 | Massachusetts. Governor - 1861 - 566 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of...1861, that before the end of May " the flag which now flaunted the breeze (as he expressed it,) would float over the dome of the capitol in Washington."... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of...1861, that before the end of May " the flag which now flaunted the breeze (as he expressed it,) would float fover the dome of the capitol in Washington."... | |
 | Evan Morrison Woodward - Pennsylvania infantry. 31st regt., 1861-1864 - 1865 - 376 pages
...territory claimed. This virtually, and in fact, included Washington. On the fatal 12th of April, 1861, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were travelling over the wires, the Rebel Secretary of War, in the presence of Jefferson Davis and his colleagues, and of five thousand... | |
 | Evan Morrison Woodward - Pennsylvania infantry. 31st regt., 1861-1864 - 1865 - 372 pages
...territory claimed. This virtually, and in fact, included Washington. On the fatal 12th of April, 1861, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were travelling over the wires, the Rebel Secretary of War, in the presence of Jefferson Davis and his colleagues, and of five thousand... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) - 1874 - 138 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of...Sumter were travelling over the wires on that fatal twelfth of April, 1861, that before the end of May " the flag which then flaunted the breeze," as he... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of...hearers, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter wore travelling over the wires on that fatal I2th of April, 1861, that before the end of May "the flag... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of...Sumter were travelling over the wires on that fatal I2th of April, 1861, that before the end of May "the flag which then flaunted the breeze," as he expressed... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 538 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his chief and of his colleagues, and of 5,000 hearers, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were travelling over the wires on that fatal... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his chief and of his colleagues, and of 5,000 hearers, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were travelling over the wires on that fatal... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...threat, it was declared, by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his Chiefs and of his colleagues, and of five thousand hearers, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were traveling over the wires on that fatal 12th of April, 1861, that before the end of May 'the flag which... | |
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States, inasmuch as before that time Washington would be captured, and the capital of the nation and the archives and muniments of the government would be in the possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared... 
