FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1861. A Mild and pleasant day but I think people feel much like wearing sackcloth and observing the day as recommended. There has been services at most of the churches which were crowded. Myself and wife went to the Capitol to hear Doct Stockton the Chaplin at the “House.” The Hall of [...]
THURSDAY 3 The affairs of the Country appear so desperate that the subject engrosses the attention of all men in all places. Public questions are discussed in my room at the patent office full as much as applications for Patents. It is frequently asked what patents will be worth if the Union is dissolved. But [...]
WEDNESDAY 2 Matters look more hopeful for the Country today. It is now known that the President refused to acknowledge the Commissioners as being anything more than distinguished citizens from the State of S.C. Their last communication to him yesterday was returned to them unanswered. It struck them like a bomshell it was so unexpected. [...]
Washington D.C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1861. The old year passed away in gloom and sadness and the new one opens today without affording one hopeful ray of light in regard to the future. There seems to be a determination on the part of nearly the whole south to break up the Government. The Comrs from [...]
The first two images are imaginings by artists of actual events after they have occurred. Spiking the Guns in Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C., Previous to the Evacuation of the Fort by Col. Anderson and the U. S. Troops Evacuation of Fort Moultrie, and Burning of the Gun Carriages, On Sullivan’s Island, Charleston Harbor, S. [...]
Harper’s Weekly, November 10, 1860 The telegraph has announced the mere fact that James C. Adams, better known as “Old Adams,” or “Grizzly Adams,” is dead. Born in the very eastern woods of Blaine, brought forth in a forest where not even a hut was ready to shelter him, he passed naturally through a rough [...]