March 16, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Leavenworth Correspondence. LEAVENWORTH, KAN., March 5, 1861. LINCOLN’S inaugural was received here last night. It means coercion–war. Holding, occupying and possessing government property means quartering an army of occupation throughout the Southern Confederacy; holding forts on Southern soil vi et armis; reinforcing Forts Sumter and Pickens, and retaking [...]

March 15, 1861; Tri-Weekly Alamo Express , San Antonio, TX There has only been 41,000 votes cast in the State so far as heard from which is about a half vote, and by which we have good reason to infer that a majority of the people are against secession.–A majority of those cast for secession [...]

March 15, 1861; The Charleston Mercury There was quite a rush for THE MERCURY yesterday morning, containing the first copy of the Permanent Constitution published in Charleston. For this opportunity of placing so important a document before the public in advance of all other papers in the city, we are indebted to the Montgomery Advertiser [...]

March 15, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We have received from the Department of State of the Confederate States an official notification that THE CHARLESTON MERCURY has been designated as a proper paper for the publication of the Acts of Congress. Our readers may therefore, look to our advertising columns for the full and official copies [...]

March 15, 1861; The New York Herald The Commissioners of the Southern confederacy, now at Washington, on Wednesday sent a communication to the State Department requesting recognition by the government, with the view to the opening of negotiations, at the same time stating that the Secretary of the Commission would call for an answer at [...]

March 15, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator The Southern Confederacy is gradually progressing in a career of eminent success. With the flower of the American Army in command of 50,000 well drilled troops; the most gifted and experienced statesmen of the age in charge of its civil departments; a treasury well supplied with funds; and sustained [...]

March 15, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator The Washington correspondent of the Richmond Examiner says: In Southern circles here little doubt is entertained as to the policy and purpose of the Inaugural address. It is believed Mr. Lincoln will proceed, without delay, to adopt hostile measures against the South. A collision in less than a week [...]

March 14, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 13, 1861. Information has just been received in this city of the most important character from Montgomery. The Southern administration know that the evacuation of Forts Sumter and Pickens has been decided on. Despatches from General Beauregard, represent that it would be utterly impossible for any [...]

March 14, 1861; The New York Herald The Steamer Empire City. The steamer Empire City has been charted by the government for some particular service in the Southern waters, her clearance papers stating Indianola, Texas, as her destination. These papers have been taken out for several days, and the vessel has been lying at the [...]

March 14, 1861; The New York Herald The news from Washington this morning is highly important. The Southern Commissioners are patiently waiting the development of the policy of the administration. It is understood that they will make no move until they learn whether the Southern forts are to be evacuated, and whether an attempt is [...]

March 14, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our readers throughout the Confederate States will be gratified to learn that the people of Charleston are making strenuous and successful efforts to establish themselves independent of the North, in business as well as political relations. It is too well known that every article which adorns the outer man, [...]

March 14, 1861; The Charleston Mercury A close observation with the aid of a large glass, shows that the parapet guns facing Fort Moultrie have been concentrated on the east face of this work, to bear on Coming’s Point; it is possible, however, that some of these could be brought to bear in the direction [...]

March 14, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The first war vessel put afloat by South Carolina since the War of Independence, 1776. This vessel was bought by Gov. PICKENS at Richmond, and altered for service, armed with twenty four pounders, and regularly equipped. She started last night on the harbor defence, with her compliment of enlisted [...]

March 13, 1861; The New York Herald Before the accession of the Lincoln administration the black republican journals, the Tribune more especially, devoted the greater portion of their time to abusing Mr. Buchanan, whom they accused of cowardice in the matter of the Southern confederacy. Mr. Buchanan, said these sanguinary persons, should proceed at once [...]

March 13, 1861; The New York Herald The question as to the evacuation or reinforcement of Fort Sumter has been decided by the Cabinet. The fort is to be evacuated, and peace will this be preserved. The order for the evacuation has not as yet been despatched to Major Anderson, but it will be, we [...]

March 13, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 8, 1861. The first levee of President Lincoln was given at the White House tonight. It was a monster gathering. The oldest frequenters of the Executive mansion declare that they do not recollect ever to have seen so many people pass through the House at any [...]

March 13, 1861; The New York Herald CHARLESTON, March 9, 1861. There are many of your city papers which profess to have correspondents in Charleston, but it is very clear to any one actually in our city that such is not really the case. Your paper is one of the few that will publish the [...]

March 13, 1861, Dallas Herald We tender our thanks to Lieut. Miller, of Lancaster, for the present of the United States Flag, the genuine Stars and Stripes, taken at Camp Cooper, at the time of the surrender of that post to the State troops. This was the first flag surrendered to the State of Texas, [...]

March 12, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 11, 1861. An official letter from Major Anderson, received on Saturday, says he had only fifteen days subsistence and wood. The question has therefore risen with the administration whether a reinforcement shall be attempted or the fort abandoned. The latter course, it is thought, will be [...]

March 12, 1861, Arkansas Daily True Democrat (Little Rock) We extract from a private letter, just received from Brazos San Diego, Texas, the following extract. The writer is a member of a military company, recently organized at Galveston, for the purpose of assisting in the capture of the forts now occupied by the federal troops [...]

March 12, 1861; The Charleston Mercury It will gladden the heart of every resistance man in the South to know that the Hon. JOHN M. DANIEL, of fearless soul and pen of might, is at his old post again in the Richmond Examiner – a paper which he established in 1850 or 1851, and made [...]

March 12, 1861; The New York Herald To The Editor Of The Herald. On Saturday last the newspaper correspondents and telegraph operation at Washington gave out the story that Fort Sumter was speedily to be evacuated. This piece of startling intelligence, disseminated far and wide by the winged telegraph, created universal astonishment. Coming, as the [...]

March 12, 1861; The New York Herald The latest official accounts from Fort Sumter state that the garrison is reduced to fifteen days provisions. The all important question of the day, therefore, is Shall Fort Sumter be reinforced or evacuated? Upon this question the Cabinet at Washington, and the republican Senators, held long and anxious [...]

March 12, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, March 11. – Noon. – Despatches received this morning from Fort Sumter have alarmed the Administration. It is understood that Major ANDERSON intimates that his position begins to be rather precarious – that he cannot be reinforced, and that his short stock of provisions precludes the hope of [...]