. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . ns in favor ofa confederate government. These acts of open rebellion were followed by more aggressivedeeds of public violence. The custom-houses, post-oflBces, arsenals,and forts were seized. The rebellion thus inaugurated in South Carolina was carriedforward by similar measures in other Southern States. On the10th and 11th of January,
. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . ns in favor ofa confederate government. These acts of open rebellion were followed by more aggressivedeeds of public violence. The custom-houses, post-oflBces, arsenals,and forts were seized. The rebellion thus inaugurated in South Carolina was carriedforward by similar measures in other Southern States. On the10th and 11th of January, 1861, Florida and Alabama, respect-ively, passed secession ordinances. On the 19th, their examplewas followed by Georgia; on the 26th, by Louisiana; and, on the7th of February, by Texas. The States thus seceding assembled in a confederate conventionat Montgomery on the 4th of February. The hopes of peace stilllingered in the hearts of many patriotic men both in the North andSouth, and these sought an expression in a peace convention whichmet at Washington on the same day that witnessed the assem-bling of the rebellious States. The Southern Convention completed its organization as a confed-erate power by electing, on the 9th of February, JeflEerson Davis.
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