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WHY TWO MINUTES OF LOST FOOTAGE FROM THE CIVIL WAR ARE SO IMPORTANT


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Posted on May 27, 2021 by gpthelastrebel
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Oh my here we go again—-Why Two Minutes of Lost Footage From The Civil War Are
So Important | Student of the American Civil War (wordpress.com)

Mackey, thinks he has found a smoking gun to prove once and for all times that
the War of Yankee Aggression was all about slavery. This time he wants to use an
article that is found here—‘The Civil War’ Documentary 25 Years Later | Time

In this article Shelby Foote is quoted as saying– The answer Burns gets is both
complex and troubling. “There are so many reasons that can be assigned after the
fact,” Foote says, “slavery being the main one, and that’s Lincoln’s
identification of the problem.” And with that one sentence, in those few words,
a glimpse of America’s darker side showed itself—a side that has since been
exposed to the light.

Well that is fine and I would believe it if there were some sources listed to
back up this statement, there is not so I take it as just two men talking,
expressing their opinions if you will.

Now I have posted many past articles, using documents of the period to prove
that slavery had nothing to do with the start of the war. You are free to
research these articles and point out any thing that is incorrect. Mackey
believes otherwise, but the big difference is he never posts anything to support
his view. Why? because it is faulty, a lie. He cannot found the documents, try
as he may that proves his point.

Mackey goes on to try and make us believe the Secession Documents are some sort
of war declaration or that they represent the entire Confederacy. Nothing is
farter from the truth. Not one of these documents mentions going to war. While
all 4 FOUR do mention this is not the only reason for secession. and it is only
4 out of thirteen states, not hardly the majority of the Confederacy. Another
lie being promoted by Mackey.

I do however, agree with Mackey on being cautious of quoting Foote or any
historian. I say do the research yourself, find the documents and read them
yourself, that is the only way you will know.


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ROBERT E. LEE GETTYSBURG LETTER

Posted on July 25, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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Lexington Va: 5 Aug 1869

Dear Sir:

Absence from Lexington has prevented my receiving until today your letter of the
26th Ulto: enclosing an invitation from the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial
Association, to attend a meeting of the officers engaged in that battle at
Gettysburg, for the purpose of marking upon the ground by enduring memorials of
granite the position & movements of the Armies on the field.



My engagements will not permit me to be present, & I believe if there I could
not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it
wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of
those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife & to commit
to oblivion the feelings it engendered.

Very respy your obt Sevt
R E Lee

 


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POSTED ON FACEBOOK– EXCELLENT!!!!!!!

Posted on June 26, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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James Tuttle

He stood on the campus green while the birds chirped in the trees, the same way
they had that May morning when he left his books behind and marched away to war.
The sunlight filtered down through the tree branches, warm Southern sun dappling
the green grass with soft shadows. Through four long years, he’d marched through
the snows and rains and parching summers….his boots gave out the first year, but
still he marched on. Not much food. Sometimes at night he dreamed of his
grandmother’s chicken and dumplings set on the table, steam rising from them.
And woke to gnaw on a piece of hardtack which was the only food he had left. His
ribs were sticking out like those of an old mule he’d once seen that had run off
from home and hid in the swamp til near starvation brought him home.

He’d been there that day in 1913, a quiet shadow, when the statue was dedicated.
His Polly had been there, too…a little birdlike woman still wearing her widow’s
black after 50 years. She was thin, too, painfully thin, and her black dress was
carefully mended. She’d gone without a coat in winter, and skipped meals so she
could send in pennies and nickles to build the statue. After all the crowd left,
she moved hesitantly up to the statue and reached out her thin, wrinkled hand to
touch it…. the hand that still wore the ring he’d put on her finger the week
before he left for war. Her hand trembled and tears spilled from her pale blue
eyes, milky with cataracts now. Their reunion wouldn’t be for several more years
yet.

Now, he’s come back to see the statue that’s been torn down….. He’s come in his
ragged uniform, stained with the smoke of many battles. He’s come barefoot as he
marched and fought. He’s come to see the place where this generation of North
Carolinians has decided that he was evil and not worthy of a memorial…. where
they tore the statue down with hate and violence and cursing and spitting. The
silent ghost sheds a tear.

He looks across the campus green…..and hears the birds. And then he sees a young
man, dressed as he is…. more solid than a ghost, but just as silent. He sees one
lone man who has come to do him honor, dressed in a ragged uniform, barefoot…..

The silent ghost stands beside the silent man and looks at where the statue was,
the statue that was built on love and sacrifice for men who died for love and
sacrifice.
Do you see him? I do…..and I will NEVER forget.

(May God bless the late Casey Becknell who traveled to Chapel Hill dressed as a
soldier to honor Silent Sam.)

[A year] ago, violent, hate-filled hoodlums tore down the “Silent Sam” memorial
statue at UNC Chapel Hill while the campus police, Chapel Hill police and UNC
administrators watched and condoned it. A young man named Casey Becknell, a
Confederate re-enactor, and his friend James Campbell, traveled to Chapel Hill
to see where the statue had been desecrated and made this picture. I wrote the
above on seeing this picture of Mr. Becknell. Since that time, in defiance of
State law, the UNC Administration has torn down the base the statue rested upon,
and planted the area with grass to make it appear it never existed. But there
are some of us who will never forget. They can tear down every monument all
across the South, shred and burn every flag, even desecrate the very graves of
the dead, they can lie and lie and lie….and hate and hate and hate…. but we will
NEVER FORGET. And we will never cease to honor and remember our dead heroes.~
John Field Pankow

North Carolina Confederates
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WHY I WILL NOT SING THE “BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.”

Posted on June 26, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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Why I will not sing the “Battle Hymn of The Republic.”

by Mark Schonbrun

It’s one thing to sing this song out of ignorance, but once the TRUTH is known
there is NO reason to sing this song what so ever. Consider also the words of
the author of this song concerning Jesus Christ. This should remove any and all
doubt about the spiritual and moral character of the author, Julia Ward Howe.

To Julia Ward Howe, the work of Christ was incomplete. It was up to men through
civil government to bring about a utopian society. She was quoted in her
biography, “Not until the Civil War did I officially join the Unitarian church
and accept the fact the Christ was merely a great teacher with no higher claim
to preeminence in wisdom, goodness, and power than any other man.”

The Battle Hymn of the Republic occupies a prominent position not only within
the program of nearly every nationalistic celebration, but also as part of many
Christian services.

Admittedly, the anthem sounds good, but it is far from being a ‘hymn.’ Many
Christians understand its stirring words to provide an image of a victorious
Church, but the connotations of a spiritual patriotism which have endeared it to
many, result from a mistaken and cursory reading of the song.

Should this song be sung by a Christian congregation?

A hymn is a song incorporating theological truth into its text. Wonderful
examples of Christian hymns are “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”, “Great Is Thy
Faithfulness”, and “How Firm a Foundation”.

Despite its use of biblical phrasing, Battle Hymn of the Republic is not about
Christ ‘marching’ against sin and the Church being ‘victorious’ over evil. The
“theological truths” it expresses are anti-Christian and anti-biblical.

Battle Hymn of the Republic was written in the fall of 1861. While in
Washington, D.C. with her husband, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe watched troops marching
off to war singing “John Brown’s Body”. She determined to write a more inspiring
war song to what was a good melody. First published in the Atlantic Monthly, she
received five dollars for her literary effort.

Born into a prominent New York City family, Julia Ward was raised in a
conservative, Christian home. As a young woman she rebelled against her parents’
strong Calvinism and ultimately married the Boston reformer, Dr. Samuel G. Howe.
She adopted the tenants of Transcendentalism, then Unitarianism, and it was in
that light that the ‘Battle Hymn’ was written.

The Transcendentalists became the core of the radical abolitionist movement.
Dr. Howe, as well as their Boston pastor, the Reverend Theodore Parker were two
members of the ‘Secret Six’ who financed and armed the anti-slavery terrorist
John Brown.

After his murderous rampage in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry, Mrs. Howe lamented,
“John Brown’s death will be holy and glorious. John Brown will glorify the
gallows like Jesus glorified the cross.”

Battle Hymn of the Republic can only be understood within the framework of the
Transcendentalist-Unitarian creed. The first verse reads:
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.”

Mrs. Howe applied the apocalyptic judgment of the Revelation [14:17-20 & 19:15]
to the Confederate nation. She pictured the Union army not only as that
instrument which would cause Southern blood to flow out upon the earth, but also
the Union army as the very expression of His Word itself [sword].

The Transcendentalist-Unitarians believed that the evil in man could be rooted
out by governmental action. The South was evil and was thus deserving of
judgment of the most extreme nature—its own Armageddon.

The second verse follows the same theme by presenting the Union army as the
abode of their vengeful God.

“I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.”

The third verse is so contrary of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that many hymnals
leave it out altogether:
“I have read the fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel.
As ye deal with My contempters, so with you My grace shall deal;
Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel.
Since God is marching on.”

Mrs. Howe proclaimed a gospel of judgment pictured by rows of affixed bayonets.
Taking God’s promise of deliverance from Genesis 3:15, she applied it not to
Christ, but to the Union soldier who would receive God’s grace by killing
Southerners.

This was certainly a different gospel; the kind of which the Apostle Paul said,
“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than
what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” [Galatians 1:8]

Verse four returns to the prose of the Apocalypse with trumpet and judgment seat
imagery:

“He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
O be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.”

The problem again is that civil warfare was the instrument being promoted for
determining the hearts of men. A man’s positive response to the call for
enlistment in the Union army was the action which would reveal their standing
before God.
The fifth and final verse gives the ultimate expression of the warped and
anti-biblical theology which possessed the radical abolitionists:

“In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.”

To Julia Ward Howe, the work of Christ was incomplete. It was up to men through
civil government to bring about a utopian society.
She was quoted in her biography, “Not until the Civil War did I officially join
the Unitarian church and accept the fact the Christ was merely a great teacher
with no higher claim to preeminence in wisdom, goodness, and power than any
other man.”

The ‘Battle Hymn’ theme has nothing to do with Christianity or God. It is a
political-patriotic song about the destruction of the South, written in
religious terminology. It is a clever product. Howe deliberately created the
idea that the North was doing God’s work. It paints a picture of a vengeful God
destroying His enemies—the South, and elevating the North’s cause to that of a
‘holy war.’ In doing so, Howe portrayed the South and its people as evil and the
enemy of God. Outrageous, but it worked.

The ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ is apostasy. It promotes hatred and vengeful
destruction. It has no place in a worship service.

CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU. Talk to the pastor and the Music Director at your
church, and if after you do that your church has this on the program this
Sunday, get up and walk out when it plays. A true Southern church should know
better by now.
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MAY 18, 1861, THE ROAD FROM SUMTER -37,

Posted on May 19, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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May 18, 1861, The Road from Sumter -37,
“There is but one opinion among the [U.S.] troops in regard to their acting for
rebels. ‘Let them look after their own negroes,’”
“Returning Fugitive Slaves,”
Boston Journal, May 18, 1861.
————————————————————
The Washington correspondent of the New York World says: “The guard on the
bridge across the Anacostia, on Friday night, arrested a negro who attempted to
pass the sentries on the Maryland side. He seemed to feel confident that he was
among friends, for he made no concealment of his character and purpose. He said
he had walked sixty miles, and was going North. He was very much surprised and
disappointed when he was taken into custody and informed that he would be sent
back to his master. He is now in the guard-house and answers freely all
questions relating to his weary march. Of course such an arrest excites much
comment among the men. Nearly all are restive under the thought of acting as
slave-catchers. The Seventy-first made a forced march, and the privations they
endured made a honorable mention in the country’s history. This poor negro made
a forced march twice the length–in perils often, in fasting, hurrying toward the
North for his liberty! And the Seventy-first catches him at the end of his
painful journey–the goal in sight–and sends him back to the master who even now
may be in arms against us, or may take the slave, sell him for a rifle, and use
it on his friends in the Seventy-first New York Regiment. Humanity speaks louder
here than it does in a large city, and the men who in New York would dismiss the
subject with a few words about ‘constitutional obligations,’ are now the loudest
in denouncing the abuse of power which changes a regiment of gentlemen into a
regiment of negro catchers. There is but one opinion among the troops in regard
to their acting for rebels. ‘Let them look after their own negroes,’ is the
universal sentiment. I do not think it strange that the ones who objected most
strenuously to the arrest of fugitives were the old-time Democrats, for it is
not unreasonable to suppose that their extreme pro-slavery opinions were adhered
to rather from political expediency than from sincere conviction, and when the
strain is taken from their consciences by the removal of that expediency, the
‘let up’ is rather refreshing to them, and they gladly seize the opportunity to
show that they think it is a mean business. The discussion of this subject has
incidentally brought up another, immediately connected with it. That is, the
probable insurrection among the slaves of Eastern Virginia. Here the sentiment
is markedly divided. Many assert that they would not raise a hand to put down an
insurrection; some think the danger is a military weakness of which our
government should take the advantage; others would willingly assist in the
suppression of such an attempt. All are of opinion that ere long the question
will be brought to a practical issue”
All primary sources in this exhibit are in the collections of the American
Antiquarian Society.
71st New York Infantry Regiment
————————————————————
Abraham Lincoln
“Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican
administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or
with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a
friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.”
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Volume IV, “Letter to Alexander H.
Stephens” (December 22, 1860), p. 160.
————————————————————
Review of events leading up to May 18, 1861:
-80+ years of sectional tensions between northeastern and southeastern states
over tariffs, states rights/popular sovereignty, federal power over new
territories and most recently, the practice of chattel slavery.
-1857 – Massive Financial Collapse And panic hits Northeastern banks triggered
by the sinking sinking of the S.S. Central America carrying 30,000 pounds of
gold destined for northern banks.
-A new “Republican” political party is formed with a platform of federal control
of new territories, diminishing popular sovereignty, and enforcing new tariffs
“by force”, which are all usurpations of the U.S. Constitution.
-The increasing federal debt has lead to a proposed drastic increase in Tariffs
that disproportionately effect agricultural southern states as the 48% Morrill
Tariffs.
-Radical Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens, sponsor of the Morrill Tariff,
stated: “the Tariff would impoverish the southern and western states, but that
was essential for advancing national greatness and the prosperity of [northern]
industrial workers.”
-Southeastern states have minority representation in the U.S. Congress due to
the 3/5ths rule, which does not allow negro persons to be fully counted for
representation.
-Southeastern “Cotton states” protest tariffs, and the fact that these
agricultural state are already paying ~75% to 85% of the federal budget with
little to none returned in support for infrastructure.
-1859 – John Brown and 18 accomplices began their illegal invasion of Virginia,
and murder spree at Harper’s Ferry Virginia, financed by northeastern
“abolitionists”.
-November 1860, Abraham Lincoln is selected as U.S. President with a minority of
the popular vote and was not even on the ballot in 10 states, with a pledge to
institute the new party’s platform, by force if necessary.
-The seven “cotton states” that are most impacted by the new 48% Morrill Tariffs
begin secession proceedings citing historical causes, tariffs and the federal
government’s usurpation of the “voluntary compact” called the U.S. Constitution.
-U.S. President Buchanan begins deliberations over payment for federal
properties with South Carolina representatives and is informed that garrisoning
troops at Fort Sumter would be considered and act of war.
-December 8th, The South Carolina Delegation delivers a written agreement or
“armistice” to U.S. President Buchanan, promising not to attack the remaining
forts garrisoning U.S. troops in the sovereign state of South Carolina, with the
understanding that the U.S. will not attempt to reinforce them.
-U.S. President Buchanan extended the December 10th “armistice” to all states
considering secession.
-December 12th, U.S. President Buchanan’s armistice agreement that “there would
be no reinforcement coastal fortifications” was now extended to all states
considering secession until March 4, 1861.
-December 13th, The “Southern Manifesto” was published In Montgomery Alabama.
Twenty-three House members and seven Senators from southern states make a public
announcement, “a manifesto which urged secession and the organization of a
Southern Confederacy.”
-December 16th, South Carolina legislature elects Francis Wilkinson Pickens
Governor. In his inaugural address he cited the sectional election, northern
states violations of the Constitution and that South Carolina will open her
ports to the world and advocate free trade, (Without the U.S. 48% Morrill
Tariffs) and that South Carolina “acceded to the Constitution alone, and will
secede alone of necessity.”
-December 17th, “Convention of the People of South Carolina”, South Carolina’s
Secession Convention opens, the Convention passed a unanimous resolution to
secede from its voluntary compact with the union.
-December 20th, Delegates to the South Carolina Convention unanimously vote to
secede by adopting 169 – 0 an “Ordinance To Dissolve the Union between the State
of South Carolina and other States United with her under the Compact Entitled
‘The Constitution of the United States of America.’
-December 21st, Incoming U.S. President Lincoln sends a “confidential” letter to
Democrat Francis P. Blair, Sr., Representative Elihu B. Washburn, and General
Winfield Scott, regarding his plan to break US President Buchanan’s armistice
and instigate war on American state’s immediately after inauguration.
-December 23rd, South Carolina’s Rep. William Porcher Miles confirms the
December 10th armistice with U.S. President Buchanan and that Fort Sumter is
abandoned property In Charleston Harbor, now sits unoccupied.
-December 26th, U.S. Major Robert Anderson violates U.S. President Buchanan’s
December 10th armistice with South Carolina’s Representatives, and Governor, by
illegally seizing Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, (Act of War)
-December 28th, In response to U.S. Major Andersons illegal seizure and
occupation of Fort Sumter, Cadet Riflemen and the Palmetto Guard, with a
detachment of City Police, were detailed to take charge of the Arsenal in the
city of Charleston, and a line of patrols was established around the walls.
-December 30th, Colonial John Cunningham of the South Carolina militia was
officially ordered by Governor Francis Pickens to seize control of the
Charleston Arsenal.
-January 1st 1861, Political Resignations Begin, Labors expose US. Maj.
Anderson’s subversion, U.S. Blockade of Charleston Harbor expected (Act of War).
-January 2nd, Gulf state Governors and local officials order State Guard Troops,
Local Militias and Police to secure or seize coastal forts, armories, and powder
magazines.
-January 4th, Governor A.B. Moore ordered Alabama Militia to seize three
installations in the state, the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Fort Morgan and Fort
Gaines, in preparation for secession.
-U.S. President Buchanan responded to Major Anderson’s breach of the “compact”
or Armistice of December 10th, by justifying it as a “military necessity” to
occupy Fort Sumter, and blaming possible “Mob” violence.
-Rumors that the steamer “Harriet Lane”had been hired and dispatched, with
supplies and 150 reinforcements for U.S. Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Act of
War)
-January 5th, A caucus of U.S. Senators from seven Southern states meet in
Washington, D.C.. The Senators from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas discuss an orderly secession,
independence and a “confederation of states.”
-January 7th, U.S. Congressional Committee “on the part of the boarder states”
proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure chattel slavery, and the
interstate slave trade, is made “permanent and irrevocable” in all states “loyal
to the union”…
-January 8th, The Steamer “Star of the West” has been hired by President
Buchanan to invade Charleston Harbor with 150-200 reinforcements and supplies
for Fort Sumter, in violation of the December 10th Armistice. (Act of War)
-January 9th, The Steamer “Star of the West” arrives at Charleston with supplies
and reinforcements for Fort Sumter and attempts to invade the Harbor but, is
unable to navigate the channel. (Act of War)… South Carolina forces fire warning
shots, block the channel, and the ship is ordered to retreat.
–Mississippi votes to join South Carolina in secession and independence from the
Union.
-January 10th, Florida joins South Carolina and Mississippi and secedes from the
federal Union, U.S. forces break the armistice with Florida’s Governor and
occupy the formerly abandoned Fort Pickens. (Act of War)
-January 11th, Alabama votes for secession and independence from the federal
union, discussions of a “Southern Confederacy” begin. *The first Black
“Freedmen” Volunteers begin to be accepted into service to the South Carolina
state militia’s.
-January 12th, Fort Sumter Deliberations begin between U. S. President Buchanan
and South Carolina, and S.C. Governor Pickens sends a letter to U.S. Major
Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Attempted at a peaceful resolution)
-January 13th, The South Carolina General Assembly looks upon any attempt to
reinforce the troops now in possession of Fort Sumter, as an act of open and
undisguised hostility on the part of the Government of the United States.
-January 15th, Louisiana Governor orders Coastal Forts to be seized, the “Star
of the West” returns to New York with reinforcements and supplies after being
turned away from Charleston Harbor South Carolina.
-January 16th, The “Crittenden Compromise” Bill dies in the U.S. Senate, the
U.S. government continues to offer amendments to make chattel slavery “permanent
and irrevocable” in all states “loyal to the union”.
-January 17th, The War Ship U.S.S. Brooklyn attempts to invade Charleston Harbor
and is turned back (Act of War), more U.S. Officers resign to join their
respective states militias, some Virginia counties urge secession.
