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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
had been warned that the Union army was in the neighborhood. In trying to get back home he was captured and made a prisoner in his house, where there were about twenty-five women and children who had fled there for shelter. His home was General Carl Schurz's headquarters. One of Schurz's staff officers, said Hawkins, as he placed a chew of tobacco in between his grizzled beard, came in the house, and, throwing down his sword, said he would go out and see the fun. He had heard some firing,Schurz's staff officers, said Hawkins, as he placed a chew of tobacco in between his grizzled beard, came in the house, and, throwing down his sword, said he would go out and see the fun. He had heard some firing, and thought it was a skirmish. He never thought to get his sword. I had been in the Confederate army, had been discharged, but as I stood in the door of my house, my old company came rushing right across my garden. This was too much for me, and, picking up a gun, I went off with them down the road, yelling with the rest of them. I heard all the officers as they talked during the day, and not one of them knew that they were going to be attacked. A night in the Wilderness. A few miles
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
ver which, by orders from headquarters, the crow in flying should carry his own rations, the word was not a misnomer. A warrior's renown consists no longer in the greater host of armed men his valor hurls to defeat, but in the greater host of sorrows he fearlessly hurls on the unarmed. Time was when the warfare of the hero Saints was known as Imitation of Christ. Our higher altruism knows it as Imitation of Hell. Sheridan, defending the conduct of his troops in South Carolina, said to Carl Schurz: Before we got out of that State the men had so accustomed themselves to destroying everything along the line of march that sometimes when I had my headquarters in a house that house began to burn before I was fairly out of it. * * * It always has been so, and always will be so. It has not been always so. On entering Pennsylvania, General Lee proclaimed: It will be remembered that we make war only on armed men. General Scott did the same in Mexico. Mexican ranches found their best mar