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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.14 (search)
nes placed over each grave. The writer has omitted the word infantry after each name, that being understood by the reader: J. L. Hood, adjutant, 59th Virginia. A. C. Pitt, second lieutenant, Company K, 20th Tennessee. M. H. Michael, lieutenant, 59th Virginia. W. C. Raidy, Company G, 11th Kentucky cavalry. J. M. Hill, captain, Company G, Dobbins's Arkansas cavalry. J. P. Nolan, lieutenant, English's Mississippi battalion. Robert Gamble, second lieutenant, 9th Alabama. J. Miller, third lieutenant, Williams's Arkansas cavalry. C. B. Morris, lieutenant, Company I, 9th Alabama. Thomas Ruffin, lieutenant, Company D, 4th North Carolina. J. Coulter, citizen, Marysville, Tenn. H. H. Cresswell, lieutenant, Freeman's regiment. W. P. Norton, lieutenant, Company D, 22d North Carolina. J. W. McRae, second lieutenant, Company E, 67th Georgia. J. W. Jacques, lieutenant, Company F, 24th Tennessee. E. N. Pucket, lieutenant, Company K, 12th Arkansas. J. W.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of welcome (search)
the memory of which we are here to perpetuate on bronze and granite, as it will ever be preserved on the pages of history and in the breasts of our people. Florida, the smallest of the Confederate States in population, has a rich heritage in the record of those times. Of general officers, she contributed Kirby Smith, the Blucher of Manassas, afterward a full general in command of the Trans-Mississippi department; Loring and Patton Anderson, major-generals; and Finegan, Perry. Davis, Miller and Finley, brigadiers, all gallant and distinguished soldiers. I cannot trespass upon your time to go through the list of her heroes, but let us give an honored place to the private soldier, whose representatives we welcome here to-day. He went to battle and offered his life on the altar of country, without the stimulus of fame, and with but little hope of promotion, his only reward being the consciousness of duty well performed. I have in mind a private soldier of my company, uneducate
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Oration and tender of the monument. (search)
tered into the controversy and were advocated on the one side by the South and the other by the North? I do not propose to do so. It is enough for me to say now that the questions were submitted by the contending parties to the sword for arbitration, and the award was against the South. Yes, my hearers, after four years of battle and blood, the men of the South were vanquished, but not dishonored. And here and now, in behalf of our dear departed comrades, and in behalf of Finley and Miller and Dickison and Bullock and Hemming and Lang and Baya, and others tried and true who, thank God, yet survive, I say, hushed be the voice and still be the tongue that would stigmatize them and us as traitors. They and we, in the great contest, followed where honor and manhood and patriotism led. They and we rallied around the Stars and Bars, the flag of the Confederate States, and over a hundred battlefields and more that flag waved in glorious triumph, and baptized and rebaptized it was