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Eric | April 20, 2011
Saturday, April 20, 1861 Robert E. Lee was revered by General Winfield Scott as “the best soldier I ever saw in the field.” Trusting Scott’s judgment, Lincoln (through Postmaster General Montgomery Blair) offered him command of the Union army. This offer, however, happened the day after Virginia seceded. Though Lee looked “upon secession as anarchy” [...]
Eric | April 19, 2011
Friday, April 19, 1861 The Sixth Massachusetts was the first regiment raised that was fully armed and equipped for battle. They had rifled muskets, knapsacks, even a full brass band. The Sixth had been joined by some unarmed Pennsylvania militiamen in Philadelphia. As the 36-car train pulled into the President Street Station, a small crowd [...]
Eric | April 18, 2011
Thursday, April 18, 1861 New York City was filled with celebration and fervor for the War. With the events at Fort Sumter and the call for troops, the North had been more galvanized than ever before. It was to this unbounded enthusiasm that the Sixth Massachusetts, having arrived by train in the early morning, marched [...]
Eric | April 17, 2011
Wednesday, April 17, 1861 “We are all upon the brink of revolution,” reckoned former Supreme Court Justice John Archibald Campbell, as he spoke before the Virginia secession convention. He had recently been in Washington, acting as go-between for Secretary of State Seward and the Confederate commissioners. Now, like much of Virginia, he found himself a [...]
Eric | April 16, 2011
Tuesday, April 16, 1861 Minds were on Virginia. The surrender of Fort Sumter had prompted Lincoln to issue calls for militia, even from the “border” slave states still true to the Union. Kentucky and North Carolina had flatly refused. Virginia’s answer was much the same. Like North Carolina’s governor, Virginia’s Governor John Letcher at first [...]
Eric | April 15, 2011
Monday, April 15, 1861 The proclamation calling for 75,000 militia troops, drawn up the previous evening by President Lincoln, was published on this morning. Aside from calling for the troops and an extra session of Congress, it ordered “treasonable combinations” to disperse within twenty days. Each state would be asked for a specific quota of [...]
Eric | April 14, 2011
Sunday, April 14, 1861 News of the bombardment had spread to Washington, Boston and New York, where Walt Whitman purchased an extra near the Metropolitan Hotel. A crowd gathered around him as he read the news. Silence fell over them in the dark morning. After a minute or two, they faded away.1 In Washington, President [...]
Eric | April 13, 2011
Saturday, April 13, 1861 The second day of the bombardment of Fort Sumter began much like the first. The Confederate fire had slacked during the night to almost nothing. But at 4am, its rapidity increased and the Union soldiers found themselves taking shelter inside their casemates, eating whatever meager breakfast they could find. Major Anderson, [...]
Eric | April 12, 2011
Friday, April 12, 1861 The small row boat carrying the three messengers sent to Fort Sumter docked on James Island around 4am. They carried Anderson’s regret that he could not surrender and orders from General Beauregard to fire upon the Federal fort at 4:30. Orders had been given to watch for a signal shot from [...]
Eric | April 11, 2011
Thursday, April 11, 1861 Near the hour of three o’clock, an officer of Fort Sumter watched a small boat bearing a white flag make it’s way out to the fort. It landed and three gentlemen stepped walked towards him. James Chesnut, ex-Senator and now aide de camp for General Beauregard, asked if they could meet [...]
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