Author: Josiah Hazen Shinn
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Category : Fort Jefferson (Fla.)
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Pages : 44

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Author: Josiah Hazen Shinn
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ISBN: 9781331265832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Excerpt from Fort Jefferson and Its Commander, 1861-62 Major Lewis G. Arnold, Second United States Artillery, had been in command of Fort Independence from 1857 to 1861, having been ordered to that post after nearly four years of hard service in the Everglades of Florida against the Seminoles. On January 4, 1861, he received the following dispatch: "Washington, January 4, 1861. Maj. L. G. Arnold, commanding Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. Hold your command in readiness to embark for the South, and conditionally engage steam transportation. Another telegram to-morrow. Winfield Scott, Headquarters of the Army." On the next day he received the following telegram: "Washington, January 5, 1861. Maj. L. G. Arnold, commanding Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Josiah Hazen 1849-1917 Shinn
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ISBN: 9781362518907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Josiah Hazen Shinn
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359375179
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378516171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Josiah H. SHINN
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Author: Jefferson Davis
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595

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Lynda Lasswell Crist, Editor Mary Seaton Dix, Coeditor Introduction by Frank E. Vandiver Volume 7 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis offers a unique view of 1861, the first year of the Confederacy, Davis' presidency, and the Civil War. On January 21 Davis made his affecting farewell speech before a hushed Senate, then left for Mississippi. His uncertainty over a military or political course vanished when he received news of his unanimous election as president of the Confederate States of America. Inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 18, Davis quickly set to work to forge a government, in a race with events to select a cabinet, establish departments, and plan for the common defense. Hopes for a peaceful separation from the North ended with the firing on Fort Sumter; subsequent documents reveal a president absorbed by the problems of waging a war that soon stretched from the Atlantic Coast to the Gulf of Mexico. Victory at Manassas produced euphoria among southerners but plunged the president into the first of several unfortunate controversies with his generals, this one over the failure to pursue the enemy and capitalize on success. Throughout 1861 the Confederate commissioners in Europe reported to Davis on their expectations of recognition, convinced that the demand for cotton would induce Great Britain and France to break the North's blockade of southern ports and help supply arms for the defense of the fledgling nation. Volume 7 provides a rare opportunity to assess anew Davis' strengths and weaknesses as executive, to reexamine his relationship with generals, governors, congressmen, cabinet officers, the press, and the public. Davis ended the year as he begun, aware of the difficulties of the course the South had adopted and confident that its cause would ultimately triumph. Containing illustrations, maps, and more than 2,500 documents drawn from numerous printed sources and more than seventy repositories and private collections, Volume 7 covers a year of paramount importance in our country's history.