attacked them vigorous^ and drove them
back to the foot of the Harpeth Hills. The next day (December 16) the same troops and others advanced,
and after a severe battle, the invaders were sent flying southward v.-i'n great precipitation and much
confusion, and were closely pursued several days, Hood turning to fignt occasionally. At the close of
the month. Hood, with his shattered army covered by Forrest's cavalry, escaped across the Tennessee,
and he became no longer formidable. In the course of four months, Thomas had made eleven thousand

five hundred Confederate prisoners of war, and captured seventy-two
pieces of artillery'. His own loss was about ten thousand men, or less
than one-half that of his antagonists.

At the beginning of 1864, Confederate cruisers on the ocean had
captured one hundred and ninety-three American merchant-ships, whose
aggregate cargoes were valued at over $13,400,000. We have alread}'^
noticed the depredations of the Alabama. Another rover, called the
Sumter, after a short but destructive career, was blockaded and sold at
Gibraltar, early in 1862. The Florida and Georgia, both built in Great
Britain, captured and destroyed scores of ships; and in 1864, British
shipyards furnished three other formidable cruisers for the use of the
Confederates, in spite of the remonstrances of the American minister
(Charles Francis Adams) in London.

The Alabama was the most formidable of them all. She was com-
manded by Captain Raphael Semmes, a native of Mar\'land, who died in
August, 1877, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. She continued her
depredations on the high seas, eluding the Government vessels, until the
19th of June, 1864, when she encountered theKearsarge, Captain John A.
Winslow, off the port of Cherbourg, France. They fought desperately

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for an hour, when the Alabama, badly bruised, began to sink. Her flag was struck, and twenty minutes
afterward she went to the bottom of the sea, leaving her commander and his crew strugghng for life in
the water. At that moment the Deerhound, a yacht, with its owner (an English gentleman) and his
family, appeared. The Englishman sympathized with the Confederates, and went out from Cherbourg
ostensibly to see the contest, but really to bear away Semmes and his officers from the grasp of the Nationals
should misfortune befall them. These officers, with a few of the crew, were rescued by the yacht and
borne in safety to England, where the commander of the Alabama was honored with a public dinner (at
Southampton) ; and Admiral Anson, of the royal naw, headed a list of subscribers to a fund raised for
the purchase of an elegant sword to be presented to Semmes as a token of sympathy and esteem. The
"common people" of the Alabama were saved by the boats of her antagonist, and some French vessels.

Interior of Fort at Petersburg

The news of Winslow's victory was received with joy by the friends of the Government; and it was
determined to close the ports of Wilmington and Mobile, the only ones open to blockade-runners. For
that purpose Admiral Farragut appeared off the entrance to Mobile (August 5, 1864) with a fleet of
eighteen vessels, four of them iron-clads. Five thousand troops under General Gordon Granger had been
sent by General Canby from New Orleans, to co-operate with the fleet. The latter (the wooden vessels
lashed together in couples) sailed in between the two forts that guarded the entrance — Fort Morgan on
the main and Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island. In order to have a general oversight of all the movements,
the admiral was fast-bound to the rigging at the maintop of his flag-ship (Hartford), that he might not
be dislodged by the shock of battle. Through a tube extending from his lofty position to the deck, he
gave orders clearly in the midst of the uproar of battle; and in that perilous situation he remained during
the passage by the forts and the severe conflict with Confederate vessels that followed. In that passage
one of his iron-clad gunboats {Teciimsch) was destroyed by a torpedo, but the rest of the fleet was only
slightly bruised. When he had passed the forts, a formidable "ram" two hundred feet long, named
Tennessee, was seen coming swiftly down the bay with other gunboats. These made a ferocious dash
at the fleet ; but after a sharp conflict, brief and decisive, the Tennessee was captured and victory remained
with the Nationals.

The forts were now attacked bj' land and water, and were captured — Fort Gaines on the 7th of
August, and Fort Morgan on the 23d. With these were surrendered one hundred great guns and over
fourteen hundred men. The port of Mobile was effectually closed, and vigorous measures were adopted
for ending the war. On the 3d of September the President called for three hundred thousand men to
reinforce the armies in the field. A most cheerful response was made; and in view of omens of peace in
the near future, the President issued a request that the people should, in their respective places of public
worship, on a specified Sabbath-day, offer united thanksgivings to God for his blessings.

In the fall of 1S64, a very exciting canvass for the election of President of the Republic occurred.
President Lincoln had been nominated by the Republicans, with Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for Vice-
President. The Democrats nominated General George B. McClellan of the army for President, and
George H. Pendleton of Ohio for Vice-President. The sentiments of the Peace-Faction prevailed among
the adherents of McClellan and Pendleton, and they had the support of all the sympathizers with the
Confederates, in the free-labor States. The consequence was that only one of these States (New Jersey)

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gave them the electoral vote, and Lincoln and Johnson, supported by the loyal people, were chosen by
an unprecedented majority.

We left General Sherman and his army at Savannah. After resting for about a month, they began
a rapid march through South Carolina, in widely separated columns, and so distracted the Confederates

that they did not concentrate a large body of troops anywhere. Inces-
sant rains flooded the country, and the swamp-lands were overflowed;
but Sherman pressed forward toward Columbia, the capital of the State,
and captured it on the 17th of February, 1865. This disaster caused the
Confederates to evacuate Charleston. Hardee and his troops fled into
North Carolina and joined the forces there, commanded by General
Joseph E. Johnston. Colored troops entered the abandoned city and put
out the fires which the Confederates had kindled when they fled. A few
weeks afterward, on the anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter
four years before. Major Anderson, with his own hand, raised over the
ruins of that fortress the identical Union flag which he had carried away
from it in April, 1861.

Through the carelessness or folly of General Wade Hampton, who
commanded the rear-guard at the evacuation of Columbus, the city was
set on fire and a large part of it was laid in ashes. Sherman soon passed
on to Faj'ctteville, in North Carolina, which place he reached on the 12th
of March, leaving behind him a blackened path of desolation, forty miles
in width. Most of the fighting on that march was done by the cavalry
of Kilpatrick and Wheeler. From Fayetteville Sherman communicated
with General Schofield, who was in command on the coast ; and finding
Johnston in front of him with forty thousand troops, he rested his army
a few days.

At near the close of 1864, when Sherman was approaching the sea from Atlanta, a destructive raid
through Northern Mississippi was made by General Grierson with twenty-five hundred well-mounted
men. He left Memphis on the 21st of December, and pushed forward to the Mobile and Ohio Railway,
which he struck at Tupelo and destroyed all the way to Okolona, burning Confederate stores and alarming
the whole country. After a successful contest at Okolona, Grierson went westward, distracting his foes
by feints. He struck the Mississippi Central Railroad at Winona Station, and after several skirmishes
he made his way to Vicksburg with trophies consisting of five hundred prisoners, eight hundred beeves,
and a thousand liberated slaves. During this raid Grierson destroyed ninety-five railway cars, three
hundred wagons and thirtj' full warehouses.

It was late in 1864 when an attempt was made to close the port of Wilmington by the capture of Fort
Fisher, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The expedition sent against that post was composed of a
powerful fleet of war-vessels commanded by Admiral D. D. Porter, and land troops under the immediate
command of General Godfrey Weitzel, accompanied by General B. F. Butler, who was in charge of the
department whence the troops were taken. The attempt (December 25, 1864), was unsuccessful; but
another made in February following, by the same fleet, and land troops led by General Alfred H. Terry,
resulted in the capture of the fort and garrison on the 15th of that month. Terry was then joined by
Schofield, who, being the senior officer, took the chief command. The fleet destroyed two Anglo-Con-
federate cruisers lying in the Cape Fear River, and the National army entered Wilmington as victors on
the 2 2d of February.

Sherman's rest at Fayetteville lasted only three days. Then he moved his army forward in another
distracting march that puzzled his antagonists. On the i6th of March, while moving eastward toward
Goldsboro', his troops fought twenty thousand Confederates under General Hardee, at Averysboro', and
defeated them. Two days afterward, a part of the army under General Slocum were attacked by the
whole of Johnston's forces, near Bentonville. The conflict was terrible. Sherman's army had been
surprised, and nothing but the most desperate efforts saved it from destruction. It received six distinct
assaults by the combined forces of Hoke, Hardee and Cheatham, under the immediate command of
General Johnston himself. The conflict ended at twilight. It had been conducted chiefly by General
Jefferson C. Davis, of the Fourteenth Army Corps. Had the battle been lost by the Nationals, the results
might have been most disastrous to the Union cause. Sherman's army might have been annihilated;
so, also, might Grant's, at Petersburg, and the struggle would have been prolonged. It was won by the
army of the Republic, and its enemies retreated hastilv toward Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina.

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Sherman was joined by Schofield and Terry at Goldsboro', when he hastened to City Point on the James
River, by water, and there consuhed the President and General Grant about future operations. He was
back to his army three days after he left it.

After the sealing of Mobile harbor, arrangements were made for the capture of that city and gaining
possession of Alabama. General Canby, in command of the Department
of the Gulf, moved twenty-five thousand troops against Mobile, in
March, 1865. At the same time General Wilson, of Thomas's army,
with thirteen thousand horsemen and about two thousand foot-soldiers,
swept down from the Tennessee to co-operate with Canby. In the
space of thirty days, Wilson raided six himdred and fifty miles through
Alabama and Georgia, meeting with scarcely any opposition but from For-
rest's cavalry, whom he kept from assisting the besieged Confederates at
Mobile. Wilson captured cities and towns and destroyed an immense
amount of public property. Meanwhile Canby was reducing Mobile to
submission; and on the loth and nth of April, General Maur>', in com-
mand there, fled up the Alabama River with nine thousand troops,
leaving five thousand men as prisoners, with one hundred and fiftj' can-
non, in the hands of the victors. The war was now virtually at an end
in the Gulf region.

During the winter of 1864-65, the Armies of the Potomac and of the
James lay in comparative quiet in front of Petersburg and Richmond,
holding the Confederate government and army so tightly in their grasp
that the latter could not form a junction with Johnston's forces, nor
interfere with Sherman's and Thomas's operations in the South and West.

Early in December, Meade had sent Warren to destroy Lee's means of transportation of supphes over
the Weldon Railway, near the North Carolina line; and early in February a heavy flanking column,
horse and foot, stretched across that road beyond the Confederate right, to Dinwiddie Court-House,
seeking an opportunity to turn the right flank of Lee's army. Severe struggles ensued, with heavy losses,
and resulted in the permanent extension of the National line to Hatcher's Run, and the railway from
City Point to that stream.

Grant now prepared to make a general and vigorous movement against Richmond; and late in
February, he ordered General Sheridan to destroy all communications with that city north of the James
River and to seize Lynchburg, a great depot of Confederate supplies. That officer was then in the
Shenandoah Valley. With Generals Merritt and Custer, he left Winchester on the 27th, with ten thousand
men, horse and foot; went up the Valley to Staunton, scattering Early's forces at Waynesboro'; and
crossed the Blue Ridge and destroyed the railway as far as Charlottesville. Lynchburg was evidently
too strong for him; so he divided his troops and sent one party to break up the railway toward that
city, and the other to disable the James River Canal, by which large supplies of provisions entered the

Confederate capital. Then Sheridan passed around the left of Lee's
forces and joined the Army of the Potomac on the 27th of March. This
destructive raid alarmed Lee, who saw that the salvation of his army
and of the Confederacy now depended upon his forming a junction with
Johnston's forces in North Carolina. For that purpose he concentrated
his army near Grant's centre, in front of Petersburg, and made a furious
assault (March 25, 1865) upon Fort Steadman, a strong point in the
National lines, hoping to break through there; but he was repulsed with
heav^' loss, and his chances for reaching North Carolina were more
remote than ever.

During the early part of the preceding winter, General Stoneman and
his cavalry had made a campaign in southwestern Virginia; and early
in February that commander was ordered to make a raid into South
Carohna in aid of Sherman's movements. But that general was so suc-
cessful that Stoneman's help was not needed, and he was directed to
march eastward and destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad as far
toward Lynchburg as possible. When this was done, he turned south-
ward and struck the North Carolina Railway between Danville and
Gener.\l George Crook Greensboro'. Some of his troops penetrated to Salisbury, where the

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Confederates had many Union prisoners. There they destroyed a vast amount of public property ; but
the Union prisoners had been removed, and were not released. Then a part of Stoneman's force destroyed
(April 19) by fire the magnificent railway bridge, eleven hundred feet long, of the South Carolina Railway,

that spanned the Catawba River; while the leader and the main body
went into East Tennessee. During this raid, the National cavalry cap-
tured six thousand prisoners, thirty-one pieces of artillery, and a large
number of small arms.

It was evident in the early spring that a few more heavy blows would
end the Confederacy and the war. Individuals had made efforts from
time to time to secure a peace without conquering the enemies of the
Republic by force of arms. In the summer of 1864, the late Horace
Greeley made such an attempt. At about the same time, two other
civilians made their way to Richmond, for the purpose; and at near the
close of the year the venerable Maryland politician, the late Francis P.
Blair, visited the Confederate capital on the same errand. He conferred
with Jefferson Davis, who, in a letter addressed to him, expressed his
willingness to "renew the effort to enter into a conference with a view to
secure peace to the two countries." When Mr. Blair communicated the
contents of this letter to President Lincoln, the latter expressed liis will-
ingness to receive any agent of the Confederacy to confer, with a view,
he said, "to securing peace for the people of our common country." The
latter expression showed Davis that he could not treat for peace on the
basis of independence for the Southern States; nevertheless, so loud was the popular clamor for peace,
that he appointed Alexander H. Stephens, John A. Campbell, and R. M. T. Hunter commissioners, who
were permitted to proceed as far as Hampton Roads, by water, but were not allowed to land. There
they were met b}^ President Lincoln and Secretary Seward. The President assured the commissioners
that peace might be secured only on the condition of absolute submission, everywhere within the bounds
of the Republic, to the National authority; and that there could be no secession from the position taken
on the subject of slavery. He told them that Congress had just adopted an amendment to the National
Constitution, which vvould be ratified by the loyal people, for the prohibition of slavery in every part
of the Republic.

The conference was fruitless except in obtaining a clearer definition of the views of the Government
and the Confederate leaders. The result was very tmsatisfactorj' to the latter. At a large public meeting
held in Richmond on the 5th of February, Mr. Davis, speaking in reference to Mr. Lincoln's expression,
"our common country," said: "Sooner than we should be united again, I would be willing to yield up
everything I have on earth, and, if it were possible, would sacrifice my life a thousand times- before I
would succumb." And at a great war-meeting held on the gth, at which R. M. T. Hunter presided, it
was resolved that the Confederates would never lay down their arms until their independence was won.
This being their determination, the National Government had no
alternative, and was compelled to prosecute the war to a final
dispersion of the armed forces seeking to destroy its existence.

The confidence assumed by Davis and his associates seems to
have been inspired by hopes yet entertained of receiving foreign
aid. Henry S. Foote, a member of the Confederate Congress
(once United States Senator from Mississippi), says in his "War
of the Rebellion": "The fact was well known to me that Mr.
Davis and his friends were confidently looking for foreign aid,
and from several quarters. It was stated, in my hearing, by
several special friends of the Confederate president, that one hun-
dred thousand French soldiers were expected to arrive within the
limits of the Confederate States, by way of Mexico ; and it was
more than rumored that a secret compact, wholly unauthorized by
the Confederate constitution, w4th certain Poli.sh commissioners,
who had lately been on a visit to Richmond, had been effected,
by means of which Mr. Davis would now be supplied with some
twenty or thirty thousand additional troops, then refugees from
Poland, and sojourning in several European states, which would

General Hood's C. S. A. HEADyuARiERS
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be completely at the command of the president for any purpose whatever." Mr. Foote adds, in that
connection, that he was satisfied that Mr. Davis would, in sending peace commissioners, "so manacle
their hands by instructions, as to render impossible all attempts at successful negotiation."

CHAPTER XXV.

A Desperate Struggle — Battle at the Five Forks — Assault on Petersburg — Panic in Richmond — Flight of the Confederate Government —
Richmond on Fire — National Troops Enter It — Trophies and Confederate Archives — Rejoicings — Seward's Speech — Evacuation
of Petersburg — Lee Becomes Despondent, is Defeated, and Surrenders at Appomatto.x Court-House — Lincoln in Richmond —
Proclamation of Peace — Assassination of the President — The Assassin's Fate — Johnson President — A Murderous Plot — Proposal
by the Confederate Leader Rejected by General Johnston — Surrender of General Johnston and Others — Capture of Jefferson Davis
— Leniency toward Him.

AFTER Lee's effort to break through the National line at Fort Steadman, it was resolved to make
a grand movement against the Confederate right. Large bodies of troops were drawn from the
" Army of the James, under General Ord. General Sheridan, with ten thousand horsemen, was
placed on the extreme left of the National army. The Ninth corps, under General Parke, and the force
commanded by General Weitzel, were left on the north side of the James to hold the extended line of

Allatooxa Pass

the National intrenchments, then full thirty-five miles in length ; and General Grant gave wide discretion
to the commander on the left, concerning attacks upon the Confederate line during the contemplated
grand movement. "I would have it particularly enjoined upon corps commanders," he said, "that in
case of an attack from the enemy, those not attacked are not to wait for orders from the commanding
officers of the army to which they may belong, but that they will move promptly, and notify the com-
mander of their action." General Benham was in charge of the immense depositor^' of supplies at City
Point.

Two days after Sheridan's return from his great raid at the close of March, the forward movement
was begun. Lee perceived his own imminent peril; and leaving Longstreet with eight thousand men
to protect Richmond, he massed the remainder of his armj^ at the point of most apparent danger. Then
began a fierce and desperate struggle for the master3\ It was made on the part of the Nationals chiefly
by the Fifth corps, under Warren, with the co-operation of Sheridan. The latter, holding a position
called the Five Forks, was struck so suddenly and severely by troops under Pickett and Bushrod Johnson,
that his force was driven back to Dinwiddle Court-House, in great confusion, hotly pursued. "Warren
was sent to Sheridan's aid; and near Five Forks a sanguinar\' battle was fought on the ist of April. The
Confederates were defeated and fled westward in great disorder, leaving five thousand of their comrades
behind as prisoners of war. Many of the Confederates perished in the battle ; and the loss of the Nationals
was about a thousand men.

On the evening of the battle at the Five Forks, and before the shouts of victor\^ there had reached
the National line before Petersburg, General Grant had ordered his great guns all along that line to open
a destructive cannonade upon the city and the Confederate works. The assault was kept up until four

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o'clock in the morning. It was an awful night for the few inhabitants remaining in Petersburg, and for
the soldiers in the trenches. At dawn the works were assailed by infantr>\ Parke, with the Ninth
corps, carried the outer works on his front, but was checked at an inner line; and the Nationals were
successful on their extreme left, in crushing Lee's right wing. Longstreet had hastened down from
Richmond to assist him, but he was too late. The Confederate right was shattered beyond recovery;
and the Southside Railway, on which Lee placed great dependence, was struck by Sheridan at three
different points.

Lee now perceived that he could no longer hold Petersburg, or the capital, with safety to his army,
then reduced, by enormous losses in the space of a few days, to about thirty-five thousand men, and he
resolved to maintain his position, if possible, until night, and then retreat with the hope of making his
way to Johnston, in North Carolina, by way of the Danville railroad. He telegraphed to Davis at
Richmond, in substance: "My lines are broken in three places; Richmond must be evacuated this
evening." It was Sabbath morning, the 2d of April, and the message was delivered to Davis in St.
Paul's Church. He quietly left the fane with deeply anxious features, and for a moment a painful silence
prevailed. The religious services were closed; and before Dr. Minnegerode, the rector, dismissed the
congregation, he gave notice that General Ewell. the commander in Richmond, desired the local forces

to assemble at three o'clock in the
afternoon.

For hours the people of the
city were kept in the most anxious
suspense, for the "government"
was as silent as the sphinx. Panic
gradually took the place of judg-
ment; and when, toward evening,
wagons were seen a-loading with
trunks and boxes at the depart-
ments, and were driven to the Dan-
ville Railway station, and it be-
came evident that Davis and his
cabinet were preparing to flee, the
wildest confusion and alarm pre-
vailed. Prominent Confederates
also prepared to fly, they knew not
whither; and at eight o'clock in
the evening, Davis abandoned his
capital and sought personal safety
in flight. This act was a marked
commentary on his assertion made
in a speech a few weeks before : "If
it were possible, I would be willing to sacrifice my life a thousand times before I would succumb." His

wife had fled to Danville a few days before, and there awaited his coming. At nine o'clock in the evening,
the Virginia legislature fled. The Confederate congress had already gone, having left an order for the
cotton, tobacco, and other property- in the citj-, to be burned. At midnight, all signs of a "government"
had disappeared ; and at three o'clock in the morning, incendiar\' fires were lighted. There w-as a fresh
breeze from the south, and very soon a large portion of the chief business section of Richmond was
enveloped in flames. Drunken incendiaries fired buildings not in the pathway of the great conflagration;
and until dawn the city was a pandemonium. Most of the Confederate troops had fled ; and at an early
hour in the morning. General Weitzel, in command of the forces on the north side of the James, entered
Richmond with his colored regiments and put out the fires. Lieutenant Johnston Livingston De Peyster,
of Weitzel's staff, ascended to the roof of the Virginia State-House and there unfurled the National Flag,
where it had not been seen floating for four years.

Meanwhile, Davis and his associates fled to Danville, whither Lee hoped to follow. They had left
the inhabitants of the capital defenceless and that city on fire; and they also abandoned five thousand
of their sick and wounded in the hospitals, and a thousand soldiers, to become prisoners of war. They
also left, as trophies for the victors, five hundred pieces of artillery, five thousand small arms, many
locomotives and cars, and a large amount of other public property. Thej^ carried with them what gold
they could seize in their haste; also the archives of the Confederate government, together with their

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Potter House and Other Scenes, at Atlanta

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great seal which had just arrived from England, but which was never stamped upon any public document.
A part of the archives were captured by National troops, and the remainder were subsequently sold to
our Government by the Confederate ex-minister to Mexico.

Tidings of the fall of Richmond went over the land on that memorable 3d of April, 1865, and produced
great joy in every loyal bosom. Before sunset public demonstrations of delight and satisfaction were
everywhere visible. At the National Capital, all the public offices were closed, and all business among
those who were in sympathy with the Government was suspended. There was an immense gathering
of people in Wall street. New York, on that day, to listen to the voices of patriotic orators; and from
the tower of Trinity Church, which looks down upon that great mart of money-changers, the bells chimed

Part of B.^ttlefield, ne.\r Atl.^nt.\

music in airs consonant with the public feeling. The people lingered long; and a deep religious feeling,
bom of joy and gratitude, pervaded that almost innumerable throng. That feeling was remarkably
manifested when thousands of voices joined in chanting the Christian Doxology to the grand air of Old
Hundred.

In Washington city, the loyal people gathered in a great throng and visited Mr. Seward, the Secretary
of State. They called for a speech, when he appeared and said: "I am now about w-riting my foreign
despatches. What shall I tell the Emperor of China? I shall thank him, in your name, for never having
permitted a piratical flag to enter a harbor of the empire. What shall I say to the Sultan of Turkey?
I shall thank him for always having surrendered rebel insurgents who have taken refuge in his kingdom.
What shall I say to the Emperor of the French? I shall say to him that he can go to Richmond to-morrow
and get his tobacco, so long held under blockade there, provided the rebels have not used it up. To
Lord John Russell, I will say, the British merchants will find the cotton exported from our ports, under
treaty w'ith the United States, cheaper than cotton obtained by running the blockade. As for Earl
Russell himself, I need not tell him that this is a war for freedom and national independence, and the
rights of human nature, and not a war for empire; and if Great Britain should only be just to the United
States, Canada will remain undisturbed by us, so long as she prefers the authority of the noble Queen
to voluntary- incorporation in the United States. What shall I tell the King of Prussia? I will tell him
that the Germans have been faithful to the standard of the Union, as his excellent minister, Baron Gerolt,
has been constant in his friendship to the United States during his long residence in this country. To
the Emperor of Austria, I shall say that he has proved himself a very wise man, for he told us at the
beginning, that he had no sympathy with the rebels anywhere." In these few words, Secretary Seward
revealed the fact that while Great Britain and France — Christian nations — were assisting the enemies
of our Republic to destroy it. Pagan China and Mohammedan Turkey, animated by principles of right
and justice, were its abiding friends.

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Lee, after he had advised the evacuation of Richmond, perceiving that he could no longer hold
Petersburg, abandoned it. He stole away so silently on the evening of the 2d, that the suspicions of the
Union pickets were not awakened; and when, at dawn, it was discovered that the intrenchments of the
Confederates in front of Petersburg had been abandoned, Lee's army were miles away to the westward,
seeking to join the columns at Richmond, in a flight for safety. Lee concentrated his broken army at
Amelia Court-House, where they might reach the Danville Railway. He had ordered stores to be sent
from Danville to that point for the use of his army; but when, on Sunday afternoon, the loaded trains
reached Amelia Court-House, a despatch reached the officer in charge, directing him to continue the
train on to Richmond for the transportation of the "government" and the archives. The stupid officer

P.\RT OF B.ATTLEFIELD, NEAR ATLANTA

did not leave the supplies at AmeHa, but took them on to Richmond, and they were there destroj-ed in
the conflagration. This was a fatal mistake; and when Lee reached Amelia Court-House, with his half-
famished army, and found no supplies there, hope forsook him, for his plans were thwarted. He could
not move on for want of provisions and forage ; and in the meantime, Sheridan gained a position between
the Confederates and Lee's avenue of escape. For several days the latter made desperate efforts to
break through the National line, cavalr>' and infantry-, that stood across his path, but failed. Finally,
on the 9th of April, he made overtures for capitulation.

On the 7th, Grant had written a note to Lee, suggesting that the events of the past week should
convince him of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia.
"I feel that it is so," Grant wrote, "and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of
any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States
army known as the Army of Northern Virginia." To this, Lee replied, that he did not believe further
resistance would be vain, but reciprocating Grant's desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, he said:
' ' Before considering your proposition, I ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. ' ' After
dispatching his reply to Grant, Lee resumed his march westward toward Lynchburg, under cover of the
darkness. He hoped to escape to the shelter of the mountains be\-ond Lynchburg. So silent was his
retreat, that it was not discovered until the morning of the 8th, when the National army pushed on in
pursuit of the fugitives.

On receiving Lee's answer, the lieutenant-general replied; "There is but one condition I would insist
upon, namely, that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms against the
Government of the United States, until properly exchanged;" and he proposed to meet Lee in person,
or to delegate officers for the purpose of definitely arranging the terms of surrender.

Hoping to escape, after his uninterrupted night march, Lee sent a note to General Grant, saying he
did not propose to surrender. "To be frank," he said, "I do not think the emergency has arisen to call

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for the surrender of this army." He then proposed to meet Grant on the morning of the gth to confer
upon the subject of peace. The heutenant-general repHed that he had no authority to treat on the topic
of peace, and that a meeting for such a purpose would be useless. "The terms upon which peace can be
had," he said, "are well understood. By the South laying down their
arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of
human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed."
In the meantime Sheridan had settled the question, and rendered further
parley unnecessary. He stood across Lee's path on the morning of the
9th, near Appomattox Court-House. The latter saw that his onlj^ hope
of escape was in cutting his way successfully through vSheridan's line.
This he attempted at daybreak with his whole army, then numbering not
more than ten thousand effective men. He failed again. Appalled, the
Confederates staggered back, and displaj-ed a white flag before the van
of the troopers of General Custer. Then Lee wrote to Grant: "I re-
ceived your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come
to meet you, and ascertain definiteh' what terms were embraced in your
proposal of yesterday, with reference to the surrender of this army. I
now ask an interview, in accordance with an offer contained in your letter
of yesterday, for that purpose."

