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Eric | January 21, 2011
Monday, January 21, 1861 As suspected, five senators from seceded states resigned their positions on this date. Stephen Mallory and David Yulee of Florida, Clement Clay and Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi each gave sorrowful, heart-wrenching speeches before their fellow senators and friends. The scene can best be set by Clement [...]
Eric | January 20, 2011
Sunday, January 20, 1861 Even though his state had seceded, Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis was still in Washington DC. He, along with others, however, would be resigning. On this day, he prepared his final address and wrote to former US President, Franklin Pierce, a personal friend of Senator Davis. He revealed to Pierce that it [...]
Eric | January 19, 2011
Saturday, January 19, 1861 The Georgia Secession Convention had been meeting in Milledgeville for three days now. Every county in the state was well represented at the convention, which was called to order by George Crawford, former Governor and Secretary of War under Taylor. On this day, the Convention voted to leave the Union with [...]
Eric | January 18, 2011
Friday, January 18, 1861 Fort Jefferson sat upon the Dry Tortugas, 50 miles west of Key West, Florida. The brick, three-tiered, hexagonal fort was built to house 1,500 troops and nearly 300 large caliber guns. It was built to command the Gulf of Mexico as every ship that entered the Gulf had to pass within [...]
Eric | January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 17, 1861 Having had quite enough of the Cameron Cabinet fiasco, Lincoln announced that he would make no further Cabinet appointments until he arrived in Washington. Though there was much speculation, only New York Senator William Seward and Edward Bates (both former rivals for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860) had been made [...]
Eric | January 16, 2011
Wednesday, January 16, 1861 The day after his meeting with South Carolina’s Isaac Hayne, Alabama Senator Clement Clay met with President Buchanan. Clay, at first, gave reasons why Major Anderson should be withdrawn from Fort Sumter, giving the fort to South Carolina. Buchanan smartly told Clay that he couldn’t hold verbal communication on this. Clay [...]
Eric | January 15, 2011
Tuesday, January 15, 1861 President Buchanan’s last selection for the Secretary of the Treasury, Philip Thomas, supposedly resigned over qualms he had with Buchanan’s stance on Fort Sumter. That may well be true, but actually, Thomas simply could not work with banks on Wall Street. In light of that, Buchanan asked the banks who they [...]
Eric | January 14, 2011
Monday, January 14, 1861 The House Committee of Thirty-Three (one for each state – though a few states had left) was the counterpart to the Senate’s Committee of Thirteen. Like the Senate committee, the House committee found it impossible to come to a compromise and adjourned having solved nothing. That left the final report in [...]
Eric | January 13, 2011
Sunday, January 13, 1861 Charleston itself had calmed down since the Star of the West incident. Rumors, of course, flew around rampantly. Occasionally small boats carrying South Carolina or Federal officials would come and go, sparking more speculation. It was also said that Major Anderson had killed two mutineers last week. More men were supposedly [...]
Eric | January 12, 2011
Saturday, January 12, 1861 New York Senator, and soon to be Secretary of State under Lincoln, William Seward gave a rousing speech to the Senate with its galleries left standing-room only. Seward was now being seen as Lincoln’s voice in Washington. Lincoln’s voice had been mostly silent since the election. Much had changed since then [...]
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