David Flavel Jamison

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David Flavel Jamison was a well-known southern planter and the President of the South Carolina Convention that voted to secede from the United States.

Antebellum

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Service Record

December 26, 1860 - April 14, 1861: Operations in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina Dispatches
At the outbreak of the war, David Jamison was the President of the South Carolina Convention


These dispatches were compiled with primary source materials from The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Chapter 1)

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(US Maj) Robert Anderson
  • At the outbreak of the war, Robert Anderson was a Major in the United States Army commanding two half-full companies of United States Artillery troops
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January 21, 1861 - President David Jamison to Major Robert Anderson

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Union Correspondence, etc.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
Charleston, January 19, 1861

Major ROBERT ANDERSON:

SIR: I am instructed by his excellency the governor to inform you that he has directed an officer of the State to procure and carry over with your mails each day to Fort Sumter such supplies of fresh meat and vegetables as you may indicate.

I am, sir, respectfully yours,

D.F. JAMISON.

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January 19, 1861 - Colonel L.M. Hatch to Major Robert Anderson

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Union Correspondence, etc.

HEADQUARTERS QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT,
Charleston, January 19, 1861

Major ANDERSON:

DEAR SIR: Inclosed please find copy of letter from Secretary of War. Not waiting your request, I shall send by the mail-boat in the morning two hundred pounds of beef and a lot of vegetables. I requested Lieutenant Talbot to ask you to let me know this evening what supplies you would wish sent daily.

Very respectfully,

L.M. HATCH,
Quartermaster-General, South Carolina Militia.

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January 21, 1861 - President David Jamison to Major Robert Anderson

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Union Correspondence, etc.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
Charleston, January 21, 1861.

Major ROBERT ANDERSON:

SIR: In offering to permit you to purchase in this city, through the instrumentality of an officer of the State, such fresh supplies of provisions as you might need, his excellency the governor was influenced solely by considerations of courtesy; and if he had no other motive for refusing to any of your garrison free access to the city to procure such supplies, he would have been moved by prudential reasons for the safety of your people, in preventing a collision between them and our own citizens. As to the manner of procuring your supplies, his excellency is indifferent whether it is done by the officer referred to, or whether your market supplies are delivered to you at Fort Johnson by the butcher whom you say you have before employed. It is only insisted on that the supplies, if sent, shall be carried over in a boat under an officer of the State who takes to Fort Johnson your daily mails. His excellency desires me to say that he willingly accedes to your request as to the women and children in Fort Sumter, and that he will afford every facility in his power to enable you to remove them from the fort at any time and in any manner that will be most agreeable to them.

I am, sir, respectfully, yours,

D.F. JAMISON.

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February 16, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper

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Union Correspondence, etc.

No. 46.] FORT SUMTER, S.C., February 16, 1861.
(Received A.G.O., February 19.)

Colonel S. COOPER,
Adjutant-General U.S. Army:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that we cannot see that any work is being carried on at either of the works in sight, except that at Fort Moultrie they appear to be making some changes. They may, perhaps, be engaged in removing some of the heaviest of the guns of their battery, either to place them in the floating battery or on Morris Island, where their fire would be more effective against this work than it would be from Fort Moultie. By the by, I should like to be instructed on a question which may present itself in reference to the floating battery, viz: What course would it be proper for me to take if, without a declaration of war, or a notification of hostilities, I should see them approaching my fort with that battery? They may attempt placing it within good distance before a declaration of hostile intention.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery, Commanding.

The wind is freshening as though it may be the commencement of storm.

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(SC Gov) Francis Pickens
  • At the outbreak of the war, Francis Pickens was the Governor of South Carolina
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(CS SoW) LeRoy Walker
  • At the outbreak of the war, LeRoy Pope Walker was the Confederate States Secretary of War
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(CS Col) James Pettigrew
  • At the outbreak of the war, James Pettigrew was a Colonel in the Provisional South Carolina Army
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(CS Maj) Walter Gwynn
  • At the outbreak of the war, Walter Gwynn was a Major of Engineers in the Provisional South Carolina Army
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(CS BG) G.T. Beauregard
  • At the outbreak of the war, G.T. Beauregard was a Brigadier General commanding the Provisional Confederate States Army
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(CS Maj) G.T. Beauregard
  • At the outbreak of the war, G.T. Beauregard was a Brigadier General commanding the Provisional Confederate States Army
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(CS Maj) W.C. White
  • At the outbreak of the war, W.C. White was a Major in the Provisional South Carolina Army
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(CS QMG) L.M. Hatch
  • At the outbreak of the war, L.M. Hatch was a Quartermaster General of the South Carolina Militia
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January 20, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Colonel L.M. Hatch

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Union Correspondence, etc.

FORT SUMTER, S.C., January 20, 1861

Colonel L.M. HATCH,
Quartermaster-General:

DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, and also to state that as no arrangements have been made by me with government in reference to supplies for this post, I feel compelled to decline the reception of those supplies. I wrote to the honorable Secretary of War yesterday in reference to this matter.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. ANDERSON,
Major, First U. S. Artillery, Commanding.

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Misc.
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South Carolina Declaration of Secession
December 20, 1860 - South Carolina Declaration of Secession

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Union Correspondence, etc.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA:

At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia on the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, and there, by divers adjournments, to the twentieth of December in the same year:

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America":

We, the People of the State of South Carolina in convention assembled, to declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

D.F. JAMISON,
Delegate from Barnwell, and
President of the Convention, and others.

Attest:

BENJAMIN F. ARTHUR,
Clerk of the Convention.

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Authorization of commissioners to treat with the United States Government
December 28, 1860 - Authorization of commissioners to treat with the United States Government

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Union Correspondence, etc.

The State of South Carolina, by the Convention of the People of the said State, to Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, and James L. Orr:

Whereas the Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia on the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, did, by resolution, order "That three Commissioners to be elected by ballot of the Convention, be directed forthwith to proceed to Washington, authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United States for the delivery of the forts, magazines, light-houses, and other real with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the public debt and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States as agent of the confederated States, of which South Carolina, was recently a member; and, generally, to negotiate as to all other measures and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relations of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this Commonwealth and the Government at Washington":

And whereas the said Convention did, by ballot, elect you to the said office of Commissaries to the Government at Washington:

Now, be it known that the said Convention, by these presents, doth commission you, Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, and James L. Orr, as Commissaries to the Government at Washington, to have, to hold, and to exercise the said office, with all the powers, rights, and privileges conferred upon the same by the terms of the resolution herein cited.

Given under the seal of the State, at Charleston, the twenty-second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

[L.S.]

D.F. JAMISON,
President.

ISAAC H. MEANS,
Secretary of State.

Attest:

B.F. ARTHUR,
Clerk of the Convention.

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