Grant sent Lee word that he assented to his request, and arrange-
ments were made for an interview in the parlor of the neat brick dwelling
of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court-House. There, at two o'clock -Majok-Gexekal
on Palm-Sunda}- (April q, 1865), the two commanders met, with courteous recognition. General Grant
was accompanied by his chief aide-de-camp, Colonel Parker, a great-nephew of the celebrated Seneca
chief. Red Jacket; General Lee, by Colonel Marshall, his adjutant-general, a great-grandson of Chief-
Justice Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States. The terms of surrender were discussed
and settled. They were put in the form of a written proposition by Grant, and a written acceptance by
Lee. Having been engrossed, thej- were signed by the generals, at half-past three o'clock, on a neat
mahogany centre-table, with a marble top.

The terms prescribed by General Grant were extremely lenient and magnanimous, considering the
circumstances. They required Lee and his men to give their parole of honor that they would not take
up arms against their Government until regularly exchanged ; gave to the officers their side-arms, baggage
and private horses ; and pledged the faith of the Government that they should not be punished for their
treason and rebellion so long as they should respect that parole and be obedient to the laws. Grant even
went so far, in his generosity, at Lee's suggestion, that he gave instructions to the proper officers to allow
such cavalrymen of the Confederate army as owned their horses to retain them, as they would, he said,
need them for tilling their farms.

When the terms of surrender were agreed upon, the Confederate soldiers were provided with food

from the National stores ; and on Wednesday, the 12th of April, 1865, they
laid down their arms. Transportation and food were provided by the
Government to large numbers of the troops on their journey homeward.
The number paroled was about twenty-five thousand men, of whom not
more than nine thousand men had arms in their hands. With the men
were surrendered about sixteen thousand small arms, one hundred and
fift}^ pieces of artillery, seventy-one stand of colors, about eleven hundred
wagons and caissons, and four thousand horses and mules. The official
announcement of the great victory was sent over the land with the speed
of Hghtning, by the Secretary- of War, and an order for a salute of two
hundred guns at the headquarters of every army.

President Lincoln had been at City Point and vicinity, for several
days before the fall of Richmond, anxiously watching the current of
events. On the day after the Confederate capital was evacuated, he
went up to that city on Admiral Porter's flag-ship, the Malvern; and
while on his way to Weitzel's headquarters, at the late residence of Jeff-
erson Davis, he was saluted with the loud cheers and grateful ejaculations
of a vast concourse of emancipated slaves, who had been told that the
General Joseph E. Johnston, C. S. A. "tall man" was their liberator. On the day of Lee's surrender, he

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returned to Washington; and on the nth he issued a proclamation, in which he demanded, henceforth,
for our vessels in foreign ports, on penaltj- of retaliation, those privileges and immunities which had
hitherto been denied them on the plea of according equal belligerent rights to the Republic and its internal

enemies. On the following day an order was issued from
the War Department, putting an end to all drafting and
recruiting for the National army, and the purchase of
munitions of war and supplies. This virtual proclamation
of the end of the war went over the land on the anniversary
of the evacuation of Fort Sumter (April 14), while General
Anderson was replacing the old flag over the ruins of that
fortress. Preparations were a-making for a National
Thanksgiving, and the beams of returning peace illumi-
nated the Republic, so to speak, when suddenly a dark
cloud appeared and overspread the firmament with a
gloomy pall. Before midnight the telegraph flashed the
sad tidings over the land that the President had been
assassinated! He was sitting in a theatre (Ford's) at
Washington, with his wife and friends, when John Wilkes
Booth, an actor by profession, entered his box stealthily
and shot Mr. Lincoln in the back of his head with a Der-
ringer pistol. The assassin then rushed to the front of the
box with a gleaming dagger in his hand, and shouted "Sic semper tyranuis" — so may it always be with
tyrants — the motto on the seal of Virginia. Then he leaped upon the stage, booted and spurred for a
night ride; and shouting to the audience, "The South is avenged!" he escaped by a back door, mounted
a horse that was in readiness for him, dashed across the Anacosta and found temporal^' shelter among
sympathizing Maryland slaveholders. Then he fled into Virginia, where he was overtaken by pursuers
in a bam below Fredericksburg, which was set on fire; and as the assassin emerged from the flames he
was shot by a sergeant named Boston Corbett.

The President expired early in the morning of the 15th of April. His body was taken, in solemn
procession, to his home in Springfield, Illinois, by way of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany
and western cities, everj'where receiving tokens of the people's love and grief. Funeral honors were
displayed in many cities in the land. Six hours after the demise of the Chief Magistrate, Andrew Johnson,
the Vice-President, who was his constitutional successor, took the oath of office as President of the United
States, administered by Chief- Justice Chase.

There seems to be a warrant for the belief, that the assassination of the President was only a part
of a plan, in which the murder of the cabinet ministers. General Grant, and prominent Republicans,
was contemplated; for on the same evening a murderous attack was made upon Secretar>- Seward, at
his own house, by an ex-Confederate soldier. Secretary Stanton was absent from his home, and was
not visited. It was a night of horrors at the capital ; and President Johnson issued a proclamation early
in May, signed by himself and Mr. Hunter, the Assistant-
Secretary of State, in which he declared that there was
"evidence in the Bureau of Militarv' Justice" that there
had been a conspiracy formed by ' ' Jeft'erson Davis, Jacob
Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, George N.
Saunders and William C. Clear>', and other rebels and
traitors against the Government of the United States,
harbored in Canada," to assassinate the President and
Secretary of State; and he offered a reward of §25,000
apiece for their arrest, excepting Clear\', a clerk, for whom
$10,000 were offered.

With the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox,
the war was virtually ended. But onh- the Army of
Northern Virginia had surrendered. That of Johnston, in
North Carolina, and smaller bodies elsewhere, were yet in
arms. When Sherman heard of the evacuation of Rich-
mond and Petersburg, he put his whole army in motion
and moved on Johnston, who was at Smithfield, on the Dead on Battlefield

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Neuse River, with full thirty thousand men, starting at daybreak on the loth of April, for the purpose
of strildng his rear. Johnston had just heard of the surrender of Lee, and retreated through Raleigh,
and along the course of the railway westward, toward Greensboro'. At the same time Davis and his

cabinet, who had made Danville the seat of the Confederate government
for a few days, had fled from that place to Greensboro', with anxious
solicitude for themselves and their treasures. They had proposed to
Johnston that he should disperse his army excepting two or three bat-
teries of artillery-, and as many infantry as he could mount, and with
these should form a body-guard for the "government," and strike for the
Mississippi and beyond, with Mexico as their final objective. Johnston,
a man of honor, spurned this base and selfish proposal to desert his com-
panions-in-arms far away from their homes and unprovided for, and
subject the people in the region where the army would be disbanded to
the sore evils of plunder, which lawless bands of starving men would
engage in. Governed by the principles of justice and humanity, he had
the moral courage to do his duty according to the dictates of conscience,
and refused to fight any more in a hopeless cause. He stated frankly to
the people of his military- department, that "war could no longer be con-
tinued by them, except as robbers," and that he should take immediate
steps to save the army and people from further evil and to "avoid the
crime of waging a hopeless war." On the 26th of April, Johnston, and
the army under his command, excepting a body of cavalry led by Wade
Hampton, surrendered to Sherman, near Durham Station, in Orange County, North Carolina, on the
same generous terms accorded to Lee and his troops. The number surrendered and paroled was about
twenty-five thousand, with one hundred and eight pieces of artillery, and about fifteen thousand small
arms. The whole number of his troops present and elsewhere was seventy thousand. On the 4th of
May, General Taylor surrendered the Confederate forces in Alabama to General Canby, at Citronville;
and the Confederate navy^ in the Tombigbee River was surrendered to Admiral Farragut at the same
time. The last conflict in the terrible Civil War occurred near Brazos Santiago, in Texas, on the 13th
of May, when hostilities entireh' ceased.

Jefferson Davis, as we have observed, set up his "government" at Danville, after his flight from
Richmond. On the 5th of April, he issued a proclamation from that place, in his usual style. "Let us
but will it," he said, "and we are free. Animated by that confidence in spirit and fortitude which never
yet failed me, I announce to 3'ou, my fellow-countr>'men, that it is my purpose to maintain your cause
with my whole heart and soul; that I will never consent to abandon to the enemy one foot of the soil
of any one of the States of the Confederacy." This was followed a few days afterward by his proposition
to Johnston to abandon his army and protect the "government" in its flight to Mexico. In his procla-
mation, Davis declared his purpose to defend Virginia, and that "no peace should ever be made with the
infamous invaders of her territory;" now he ingloriously
abandoned Virginia. When he heard of the surrender of
Johnston's army, and the ring of Stoneman's sabres fell
upon his ears, he and his cabinet, escorted by two thousand
cavalry, fled across rivers and swamps, with their forces,
toward the Gulf of Mexico ; for the way to the Mississippi
and beyond was barred. Rumors of Stoneman, of Wilson,
and even of Sheridan being on their track quickened their
flight; while their escort so rapidly dwindled that when
the}' reached Washington, in Georgia, the troopers were
not more than sufficient to make a respectable raiding
party. There all the cabinet ministers but Postmaster-
General Reagan, left Davis, whose wife and children, and
Mrs. Davis's sister (Miss Howell) had accompanied the fu-
gitive "government" from Danville. Now, for prudential
reasons, this family took another but nearly parallel route
for the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, traveling in wagons. Gathering the Dead on the Battlefield

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

AUGUST, 1961— Continued from Section 12

6 — Plaquemine, La. 4th Wis. Cav., 14th R. I. Heavy Artil. Union 2

killed.
7 — Moorefield. Va. 14th Penna.. 8th Ohio. 1st and 3d W. Va., and 1st
N. Y. Cav. Union 9 killed. 22 wounded. Confcd. 100 killed and
wounded, 400 missing.
7 to 14 — Tallahatchie River. AbbeWlle. Oxford and Hurricane Creek, Miss.
Hatch's Cav. and Mower's Command of Sixteenth Corps. Casualties
not recorded.
9 — Explosion of ammunition at City Point. Va. Union 70 killed, 130
wounded.
10 and 11 — Berryville Pike, Sulphur Springs Bridge and 'White Post. 'Va.

Torbett's Cav. Union 34 killed. 90 wounded, 200 missing.
13 — \ear Snicker's Gap, Va. 144th and 149th Ohio. Union i killed, 10

wounded, 200 missing. Confed. 2 killed. 3 wounded.
14 — Gravel Hill, Va. Gregg's Cav. Union 3 killed. 18 wounded.
14 to 16 — Dalton. Ga. 2d Mo. and 14th U. S. Colored.
14 to 18 — Strawberry Plains. Va. Second and Tenth Corps and Gregg's
Cav. t'liioii 400 killed. 1.755 wounded. 1.400 missing. Conjed. 1.000
wounded.
16 — Fisher's Hill, near Strasburg. Va. Sixth and Eighth Corps and 1st Cav.

Division Army of the Potomac. Union 30 wounded.
16 — Crooked Run. Front Royal. Va. Merritfs Cav. Union 13 killed, 58

wounded. Con/ed. 30 killed, 150 wounded. 300 captured.
17 — Gainesville. Fla. 75th Ohio Mounted Inft. Union 16 killed, 30
wounded, 102 missing.
Winchester. Va. New Jersey Brigade of Sixth Corps and Wilson's Cav.
Union 50 wounded, 250 missing.
18, 19 and 21 — Six- Mile House. Weldon Railroad. Va. Fifth and Ninth
Corps and Kautz's and Gregg's Cav. Union 212 killed. 1.155
wounded. 3.170 missing. Confed. 2.000 wounded, 2.000 missing.
Confed. Brig. -Gens. Saunders and Lamar killed and Claigman,
Barton. Finnegan and Anderson wounded.
18 to 22 — Kilpatrick's Raid on the Atlanta Railroad. Union 400 wounded.
19 — Snicker's Gap. Pike. Va. Detachment of 5th Mich. Cav. Union 30
killed. 3 wounded (all prisoners taken, and the wounded, were put
to death by Mosby).
Martinsburg. Va. Averill's Cav. Union 25 killed and wounded.
19 — Pine Bluff, Tenn. River. Tenn. Detachment of Co. B 83d III. Mounted

Inft. Union S killed, and mutilated by guerrillas.
21 — Summit Point. Berryville and Flowing Springs. Va. Sixth Corps and
Merritt's and Wilson's Cav. Union tJOO killed and wounded. Confcd.
400 killed and wounded.
Memphis, Tenn. Detachments of .Sth Iowa, 108th and 113th III., 39th,
40th and 41st Wis.. 61st U. S. Colored. 3d and 4th Iowa Cav.. Battery
G 1st Mo. Lt. Artil. Union 30 killed. 100 wounded. Confed. 100
killed and wounded.
21 and 22 — College or O.xford Hill, Miss. 4th lows. 11th and 21st Mo., 3d

Iowa Cav., 12th Mo. Cav. Confed. 15 killed.
23— Abbeville. Miss. 10th Mo.. 14th Iowa. .5th and 7th Minn., Sth Wis.

Union 20 wounded. Confcd. 15 k lied.
24 — Fort Smith. Ark. 11th U. S. Colored. Union 1 killed. 13 wounded.

Jones's Hay Station and Ashley Station. Ark. 9th Iowa and Sth and

11th Mo. Cav. Union 5 killed. 41 wounded. Confed. 60 wounded.

24 and 26 — Bermuda Hundred. Va. Tenth Corps. Union 31 wounded.

Confcd. 61 missing.
24 to 27 — Halltown. Va. Portion of Eighth Corps. Union 39 killed. 178

wounded. Confcd. 130 killed and wounded.

