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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
e our friends to put all of the volumes of this series on their Library shelves as fair representations of the Federal side. And we again repeat, that if Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons desire to prove their claim to impartiality in publishing Campaigns of the Civil War, they must now arrange for a similar series from some of our ablest Confederate soldiers. the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. By, George E. Pond,. Associate Editor of the Army and Navy Journal, has been received (through Messrs. West & Johnston, of Richmond), and constitutes Volume XI, of the same series. We have not yet had opportunity of reading the volume, but shall do so at our earliest convenience (in connection with a re-reading of General Early's account of the same events) and we promise our readers a a full review, which we hope to secure from an abler and more competent pen than ours. We may say now, however, that from casually dipping into it, the book seems to us to be an able, well written, and interest
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
e our friends to put all of the volumes of this series on their Library shelves as fair representations of the Federal side. And we again repeat, that if Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons desire to prove their claim to impartiality in publishing Campaigns of the Civil War, they must now arrange for a similar series from some of our ablest Confederate soldiers. the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. By, George E. Pond,. Associate Editor of the Army and Navy Journal, has been received (through Messrs. West & Johnston, of Richmond), and constitutes Volume XI, of the same series. We have not yet had opportunity of reading the volume, but shall do so at our earliest convenience (in connection with a re-reading of General Early's account of the same events) and we promise our readers a a full review, which we hope to secure from an abler and more competent pen than ours. We may say now, however, that from casually dipping into it, the book seems to us to be an able, well written, and interest
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
Literary notices. The Virginia campaign of 1864 and 1865; the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James. By A. A. Humph-Reys. Price, $100. Statistical records of the armies of the United States. By Frederick Phisterer. Price, $100. New York: Charles. Scribner's Sons. We have received these books from the publishers through West & Johnston, of Richmond, and we are also indebted to General Humphreys for copies of his book. Reserving for the future a full review of both, we can only say now that we are reading General Humphreys's with great interest and pleasure, and while we shall have occasion to controvert some of his statements, we regard it as the work of an able soldier, very carefully prepared after a full study of all accessible material, and written in fine style and admirable spirit. The contrast between the fairness with which General Humphreys treats the men who fought against him, and the miserable partisan spirit shown by such writers as Doubleday and
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
lled for, and in response spoke eloquently and well for an hour, recalling some deeply interesting and valuable events connected with the history of the command. Then followed another pleasing episode in the presentation of a beautiful gold-headed cane to Captain Tiffany, a Federal officer, who was Postmaster at Camp Chase prison when many of Morgan's men were prisoners there, and who had always shown them every kindness in his power. Colonel Breckinridge made the presentation speech, Captain West responded for Captain Tiffany in eloquent terms, and the old gentleman himself melted down in attempting to say a few words. He found that these hard fighters knew how to appreciate kindness shown them in the hour of their need. The exercises were appropriately closed with the benediction by Rev. Dr. J. L. Burrows, of Norfolk, Va. The homes of the city were thrown wide open to the men whom Lexington always gladly greeted in the shifting scenes of the war, and far famed Blue Grass h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 72 (search)
y Smith's army hastening to General Bragg's support, and they being all dressed in new Federal suits, the spoils at Richmond, where Bull Nelson had the discretion, under the cloak of big-hearted generosity, to supply the much needed requisitions of the haughty Confederate (this was about twelve miles north of Harrodsburg, near the Louisville turnpike), Major W. C. Richards's (who had just before at Mumfordsville been severely wounded) sharpshooters of Chalmers's brigade, under command of Captain West, and those of our new, and, as it resulted, friendly acquaintances, mutually mistaking each other for the enemy, commenced skirmishing and continued for some time, and until Smith's men, discovering the mistake, sent forward a flag of truce and removed the apprehension, but not until it was too late for the accomplishment of the errand upon which we had been sent. The game had flown; Crittenden, with only his rear guard slightly harrassed, passed on and in time united with Buell's forces
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
use them, and they have very properly accompanied the volume with a fine likeness of the great philanthropist, and his autograph letter making the valuable gift. The few extra copies for sale will, of course, be bought up at once, as no historic collection could be called complete without the Dinwiddie Papers. recollections of A naval officer. 1841-1865. By Captain William Hamar Parker. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. We have received, with the compliments of the author, through West, Johnston & Co., Richmond, this beautifully gotten up book, and have time and space now only to say that a slight dipping into its pages shows conclusively that our gallant Confederate tar knows how to wield a pen as well as how to sail or fight a ship, and has produced a book of rare interest and decided historic value. We mean to give it a careful reading, and shall hereafter copy for our readers some of its good things, such as the account of The Merimac and the Monitor, &c. A Byrd's-e
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
Literary notices. Virginia—history of the people. By John Esten Cooke. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. We are indebted to the author (through West, Johnston & Co.,) Richmond, for a copy of this beautiful book—one of the series on American Commonwealths, edited by Horace E. Scudder, and published by the well known house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. John Esten Cooke is too widely known as a writer to need any commendation from us, but we must say that this seems to us among the best, if not the very best, work he has done in the historical line. Treating successively of The Plantation, The Colony, and The Commonwealth, he has given us a very vivid picture of the Virginia people from the first settlement to the establishment of the Commonwealth, and the entering of Virginia into the Federal Union, with a bird's eye view of them up to the present time. While not prepared to accept all of the author's conclusions, or the authenticity of all of his statements, we can nevert