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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 45 (search)
diers. Being washed, etc., they bore no evidences of having been worn, except two small round holes in the body. Such are the straits to which we are reduced. I paid $15 each; the price for new ones, of inferior quality, is $50 a piece. November 11 Clear and pleasant. All quiet. No doubt, from the indications, Lincoln has been re-elected. Now preparations must be made for the further conflict of opposing forces. All our physical power must be exerted, else all is lost. Mr. Sparrow, Louisiana, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, introduced a measure, yesterday, in the Senate, which, if consummated, might put all our able-bodied men in the field. It would equalize prices of the necessaries of life, and produce a panic among the speculators. I append it. But, probably, the press will have to be suppressed, as a war measure, too, to pass it: A bill to extend the assessment of prices for the army to all citizens of the Confederate States: Whereas
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 10: Peace movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. (search)
-Messrs. Memminger, Crawford, Martin, Curry, and De Clouet. Judiciary.--Messrs. Clayton, Withers, Hale, T. R. Cobb, and Harris. Naval Affairs.--Messrs. Conrad, Chesnut, Smith, Wright, and Owens. Military Affairs.--Messrs. Bartow, Miles, Sparrow, Keenan, and Anderson. Postal Affairs.--Chilton, Hill, Boyce, Harrison, and Curry. Mr. Brooke, of Mississippi, was made Chairman of the Committee on Patents and Copyrights — an almost <*>seless office. All the laws of the United States, no Confederacy. These remarks were highly applauded, and a committee, consisting of one delegate from each State, was appointed to report upon a device for a national flag and seal. The Committee consisted of Messrs. Shorter, Morton, Bartow, Sparrow, Harris, and Miles. Mr. Brooke, of Mississippi, offered a resolution to instruct the Committee to report a design for a flag as similar as possible to that of the United States, making only such changes as should give them distinction. In his s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The spirit of 1861--correspondence of General R. E. Lee. (search)
ished letters are of interest and value as Illustrating the spirit of the early days of the war.] Alexandria, April 23, 1861. My Dear Robert — The enclosed letter was written to me, as you will see, in consequence of a remark I made to Dr. Sparrow, which he repeated to the writer, Dr. May, that I hoped your connection with the Virginia forces — if you concluded to accept the command — might lead to some peaceful settlement of our difficulties. I hoped this from the friendship between ysure of your sympathy with me in the motive of what I now write, even though you may think me presumptuous and lacking in judgment. Two considerations prompt me: one, an editorial in the National Intelligencer of to-day, placed by yourself in Dr. Sparrow's hands, and read by him to me a few minutes ago; the other a suggestion that Colonel Lee, now to be put in command of the Virginia troops might, by God's blessing, bring peace to our distracted country. Oh, how my heart leaped at the thought<
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
ge 24, sin.; laborer; Harrisburg, Pa. 25 Mch 63; died 7 Je 63 Beaufort, S. C. of disease. $50. seaman, Richard 19, sin.; laborer; Brooklyn, N. Y. 19 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Sessor, Oscar Corpl. 24, sin.; seaman; Portsmouth, N. H. 17 Mch 63; trsfd 55th Mass. 27 May 63. $50. Smith, Augustus 18, sin.; farmer; Orange Co, N. Y. 18 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Smith, James H. 19, sin.; seaman; Toronto, Can. 18 Mch 63; killed 22 Feb 65 Charleston S. C. while resisting Provost Guard. $50. Sparrow, Nathaniel Corpl. 34, mar.; carpenter; Boston. 27 Mch 63; Nov 64 ——; dis. $50. Sprague, Nathan 23, —— —— Rochester, N. Y. 3 Sep 64; 20 Aug 65, Stewart, Charles W. 18, —— —— Fairhaven, Vt. 11 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. —— Stewart, Hezekiah 19, sin.; farmer; Shelby Co. O. 12 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Stotts, John H. Corpl. 26, mar.; laborer; Lancaster Co., Pa. 19 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Thomas, William 28, mar.; hostler; Boston. 12 Sep 63; killed 20 Feb 64 Olustee, Fl
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
and Lieutenant Millen were wounded and prisoners; Surgeon Leland (early in the action), Lieutenants Oakey, Browning, Grafton, and Robeson, were wounded; Captain Russell was a prisoner. Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Company A; Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of Company B; Brown, F. H. Cochrane, Francis, Corporal Gray, Hines, Jewell, Stonehall, and Williston, of Company C; Bickford, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of Company I; and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and Watson, of Company K,--were killed. Corporal Buxton, Gilman, and Spalding, of Company A; Stephens (J.), of Company B; Donovan, of Company C; Daniels, of Company E; Moore, of Company F; Dillingham, Greene (M.), Smith, and First Sergeant Williston, of Company G; Sylvester, of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, The life of birds (search)
