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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XLIX. April, 1865 (search)
er; J. R. Anderson, Richmond; R. R. Howison, Richmond; W. Goddin, Richmond; P. G. Bayley, Richmond; F. J. Smith, Richmond; Franklin Stearns, Henrico; John Lyons, Petersburg; Thomas B. Fisher, Fauquier; Wm. M. Harrison, Charles City; Cyrus Hall, Ritchie; Thomas W. Garnett, King and Queen; James A. Scott, Richmond. I concur in the preceding recommendation. J. A. Campbell. Approved for publication in the Whig, and in handbill form. G. Weitzel, Major-Gen. Commanding. Richmond, Va., April 11th, 1865. To-day the following order is published: headquarters Department of Virginia, Richmond, Va., April 13th, 1865. Owing to recent events, the permission for the reassembling of the gentlemen recently acting as the Legislature of Virginia is rescinded. Should any of the gentlemen come to the city under the notice of reassembling, already published, they will be furnished passports to return to their homes. Any of the persons named in the call signed by J. A. Campbell and othe
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1865. (search)
Another hundred-can it be so? No, we do not believe it, but how can we bear such a doubt? Where are all our dear ones, our beloved soldiers, and our noble chief to-night, while the rain falls pitilessly? Are they lying on the cold, hard ground, sleeping for sorrow? or are they moving southward triumphantly, to join General Johnston, still able and willing — ah, far more than willing — to avenge their country's wrongs? God help us!-we must take refuge in unbelief. Tuesday night, April 11, 1865. No light on our sorrow-still gloomy, dark, and uncertain. I went to-day to the hospital, as was my duty. My dear friend S. T. cheers me, by being utterly incredulous about the reported surrender. As usual, she is cheerfully devoting her powers of mind and body to her hospital. For four years she has never thought of her own comfort, when by sacrificing it she could alleviate a soldier's sorrow. Miss E. D., who has shared with her every duty, every selfsacri-ficing effort in b
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
nd twenty-two commissioned officers, and eighty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four Fredericksburg in the Spring of 1863. this is from a photograph by Gardner, taken from the Stafford side of the Rappahannock, and showing the ruins of the railway bridge, near the spot where the troops crossed on the pontoon bridges, in December, 1861. see page 489, volume II. non-commissioned officers and privates. Testimony of General Hooker before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, April 11, 1865. The total of absentees doubtless included all the desertions since the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and the sick and wounded in the hospitals. It is estimated that 50,000 men, on the rolls of the army at the time we are considering, were absent. These were scattered all over the country, and were everywhere met and influenced by the politicians opposed to the war. These politicians, and especially the faction known as the Peace Party, taking advantage of the public disappo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
avoid the crime of waging a hopeless war. The Rebel staff officer, just mentioned, speaking of a personal interview between Davis, Johnston, and other leaders, on a hill near Greensboroa, said: Mr. Davis felt much concerned, and rather showed it. He distrusted Johnston, but relied on Breckinridge to foil him in an untimely move. Johnston was instructed to fight. He did not approve the order, and disputed, not only its wisdom, but its power over his actions. When Sherman arrived April 11, 1865. at Smithfield, he found the bridges that had spanned the Neuse destroyed, and his antagonist in full retreat through Raleigh, toward Hillsboroa. There he heard of the surrender of Lee. He at once dropped his trains, and pushed on after Johnston as rapidly as possible, in heavy rain, taking formal possession of deserted Raleigh on his way. When the Commissioners, appointed by Governor Vance (see note 8, below) to carry a message to General Sherman, returned, as they approached Raleig
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
tion approved by the Confederate government rejected by the United States government instructions to General Johnston statements of General Johnston his surrender my movements South order of General E. K. Smith to his soldiers surrender number paroled I overtake my family my capture taken to Hampton roads, and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe. The invitation to General Johnston for a conference, noticed in a previous chapter, was as follows: Greensboro, North Carolina, April 11, 1865—12 M. General J. E. Johnston, headquarters, via Raleigh: The Secretary of War did not join me at Danville. Is expected here this afternoon. As your situation may render best, I will go to your headquarters immediately after the arrival of the Secretary of War, or you can come here; in the former case our conference must be without the presence of General Beauregard. I have no official report from General Lee. The Secretary of War may be able to add to information heretofore comm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
