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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Medical history of the Confederate States Army and Navy (search)
the loneliness and suffering of advancing years and increasing infirmities, they can look alone to the States which they served so faithfully in battle, in victory and in defeat. The noble soldiers who composed the illustrious armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee made a gallant fight against overwhelming odds for what they believed to be sacred rights and constitutional liberty. The contest was decided by the sword against them. These matchless soldiers accepted the issue in good fmake direct appropriations of money to help said home, but has given the rent from a large public building to this purpose, running from fifteen hundred to two thousand annually in value. Respectfully, W. H. King, Adjutant-General. State of Virginia. Adjutant-General's office, Richmond, Va., August 22, 1891. Prof. Joseph Jones, Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans, 156 Washington avenue, New Orleans, La.: Sir—You letter of the 17th inst. to Governor McKinney, requestin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of the statue of General Ambrose Powell Hill at Richmond, Virginia, May 30, 1892. (search)
d who is known throughout the length and breath of the Southland for his devotion to the Southern cause and its memories, introduced the orator of the day, General James A. Walker. Dr. Jones said: Mr. President, Comrades of the Arm y of Northern Virginia, Soldiers of the Confederacy, Ladies and Gentlemen. If the personal allusion may be pardoned, I will say that I count myself one of the happiest, if not the happiest, man in all this vast crowd assembled here to-day. Always happy to mTo these charges—that the South has its heroes and its anniversaries; that it exalts its leaders above the leaders of the Union cause—we plead guilty, and we are proud of our guilt. Yes, the South has its heroes and its anniversaries. The State of Virginia has, by solemn enactment of her General Assembly, made the natal day of her illustrious son, Robert E. Lee, a legal holiday, equal in in its observance to the birthday of her other great son, George Washington, the father of his country.