3S — Smithfield and Sheperdstown or Kearneysville. Va. Merritt's and

Wilson's Cav. Union 20 killed, 61 wounded. 100 missing. Confed.

300 killed and wounded.

Ream's Station. Va. Second Corps and Gregg's Cav. Union 127

killed. 546 wounded. 1.769 missing. Confed. 1.500 killed and wounded.

27 and 28 — Holly Springs. Miss. 14th Iowa. Uth U. S. Colored Artil.. 10th

Mo. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.
29 — Smithfield. Va. 3d Div. Sixth Corps and Torbett's Cav. Union 10

killed. 90 wounded. Confed. 200 killed and wounded.
SI — Block House, No. 5, Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, Tenn. 115th

Ohio. Union 3 killed, Confed. 25 wounded.
31 and Sept. 1 — Jonesboro', Ga. Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Seventeenth and
Davis's Cavalry Divisions of Fourteenth Corps. Union 1,149 killed
and wounded. Confed. 2.000 killed, wounded and missing. Confed.
Brig.-Gens. Anderson, Curamings and Patten killed.

SEPTEMBER, 1864

1 to 8 — Rosseau's pursuit of Wheeler in Tenn. Rosseau's Cav., 1st and 4th
Tenn., 2d Mich.. 1st Wis., Sth Iowa. 2d and Sth Ind.. and 6th Ky.
Union 10 killed, 30 wounded. Confed. 300 killed, wounded and
captured. ^_;

1 to Oct. 30 — In front of Petersburg. Army of the Potomac. Union 170

killed. S22 wounded. 812 missing. Confed. 1.000 missing.
2 — Fall of Atlanta. Ga. Twentieth Corps. Confed. 200 captured.

2 to 6 — Lovejoy Station, Ga. Fourth and Twenty-third Corps. Casualties

not recorded.

3 and 4 — Berryville, Va. Eighth and Nineteenth Corps and Torbett's Cav.

Union 30 killed, 182 wounded, 100 missing. Confed. 25 killed, 100
wounded. 70 missing.
4 — Greenville. Tenn. 9th and 13th Tenn.. and 10th Mich. Cav. Union 6
wounded. Confed. 10 killed. 60 wounded. 75 missing. Confed. Gen.
John Morgan killed.
6 — Searcy. Ark. Detachment 9th Iowa Cav. Union 2 killed. 6 wounded.

10 — Capture of Fort Hell. Va. 99th Pa., 20th Ind.. 'id U. S. Sharpshooters.
L'«io«. 20 wounded. Confed. 90 prisoners.

13 — Lock's Ford. Va. Torbett's Cav. Union 2 killed. 18 wounded. Con-
fed. 181 captured.

16 — Sycamore Church, Va. 1st D. C. and 13th Pa. Cav. Union 400 killed.

I J wounded and captured. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.

16 and 18— Fort Gibson. Ind. Ter. 79th U. S. Colored and 2d Kan. Cav.

Union 3S killed. 4S missing.
17 — Belcher's Mills, Va. Kautz's and Gregg's Cav. Union 25 wounded.

19 to 22 — Winchester and Fisher's Hill, Va. Sixth, Eighth and 1st and 2d
Divisions of the Nineteenth Corps. Averill's and Torbett's Cav.,
Maj.-Gen. Phil. Sheridan. Union 693 killed. 4.033 wounded. 623
missing. Confed. 3,2,50 killed and wounded. 3,600 captured. Union
Brig.-Gens. Russell and Mulligan killed, and Mcintosh. Upton and
Chapman wounded. Confcd. Maj.-Gen. Rhodes and Brig.-Gens.
Gordon and Goodwin killed, and Fitz-Hugh Lee, Terry, Johnson and
Wharton wounded.

23— Athens. Ala. 106th. UOth and 114th U. S. Colored, 3d Tenn. Cav.,
reinforced by ISth Mich, and 102d Ohio. Union 950 missing. Con-
fed. 5 killed, 25 wounded.
Rockport, Mo. 3d Mo. Militia Cav. Union 10 killed.

24 — Fayette, Mo. 9th Mo. Militia Cav. Union 3 killed. 5 wounded.
Confed. 6 killed. 30 wounded.

26 and 27 — Pilot Knob or Ironton. Mo. 47th and 50th Mo., 14th Iowa. 2d
and 3d Mo. Cav.. Battery H 2d Mo. Lt. Artil. Union 28 killed, 56
wounded, 100 missing. Confed. 1.500 killed and wounded.

27 — Centralia. Mo. Three Co.'s 39th Mo., massacred by Price. Union 122
killed. 2 wounded.
Marianna. Fla. 7th Vt., 82d U. S. Colored and 2d Maine Cav. Union
32 wounded. Confed. SI missing.

28 and 30 — New Market Heights or Laurel Hill. Va. Tenth and Eighteenth

Corps and Kautz's Cav. Union 400 killed. 2.029 wounded. Confed.
2,000 killed and wounded.
29 — Centreville. Tenn. 2d Tenn. Mounted Inft. Union 10 killed. 25
wounded.

29 and 30 — Leesburg and Harrison, Mo. 14th Iowa, 2d Mo. Militia Cav.,

Battery H 2d Mo. Lt. .-^rtil.

30 and Oct. 1 — Poplar Springs Church, Va. 1st Div. Fifth Corps and 2d

Div. Ninth Corps. Union 141 killed, 788 wounded, 1,756 missing,
Confed. SOO wounded, ItJO missing.
Arthur's Swamp, Va. Gregg's Cav. Union 60 wounded, 100 missing.

OCTOBER, 1864

2 — Waynesboro. Va. Portion of Custer's and Merritfs Cav. Union SO
killed and wounded.
Saltville. Va. 11th and 13th Ky. Cav., 12th Ohio. 11th Mich., 5th and
6th U. S. Colored Cav.. 26th. 30th. 3.ith. 37th. 39th, 40th and 45th
Ky. Mounted Inft. Union 54 killed. 190 wounded, 104 missing.
Confed. IS killed. 71 wounded. 21 missing.
6 — Jackson. La. 23d Wis.. 1st Tex., and 1st La. Cav., 2d and 4th Mass,
Battery. Union 4 killed, 10 wounded.
Allatoona, Ga. 7th, 12th, 50th, 57th and 93d 111., 39th Iowa, 4th Minn.,
18th Wis. and 12th Wis. Battery. Union 142 killed, 352 wounded,
212 missing. Confed. 231 killed. 500 wounded. 411 missing.
7 — Xew Market. Va. 3d Div. Custer's Cav. Union 56 missing.
7 to 11 — Jefferson City. California and Boonsville. Mo. (Price's Invasion.)
1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Mo. Militia Cav.. 15th Mo. Cav.. 17th 111.
Cav.. Battery H 2d Mo. Lt. Artil.
7 and 13 — Darby town Road, Va. Tenth Corps and Kautz's Cav. Union
105 killed, 502 wounded. 206 missing. Confed. 1,100 killed and
wounded, 350 missing. Confed. Gen. Gregg killed.
9 — Tom's Brook, Fisher's Hill or Strasburg. Va. Merritt's. Custer's and
Torbett's Cav. Union 9 killed. 67 wounded. Confed. 100 killed and
wounded. ISO missing.
10 — East Point, Miss. 61st U. S. Colored. Union 16 killed, 20 wounded.
XI — Fort Donelson, Tenn. Detachment 4th U. S. Colored Heavy Artil.

i'liioii 4 killed, 9 wounded. Confed. 3 killed. 23 wounded.
12 — Reconnaissance to Strasburg. Va. Maj.-Gen. Emory's and Crook's

troops. Union 30 killed. 144 wounded, 40 missing.
13 — Dalton, Ga. Troops under Col. Johnson, 44th U. S. Colored. Union
400 missing.
Buzzard Roost, Ga. One Co. llSth III. Union 5 killed, 36 wounded.
60 missing.
16 — Glasgow. Mo. 43d Mo., and detachments of 17th III., 9th Mo. Militia,
13th Mo. Cav.. 62d U. S. Colored. Union 400 wounded and missing.
Confed. 50 killed and wounded.

19 Lexington. Mo. 5th. 11th. loth and 16th Kan. Cav.. 3d Wis. Cav.

(Casualties not recorded.
Cedar Creek. Va. (Sheridan's Ride.) Sixth Corps. Eighth Corps, and
1st and 2d Divisions Nineteenth Corps, Merritt's, Custer's and
Torbett's Cav. Union 588 killed, 3,516 wounded, 1,S01 missing.
Confed. 3.000 killed and wounded. 1.200 missing. Union Brig.-Gens.
Bidwell and Thorburn killed. Maj.-Gens. Wright. Ricketts and
Grover and Brig.-Gens. Ketchem. McKenzie. Penrose. Hamlm.
Devins. Duval and Lowell wounded. Confed. Maj.-Gen. Ramseur
killed and Battle and (Conner wounded.
21 and 22 — Little Blue and Independence. Mo. Kansas Militia. 2d and 5th
Mo Militia. 2d Col. Cav.. 5th. 7th. 11th. 1.5th and 16th Kan. Cav..
1st. 2d. 4th, 6th. 7th, Sth and 9th Mo. Militia Cav. Casualties not
recorded.
23— Hurricane Creek. Miss. 1st Iowa and 9th Kan. Cav. Union 1 killed, 2

wounded.
26 to 29— Decatur. Ala. 18th Mich., 102d Ohio, 6Sth Ind., and 14th U. S.
Colored. Union 10 killed, 45 wounded. 100 missing. Confed. 100
killed. 300 wounded.
27— Hatcher's Run. Va. Gregg's Cav.. 2d and 3d Divisions Second Corps
Fifth and Ninth Corps. Union l.'.fi killed. 1.047 wounded. 699
missing. Confed. 200 killed. 600 wounded, 200 missing
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"NFORMATION soon reached Davis that some Confederate soldiers,
believing that his wife had the treasure taken from Richmond with
her, had formed a plot to seize all her trunks and search for it. He in-
stantly hastened to the rescue of his family and property, and to provide
for their protection. For this purpose he and a few followers rode rapidly
eighteen miles and joined his family near Irwinsville, the capital of Irwin
county, Georgia, nearly due south from Macon. They had just pitched
tents for the night ; and the wearied president of the ruined Confederacy
lay down to rest, intending to retrace his steps in the morning.

One hundred thousand dollars had been offered by the Government
for Davis's capture. Vigilance was thereby made keen and active.
General Wilson was at Macon when he heard of Davis's flight toward the
Gulf, and sent out two bodies of cavalry to intercept him. One was com-
posed of Michigan men, under Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard, and the
others were from Wisconsin, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hardin. Discov-
ering Davis's halting-place, both parties approached the camp of the
sleeping fugitives simultaneously from opposite directions, and, mis-
taking each other for enemies, in the gray light of early dawn, they ex-
changed shots. The noise aroused the slumberers. The camp was sur-
rounded; and Davis, while attempting to escape partially disguised in a woman's water-proof cloak, and a
shawl thrown over his head by Miss Howell, was captured by Pritchard and his men. The whole fugitive
party were taken to Macon. Thence they were sent to Savannah, and conveyed by water to Fortress
Monroe, where Davis was confined in comfortable quarters in a casemate. There he remained a long time,
when he was admitted to bail. He was never tried, and lived an uncompromising enemy of the Republic
which he tried to destroy.

Commodore John A. Winslow

CHAPTER XXVI.

Peace — The Armies Return Home — -Address to the Soldiers by the Gencml-in-Chicf — Disbanding of the Armies — A Problem Solved — •
The Navy: Its Growth and Work — The Blockade and Blockade- Runners, and the Results — Exchange of Prisoners — Davis's
Proclamations — Exchange of Prisoners Stopped^Treatment of Union Prisoners — Lee's Ignorance — The Responsibility Properly
Placed — Hospitals — United States Sanitary and Christian Commissions.

WHEN the Civil War, waged by the armies in the field, had ended, the people turned to the pursuits
of peace. There was joy and hope in every loyal bosom in the land ; and the frends of the Union
everywhere found expression to their feelings in the following
hymn, composed by George H. Boker, and sung by the Loyal League of
Philadelphia on the anniversary of the nation's independence, just four
years after the National Congress met at the Capitol to provide for tl.c
suppression of the great insurrection and the salvation of the Republic

"Thank God the bloody days are past,
Our patient hopes are crown'd at last;
And sounds of bugle, drum and fife
But lead our heroes home from strife!

"Thank God there beams o'er land and sea
Our blazing Star of victory;
And everywhere, from main to main,
The old flag flies and rules again!

"Thank God! oh dark and trodden race,
Your Lord no longer veils his face;
Bu' through the clouds and woes of fight
Shines on your souls a brighter light!

"Thank God! we see, on every hand,
Brea=t-high the rip'ning grain-crops stand;
The orchards bend, the herds increase,
But oh, thank God! thank God for Peace!" Brigadier-Ge.nekal Benj. H. Gkiekson

Copyright. 1895, by Charles F. Johnson. Copyright, 1905, by Lossing History Company. Copyright, 1912, by The War Memorial Association.

