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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, XXXI. (search)
There, said he, go ahead, it is all right now. He then went back to his office, followed by myself, and resumed his seat. Tad, said he, half apologetically, is a peculiar child. He was violently excited when I went to him. I said, Tad, do you know you are making your father a great deal of trouble? He burst into tears, instantly giving me up the key. This brief glimpse of the home life of the President, though trifling in itself, is the gauge of his entire domestic character. The Hon. W. D. Kelly, of Philadelphia, in an address delivered in that city soon after the assassination, said: His intercourse with his family was beautiful as that with his friends. I think that father never loved his children more fondly than he. The President never seemed grander in my sight than when, stealing upon him in the evening, I would find him with a book open before him, as he is represented in the popular photograph, with little Tad beside him. There were of course a great many curious bo
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, LXXIII. (search)
LXXIII. President Lincoln, says the Hon. W. D. Kelly, Address in Philadelphia upon the death of Mr. Lincoln. was a large and many-sided man, and yet so simple that no one, not even a child, could approach him without feeling that he had found in him a sympathizing friend. I remember that I apprised him of the fact that a lad, the son of one of my townsmen, had served a year on board the gunboat Ottawa, and had been in two important engagements; in the first as a powder-monkey, when he had conducted himself with such coolness that he had been chosen as captain's messenger in the second; and I suggested to the President that it was in his power to send to the Naval School, annually, three boys who had served at least a year in the navy. He at once wrote on the back of a letter from the commander of the Ottawa, which I had handed him, to the Secretary of the Navy: If the appointments for this year have not been made, let this boy be appointed. The appointment had not
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
se of the day, Mr. C. A. Dana, the distinguished editor, then assistant secretary of war, reported to his chief that Chickamauga is as fatal a name in our history as Bull Run. The field was abandoned by the commanding general and two of his corps commanders, Crittenden and McCook. Thomas held the Federal left until his line of works was assaulted and carried by the brigade of Brigadier-General Polk, and until Bushrod Johnson flanked and passed to the rear of Gordon Granger; about that time Kelly's brigade of Preston's division had captured two entire regiments of Granger's, when the enemy fled precipitately. In his official report, Lieutenant-General Longstreet, commanding the left wing of the Confederate army, noted the capture by his command of 40 pieces of artillery, over 3,000 prisoners, 10 regimental standards, 17,645 small-arms, and 393,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition collected on the field. General Bragg reported the capture of 8,000 prisoners and 51 pieces of artille
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
battle, many have died from disease, and some have lost a leg or an arm or are otherwise permanently disabled, but I am here to follow you to the end. Of all the noble bands of Tennesseeans who once swelled the ranks of the army, there was just a sufficient number remaining to organize four regiments. The First was composed of the First, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Sixteenth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fourth (consolidated), Col. Hume R. Feild, Lieut.-Col. Oliver A. Bradshaw, Maj. W. D. Kelly. The Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twenty-ninth, Forty-seventh, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and One Hundred and Fifty-fourth (consolidated), constituted the Second, Col. Horace Rice, Lieut.-Col. George W. Pease. The Fourth, Fifth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-eighth and Forty-first (consolidated), constituted the Third Tennessee, Col. James D. Tillman. The Second, Third, Tenth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-sixth, Thirtieth, Thirty