PART FIRST. ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, ETC. MEMORABLE ANNALS AND REMINISCENCES OF MEN AND MEASURES IDENTIFIED WITH THE GREAT STRUGGLE; HEROIC DEVOTION TO THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER-VALOROUS DEFENCE OF AND DYING BLESSINGS UPON IT; DARK AND TROUBLOUS EXPERIENCES OF UNIONISTS AND CONSPIRA TORS; TESTS AND TRIALS OF LOYALTY, NORTH AND SOUTH; FAMOUS LEGAL AND JUTDICIAL INCI DENTS; PECULIAR INSTANCES OF ADMINISTERING AND TAKING THE OATH; ALLEGIANCE UNDER STRESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES; DISPOSAL OF KNOTTY CASES; LOGIC AND LESSONS FOR SECESSIONISTS; AMUSING COLLOQUIES; FLASHES OF RHETORIC; OFFICIAL GRAVITIES, JOKES, RAILLERY, PER PLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &C., &C. "Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide In the strife of TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or evil side." " Keep step with the music of UNION, The music our ancestors sung, en states, like a jubilant chorus, To beautiful sisterhood sprung." Can either of you to-day name one single act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the government at Washington, of which the South has a right to complain? I challenge an answer.-ALEXANDER 1X. STEPHENS, before the Georgia Secessionists' Convention. It soon became manifest to the more sagacious ones that this dinner party and the day were to be made the occasion for inaugurating the new doctrine of nullification, and to fix the paternity of it on Mr. Jefferson, the great Apostle of Democracy in America. Many gentlemen present, perceiving the drift of the whole performance, withdrew in disgust before summoned to the table; bult the sturdy old President, perfectly informed, remailed. When the dinner was over and the cloth removed, a call was nmade or the regular toasts. These were twenty-four in number, eighteen of which, it is alleged; were written by Mr. Calhoun. These, in multifarious forms, shadowed forth, now dimly, now clearly, the new doctrine. They were all received z onoreda in, various degrees, when volunteers toast were announced as in order. The President was of course first called the 13teo of Apr il, 1830, there was a re m arkable dinner was Jo CC o epar ty inl the national ~!'-e v ~-~ ~metropolis. It was Tthe bi rt hda y of Thomas Jefferson, ther; aan d tho se who at Hens not afe nded t he party did ::- so avowedly for the purpose of honoring the memory of the author of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Such was the tenor of the invitation. Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States, was there. So was John C. Calhoun, the Vice President. Three of the cabinet ministers, namely, Van Buren, Eaton, and Branch were there; and members of Congress and citizens not a few. 2 Andrew Jackson's Famous Union Toast. 3 / L [lthe 13thi of Apri] 4 i i |. 1830, there wvas I / - i h 1t fArl

24 THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION. upon for a sentiment. His tall form rose in honor of Lord Money, and a secessionist majestically, and with that sternness ap- from Windsor visited a member of the Cabpropriate to the peculiar occasion, he cast inet hoping thereby to obtain an invitation that appalling bomb-shell of words into the to the ball. He presented his card-" Mr. camp of conspirators, which will forever be, Southern Confederacy." The gena theme for the commendation of the pat- tleman took it, examined it curiously, and riot and the historian-" THE FEDERAL remarked dryly, " Ir., of the S-o-uUNION: IT MUST BE PRESERVED!" He t-h-e-r-n C-o-n-f-e-d-e-r-a-c-y, eh! Well, was followed by the Vice President, who Sir, our Government is not aware of the existence of such an'institution.' There ~ E m'~ ~ must be some mistake, Sir," and the seces sionist was courteously bowed out. It 'j!~;;>~~ ~would have done honor to that Cabinet had ~. A,. Athe example of rebuff tmhus set in the early 'S1:A1~~ 12 Xstage of the rebellion, towards its abetters, been carried out consistently to the end. v'7~~~~!! 111But, if there were others similarly bowed (~~~-<./ a h i %E*out, there were certainly a much larger ;, X aanumber who were bowed in, and to whom iI \ Al ythe doors of provincial favor opened on g olden hinges. Not "Jeff," but "Geoffrey" Davis. J. C. Calhoun Among the "gentlemen" furnished with gave as his sentiment-" The Uhion: next lodgings for the nighlt, at the Union street to our Liberty the most dear: may we all station house in, was an Irishman. remember,that it can only be preserved by He had a large amount of masonry in his respectiny the rights of the States, and dis- hat-in other words he was unmistakably tributing equally the benefit and burden of tipsy. When such persons are brought to the Union.!" These who before doubted the' station house the first process is to the intentions of Calhoun and his South search them. This process is intended Carolina friends, and were at a loss to entirely for the benefit of the prisoner, understand the exact meaningof the dinner and prevents him from being robbed by party to which they were bidden, were no other gentlemen or ladies who may be longer embarrassed by ignorance. In that placed in the same cell. toast was presented the issueliberty The prisoner is next asked concerning before Union-supreme State sovereignty his name,.occupatioii and nativity. These false complaints of inequality of benefits:points are recorded, and reported to the and burdens-otur rights as we chloose to mayor next morning. If the prisoner is define them, or disunion. too drunk to answer questions, the expla From that hour the vigilant old Presi- uation is made when he pays his fine, or dent watched the South Carolina conispira- goes to jail. The Irishman iil question tor, his lieutenant, with the searching eyes proved to be a character in his way. as of unslumbering suspicion. THE CON- the following will show: TENTS Or THIS BOOK FORM THE SEQUEL "What's your name?" asked the turnTO THAT TOAST. key, as he was brought in. , X"My name's Davis, an' it's as good a sl Some Mistake in the Card. one as yours any day ii the year." A ball was to be given in Toronto, C. WV., "Very well; What's your first name?" 0

PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ETC. recorded it on lhis slate, "Jeff Davis." Though decidedly drunk, the Irishma n was anything but an ignioramus. He looked at the turnkey's memorandum, and saw the namne "Jeff Davis." "WVhat the divil's that?" he sharply asked, with forefinger pointing to the slate. 'Why, it's the name you told me was yours." " I toold vou so?" "Of course you did. Didn't you say your name was Jeff Davis?" The Irishman looked at him in silence for a moment. Then clenching his fist lihe brandished it menacingly over the turnkey's hat, sayingo'Av' it warrent for yer gray hairs or yer ignorance, one or the other, I'd mash the nose ov ye till ye couldn't tell it from a turnip." 'And for what?" asked the turnkey, looking up in surprise. 'For writin' down me name like the name of the black hearted Judas ov a Jefferson Davis." "Didn't you say that was your name?" I did not. Overhaul your dictionary ye ould omadhoun. It's ignorance, thliat's all that ails ye. Rub out that Jefferson. Instead ot' a J put a G, and then spell out mc name Geoffrey Davis. Bedad, if me name was Jefferson I'd change it to Peter, so I would!"" With this remark the speaker disappeared into the cell, whose door the officer. wasp holding open for him. Two minutes afterwards his snorinig resounded through tlhe whole building. He didn't minid the degradation of the lock-up, but hadn't quite descended to the level of the patricide whose name he was supposed to wear. Re ception of the Re bel Comm i ssioners in London by Mr. Bates. While the Commissioners fr om the Rebel States were in England, the y were formally introduced to MIlr. Bates, the head of the house of Baring Brothers, the great financier, who told them to proceed. They commenced with a most elaborate and glowing description of the resources and wealth of the Rebel States. After a pause: -, Mr. Bates. Have you finished? $ President Lincoln Treating the Richmond Commissioners to a Little Story. After the formal interview between President Lincoln and the three Confederate Commissioners was over-in Febru .205 I I 4

26 THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION. them on the piazza, and stepped out and demanded their business. They replied: "We have come -to take down them Stars and Stripes." She instantly drew a revolver from her side, a nd p resenting it, said "Go oln! I'm good for one of' you, and I think for both!" "By the look of that girts eve she'll shoot," one remarked: "I think we'd bet Commissioners. Not quite. (Then a' speech from Commissioner No. 2, and a pause.) Mr. Bates. Have you finished? Commissioners. Almost. (Then a speech from Commissionier No. 3, and a pause.) Mr. Bates. Are you through? Commissioners. Yes, sir; you have our case. Mr. Bates. What States did you say composed your Confederacy? Commissioners. Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana. Mr. Bates. And Mr. Jefferson Davis is your President? Commissioners. He is. We are proud of him. Mr. Bates. We know Mr. Davis well by reputation. He is the same gentleman who stumped his State for two years in favor of repudiation, and justified the coiiduct of Mississippi in the United States Senate. We know the gentleman; and although we have no reason to be proud of him or his antecedents, I think I may safely say, that if you have brought with you to London the necessary funds to pay off, principal and interest, the repudiated millions owing to our people by your States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Flori da, there is a reasonable prospect of your raising a small amount in this market! Our Mr. Sturgis will be happy to dine you at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening! -Exeunt omnes. ter not try it; we'll go back and get more men, said the o ther. "Go and get m ore men," said the noble lady; " get more men and come and take it down, if you dare!" They returned with a c ompa ny of ninety armead men, and demanded that the flag should be hauled down. But on discoverinig that the house was filled with gallant men, armed to their teeth, who would rather die as dearly as possible than see their country's flag dishonored, the secessioIlists retired, much after the fashion of cur-dogs sideling along with their tails between their hind-legs. The house of the celebrated, boldhearted and out-spoken Parson Brownlow, was, at one time, the only one in Knoxville over which the Stars and Stripes were floating.. Aceording to arrangement, two armed secessionists went at six o'clock one morning to summarily haul down said stars and stripes. Mliss Brownlow, a brilliant young lady of twenty-three, saw Dramatic Scene in Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. The manner in which John B. Floyd was forced to resign his place as Secretary of War under President Buchanan, which he had used to further the ends of treason, forms a memorable incident in the political | history of the rebellion. y s r r I s i 'I Afraid of the Girl's Eye 4 Afra.id of the Girl's Eye.

-PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ETC. This, of course, opened the bleared eyes of the President, and the meeting resulted in the acceptance of Mr. Floyd's resignation. In February, 1861, Major Anderson, commanding at Fort M. oultrie, Charleston harbor, finding his position endangered, passed his garrison, by a prompt and brilliant movement, over to the stronger fortress of Sumter. Immediately on the reception of this intelligence, Mr. Floyd, Secretary of War, much excited, called upon the President to say that Major Anderson had violated express orders, and thereby seriously compromised him (Floyd), and that unless the Major was at once remanded to Fort Moultrie, he should resign the War Office. The Cabinet was assembled directly. Mr. Buchanan, explaining the embarrassment of the Secretary of War, remarked that the act of Major Anderson would occasion exasperation in the South; he had told Mr. Floyd that, as the Government was strong, forbearance toward erring brethren'might win them back to their allegiance, and that that officer might be ordered back. After an ominous silence, no President inquired how the suggestion struck the Cabinet? i.r. Stanton, subsequently called to the War Department, but thein Attorney General, answered: "That course, Mr. President,, ought certainly to be regarded as most liberal towards' erring brethren;' but while one member of your Cabinet has frauduilent acceptances for millions of dollars afloat, and while the confidential clerk of another-himself in California teaching rebellion-has just stolen nine hundred thousand dollars from the Indian Trust Fund, the experiment of ordering Major Anderson back to Fort Moultrie would be dangerous. But if you do intend to try it, before it is done, I beg that you will ac cept my resignation." "And mine," added the Secretary of State, Mr. Black "And mine, also," said the Post-Master General, Mr. Holt "And mine, too," followed the Seretary of the Treasury, Genleral Dbc Treating Them According to their Sympa thies. During one of the raids of J ohn Morgan, an interesting incident occurred at Salem, Indiana. Some of his men proceeded out west of the town to burn the bridges and water-taink on the railroad. On the way out they captured a couple of persons living in the country, one of whom was a Quaker. The Quaker strongly objected to being made a prisoner. Secesh wanted to know if he was not strongly opposed to the South? "Thee is right," said the Quaker, " I am." "Well, did you vote for Lincoln?" " Thee is right; I did vote for Abraham," was the calm reply. According to thelr Sympatnies. "Well, what are you?" " Thee may naturally suppose that I am a Union man. Cannot thee let me go to my home?" "Yes, yes; go and take care of the old woman," was the welcome answer. The other prisoner was trotted along with them, but not relishiiing the summary manner in which the Quaker was dis posed of, he said: "What do you let him go for? He is a black abolitionist. Now, look here; I voted for Breckinridge, and have always 27 0

28 THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION. been opposed to the war. I am opposed to fighting the South, decidedly." ",You are," said Secesh; "you are what they call around here a Copperhead, an't you? "Yes, yes," said the Butternut, propitiatingl,y; "that's what all my neighbors call me, and they know I ain't with them." " Come here Dave!" hallooed Secesh. "Here's a Butternut. Just come and look at him. Look here, old man, where do you live? We want what horses you have got to spare, and if you have got any greenbacks, just shell'em out!" and they took all he had. drinking saloon,' and at the same time invited all persons who loved the Stars and Stripes to patronize the new establishment. This flattering notice fell upon John Hawkins as a thunderbolt; he frantically rushed over to the newspaper office and protested that he was a rebel, and that he relied upon his secession friends for patronage-he declared that he was a ruined m an unless s omet hing was done to immediately purge his fair fame of any taint of loyalty to his niative land. Captain Clark, who fully appreciated the unfortunate publican's feelings, and with the spirit and liberality of a chivalrous editor, offered his columns for an explanation, which offer resulted in the publication of a card by Mr. Hawkins, in which he prondunced the editorial statement that li had taken the oath of allegiance, "a fabricationi." Secession was delighted. John's friends crowded his precincts all day, and drank to John's health, and at John's expense. The dawn of the following morning promised a brilliant future; but, alas! Deputy Provost-Marshal, Colonel Stafford, whose business it was to see that public drinkinghouse keepers had taken said oath of allegiance, sent after Mr. Hawkins, and asked him what right he had to keep a shop open without license, and farther inquired if John did not know that he could not get a license unless he took oath to be a good citizen under the national government. That he was permitted to carry on his business without taking the oath will be believed by all who do not know the man with whom he had to deal at head-quarters. Holt's drinking saloon was one of the most fashionable in New Orleans. The proprietor, a son of the famous