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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Extracts from the diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Pressley, of the Twenty-Fifth South Carolina Volunteers. (search)
ad commenced to move from that place towards the Wilmington and Weldon railroad. Evan's Brigade had an engagement below Kingston, had been worsted and compelled to fall back. The Forty-sixth Georgia, Twenty-fourth South Carolina regiment and Preston Light Battery were to go with us. The trip to Wilmington was protracted and tedious. The rolling stock of the Northeastern railroad was not in good working order by reason of age and want of repairs. It sometimes happened that the engine was ut by a very stout and clever lady, whose table was far better than our rations. December 7th.—--News reached us to-day that the enemy had beaten General Evans, passed him and were in possession of the railroad. The Twenty-fourth regiment and Preston's Battery, which were encamped several miles from Wilmington, on the Wilmington and Weldon railroad, were dispatched for the seat of war. It was reported that General Beauregard was coming from Charleston to command in person. The regiment w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
. Records War of Rebellion, Volume II, page 817. On the 9th May, General Lee informs Colonel Philip St. George Cocke, commanding Potomac Division, that Colonel Preston and Colonel Garland, with eleven companies under their command, have been ordered to report to him at Culpeper; Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 821. and on the 10th, he writes to Colonel Cocke that the regiments under Colonels Garland and Preston were designed for Manassas Junction. Ibid, p. 824. On the 14th, Colonel Cocke reports. Ibid, p. 841. The force that I have been able to assemble thus far at Manassas Junction, consists of a detachment of artillery under Captain Army of Virginia, commanding, will be formed of Moore's, Garland's and Corse's regiments of Virginia volunteers. V. The Fifth Brigade will consist of Cocke's, Preston's and Withers's regiments of Virginia volunteers, Colonel P. St. George Cocke, Virginia volunteers, commanding. VI. The Sixth Brigade, Colonel J. A. Early, co
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Calhoun—Nullification explained. (search)
ave seen, he himself declared annexation to be necessary, and the first and foremost reason that he alleged for it was the interest which the Southern States had in it, on account of their peculiar institution. Two years later, his colleague, Mr. Preston, had moved in the Senate, and Mr. Thompson, of South Carolina, had also moved in the House of Representatives, to declare annexation expedient. Several State Legislatures, as those of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, had agitated the quest required indeed a bold front. Can the utmost charity suppose that Dr. von Holst, who has undertaken to write a constitutional history of the United States, does not know the difference between the United States, on the one hand, and Calhoun, Preston, Thompson, Tyler, Upshur, the Legislatures of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, and the whole South on the other? They were not the United States, neither individually nor collectively. Calhoun was not speaking of or for them, nor of what th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers. (search)
k its rise, Tyler co-operated with them, and was never, in the Jackson sense, a Democrat, but a decided Whig. The history of the rise of the Whig party, occasioned by the violent Federal measures and principles of the Jackson Democratic party, which was in no sense Democratic, is very fairly presented by the writer of the Letters and Times of the Two Tylers. It was characterized by the exhibition of the talent of such men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Tyler, Leigh, Archer, Badger, Berrien, Preston, White, Prentice, Reverdy Johnson, and many others, determined to resist the violent measures of Andrew Jackson as President of the United States. We will not enter into a discussion of the many points on which the Whig party acted. It is known, historically, how Federal the so called Democratic party of the Jackson school became, and, in truth, the Whigs were more Democratic than the professed Democrats. It was under that influence that Mr. Webster said the Whigs had, in England, been