-January 18th, South Carolina Governor Pickens is authorized to raise an army,
and declared South Carolina ports are closed to northern shipping.
—-A U.S. federal fleet, led by the U.S.S. Macedonian with 500+ men and 36 guns,
is sent under sealed (Secret) orders to break the armistice and reinforce Fort
Pickens in the now Independent Republic of Florida. (Act of War)
-January 19th, The State of Georgia becomes the 5th state to vote to secede from
the Union, and Former U.S. President Taylor leads a piece delegation while U.S.
President Buchanan secretly develops plans to invade former states and reinforce
Forts Pickens and Sumter.
-January 21st, The Honorable Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, hero of the Mexican
War, former U.S. Secretary of War, resigns from the U.S. Senate.
-January 24th, U.S. Major Anderson receives word that February 9th has been
established as the date by which his command would be “evacuated with honor” as
per the armistice, his men travel freely, and that his command is being supplied
with fresh produce and meat by Charleston merchants.
-January 26th, Louisiana joins South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and
Georgia in voting for secession.
-January 29th, The territory of Kansas is admitted to federal union as the 34th
state. The Charleston Mercury Hails Kansas for ensuring “Popular Sovereignty” as
its citizens determine its domestic institutions and not the federal government.
-February 1st, The people of Texas vote to become the 7th state to secede from
its voluntary compact with the federal union.
-February 4th, A Peace Commission convened in Washington D.C., while Convention
Delegates from seven independent states is assembled in Montgomery Alabama to
draft a provisional constitution and government for a new confederacy of states.
February 6th, U.S. President Buchanan concedes to political pressure from his
cabinet and informs Peace Commissioners that he has no intention of honoring his
December 10th pledge to withdraw federal forces from Fort’s Sumter and Pickens
by February 9th. (Act of War)
-February 7th, U.S. President James Buchanan publicly asserts that “It is beyond
the power of any president” to interfere with secession, and negotiations begin
on the disposition of “public property” with seceded states.
-February 8th, A provisional confederated government and draft constitution is
formally established in Montgomery Alabama by 6 independent states. (Texas
Delegates in transit)
-US President Buchanan’s original armistice agreement to evacuate federal troops
from all forts by February 9th, expires, he has informed former President
Tyler’s Peace Commission that he now has no intention of evacuating the
remaining occupation troops from the 7 newly confederated states. (Act of War)
-February 11th, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the 7
Confederate States of America.
-February 13th, The U.S. Congress met in a Joint Session to count the Electoral
College votes to certify the results of 1860 presidential election, the most
highly contested in American history.
-February 16th, The Republic of Texas begins seizing forts and armories within
its boarders after secession, and subsequently joining the C.S.A.
-February 18th, U.S. President Buchanan ordered a Naval Squadron sent to Florida
with reinforcements for Fort Pickens however, is only allowed to resupply, not
permitted to land troops in accordance with Buchanan’s armistice with Florida’s
Governor Perry.
-February 22nd, The new Government of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
has now assumed delegated authority for the coastal defenses of seven member
states, with consent of the Governors.
-February 23, The Baltimore Plot”;
Rumors circulate of a plan to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, the most Unpopular
President in American history, as he travels through Baltimore Maryland, on his
way to Washington D.C., for his inauguration.
-February 27th, C.S. President Davis has requested commissioners to be sent to
Europe to establish diplomatic relations, and names three C.S. commissioners to
be sent to Washington DC to negotiate peaceful relations with the U.S.
Government.
-February 28th, C.S. President Jefferson Davis becomes the first American
President to use a line item veto, to specifically outlaw his nation’s
participation in the international slave trade in any form, as drafted into the
C.S. Constitution.
-March 2nd, With two days left in his lame duck administration, U.S. President
James Buchanan is pressured to sign two landmark pieces of legislation, the
“Morrill Tariffs” and the “Corwin Amendment.” Both planks in the new radical
Republican platform.
-March 3rd, Abraham Lincoln sends secret orders Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton,
to break the armistice and send a naval expedition from New York City, to
“reinforce” U.S. Commander Slemmer at Fort Pickens Florida with four companies
of U.S. troops. (Act of War)
-March 4th, Abraham Lincoln is Inaugurated as U.S. President, and he immediately
orders General Winfield Scott to initiate war at Fort Pickens at Pensacola. (Act
of War)
-March 11, The C.S. Constitution was unanimously ratified by seven, It outlawed
participation in the international slave trade, recognized the right of any
state or territories to decide the question of slavery within their own borders,
and contained strict limitations on tariffs creating a low tariff zone on the
North American Content. As a result, the Northeastern financial markets went
into a panic!
-March 13, The U.S. Congress, Secretary of State William Seward, Confederate
Peace Commissioners, American News reporters and President Lincoln’s own Cabinet
are assured that troops illegally occupying Forts Pickens and Sumter are to be
evacuated, and that war with the Confederate States will be avoided…
-March 15th, U.S. President Lincoln sends a letter to urge governors of U.S.
states to quickly ratify the Corwin Amendment to make the institution of slavery
“permanent and irrevocable” in all states a territories “loyal to the union”,
without interference from the federal government.
-March 16, Arizona Territory Secedes from Lincoln’s Union.
-March 18, Gustavus V. Fox is provisionally appointed U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Navy by President Lincoln, and ordered to reconnoiter Fort Sumter and
plan an invasion of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Against the advice of his
cabinet.
-March 22nd, All U.S. Naval Commanders stationed off of Galveston TX, New
Orleans LA, and Pensacola FL have all refused to execute any of Lincoln’s secret
orders that could be seen as a violation of the armistice thus, initiating war.
-March 27th, C.S. General Beauregard and South Carolina’s Governor Pickens again
offer U.S. Major Anderson evacuation Fort Sumter “with all honors”.
-March 29th, U.S. Merchant Ship S.S. Isabella is captured by Confederate
Officers, and Lincoln’s secret plan to break the armistice is discovered on
board. The French call for the “abolition” of the Morrill Tariffs as a first
step in reconciliation.
-April 1st, U.S. President Lincoln severely rebuked his Secretary of State, W.
H. Seward, for his continued insistence on a peaceful solution, Lincoln openly
admits he will usurp the Constitution and initiate war on American states.
-April 5th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln illegally initiates war on South
Carolina, Florida, and on the Confederate States of America, without the consent
of congress.
~ April 8th, 3 U.S. naval squadrons in two expeditions secretly left port,
blowing gale winds, rain, and high seas. One Squadron has departed for
Pensacola, two are pending departure for Charleston Harbor.
-April 10th, With the U.S. Naval Invasion Fleet in route, the C.S. Congress
sends a wire to Generals Beauregard and Bragg that: “a federal [U.S.] expedition
force will be landed to overcome all [C.S.] opposition”.
-April 11th, The first evacuation date of the armistice was broken on February
9th, by U.S. President Buchanan. (Act of War)
Now the second on April 10th by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (Act of War)
-April 12th, The U.S. Naval Fleet arrives at Charleston Harbor; Fort Sumter
bombardment begins, Florida is invaded, and Fort Pickens is reinforced! War is
initiated.
-April 14, 1861, Victorious Confederates occupy Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
after the attempted federal invasion, bombardment and subsequent surrender of
federal troops. Private John S. Byrd, Jr. of South Carolina’s Palmetto Guard
places this flag on the fort’s wall facing Charleston.
-April 15th, Lincoln usurps the Constitution and the U.S. Congress and ordered
governors to provide 75,000 troops to illegally invade C.S. States.
-Second Wave of States Secession Begins
-April 17th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has now formally declared war on the
seven Confederate States of America without the consent of the U.S. Congress,
and carrying out further invasion of Florida by reinforcing Fort Pickens.
-April 19th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, under a plan devised by U.S. Gen.
Winfield Scott, proclaims that all Southern ports will be blockaded by the U.S.
Navy (Act of War).
-April 20th, Just 3 days after Virginia’s peaceful secession from the U.S., U.S.
Commodore McCauley plans and executes the demolition and evacuation of
Virginia’s ports. (Act of War)
-April 21st, Pratt Street Riot, Baltimore Maryland; A clash between civilian
anti-war secessionists and Union troops in Maryland’s largest city resulted in
what is commonly accepted to be the first bloodshed of The War Between States.
-Maryland’s General Assembly voted to approve a resolution vehemently protesting
the federal occupation of Maryland, and sent it to President Lincoln.
-April 23rd, “McClellan orders Invasion” of Virginia. (Act of War). Virginia
becomes the 8th State of the Confederate States of America, and Robert E. Lee
takes command of Virginia’s defense forces.
-April 25th, After illegally suspending the U.S. Constitutional “Writ of Habeas
Corpus”, Abraham Lincoln orders U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott to arrest the Maryland
State Legislature, and imprison them indefinitely without warrant or charges.
-April 27th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln illegally suspended the writ of
habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military
authorities the necessary power to “silence dissenters” and “rebels”.
-April 28th, The Republic of California Moves Toward Secession and Independence
-April 29th, The Corwin Amendment goes to the state Legislatures for
Ratification. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has personally urged all governors
to support this Amendment making chattel slavery “permanent and irrevocable” in
all states “loyal to the Union.”
-May 3rd, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issues Proclamation #83, which
illegally established a state of war with American states, usurping the U.S.
Constitution, and without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
-May 4th, The C.S. Government establishes diplomatic relations with Great
Britain and Brazil. Britains Foreign Minister, Lord Lyons, attempts to negotiate
a settlement to prevent U.S. President Lincoln from escalating war on American
states.
-May 6th, Arkansas Secedes, with 69 out of 70 delegates voting for the ordinance
of secession.
-May 7th, First cannon shot of Lincoln’s war in Virginia. Tennessee declares
secession.
-May 9th, C.S. President Jefferson Davis commissions James Dunwoody Bulloch, a
former U.S. Naval Officer and Savannah native, as the primary naval agent of the
Confederacy in Europe.
-May 10th, The “Camp Jackson Massacre”, which resulted in the killing of unarmed
civilians by U.S. Federal Troops, the Missouri General Assembly immediately
authorized the use of military force in defense of Missouri.
-May 12th, U.S. General Butler is “verbally” ordered by U.S. General Winfield
Scott, to illegally invade, reinforce, confiscate arms of citizens and occupy
Baltimore Maryland. (Act of War)
-May 13th, Britain’s Queen Victoria issues a proclamation recognizing the
Confederate States of America as having “belligerent rights.”…
-May 15th, – Lincoln’s Federal troops, U.S. General Nathaniel Lions, invade
Missouri’s capital and draw the first blood in both an Act of War, and openly
committed War Crimes on American Citizens during the “Camp Jackson Massacre”.
-May 16th, Kentucky’s Governor and House of Representatives – Committee on
Federal Relations passes a “Resolution of Neutrality” stating “Kentucky will
furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern
states.”
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MAY 5, 1861, THE ROAD FROM SUMTER -24

