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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee that the Confederacy was de jure as well as de facto-opinion of Judge Turney. (search)
oyees or persons,--individual constituents of the aggregate composing the State. A State having a right may employ all the means necessary to the enjoyment of that right, and it is a gross solecism to say that the State may lawfully have a thing, but may not lawfully engage its citizens to createthat thing, or that its citizens may not voluntarily do so. There is no conflict of opinion between this holding and the case of Puryear, adm'r, v. McGavock et als., manuscript opinion by Judge Deaderick, as the transaction in that case was in April, 1861, before action was taken by the State in the matter of separation. Reverse the judgment. Note.-The opinion above was delivered at Nashville, December term, 1872, and introduced here as conclusive of the numerous cases, still pending in the courts of the State, involving the principles it determines. It was recently reaffirmed, without a written opinion, in the case of The Union Bank of Tennessee v. Alexander Pattison, at Jackson
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
le exceptions, no straggling in this brigade. The casualties of my personnel were as follows: The Colonel commanding the brigade was bruised by a ball upon the shoulder, and his horse was killed ; Captain McCleery, Forty-first Ohio volunteers, Acting Inspector-General, shot through the leg; First Lieutenant Wm. M. Beebe, Forty-first Ohio volunteers, Aid-de-Camp, wounded in the head and horse shot; Captain L. A. Cole Ninth Indiana, topographical officer, wounded slightly in the foot; Orderly Deaderick, Sergeant Fourth Kentucky cavalry, mortally wounded and horse shot, and Bugler Leaman, Sixth Kentucky, horse shot. Close observation on the conduct and character of our army for the past few days has confirmed me in a long-settled belief that our army is borne down by a lamentable weight of official incapacity in regimental organizations. The reasonable expectations of the country can, in my opinion, never be realized till this incubus is summarily yielded, and young men of known m