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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 691 691 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 382 382 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 218 218 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 96 96 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 74 74 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 68 68 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 58 58 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 56 56 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 54 54 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 49 49 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
h it is exceedingly interesting to trace, but which I cannot now develop the feeling of State loyalty had acquired throughout the South an almost fanatic intensity; particularly in the old colonial States did this devotion to the State assume that blended character of affection and duty which gives in the old world such a chivalrous coloring to loyalty to the crown. . . . When, therefore, by the formal and constitutional act of the States, secession from the Federal government was declared in 1860 and 1861 , it is almost impossible for any one not familiar with the habits and thoughts of the South, to understand how completely the question of duty was settled for Southern men. Shrewd, practical men who had no faith in the result, old and eminent men who had grown gray in service under the national flag, had their doubts and their misgivings; but there was no hesitation as to what they were to do. Especially to that great body of men, just coming into manhood, who were preparing to take
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
Pickens. He was elected to the legislature in 1860, but before the conclusion of his term, enteredstrict attorney, an office which he resigned in 1860 on account of the prospect of secession by his dition under Albert Sidney Johnston, and in 1859-60 was on duty at Fort Walla Walla, Washington. Whd of the result of the presidential election of 1860, he resigned his commission and returned to Chas a member of the South Carolina legislature in 1860 and 1861, he advocated secession, and when the battles. He was a member of the convention of 1860 which determined upon the secession of the Statgraduate of the United States military academy, 1860, entered the Confederate service as captain of was a representative in the legislature, and in 1860 participated in the convention which enacted thd of his class at the North Carolina college in 1860, and was among the early volunteers in 1861 as in 1859 began the practice of law at Union. In 1860 as a member of the legislature he supported the[2 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ocated at Ocala, Fla., but during the winter of 1860-61 returned to South Carolina and entered the C He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1860, and in April, 1861, enlisted as a private in tiew to engaging in agriculture, and in 1859 and 1860 he was planting cotton at Hartsville, S. C. Hisfor the practice of medicine and in the fall of 1860 went to Charleston, intending to enter the Charmilitary academy at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and in 1860 became a cadet in the Citadel academy at Charleed in the old field schools, and was married in 1860 to Miss N. Leonora Gibson. Early in 1861 he enr, with graduation in medicine at Charleston in 1860, he chose the city of Memphis, Tenn., as the scniversity of Virginia during the years 1859 and 1860, graduating at the South Carolina medical colleslature and served two years. He was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah E. Dunn, of Barnwell county, and e Charleston medical college when the crisis of 1860-61 arrived. Promptly abandoning his studies he[73 more...]