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JIM HARRELSON

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May 5, 1861, The Road from Sumter -24,
“It would be a great political error, not to say a crime, if the Republican
President should plunge the New World into war in order to show his attachment
to his party or his consistency with his former principles.”
~ London Times
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Extra session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Fourth day.
Montgomery, Ala., May 2.
Congress assembled to-day at noon, and, after prayer, the Journals of yesterday
were read and confirmed […]
A Resolution of Thanks, to Brigadier General G. T. BEAUERGARD, and the Army
under his command, for their conduct in the affair at Fort Sumter.
Be it unanimously Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of America
, That the thanks of the people of the Confederates are due, and through this
Congress are hereby tendered, to Brigadier General G. T. BEAUEE GARD and his
officers, and to the gallant troops of the State of South Carolina, for the
skill, fortitude and courage by which they reduced and caused the surrender of
Fort Samter, in the harbor of Charleston, on the 12th and 13th days of April,
1861; and the consideration of Congress is also hereby declared of the
generosity manifested by their conduct towards a brave and conquered too.
Be is further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be communicated by the
President to GENERAL BEAUREGARD , and through him to the army now under his
command.
A Bill to Provide for the Appointment of Chaplains in the Army.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. That there shall be
appointed by the President such number of chaplains, to serve with the army of
the Confederate States, during the existing war, as he may deem expedient; and
the President shall assign them to such regiments, brigades or posts, as he may
deem necessary.– And the appointments made aforesaid shall expire whenever the
existing war shall terminate.
SEC. 2. The monthly pay of these captains shall be eighty-five dollars, and such
pay shall be in full of all allowances whatever.
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The English Press.
We give extracts, to-day, from the English press. They cry out with one voice
against civil war in America. If they pronounce LINCOLN ‘S threats of coercion
“diabolical,” what will they say when they hear of the hellish proceedings in
New York? We are strongly of opinion that LORD LYONS will be instructed to offer
the mediation of England, and, if that is not effectual, that, in the end, the
interests of England will require a more effectual intervention.
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A War of Subjugation or Extermination.
An intelligent gentleman [Lord Lyons] who arrived lately in this city, from
Washington, states that he heard LINCOLN make a speech on Thursday night last,
in which he declared that the present war must end in the subjugation or
extermination of the South. That is the purpose of the Administration, beyond
all doubt.
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STRATEGICAL POLICY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
–The New York Journal of Commerce has an editorial upon this subject, in which
occurs the following:
Without stopping to inquire further into the nature of the extraordinary rumors
in circulation for some time past, in reference to a threatened invasion of the
District of Columbia, it is at least safe to suggest as a possible truth, that
it has been the persistent policy of the Confederate States, since the first
alarm of war, to tempt the North into an enormous scale of expenditure for
military purposes, and thus to produce a more speedy exhaustion. It would appear
as though no means had been neglected — no artifice unemployed — which might
tend to this result. The announced intention of the Confederacy to grant letters
of marque, for aught that appears to the contrary, is not likely to be carried
into execution; embargoes laid upon commerce at Southern ports have been raised;
and Northern vessels seized have been released, in many instances, by direction
of the authorities at Montgomery. Nevertheless, these varied acts of hostility
may have answered a purpose, by precipitating events in the North, and hastening
the final issue. Meanwhile, the Southern States seem to be husbanding their
resources in every possible way. Individuals serve in the ranks as common
soldiers, gratuitously. Not unfrequently, as the newspapers state, whole
companies are put on a war footing, with no other expense to the General
Government than the providing of muskets; and railways do the necessary
transportation without indemnity.
Reviewing the events of the last few weeks, it may well be doubted whether there
has ever been any settled purpose to invade the National Capital. Jefferson
Davis evidently prefers to act on the defensive, rather than employ aggressive
measures. But even if we accept this as a solution of certain rumors and
proceedings otherwise difficult of explanation, it cannot be said that the
extensive preparations for the defence of Washington are ill-advised. Without
them, the political attitude of two or three of the Border States might have
given much more reason for concern; and besides, the concentration of a large
force at some convenient point is absolutely necessary.
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The British Press on American Affairs.
The American Revolution.
[From the London Times, 19th.]
It needs no comment of ours to impress the public with the great importance of
the news from America. We are anxious to speak with caution on this subject, and
not cause alarm which may possibly prove to have been unnecessary. Therefore we
would rather let the telegraphic summary from Queenstown speak for itself. The
steamer left New York on the 6th, and on the day previous the signs of an
approaching conflict, which had been visible for some weeks before became so
marked that a panic took place in Wall Street. In what may be called the two
chief cities of the rival Federations, the belief that war was at hand prevailed
equally. In New York there was as we have said, a panic on the Stock Exchange,
while from Charleston the telegraph announced that the dreaded moment had
arrived, and a rupture would at once take place. It was even feared that
military operations had begun on the part of the Southerners. No news had been
received from Fort Pickens for several days, and this had led to the belief that
the communication had been cut off by the Southern troops. From Charleston it
was announced that Major Anderson had been called upon to evacuate Fort Sumter
within forty-eight hours, the alternative being that the place would be
bombarded. The belief at Washington was that the Government there was as
determined as that of the secessionists. Every man had been ordered on duty;
frigate, with two first-class merchant steamers, would sail at once with sealed
orders, but we learn from a private source that there were still doubts as to
whether they were intended to relieve Fort Pickens, or to proceed to St.
Domingo.
Such is the momentous intelligence which we publish to-day. We may here,
however, repeat the hope so often expressed on this side of the ocean, that if
the two sections of the late Union be destined to separation, the change may be
accomplished without the spilling of blood. It may, perhaps, be too late to
indulge in such wishes, yet we will not give up all hope that even at the last
hour moderate counsels may have prevailed, and that this fratricidal war has
been checked in the outset. But, supposing that the worst has happened, and,
either through the naval operations of the United States or an attack on the
Federal forts by their rivals, hostilities have begun, it is plain that a
conflict of no common kind must follow. The Confederate States, though without a
navy, and consequently forced, for the most part, to remain on the defensive,
will be an enemy not easy to deal with. True, they are not so powerful in men or
resources as they anticipated some months ago. The fidelity of the border States
to the Union has been a great disappointment to the Montgomery politicians and
their ambitious President. The Border States, particularly Kentucky and
Tennessee, contain a population which, for military purposes, surpasses,
perhaps, any in the Union.–The fine race which inhabits these regions would
prove formidable enemies to the Government at Washington if they had resolved on
seceding. Then there would have been the accession of a large white population
without any great admixture of Negroes, and further more considerable wealth,
which in the present state of the Southern Exchequer would have been very
acceptable. But, though for the present, at least, the Border States stand fast
by the Union, yet the South shows a bold front. The seven seceding States, being
in earnest and fighting for their independence, have raised an army which the
other twenty-seven have not yet succeeded in matching.–According to all
accounts, the Southern levies are large, well-disciplined, and in high spirits.
For weeks it has been difficult to keep the Charleston regiments from attacking
Fort Sumter, and at Pensacola we find that Fort Pickens was hard pressed by a
considerable force. The iron foundries in Virginia were turning out guns to be
used against the Government which owns the allegiance of Virginia itself.
“”Troops, provisions and ammunition were flowing in to the Confederate army,””
was the intelligence received a few days since. It seems clear that, if peace be
preserved, it will not be by any yielding on the part of the Secessionists.
It would be a great political error, not to say a crime, if the Republican
President should plunge the New World into war in order to show his attachment
to his party or his consistency with his former principles. When Mr. Buchanan
published his unhappy message — a document to which it is probably owing that
South Carolina was followed into secession by six other States–the Republican
party, and indeed opinion generally throughout the North, was so much inflamed
against the President that Mr. Lincoln found or fancied it necessary to
repudiate these sentiments. Incautiously giving utterance to his own opinions
wherever he came on his journey from the West, he arrived at Washington pledged
not only to keep but to retake the forts belonging to the Union in the seceded
States, and to refuse any recognition of Southern independence. The collection
of the duties at the Southern ports was also made a part of the new President’s
programme. How difficult it has been found to carry out all this, is evident
from the long delay which has taken place. Before Mr. Buchanan left office Major
Anderson was in extreme danger; no time was to be lost in relieving Fort Pickens
and the Confederate States themselves were lowering their tariff and letting in
the productions of Europe at a rate which would make every idler in the Border
States take to smuggling at once. It was though that the moment Mr. Lincoln was
installed a resolution would be taken. But this was not to be. For a full month
the President and his Cabinet have been debating what is to be done, and only on
the 5th of April is it announced that the policy of coercion has triumphed.
The delay seems all the more to be regretted since confidence among men of
business had been almost restored. There was up to nearly the last day of March
a feeling that the worst was over, and that, however lamentable might be the
disruption of the Republic, there would not be added to this misfortune the
