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Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
nd Georgia regiment, outside his own company. We first met in the convention, of which we both were members, that convened in Milledgeville, in 1860, to send delegates to the the National Democratic convention, then soon to assemble in Charleston. On the 9th of April, 1861, the Burke sharpshooters, in which I was a private, was ordered to Tybee island. About the same time the Buena Vista guards, of which your lamented father was a member, with other companies, was sent to a point below Savannah, for the purpose of organizing the Second Georgia regiment, afterwards so ably commanded by that noble patriot and brave, heroic soldier, Paul J. Semmes. At the organization, Captain Butt, of your father's company, than whom a more high-toned, generous gentleman or gallant officer was not in the Army of Northern Virginia, defeated Captain Holmes, of mine, for the majority; and believing that unfair means had been employed to produce the result, in which I was entirely mistaken, I wrote a
Centreville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
ce and a common danger brought us once more together. Our regiment was soon ordered to Virginia--first to Richmond, thence to Acquia creek, and afterwards to Centreville, from whence detachments were weekly sent out on distant pickets, almost within bow-shot of the Potomac, along whose lines the bones of many a gallant Southron besides being a modest man, was never quick to give either his hand or confidence to a stranger. We had just returned from Falls' church, near Alexandria, to Centreville. None of Longstreet's old brigade, none of the Second Georgia, I know, will ever forget the dark, cold, rainy night march on the retreat from there to Fairfax eorgia, utterly unable, even there, to resist his abominable penchant for punning, answered, It is long's-treat. But I am digressing. We had now returned to Centreville, and one evening while in conversation with your father on law and literary subjects, as uncongenial as these may seem, I proposed to read him some lines I had
Shreveport (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
ganized for the Confederate service. The day before my departure I prevailed on him to comply with my request, upon my honor as soldier that I would neither read it in the regiment, have it published, nor mention his name in connection with its authorship. This promise, I am sorry to say, I only partially fulfilled; for I read the poem to Dr. Charles Bostick, now of this county: John H. Hudson, late of Jefferson county, but now deceased, and to my brother, Dr. Wm. W. Ashton, now of Shreveport, Louisiana, who were my messmates before leaving the regiment, and, on my return to Georgia, to my wife, and told her who wrote it. That your father was the author of the poem, there can never be, to my mind at least, even the shadow of a doubt. * * * * * * Though professional critics may perhaps smile, or ridicule the idea, I submit that the poem itself furnishes almost positive internal evidence of having been written by a married man upon whom the sacred memories of home, and wife, and ch
Centreville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
hat the search has not been in vain. You will remember that in my communication to you, published in the Savannah Morning News, I stated that, after acquainting my brother and Dr. Bostick with the noble lyric in question while still in camp, I subsequently read it to Mrs. Ashton. I find now that I wrote to her on the subject before returning to Georgia. I have before me a letter addressed to her, written on coarse yellow Confederate paper, dated Camp Second Georgia regiment, near Centreville, Virginia, October 3d, 1861, in which the following sentence occurs: Upon my arrival at home, should I be so fortunate as to obtain the hoped — for furlough, I will read you the touching and beautiful poem mentioned in my letter of last week--All Quiet Along the Potomac --written by my girlishly modest friend, Thaddeus Oliver, of the Buena Vista guards. I should like for you to know him; for, though almost as diffident and retiring as a gentle girl, he is a man of culture, fine literary taste
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
as having been found in the pocket of an unknown dead soldier. You may have seen such a preface to it yourself. At any rate, I am sure there must be many still living who will recall the fact. Whatever the world may hereafter think of the authorship of these beautiful lines, I, at least, shall live and die under the firm and unalterable conviction that they were conceived and first expressed by your gifted and lamented father. Yours, truly, John D. Ashton. Communication to Richmond (Virginia) dispatch.Richmond, May 4, 1872. Edtiors of the Dispatch: In connection with the recently revived question as to the authorship of All quiet along the Potomac, which is now being generally discussed in the Southern journals, I beg to narrate the following, which, with some, may have a bearing upon the pretensions of some of the claimants. In the summer of 1862, being in the company of several Mississippi soldiers, comrades of * * * * * * * the beauty of the lines, which were then b
