A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . y removed his garrisonfrom Fort Moultrie on the night ofDecember 26, 1860. Anderson wasin a trying position, for the secretaryof war, Floyd, and the adjutant-1general of the army. Cooper, to |whom he was obliged to report, weresecessionists, and not only Iefused togive him help, but threw every ob-stacle in his way. President Bu-chanan was surrounded by secession-ists, and most of the time was be-wilder
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . y removed his garrisonfrom Fort Moultrie on the night ofDecember 26, 1860. Anderson wasin a trying position, for the secretaryof war, Floyd, and the adjutant-1general of the army. Cooper, to |whom he was obliged to report, weresecessionists, and not only Iefused togive him help, but threw every ob-stacle in his way. President Bu-chanan was surrounded by secession-ists, and most of the time was be-wildered as to his course of resented, however, the demandof Secretary Floyd for the removalof Anderson because of the changehe had made from Moultrie to Sum-ter. Floyd resigned and was suc-ceeded by Joseph Holt, of Kentucky,.an uncompromising Unionist, wlmdid all he could to hold up the Presi-dent in his tottering position of a friend of the Union. The latter grewstronger as he noted the awakening sentiment of loyalty throughout the admirable act was the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as attorney-general,for he was a man of great ability and a relentless enemy of JEFFEESON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS. Jefferson Davis, who had been chosen President of the Southern Confederacythat was formed at Montgomery, Alabama, early in February, was born in Ken»tacky, June 3, 1808. Thus he and President Lincoln were natives of the same 288 ADMINISTRATION OF LINCOLN. State, with less than a years difference in their ages. Davis was graduated atWest Point in 1828, and served on the northwest frontier, in the Black HawkWar. He was also a lieutenant of cavalry in the operations against the Co-manches and Apaches. He resigned from the army and became a cotton-planterin Mississippi, which State he represented in Congress in 1845-46, but resignedto assume the colonelcy of the First Mississippi regiment. Colonel Davis displayed great gallantry at the storming of Monterey andat th
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