still greater calamity of civil war. The absorbing interest in military and
political matters was passing away, and business was resuming its usual course.
What will be the result of a collision between the two Governments is more than
any one can predict. The vision of privateers at sea and partisan bands along
the frontier must be so terrible to Americans that it is possible the public
feeling of the people may restrain the acts of their rulers. But, should this
quarrel begin and continue until both sides are roused into animosity, the war,
though short, may be as savage as any that has been carried on even by the
Spanish race. The Americans are in the highest degree excitable and vindictive;
the ferocity which they carry into their domestic conflicts would be increased
largely when one side fancied itself to be resisting tyrants and the other
punishing traitors. But we had rather not speculate on so great a calamity as
such a war would be. We would rather hope that the good sense of the Americans
and the peaceful counsels of this country may bring about a reconciliation
before the dispute has been too far envenomed. As long as the two sections of
the Union refrain from hostilities, it would be the height of arrogance and
folly to interfere; but when the soil and seas of the New World are likely to be
stained with blood, foreign nations may surely remonstrate in the cause of
humanity.
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Treachery in Maryland.
The noble State of Maryland has been thus far paralyzed by the treason of GOV.
HICKS and HENRY WINTER DAVIS , two matchless political villains who have
succeeded in surpassing the infamy of BENEDICT ARNOLD , and inscribing their
names in the very lowest and blackest spot in the record of human infamy. If
ever men deserved the gallows, each of these traitors to the South deserves to
be swung as high as HAMAN . The man who can think of party at a time when the
liberty and independence of his State is threatened, is a wretch too vile to
live; at any rate, to live among loyal and honest men. If a State falls bravely
fighting and doing its best, there is some consolation in the reflection that
all the powers God has given it have been employed to the best effect; but to be
struck down from its pride of place, to see its ardor dampened, its energies
distracted, its resources sapped and mined, by a secret, insidious, interior
foe, what can fill a generous soul with such unbearable anguish and humiliation?
There are as lofty spirits in Maryland, as gallant and patriotic and generous,
as any in the Union; but they have been sold by the HICKSES and DAVISES –sold
for the thirty pieces of official silver, which, to ignoble souls, are more
precious than honor, duty, Heaven. We by no means despair of Maryland. She
cannot be permanently enslaved. She will loosen herself yet from the coil of the
serpents and crush their heads beneath her victorious heel.
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Source: Richmond Dispatch by Cowardin & Hammersley, Vol. Xix — no.104 Richmond,
Va. Tuesday, may 7, 1861
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Review of events leading up to May 5, 1861:
-80+ years of sectional tensions between northeastern and southeastern states
over tariffs, states rights/popular sovereignty, federal power over new
territories and most recently, the practice of chattel slavery.
-1857 – Massive Financial Collapse And panic hits Northeastern banks triggered
by the sinking sinking of the S.S. Central America carrying 30,000 pounds of
gold destined for northern banks.
-A new “Republican” political party is formed with a platform of federal control
of new territories, diminishing popular sovereignty, and enforcing new tariffs
“by force”, which are all usurpations of the U.S. Constitution.
-The increasing federal debt has lead to a proposed drastic increase in Tariffs
that disproportionately effect agricultural southern states as the 48% Morrill
Tariffs.
-Radical Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens, sponsor of the Morrill Tariff,
stated: “the Tariff would impoverish the southern and western states, but that
was essential for advancing national greatness and the prosperity of [northern]
industrial workers.”
-Southeastern states have minority representation in the U.S. Congress due to
the 3/5ths rule, which does not allow negro persons to be fully counted for
representation.
-Southeastern “Cotton states” protest tariffs, and the fact that these
agricultural state are already paying ~75% to 85% of the federal budget with
little to none returned in support for infrastructure.
-1859 – John Brown and 18 accomplices began their illegal invasion of Virginia,
and murder spree at Harper’s Ferry Virginia, financed by northeastern
“abolitionists”.
-November 1860, Abraham Lincoln is selected as U.S. President with a minority of
the popular vote and was not even on the ballot in 10 states, with a pledge to
institute the new party’s platform, by force if necessary.
-The seven “cotton states” that are most impacted by the new 48% Morrill Tariffs
begin secession proceedings citing historical causes, tariffs and the federal
government’s usurpation of the “voluntary compact” called the U.S. Constitution.
-U.S. President Buchanan begins deliberations over payment for federal
properties with South Carolina representatives and is informed that garrisoning
troops at Fort Sumter would be considered and act of war.
-December 8th, The South Carolina Delegation delivers a written agreement or
“armistice” to U.S. President Buchanan, promising not to attack the remaining
forts garrisoning U.S. troops in the sovereign state of South Carolina, with the
understanding that the U.S. will not attempt to reinforce them.
-U.S. President Buchanan extended the December 10th “armistice” to all states
considering secession.
-December 12th, U.S. President Buchanan’s armistice agreement that “there would
be no reinforcement coastal fortifications” was now extended to all states
considering secession until March 4, 1861.
-December 13th, The “Southern Manifesto” was published In Montgomery Alabama.
Twenty-three House members and seven Senators from southern states make a public
announcement, “a manifesto which urged secession and the organization of a
Southern Confederacy.”
-December 16th, South Carolina legislature elects Francis Wilkinson Pickens
Governor. In his inaugural address he cited the sectional election, northern
states violations of the Constitution and that South Carolina will open her
ports to the world and advocate free trade, (Without the U.S. 48% Morrill
Tariffs) and that South Carolina “acceded to the Constitution alone, and will
secede alone of necessity.”
-December 17th, “Convention of the People of South Carolina”, South Carolina’s
Secession Convention opens, the Convention passed a unanimous resolution to
secede from its voluntary compact with the union.
-December 20th, Delegates to the South Carolina Convention unanimously vote to
secede by adopting 169 – 0 an “Ordinance To Dissolve the Union between the State
of South Carolina and other States United with her under the Compact Entitled
‘The Constitution of the United States of America.’
-December 21st, Incoming U.S. President Lincoln sends a “confidential” letter to
Democrat Francis P. Blair, Sr., Representative Elihu B. Washburn, and General
Winfield Scott, regarding his plan to break US President Buchanan’s armistice
and instigate war on American state’s immediately after inauguration.
-December 23rd, South Carolina’s Rep. William Porcher Miles confirms the
December 10th armistice with U.S. President Buchanan and that Fort Sumter is
abandoned property In Charleston Harbor, now sits unoccupied.
-December 26th, U.S. Major Robert Anderson violates U.S. President Buchanan’s
December 10th armistice with South Carolina’s Representatives, and Governor, by
illegally seizing Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, (Act of War)
-December 28th, In response to U.S. Major Andersons illegal seizure and
occupation of Fort Sumter, Cadet Riflemen and the Palmetto Guard, with a
detachment of City Police, were detailed to take charge of the Arsenal in the
city of Charleston, and a line of patrols was established around the walls.
-December 30th, Colonial John Cunningham of the South Carolina militia was
officially ordered by Governor Francis Pickens to seize control of the
Charleston Arsenal.
-January 1st 1861, Political Resignations Begin, Labors expose US. Maj.
Anderson’s subversion, U.S. Blockade of Charleston Harbor expected (Act of War).
-January 2nd, Gulf state Governors and local officials order State Guard Troops,
Local Militias and Police to secure or seize coastal forts, armories, and powder
magazines.
-January 4th, Governor A.B. Moore ordered Alabama Militia to seize three
installations in the state, the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Fort Morgan and Fort
Gaines, in preparation for secession.
-U.S. President Buchanan responded to Major Anderson’s breach of the “compact”
or Armistice of December 10th, by justifying it as a “military necessity” to
occupy Fort Sumter, and blaming possible “Mob” violence.
-Rumors that the steamer “Harriet Lane”had been hired and dispatched, with
supplies and 150 reinforcements for U.S. Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Act of
War)
-January 5th, A caucus of U.S. Senators from seven Southern states meet in
Washington, D.C.. The Senators from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas discuss an orderly secession,
independence and a “confederation of states.”
-January 7th, U.S. Congressional Committee “on the part of the boarder states”
proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure chattel slavery, and the
interstate slave trade, is made “permanent and irrevocable” in all states “loyal
to the union”…
-January 8th, The Steamer “Star of the West” has been hired by President
Buchanan to invade Charleston Harbor with 150-200 reinforcements and supplies
for Fort Sumter, in violation of the December 10th Armistice. (Act of War)
-January 9th, The Steamer “Star of the West” arrives at Charleston with supplies
and reinforcements for Fort Sumter and attempts to invade the Harbor but, is
unable to navigate the channel. (Act of War)… South Carolina forces fire warning
shots, block the channel, and the ship is ordered to retreat.
–Mississippi votes to join South Carolina in secession and independence from the
Union.
-January 10th, Florida joins South Carolina and Mississippi and secedes from the
federal Union, U.S. forces break the armistice with Florida’s Governor and
occupy the formerly abandoned Fort Pickens. (Act of War)
-January 11th, Alabama votes for secession and independence from the federal
union, discussions of a “Southern Confederacy” begin. *The first Black
“Freedmen” Volunteers begin to be accepted into service to the South Carolina
state militia’s.
-January 12th, Fort Sumter Deliberations begin between U. S. President Buchanan
and South Carolina, and S.C. Governor Pickens sends a letter to U.S. Major
Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Attempted at a peaceful resolution)
-January 13th, The South Carolina General Assembly looks upon any attempt to
reinforce the troops now in possession of Fort Sumter, as an act of open and
undisguised hostility on the part of the Government of the United States.
-January 15th, Louisiana Governor orders Coastal Forts to be seized, the “Star
of the West” returns to New York with reinforcements and supplies after being
turned away from Charleston Harbor South Carolina.
-January 16th, The “Crittenden Compromise” Bill dies in the U.S. Senate, the
U.S. government continues to offer amendments to make chattel slavery “permanent
