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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hill, Benjamin Harvey 1823- (search)
Hill, Benjamin Harvey 1823- Statesman; born in Jasper county, Ga., Sept. 14, 1823; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1844; was admitted to the bar and settled at La Grange, Ga., to practise in 1845. He entered political life in 1851; became conspicuous in the Whig party, and in supporting Millard Fillmore for the Presidency established a reputation as an exceptional orator. In 1859 he was elected State Senator; in 1860 was a Bell and Everett Presidential elector; and in 1861 was a Unionist member of the State secession convention, in which he made a strong argument against the ordinance of secession. Later in the latter year he became a member of the Confederate provisional Congress and a member of the Confederate Senate, in which he served till the close of the war. After the war he opposed the reconstruction acts of Congress; supported Horace Greeley for the Presidency in 1872; was elected to Congress to fill a vacancy in 1875 and for a full term in 1876; and on Jan.
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
His health failed in consequence of his imprisonment and he was released during the year. Returning to his State he resumed the practice of law. His death occurred at Marion, Ala., April 5, 1873. Governor Moore had at all times the respect of the people of his State. Manly in bearing, cordial in manner, honorable in all things, he was esteemed as a model public officer. John Gill Shorter John Gill Shorter, second governor of Alabama during the Confederate period, was born in Jasper county, Georgia, in 1818, and was graduated at the university of that State in 1837. His father, Gen. Reuben C. Shorter, removed to Alabama and settled at Eufaula in 1836, where the son made his home and embarked in the practice of law after leaving college. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, and in 1842 was appointed solicitor of his judicial circuit. In 1844 he was elected to the State senate, and in 1851 to the house. He was appointed judge of the circuit court in 1851, elected to the same o
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Sudden death of a Minister. (search)
Sudden death of a Minister. --The Enterprise (Miss.) News, of the 1st, states that Rev. J. Culpepper, after preaching a sermon on Saturday last, in the eastern portion of Jasper county, went home with Gray B. Jones and took dinner, and soon after took a seat near the fire, and instantly his head dropped on his breast and he was dead.
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Passing Counterfeit money. (search)
l unconscious of their approaching doom, was holding a drum-head court for the trial of numerous citizens of the vicinity accused of shooting the Yankee pickets. They had condemned quite a number to be hung — among them master Charley Ridley, a youth of sixteen, entirely innocent of the offence charged, but a most acceptable victim, inasmuch as he was the son of Bloomfield L. Ridley, one of the Judges of the Chancery Court of Tennessee, whose brother, Dr. Charles L. Ridley, a citizen of Jasper county in this State, is well known to many of our readers. While these summary trials and convictions were going on, the distant thunder of the tramp of cavalry attracted the attention of the "honorable Court," and in a few minutes the sharp report of musketry and the terrified cry of "the rebels! the rebels!" adjourned that tribunal with more dispatch than ceremony. The Provost Marshal, who in a few minutes, would have been treating his prisoners to a short shrift and a cord, took to his h