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Washington News and Civil War Tensions In Early 1861
Reports from Washington describe fears of retaliatory actions after New York seizures affecting Savannah trade, Louisiana secession anxieties, and Missives about Confederate sympathy. Slidell and Benjamin leave the Senate, Catawba Indians offer service to South Carolina, Mrs. Margaret Graham dies in Kentucky at 107, and port preparations near Fort Sumter loom amid growing national strife. A Wisconsin postmaster and his children perish in a blaze, Port Sumter rumors mount, and a Chadron case yields damages. Resolutions for the Crittenden Compromise pass New Jersey Senate.
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C. Mowers
Everett
Winthrop
Lawrence
Boston
Washington
Ue Union
New York
Savannah
Louisiana
Slidell
Benjamin
Senate
South Carolina
Gov. Pickens
Margaret Graham
Fayette County
New Orléans
Secretary of the Treasury
New Orleans
Charleston
Port Sumter
Arthur Choppin
Carrollton
Sixth District
Fort Pickens
Brooklyn
Crittenden
Senate of
New Jersey
Georgia
United States
Augusta
North
Robert Toombs
Howell Cobb
A. T. Stephona
Eoven
Montgomery
Bayard Douglas, Esq
Nashville
Tenn
Naval Academy
Annapolis
South
William Leaney
Alabama
Mare
Douglas
Seward
Dixon
Ban Jones
Maury County
Dix
Tennessee
Ivot
Congress
Scott
Mangers
Commodore Stewart
Wool
Army and Navy
House of Representatives
Goow
Committee of Five
District of Columbia
Fiere
Kunkle
Maryland
Audi
Toi
Pensacola
Pacific Railroad
United States Senate
Lincoln
Ohio
Border State Conference
Wanhing
Hicks
Boot
Arne
Port Mc.Henry