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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 38 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Investment of Fort Donelson-the naval operations-attack of the enemy-assaulting the works-surrender of the Fort (search)
pickets unobserved and went on. The most of the men who went in that way no doubt thought they had had war enough, and left with the intention of remaining out of the army. Some came to me and asked permission to go, saying that they were tired of the war and would not be caught in the ranks again, and I bade them go. The actual number of Confederates at Fort Donelson can never be given with entire accuracy. The largest number admitted by any writer on the Southern side, is by Colonel Preston Johnston. He gives the number at 17,000. But this must be an under-estimate. The commissary general of prisoners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point. General Pillow reported the killed and wounded at 2,000; but he had less opportunity of knowing the actual numbers than the officers of McClernand's division, for most of the killed and wounded fell outside their works, in front of that division, and were buried or cared for
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43: visit to New Orleans and admission to Fortress Monroe. (search)
e, which we did not see. General Miles was about this time relieved from Fortress Monroe, to which he had been sent apparently for the specific duty of jailor to Mr. Davis, and the relief was great to us. General Burton received permission, if he thought it consistent with Mr. Davis's safe keeping, to give him the parole of the fort by day — which the General gladly did. As soon as our friends knew they could visit Mr. Davis, they came almost every day. Our great General Gordon, Preston Johnston, and numbers of other friends came to dinner in the casemate, and chairs being scarce, they sat on candle-boxes, and talked of their and our past, and toasted in silence the glorious dead and less happy living heroes. But the sufferer's improvement was almost imperceptible, and life came back slowly into his exhausted, emaciated body. Leaning on my arm, and sitting on the ramparts every few minutes of his walk, he could not accomplish a hundred yards at first, but gradually his muscl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. (search)
toward none — with forgiveness for all, his life went out as his pale lips whispered: Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees! Did General L. A. Armistead fight on the Federal side at first Manassas? In our last issue we pronounced General Doubbleday's statement in reference to this gallant soldier without the shadow of foundation, and we are collecting the most conclusive proofs, which we will hereafter submit. Meantime we refer the reader to Colonel Preston Johnston's Life of Albert Sidney Johnston (pp. 279, 280, 282, and 291), where it is shown that Armistead was in Califonia when the war broke out — that he promptly resigned his commission as Major in the United States army--that he joined General Albert Sidney Johnston and his party in their perilous overland journey to Texas--that he bore his full share of the hardships and dangers which those noble patriots encountered in order to reach the Confederacy and tender their swords to the land t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 5 (search)
il the end. His nephew, the gallant young Preston Johnston, of the artillery, was his constant compahe board or of other members of it, while Colonel Johnston has never on any occasion yielded his, buanded the centre and was in my place when General Johnston rode out from the President's cortege, grest thing for her to do to run away, sir? Mrs. Johnston, with a burst of her hearty laugh, said, T. You remember that ten years or so ago Mrs. Johnston was very ill for many weeks at the White Sorth no army of the Confederacy ever equalled Johnston's in drill and high discipline. How he impMissouri soldier of Cockrell's brigade, which Johnston declared to be the best body of infantry he ehop, when I heard your government had removed Johnston from command I was as happy as if I had reinf saw him any more. Dabney H. Maury. General Johnston's report of battle of Seven Pines The following is the official report of General Johnston of the battle designated by the Confederates as[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
eroes that it was ever my privilege to look upon. That meeting, composed of representative men and soldiers from all parts of the South, was called to pay respect to the memory of General Lee, and to inaugurate the movement which culminated in the erection of the equestrian statue which adorns our western suburbs. It was presided over by President Davis, and was addressed by Mr. Davis, General Early, General Wise, General Gordon, Colonel Preston, Colonel Venable, Colonel Marshall, Colonel Preston Johnston, and Colonel Withers, in the most elegant and eloquent addresses that I ever heard. Zzzthe Association formed. That meeting adjourned to meet in this house on the following day, to form the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. And so, here in this place, on the 4th day of November, 1870, was formed the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, with General Early as its first president. How he loved this association is best attested by the fact, that with a singl