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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Cumberland Grays, Company D, Twenty-first Virginia Infantry. (search)
eceding it. How the news was received in Danville—Some of the closing scenes of the Confederacyon received the following: Hold all trains in Danville; send nothing out. Having heard nothing of. There were large government storehouses in Danville, all filled to the ceiling, as well as many lnds of rations in the storehouses and cars in Danville, soon to be raided and plundered by a mob. Sohe dawn of day brought other trouble to us in Danville, and we gave very little thought to the Green stragglers from the army had already reached Danville; in fact, they had been coming daily since thrty minutes not a straggler could be found in Danville. Many had dropped their plunder in the hurri The first we met was a well known citizen of Danville. In his arms he bore the mangled remains of burned. We maintained train service between Danville and this point for several days after the surcrossing the river on a pontoon, en route for Danville, and to operate against Johnston's army. The[12 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
nd and Danville Railroad, and stationed at Danville, Va., the road then running only from Richmond to Danville, there connecting with the Piedmont road to Greensboro, N. C. How this railroad line, thon received the following: Hold all trains in Danville; send nothing out. Having heard nothing ofnds of rations in the storehouses and cars in Danville, soon to be raided and plundered by a mob. So and blew out a cylinder-head five miles from Danville. More time was lost in getting another enginhe dawn of day brought other trouble to us in Danville, and we gave very little thought to the Green burned. We maintained train service between Danville and this point for several days after the surcrossing the river on a pontoon, en route for Danville, and to operate against Johnston's army. Theires of the Fifth Army Corps, encamped around Danville. Soon we stopped at the picket lines, and anopen up communications between Burkeville and Danville and Greensboroa, for the purpose of handling[12 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
Benjamin's own suggestion the committee recommended that he be censured by Congress for neglect of duty. History contains no parallel of such patriotism. In Danville. Mr. Benjamin evidently did not accompany the presidential party from Richmond to Danville on the fateful April 2, 1865, for on the following day he was met iDanville on the fateful April 2, 1865, for on the following day he was met in the streets of the latter city by Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, who, after questioning him closely, learned that he, unlike the remainder of President Davis' Cabinet, was not the guest of Major Sutherlin. Being hard pressed by the reverend gentleman, Mr. Benjamin reluctantly admitted that he had, owing to the crowded condition ofcident, I could not refrain from sitting down on the bed and weeping, a habit to which I am not addicted. When Mr. Benjamin set out on his trip southward from Danville shortly after this, he was asked by Dr. Hoge if he was not afraid of being captured. With a significant smile, he replied: I shall never be taken alive. Mr. Be
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
r, sent to President Davis, as he sat in his pew in St. Paul's church, contained the most momentous news of the war. It advised that everything should be in readiness to evacuate Richmond the coming night, unless before that time dispatches should be received to the contrary. The slip of paper was from General Lee. Many of the cabinet officers had sent their families from Richmond the previous week as also the congressmen. Mr. Semmes had sent Mrs. Semmes in a box-car, by the Richmond and Danville road, towards Montgomery. A week later he joined her in Georgia, and in Augusta heard of Lee's surrender. Thence the way was made by wagon and stage to Montgomery. Reaching here Mrs. Semmes heard that her husband would be pursued and she determined to save him. She drove to a farm-house, some miles distant from Montgomery, and asked the farmer to give her husband shelter. All this was without Mr. Semmes' knowledge. Bring him to me, said the loyal old Southerner, and he can stay at my f
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.43 (search)
lion, Princeton, Mercer co. W. G. Herrington, Twenty-fifth Battalion, Shelby, Cleveland county, N. C. R. C. Campbell, Fifty-third Infantry, King William county. J. Walker Frasier, First Cavalry, Loudoun county. C. P. Johnson, McNeil's Battalion, P. R. Hampshire county. P. B. Akers, Eleventy Infantry, Lynchburg. L. Green, Fifth Cavalry, Petersburg. H. C. Jones, Fiftieth Infantry, Gladesville. J. S. Hempstead, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Dubuque, Ia. W. D. Dodson, Fifth Cavalry, Danville. Robert B. Hart, Fifth Cavalry, Stevensville. John W. Davis, Twentieth Cavalry, Clarksburg. Hopkins Harden, Nineteenth Infantry, Scottsville. Francis R. Haynes, Twenty-fourth Cavalry, Cobb's Creek. Thornton J. Berry, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Salt Lick. Norman D. Embry, Twenty-fifth Cavalry, Pineville. Alex. R. Humphries, Twenty-sixth Battalion, Lewisburg. C. D. Fitzhugh, First Cavalry, Hagerstown, Md. Seven Virginia officers whose names were omitted from the list.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
. E., Tribute to, 346; Ode by, 352. Confederate Cause, The, 21, 357. Confederate Dead, The, Poem by A. C. Gordon, 382. Confederate Forces, Total of, 308. Confederate Navy, The Shenandoah, 116; Alabama, Florida, 126. Council, Col J. C., 12. Cowardin, Lieut. John L., 139. Crater, Charge at the, 285. Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade; Operations of April, 1865, 38, 139, 285. Cumberland Grays, 21st Va. Infantry, Roster and Record of, 264. Custer, Gen., Geo. A., 239. Danville, Explosion at, April, 1865, 271. Davis, Pres't, Jefferson, 69; at Manassas, 94. Davis, Sam, A Southern Hero, Tribute to by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 231. Deloney, Col. W. G., 147. Drewry's Bluff, Battle of, 206. Duke, Col. R. T. W., 138. Duncan, Col. R. P., 17. Early, Gen. Jubal A., 109, 153. Early, Capt. W. T., 135. Ennals, Bartholomew, 181. Ewell Gen. R. S., 40, 105. Ezekiel, H. T., 297. Farrar, Judge F. R., 364. Fayette Artillery, in the Movement on New Berne, N. C.