March 12, 1861, Arkansas Daily True Democrat (Little Rock) We copy from the South Western Democrat resolutions passed by the general council of the Choctaw Nation. We are glad to see our neighbors taking such a bold and manly position, and think that some of our own people might learn a lesson from them. The [...]

General Scott’s reply to Lincoln’s letter of March 9 . March 11, 1861 Fort Sumter. The President has done me the honor to address to me certain professional questions, to which he desires answers. I proceed with them categorically. “1. To what point of time can Major Anderson maintain his position, at Fort Sumter, without [...]

March 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury A large crowd assembled on Friday evening, in 17th street, opposite the old Market, headed by SMITH’S band. They pulled down stars and stripes” and run up in place of it the secession flag to the music of the Marseilles Hymn. Speeches were made and great enthusiasm manifested. On [...]

March 11, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 10, 1861. Political circles were feverishly excited today by a report that the evacuation of Forts Sumter and Pickens had been determined upon in the Cabinet meeting last night. Although nobody could give any positive authority for this exciting fever of news it yet obtained general [...]

March 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Washington Correspondence. WASHINGTON, March 7. Every tongue is busy commenting on the inaugural. The papers are filled with quotations giving the opinions of the press in all directions. There is little agreement except in this–that all coincide as to the fact that it either means war or it [...]

March 11, 1861; The New York Herald Great excitement was created in Washington city yesterday by a report generally circulated that at a Cabinet council on Saturday night it had been determined to remove the troops from the Southern forts, as to reinforce them would cause an immense loss of life, and greatly aggravate the [...]

March 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Montgomery Correspondence. MONTGOMERY, March 7, 1861. The developments for the last several days are of an unimportant character in political circles, the Administration appointments at Washington being about such as were very generally anticipated, and for which the public mind was prepared. Congress is busily engaged on the [...]

March 10, 1861, Atlanta Constitution Pensacola, Fla.– The U.S. man-o-war Brooklyn and other U.S. vessels will no longer be able to obtain coal and water at the former U.S. Navy base in Pensacola harbor, the Brooklyn’s commander has been informed. Boats still visit the U.S. ships (which bear supplies and men for Ft. Pickens but [...]

March 10, 1861; The New York Herald The government have received despatches from San Antonio and Fort Brown, Texas. Col. Waite, the commander of the United States forces in Texas, had endeavored to reorganize the troops, but found it impossible to do so, owing to their complete demoralization through the conduct of Gen. Twiggs. The [...]

March 10, 1861, Atlanta Constitution Austin Tex.– Gov. Sam Houston opposes the union of his now-seceded state with the Confederacy, preferring that Texas become an independent republic again. Mr. Houston also has refused to recognize the state convention which voted for secession. It’s job is at an end, he says, and he and the state [...]

Virginia Military Institute Lexington, March 10th My Dear Ma & Pa I received your letter a few days ago & was very glad indeed to hear from you & to hear that you were all well. I have no news to tell you only that I am well and [hearty] & am getting along very [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury (From the New York Tribune.) The address cannot fail to exercise a happy influence upon the country. The tone of almost tenderness with which the South is called upon to return to her allegiance cannot fail to convince even those who differ from Mr. Lincoln that he earnestly and [...]

March 9, 1861; The New York Herald According to our Washington despatches, the reinforcement of Forts Sumter and Pickens has been decided on by the administration of President Lincoln, and the arrangements for carrying out that object are now in active progress. General Scott and the Cabinet secretaries are said to be busy with the [...]

March 9, 1861, The Scientific American In a letter to the Times, referring to the absence of all provisions for the construction of iron-coated ships in the new year’s programme for the American navy, Mr. J. Scott Russell writes as follows:–”The explanation is the simplest possible. The entire mercantile steam navy of Great Britain, with [...]

March 9, 1861, Texas Republican (Marshall) On Friday evening last, there was a general and, we might say, a spontaneous call upon Mrs. Gov. Pickens by her Marshall friends, as it was generally understood she would leave in a few days thereafter for South Carolina. The residence of Col. B. L. Holcomb, noted as it [...]

March 9, 1861, Austin State Gazette On Monday last, a large majority of the delegates to the Convention answered to their names. The Secession Ordinance had been sustained by a vast majority of the people of Texas. In accordance with their decision, the Lone Star banner which had been presented to the Convention by the [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We give below brief sketches of those members of the Cabinet of LINCOLN, with whose history many of our readers may not be familiar: SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Hon. Salmon P. Chase is a native of New Hampshire, born in 1808, and at an early age emigrated to Ohio, [...]

March 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our Montgomery Correspondence. MONTGOMERY, March 6, 1861. Last week a rumor prevailed that the Congress would take a recess. Tomorrow, the Georgia State Convention meets. The Alabama Convention is in session, having assembled on Monday last. But, although members of the Congress are also members of these Conventions, the [...]

March 9, 1861, The Illustrated London News ‘A Barber’s Shop at Richmond, Virginia’ An Engraving from a painting by Eyre Crowe, in the Exhibition of the British Institution London Illustrated News, March 9, 1861 Painting 1853 “This engraving, based on an oil painting by the English artist Eyre Crowe, is titled A Barber’s Shop at [...]

March 9, 1861, The Illustrated London News UNITED STATES. Mr. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, entitled the Confederate States of America, was formally inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 18th ult. The spectacle is described as the grandest ever witnessed in the South. Mr. Davis, in his address on the occasion said:—”The judgment [...]

March 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Important Notification of the English and French Governments. WASHINGTON, March 4. – I learn that Lord LYONS, the British Minister, has officially notified the American Government that Great Britain will not recognize a blockade of the Southern ports, unless it is thorough and effectual, and that the mere announcement [...]

March 8, 1861, The Staunton Vindicator Judge Jno. Brockenbrough, one of the Commissioners from Virginia to the Peace Congress, passed through Staunton on the 4th, on his way to his home in Lexington. In a brief conversation with the Judge, he expressed it as his opinion that there was very little hope of an adjustment [...]

March 8, 1861; The New York Herald An early attack on Fort Sumter seems to be generally anticipated. Whether the administration will reinforce Major Anderson is not known. It was stated in Washington last night that Major Anderson had sent word to the government that it was useless to send to his assistance less than [...]

March 8, 1861; The New York Herald AFFAIRS AT FORT SUMTER. WASHINGTON, March 7, 1861. A despatch was received here today stating that an attack on Sumter was shortly anticipated. This change of policy, it is understood, is not caused so much by the inaugural as from the fact that Chase and Blair are members [...]