XXXIII.

EAST VIRGINIA-BULL RUN.

Ir the North had been, or at least | 27th of April, a proclamation anhad seemed, obstinately apathetic, be- nouncing the blockade of the coast cause skeptical as to the probability of Virginia and North Carolina; or the imminence of Civil War, it due evidence having been afforded was fully and suddenly undeceived that Virginia had formally and North by the developments that swiftly fol- Carolina practically adhered to the lowed the bombardment of Fort Rebellion. Some weeks were reSumter, but especially by the occur- quired to collect and fit out the vesrences in Baltimore and the attitude sels necessary for the blockade of of Maryland. For a few weeks, all even the chief ports of the Rebel petty differences seemed effaced, all States; but the month of May' saw partisan jealousies and hatreds for- this undertaking so far completed as gotten. A few 'conservative' presses to make an entrance into either of sought to stem the rushing tide; a those ports dangerous to the blockfew old Democratic leaders struggled ade-runner. On the 3d, the Presito keep the party lines distinct and dent made a further call for troopsrigid; but to little purpose. Twelve this time requiring 42,000 additional States, whose Legislatures happened volunteers for three years; beside to be sitting in some part of April adding ten regiments to the regular or May, 1861, tendered pecuniary army about doubling its nominal aid to the Government, amounting, strength. A large force of volunin the aggregate, to nearly Nineteen teers, mainly Pennsylvanians, was Millions of Dollars; while some Five organized at Chambersburg, Pa., Millions were as promptly contribu- under the command of Major-Gen. ted, in the cities and chief towns of Robert Patterson, of the Pennsyl the North, to clothe and equip volun- vania militia; while Gen. Butler, teers. having completed the taming of Baltimore, by planting batteries on the highest points and sending a few of her more audacious traitors to Fort McHenry, was made' a MajorGeneral, and placed in command of a Department composed of tide-water Virginia with North Carolina. George B. McClellan, John C. Fremont (then in Europe), and John A. Dix had already been appointed Major-Generals in the regular army 'May 16th. 'May 1st and speedily thereafter.

Railroads and steamboats were mainly employed in transporting men and munitions to the line of the Potomac or that of the Ohio. Never before had any Twenty Millions of people evinced such absorbing and general enthusiasm. But for the deplorable lack of arms, Half a Million volunteers might have been sent into camp before the ensuing Fourth of July.

President Lincoln issued, on the

'Richmond and Norfolk, the 8th; Charleston, the 11th; New Orleans and Mobile, the 27th;

Savannah, the 28th.