. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ensacola Bay in Florida, where Lieutenant Slemmer had held outtill the government could reinforce him, after all the other forts inthe Gulf had been given up through treason or cowardice. Anothermost important point was Fortress Monroe, where Colonel Dimick,with three hundred men, had guarded a long line of ramparts, withsecession up in arms all about him. To this latter fort Butler cameon the 22d of May, 1861. Almost immediately Butler began makin
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ensacola Bay in Florida, where Lieutenant Slemmer had held outtill the government could reinforce him, after all the other forts inthe Gulf had been given up through treason or cowardice. Anothermost important point was Fortress Monroe, where Colonel Dimick,with three hundred men, had guarded a long line of ramparts, withsecession up in arms all about him. To this latter fort Butler cameon the 22d of May, 1861. Almost immediately Butler began making little incursions intothe country about the fort to study the situation, and report uponthe condition of affairs there. As soon as the army approached, thevwere greeted with delight by the negroes, who flocked to the soldiers,singing to each other, *• The day of jubilee has come. The ques-tion -what to do with the negroes? promised to be one of themost perplexing of the war. The North, through the governmentand the newspapers, were all the time declaring that this was not awar to abolish slavery, it was solely to preserve the Union. Many. Ephraim E. Ellsworth. 452 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY.
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