Around this time, several newspapers including the Daily News, The New York Journal of Commerce, Freeman’s Journal , The Brooklyn Eagle, and the Day-Book, all considered pro-treason newspapers, were shut off and no longer allowed to use the U.S. mails to send their newspapers into the South. At the same time, government officials seized and shut down The Christian Observer in Philadelphia for similar reasons.
The government also arrested Charles J. Falkner, who had been sent by President James Buchanan to England. Faulkner was charged with treason and furnishing arms for the rebellion.
I spent much of the month organizing the First Virginia Volunteers in Williamsport, Maryland. They were made up mostly of boys from Virginia, just across the river from Williamsport. Mr. Lincoln had encouraged my efforts which ended up being eleven companies called the Lamon Brigade, which included four cavalry, six infantry and one light artillery company with two additional infantry uniots to be filled.
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