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Before this hymn was chanted, the soldiers of the great armies of the Republic who had saved the nation
from political death, and, incidentally, had achieved the work of emancipation for an enslaved race, were
making their way homeward. They were everywhere received with the warmest demonstrations of
gratitude and affection. In almost every village and city there
were public receptions of returning companies and regiments; and
their tattered banners are cherished as precious mementoes of a
noble work finished by those who bore them through the perils of
the battle-field. With the exception of a few soldiers who were
left in Virginia and North Carolina, those who confronted Lee and
Johnston and achieved a victory over both were marched to the
vicinity of the National Capital ; and during two memorable days
(May 2 2d, 23d, 1865) they moved through that city, in long pro-
cession, with tens of thousands of tear-moistened eyes gazing upon
them, and passed in review before the Chief Magistrate of the
nation and his ministers. Human vision had never beheld a spec-
tacle like that, in all its aspects. Then began the work of dis-
banding the armies, by mustering out of service officers and men ;
and on the 2d of June (1865), the general-in-chief (Grant) issued
the following address to them:

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"Soldiers of the Armies of the United States: B}^ your patriotic
devotion to 3^our country in the hour of danger and alarm, and
your magnificent fighting, bravery and endurance, you have main-
tained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution, overthrown all armed opposition to the enforce-
ment of the laws and of the proclamation forever abolishing slavery' — the cause and pretext of the Rebellion
— and opened the way to the rightful authorities to restore order, and inaugurate peace on a permanent
and enduring basis on every foot of American soil. Your marches, sieges and battles, in distance, duration,
resolution and brilliancy of results, dims the lustre of the world's past military achievements, and will be
the patriot's precedent in defence of libert}^ and right in all time to come. In obedience to your country's
call, you left your homes and families, and volunteered in her defence. Victory has crowned your valor,
and secured the purpose of your patriotic hearts; and with the gratitude of your countrymen, and the
highest honors a great and free nation can accord, you will soon be permitted to return to your homes and
families, conscious of having discharged the highest duty of American citizens. To achieve these glorious
triumphs, and secure to j'ourselves, your fellow-countr>'men and posterity, the blessings of free institutions,
tens of thousands of your gallant comrades have fallen, and sealed the priceless legacy with their blood.
The graves of these, a grateful nation bedews with tears. It honors their memories, and will ever cherish
and support their stricken families."

The Civil War in America was more extended in area and more destructive of life and property than
any recorded in history. The whole number of men called into the military and naval service during the
war, to save the Union, was 2,656,533, of whom nearty 200,000 were colored. About 1,400,000 men were
in actual service, and 60,000 were killed in the field. There were 30,000 mortally wounded; and 184,000
died in hospitals and camps. Full 300,000 Union soldiers perished during the war, and it is supposed the

Confederates lost an equal number. On both sides there were a
large number more or less disabled for life. It is estimated that,
during the war, 1,000,000 men, taken from the active pursuits of
life, were sacrificed, to feed the ambition of a comparatively few
men who wished to form an empire with human slavery as its
corner-stone, and who tried to pull down our grand structure of
free government, that they might build their forbidding fabric
upon its ruins. That war burdened the industry of the whole
nation with a loss and debt of over $6,000,000,000. But it gave
freedom to about 4,000,000 slaves, and purged our National
escutcheon of a monstrous stain.

The disbanding of the army went steadily on from the first
of June (1865), and by the middle of November following, nearly
800,000 of the 1,000,000 of the soldiers whose names were on the
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returned to their several avocations. The wonderful spectacle was exhibited for the contemplation of
the civilized world, of vast armies of men surrounded by all the paraphernalia of war, transformed, in the
space of one hundred and fifty days, into a vast army of citizens engaged in the blessed pursuits of peace.

No argument in favor of free institutions and a republican form of gov-
ernment, so conclusive and potential as this, was ever before presented
to the feelings and judgment of the nations of the earth. The important
political problem of the nineteenth centurj' was solved by our Civil War.
Our RepubHc no longer appeared as an experiment, but as a demonstration.
The National navy has an equal claim to the gratitude of the loyal
people of our country, for its ser\aces during the war were of incalculable
value. It attracted less attention than the army, because our vessels of
war were engaged chiefly in the blockade service, or as auxiliaries of the
army along the rivers and sea-coasts. In that service, especially in the
latter portion of it, the labors of the officers and seamen were arduous in
the extreme ; and there were occasions for the display of prowess and skill
equal to any required in the open ocean service. A histon,- of the part
performed by our gunboat squadron on the rivers would form a most
marvellous chapter in the annals of the Civil War.

At the breaking out of hostilities, the na\y was exceedinglj^ weak,
and by its geographical disposition, was, for a time, almost powerless, as
we have already observed. It had been reduced during fifty years of
peace to the smallest proportions, and was kept in existence only by the
necessity of affording protection for the continually expanding commercial
interests of the nation. Its men numbered only seven thousand six hundred at the beginning of 1861;
and of its officers, three hundred and twenty-two proved treacherous in the day of trial, abandoned their
flag, and entered the service of the enemies of their country. Under the able management of Mr. Fox,
the energetic Assistant-Secretary of the Navy, the marine arm of the public service was speedily and
wonderfully strengthened. Even while in its weakness, a decree went forth for the blockade of the
Southern ports, in the face of the protests and menaces of foreign governments. Ingenuity and mechanical
skill developed amazing inventions. The Monitor, with its revolving turret, was perfected and changed
the mode of naval warfare. "Rams" were constructed for river service. Large numbers of vessels were
built ; others were purchased ; and men from the merchant marine were invited to officer and man them.
Dock-yards were enlarged and filled with workmen. The places of the treasonable deserters were soon
filled. Volunteers flocked to the ships, and the number of seven thousand six hundred men that composed
our nav^' when the war broke out, had increased to fiftj'-one thousand before it was ended. During the
four years of the war, no less than two hundred and eight war-vessels were constructed and fitted out, and
four hundred and fourteen vessels were purchased and converted
into war-ships. Of these, three hundred and thirteen were
steamers. Many of them were iron-clads; and the aggregate
cost was $19,000,000.

The blockading service was performed with great vigor and
success, under the triple stimulus of patriotism, duty, and the
chances for personal emolument. While the British government
professed to be neutral, swarms of swift steamers were fitted out
by British merchants, and, laden with every kind of supplies for
the insurgents, were sent to "run the blockade." The profits of
such operations, if successful, were enormous, but the risks were
equally so; and it is believed that a true balance-sheet would
show that there were no profits left -with these violators of law.
Over fifteen hundred of these blockade-runners were captured or
destroyed by our National vessels, during the war; and the
aggregate value of property captured and condemned, as lawful
prize, before November following the close of the war, was $22,-
000,000. That sum was subsequently enlarged by new decisions.
The value of the vessels so captured or destroyed, added to the
value of goods in them, swelled the amount of loss to the British
blockade-runners, to full $30,000,000. General George A. Clster

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423

Bri?Gen.HO.Wnoht —

Col. LA Grant.

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General \V. S. Merritt and Si/U-t

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A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Jefferson Davis, C. S. A.

There is a dark chapter in the history of the Civil War, over which the writer would gladly draw the
veil of forgetfulness, if it were possible. It relates to Union prisoners and their treatment. Soon after
hostilities commenced and there were captives taken, the question was considered by President Lincoln's
cabinet, Can the Government exchange prisoners with rebels against its
authority, without acknowledging them as belligerents ? Humanity took
precedence of the law of nations, and an arrangement was made for an
exchange. The business went on successfully until it was violently in-
terrupted by Jefferson Davis at near the close of 1 86 2 . His anger had been
kindled because of the employment of negroes in the military service, by
the National Government; also by some proceedings of General Butler
at New Orleans, already noticed. He first issued the savage proclamation
(December 23, 1862) ordering Butler, and all commissioned officers
serving under him, to be hanged, when caught, without trial, as outlaws.
This was followed (January 12, 1863) by another proclamation, in which
he announced his determination to deliver all officers of the National
army commanding negro troops that might be captured after that date,
to the respective State authorities to be hanged, and to treat those troops
as rebels against their masters. The government paused. In Congress,
measures for retaliation were proposed; but humanity and not policy
bore sway, and such measures were not adopted. The exchange of pris-
oners, however, was interrupted; for the Confederate Commissioner,
under instructions from Davis, refused to consider captive colored troops
as prisoners of war. In several instances no quarter had been given
them, in battle or afterward; and the black flag was carried against

officers commanding them. And when, in August, 1863, the National Commissioner (Meredith) demanded
that negro troops and their officers should be treated as prisoners of war, the Confederate Commissioner
(Ould) replied: "We will die in the last ditch before giving up the right to send slaves back into slavery."
That determination, acted upon by Davis and his associates, caused an absolute cessation of the exchange
of prisoners, for the Government would not be unjust toward any class of its defenders, especially the
weaker. The consequence was that the number and sufferings of the Union prisoners fearfully increased,
and the horrors of the prisons and prison-pens at Richmond, Salisbury, Charleston, Millen, and Anderson-
ville occurred.

Well-supported facts seem fairly to warrant the unpleasant conclusion, that Davis's proclamations
were made by him for the purpose of obstructing exchanges, that the Union prisoners might, by long and
acute suffering, be rendered phj'sically and mentally useless as soldiers thereafter. The United States
Sanitary Commission appointed a committee, of which the eminent Dr. Valentine Mott of New York
was chairman, to ascertain by inquiry and observation, as far as possible, into the matter of alleged cruelty
to Union prisoners. They reported in September, 1864, saying: "It is the same story everywhere;

prisoners of war treated worse than convicts; shut up either in suffo-
cating buildings, or in out-door inclosures, without even the shelter that
is provided for the beasts of the field; unsupplied with sufficient food;
supplied with food and water injurious and even poisonous; compelled
to live on floors often covered with human filth, or on ground saturated
with it ; compelled to breathe an air oppressed with an intolerable stench ;
hemmed in by a fatal dead-line, and in hourly danger of being shot by
unrestrained and brutal guards; despondent even to madness, idiocy,
and suicide ; sick, of disease (so congruous in character as to appear and
spread, like the plague) caused by the torrid sun, by decaying food, by
filth, by vermin, by malaria, and by cold; removed at the last moment,
and by hundreds at a time, to hospitals corrupt as a sepulchre, there,
with a few remedies, little care and no sympathy, to die in wretchedness
and despair, not only among strangers, but among enemies too resentful
either to have pity or to show mercy. These are positive facts. Tens
of thousands of helpless men have been, and are now being, disabled and
destroyed by a process as certain as poison, and as cruel as the torture
or burning at the stake, because nearly as agonizing and more prolonged.
Major-General h. W. Slocum This spectacle is daily beheld and allowed by the rebel government. No

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

425

KVACOATION OF PoRT ROYAL, RAPPAHANNOCK RiVER

426

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

supposition of negligence, or in-
difference, or accident, or in-
efficiency, or destitution, or
necessity', can account for all
this. So many, and such posi-
tive forms of abuse and wrong
cannot come from negative
causes. The conclusion is un-
avoidable, therefore, that these
privations and sufferings have
been designedly inflicted by the
military- and other authorities
of the rebel government, and
cannot have been due to causes
which such authorities could
not control." One of the chief
instruments employed in the

infliction of cruelties upon Union prisoners was Brigadier-General John
H. Winder, an inciter of the mob which attacked the Massachiisetts
troops in Baltimore. So notorious for his cruel acts had he become, that when (at the age of seventy
years) he was sent to Georgia to carry on his horrid work at Andersonville, the Richmond Examiner
exclaimed: "Thank God Richmond has, at last, got rid of old Winder! God have mercy upon those to
whom he has been sent!"

Testimony given by Confederates themselves confirms the statements made by the prisoners. So
early as September, 1862, Augustus R. Wright, chairman of a committee of the Confederate House of
Representatives, made a report on the prisons at Richmond confining Union captives, to George W.
Randolph, then the Confederate Secretary of War, in which report it was said that the state of things
was "terrible beyond description;" that "the committee could not stay in the room over a few seconds;"

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427

Brio(iEH,W.5mith.

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Gen, Wilcox, C.S.A.

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A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

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Harbor and Forts

t liat a change mjtst be
made, and that "the
committee makes the re-
port to the Secretary of
War, and not to the
House, because, in the
latter case, it uvuld be
printed, and, for the
Jionor of the nation,
such things niusi be
kept secret." In De-
cember, 1S63, Henry
S. Foote, a member of
the Confederate House
of Representatives, of-
fered a resolution for
the appointment of a
committee of inquiry-
concerning the alleged
ill-treatment of Union
prisoners. His humane
resolution was voted
down. In the course
of his remarks in its
favor, ]\Ir. Foote read
testimony which, he
said, was on record

in the Confederate War Department, to prove that the charges of crueUy were true. Referring to
Northrup, the Confederate Commissary-General, he said: "This man has placed our government in the
attitude charged by the en-
emy, and has attempted to
starve the prisoners in our
hands." He cited an elab-
orate report made by the
Commissary-General to the
Secretary of War (Seddon),
in which he used this signifi-
cant language: "For the
subsistence of a human
Yankee carcase, a vegetable
diet is the most proper," the
terrible meaning of which is
obvious. Foote, also, in a
letter written at Montreal,
in the spring of 1865, con-
cerning the escape of
Streight and his men from
Libby Prison, by mining,
declared "that a govern-
ment officer of respectabil-
ity" told him "that a sys-
tematic scheme was on foot
for subjecting these unfor-
tunate men to starvation."
He further declared that
Northrup 's proposition was
"endorsed by Seddon, the

Maj. -General T. L. Kane
Maj. -General J. Stahl

Brig.-General H. Bohlen

MaJ.-GeNER.\L R. H. MlLROY

BvT. Maj.-General E. B. Tyler

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Exchanged Prisoners Belong-
ing TO THE 19TH Infantry,
AT New Orleans

Secretary of War," who said substantially in that
endorsement, that "the time had arrived for retaliation
upon the prisoners of war of the enemy." In that
letter Foote proved (i) that the starving of Union pris-
oners was known to the Confederate authorities; (2)
that the Confederate Commissary-General proposed
it; (3) that the Confederate Secretary of War approved
and officially endorsed it; (4) that the Confederate
Commissioner of Exchange knew it; and (5) that the
Confederate House

f Representatives
knew of it, and en-
deavored to prevent
an investigation.
Foote said the posi-
tive proof was in
the War Depart-
ment. A greater
portion of these
documents were
burned when the
Conf ederat e G o v -

emment fled from Richmond. Such is the testimony of one of the legislators of the Confederacy,
who, it may be presumed, knew, personally, the facts of the case. And it is a matter of record,
that a committee of the "United States Christian Commission" appeared before the lines of
Lee's army and sought access to the Union prisoners in Richmond and on Belle Isle, in the
James River there, to afford them relief, with the understanding that similar commissions would
be allowed to visit Confederate captives. But they were not allowed to pass, because, as
Confederate witnesses testify, the authorities at Richmond dared not let the outside world
know, from competent witnesses, the horrible truths which such a visit would have revealed.
But General Robert E. Lee (whose family resided on Franklin street in Richmond, from the rear
gallery of whose residence he could, with his field-glass, have looked into the faces of the
starving and freezing prisoners on Belle Isle, and who, after the autumn of 1863, was never a
hundred miles from that city) testified before the National "Committee on Reconstruction," in

Fcbruar}', 1S66, that he was not aware of any
bad treatment suffered by Union prisoners — not
aware that any of them died of cold and starva-
tion — that no report was ever made to him of the
sad condition of Union prisoners anywhere — that he
never knew who was in command at Andersonville,
Salisbury, and other gathering-places of Union pris-
oners, until after the war, and that he "knew noth-
ing in the world" of the alleged cruelties about
which complaints had been made!