and irrevocable” in all states “loyal to the union”.
-January 17th, The War Ship U.S.S. Brooklyn attempts to invade Charleston Harbor
and is turned back (Act of War), more U.S. Officers resign to join their
respective states militias, some Virginia counties urge secession.
-January 18th, South Carolina Governor Pickens is authorized to raise an army,
and declared South Carolina ports are closed to northern shipping.
—-A U.S. federal fleet, led by the U.S.S. Macedonian with 500+ men and 36 guns,
is sent under sealed (Secret) orders to break the armistice and reinforce Fort
Pickens in the now Independent Republic of Florida. (Act of War)
-January 19th, The State of Georgia becomes the 5th state to vote to secede from
the Union, and Former U.S. President Taylor leads a piece delegation while U.S.
President Buchanan secretly develops plans to invade former states and reinforce
Forts Pickens and Sumter.
-January 21st, The Honorable Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, hero of the Mexican
War, former U.S. Secretary of War, resigns from the U.S. Senate.
-January 24th, U.S. Major Anderson receives word that February 9th has been
established as the date by which his command would be “evacuated with honor” as
per the armistice, his men travel freely, and that his command is being supplied
with fresh produce and meat by Charleston merchants.
-January 26th, Louisiana joins South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and
Georgia in voting for secession.
-January 29th, The territory of Kansas is admitted to federal union as the 34th
state. The Charleston Mercury Hails Kansas for ensuring “Popular Sovereignty” as
its citizens determine its domestic institutions and not the federal government.
-February 1st, The people of Texas vote to become the 7th state to secede from
its voluntary compact with the federal union.
-February 4th, A Peace Commission convened in Washington D.C., while Convention
Delegates from seven independent states is assembled in Montgomery Alabama to
draft a provisional constitution and government for a new confederacy of states.
February 6th, U.S. President Buchanan concedes to political pressure from his
cabinet and informs Peace Commissioners that he has no intention of honoring his
December 10th pledge to withdraw federal forces from Fort’s Sumter and Pickens
by February 9th. (Act of War)
-February 7th, U.S. President James Buchanan publicly asserts that “It is beyond
the power of any president” to interfere with secession, and negotiations begin
on the disposition of “public property” with seceded states.
-February 8th, A provisional confederated government and draft constitution is
formally established in Montgomery Alabama by 6 independent states. (Texas
Delegates in transit)
-US President Buchanan’s original armistice agreement to evacuate federal troops
from all forts by February 9th, expires, he has informed former President
Tyler’s Peace Commission that he now has no intention of evacuating the
remaining occupation troops from the 7 newly confederated states. (Act of War)
-February 11th, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the 7
Confederate States of America.
-February 13th, The U.S. Congress met in a Joint Session to count the Electoral
College votes to certify the results of 1860 presidential election, the most
highly contested in American history.
-February 16th, The Republic of Texas begins seizing forts and armories within
its boarders after secession, and subsequently joining the C.S.A.
-February 18th, U.S. President Buchanan ordered a Naval Squadron sent to Florida
with reinforcements for Fort Pickens however, is only allowed to resupply, not
permitted to land troops in accordance with Buchanan’s armistice with Florida’s
Governor Perry.
-February 22nd, The new Government of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
has now assumed delegated authority for the coastal defenses of seven member
states, with consent of the Governors.
-February 23, The Baltimore Plot”;
Rumors circulate of a plan to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, the most Unpopular
President in American history, as he travels through Baltimore Maryland, on his
way to Washington D.C., for his inauguration.
-February 27th, C.S. President Davis has requested commissioners to be sent to
Europe to establish diplomatic relations, and names three C.S. commissioners to
be sent to Washington DC to negotiate peaceful relations with the U.S.
Government.
-February 28th, C.S. President Jefferson Davis becomes the first American
President to use a line item veto, to specifically outlaw his nation’s
participation in the international slave trade in any form, as drafted into the
C.S. Constitution.
-March 2nd, With two days left in his lame duck administration, U.S. President
James Buchanan is pressured to sign two landmark pieces of legislation, the
“Morrill Tariffs” and the “Corwin Amendment.” Both planks in the new radical
Republican platform.
-March 3rd, Abraham Lincoln sends secret orders Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton,
to break the armistice and send a naval expedition from New York City, to
“reinforce” U.S. Commander Slemmer at Fort Pickens Florida with four companies
of U.S. troops. (Act of War)
-March 4th, Abraham Lincoln is Inaugurated as U.S. President, and he immediately
orders General Winfield Scott to initiate war at Fort Pickens at Pensacola. (Act
of War)
-March 11, The C.S. Constitution was unanimously ratified by seven, It outlawed
participation in the international slave trade, recognized the right of any
state or territories to decide the question of slavery within their own borders,
and contained strict limitations on tariffs creating a low tariff zone on the
North American Content. As a result, the Northeastern financial markets went
into a panic!
-March 13, The U.S. Congress, Secretary of State William Seward, Confederate
Peace Commissioners, American News reporters and President Lincoln’s own Cabinet
are assured that troops illegally occupying Forts Pickens and Sumter are to be
evacuated, and that war with the Confederate States will be avoided…
-March 15th, U.S. President Lincoln sends a letter to urge governors of U.S.
states to quickly ratify the Corwin Amendment to make the institution of slavery
“permanent and irrevocable” in all states a territories “loyal to the union”,
without interference from the federal government.
-March 16, Arizona Territory Secedes from Lincoln’s Union.
-March 18, Gustavus V. Fox is provisionally appointed U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Navy by President Lincoln, and ordered to reconnoiter Fort Sumter and
plan an invasion of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Against the advice of his
cabinet.
-March 22nd, All U.S. Naval Commanders stationed off of Galveston TX, New
Orleans LA, and Pensacola FL have all refused to execute any of Lincoln’s secret
orders that could be seen as a violation of the armistice thus, initiating war.
-March 27th, C.S. General Beauregard and South Carolina’s Governor Pickens again
offer U.S. Major Anderson evacuation Fort Sumter “with all honors”.
-March 29th, U.S. Merchant Ship S.S. Isabella is captured by Confederate
Officers, and Lincoln’s secret plan to break the armistice is discovered on
board. The French call for the “abolition” of the Morrill Tariffs as a first
step in reconciliation.
-April 1st, U.S. President Lincoln severely rebuked his Secretary of State, W.
H. Seward, for his continued insistence on a peaceful solution, Lincoln openly
admits he will usurp the Constitution and initiate war on American states.
-April 5th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln illegally initiates war on South
Carolina, Florida, and on the Confederate States of America, without the consent
of congress.
~ April 8th, 3 U.S. naval squadrons in two expeditions secretly left port,
blowing gale winds, rain, and high seas. One Squadron has departed for
Pensacola, two are pending departure for Charleston Harbor.
-April 10th, With the U.S. Naval Invasion Fleet in route, the C.S. Congress
sends a wire to Generals Beauregard and Bragg that: “a federal [U.S.] expedition
force will be landed to overcome all [C.S.] opposition”.
-April 11th, The first evacuation date of the armistice was broken on February
9th, by U.S. President Buchanan. (Act of War)
Now the second on April 10th by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (Act of War)
-April 12th, The U.S. Naval Fleet arrives at Charleston Harbor; Fort Sumter
bombardment begins, Florida is invaded, and Fort Pickens is reinforced! War is
initiated.
-April 14, 1861, Victorious Confederates occupy Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
after the attempted federal invasion, bombardment and subsequent surrender of
federal troops. Private John S. Byrd, Jr. of South Carolina’s Palmetto Guard
places this flag on the fort’s wall facing Charleston.
-April 15th, Lincoln usurps the Constitution and the U.S. Congress and ordered
governors to provide 75,000 troops to illegally invade C.S. States.
-Second Wave of States Secession Begins
-April 17th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has now formally declared war on the
seven Confederate States of America without the consent of the U.S. Congress,
and carrying out further invasion of Florida by reinforcing Fort Pickens.
-April 19th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, under a plan devised by U.S. Gen.
Winfield Scott, proclaims that all Southern ports will be blockaded by the U.S.
Navy (Act of War).
-April 20th, Just 3 days after Virginia’s peaceful secession from the U.S., U.S.
Commodore McCauley plans and executes the demolition and evacuation of
Virginia’s ports. (Act of War)
-April 21st, Pratt Street Riot, Baltimore Maryland; A clash between civilian
anti-war secessionists and Union troops in Maryland’s largest city resulted in
what is commonly accepted to be the first bloodshed of The War Between States.
-Maryland’s General Assembly voted to approve a resolution vehemently protesting
the federal occupation of Maryland, and sent it to President Lincoln.
-April 23rd, “McClellan orders Invasion” of Virginia. (Act of War). Virginia
becomes the 8th State of the Confederate States of America, and Robert E. Lee
takes command of Virginia’s defense forces.
-April 25th, After illegally suspending the U.S. Constitutional “Writ of Habeas
Corpus”, Abraham Lincoln orders U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott to arrest the Maryland
State Legislature, and imprison them indefinitely without warrant or charges.
-April 27th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln illegally suspended the writ of
habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military
authorities the necessary power to “silence dissenters” and “rebels”.
-April 28th, The Republic of California Moves Toward Secession and Independence
-April 29th, The Corwin Amendment goes to the state Legislatures for
Ratification. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has personally urged all governors
to support this Amendment making chattel slavery “permanent and irrevocable” in
all states “loyal to the Union.”
-May 3rd, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issues Proclamation #83, which
illegally established a state of war with American states, usurping the U.S.
Constitution, and without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
-May 4th, The C.S. Government establishes diplomatic relations with Great
Britain and Brazil. Britains Foreign Minister, Lord Lyons, attempts to negotiate
a settlement to prevent U.S. President Lincoln from escalating war on American
states.
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YANKEE SLAVE TRADERS

