- 07 May 2019 12:53
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May 7, Tuesday
Governor Isham Harris of Tennessee tells his legislature that he has agreed upon a military league between the state of Tennessee and the CSA and submitted it for ratification by the legislature. The Senate approves 14 to 6 with four not voting or absent and the House approves 42 to 15 with eighteen absent or not voting. To all intents and purposes Tennessee is now in the Confederacy, though the people will have to approve the secession in June.
The Confederate Congress approves a bill which authorizes President Davis to accept into volunteer service such forces as he might deem expedient for the duration of the war.
President Lincoln orders Colonel Robert Anderson to recruit troops for the Union from Kentucky and western Virginia. The President also reviews Elmer Ellsworth’s flashy New York Fire Brigade of Zouaves, receives a committee from a governors’ convention, and tells his secretaries that the question is “whether a full and representative government had the right and power to protect and maintain itself.”
In Knoxville, Tennessee, there is a serious riot between pro-Union and pro-secessionist elements, with several shots fired and one man mortally wounded.
Citizens of the North have already contributed $23,277,000 to the war effort, aside from the usual taxes.
Governor Isham Harris of Tennessee tells his legislature that he has agreed upon a military league between the state of Tennessee and the CSA and submitted it for ratification by the legislature. The Senate approves 14 to 6 with four not voting or absent and the House approves 42 to 15 with eighteen absent or not voting. To all intents and purposes Tennessee is now in the Confederacy, though the people will have to approve the secession in June.
The Confederate Congress approves a bill which authorizes President Davis to accept into volunteer service such forces as he might deem expedient for the duration of the war.
President Lincoln orders Colonel Robert Anderson to recruit troops for the Union from Kentucky and western Virginia. The President also reviews Elmer Ellsworth’s flashy New York Fire Brigade of Zouaves, receives a committee from a governors’ convention, and tells his secretaries that the question is “whether a full and representative government had the right and power to protect and maintain itself.”
In Knoxville, Tennessee, there is a serious riot between pro-Union and pro-secessionist elements, with several shots fired and one man mortally wounded.
Citizens of the North have already contributed $23,277,000 to the war effort, aside from the usual taxes.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke