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 .. . epublicans. The next step of the Southern conventions was to send delegates to Mont-gomery, Alabama, where they formed The Confederate States of America,with Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, President, and Alexander H. Stephens, ofGeorgia, Vice-President. A constitution and flag, both resembling those of theUnited States, were adopted and all departments of the government organized. As the various State
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 .. . epublicans. The next step of the Southern conventions was to send delegates to Mont-gomery, Alabama, where they formed The Confederate States of America,with Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, President, and Alexander H. Stephens, ofGeorgia, Vice-President. A constitution and flag, both resembling those of theUnited States, were adopted and all departments of the government organized. As the various States adopted ordinances of secession they seized the gov-ernment property within their limits. In most cases, the Southern UnitedStates officers resigned and accepted commissions in the service of the Confeder-acy. The only forts saved were those near Key West, Fort Pickens at Pensa-cola, and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The South Carolina authoritiesbegan preparations to attack Sumter, and when the steamer Star of the Westattempted to deliver supplies to the fort, it was fired upon, January 9th, anddriven ofi. Thus matters stood at the close of Buchanans administration,March 4, IE BLUE AND THE GRAY. CHAPTER X^. ADMINISTRATION OK LINCOLN, 1861-1865. THE WAR FOR THE UNION, 1861. Abraham Lincoln—Major Andersons Trying Position—Jefferson Davis—Inauguration of PresidentLincoln—Bombardment of Fort Sumter—War Preparations North and South—Attack on UnionTroops in Baltimore—Situation of the Border States—Unfriendliness of England and France—Friend-ship of Russia—The States that Composed the Southern Confederacy—Utiion Disaster at Big Bethel?—Success of the Union Campaign in Western Virginia—General George B. McClellan—First Battleof Bull Run—General JlcClellan Called to the Command of the Army of the Potomac—Union Dis-aster at Balls Bluff—Military Operations in Missouri—Battle of Wilsons Creek—Defeat of ColonelMulligan at Lexington, Mo.—
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