When the starvation plan had succeeded in re-
ducing forty thousand Union prisoners to skeletons,
generally no better for service than so many dead
men, a proposition was made by the Confederate
authorities for a resumption of exchanges. Again
humanity took precedence of expediency, and these
poor creatures in Confederate prisons were ex-
changed for as many prisoners who had been well fed
and otherwise comfortably provided for in the

c, ,. o r T, , ,-,v,, ,, 1 < r „,Mx North. This was attested by the Confederate

1 Surrender OF CjEneral Robert h. Lleho LrL.NhR.u. L. b. Ur.\nt, . . ,. x-, , 1 •

April 9, 1865 Commissioner of Exchange, who, in a letter to

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General Winder, from City Point, where exchanges had been resumed, said exultingly: "The arrangement
I have made works largely in our favor. We get rid of a set of miserable wretches, and receive some of the
best material I ever sa-iiK"

Let us turn from the consideration of this unpleasant subject to that of the noble efforts made to
relieve the suffering of soldiers in the field, the camp, and the hospital. It is just, however, before so
doing, to ask the reader to remember, always, that the great body of the Southern people were not only
entirely guiltless of the proven cruelties practised toward the Union prisoners, but were kept in profound
ignorance of them. The responsibility rests upon the few selfish political leaders in the great conspiracy and
insurrection, from the beginning to the end, who, whenever it suited their purposes, defied all moral and
civil law. To these men belongs the responsibility of involving this happy and prosperous nation in a
most destructive Civil War, with all its awful consequences ; and to them oitr brethren of the late slave-
labor States are indebted for whatever evil reports have affected them. A reign of terror under the

Richmond despotism crushed out all freedom of speech and action
in the Confederacy, as Castle Thunder might testify. The people of
the South, as good, benevolent, humane, refined, kind-hearted and
Christian-like in character and deeds as any on the face of the earth,

have unjustly suffered reproaches be-
cause of the wrongs committed by self-
constituted political leaders who mis-
represented them.

The arrangements by the Govern-
ment for the care of the sick and wounded
soldiers of the National army were ample
and complete.
When the war
closed there were
two hundred and
four general hospi-
tals fully equipped,
with a capacity of
nearly 13 7,000 beds.
Besides these there
were numerous
temporary and fly-
ing hospitals, the

former in camps and on vessels, and the latter on batlle-lields. The report of the Surgeon-General
(Joseph K. Barnes), at the close of the war, showed that from the beginning of hostilities in 186 1, to July
I, 1865, there had been treated in the general hospitals alone, 1,057,423 cases, among whom the average
rate of mortality was only eight per cent. ; much smaller than had ever been known before in any army.
That of the army of the United States in the war with Mexico was a little over ten per cent. Of the
British in the Crimean campaign, it was nearly twenty per cent., and of their French allies there still
greater.

The low rate of mortaUty in the Union army was due to several favorable circumstances, the chief
of which was the employment, by the Government, of a sufficient number of skillful surgeons; a bountiful
provision in all the hospitals of everj- necessity; the beneficent labors of the two powerful and popular
organizations known as the United States Sanitary Commission and the United States Christian Commission,
and the untiring labors of women everywhere. The latter worked with tenderness and devotion in
hospitals, in camps, and even on or near the field of battle, as most efficient nurses. By their presence
they continually brought images of home to the sick or wounded soldier, and cheered and consoled him
with healing words more efficacious sometimes than the apothecary's medicine. To this catalogue of
hygienic instrumentalities must be added the potent and benevolent influences of a hundred thousand
army chaplains. As a class they were faithful servants of their Divine Master, and ever ready to ' ' minister
to a mind diseased. " They formed a trusted link between the soldier and his home — a ladder for the angels
of thought and affection between his Bethel and his heaven on earth — telling the bereaved, in written
words, of the joy and hope of loved ones at the gate of death ; or, better still, sending to anxious hearts the
balm of consolation in sweet epistles giving the cheering news of convalescence. The most profound re-
spect and gratitude are due by the people of our land to the chaplains of the hospitals of the army and navy..

.1 HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

433

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434

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Allusion has been made to the origin of the United States Sanitary
Commission, and to the United States Christian Commission. On the
1 6th of June, iS6i, the Secretary of War (Mr. Cameron) issued an order
appointing Henry W. Bellows, A. D. Bache, Jeffries Wyman, W. H.
Van Buren, R. C. Wood, George W. Cullum and Alexander Shiras, in
conjunction with such others as might associate with them, a "Commis-
sion of Inquiry and Advice, in Respect of the Sanitary Interests of the
United States Forces." The functions of the Commission are indicated
by the title. They appointed a board of managers, wath Dr. Bellows (who
may be regarded as the founder of the Commission) at its head. He sub-
mitted a plan of organization, to which the President and Secretary of
War gave their sanction by affixing their signatures to it, and it became
the constitution of the Commission. Its seal bore the words, "United
States Sanitary Commission," with the date of its organization. Upon
the face of the seal was an escutcheon, bearing the figure of Mercy, ^^•inged,
■with the symbol of Christianity upon her bosom and a cup of consolation
in her hand, coming down from the clouds to visit wounded soldiers on
the battle-field. Frederick Law^ Olmstead w^as chosen resident secretary,
and became the general manager of the affairs of the Commission.
This Commission went to work most vigorously, to supplement the Government deficiencies in
supplying comforts for the sick and wounded. They appealed to the people, and the response was mar-
vellous. Supplies and money flowed in in sufficient volume to meet all demands. All over the country,
men, women, and children, singly and collectively, were working for it, and contributing to it. Fairs were
held in large cities, which turned immense sums of money into its treasury. With these funds it supplied

General Robert E. Lee, C. S. A.

Dutch Gap Canal and Other Views

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

435

General Grant's Base of Supplies, at City Point

Quartermaster's Headquarters, at City Point

436

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

the sick and wounded with deHcacies, ice, stimulants, fruits, etc., and with trained nurses, while the
Government supplied all regular rations. In a single fair, in the city of New York, the net receipts were
$1,181,500. In the little city of Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, whose population was then about 16,000,
the net profits of the fair were over $16,000. Branches of the Commission were established; agents were
employed; corps of nurses were organized; ambulances, army-wagons and steamboats of its own were
employed in the transportation of the sick and wounded, and supplies. It followed the army closely in
all campaigns. Its ear, always open, caught the first sounds of battle everywhere, and before the smoke
of conflict was lifted from the field, there was the Sanitary Commission, like an omnipresent minister of
good, with wagons, supplies, tents and nurses, ready to afford instant relief. Like a guardian angel it
was always at the side of the soldier in moments of greatest need. When the war ceased, and the record
of the work of the Sanitary Commission was made plain, it was found that the loyal people of the land

Views in Warrenton, Va.

.4 HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

437

I'oKT Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River

438

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

1 iLLu Battery

Powder Magazine on the Lines

had given to it supplies
valued at about five mil-
lion dollars.

The United States
Christian Commission was
a kindred organization,
working in harmony with
the United States Sanitary
Commission, and per-
formed great labors for
the spiritual and tempo-
ral good of the soldiers.
It had its origin in the
Young Men's Christian
Association of New York,
and was first suggested by Vincent Colyer, an artist of that city,
and an earnest worker in useful fields of benevolence. He,
with Frank W. Ballard and Mrs. Dr. Harris, who represented
the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, went to Washington

City immediately after the first battle at Bull Run, to do Christian work in the camps and hospitals-
there. Every facility for visiting the camps was given to Mr. Colyer by the military authorities,
and they even gave him permission to go to the Confederate camps if they would allow him to do so. He
distributed Bibles, tracts, and hymn-books among the soldiers, held prayer-meetings, and labored most
zealously, in many ways, for their spiritual good. Finally Mr. Colyer suggested the combination of all
the Young Men's Christian Associations in the land, in the formation of a society similar to that of the
United States Sanitary Commission. It was acted upon in September, iS6i, when arrangements were
made for holding a National Convention of such associations. A convention assembled in the city of New
York on the 14th of November, and the United States Christian Commission was organized, with George
H. Stuart of Philadelphia as president. Its specific work was to be chiefly for the moral and religious
welfare of the soldiers, which was conducted by means of oral instruction and the circulation of the Bible
and other proper books, with pamphlets, newspapers, etc., among the men in hospitals, camps, and ships.
This noble Commission, of which Vincent Colyer was the real founder, began earnest work at once
on the same general plan of the other Commission. It did not confine its labors wholly to spiritual and

intellectual ministrations, but also to the distribution of
a vast amount of food, hospital stores, delicacies, and
clothing. It, too, followed the great armies and co-
operated efficiently with the chaplains of the army and
navy, by supplying the soldiers and sailors with the
scriptures and a vast number and variety of other good
books. Chapels for religious labors and public worship
were erected at permanent camps, and in many ways
there was cast about the soldier a salutary religious in-
fluence. Money and supplies came to the Commission
as a free-will offering from the patriotic people, mostly
collected by the women of various denominations of the
Christian Church, and amounted in value to six million
dollars.

While the two great organizations here noticed were
at work, others, in large numbers, but less conspicuous, were
laboring for the same holy purpose. Associations for the
relief of the freedmen, and for sailors, also for promoting
enlistments for the military and naval service, were or-
ganized; and everywhere the most active and disinter-
ested benevolence was manifested. High authority has
said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." If
so, then the loyal people of our land were eminently
blessed; for it is estimated that through these two great

BvT. Maj.-Gen. W. S. Hillyer

BvT. Maj.-Gen. J. A. Rawlins
BvT. Maj.-Gen. J. D. Webster

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL ]V A R

43f>

OrNKKAL Grant's HnAnQrARirRS, at City Point

Colonels F. D. Dknt, M. M. Morgan, Generals J. G. Barnard, J. A. Rawlins, U. S. Grant, M. R. Patrick, Seth Williams
AND RuFUs Ingalls; Colonel E. S. Parker, Captain H. C. Robinett, at Grant's HEADgLARTERS at City Point
Picture taken April 12, 1865, after the surrender of Appomattox Courthouse, Va. Grant left that afternoon for Washington, D. C.
Identifications made by Colonel M. M. Morgan, of General Grant's Staff.

440

A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Commissions, various associations, and by private contributions, they
made free gifts of their substance to the amount oi five hundred luillioii
dollars.

While these associations were at work for the benefit of the Union
soldiers, similar efforts, though not on so grand a scale, were put forth Ijy
the benevolent-minded in the slave-labor States for the benefit of the Con-
federate soldiers. They labored in the good work most zealously to the
extent of their ability, and conferred vast benefits upon the sick and
wounded soldiers of the Confederate army. We have no special reports
of the result of their labors; but we know that it was a great blessing to
the recipients of the kindly care, especially of the women of the South.
Among the variety of organizations for benevolent purposes was one called
The Confederate Association for the Relief of Maimed Soldiers. The object
of that association was to supply artificial limbs gratuitously to soldiers
who had lost their natural ones. An annual subscription of $io consti-
tuted a member; of $300, a life-member; and of $100, an honorary
director. Upon a certificate of membership, before me, is a rude wood-cut
representation of the proposed seal of the Confederate States.

<-*w

•"3i JR M

A ■

CHAPTER XXVII.

John H.\y, Priv.\te Secret.^ry to
Preside.nt Lincoln, Afterward
Secretary of State to President

McKlNLEY

Reorganization of the Union — President Johnson's Plan — Thirteenth Amendment — Character of the President — Justice for the Freedmen
— Motives of Lincoln and Johnson Contrasted — A Pitiful Trick — Action in the Disorganized States — The Test Oath — "Recon-
struction " Committee — President, Offended, Makes War on Congress — His Political Tour — His Vetoes — The President and Secretary
Stanton — French Troops in Me.xico — Napoleon's Designs and Perfidy — British Interference — Suffrage in the District of Columbia —
President Threatened with Impeachment — Acts of Congress Vetoed and Passed — Extra Sessions — Unlawful Conduct of the
President.

After the ten-lble convulsions produced by the Civil War, by which State governments had been
r^L paratyzed, a hoary and deep-rooted social system had been overthrown, and throughout a number
of the commonwealths of the Republic there had been a disruption of even,' kind of bi:siness, the
powers of the National government were invoked to bring about a general reorganization of the disor-
ganized elements, political, social, and industrial. There was nothing to be reconstructed, for nothing
worth preserving had been destroyed. No State, as a component part of the Republic, had been severed
from the others, for secession was an impossibility. When the war ended, the States, geographically and
politically, remained as they were before it began. The insurrection against the authority of the National
Government only placed the constitutions of some of the States in a condition of suspended animation.
They needed only the stimulant of competent official authority exercised bj^ the National Government
to reanimate them. All the States were politically equal — living members of the great Commonwealth,

before, during, and at the close of the Civil War. Some of them, inca-
pacitated for healthful functional action, were awaiting resuscitation at
the hands of the only healer, the National Government. To that resus-
citation — that reorganization and fitting them for active life — the General
Government soon directed its efforts.

