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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.7 (search)
oration. The foregoing extract, however, will suffice to show the spirit in which the dominant element of that great convention approached the consideration of the grave problem which confronted them. From the day of its opening session, on the 13th of February, down to the 17th of April, the advocates of secession and of union confronted each other in debate. Foremost among the Union men were John B. Baldwin, Robert Y. Conrad, Jubal A. Early, Alex. H. H. Stuart, George W. Summers, Williams C. Wickham, and the president, John Janney. Right to secede. Of the 152 members of the convention there were probably few who did not hold to the constitutional right of a State to retire from the Union; but, as I have said, a majority were opposed to the exercise of that right, and clung tenaciously to the hope that the alternative would never be put to Virginia—either to draw her sword to coerce the States of the Southern Confederacy, or withdraw from the Union. This alternative, how
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
g, September 23, 1864, revives the memory of a painful episode of the war. But it does more: it proves that heroic sentiment still survives and that those who died for their country's cause, did not die in vain. Their country conquers with their martyrdom. At the time it occurred, I was away from my command, wounded. Sheridan, with an overwhelming force, was pushing Early up the Shenandoah Valley; he had sent Torbert with two divisions of cavalry to cut off his retreat at New Market; Wickham in command of Fitz Lee's cavalry division had repulsed them at Milford, and Torbert was retreating down the Valley. Captain Sam Chapman—the same Chapman whom McKinley recently sent as a chaplain to preach humanity in Cuba—this is one of the revenges of time—with a detachment of fifty or sixty men went to the Valley to strike a blow to impede Sheridan's march by breaking his line of communications. This was the work in which we had been engaged. If Sheridan's dispatches to Grant are true, <
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Underwriter, Capture of the, 136. University of Virginia, Founding of, 353. Vallandigham, C. L., 367. Worsham John H., 148. Virginia, Bill of Rights, 62; her love for the Wright, General H. G., 324. Union, 68: traditions of, 82. Virginia infantry, Career of the 15th regiment, 48; casualties in, at Sharpsburg, 50; 21st and 48th, 147. Virginia Military Institute and other buildings burnt by General Hunter, 179. Virginia to the aid of Massachusetts, 68. Wade, Ben. F., 367. Walker, Major D. N., 51, 328. Walker, Major, John Stewart, killed, 49. Walker, General, R. Lindsay, 327. Wheeler, General, Joseph, 133. White, Dr., Henry Alex., 52. White, Captain Matthew X, Murder of, 187. White Marsh road, Engagement on, 208. Wickham, General W. C., 314. Willis, Captain E. J, 51. Winder, General W. S., killed 149. Winchester, Engagement at, Sept., 1864, 173. Wood, Captain, John Taylor, 137. Yancey, W. L., did not urge the revival of the slave trade, 100.