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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
eived only 76, and another polling from 1,200 to 1,500 votes, the delegate from which had received less than 400. He affirmed that these were not the only instances of a like character that could be adduced in justification of his opposition to the bill, and closed by declaring it to be his sincere belief that if the disposition to interfere with the rights of the States exhibited by that Congress was persisted in, the Constitutional Union formed by the fathers would be lost forever. Mr. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, said that if Mr. Carlile's argument had been addressed to the Committee on Territories, of which they were both members, he would never have assented to the admission of West Virginia. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, thought it in every point of view inopportune to attempt to force Western Virginia at that time as a separate State into the Union, and trusted that the bill might not pass. Mr. Willey, Mr. Carlile's colleague under the restored government of Virginia at Whe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate cause and its defenders. (search)
rlborough and Wellington. And last, but not least, General Grant, to whom Mr. Roosevelt referred above, speaks of these soldiers in his Memoirs as the men who had fought so bravely, so gallantly and so long for the cause which they believed in. I might add a thousand similar commendations from those who fought us, but 1 cannot consume more of your time. If you have not done so, I advise you by all means to procure and read The Recollections of a Private, by a Northern soldier named Wilkinson, who was in the Army of the Potomac duing Grant's campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg, and describes, in a most entertaining and thrilling way, his experiences in that army. Without intending it at all, I believe, and only telling in his own style, the way in which that army was organized, controlled, and fought, his recitals are a panegyric on the Army of Northern Virginia and the glorious leaders of that army. The London Index has this to say of our army and our people: Le
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Distinguished dead [from the New Orleans Picayune, April 10, 1898.1 (search)
ul, Killed at Port Republic, and Major Aaron Davis, killed the day before at Cross Keys. Eighth Regiment—Chevania Lewis, killed at Gettysburg, and Colonel German A. Lester, killed at Cold Harbor. Ninth Regiment—Major H. L. Williams, mortally wounded at Gettysburg. Tenth Regiment-Colonel W. H. Spencer, killed at second Manassas; Colonel John M. Leggett, mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, and Major Thomas N. Powell, killed in front of Petersburg. Fifteenth Regiment-Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Wilkinson, killed at the second Manassas. First Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. Dreux, the first Louisiana officer to fall in the war, killed in a skirmish on the Curtis farm, near Newport News, July 5, 1861. Second Battalion—Major Robert C. Wheat, killed at (Gaines's Mill. Louisiana Zouave Battalion—Lieutenant-Colonel Gaston Coppens, killed at Sharpsburg. These names are as nothing compared to the gallant officers and soldiers of the line killed in battle, when we