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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
ur men respect Yankee fighters? Yes, sir; they surprise us. Said I: Others have broken and retired; the genuine Yankees of New-England have never faltered on the Chickahominy. It is true; and Massachusetts mourns more dead soldiers, comparatively, than any State's quota in the Army of the Potomac. Tuesday, the first of July, was not a cheerful day. The prospect was not happy. The Prince de Joinville, always gay and active as a lad, and always where there was battle, had gone. The Count de Paris, heir to the Bourbon throne, and the Duke de Chartres, his brother, the two chivalric and devoted aids to Gen. McClellan, on whose courage, fidelity, intelligence, and activity he safely relied; who served with him to learn the art of war, suddenly, without previous warning, took passage on a gunboat and fluttered softly down the river. Why did they go? Two officers of the English army, who had accompanied Gen. McClellan to study the art of war, and who had intended to remain with the
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 4: the strategy of the Civil War (search)
Potomac on its Peninsula Campaign. In the center of the group of Englishmen stands the Prince de Joinville. From the observations of these men both France and England were to learn many military lessons from a new conflict on the soil over which the soldiers of both nations had fought in a former generation. The armies of both North and South were being moved and maintained in the field in a manner and upon a scale undreamed of by Napoleon, to say nothing of Howe and Cornwallis. The Count de Paris wrote a very comprehensive and impartial history of the war, and in 1890 revisited America and gathered together some 200 or more surviving officers of the Army of the Potomac at a dinner in the old Hotel Plaza, New York City. Not half the veterans that were his guests more than two decades ago are still alive, and the Duc himself joined the majority in 1894. Yorktown eighty years after Here are some English and other foreign military officers with General Barry and some of his sta
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
clerks were opposed to Montgomery because it was so crowded; they do not like Richmond for the same reason. Old gentlemen from the country go to the city and return, after having their sides elbowed sore and their hats crushed, with pitiful tales of large crowds. Muggins goes into the post office for a letter and comes out with a hole in his coat and his miraculous necktie under one ear: he complains of a crowd. But none of these have been to Hubball's Hotel. When Count Cavour came up to Paris to the Peace Congress, and Victor Emanuel was there with the pretty Princess Chloraide, and Count de Morny and several Russian gentlemen with "ski's" to the end of their names, there comes a crowd for you. But it didn't compare with Hubball's Hotel go-night. Every nook and cranny is filled with heavy sleepers. The passages are covered with blankers, on which are stretched slumbering soldiers. The benches outside even are occupied, and, cold as it is, one contented fellow has stretched him
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Miscellaneous. (search)
anions, and the Lincolnite rabble in the modern Sodom is good enough for them. The Herald hints that the vigilance and the Provost Marshall and the patency of loaded muskets and sharp bayonets have almost stayed the tide of rowdyism and insubordination. Several army officers have been retired by the Retiring Board; their names will not be made public at present. Col. Lany, who had been retired, has been restored to the position of chief of the Topographical Engineers. The Count de Paris and Duc de Chartress, nephews of the Prince de Joinville, have been assigned to the staff of Gen. McClellan, with the rank of Captain. Federal army Appointments. The following named Brigadier Generals have been appointed: John B. Stodd, of Decotah, late Captain 6th infantry. Major and Quartermaster Vanviet, U. S. A., assigned to duty as chief of the Quartermasters' Department, Army of the Potomac. Major Bernard, Engineer, has been assigned to the duty as Chief of
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Qualified. (search)
They could not well join the army of any European country without offending the French Emperor.--Here they could come and join the Federal army without exciting the jealousies of any prince or potentate. Of course, if they were going to take sides at all in the war, it would be for the Government and against the revolution. Although a revolution made them, or rather their grandfather, a revolution unmade them. A revolution made this nation, and a revolution now attempts to unmake it. The Count de Paris and the Duke of Chartres entered our service with great enthusiasm. They are for the Government, and their sympathies are against slavery and the slave-holding rebellion. They will accept no pay from the Government, having a sufficient income of their own, and desiring to save themselves from any charge of mercenary service. They are heartily welcome, and as they gallop up and down the lines are received with enthusiastic cheers by the men.--Washington Cor, Springfield Republican.
The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
Who is the Count de Paris? --A correspondent of the Charleston Courier gives the following account of this individual, who recently volunteered in the Lincoln army and received an appointment on McClellan's staff: The Count de Paris is the son of the late Duke of Orleans, who was the oldest son of King Louis Phillippe of France. He is the Orleanist heir to the French throne, and if his grandfather had not set Lincoln the example of stifling the freedom of the press, the young man might have reigned as Francis III. He now serves as a captain in the rail-splitter's army. I sincerely hope that one of our sharp-shooters will pick off this young sprig of royalty. Should he and his companion be made to bite the dust, the Bonaparts who reigns in the ancient palaces of the Bourbons will smile grimly on our new Republic.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
lost, Easton's battery, we lost its valuable commander besides. Ten guns were taken from us by a sudden flank attack, covered by the thick smoke which hung around the pieces and slowly drifted to leeward. Incidents. The Pennsylvania Reserve drove the attacking regiments of Jackson's command. To-day they were over powered by the same troops, reinforced. Syles's Regulars, called up, proved unequal to the task of stopping them, and Slocum's command had to be added to them. The Count de Paris testifies to the remarkably good conduct of all the regiments that sustained this unequal attack on Porter. They gave way, indeed, but not one of them ran. Their losses are enormous. The regular 11th infantry is about annihilated.--Nearly every officer in it is killed or wounded. The 14th also suffered severely. Major Roselle, of the regulars, a kinsman of Gen. McClellan's, is killed; Col. Platt, of a New York regiment, is also killed, and Lieut. Cols. Black and Sweitzer. Ou
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Betrothed. (search)
Betrothed. --The Count de Paris, the eldest son of the late Duke of Orleans, and the heir de jure, according to the Revolution of 1830, to the French throne is about to marry his cousin, the Princess Maria Isabella, eldest daughter of the Dake de Montpelier and the Infanta Maria Luis, a sister of the Queen of Spain. The Count de Paris is in his 26th year, his betrothed is but fifteen. The Duke de Chartres, the younger brother of the Count, is already married to a cousin. Betrothed. --The Count de Paris, the eldest son of the late Duke of Orleans, and the heir de jure, according to the Revolution of 1830, to the French throne is about to marry his cousin, the Princess Maria Isabella, eldest daughter of the Dake de Montpelier and the Infanta Maria Luis, a sister of the Queen of Spain. The Count de Paris is in his 26th year, his betrothed is but fifteen. The Duke de Chartres, the younger brother of the Count, is already married to a cousin.