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American Civil War

1861 - 1865


Newspaper clipping from a small notebook

In Sept, 1860 and entranced medium at the house of Gov. Talmadge, in New York, saw and described a vision. She said: " I see a a vast concourse of people standing on the coast, who are anxiously watching a vessel whos officers and crew have deserted her to her fate, and she is floaing towards the breakers. But I now see seven men go out on a life-boat and take possession of her, and under their guidance she is brought safely into port amidist the rejoicings of the vast multitude who are present." She further said: "I see a scroll unrolled in the heavens and I read on it the inscription, "17th April, 1861."

She then described the vision and said civil war would soon commence in the United States that the ship seen represented the ship of state That the President would desert the country to its fate; that the President elect would take charge of the Government, and that the first steps taken for the supression of the rebellion would be on the 17th day of April, 1861. That vision and interpretation were given in SEpt. 1860, and were published in the Herald of progress, a paper I then took, on the 5th day of Dec. 1860, on which day 75,000 men were tendered to the Government by telegraph from various sections of the Union.

Thus I have demonstrated that Modern Spiritualism, through its mediums, has exhibited a knowledge of the dark future which, it is asserted only the eye of God can pierce.

Let him that wishes to stultify himself assert that all thus done is the work of demons or devils, but at the same time let him remember that he has stript God and his angels of all their distinguishing characteristics.

Presidential Election 1860

The South threatened to secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln became president. Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860. A little over a month after the election, South Carolina seceded from the Union. By the end of January 1861 six other states, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, had seceded. On February 4, 1861, at Montgomer, Alabama, the government of the Confederate States of American was born, Jefferson Davis, President. The Union had split under the presidency of James Buchanan.

Lincoln becomes President

On March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln became president. There was no doubt that Lincoln intended to do everything in his power to preserve the Union.

The beginning

Fort Sumter, an unfinished federal fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina. Both President Buchanan and Lincoln refused to turn this fort over to the Confederacy. Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, instructed the commanding general at Charleston to demand the immediate surrender of Sumter.. If Major Anderson (Major Robert Anderson, Garrison Commander) refused, the Sourthern batteries were to open fire. Anderson refused and, on April 12, 1861, the American Civil War had begun. Virgina, North Carolina,, Arkaansas, and Tennessee were added to teh Confederacy. Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and the western counties of Virginia stayed with the Union. It was here that father fought against son, brother against brother, as families found their loyalties torn between the warring sides.

The end

On April 9, 1865, Palm Sunday, General Ulysis S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House (Virginia) and Lee surrendered. On April 26, 1865 Confederate General Johnston surrendered to Northern General William Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina. The final surrender of Confederate troops who had continued fighting came on May 26, 1865, the American Civil War had ended.

American Civil War Soldiers - Ormsby

American Civil War Soldiers - Ormsbee

American Civil War Soldiers - Variations


Source Information

 
Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
Published by on 1900

Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War
Published by Adjutant General on 1931-37

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65
Published 1903

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
Published 1886

Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion
Published 1886

North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
Published 1993

Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65
Published 1915

Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War
Published by Adjutant General on 1931-37

History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
Published 1870

Roster of Vermont Volunteers During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66
Published 1892

Connecticut: Record of Service of Men during War of Rebellion
Published by Case, Lockwood & Brainard on 1889

Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65
Published 1895

Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
Published 1900

Register of Rhode Island Volunteers 1861-1865
Published 1893

New York: Report of the Adjutant-General
Published 1894-1906

Register of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867
Published by J. D. Young, State Printing on 1890

Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
Published by English on 1910

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas
Published by Hudson on 1896

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Published by Holloway on 1865-66

Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865
Published by Longino & Porter on 1955-58

Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
Published by English on 1910

Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion
Published 1886

North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
Published 1993