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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), All quiet along the <rs>Potomac</rs> to-night--proof that it was written by Thaddeus Oliver, of Twiggs county, Georgia. (search)
member, with other companies, was sent to a point below Savannah, for the purpose of organizing the Second Georgia regiment, afterwards so ably commanded by that noble patriot and brave, heroic soldier, Paul J. Semmes. At the organization, Captain Butt, of your father's company, than whom a more high-toned, generous gentleman or gallant officer was not in the Army of Northern Virginia, defeated Captain Holmes, of mine, for the majority; and believing that unfair means had been employed to produce the result, in which I was entirely mistaken, I wrote and published a bitter article, which I afterwards often had cause to regret, in which I animadverted, with cruel and unprovoked severity, upon Major Butt. This produced an estrangement between your father and myself, which continued unhealed until a common-service and a common danger brought us once more together. Our regiment was soon ordered to Virginia--first to Richmond, thence to Acquia creek, and afterwards to Centreville, fr