Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 59
Page 209
... Department as usual , transacting business . The moment I read it I wrote the following order : Treasury Department , Jan. 29 , 1861 Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood , assume command of the cutter , and obey the ...
... Department as usual , transacting business . The moment I read it I wrote the following order : Treasury Department , Jan. 29 , 1861 Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood , assume command of the cutter , and obey the ...
Page 209
... Department as usual , transacting business . The moment I read it I wrote the following order : Treasury Department , Jan. 29 , 1861 Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood , assume command of the cutter , and obey the ...
... Department as usual , transacting business . The moment I read it I wrote the following order : Treasury Department , Jan. 29 , 1861 Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood , assume command of the cutter , and obey the ...
Page 333
... Department of State , sir ! " The Post Office and Department of Justice were as yet about as useful as the State Department ; but to the War Office every eye was turned , and the popular verdict seemed to be that the choice there was ...
... Department of State , sir ! " The Post Office and Department of Justice were as yet about as useful as the State Department ; but to the War Office every eye was turned , and the popular verdict seemed to be that the choice there was ...
Contents
Contents | 17 |
Echoes from Harpers Ferry | 29 |
The Trial of John Brown | 39 |
Copyright | |
62 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid ... Philip Van Doren Stern No preview available - 2012 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln April arms Army arrived asked Baltic Baltimore batteries Beauregard boats Buchanan Cabinet called Capt carriage Charleston cheer Civil Colonel command Commissioners Confederacy Confederate Congress Convention Crawford crowd Cumming's Point cutter Douglas duty election excitement fire flag Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts friends Government Governor guns hand harbor Harpers Ferry honor hour House ice schooner inauguration Jefferson Davis John John Adams Dix Lane Lieutenant Lincoln Major Anderson ment miles military Montgomery morning Morris Island Moultrie Navy Negroes never night nomination North Northern o'clock officers parapet party Pawnee Pickens political Powhatan President provisions replied Republican Scott seceded secession secessionists Secretary Senator sent Seward shell ship shot slave slavery Slemmer soon South Carolina Southern steamer Sullivan's Island Sumter telegram telegraph Texas tion took troops Union United vessels Virginia vote Washington Wigfall York