e green, like the Robin's, or dotted and mottled into the loveliest of browns, like the Red Thrush's, or aqua-marine, with stains of moss-agate, like the Chipping-Sparrow's, or blotched with long, weird ink-marks on a pale ground, like the Oriole's, as if it bore inscribed some magic clew to the bird's darting flight and pensile neirds which most endear summer are not necessarily the finest performers; and certainly there is none whose note I could spare less easily than the little Chipping-Sparrow, called hereabouts the Hair-Bird. To lie half awake on a warm morning in June, and hear that soft, insect-like chirp draw in and out with long, melodious pulsating the White Mountains, though Wilson found its nests among the Alleghanies; and in New England it used to be the rural belief that the Snow-Bird and the Chipping-Sparrow were the same. After July most of our birds grow silent, and, but for the insects, August would be almost the stillest month in the year,—stiller than the wint
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
of Louisiana with the United States dissolved, and the Federal authority therein null and void. Before adjourning to meet on January 29th, in Lyceum hall, New Orleans, John Perkins, Jr., of the committee on Confederation, had reported an ordinance for the appointment of a delegation to a convention to form a Southern Confederacy, to be held at Montgomery, February 4, 1861. This ordinance was carried unanimously, with the following delegation: Perkins of Madison; Declouet of St. Martin; Sparrow of Carroll; Marshall of De Soto. This was the signal for the unfurling of a beautiful Pelican flag above the president's stand, amid intense enthusiasm. After this, Rev. D. Linfield offered in English a fervent prayer for a blessing on the work of the convention. Father Darius Hubert, the good Samaritan of the armies of the Confederacy, followed with a prayer in French. Thus the two languages of the native population were heard pleading for that convention which had answered sectionali
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XI (search)
omparative merit of authors,— indeed, the newspapers are just now saying that the late Mr. Tupper had a larger income from the sales of his works than Browning, Tennyson, and Lowell jointly received,—but it does not take so long to determine which among an author's works are the best; and it is probable that the Descent of Neptune in the Iliad, and the Vision of Helen in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, and Sappho's famous ode, and the Birds of Aristophanes, and the Hylas of Theocritus, and the Sparrow of Catullus, and the De Arte Poetica of Horace were early recognized as being the same distinct masterpieces that we now find them. It is the tradition that an empress wept when Virgil recited his Tu Marcellus eris; and it still remains the one passage in the Aeneid that calls tears to the eye. After all, contemporary criticism is less trivial than we think. Philosophers, says Novalis, are the eternal Nile-gauges of a tide that has passed away, and the only question we ask of them is, How
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia. (search)
., Lewis, Henry P., Lewis, James P., McCampbell, Wm. H., McClintic, Wm. S., McCorkle, Thos. E., McCorkle, Wm. A., Swann, Minor W., Swisher, Benj. R., Swisher, Geo. W., Swisher, Samuel S., Tate, Jas. F., Taylor, Stevens M., Thompson, John A., Thompson, Lucas P., Tidball, Thos. A., Trevey, Dan'l J., Trice, Leroy F., Tyler, D. Gardner, Tyler, John Alexander, Wade, Thos. M., White, Wm. H., Wilson, Calvin, Withrow, John, Sparrow, Thos. G. [93] List of men of the Powhatan Artillery, Hardaway's Battalion, surrendered on the 9th of April, 1865. 2d Sergeant Jno. A. Scott, 3d Sergeant G. D. Williams, one private horse. 1st Corporal B. K. Smith, one private horse. 3d Corporal S. M. Ligon. 5th Corporal W. M. Bragg, one private horse. 6th Corporal J. E. Jennings, one private horse. 7th Corporal B. P. Cox, one private horse. 8th Corporal B. Ball. C. F. Moore, Bugler. Privates. E. M. A
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ed with, 226. Smith, General G. W., 74. Smith, Colonel, L. Jacquelin, 68. Smith, Hon. W. E., Death of, 62. Smith, Hon. W. N. H., Death of, 62. Sons of Veterans, The, 254, 279. South Carolina Troops at the Dedication of the Lee Monument, 267. South, The, Directing Men from, 5, 12; Stands for Race Integrity, 140; Humane Elements of the bettlers of, 5, 23; Scant Medical Resources of, in the war, 7; Leads in Acquiring the National Domain, 143; Its Battles for the Union, 142. Sparrow, The English, 24. Stiles, Major, Robert, 297. Stone, D. M., 355. Stringfellow, Rev., Frank, 357. Surgeons, Skill, Acumen and Devotion of, 7, 12. Tariff, The, 93. Tattnall, Commodore, Josiah, 83. Taylor, General, Zachary, 126. Testimonials from Visitors at the Dedication of the Lee Monument, 306. Texas, Annexation of, 435; Troops at the Dedication of the Lee Monument, 269. Torpedoes, 83. Valley Campaign of Stonewall Jackson, 55. Venable, Col. Charles S., 160. Vet
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