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any injury from an excited population. Bat 

 when Major Anderson removed Ins small force 

 from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, and Castle 

 Pinckney and Fort Moultrie were occupied by 

 troops, this guard at the arsenal likewise 

 took possession of it in the name of the State. 

 The United States officers hitherto in command 

 were of course respectfully relieved by them. 

 The arsenal contained at the time seventy thou- 

 sand stand of arms and other milkary stores, 

 which were estimated in value at half a million 

 of dollars. At the same time, the captain of 

 the revenue cutter, Win. Aiken, transferred the 

 vessel to the State authorities. 



Fayetteville. The arsenal at Fayetteville, 

 North Carolina, was surrendered on the 22d of 

 April. A force of about eight hundred marched 

 to attack it, although there were less than sixty 

 men there for its defence. After the surrender 

 thirty-five thousand stand of arms, seven thou- 

 sand of which were of the very best kind, were 

 found, besides considerable quantities of cannon, 

 ball, powder, fcc. 



Little Rock, the capital of the State of 

 Arkansas, is situated on the right or southern 

 ink of the Arkansas River, three hundred 

 liles from its mouth and one hundred and fifty 

 liles west of Memphis, on the Mississippi. The 

 Jnited States arsenal located here was seized 

 by the State forces on the oth of February. A 

 small body of troops from Helena came to Lit- 

 tle Rock determined upon its capture, arid re- 

 quested the Government to assume the respon- 

 sibility of the movement. Accordingly a de- 

 mand was made, and after negotiation and some 

 delay a surrender took place. 



Mt. Vernon Arsenal. It is located forty- 

 five miles above Mobile, and was seized on the 

 4th of January, by order of Governor Moore 

 of Alabama. It contained at the time of seizure 

 twenty thousand stand of arms, and fifteen hun- 

 dred barrels of powder. 



There were also small arsenals at Appalachi- 

 cola and St. Augustine in Florida. 



Ordnance Depot at San Antonio, Terns, was 

 the name given to certain public buildings 

 belonging to the United States at that place. 

 These were given up with their contents to 

 the State of Texas by General Twiggs. The 

 following is a list of the property : 



1,800 mules, valued at $50 each, $90,000 



500 wagons, " $140 " 70,000 



950 horses, " $150 " 142,500 



500 harnesses, " $50 " 25,000 



Tools, wagon materials, iron nails, horse and 



mule shoes, 250,000 



Corn, 7,000 



Clothing, 150,000 



Commissary stores, 75,000 



Ordnance stores, 400,000 



Total, $1,200,500 



exclusive of the public buildings. The prop- 

 erty was estimated to be worth to the State of 

 Texas one and a half millions of dollars. 



General Twiggs, a veteran officer of the army, 

 and a native of the State of Georgia, was in 



command of the Department of Texas, at the 

 time of the adoption of the secession ordinance 

 by the convention of that State. The military 

 force under his command was sufficient, with 

 the cooperation of the friends of the Union in 

 the State, to have controlled the State. Instead 

 of taking this loyal course, he ordered every 

 thing to be surrendered to the State authori- 

 ties. Some of the officers under his command 

 refused to obey, and were withdrawn with their 

 men by the Federal Government. An order 

 was also issued from the War Department dis- 

 missing General Twiggs, as follows : 



" WAS DEPARTMENT, March 1, 1S61. 

 " By the direction of the President of the United 

 States, it is ordered that Brigadier-General David E. 

 Twiggs be, and is hereby, dismissed from the army of 

 the United States for his treachery to the flag of his 

 country, in having surrendered on the 18th of Febru- 

 ary, 1861, on the demand of the authorities of Texas, 

 the military posts and other property of the United 

 States in his department and under his charge. 



"J. HOLT, Secretary of War. 

 " By order of the Secretary of War : 



" S. COOPER, Adjutant-General." 



Navy Yard at Norfolk. See NORFOLK. 

 Naty Yard at Pensacola. See PEXSACOIA. 



MINTS. 



Hint at New Orleans. The amount of de- 

 posits received up to the 31st of January, 1861, 

 was $1,243,449, of which the sum of $334. 410,- 

 77 was in gold, and $909,038 in silver. There 

 was coined during the same period $244,000 in 

 gold, and $809.000 in silver ; silver bars, stamp- 

 ed value $16,818. Total coinage, $1,069,818. 

 Subsequently to the 31st of January, the insti- 

 tution was taken possession of by the Confed- 

 erate authorities of Louisiana. Its cost to the 

 United States was $576,926. 



Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia. The deposits 

 received up to the 28th of February, 1861, were 

 $62,193; the coinage $60.946. It was then 

 taken possession of by the Confederate author- 

 ities of Georgia. Its cost to the United States 

 was $66,500. 



Mint at Charlotte, North Carolina. The 

 deposits up to the 31st day of March, 1861, 

 were $65,558 ; coinage, $70,580. The deposits 

 were all in gold. Subsequently the institution 

 was taken by the Confederate authorities of 

 North Carolina. Its cost to the United States 

 was $110,850. 



The custom-houses, marine hospitals, post- 

 offices, &c., at the following places were also 

 occupied by the Confederate authorities on the 

 secession of the respective States ; in some in- 

 stances the custom-house and post-office were 

 in the same building. 



crsTOM-norsES. 



Virginia Norfolk, cost $228,505 ; Peters- 

 burg, cost $103,183 ; Richmond, cost $252,016. 

 North Carolina Wilmington, cost $57,039. 

 South Carolina Charleston, cost $2,068,570. 



