Category: John Adams Dix

• Dix’s Letter to New Orleans (1861)

  

  As the union begins to crumble, Treasury Secretary Dix orders a revenue cutter in New Orleans back North; the captain refuses, and Dix sends this telegram to his agent in the South: At a time when the outgoing Buchanan administration was doing little to avert the ongoing crisis of Southern secession, Dix’s order electrified both sides […]

  Marek

  13 November, 2012

  1860s, Civil War, John Adams Dix, SOURCE=Library of Congress, SOURCE=NH.gov

• Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)

  

  A nine-foot-tall portrait of NH native John A. Dix, who, as President Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury, set “the hearts of the people everywhere ablaze”… NEXT:  The famous “Shoot Him On the Spot” memo >> John Adams Dix (born in Boscawen, 1798) issued what the NY Herald called “the first command to shed blood that […]

  Marek

  12 November, 2012

  1860s, Boscawen, Civil War, Concord, John Adams Dix, NH State House, portraits