acuated by Confederates and partly burned......April 2, 1865 Selma, Ala., captured with large stores......April 2, 1865 Ewell's division, some 8,000 men, cut off, surrounded, and captured at Sailor's Creek, Va.......April 6, 1865 Correspondence between United States Minister Adams in London and Earl Russell, respecting the Alabama, begins......April 7, 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court-house, Va.......April 9, 1865 Montgomery, Ala., surrenders to Wilson......April 11, 1865 Mobile evacuated by Confederates......April 12, 1865 Secretary of War issues orders to stop drafting and further purchase of war materials......April 13, 1865 General Sherman occupies Raleigh, N. C.......April 13, 1865 Stars and stripes raised over Fort Sumter, Charleston......April 14, 1865 President Lincoln shot by J. Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre, Washington......April 14, 1865 Secretary Seward and his son wounded in his own house by an assassin......April 14, 1865
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
, in case of emergency. He returned, however, without encountering any force of consequence, though we could see him from my tent firing his artillery at small bodies hovering around him. To-day being the day set apart by the President for fasting, humiliation and prayer, all duties were suspended and the day observed as Sunday. I have a letter from Willie, William Sergeant, brother of Mrs. Meade, captain 12th U. S. Inf. Afterward wounded at Gravelly Run, Va., March 29, 1865. Died April 11, 1865. written in good spirits, and saying he expects to take the field in a few weeks, with the First Battalion of his regiment. Tenallytown, September 30, 1861—3 P. M. We have been under arms all day, and once started for up river, believing the enemy were crossing some fifteen miles above us. The report proved erroneous, but we keep all ready to move at a moment's notice. They have retired from our front on the other side of the river, and are showing themselves above and below. W
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 48: (search)
hey fully indicate the state of Mr. Davis's mind at the time, and need no commentary: 1. Greensboroa, N. C., April 11th, 1865: 12 M. General J. E. Johnston, Headquarters, via Raleigh: The Secretary of War did not join me at Danville. Is ebe the most easy method, if pursued, of effecting the proposed junction. Jeffn. Davis. 3. Greensboroa, N. C., April 11th, 1865. General J. E. Johnston, Headquarters, via Raleigh: Despatch of 1.30 P. M. received. Secretary of War has not ar the line has been broken by the enemy, so as to interrupt communication. Jeffn. Davis. 4. Greensboroa, N. C., April 11th, 1865. General H. H. Walker, Danville, Va.: The movements of the enemy in Eastern North Carolina indicate the necessityse information the supposed necessity for your immediate action is based. Jeffn. Davis. 5. Greensboroa, N. C., April 11th, 1865. Governor Z. B. Vance, Raleigh, N. C.: I have no official report, but scouts, said to be reliable, and whose stat
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
y a gentleman who has read the life of Mr. Davis, recently published, that it contains the identical statements of the interviews and discussions at Greensboroa, in which we had a part, mentioned to you in my note of December 26th, 1867. That our statement may be on record, too I write you my recollections of these circumstances, suggesting that, where yours are different, you write the difference, and that, if yours agree with mine, you express your concurrence. On the afternoon of April 11th, 1865, I received at Raleigh a telegraphic order from the President to report to him at Greensboroa. I arrived about nine o'clock next morning (12th), and was your guest, your quarters being in a burden car, near and in sight of the President's. In discussing the probable object for which I had been called to Greensboroa, we agreed in the supposition that it was connected with the decision of the question of terminating or continuing the war. We agreed, also, that it would not be worth w
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
dition until the discovery of petroleum; the first notice of petroleum benzine was in a Boston paper, September, 1860. John A. Bassett, by patent March 2, 1862, developed the use of the petroleum liquid, which gives the carburetor its practical value, the gas-tar products being expensive and difficult to manage. Levi Stevens, December 20, 1864, passed the air through a shower of the liquid, which was dropped into the vaporizer in measured quantities. Irwin introduced a feature (April 11, 1865) founded on the fact that the hydrocarbon vapor conferred greater gravity upon the air, so that the weight of the carbureted air forced itself to the burner and dispensed with a blowing apparatus. He also used a caloric engine to produce a motive-power to generate a blast of air, and the escaping heated air was carbureted. Boynton, 1865, dispensed with moving machinery in the chamber, by making a plain metallic box with a fibrous material inside, through which air was forced. He als
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