. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . d while yet in the Cabinet had been appointed a com-missioner by his State to urge North Carolina to secede. He became an aide toBeauregard, but attained no military distinction. In 1864 he went to Canada,and there promoted a plan to release prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and toseize the city, and was charged with instigating plots to burn New York and otherNorthern cities. i6o Campaigns of
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . d while yet in the Cabinet had been appointed a com-missioner by his State to urge North Carolina to secede. He became an aide toBeauregard, but attained no military distinction. In 1864 he went to Canada,and there promoted a plan to release prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and toseize the city, and was charged with instigating plots to burn New York and otherNorthern cities. i6o Campaigns of the Civil War a vote of thanks from the Confederate Congress. All theforts of the United States within or on the coast of the thenseceded States, save Forts Sumter and Pickens, were soon,with their armament and military supplies, in possession ofand manned by Southern soldiers. At first seizures were madeby State authority alone, but on the organization, at Mont-gomery, of the Confederacy (February 8, 1861) it assumedcharge of all questions between the seceded States and theUnited States relating to the occupation of forts and otherpublic establishments; and, March 15th, the Confederacy called.
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