Posted on May 5, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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DEFENDING THE HERITAGE

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YANKEES MAD ABOUT SLAVERY…GOOD, they should be mad at their ancestors who
brought them here, sold them while making fortunes as a result!
“Just because one voted against admitting slave states and territories into the
Union did not mean they had any moral motive of concern for the liberty and
well-being of the slave.
One such man was, Senator James DeWolff of Rhode Island who vehemently opposed
the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state in 1820. DeWolff was
one of the richest men in the country and had gained his wealth through the New
England slave trade.
His company had made some eighty voyages to Africa until the trade became
illegal for Americans in 1808. He would however continue trading slaves in a
foreign market. What was the purpose of his anti-slavery position? Simply to
continue New England’s policies of weakening Southern interests and not in the
least a moral concern for the slave.
Another Rhode Islander John Brown (of Brown University in Providence), when
criticized about his travels to Africa to buy slaves said, “There was no more
crime in bringing off a cargo of slaves than in bringing off a cargo of
jackasses.”
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LINCOLN STARTS THE WAR

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JIM HARRELSON

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April 13, 1861, The Road to Sumter… The U.S. invasion of C.S. Harbors and
subsequent bombardment by South Carolina and C.S. Defenders has begun!
“Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to instigate a civil war without appearing in
the character of an aggressor.” Fort Pickens in Florida is successfully
reinforced, and Fort Sumter in South Carolina is evacuated.”
April 14, At 2:30am, U.S. Major Anderson agreed to C.S. General Beauregard’s
terms to be “evacuated with honor” from the the fort, after withstanding a 34
hour Bombardment, from 43 guns, firing over 3,000 rounds from confederate
batteries, resulting in NO U.S. federal casualties,…
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~Events leading up to April 14; It is now 3 days past the armistice deadline for
U.S. troops to be evacuated from harbor forts within the Confederate States of
America (C.S.A.). (Act of War)
~For 4+ months Major Anderson, with 85 US Troops, has refused “evacuation with
honor” from Fort Sumter, on February 9th, and now April 10th. (Act of War)
~U.S. Secretary of State Seward had informed Europeans, and the C.S.A. Peace
Commissioners, that the U.S. would abide by the April 10th withdrawal date.
~U.S. President Lincoln and Captain Gustavus Fox used a 3+ month delay to
secretly deploy invasion fleets, first to Ft. Pickens in Pensacola Florida, and
then to Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, against the advice of his own
cabinet, and without U.S. Congressional knowledge or approval. (Act of War)
~The first two warships arrived at Charleston Harbor the morning of April 12,
with 300 troops “to overcome all opposition” (Act of War).
~C.S. General Beauregard gave his old friend U.S. Major Anderson 1 hour to
“evacuate with honor” but Anderson refused, and the Bombardment was ordered.
~The U.S. invasion fleet could not navigate into Charleston harbor due to
weather, tides, and opposition from shore batteries.
~Meanwhile that evening, Lincoln had secretly ordered a second U.S. invasion
force to deploy 200 troops into Ft. Pickens at Pensacola under the cover of
darkness. (Act of War).
~C.S. General Bragg Confirmed; “Re-enforcements thrown into Fort Pickens last
night by small boats from the outside. The movement could not even be seen from
our side . . .”” (Act of War)
The next day, after U.S. Major Robert Anderson agreed to terms to be “evacuated
with honor” from Fort Sumter, U.S Troops we’re evacuated, and the Palmetto Guard
Flag was placed on the wall facing the city by Private John S. Byrd. Finally the
First Nation Flag of the C.S.A. was raised over Ft. Sumter. The national flag
representing the first seven states, one territory, and the Indian Nations of
the C.S.A..
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Providence Rhode Island Daily Post,
Published April 13, 1861.
“Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to inaugurate civil war without appearing in the
character of an aggressor.” […] “We are to have civil war, if at all, because
Abraham Lincoln loves a [Republican] party better than he loves his country….
[He] clings to his party creed, and allows the nation to drift into the
whirlpool of destruction.” ~
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Stephen Douglas, Senator from Illinois stated:
“We certainly cannot justify the holding of forts there, much less the
recapturing of those which have been taken, unless we intend to reduce those
States themselves into subjection. I take it for granted, no man will deny the
proposition that whoever permanently holds Charleston and South Carolina is
entitled to Fort Sumter…. Whoever holds the States in whose limits those forts
are placed, is entitled to the forts themselves, unless there is something
peculiar in the location of the same particular fort that makes it important to
the general defense of the whole country, its commerce and interests, as in the
case of Forts Taylor and Jefferson at Key West and Dry Tortugas. But Fort Sumter
and other forts, in Charleston harbor; Fort Pulaski on the Savannah River; Fort
Morgan and other forts in Alabama, were intended to guard the entrance to a
particular harbor for local defense.(5) Such being the case, the occupation of
Fort Sumter by U.S. troops was technically an act of invasion and the
Confederate forces in Charleston were wholly justified in firing upon them when
it became evident that Lincoln intended to use military force against the
State.”
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Representative Benjamin Williams, of Lowell, Massachusetts, stated in a speech
to the U.S. Congress:
“The South was invaded and a war of subjugation was begun by the Federal
government against the seceding States in amazing disregard of the foundation
principle of its existence-and the South accepts the contest forced upon her
with a courage characteristic of this proud-spirited people. The North had no
Constitutional right to hold Fort Sumter in case the States seceded and to hold
it meant war.”
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NEW YORK TIMES
APRIL 13, 1861
FORT SUMTER–1861–1865.; Historical Sketch of the Bombardment and Surrender of
Fort Sumter in April, 1861. THE EFFECT IN CHARLESTON DEMAND FOR THE SURRENDER
RETURN FIRE THE SECOND DAY SURRENDER. THE THIRD DAY, Correspondent; “Jasper”.
“Assuming to regard the temporary absence of the flag as an indication of a
desire to…
[C.S.] Mr. WIGFALL, of Texas, made his appearance with his handkerchief waving,
and desired admission. It was granted, but as the national colors still waved
defiance, the rebel batteries continued their fire. After some consultation, Mr.
WIGFALL displayed his improvised flag-of-truce, and having heard Maj. ANDERSON’s
ultimatum, departed to report to [C.S.] Gen. BEAUREGARD. The firing ceased, and
as the smoke rolled off the sickening devastation was apparent. While Mr.
WIGFALL was yet on his way to the shore, a second deputation, consisting of
[C.S.] Maj. LEE, PORCHER MILES, ex-Senator CHESNUT and ROGER A. PRYOR, appeared,
and subsequently a third, Maj. JONES, Chief of Staff to Gen. BEAUREGARD, made
their appearance, and the terms of surrender were agreed upon.
Sunday, the 14th of April, witnessed the occupation of the rebels, the
withdrawal of Maj. ANDERSON and his forces, but not the disgrace of the old
flag. The steamer Isabel was provided by the Confederates for the transportation
of the entire force North, with all their company and personal property. At noon
all hands were assembled on the parade-ground, about which were strewn the wreck
and ruin of the fort. The battle-flag under which the gallant garrison had
fought, in whose defence they had endured so much, and for whose honor they had
periled life and limb, was again brought out, and, in perfect silence, with
befitting ceremony and reverence, was raised to the very top of the staff. When
there it was saluted with fifty guns, while every head uncovered and every heart
swelled with patriotic emotion. A [U.S.] private — DAVID HOUGH — was killed by
the accidental discharge of some fixed ammunition, and after he had been buried,
with military honors, the flag was lowered, and Maj. ANDERSON and his command,
with the colors flying from the mast-head of the Isabel, steamed homeward to
meet a glorious welcome from a people roused by the echo of BEAUREGARD’s guns to
the dreadful struggle which was to mark the ensuing years.
To-day Maj. (now Gen.) ANDERSON will rates over the ruins of Sumter the flag he
so unwillingly hauled down.”
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Sources:
Current, Lincoln and the First Shot, pp. 154-55, 170-73;
OR, 251-52; Lincoln, Collected Works, ed. Basler, 4: 324.
OR, pp. 289, 291, 456-58; McWhiney, “Confederacy’s First Shot,” p. 12.
OR, pp. 459-60; ORN, p. 118; Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, 4: 12-13; Welles, Diary
of Gideon Welles, ed. Morse, 1: 31.
OR, pp. 376, 462-63; Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, 4: 11-13.
* Long, E.B. with Long, Barbara, The Civil War Day by Day (New York: Da Capo
Press, Inc., 1971), p. 50, 52
1. Horton, History of the Great Civil War, pages 71-72.
2. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina: A.S.
Johnston, 1836), Volume V, page 501.
3. Congressional Globe (Thirty-Sixth Congress, Second Session), 13 December
1860, page 86.
4. Davis, Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I, page 211.
5. Stephen Douglas, speech in the Senate on 15 March 1861; Congressional Globe
(Thirty-Sixth Congress, Second Session), page 1459.
6. Robert Selph Henry, The Story of the Confederacy (New York: Garden City
Publishing Company, 1931), pages 19, 33.
7. Robert Toombs, quoted by Burton J. Hendrick, Statesmen of the Lost Cause:
Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet (New York: The Literary Guild of America, Inc.,
1939), page 106.
8. Chamber’s Journal, 5 December 1863; quoted by Adams, In the Course of Human
Events, page 17.
9. Lincoln, quoted by Orville H. Browning, Diary (Springfield, Illinois:
Illinois State Historical Library, 1933; edited by Theodore C. Pease and James
G. Randall), entry for 3 July 1861.
10. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Volume IV, page 44.
11. Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Daily Gazette, 18 April 1861.
12. Joseph Lane, Congressional Globe (Thirty-Sixth Congress, Second Session),
page 1347.
13. Lincoln, in Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume VII,
page 3223.
14. New York Express, 15 April 1861; quoted by Rutherford, Truths of History,
page 9.
15. Horton, History of the Great Civil War, pages 113-114.
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Events leading up to April 13, 1861:
-80+ years of sectional tensions between northeastern and southeastern states
over tariffs, states rights/popular sovereignty, federal power over new
territories and most recently, the practice of chattel slavery.
-1857 – Massive Financial Collapse And panic hits Northeastern banks triggered
by the sinking sinking of the S.S. Central America carrying 30,000 pounds of
gold destined for northern banks.
-A new “Republican” political party is formed with a platform of federal control
of new territories, diminishing popular sovereignty, and enforcing new tariffs
“by force”, which are all usurpations of the U.S. Constitution.
-The increasing federal debt has lead to a proposed drastic increase in Tariffs
that disproportionately effect agricultural southern states as the 48% Morrill
Tariffs.
-Radical Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens, sponsor of the Morrill Tariff,
stated: “the Tariff would impoverish the southern and western states, but that
was essential for advancing national greatness and the prosperity of [northern]
industrial workers.”
-Southeastern states have minority representation in the U.S. Congress due to
the 3/5ths rule, which does not allow negro persons to be fully counted for
representation.
-Southeastern “Cotton states” protest tariffs, and the fact that these
agricultural state are already paying ~75% to 85% of the federal budget with
little to none returned in support for infrastructure.
-1859 – John Brown and 18 accomplices began their illegal invasion of Virginia,
and murder spree at Harper’s Ferry Virginia, financed by northeastern
“abolitionists”.
-November 1860, Abraham Lincoln is selected as U.S. President with a minority of
the popular vote and was not even on the ballot in 10 states, with a pledge to
institute the new party’s platform, by force if necessary.
-The seven “cotton states” that are most impacted by the new 48% Morrill Tariffs
begin secession proceedings citing historical causes, tariffs and the federal
government’s usurpation of the “voluntary compact” called the U.S. Constitution.
-U.S. President Buchanan begins deliberations over payment for federal
properties with South Carolina representatives and is informed that garrisoning
troops at Fort Sumter would be considered and act of war.
-December 8th, The South Carolina Delegation delivers a written agreement or
“armistice” to U.S. President Buchanan, promising not to attack the remaining
forts garrisoning U.S. troops in the sovereign state of South Carolina, with the
understanding that the U.S. will not attempt to reinforce them.
-U.S. President Buchanan extended the December 10th “armistice” to all states
considering secession.
-December 12th, U.S. President Buchanan’s armistice agreement that “there would
be no reinforcement coastal fortifications” was now extended to all states
considering secession until March 4, 1861.
-December 13th, The “Southern Manifesto” was published In Montgomery Alabama.
Twenty-three House members and seven Senators from southern states make a public
announcement, “a manifesto which urged secession and the organization of a
Southern Confederacy.”
-December 16th, South Carolina legislature elects Francis Wilkinson Pickens
Governor. In his inaugural address he cited the sectional election, northern
states violations of the Constitution and that South Carolina will open her
ports to the world and advocate free trade, (Without the U.S. 48% Morrill
Tariffs) and that South Carolina “acceded to the Constitution alone, and will
secede alone of necessity.”
-December 17th, “Convention of the People of South Carolina”, South Carolina’s
Secession Convention opens, the Convention passed a unanimous resolution to
secede from its voluntary compact with the union.
-December 20th, Delegates to the South Carolina Convention unanimously vote to
secede by adopting 169 – 0 an “Ordinance To Dissolve the Union between the State
