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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jefferson Davis Monument Association holds the First celebration of the day of memory. (search)
riding erect as an arrow, his face wreathed with smiles as he received the plaudits of his fellowmen. It was at Manassas that Mr. McCaleb next saw the great president. It was the day after the battle of Bull Run. And again he saw him in the last dying hours of the Confederacy, when he learned more and more to esteem, honor and love him. The Confederate government had abandoned Richmond, and was temporarily stationed at Danville, Va., when General Extra Billy Smith brought the sad news of Lee's surrender. All was confusion, and in hot haste. Mr. Mc-Caleb said, we hurried to Charlotte, N. C. There Mr. Davis sent for me, and told me that the Confederate cabinet was about to begin its journey southward, and in command of a brave band of Mississippians belonging to Harris' and Humphreys' Mississippi brigades. I accompanied him as far south as Washington, Ga. In that distinguished cavalcade was President Davis himself, General John C. Breckenridge, Secretary of War; Hon. Steph
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
he people of South Carolina, instead of feeding Lee's army, will now call on Lee to feed them. ished endorsement, the statement being that General Lee offered his sword to General Grant when he wing letter to Colonel Marshall, who was on General Lee's staff and was present during the intervieYou, who wrote the articles of agreement as General Lee's secretary, and were personally present due and by whomsoever made to the effect that General Lee made the tender of the surrender of his swo, or any one else, could have supposed that General Lee made that offer, or how General Grant could No conversation—not a word—passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, agnificent uniform and splendid sword which General Lee wore on the occasion of his interview with had perfected his arrangements to withdraw from Lee's front at Cold Harbor. On that day he successnowing his next objective point. On the 18th Lee arrived, and the assaults upon his line made th[25 more...]<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The trials and trial of Jefferson Davis. (search)
tion of that fact. Around the court-room were thousands of men who had met danger and suffered loss. Each man felt that Davis had suffered vicariously for him. If Davis was a traitor, so was he. If Davis should suffer the penalties of the law, so should he. This it was which made the feeling so intense. The Southern people had profound respect for Mr. Davis personally, because of his pure character and intellectual abilities, but for him there was no such deep and abiding devotion as for Lee and many other of the military chieftains. Mr. Davis impersonated their failure; the generals their brilliant success as long as success was possible. When the victors charged him falsely with crimes abhorrent to his nature, put him under ward and manacled him as a felon, and then indicted him as a traitor, he became their martyred hero, and history will so record him. At the November term, 1867, Mr. Evarts, the Attorney-General, was present, representing the prosecution before Judge Und
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The life and character of Robert Edward Lee. (search)
too much to assume that the idolized leader of the sire became thus the ideal hero of the scion; and that the son of that orator, who embalmed the virtues of Washington in words as deathless, was led by paternal influences—none the less strong because speaking from the grave—to consciously mould himself upon the almost faultless pattern so faultlessly portrayed. At all events, there were striking points of resemblance, not alone in character and endowments, but also in temperament between Lee and that predecessor who is only rival in the hearts of this people. Nor up to a certain point were the currents of their lives divergent. Both were left fatherless while of plastic minds, and both were trained to scarcely realize that partial orphanage by mothers to whom widowhood was but a trusteeship of love and care for the offspring of a departed consort. Of Anne Carter, the mother of Robert Lee, no less than of Mary, the mother of Washington, it may be said that from her prayers
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of the history Committee (search)
eated as prisoners of war. At this day, it may be safely said, that there are few, if any, either at the North or in the South, who will question either that General Lee knew the rules of civilized warfare, or that he would have denounced those who were guilty of violating these rules as robbers and murderers, had they not been ugh that State smashing things to the sea. He wrote to Grant after his march through South Carolina, saying: The people of South Carolina, instead of feeding Lee's army, will now call on Lee to feed them. （2 Memoirs, page 298.) So complete had been his destruction in that State. He also says: Having utterly ruinedLee to feed them. （2 Memoirs, page 298.) So complete had been his destruction in that State. He also says: Having utterly ruined Columbia, the right wing began its march northward, &c. （2 Memoirs, page 288.) On the 21st of February, 1865, only a few days after the burning of Columbia, General Hampton wrote to General Sherman, charging him with being responsible for its destruction, and other outrages, in which he said, among other things: You p<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The sword of Lee. [from the Baltimore sun, August, 1901.] (search)
ished endorsement, the statement being that General Lee offered his sword to General Grant when he ff and was present during the interview between Lee and Grant: The truth of history. I know tYou, who wrote the articles of agreement as General Lee's secretary, and were personally present duf fact it should be known to the world that General Lee was careful in arranging the terms of surret will be to you a labor of love. The sword of Lee was drawn from motives as noble and lofty as eve and by whomsoever made to the effect that General Lee made the tender of the surrender of his swo No conversation—not a word—passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, it down. If I had happened to omit it and General Lee had called my attention to it, I should havld enough to repeat the mythical story that General Lee offered his sword to General Grant, which tagnificent uniform and splendid sword which General Lee wore on the occasion of his interview with [12 more...]<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.33 (search)
s subordinate officers. Very soon it was sent to Centreville, near Manassas, where it was organized into a brigade with the Sixth, Twelfth and Twenty-sixth Alabama regiments, and the Twelfth Mississippi, under the command of Robert E. Rodes, who had just been made a brigadier-general. The brigade, thus constituted, did effective service in the vicinity of Manassas, was conspicuous for gallantry at Williamsburg, and greatly distinguished at Seven Pines. Soon afterwards, about the time General Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Twelfth Mississippi was transferred from Rodes' brigade, and its place taken by the Third Alabama, a splended regiment that had formerly belonged to Mahone's brigade. During the Seven Days battle around Richmond, the brigade was organized as follows, the commanders ranking in the order named: Twenty-sixth Alabama, Colonel E. A. O'Neal; Sixth Alabama, Colonel John B. Gordon; Fifth Alabama, Colonel J. M. Hall; Twelfth Alabama, Colonel B
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
under Jackson, and that on the south bank under Lee, were reunited. On the morning of the 27th oe afternoon the Texas brigade, under the eye of Lee, led by the gallant Hood, swept forward to storce in themselves and their great commander, General Lee. It was the battle which taught the Confedsplendid achievements which henceforth attended Lee's army. Others have claimed the credit of beal commander, General Porter. Here is what General Lee says: About 4:30, when General Hood was preth Texas to storm the enemy's works, he met General Lee, who announced to him that our troops had bdays later, the Texas brigade materially aided Lee to repulse and hold the enemy at bay, thus winnh was not excelled by that of any troops in General Lee's army, and their noble example was an inspeaped, or fortified position to be carried, General Lee knew no better troops upon which to rely. Southern soldier, and will revere the names of Lee and Jackson as it now reveres the names of Gran[6 more...]