President Johnson took a preliminary step toward reorganization, on
the 29th of April, 1865, when he proclaimed the removal of restrictions
upon commercial intercourse between all the States. A month later (May
29) he issued a proclamation stating the terms by which the people of the
paralyzed States, with specified exceptions, might receive full amnesty
and pardon, and be reinvested with the right to exercise the functions of
citizenship, supposed to have been destroyed by participation in the in-
surrection. This was soon followed by the appointment by the President
of provisional governors for seven of those States which had formed the
original fabric known as the "Confederate States of America," clothed
with authority to assemble citizens in convention who had taken the
amnesty oath, with power to reorganize State governments, and secure
the election of representatives in the National Congress. The plan was
Stephen A. Douglas to restore to the States named their former position in the Union without

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any provision for securing to the freedmen the right to the exercise of citizenship which the amend-
ment to the National Constitution, then before the State legislatures, would justly entitle them to. This
amendment, known as the Xlllth, was adopted by Congress early in 1865, and was as follows:

"Section i. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof

the party shall have been duly con
States, or any place subject to their

"Section 2. Congress shall
article by appropriate legisla-

This amendment was
When the result of the vote
members of the House
stantly sprang to their
cheers and clapping of
tors in the crowded gal-
and made the chamber
plaudits. Hundreds of
in the galleries and gave
dits by waving their
ticipating in the general
siasm, and added to the
scene that will long be re-
were fortunate enough to
ment was sent to the several
cation and on the iSth of E
of State (IVIr. Seward) declared
become a part of the fundamental

When Andrew Johnson was inaugurated President
who knew him most intimately, that he would not be faithful to the trust reposed in him by the loyal
people of the land. Notwithstanding the strength of our government had been made manifest
by the shock of Civil War which it had survived, it was equally manifest that it was surrounded with
great perils. A pilot was needed at the helm of the ship of state possessed of a combination of moral and
intellectual forces of a rare order — sound morality, strong and unwavering convictions, firmness of will,
sobriety of conduct, calmness of temper, a thorough knowledge of men, an accurate and impartial judgment,
a willingness to take counsel, a clear perception of righteousness, and the acuteness of a true statesman.
Circumstances had occurred which justly created a doubt in the pubHc mind whether the new President

victed, shall exist uathin the United
jurisdiction.

have power to enforce this
tion."
adopted by a large majority,
wasknown, the Republican
of Representatives in-
fect and applauded with
hands. The specta-
leries waved their hats
ring with enthusiastic
ladies rose in their seats
emphasis to their plau-
handkerchiefs and par-
demonstration of enthu-
intense excitement of a
membered by those who
itness it. The amend-
State legislatures for ratifi-
cember following, the Secretary
t it had, by such ratification,
law of the land.
there were painful apprehensions among men

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possessed all these qualities, so -requisite at that critical
time, and these doubts soon became settled convictions.
His total disregard of the highest interests of the freedmen,.
and the fact that the President was making haste to pardon
a large number of those who had been active in the service-
of the Confederates and would exercise a controlling in-
fluence in the States which he was equally in haste to-
reorganize on his own plan, startled the loyal men of the-
country, and made them doubt the sincerity of his vehe-
ment declaration of intentions to punish the leading
enemies of our Government. To a delegation from New
Hampshire, who waited upon him soon after his inaugu-
ration, he said : "Treason is a crime, and must be punished
as a crime. It must not be regarded as a mere difference-
of political opinion. It must not be excused as an unsuc-
cessful rebellion, to be overlooked and forgiven. It is a.
crime before which all other crimes sink into insignifi-
cance." vSuch, and even more severe language was used
by the President when speaking of the leading Confed-
erates; and, as we have seen, he charged Jefferson Davis
and others with being accessories in the murder of Mr.
Lincoln, and offered large rewards for their arrest. It
was feared by some that the President would deal tea
harshly ^\'ith the offenders; but events soon dispelled the
illusion.

The poor freedmen relied with bright hopes upon the
President's promise to be their "IMoses" in leading them
completely out of bondage; but they soon found that he
was unwilling to do more than secure their personal free-
dom. He was unwilling to invest them with civil rights,
which deprivation he knew would virtually remand them
to slavery. The political party which had emancipated
them and elevated Mr. Johnson to his high position, felt that justice, not expediency, should be the rule
in the readjustment of the affairs of the Republic; and it was demanded, as an act of National honor,
that the freedman, when made a citizen by the Constitution, should have equal civil and political rights
and privileges with other citizens, such as the elective franchise. In the spring of 1-864, President Lincoln

Sergeant Boston Corbett, Who Shot Wilkes Booth

Captain E. P. Doherty, of i6th New York Cavalry,

Who Captured Booth

suggested to the governor of Louisiana, the propriety of giving that
franchise to the colored people. "They would probably keep," he said,
almost prophetically, "in some trying time to come, the jewel of Liberty
in the family of freedom." For an ignoble purpose. President Johnson
proposed to his provisional governor of Mississippi to give the franchise
to such of the freedmen as could read the National Constitution and
possessed property worth two hundred and fifty dollars. He well knew
that an extremely small number could avail themselves of the privilege,
as the laws of Mississippi made it a punishable offence to teach a colored
person to read; and in the condition of slavery, not one could hold prop-
erty. It was a pitiful trick, which he was not ashamed to avow. In his
letter to the governor, he said: "Do this, and, as a consequence, the
radicals (in other words the most earnest Republicans) , who are wild upon
negro suffrage, will be completely foiled in their attempt to keep the
Southern States from renewing their relations with the Union."

Within a hundred days after his inauguration, President Johnson
took issue with the Republican party upon vital points of principle and
policy;, and at the close of 1865, it was plain to the comprehension of
sagacious observers, that the Chief Magistrate was more friendly to the
late enemies of his country than consistency with his professions, or the
safety of the Republic, would allow. It was soon perceived that politicians

Uavid Herold

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Box AT Ford's Theatre, where President
Lincoln was Assassinated

in the North who had sympathized with the Confederates during the war, and the newspapers in their
interest which had advocated the cause of the insurgents, had assumed a belHgerent tone toward Congress
and the loyal people, which greatly disturbed the latter by unpleasant forebodings.

In the meantime measures had been taken for perfecting peaceful relations among the whole people
of the Republic, by a revival of industrial pursuits and a restora-
tion of harmony of interests. The order for a blockade of the
Southern ports was rescinded late in June (1865); most of the
restrictions upon inter-State commerce were removed in August ;
State prisoners were paroled in October; and on the first day of
December, the first important measure adopted, after the assem-
bling of Congress, was the repeal of the act suspending the priv-
ilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

During that period (June to December), Johnson's provi-
sional governors had been diligent in carrying out his plan of
reorganization before Congress should meet, and, possibly, inter-
fere with it. Before the first of December five of the disorganized
States had ratified the Xlllth amendment of the Constitution,
cited on page 442. They had, also, caused the formation of
constitutions for their respective States and the election of repre-
sentatives in the National Congress. The President had hurried
on his work, by directing the provisional governors to resign their
powers into the hands of others who had been elected under the
new constitutions. Some of these governors-elect had been active
participants in the insurrection ; and some of the Congressmen-
elect in these States had been, it was said, active workers against the Government. These facts greatly
disturbed the loyal people. They had witnessed with great anxiety the evident usurpations of power by
the President, the exercise of which, as he had done, belonged exclusively to the functions of the repre-
sentatives of the people in Congress assembled. The prescriptions of the Constitution are clear on that
point. Yet the people waited patiently for the meeting of Congress in December, with the quieting
knowledge that a majority of loyal men would be there, and that each House had the right to judge of
the qualifications of its own members. It was a settled belief that disloyal men would not be allowed to
enter either House over the bar of a test-oath prescribed by law, passed on the 226. of July, 1862. That
law required every member to make oath that he had not "voluntarily borne arms against the United
States since he had been a citizen thereof," or "voluntarily given aid, countenance, counsel or encourage-
ment to persons engaged in hostilities thereto," and had never "yielded voluntary support to any pretended
government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto."

The subject of reorganization was among the first business of the Thirty-ninth Congress which
assembled on the 4th of December, 1865. On the first day of the session, by a vote of 133 against 36,
Congress agreed to a joint resolution to appoint a joint committee to be composed of nine members of the
House and six of the Senate, to "inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called

Confederate States of America, and report whether they, or any
of them, are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress,
with leave to report at any time, by bill or otherwise; and until
such report shall have been made and finally acted upon by Con-
gress, no member shall be received in either House from any of
the so-called Confederate States; and all papers relating to the
representatives of the said States shall be referred to the said
committee." This body was known by the misnamed "Recon-
struction Committee." It should have been "Reorganization
Committee."

This action of Congress was a virtual condemnation of the
President's usurpations. It was a legitimate interference of
the representatives of the people with his chosen policy of
reorganization, and he was highly offended. He soon mani-
fested open and violent hostility to the legislative branch of the

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY AND RECORD— Continued

OCTOBER, laa—Conlinued from Seclioii 13

37 and 28 — Fair Oaks. Va. Tenth and Eighteenth Corps and Kautz's Cav.

L'liioii 120 killed. 783 wounded. 400 missing. Confed. 60 killed. 311

wounded. SO missing.
28 — Destruction of the rebel ram Albemarle, by Lieut. Gushing and thirteen

marines. Union 3 wounded, 11 captured.
Morristown. Tenn. Gen. Gillem's Cav. Union 8 killed. 42 wounded.

Confed. 240 missing.

28 and 30 — Xewtonia, Mo. Col. Blunt 's Cav. in pursuit of Price. Confed.

250 wounded.

29 — Beverly. W. Va. 8th Ohio Cav. Union 8 killed. 25 wounded. 13 miss-
ing. Conned. 17 killed. 27 wounded, 92 missing.

30 — Near Brownsville. Ark. 7th Iowa and 11th Mo. Cav. Union 2 killed.

NOVEMBER, 1864

1 to 4 — Union Station. Tenn. 10th Mo. Cav. Union 2 killed. 2 wounded,

26 missing.
6 — Fort Sedgwick or Fort Hell. Va. Second Corps. Union 5 killed. 10

wounded. Confed. 15 killed, 35 wounded.
9 — Atlanta. Ga. 2d Division, Twentieth Corps. Confed. 20 killed and
wounded.
12 — Newtown and Cedar Springs, Va. Merritt's, Custer's and Powell's

Cav. Union 84 wounded, 100 missing. Confed. 150 missing.
13— Bull's Gap. Tenn. 8th, 9th and 13th Tenn. Cav. Union 5 killed, 36

wounded, 200 missing.
16 — Lovejoy Station and Bear Creek Station. Ga. Kilpatrick's Cav. Con-
fed. 50 captured.
17 — Bermuda Hundred. Va. 209th Pa. Union 10 wounded, 120 missing.

Confed. 10 wounded.
18 — Myerstown. Va. Detachment 91st Ohio. Union 60 killed and wounded.

Confed. 10 killed and wounded.
20— Macon. Ga. 10th Ohio Cav.. 9th Pa. Cav.. 92d 111. Mounted Inft.. 10th

Wis. Battery.
21 — Griswoldville. Ga. Walcott's Brigade, 1st Division, Fifteenth Corps
and 1st Brigade 3d Division Cav. Union 10 killed, 52 wounded.
Confed. 50 killed, 200 wounded, 400 missing.
Rood's Hill. Va. Torbett's Cav. Union 18 killed, 52 wounded.
Lawrenceburg, Campbellville and Lynnville. Tenn. Hatch's Cav.
Union 75 killed and wounded. Confed. 50 killed and wounded.
26 — SaundersviUe. Ga. 3d Brigade 1st Division Twentieth Corps. Union
100 missing. Confed. 100 missing.
■ 26 to 29 — Sylvan Grove. Waynesboro', Browne's Cross Roads. Kilpatrick's
Cav. Union 46 wounded. Confed. 600 killed and wounded.

29 and 30 — Spring Hill and Franklin. Tenn. Fourth and Twenty-third

Corps and Cavalry. Union 189 killed. 1.033 wounded. 1.104 missing.
Confed. 1.7.50 killed. 3.800 wounded. 702 missing. Union Maj.-Gens.
Stanley and Bradley wounded. Confed. Maj.-Gen. Cleborne, Brig.-
Gens. Adams. WiUis-.-ns, Strahl. Geist and Cranberry killed, Maj.-Gen.
Brown and Brig. -Gens. Carter, Manigault. Quarles, Cockerell and
Scott wounded.
SO— Honey Hill or Grahamsville. S. C. 25th Ohio, 56th and 155th N. Y.,
26th, 32d, 35th and 102d U. S. Colored. o4th and 55th Mass. Colored.
/■ Union 66 killed, 645 wounded.

DECEMBER, 1864

1 — Stony Creek Station, Weldon Railroad, Va. Gregg's Cav. Union 40

wounded. Confed. 175 captured.
Twelve miles from Yazoo City, Miss. Detachment of 2d Wis. Cav.

Union 5 killed, 9 wounded, 25 missing.
1 to 14 — In front of Nashville, Tenn. Fourth, Twenty-third and 1st and 2d

Division of Sixteenth Corps and Wilson's Cav. Union 16 killed, 100

wounded.

1 to 31 — In front of Petersburg. Army of the Potomac. Union 40 killed,

329 wounded.

2 and 3 — Block-house No. 2. Mill Creek. Chattanooga, Tenn. Detachment

115th Ohio. 44th and two Cos. 14th U. S. Colored. Union 12 killed,

46 wounded, 57 missing.
3— Thomas's Station. Ga. 92d III. Mounted Inft. Union 2 killed, 1

wounded.
4 — Block-house No. 7. Tenn. Gen. Milroy's troops. Union 100 wounded.

