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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
ould only make the latter smile, for he must know that it would never be carried out — because public sentiment would not sustain it. But public sentiment will sustain retaliatory acts and the threat of those carries a weight which the more extravagant threat only impairs. . . . If he [General Saxton] once did a dishonorable act I should forever lose my faith in him and with it in human nature, as I once heard old Samuel Hoar say of Charles G. Loring. I wonder what saucy things little Mrs. Tillie will say to Old Abe. Do you know she can imitate perfectly her husband's handwriting?--General Hunter's, President Lincoln's, General Scott's, Mr. Seward's and even the sacred Mr. Spinner's who signs the greenbacks. I have seen them. We have lost our first officer, Lieutenant Gaston, who was accidentally shot by one of his own [men] in a little reconnaissance across the river yesterday morning. . . . To-night we had funeral services here just at dusk, and it was one [of] the most i
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
until March, 1865, when he escaped and was taken care of by people from his native country. In May, 1865, he returned to Germany, where he remained but a short time. Returning to America he located in Chicago and was engaged in the mercantile business there for a year, after which he removed to Orangeburg county, S. C., and then to Camden, where he has since been engaged as a merchant. He was married, in 1881, to Miss Carrie Schurman, of Baden Baden, Germany, and they have four children: Tillie, Rosa, Alexander, Leopold and Helen. He is a member of Richard Kirkland camp, U. C. V., at Camden. Major Wade Hampton Gibbes Major Wade Hampton Gibbes, of Columbia, was born at that city, April 3, 1837. He was educated at the United States military academy, in the class of 1860, and after his graduation was assigned to the Second cavalry, stationed at Camp Cooper, Texas, with the rank of brevet second lieutenant. He never joined the regiment, however, and resigned December 20, 1860,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate dead in Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester, Va. Memorial services, June 6, 1894. (search)
men; Sarah Zane Fire Company, 80 men, headed by C. V. Camp's Drum Corps; Woodstock and Tom's Brook Military Companies, of the Second Virginia Regiment; members of camps, Confederate Veterans, headed the Chapel Grove Band. The procession marched to the cemetery, and while several dirges were played by the bands the graves were decorated. The several lots were in charge of the following ladies: Mississippi, Mrs. Phil. Boyd and daughters, Missess Peggie and Sallie Miller; Tennessee, Misses Tillie and Lucy Russell, Mrs. Marshall Willis; Florida, Mrs. Henry Dinges, of Stephens City; names unknown but not States—right side, Episcopal College, left side, Methodist College; Mount Hebron, the Misses Wolfe; North Carolina, Mary Hamilton, Misses Annie and Jennie McKendrick, Miss Nannie Hamilton, Miss Maggie Osburn, Miss Laura Osborn, Miss Sallie Goughenour, Miss Rosa Osburn, Miss Mary Hamilton, Mr. Will Hollis, Mr. Lute Hodgson; South Carolina, Miss Maria Jones, Mrs. Tilden Reed, Mrs. De
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
and the mutinous troops sent back, it would leave Buell's force at Savannah about 22,000. Lieutenant Crowly, of the 11th Louisiana, who lost his right hand at Belmont, lost his left hand at Shiloh. He still clings to our cause, refusing to resign. Letter picked up on the battle-field. The following copy of a letter from an Ohio soldier, picked up on the battle-field of Shiloh, will be perused with much interest: Camp Shiloh, near Pittsburg, Tenn, April 5th, 1862. Dear Tillie --After some time and various wanderings your kind letter, of the 26th ult., reached me at this place yesterday. As we are in hourly expectation of an advance movement or an attack, I will answer immediately, presuming, from what you said in your letter, it will be none the less welcome on account of being answered promptly. It pleases me exceedingly to think you have not forgotten me, and that my letters are received in the same spirit as formerly, and hope they may always contin