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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 99 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 89 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 70 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 59 3 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) 45 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 36 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 28 4 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 2 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Nathan Bedford Forrest or search for Nathan Bedford Forrest in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
19, that they were introduced into the army shortly before the rebellion, by General McDowell, for the protection of our officers and men in Indian fighting against lances, arrows and armes blanches generally. He had borrowed the idea from the French Cuirassicrs, during a trip to Europe for purposes of inspection.--Ed. Nation. We may add that our Southern papers have teemed with proofs that the aforesaid breastplates were frequently worn by Federal soldiers during the war, and if any one is still skeptical, if he will call at the office of the Southern Historical Society we will take him across the hall to our Virginia State Library and show him several beautiful specimens of these protective devices, which were taken from the persons of Federal soldiers and have been preserved as war relics. General J. R. Chalmers' address on Forrest and his campaigns will be published in our next issue, and will be found a most valuable contribution to the history of the war in the West.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
urn over what might have been. Lieutenant-General N. B. Forrest and his campaigns. I have seleon this occasion the campaigns of Lieutenant-General N. B. Forrest, who was my immediate commander dttalion. On the 14th of June, 1861, Nathan Bedford Forrest was enrolled as a private in a Confedeion for drill, on the 28th of December, 1861, Forrest, with three hundred men, met the enemy for th where Prentiss surrendered. About midnight, Forrest awoke me, inquiring for Generals Beauregard, fantry and Dickey's Fourth Illinois cavalry. Forrest, with three hundred cavalry, was watching thefteen killed and twenty-five prisoners, while Forrest was severely and his horse mortally wounded. valry came down boldly at a charge led by General Forrest in person, breaking through our lines of th about eight thousand infantry; and just as Forrest opened an artillery fire on him, a scout repo public estimation when it was thrust on him. Forrest, though a great strategist, trusted largely f[35 more...]