of South Carolina and other States United with her under the Compact Entitled
‘The Constitution of the United States of America.’
-December 21st, Incoming U.S. President Lincoln sends a “confidential” letter to
Democrat Francis P. Blair, Sr., Representative Elihu B. Washburn, and General
Winfield Scott, regarding his plan to break US President Buchanan’s armistice
and instigate war on American state’s immediately after inauguration.
-December 23rd, South Carolina’s Rep. William Porcher Miles confirms the
December 10th armistice with U.S. President Buchanan and that Fort Sumter is
abandoned property In Charleston Harbor, now sits unoccupied.
-December 26th, U.S. Major Robert Anderson violates U.S. President Buchanan’s
December 10th armistice with South Carolina’s Representatives, and Governor, by
illegally seizing Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, (Act of War)
-December 28th, In response to U.S. Major Andersons illegal seizure and
occupation of Fort Sumter, Cadet Riflemen and the Palmetto Guard, with a
detachment of City Police, were detailed to take charge of the Arsenal in the
city of Charleston, and a line of patrols was established around the walls.
-December 30th, Colonial John Cunningham of the South Carolina militia was
officially ordered by Governor Francis Pickens to seize control of the
Charleston Arsenal.
-January 1st 1861, Political Resignations Begin, Labors expose US. Maj.
Anderson’s subversion, U.S. Blockade of Charleston Harbor expected (Act of War).
-January 2nd, Gulf state Governors and local officials order State Guard Troops,
Local Militias and Police to secure or seize coastal forts, armories, and powder
magazines.
-January 4th, Governor A.B. Moore ordered Alabama Militia to seize three
installations in the state, the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Fort Morgan and Fort
Gaines, in preparation for secession.
-U.S. President Buchanan responded to Major Anderson’s breach of the “compact”
or Armistice of December 10th, by justifying it as a “military necessity” to
occupy Fort Sumter, and blaming possible “Mob” violence.
-Rumors that the steamer “Harriet Lane”had been hired and dispatched, with
supplies and 150 reinforcements for U.S. Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Act of
War)
-January 5th, A caucus of U.S. Senators from seven Southern states meet in
Washington, D.C.. The Senators from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas discuss an orderly secession,
independence and a “confederation of states.”
-January 7th, U.S. Congressional Committee “on the part of the boarder states”
proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure chattel slavery, and the
interstate slave trade, is made “permanent and irrevocable” in all states “loyal
to the union”…
-January 8th, The Steamer “Star of the West” has been hired by President
Buchanan to invade Charleston Harbor with 150-200 reinforcements and supplies
for Fort Sumter, in violation of the December 10th Armistice. (Act of War)
-January 9th, The Steamer “Star of the West” arrives at Charleston with supplies
and reinforcements for Fort Sumter and attempts to invade the Harbor but, is
unable to navigate the channel. (Act of War)… South Carolina forces fire warning
shots, block the channel, and the ship is ordered to retreat.
–Mississippi votes to join South Carolina in secession and independence from the
Union.
-January 10th, Florida joins South Carolina and Mississippi and secedes from the
federal Union, U.S. forces break the armistice with Florida’s Governor and
occupy the formerly abandoned Fort Pickens. (Act of War)
-January 11th, Alabama votes for secession and independence from the federal
union, discussions of a “Southern Confederacy” begin. *The first Black
“Freedmen” Volunteers begin to be accepted into service to the South Carolina
state militia’s.
-January 12th, Fort Sumter Deliberations begin between U. S. President Buchanan
and South Carolina, and S.C. Governor Pickens sends a letter to U.S. Major
Anderson at Fort Sumter. (Attempted at a peaceful resolution)
-January 13th, The South Carolina General Assembly looks upon any attempt to
reinforce the troops now in possession of Fort Sumter, as an act of open and
undisguised hostility on the part of the Government of the United States.
-January 15th, Louisiana Governor orders Coastal Forts to be seized, the “Star
of the West” returns to New York with reinforcements and supplies after being
turned away from Charleston Harbor South Carolina.
-January 16th, The “Crittenden Compromise” Bill dies in the U.S. Senate, the
U.S. government continues to offer amendments to make chattel slavery “permanent
and irrevocable” in all states “loyal to the union”.
-January 17th, The War Ship U.S.S. Brooklyn attempts to invade Charleston Harbor
and is turned back (Act of War), more U.S. Officers resign to join their
respective states militias, some Virginia counties urge secession.
-January 18th, South Carolina Governor Pickens is authorized to raise an army,
and declared South Carolina ports are closed to northern shipping.
—-A U.S. federal fleet, led by the U.S.S. Macedonian with 500+ men and 36 guns,
is sent under sealed (Secret) orders to break the armistice and reinforce Fort
Pickens in the now Independent Republic of Florida. (Act of War)
-January 19th, The State of Georgia becomes the 5th state to vote to secede from
the Union, and Former U.S. President Taylor leads a piece delegation while U.S.
President Buchanan secretly develops plans to invade former states and reinforce
Forts Pickens and Sumter.
-January 21st, The Honorable Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, hero of the Mexican
War, former U.S. Secretary of War, resigns from the U.S. Senate.
-January 24th, U.S. Major Anderson receives word that February 9th has been
established as the date by which his command would be “evacuated with honor” as
per the armistice, his men travel freely, and that his command is being supplied
with fresh produce and meat by Charleston merchants.
-January 26th, Louisiana joins South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and
Georgia in voting for secession.
-January 29th, The territory of Kansas is admitted to federal union as the 34th
state. The Charleston Mercury Hails Kansas for ensuring “Popular Sovereignty” as
its citizens determine its domestic institutions and not the federal government.
-February 1st, The people of Texas vote to become the 7th state to secede from
its voluntary compact with the federal union.
-February 4th, A Peace Commission convened in Washington D.C., while Convention
Delegates from seven independent states is assembled in Montgomery Alabama to
draft a provisional constitution and government for a new confederacy of states.
February 6th, U.S. President Buchanan concedes to political pressure from his
cabinet and informs Peace Commissioners that he has no intention of honoring his
December 10th pledge to withdraw federal forces from Fort’s Sumter and Pickens
by February 9th. (Act of War)
-February 7th, U.S. President James Buchanan publicly asserts that “It is beyond
the power of any president” to interfere with secession, and negotiations begin
on the disposition of “public property” with seceded states.
-February 8th, A provisional confederated government and draft constitution is
formally established in Montgomery Alabama by 6 independent states. (Texas
Delegates in transit)
-US President Buchanan’s original armistice agreement to evacuate federal troops
from all forts by February 9th, expires, he has informed former President
Tyler’s Peace Commission that he now has no intention of evacuating the
remaining occupation troops from the 7 newly confederated states. (Act of War)
-February 11th, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the 7
Confederate States of America.
-February 13th, The U.S. Congress met in a Joint Session to count the Electoral
College votes to certify the results of 1860 presidential election, the most
highly contested in American history.
-February 16th, The Republic of Texas begins seizing forts and armories within
its boarders after secession, and subsequently joining the C.S.A.
-February 18th, U.S. President Buchanan ordered a Naval Squadron sent to Florida
with reinforcements for Fort Pickens however, is only allowed to resupply, not
permitted to land troops in accordance with Buchanan’s armistice with Florida’s
Governor Perry.
-February 22nd, The new Government of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
has now assumed delegated authority for the coastal defenses of seven member
states, with consent of the Governors.
-February 23, The Baltimore Plot”;
Rumors circulate of a plan to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, the most Unpopular
President in American history, as he travels through Baltimore Maryland, on his
way to Washington D.C., for his inauguration.
-February 27th, C.S. President Davis has requested commissioners to be sent to
Europe to establish diplomatic relations, and names three C.S. commissioners to
be sent to Washington DC to negotiate peaceful relations with the U.S.
Government.
-February 28th, C.S. President Jefferson Davis becomes the first American
President to use a line item veto, to specifically outlaw his nation’s
participation in the international slave trade in any form, as drafted into the
C.S. Constitution.
-March 2nd, With two days left in his lame duck administration, U.S. President
James Buchanan is pressured to sign two landmark pieces of legislation, the
“Morrill Tariffs” and the “Corwin Amendment.” Both planks in the new radical
Republican platform.
-March 3rd, Abraham Lincoln sends secret orders Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton,
to break the armistice and send a naval expedition from New York City, to
“reinforce” U.S. Commander Slemmer at Fort Pickens Florida with four companies
of U.S. troops. (Act of War)
-March 4th, Abraham Lincoln is Inaugurated as U.S. President, and he immediately
orders General Winfield Scott to initiate war at Fort Pickens at Pensacola. (Act
of War)
-March 11, The C.S. Constitution was unanimously ratified by seven, It outlawed
participation in the international slave trade, recognized the right of any
state or territories to decide the question of slavery within their own borders,
and contained strict limitations on tariffs creating a low tariff zone on the
North American Content. As a result, the Northeastern financial markets went
into a panic!
-March 13, The U.S. Congress, Secretary of State William Seward, Confederate
Peace Commissioners, American News reporters and President Lincoln’s own Cabinet
are assured that troops illegally occupying Forts Pickens and Sumter are to be
evacuated, and that war with the Confederate States will be avoided…
-March 15th, U.S. President Lincoln sends a letter to urge governors of U.S.
states to quickly ratify the Corwin Amendment to make the institution of slavery
“permanent and irrevocable” in all states a territories “loyal to the union”,
without interference from the federal government.
-March 16, Arizona Territory Secedes from Lincoln’s Union.
-March 18, Gustavus V. Fox is provisionally appointed U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Navy by President Lincoln, and ordered to reconnoiter Fort Sumter and
plan an invasion of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Against the advice of his
cabinet.
-March 22nd, All U.S. Naval Commanders stationed off of Galveston TX, New
Orleans LA, and Pensacola FL have all refused to execute any of Lincoln’s secret
orders that could be seen as a violation of the armistice thus, initiating war.
-March 27th, C.S. General Beauregard and South Carolina’s Governor Pickens again
offer U.S. Major Anderson evacuation Fort Sumter “with all honors”.
-March 29th, U.S. Merchant Ship S.S. Isabella is captured by Confederate
Officers, and Lincoln’s secret plan to break the armistice is discovered on
board. The French call for the “abolition” of the Morrill Tariffs as a first
step in reconciliation.
-April 1st, U.S. President Lincoln severely rebuked his Secretary of State, W.
H. Seward, for his continued insistence on a peaceful solution, Lincoln openly
admits he will usurp the Constitution and initiate war on American states.
-April 5th, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln illegally initiates war on South
Carolina, Florida, and on the Confederate States of America, without the consent
of congress.
~ April 8th, 3 U.S. naval squadrons in two expeditions secretly left port,
blowing gale winds, rain, and high seas. One Squadron has departed for
Pensacola, two are pending departure for Charleston Harbor.
-April 10th, With the U.S. Naval Invasion Fleet in route, the C.S. Congress
sends a wire to Generals Beauregard and Bragg that: “a federal [U.S.] expedition
force will be landed to overcome all [C.S.] opposition”.
-April 11th, The first evacuation date of the armistice was broken on February
9th, by U.S. President Buchanan. (Act of War)
Now the second on April 10th by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (Act of War)
-April 12th, The U.S. Naval Fleet arrives at Charleston Harbor; Fort Sumter
bombardment begins, Florida is invaded, and Fort Pickens is reinforced! War is
initiated.
Note: April 14, 1861, victorious Confederates occupy Fort Sumter in Charleston
Harbor after driving off Union troops. Private John S. Byrd, Jr. of South
Carolina’s Palmetto Guard places this flag on the fort’s wall facing Charleston.
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THE TRUTH

Posted on April 11, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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In answer to a captured Yankee Colonel’s question, “Who fired the first shot?”
An unidentified Confederate private responds in May 1862 after Stonewall
Jackson’s liberation of Winchester VA.
“John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, sir, he fired the first gun and Mr. Lincoln, in
attempting to reinforce Sumter, fired the second gun. And the Confederates have
acted on the defensive all of the time. We did not invade your country, but you
invaded ours, you go home and attend to your own business and leave us to ours
and the war will close at once.”
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MOSES EZEKIEL

Posted on April 11, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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Ezekiel was a Confederate soldier, sculptor, and the first Jewish cadet at VMI.
He considered the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to be his
greatest work and is buried at the base of it.

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WOODROW WILSON QUOTE

Posted on April 4, 2024 by gpthelastrebel
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It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the
contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war
waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery…and
the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and
the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

Woodrow Wilson
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