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Eric | January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 31, 1861 The cold morning in central Illinois found Lincoln, accompanied by two of his cousins, bouncing along frozen roads and over an icy creek from Charleston to Farmington to visit his stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston. They shared a meal together and talked of old times. Lincoln spun stories and even visited his [...]
Eric | January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 30, 1861 Before moving his family to Washington DC, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln decided to pay one last visit to his boyhood home and stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln. His birth-mother had died when he was nine and his father remarried a year later. Lincoln took to Sarah, even calling her “Mother.” They became very [...]
Eric | January 29, 2011
Tuesday, January 29, 1861 The Territory of Kansas had drawn up two separate constitutions (from 1855 – 1857), one anti-slavery, one pro-slavery. Neither were submitted to Washington. A third, drawn up by anti-slavery factions of the territorial government while mostly pro-slavery factions debated over the pro-slavery proposal, was passed in Kansas in 1859 and sent [...]
Eric | January 28, 2011
Monday, January 28, 1861 Abraham Lincoln, still in Springfield, had officially announced that he would be leaving for Washington on February 11. In the time between now and then, he wished for “the utmost privacy,” barring all callers as he locked himself “in a room upstairs over a store across the street from the Statehouse.” [...]
Eric | January 27, 2011
Sunday, January 27, 1861 The situation at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor had settled into a routine. The weather had been abysmal for over a week and very little had been accomplished because of it. Major Anderson’s second in command, Captain John G. Foster, wrote to Chief Engineer General Joseph Totten, bringing him up to [...]
Eric | January 26, 2011
Saturday, January 26, 1861 Louisiana’s Secession Convention began their meetings on the 23rd in the Hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge. For three days, resolutions were passed, chiseling away the state from the Union. Like other Southern states, their main complaint was the election of Lincoln and the [...]
Eric | January 25, 2011
Friday, January 25, 1861 The USS Brooklyn, a sloop-of-war, had set off from near Norfolk, Virginia on the 22nd. While it was rumored that she had left, her destination was unknown. Former President John Tyler had just arrived in Washington DC in order to attend (and chair) the Peace Conference that was scheduled to begin [...]
Eric | January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 24, 1861 Georgia had only been an “independent” state for five days, yet the seizure of arms bound for Savannah by the Police in New York City was seen as a major affront. Recently resigned US Senator Robert Toombs, now in Georgia, took it upon himself to sort this out. It was suspected [...]
Eric | January 23, 2011
Wednesday, January 23, 1861 Col. Robert E. Lee, stationed in Fort Mason, Texas, under the command of General David Twiggs, wrote to his son, Custis, about the secession crisis. Lee agreed with his son that “The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North.” He continued, “I feel the aggression, [...]
Eric | January 22, 2011
Tuesday, January 22, 1861 To prepare for its defense, the State of Georgia placed an order with D.C. Hodgkins & Sons of Macon for 200 muskets. In turn, they ordered the firearms from a New York arms manufacturer who filled the order. As the shipment of the 38 boxes of muskets was being loaded onto [...]
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