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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
en ratified; the wounds inflicted on civil liberty by the reconstruction measures might not have left their shameful scars on the United States. General Sherman, in his Memoirs, Vol. II, p. 349. referring to a conversation between himself and General Johnston at their first meeting, writes: I told him I could not believe that he or General Lee, or the officers of the Confederate army, could possibly be privy to acts of assassination, but I would not say as much for Jeff Davis, George Saunders, and men of that stripe. On this I have but two remarks to make: first, that I think there were few officers in the Confederate army who would have permitted such a slanderous imputation to be made by a public enemy against the chief executive of their government; second, that I could not value the good opinion of the man who, in regard to the burning of Columbia, made a false charge against General Wade Hampton, and, having left it to circulate freely for ten years, then in his pub
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 92. the Niagara peace conference. (search)
he United States, all combine to produce, not so much a conviction as a presentiment, that we are soon to have peace. And it may be so. Peace may be nearer to us than we think, and may come suddenly, though one cannot see precisely how. One thing, however, is clear. So desirable an event cannot be hastened by amateur negotiators exchanging sentiments with Mr. Lincoln; nor by blockade runners thrusting interviews on Mr. Davis; nor by any possible or conceivable correspondence between George Saunders and Horace Greeley. Statement of Horace Greeley. Mr. Greeley in the Independent of July twenty-sixth, 1864, gives the following account of his negotiation: * * * In the other effort for peace I was a participant, as follows: Some time since it was announced by telegraph from Halifax that Messrs. C. C. Clay, of Alabama, Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi (ex-United States Senators), Professor J. P. Holcombe of the University of Virginia, and George N. Saunders of Kentucky, had re
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e, set in blue ground. It belonged to the 42d regiment N Y S V. On the staff there is an elegant silver plate, with the words--"42d regiment N Y S V. Presented by city of New York." This was captured by Lt Col J E Taylor, 11th Alabama regiment, Saunders's brigade, who also with his own hands, brought out another flag belonging to the th regiment Massachusetts volunteers. The flag of the 106th regiment Penn. volunteers is also a very handsome flag, with the words "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" encircling the American eagle. This flag was captured by Sergt R F Wallace, co 11th Ala, Saunders's brigade. A very superior looking flag, though battle worn, and without a name, was captured by Lieut of Julian Wilson, co K, 6th Va regiment, Mahone's brigade. This flag has beautiful silver mountings and elegant silver tassels. A flag without the number or State, but bearing on its folds simply the words " --regiment, infantry." fell as a prize to the valor of Coleman Hines