March 20, 1861, Tri-Weekly Alamo Express , San Antonio, TX The brave men who went to take charge of Forts Clark and Duncan found it convenient to take advantage of the war times to forage upon the poor people along the route, by killing their hogs, &c. On Tuesday last a salute of seven guns [...]

March 19, 1861; Richmond Enquirer Mr. A.H. Stephens, Vice President of the Southern Confederacy, reached Atlanta from Montgomery on Monday last, and was received with every demonstration of respect, admiration and confidence on the part of the people of Fulton and the adjoining counties. The Atlanta “Confederacy” says: “Expectation was on the tip-toe and the [...]

March 19, 1861; The New York Herald Mr. Lincoln and his advisers have, at length, an opportunity of throwing off the selfishness, fanaticism, and suicidal imbecility, which have, so far, characterized the course of the present administration, and of taking measures which cannot fail to secure a reconstruction of the Union, within a limited period. [...]

March 19, 1861; The New York Herald We publish today the tariff recently adopted by the Northern Congress at Washington and the one virtually agreed upon by the Southern Congress at Montgomery, both in estenso, and they present, we think, a fair contrast between the legislative capacity of these two bodies. It is impossible to [...]

March 19, 1861; The New York Herald The public will find in the HERALD of this morning the two new tariffs which are destined to play an important part in the settlement of the troubles which now surround the United States. The Southern tariff is very simple and easily understood, but the Northern tariff is [...]

March 18, 1861; The New York Herald From Washington we learn that the question of evacuating Fort Sumter still continues to occupy the attention of Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet. There seems to be no doubt that the administration has determined to withdraw Major Anderson and his troops, but how to do it appears not [...]

March 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Three military bills have passed Congress. The first authorize the raising of one hundred thousand volunteers when deemed necessary by the President. The second provides for the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and is formed from the regular and volunteer forces of the different States, to serve for [...]

March 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We see it suggested in Northern papers that, if compelled to evacuate, the military authorities of the Black Republican Government should at least make a ruin of Fort Sumter. We respectfully suggest that, situated as Major ANDERSON is, it would be both difficult and dangerous in him to execute [...]

March 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury LATEST by TELEGRAPH. NEW ORLEANS, March 17. – Galveston dates to the 15th inst. have been received. Fort Brown was evacuated by the Federal Troops on the 12th, and no difficulty occurred – Major PORTER superintending the evacuation. The troops, it is said, will proceed to Key West and [...]

March 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury (Extract from a private letter.) Yesterday Col. Forney was placed in full command of all the forces at this place–Colonel Chase having resigned–and he has commenced his operations with energy. A sand battery is a cellar dug in the sand, three feet deep and eighteen by twenty four wide. [...]

March 18, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 17, 1861. Lieutenant Putnam, of the army, arrived here last evening from Texas, with despatches to the government from Colonel Waite. Lieutenant P. left Indianola on the 7th inst. Colonel Waite had received instructions to withdraw the troops from Texas, and was arranging to concentrate them [...]

March 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury KEY WEST, March 12, 1861. The ship Pocahantas, DELANO, from New Orleans, bound to Liverpool, with 3100 bales cotton and 1000 barrels lard, ran ashore on the shoal off Molasses Key, 40 miles east of this city on Thursday night last. She pounded heavily after grounding, and soon wore [...]

March 17, 1861; The New York Herald We perceive that the States of the Southern confederacy are bestirring themselves in the manufacturing line, with a view to provide for their own wants in those articles for which they were heretofore dependent upon New England. Cotton mills, shoe factories, yarn and twine manufactories are being put [...]

March 17, 1861; The New York Herald Since the administration has decided to evacuate Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens has become the centre of public attention. Reports, received from Washington, were in circulation yesterday, that a collision had occurred between the federal and State forces at Pensacola. These reports were premature. Up to the latest accounts [...]

March 16, 1861, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas) Correspondence of The Ranchero. Brownsville, Texas, March 11, 1861. Mr. Ranchero:—Almost everything on this frontier bears a powerful “seedy” appearance. Though warlike, turbulent, and stormy betimes, yet always “seedy.” This or anything else that I lay down as a rule to go by, the ladies are always [...]

March 16, 1861, Texas Republican (Marshall) We learn that as the British shop Peter Maxwell, which was cleared for Liverpool on the 16th inst., by Messrs. D. Wheeler & Co. with 3680 bales of cotton, passed Fort Morgan on Wednesday last, she hoisted the Palmetto flag and dipped it three times. The compliment was returned [...]

March 16, 1861; The New York Herald The forcible revolution of commerce, brought about by the fanatics and unprincipled political demagogues of the North, will result in diverting the whole trade of the country to the South. As if the disturbance naturally resulting from the secession of the cotton States and the low tariff they [...]

March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Latest by Telegraph from Montgomery. MONTGOMERY, March 15. – The injunction of secrecy was today removed from the veto of President DAVIS, of the Act lately passed by Congress, prohibiting the African slave trade. It is as follows: THE VETO. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, February 28, 1861. Gentlemen of the Congress: [...]

March 16, 1861, The Illustrated London News

March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The title of a manual for the use of siege and garrison guns, printed for, and used by, the late United States army. In these days of and rumors of wars, such a book has become a necessity to all military men. As the work is not for sale [...]

March 16, 1861; The New York Herald The government of the seceded States has appointed Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama; Judge P.A. Rost, of Louisiana; Col. A. Dudley Mann and T. Butler King, of Georgia, special Commissioners to proceed to England and France to obtain the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States, [...]

March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury After flirting along in the fogs of a deluded self sufficiency and bouncing about without ballast and rudderless in the shoals and quicksands of senseless vituperation, bellying out and incontinently swelling of the vast strength, independence and general superiority of the great North, belittling the South as infinitely weak, [...]

March 16, 1861, Sugar Planter (West Baton Rouge, LA.) The Inkerman Zouaves, about whose identity there can be no dispute, will pay the citizens of Baton Rouge a visit so soon as their engagement at the Academy of Music in New Orleans terminates. There is something about the name of “Zouave” that is highly pleasing [...]

March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury A rumor was current yesterday that Mr. FORSYTH had sent despatches to the Governor, positively assuring him that the garrison would be withdrawn from Fort Sumter. This is incorrect. In his despatch, Mr. FORSYTH merely gave it as his impression that LINCOLN would pursue the course indicated. Per contra, [...]