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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate States' flag. (search)
one else was present but we three until an order was issued adopting the Beauregard flag, as it was called, and directing me, as chief quartermaster, to have the flag made as soon as it could be done. I immediately issued an address to the good ladies of the South to give me their red and blue silk dresses and to send them to Captain Colin McRae Selph, Quartermaster, at Richmond (Captain Selph is now living in New Orleans), where he was assisted by two young ladies, Misses Hettie and Constance Cary, from Baltimore, and Mrs. General Henningsen, of Savannah, and Mrs. Judge Hopkins, of Alabama. The Misses Cary made battle-flags for Generals Beauregard and Van Dorn, and, I think, for General J. E. Johnston, and they made General Beauregard's out of their own silk dresses. This flag is now in Memorial Hall, New Orleans, with a statement of that fact from General Beauregard. General Van Dorn's flag was made of a heavier material, but was very pretty. Made from silk dresses. Cap
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Crenshaw Battery, (search)
tsylvania Courthouse, May 18, 1864. Crenshaw, Joseph H., private, March 14, 1862; detailed on surgeon's certificate. Cary, A. R., sergeant, March 14, 1862. Cary, John S., private, April 5, 1864; promoted to sergeant-major of Pegram's BattaliCary, John S., private, April 5, 1864; promoted to sergeant-major of Pegram's Battalion. Cary, Miles, private, October 1, 1864; served until surrender. Coleman, G. F., private, March 1, 1864; badly wounded in front of Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Cooper, J., private, October 3, 1863. Coleman, W., private, August 6, 1863. Cary, Miles, private, October 1, 1864; served until surrender. Coleman, G. F., private, March 1, 1864; badly wounded in front of Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Cooper, J., private, October 3, 1863. Coleman, W., private, August 6, 1863. Carter, James M., private, March 16, 1863. Coleman, L. L., corporal, March 14, 1862; returned to 15th Regiment Virginia Infantry, as his transfer was never perfected. Coghill, George L., private, March 14, 1862; died March 6, 1863, near Bowli to Davidson's Artillery. Chamberlayne, J. H., 1st lieutenant,——; captured June 28, 1863, in Pennsylvana; died 1882. Cary, D. H., private, June 11, 1863; died July 29, 1863. Connor, J. E., private, January 8, 1865. Davis, Hector, private,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
B. Boisseau, 339. Bond Captain, W. R., 235. Boteler, Hon. A. R., his house burned, 267. Bradford, U. S. Navy Admiral, 333. Breckinridge, General John C., 306. Bright. Captain R. A., 228, 356. Brooke, Colonel John M.,327. Brunswick Guards, Company H, 53d Va., roll of, 120. Buck, Captain Irving A., 162, 218. Bullock, captain n J. D., 71. Burton, W. L., 171. Cabell, W. L., 68. Canby, General E. R., 48. Capers, General F. W. 3. Carlyle, on whom to honor, 251. Cary, Misses Hettie and Constance, 70. Chaffin's Bluff Battalion, 141. Chancellorsville Battle of 282. Chambersburg Burning of, 261. Charlestown, Imboden's dash into, 11. Chickamauga, Battle of, 155, 360. Chisholm, Alexander Robert, 32. Christian, Hon. George L., 250, 340. City Battalion, Richmond, 25th Infantry, officers of 303. Cleburne, General P. R., sketch of, 151; death of 160; advocated enlistment of negroes 215. Cold Harbor, Battle of, 61. Company C, 37th Va
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Taken to Washington. (search)
respondence. One of the pleasantest episodes of the war is embraced in the accompanying correspondence between Miss Constance Cary, an exile from Alexandria, and Gen. Van Dorn, Miss Cary is a young lady whose personal charms are eclipsed by her Miss Cary is a young lady whose personal charms are eclipsed by her own intellectual brilliancy alone--one of those rare creatures whom Titian loved to paint, Shakespeare to personity. We find the correspondence in the army of the Potomac letter to the New Orleans Delta: Culpeper, C. H., Nov. 10, 1861. eries of my illated home — the down-trodden Alexandria? I am, very respectully, Gen. Van Dorn's obedient servant, Constance Cary. Army of the Potomac, Manassas, Nov, 12, 1861. To Miss Constance Cary, Culpeper C. H. Va. Dear Lady Miss Constance Cary, Culpeper C. H. Va. Dear Lady --The beautiful flag made by your hands and presented to me with the prayer that it should be borne by my side in the impending struggle for the existence of our country, is an appeal to me, as a soldier, as eloquent as the alluring promises of glor