This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WOBBAIB/5223 Message Board Post: excerpt from "History of Kentucky", by Lewis Collins (July 10 -Sept. 11, 1861) July 10: In the circuit court at Louisville, in the case of BRADY & DAVIES vs. L. & N. R.R., Judge MUIR decided that the United States has the right to stop the shipment of goods to the south. --Large purchases of mules in Ky., for U. S. army purposes. July 15: At Camp Boone, 8 miles from Clarksville, Tennessee, several regiments of Kentuckians are volunteering, for the Confederate army. -- At camp Clay, opposite Newport, and at camp Joe Holt, opposite Louisville, four "Kentucky" regiments are volunteering for the U. S. army; probably one-third of them are recruited elsewhere, and are not Kentuckians. July 22: In the house of representatives of congress, John J. CRITTENDEN, of Ky., offered the following resolutions, which was adopted, part of it by 121 years to 2 nays, and the balance by 117 yeas to 2 nays (Henry C. BURNETT, of Ky., and John W. REID, of Mo.): "Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the county by the disunionists of the Southern States, now in arms against the constitutional government, and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency, congress -- banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment -- will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of over-throwing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those states, but to defend and maintain the SUPREMACY (italicized) of the constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several states unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." A few days later, in the U.S. senate, Andrew JOHNSON, of Tennessee, offered a resolution to the same purport and almost identical in language -- which was passed by years 30, nays 5. (John C. BRECKINRIDEGE and Lazarus W. POWELL, of Ky., Lyman TRUMBULL, of Ill. and Trusten POLK, and W. P. JOHNSON, of Missouri.) August: Brig. Gen. Wm. NELSON establishes camp Dick ROBINSON, in Garrard county, where companies of Federal soldiers from north-eastern, central, and central-southern Kentucky, are concentrated into regiments -- all in violation of the neutrality of the state. August 19: Gov. MAGOFFIN sends Wm. Ad. DUDLEY and Frank K. HUNT as commissioners to President Lincoln, to urge the removal of this force from the limits of Ky. The President replies that this force consists exclusively of Kentuckians, in the vicinity of the own homes, and was raised at the "urgent solicitation of many Kentuckians;" he declines to remove it. On the same day, the governor dispatched Geo. W. JOHNSON as commissioner to the President of the Confederate States, at Richmond, to elicit an authoritative assurance that that government will continue to respect Ky. neutrality. President Davis replied that he had respected it, and would continue to do it, "so long as the people of Ky. will maintain it themselves;" but neutrality, to be entitled to respect, must be strictly maintained between both parties. September: Sept. 3: Confederate troops from Tennessee occupy and fortify a strong position at Hickman and Columbus, Ky. Sept. 5:Federal troops, by order of Brig. Gen. U. S. Grand, occupy Paducah and other places in Ky. Sept. 7: U. S. flag hoisted on the capitol at Frankfort, by order of the house of representatives, by 77 to 20. Sept. 9: "Peace" convention at Frankfort. -- Major-General Leonidas POLK, commanding Confederate army at Columbus, Ky., notifies Gov. MAGOFFIN that he will withdraw his troops from Ky., provided the Federal troops are simultaneously withdrawn; and will guaranty that confederate troops will remain out of the state, provided that Federal troops shall not again be allowed to enter or occupy any point of Kentucky in the future. Sept/ 10: States' Rights state convention in session at Frankfort, Richard HAWES, chairman; 70 counties represented; speeches by Wm. PRESTON, Thos. F. MARSHALL, Robert W. WOOLLEY, Lewis E. HARVIE, Edward C. MARSHALL, and others; resolutions adopted deploring the unnatural war, advocating strict neutrality, in favor of the dispersion of the Federal camps in the state, and expressing readiness, when that is done, to assist in driving the Tennessee invaders from our shores. Sept. 11: The house, by 71 to 26, "Resolves, That his excellency, Gov. MAGOFFIN, be instructed to inform those concerned that Kentucky expects the Confederate or Tennessee troops to be withdrawn from her soul, unconditionally; and then, by 29 to 68, defeats another resolution requesting the governor to demand the immediate withdrawal of BOTH (italicized) the Federal and Confederate troops from the south-western part of the state. The senate, by 25 to 8, adopted the former resolution; which the governor vetoed on 13th, and both houses promptly passed it over the veto -- thus BEING DRIVEN FROM OR ABANDONING THE "NEUTRALITY GROUND" (italicized) hitherto consistently occupied. The governor promptly issued his proclamation, as "instructed," strictly.