Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long

There was not a state in the North of a million of inhabitants that would not have furnished the entire number faster than arms could have been supplied to them, if it had been necessary.Īs soon as the news of the call for volunteers reached Galena, posters were stuck up calling for a meeting of the citizens at the court-house in the evening. If the shot fired at Fort Sumter 'was heard around the world,' the call of the President for 75,000 men was heard throughout the Northern States. The call was for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service. Upon the firing on Sumter President Lincoln issued his first call for troops and soon after a proclamation convening Congress in extra session. We did not admit the fact that they were aliens, but all the same, they debarred themselves of the right to expect better treatment than people of any other foreign state who make war upon an independent nation. The Confederates proclaimed themselves aliens, and thereby debarred themselves of all right to claim protection under the Constitution of the United States. On the 11th of April Fort Sumter, a National fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, was fired upon by the Southerners and a few days after was captured. The secession of one State after another followed, until eleven had gone out. The 4th of March, 1861, came, and Abraham Lincoln was sworn to maintain the Union against all its enemies. Outbreak Of The Rebellion - Presiding At A Union Meeting - Mustering Officer Of State Troops - Lyon At Camp Jackson - Services Tendered To The Government.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long