THE SECESSION REBELLION: Gen. Butler to Command at Fortress Monroe; THE BLOCKADING FLEET: THE TUG YANKEE WITH PRIZES; SENATOR DOUGLAS ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY (5/19/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 5/19/1861

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SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 18.

Gen. BUTLER has received his orders, and leaves to-morrow morning, if he can complete his arrangements, for Fortress Monroe, where he will take command. What he will do, has already been foreshadowed in these dispatches. That Fortress Monroe is to be the rallying point for operations in Virginia, there will probably be no doubt hereafter. Gen. BUTLER's plan, as published in the TIMES, for retaking the public property, at Gosport, Richmond and Norfolk, is the most feasible and certain of any yet proposed, beyond a peradventure.

He says, if possible, he shall endeavor to bring all the Massachusetts troops together at that post. As the Southern people have so often boasted their desire to meet Massachusetts men in the field, they will soon have an opportunity to gratify that desire, with the additional pleasure of meeting, at the same time, about 8,000 valorous New-Yorkers.

Col. PARKER, who was aid to Gen. BUTLER while the latter was Brigadier, will probably remain with him in the same capacity.

The New-York Eighth Regiment, as fine a body of men as there is in the field, arrived to-day. They come eight hundred strong, fully equipped, and ready for a long campaign. Col. LYON reported at the War Department. They will be sworn in on Monday, and are ready to serve through the war.

Col. COOPER, the Senior Colonel of the Maryland forces, was at the War Department arranging the details for his regiments. When they are fully equipped, he will be appointed Brigadier-General. They will be offered for the war, and probably accepted.

Col. VOSBURGH, of the Seventy-first New-York Regiment is very ill to-night, of hemorrhage of the lungs, probably brought on by excessive work and exposure in the rain and sun.

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The Secession Rebellion: Condition of Affairs at the Federal Capital– 2-3
The Blockade at Cairo – 3
The Blockading Fleet: The Tug Yankee with Prizes – 3
Important from St. Louis: Further Seizure of Arms – 3
From Cairo –3
Where Shall the Capital Be? – 3
A Card from Mr. Russell – 3
Sam Houston All Right – 3-4
Senator Douglas on the State of the Country – 4
Maps of the War – 4
Of the Organization of Armies and of the Formation of Camps – 4-5
The Burning of Bishop Polk’s Residence in Tennessee – 5
Illness of Senator Douglas – 5
Perfecting the Blockade – 5
Spies and Newspaper Correspondents – 5