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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
like pepper-trees. Every person we met carried a six-shooter, although it is very seldom necessary to use them. After we had proceeded about nine miles we met General Bee, who commands the troops at Brownsville. He was travelling to Boca del Rio in an ambulance, An ambulance is a light wagon, and generally has two springs behind, and one transverse one in front. The seats can be so atr-ranged that two or even three persons may lie at full length. with his quartermaster-general, Major Russell. I gave him my letter of introduction to General Magruder, and told him who I was. He thereupon descended from his ambulance, and regaled me with beef and beer in the open. He is brother to the General Bee who was killed at Manasas. We talked politics and fraternized very amicably for more than an hour. He said the Mongomery affair was against his sanction and he was sorry for it. He said that Davis, another renegade, would also have been put to death, had it not been for the int
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
ew character appeared on the scene in the shape of a big heavy man who said to me, My name is Dr. Russell; I'm an Irishman, and I hate the British Government and the English nation; but if you are rewon't do for you; you shall come to my house and I will protect you. I immediately showed Dr. Russell my passport and letters of introduction to General Johnston and other Confederate officers; h by the Yankees two days before, which had made him unusually venomous. They told me that Dr. Russell had saved his property from pillage in the following manner:--He had seated himself in his vou who move with this gun. Now then, gentlemen, walk in. This speech is said to have saved Dr. Russell from further annoyance, and his property from the ruin which overtook his neighbors. Jackand clamoring to be led against only double their numbers. I renewed my acquaintance with Dr. Russell, for whose timely protection I shall always feel myself much indebted. I also sent my love t
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
ses the movements were planned and ordered by General Lee, for whom (Mr. Benjamin said) Jackson had the most childlike reverence. Mr. Benjamin complained of Mr. Russell of the Times for holding him up to fame as a gambler --a story which he understood Mr. Russell had learnt from Mr. Charles Sumner at Washington. But even suppoMr. Russell had learnt from Mr. Charles Sumner at Washington. But even supposing that this was really the case, Mr. Benjamin was of opinion that such a revelation of his private life was in extremely bad taste, after Mr. Russell had partaken of his (Mr. Benjamin's) hospitality at Montgomery. He said the Confederates were more amused than annoyed at the term rebel, which was so constantly applied to theMr. Russell had partaken of his (Mr. Benjamin's) hospitality at Montgomery. He said the Confederates were more amused than annoyed at the term rebel, which was so constantly applied to them; but he only wished mildly to remark, that in order to be a rebel, a person must rebel against some one who has a right to govern him; and he thought it would be very difficult to discover such a right as existing in the Northern over the Southern States. In order to prepare a treaty of peace, he said, It would only be necess