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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 7, 2011
Sunday, April 7, 1861 The squeeze was being put to Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. The Confederate Commissioners, still in Washington had received a telegram from South Carolina Governor Pickens attempting to suss out the conflicting rumors. They wired back that they were going to call upon Secretary of State Seward the next day at [...]
Eric | April 6, 2011
Saturday, April 6, 1861 A messenger from Captain Israel Vogdes, commander of the troops that were to reinforce Fort Pickens, arrived in Washington to see the President. This story will take some telling, so hold on. Back on March 12th, General Scott had ordered Fort Pickens to be reinforced. The USS Brooklyn was selected for [...]
Eric | April 5, 2011
Friday, April 5, 1861 Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles sent the orders to put Fox’s plan to resupply Sumter into action. Lincoln had read, approved and signed the orders giving Captain Samuel Mercer, commander of the USS Powhatan instructions to ready his ship and assume command over the Pocahontas, Pawnee and Harriet Lane for [...]
Eric | April 4, 2011
Thursday, April 4, 1861 Union sympathy in the deeper South was gone. The trip Lamon and Hurlbut made to Charleston proved that. But what about Virginia? The border state had been holding an on again, off again secession convention since early January. Lincoln, wishing to take the true pulse of nationalism in Virginia, sent George W. [...]
Eric | April 1, 2011
Monday, April 1, 1861 – All Fool’s Day On this April holiday, secrecy would turn out to be a fool’s game. Lincoln had ordered Gustavus Fox to ready some ships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to prepare to sail, but whether they would sail for Fort Sumter or Fort Pickens was not yet mentioned (though [...]
Eric | March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 31, 1861 – Easter Sunday Before church services on this Easter Sunday in Washington, General Winfield Scott was having breakfast with his military secretary, Lt. Col. Erasmus Keyes. Scott, still not wanting to reinforce Fort Pickens, asked Keyes about his ideas on the subject. Keyes spoke for half and hour without an interruption. [...]
Eric | March 20, 2011
Wednesday, March 20, 1861 Five days ago, Secretary of State William H. Seward told the Confederate Commissioners and Jefferson Davis (through intermediaries) that Fort Sumter would be surrendered within five days. While Davis wasn’t convinced in the least, the Commissioners held out some hope. They telegraphed General Beauregard, commander of Confederate forces in Charleston, asking [...]
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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