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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., May 21st, 1886. (search)
enown, and in the splendid fame and deathless names of its incomparable leaders, the highest embodiment and the purest types of American manhood—its Jackson and its Lee. But, my comrades, Hushed is the roll of the Rebel drum, The sabres are sheathed and the cannon are dumb, And Fate with pitiless hand has furled The flag that owithout regret to shield it from dishonor! Ashby and Stuart, Pelham and Pegram, Bartow and Bee, and he, in character and military genius, if second to any, only to Lee, our own great infantry captain, our Stonewall Jackson, with many, ah, so many thousand kindred spirits, all fell beneath its folds, and for their sakes we love thagratitude at the same time boast that we are American citizens! 7. Woman—The South Knows her in her Highest Sphere. Responded to by Colonel T. J. Evans. 8. Lee camp soldiers' home—The Wards of the Confederacy. Responded to by Colonel J. B. Purcell. 9. the press—May its Impressions Always be Correct. No response.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. Lee—a poem. by H. F. Requier. Rear aloft the solithe valiant honor valor— How the brave remember Lee. Oration by Hon. Chas. E. Fenner. Ladies not insult the divine modesty of the spirit of Lee by proclaiming as I do that he was the cunning'glamour of the antique days about him, was Robert E. Lee. If such was the Lee of fifty-six yearst lips have pictured the struggle which it cost Lee to resist this glittering temptation. And, indhe presence of many of those who fought against Lee, and who have chivalrously accepted our invitatventful moment in the already distant past when Lee was called upon to determine, by the lights thehmond, and there it was when, on June 2, 1862, Lee assumed command. Its effective strength, usingan's army to the support of Pope. This enabled Lee to dispatch the rest of his own force in the sae people of New Orleans hold the memory of Robert E. Lee, and the enthusiastic approval with which [32 more...]<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First Maryland campaign. (search)
street leads us to infer that he prevailed over Lee's hesitancy to go into Maryland at all by reminn the campaign. General Longstreet thinks that Lee ought not to have attempted the reduction of Ha Maryland campaign are not hard to understand. Lee had just defeated one-half of the Federal trooptil Harper's Ferry should fall. It was not General Lee's original intention to dispute the passage the information to General Lee at Hagerstown. Lee received it some time during the night of the 1il too late to press McLaws on the 14th. Hence Lee withdrew towards Sharpsburg next morning. Whilies. Later in the day Jackson learned from General Lee of the great danger threatened by McClellandvantage of his good fortune. As we have seen, Lee was able to hold him back at the South Mountainhe two armies were separated by Antietam creek, Lee occupying the hills west of the stream, which ol others. The rapid advance of McClellan threw Lee on the defensive, forced him to fight at South [44 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Death of Stonewall Jackson. (search)
inform his wife of his injuries, and to bring her at once to see him. The following note from General Lee was read to him that morning by Captain Smith: I have just received your note, informing me tad. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy. He replied: General Lee should give the praise to God. About 10 o'clock his right side began to pain him so much t not to me. This night he slept well, and was free from pain. A message was received from General Lee the next morning directing me to remove the General to Guinea's station as soon as his conditid of them; I have always been kind to their wounded, and I am sure they will be kind to me. General Lee sent word again late that evening that he must be moved if possible, and preparations were mas belonging to their commands. When informed of this order of the commanding-general he said,General Lee has always been very kind to me, and I thank him. Very early Tuesday morning he was placed i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of J. C. C. Black, at the unveiling of the Hill statue, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1886. (search)
t, though he had warned and struggled to avert it, Georgia's fortune was his fortune, Georgia's destiny was his destiny, though it led to war. Others who had been influential in bringing about dissolution and the first to take up arms, engendered disaffection, by petty cavils, discouraged when they should have cheered, weakened when they should have strengthened, but the spirit of his devotion never faltered, and through all the stormy life of the young republic, what Stonewall Jackson was to Lee, he was to Davis. If the soldier who leads his country through the perils of war is entitled to his country's praise and honor, no less the statesman who furnishes and sustains the resources of war. Our flag went down at Appomattox. Weakened by stabs behind, inflicted by hands that should have upheld; her front covered with the wounds of the mightiest war of modern times; dripping with as pure blood as ever hallowed freedom's cause, our Confederacy fell, and Liberty stood weeping at the gra
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
rson and Captain Carlton McCarthy) to wait on Governor and Mrs. Lee, and Miss Winnie Davis, and inviMrs. Lee, and Miss Winnie Davis, and invite them to seats in the hall. The committee soon appeared with the distinguished guests—Governor Governor and Mrs. Lee and Miss Winnie Davis, escorted by General Early—who were received with deafening applaMrs. Lee and Miss Winnie Davis, escorted by General Early—who were received with deafening applause as they came up the aisle and took the seats reserved for them. General Taliaferro made a ver these positions. On the 23d April, General Robert E. Lee, having been appointed by the Conventi It was a grand and solemn occasion when General Lee entered the Convention under the escort of : Scrap Book, Charleston Library. Major-General Lee-In the name of the people of your nativeuent and touching address, in which he told General Lee of the unanimity with which the Convention here should fail. And, doubtless, could General Lee have directed and controlled the fate of wasney. In closing his exquisite memoir of General Lee, written soon after his death, Colonel Ches[1 more...
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An independent scout. (search)
An independent scout. by Robert W. North, co. B, 12TH Virginia cavalry. What I am going to relate happened nearly twenty years ago, and as none of the participants, as far as I know, kept any diary or even a memorandum, it is probable that memory may be at fault, and that some things are omitted and others are stated not exactly as they occurred. In the summer of 1863, Jones's brigade, formerly Ashby's, with others of Steuart's command, was guarding the left flank of Lee's army, being stationed in front of Culpeper Courthouse doing picket duty on the plains around Brandy Station. The young men of Company B, Twelfth Virginia, mostly from Jefferson county, were very anxious to see their relatives and friends, and despairing of getting a furlough, determined on taking a flank; in other words, resolved that they would go home, and after having a good time for a few days, return to their duty and their command. After many plans were discussed, it was at last decided to combine bu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Bishop Joseph P. B. Wilmer, of Louisiana, on the demise of General Robert E. Lee, delivered at
University place
, Sewanee, Tennessee, October, 1870. (search)
Address of Bishop Joseph P. B. Wilmer, of Louisiana, on the demise of General Robert E. Lee, delivered at University place, Sewanee, Tennessee, October, 1870. The last scene has closed upon an illustrious life, a life fraught with lessons of wia home, when I beheld through the thickening shades of evening a horseman entering the yard, whom I soon recognized as General Lee. The next morning he placed in my hands the correspondence with the authorities of Washington College, at Lexington. thriving and vigorous institutions in the land. Very imperfect mention has been made of the religious character of General Lee. The lesson ought not to be lost upon a proud and gainsaying world, that its own chosen hero lived and died a Christistand before the tribunal of history, and to accept as their representative in war and in peace the chivalrous and sainted Lee, for God has set him among princes, even the princes of his people. It remains for me to say, for the encouragement of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chancellorsville. (search)
Hooker matured his plans for a movement about Lee's left. On April 12th the cavalry corps was nd held by Brooks's and Wadsworth's divisions. Lee made no serious attempt to dispute this movemens crossing, Barksdale remained in the town, and Lee, with the bulk of his forces, hurried out to meof its gigantic, but apparently unnerved enemy, Lee and Jackson developed a plan for an attack uponWilderness. Whatever the reason, the fact that Lee had divided his army remained clear. Lee, withLee, with the right wing, had but 18,000 men. Hooker knew that he could not have more than 25,000. He himse 70,000 splendid troops. He could have crushed Lee like an egg shell, and then have turned on Jackan, after failing to attack one or the other of Lee's divided wings, should have been to retain thiief on the achievements of the last seven days. Lee recommended the Southern troops to unite in ascnd of an army opposed to such a captain as Robert E. Lee. Here, for the hundredth time, American[28 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 21 (search)
ch of misrule, uncertainty, and oppression, subordinated military despotism to civil rule and accorded fair play to the vanquished; superb in person, head and heart; Father Ryan —the Poet-Priest of the South, who sang so eloquently of the Sword of Lee, the Conquered Banner, and of The land with a grave in each spot, And names in the graves that shall not be forgot,— all these, and others scarcely less distinguished, have since our last annual meeting, passed into the realm of shadows, bequeathitle of Second Manassas, and at Sharpsburg held the bridge with the courage and pertinacity of a modern Horatius. In the latter engagement he was wounded. In both battles he behaved with conspicuous gallantry, and received the commendation of General Lee. On the 4th of March, 1863, he resigned his commission in the army and returned to Georgia. General Toombs was not in accord with President Davis's administration of public affairs, nor did he acquiesce in the propriety of some of the most
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