New York hotel keeper of that name, kept fast horses, a fashionable private residence, and received his income by the hundred dollars a day. In an evil hour secession seized upon the land, and Holt was induced to issue shinplasters. His reputation for wealth and business profits made them popular, and inducements were held out for immense issues. Gradually, however, business fell off, and Holt, when General Butler ordered that personal paper money should be redeemed by bank-notes, found it impossible to comply with the proclamation, and this inability was increased by the fact that he had taken the oath of allegiance, and his regular customers refused, therefore, to be comforted at his house. The finale was that Holt was sold out, and his establishment, repainted and restocked, opened under the auspices of one John Hawkins. To give the place the due amount of eclat, Captain Clark, of the Delta, knowing that it was against the law for any one to sell liquor in the city, unless by a person who had taken the oath of allegiance and obtained a l icense, caused it to be published that at last the citizens were blessed with a' Union 0 Ca,lumnious Charge of Loyalty against Tohn Hawkins. Voting for a Candidate on Principle. Gentlemen," said a. Virginia planter, tren,lbliiig with passion, in a conversation between half a dozen persons in the parlor of a New York insurance office, before the Repablican nomination had, been made, 64 gentlemen, if you elect Mr. Seward President, we shall break up this Union."

PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ETC. stating the errand on which they had come, the President was most cordial in his welcome, and immediately prepared the way for the conversation which followed, by taking from his drawer and reading to them the draft of the proclamation which he had decid ed to issue, and which was given to the country the next morning. As soon as the reading was ended, Mr. Dou glas r o s e from his chair and said o "HIrr. President, I cordially concur in every word of that documen t, except, that inste ad of a call for 75,000 men, I would make it 200,000. You do not know the dishonest purposes of thosef to men (the rebels) so well as I do." Mr. Douglas t hen as ked them to look with him at the map which hung at the end of the President's room, w h ere in much detail he pointed out the principal strategic points which should be at once strengthened. Among the most pr omidnent were For tress Monroe, Wash ington, Harper's Ferry and Cairo. He enlarged at length, and with his accustomed power of demonstration, upon the firm, warlike footiiog which ought to be purs ue d, an d found in Ar. Lincoln an earnest and gratified l ist ener; indeed, no two men in the Uaited States parted that night with a more cordial feeling of a united, friendly and patriotic purposntse than these two irreconcilable political opponents during the past,. tIr. Lincoln and Mir. D oug las. After leaving, and while on their wayhomeward, IMr. Ashmun said to Mr. Douglas "You hav dnedone justice to your owia reputation and to the President, and the country must know it. The proclamation will go by telegraph all over the country in the morning, and the account of this interview must go with it. I shall send it, either in my own language or yours. I prefer that you should give your own version." " Driv-e to your room at Willard's," said Mir. Douglas at onlce, ";and I will give it ,shape." "I think not, Sir," calnmly replied the man to whom he seemed more particularly to address himself. "You'll see, Sir,-you'll see; we will surely do it." " Then, Sir," said the other, as quietly as before, but looking him steadily in the face, "we shall nominate Mr. Seward. Mr. Seward is not my man, for I am a free trader and an old Democrat. But if Virginia, or any other state or states shall declare that, upon the constitutional election of any citizen of the United States to any office, the Union shall be broken up, then I nominate that man and vote for him on principle." And all present, with a single exceptioll, uttered a hearty "Ay!" Scene in the President's Room the Evening preceding the First Proclamation for Troops. Hon. G eorge Ashmun, a distinguished politician of Massachusetts, has given an interesting a ccount o f an interview which took place betwee n hi mself and Senator Douglas, and subsequently between the two and President Lincoln, on the night preceding the issue of the first call for troops to put down the rebellion. Mr. Ashmun had gone to Mr. Douglas's house to induce him-lhe being looked upon as the senatorial leader of the opposition to Mr. Lincolni-to take a public stand in support of the Administration in entering upon the war. Mr. Douglas was at first disinclined to such a step, but yielded to the representations made to him, —his wife, who came into the room during the interview, giving the whole weight of her influence towards the result which was reached. The discussion continued for some time, and resulted in his emphatic declaration that he would go with Mr. Ashmun to the President and offer a cordial and earnest support. Mlr. Ashmun's carriage was waiting at the door, and it was almost dark when they started for the President's house. They fortunately found Mr. Lincoln at home aid alone, and -upon Mr. Ashmuii I 29 0