Middlebury (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
is heart's experience long before it was actually written. 2. He gives copious extracts from his father's letters to his mother, to show that long before the poem was written he had put the same sentiments into prose--that he claimed the authorship of the poem before it was ever in print — and that after it was printed he again and again reiterated his claim to its authorship. 3. Mr. Oliver then gives, as settling the question, the following letters: Letter from Frank Daves.Martz, Indiana, May 30, 1872. Mr. Hugh F. Oliver, Madison, Ga.: Dear Sir — In reading your article claiming All quiet along the Potomac, for your father, Thaddeus Oliver, I notice that you request all persons who can throw any light on the subject to do so at once; therefore I make the following statements. I do not profess to have any acquaintance with the facts myself, but I have a friend, A. Shaw by name, for whose word I have the greatest respect, who has put me in possession of a train of fact
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
old papers of mine, among which I thought it possible I might find a copy of All quiet along the Potomac to-night, presented me, after earnest and repeated solicitations, by your father in his own handwriting, are my reasons for not having addressed you this letter long before now. I knew Thaddeus Oliver well, perhaps more intimately than any member of the Second Georgia regiment, outside his own company. We first met in the convention, of which we both were members, that convened in Milledgeville, in 1860, to send delegates to the the National Democratic convention, then soon to assemble in Charleston. On the 9th of April, 1861, the Burke sharpshooters, in which I was a private, was ordered to Tybee island. About the same time the Buena Vista guards, of which your lamented father was a member, with other companies, was sent to a point below Savannah, for the purpose of organizing the Second Georgia regiment, afterwards so ably commanded by that noble patriot and brave, heroic
Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
that unfair means had been employed to produce the result, in which I was entirely mistaken, I wrote and published a bitter article, which I afterwards often had cause to regret, in which I animadverted, with cruel and unprovoked severity, upon Major Butt. This produced an estrangement between your father and myself, which continued unhealed until a common-service and a common danger brought us once more together. Our regiment was soon ordered to Virginia--first to Richmond, thence to Acquia creek, and afterwards to Centreville, from whence detachments were weekly sent out on distant pickets, almost within bow-shot of the Potomac, along whose lines the bones of many a gallant Southron rest. On one of these posts your father and I again were reconciled; and belonging to the same profession, with many tastes and sympathies in common, I soon became warmly and strongly attached to him, and have many reasons to know that the feeling was, in part, at least, reciprocated. I state these
Madison, Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
hat after it was printed he again and again reiterated his claim to its authorship. 3. Mr. Oliver then gives, as settling the question, the following letters: Letter from Frank Daves.Martz, Indiana, May 30, 1872. Mr. Hugh F. Oliver, Madison, Ga.: Dear Sir — In reading your article claiming All quiet along the Potomac, for your father, Thaddeus Oliver, I notice that you request all persons who can throw any light on the subject to do so at once; therefore I make the following statemhe most powerful lyrics of the late war. Trusting that my mite to the good cause will do all the good it is intended to do, I am truly, yours, Frank Daves. Letters of John D. Ashton.Waynesboroa, Ga., January 2, 1874. Rev. H. F. Oliver, Madison, Ga.: My Dear Sir — Numerous engagements, of both a private and professional character, and a desire to overlook some old papers of mine, among which I thought it possible I might find a copy of All quiet along the Potomac to-night, presented me
Twiggs (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.51
All quiet along the Potomac to-night--proof that it was written by Thaddeus Oliver, of Twiggs county, Georgia. We have received from Rev. Hugh F. Oliver, of Augusta, Georgia, a lengthy communication in proof of the claim that the poetic gem, All quiet along the Potomac to-night, was written by his father (Thaddeus Oliver), and we regret that our space will not allow us to publish the paper in full. Mr. Oliver, after introducing two very sweet poems of his father to show that he was capable of writing this one, proceeds with the following proofs: 1. He gives incidents in early betrothal of his father to Mary --in his weded life — and in the circumstances under which he left home for the army, to show that he had enacted the poem in his heart's experience long before it was actually written. 2. He gives copious extracts from his father's letters to his mother, to show that long before the poem was written he had put the same sentiments into prose--that he claimed the autho
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