Confed. 100 killed and wounded.
6 to 8 — Murfreesboro', Tenn. Gen. Rosseau's troops. Union 30 killed,

175 W'Ounded. Confed. 197 missing.
€ — White Post, Va. Fifty men of 21st N. Y. Cav. Union 30 wounded.

6 to 9— Deveaux's Neck, S. C. 56th and 15oth N. Y., 25th and I07th Ohio.

2Bth, 33d, 34th a;id 102d U. S. Colored, 54th and 55th Mass. Colored.
3d R. I. Artil. and U. S. Gunboats. Union 39 killed, 390 wounded,
200 missing. Confed. 400 killed and wounded.

7 to 9 — Eden Station, Ogeechee River. Ga. Fifteenth and Seventeenth

Corps right wing of Sherman's Army.

7 to 11 — Weldon Railroad Expedition. Fifth Corps, 3d Division of Second

Corps, and 2d Division Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. Union
100 wounded.

8 and 9 — Hatcher's Run. Va. 1st Division. Second Corps. 3d and 13th Pa.

Cav., 6th Ohio Cav. Union 125 killed and wounded.
8 to 28 — Raid to GordonsviUe, Va. Merritt's and Custer's Cav. Union

43 wounded.
10 to 21 — Siege of Savannah. Ga. Fourteenth. Fifteenth. Seventeenth and

Twentieth Corps of Sherman's Army. Union 200 wounded. Confed.

SOO missing.
12 to 21 — Stoneman's Raid from Bean's Station, Tenn., to Saltville,Va., in-
cluding Abingdon, Glade Springs and Marion. Union 20 killed, 123

wounded. Confed. 126 wounded, 500 missing.
13 — Fort McAllister, Ga. 2d Division of Fifteenth Corps. Union 24 killed.

110 wounded. Confed. 250 missing.
14 — Memphis, Tenn. 4th Iowa Cav. Union 3 killed, 6 wounded.

16 and 16 — Nashville, Tenn. Fourth Corps, 1st and 3d Divisions Thirteenth

Corps, Twenty-third Corps, Wilson's Cav., and Detachments colored
troops, convalescents. Union 400 killed, 1,740 wounded. Confed
4,462 missing.
17 — Franklin. Tenn. Wilson's Cav. Confed. 1,800 wounded and sick
captured.

17 to 19 — Mitchell's Creek, Fla., and Pine Barren Creek, Ala. 82d and 97th

U. S. Colored. Union 9 killed, 53 wounded. 11 missing.

20 — Lacey's Springs. Custer's Cav. Union 2 killed, 22 wounded, 40 miss-
ing.

25 — Fort Fisher, N. C. Tenth Corps and North Atlantic Squadron. Union
8 killed, 38 wounded. Confed. 3 killed, 55 wounded, 2S0 prisoners.

28 — Egypt Station. Miss. 4th and 11th 111. Cav., 7th Ind., 4th and 10th
Mo.. 2d Wis., 2d N. J., 1st Miss, and 3d U. S. Colored Cav. Union
23 killed. 88 wounded. Confed. 500 captured. Confed. Brig. -Gen.
Gholson killed.

JANUARY, 1865

2 — Franklin. Miss. 4th and 11th 111. Cav.. 3d U. S. Colored Cav. Union

4 killed. 9 wounded. Confed. 20 killed, 30 wounded.
2 and 3 — N'auvoo and Thornhill. Ala. 15th Pa. Cav.. Detachments of 10th,

12th and 13th Ind. Cav. and 2d Tenn. Cav. Union 1 killed. 2

wounded. Confed. 3 killed, 2 wounded, 95 captured, and Hood's

supply and pontoon train destroyed.
11 — Beverly. W. Va. 34th Ohio and Sth Ohio Cav. Union 5 killed, 20

wounded, 583 missing.
12 to 16 — Fort Fisher, N. C. Portions of Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth

Corps and Porter's Gunboats. Union 184 killed, 749 wounded.

Confed. 400 killed and wounded, 2,083 captured.

14 to 16 — Pocataligo, 8. C. Seventeenth Corps. Union 25 wounded.
16 — Explosion of the magazine at Fort Fisher, N. C. Union 25 killed, 66
wounded.

26 to Feb. 9 — Combahee River and River's Bridge, Salkahatchie, S. C. Fif-

teenth and Seventeenth Corps. Union 138 killed and wounded.

FEBRUARY, 1866

6 to 7 — Dabney's Mills. Hatcher's Run. Va. Fifth Corps and 1st Division

Sixth Corps and Gregg's Cav. Union 232 killed, 1,062 wounded, 186

missing. Confed. 1.200 killed and wounded. Union Brig. -Gens.

Morrow, Smyth. Davis, Gregg, Ayres, Sickels and Gwynn wounded.

Confed. Gen. Pegram killed and Sorrell wounded.
8 to 14 — Williston, Blackville and Aiken. S. C. Kilpatrick's Cav. Confed.

240 killed and wounded, 100 missing.
10 — James Island. S. C. Maj.-Gen. Gilmore's command. Union 20 killed,

76 wounded. Confed. 20 killed and 70 wounded.
11 — Sugar Loaf Battery. Federal Point. N. C. Portions of Twenty-fourth

and Twenty-fifth Corps. Union 14 killed, 114 wounded.
16 to 17 — Congaree Creek and Columbia, S. C. Fifteenth Corps. Union 20

killed and wounded.
18 — Ashby Gap. Va. Detachment 14th Pa. Cav. Union 6 killed, 19

wounded, 64 missing.

18 to 22 — Fort Anderson. Town Creek and Wilmington. N. C. Twenty-

third and Twenty-fourth Corps and Porter's Gunboats. Union 40
killed, 204 wounded. Confed. 70 killed, 400 wounded, 375 missing.

22— Douglas Landing, Pine Bluff, Ark. 13th 111. Cav. L'hioh 40 wounded.
Confed. 26 wounded.

27 to March 26 — Sheridan's Raid in Virginia. 1st and 3d Divisions Cavalry

Corps. Union 35 killed and wounded. Confed. 1,667 prisoners.

MARCH, 1866

6 — Olive Branch, La. 4th Wis. Cav. Union 3 killed, 2 wounded.

Natural Bridge. Fla. 2d and 99th U. S. Colored. Union 22 killed, 46
wounded.
8 to 10 — Wilcox's Bridge, N. C. Palmer's, Carter's and Ruger's Divisions.
Union SO killed. 421 wounded. 600 missing. Confed. 1.500 killed,
wounded and missing.
16 — Averysboro'. N. C. Twentieth Corps and Kilpatrick's Cav. Union 77
killed. 477 wounded. Confed. 108 killed, 540 wounded, 217 missing.

19 to 21 — Bentonville. N. C. Fourteenth. Fifteenth. Seventeenth and Twen-

tieth Corps and Kilpatrick's Cav. t'liioii 191 killed. 1.168 wounded.
287 missing. Confed. 267 killed, 1,200 wounded, 1,625 missing.

20 to April 6 — Stoneman's Raid into Southwestern Va. and North Carolina,

P:ilmer's, Brown's and Miller's Cavalry Brigades.
22 to April 24 — Wilson's Raid, Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga. Union 63

killed. 345 wounded, 63 missing. Confed. 22 killed. 38 wounded.

6,766 prisoners.
26 — Fort Steadman. in front of Petersburg, Va. 1st and 3d Divisions Ninth

Corps. Union 68 killed. 337 wounded, 506 missing. Confed. 800

killed and wounded, 1.881 missing, assault of the Second and Sixth

Corps. Union 103 killed, 864 wounded, 209 missing. Confed. 834

captured.
26 to April 9 — Siege of Mobile. Ala., including Spanish Fort and Port Blakely.

Thirteenth and Sixteenth Corps and U. S. Navy. Union 213 killed,

1,211 wounded. Confed. 500 killed and wounded, 2,952 missing and

captured.
29 — Quaker Road. Va. 'Warren's Fifth Corps and Griffin's 1st Dirision,

Army of the Potomac. Union 55 killed, 306 wounded. Confed. 135

killed, 400 wounded, 100 missing.

31— Boydton and White Oak Roads. Va. Second and Fifth Corps. Union
177 killed, 1,134 wounded, 556 missing. Confed. 1,000 wounded, 235
missing.
Dinwiddie C. H.. Va. 1st, 2d and 3d Cavalry Divisions Army of the
Potomac. Union 67 killed, 354 wounded. Confed. 400 killed and
wounded.

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CHAPTER XXVII.— Continued

XN a speech to the populace of the capital on the 2 2d of

Andersonville Prison

February, 1866 — a speech which every good American
would gladly blot from memory and from the records of
our country, if possible — the President, evidently under
the malign influence of an unfortunate habit, forgetting
the dignity of his station, and insensible to the gravity of
the question at issue, actually denounced by name leading
members of Congress, and the Republican party which
had given him their generous confidence.

But this exhibition was a small matter compared Jwith
what occurred later in the year (August and September,.
1866) when the President and a part of his cabinet, with
the pretext of honoring the memor\' of Senator Douglas
by being present at the dedication of a monument to his.
memor}^ erected at Chicago, on the 6th of September,
made a political tour by a circuitous way through several
States, to that city and beyond. He harangued the people
by the way, in language utterly unbecoming the Chief Magistrate of a nation, and attempted to sow
the dangerous seeds of sedition, by denouncing Congress as an illegal body because some of the disorgan-
ized States were not represented in it ; declaring that it deserved no respect from the people, and that
a majority of the members were traitors, "trying to break up the Government." That journey of the
President, so disgraceful in all its features — its low partisan object, its immoral performances, and its
pitiful results — forms a dismal paragraph in the history of the Republic.

That tour was suggested and its performances were
inspired by the gathering in convention, at Philadelphia,
on the 14th of August (1866), chiefly of men who had
been engaged in the insurrection, and their sympathizers
at the North. Their object was to form a new party,
with President Johnson as their standard-bearer; but so
discordant were the elements gathered there, that no one
was allowed to debate questions of public interest, for
fear of producing a disruption and the consequent failure
of the scheme. It did utterly fail. Soon afterward a
convention of loyal men from the South was held at
Philadelphia, in which representative Republicans in the
North participated. The President's journey being
wholly for a partisan purpose, members of the latter
convention followed in his track, making .speeches in
many places in support of the measures of Congress for
effecting reorganization. They applied the antidote
where the President had administered poison, and neu-
tralized its effects.

So disgraceful was the conduct of the President when
at Cleveland and St. Louis, in the attitude of a mere
demagogue making a tour for a partisan purpose, under
a false pretense, that the Common Council of Cincinnati,
on his return journey, refused to accord him a public
reception. The Common Council of Pittsburg, in Penn-
sylvania, did the same; and when, on the 15th of Septem-
ber, Mr. Johnson and his party returned to the Capital,
the country felt a reHef from a sense of deep mortification.
Having, soon after the meeting of Congress, laid
aside the mask of assumed friendship for those who had

Lieut. G. A. Morris, Commandant of the
"Cumberland"
Rear Admiral J. Smith

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Admir.u, John Rodgers, U. S. N.

labored most earnestly for the suppression of the insurrection and for the good of the freedmen, the
President used the veto power — his most efficient weapon — in trying to thwart the representatives of the
people in their efforts to reorganize the disorganized States, and to quickly secure a full and permanent
restoration of the Union on the basis of equal and exact justice. In
February, iS66, he vetoed an act for enlarging the operations of the
Freedmen's Bureau, which had been established for the relief of freedmen,
refugees, and for the cultivation of abandoned lands. In March he
vetoed an act known as the Civil Rights Law, which was intended to
secure to all citizens, without regard to color or previous condition of
slavery, equal civil rights in the Republic. These acts became laws in
spite of his veto, by the Constitutional vote of two-thirds of each House
in their favor. The President's uncompromising warfare upon the legis-
lative branch of the Republic disgusted his ministers, who could not
agree with him, and they resigned with the exception of Edwin M. Stan-
ton, the Secretary of War. The friends of the Republic urged him to
remain, believing his retention of the bureau at that critical period in the
life of the nation would be conducive to the public benefit. He did so,
and became the object of the mad President's bitter hatred.

Congress worked assiduously in efforts to perfect the reorganization
of the Republic; and on the 29th of July, after a long and laborious ses-
sion, adjourned. On the 2d of April, the President, in a proclamation,
had formally declared the Civil War to be at an end ; and the first fruits
of the Congressional plan of reorganization was seen by the restoration of
the State of Tennessee to the Union, six days before the adjournment of the National Legislature. Mean-
while notable events in the foreign relations of the Government had occurred. The Emperor of the French
had been informed by Secretary Seward that the continuation of French troops in Mexico was not agreeable
to the United States; and on the 5th of April (1866) Napoleon's Minister for Foreign Affairs gave assur-
ances to our Government that those troops would be withdrawn within a specified time. This was done ;
and the Grand Duke Maximilian, of Austria, whom Louis Napoleon had, by military power, placed on
a throne in our neighboring republic, with the title of Emperor, was deserted by the perfidious ruler of
France. The deceived and betrayed Maximilian, after struggling against the native republican govern-
ment for a while, was captured and shot ; and his loving wife, Carlotta, overwhelmed by her misfortunes
and grief, became a hopeless lunatic. Such was the sorrowful ending of one of the schemes of the Emperor
of the French for the gratification of his ambition. He had itched to aid the Confederates, with a hope
that the severance of our Union would give him an opportunity to successfully defy the "Monroe

Doctrine," and extend the domination of the
Latin race and the Latin church on the American
continent, as well as monarchical institutions. As
a pretext for sending soldiers to our frontiers,
primarily to be ready to assist the enemies of the
Republic should expediency warrant the act, the
Emperor of the French picked a quarrel with
Mexico, overturned its republican government,
established a monarchy and supported it by
French bayonets until the strength of our Union
was made manifest to him.

The British ministry, too, as we have seen,
itched to help the Confederates destroy our
Republic, and had done so in a large degree, until
they were satisfied of the enormous reserved power
of our Union aga