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Big Lick (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
t one. For weeks it had been in a state of constant activity and excitement, enhanced towards the last with continual suspense and anxiety. It had been constantly on the move to meet threatened advances from the directions of the Tar and lower Roanoke and the Chowan and Backwater rivers. If I remember aright, during the month of March it had been sent upon two expeditions through Northampton, Hertford and Bertie counties, to repel reported raids of the enemy's cavalry from the Chowan; one, to and below Tarboro to meet a threatened advance from the lower Tar and Roanoke, and one, down the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad towards Franklin, to check a cavalry raid from the Blackwater. This last expedition, however, was in April, the command returning to camp therefrom the night of April 6th. It was under command of Colonel Whitford, who had with him not to exceed two hundred infantry (about fifty of whom were members of our company, armed with inferior rifles) and two guns from our ba
Germantown (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
claimed the admiration of the brave of every nation. Virginia rebels. In conclusion Captain McCabe said: Virginians, in yonder battle-crowned capital of our ancient Commonwealth looks down upon us in imperishable bronze the counterfeit presentment of our mother's greatest son of the first Revolution, seated in easy majesty on his mettled steed, such as he may have seemed to his ragged, expectant soldiery as he scanned with serene constancy the varying chances of the fray that day at Germantown or at Princeton, while grouped beneath him stand the heroic figures of those great Virginians who shared with him the peril and the glory of guiding the new nation out of the dark and narrow bondage of royal tyranny into the broad light of republican freedom. rebel he was to those who denied the chartered liberties of his struggling countrymen, but to-day, under every sun and in every clime, the name of this rebel is to all freemen the synonym of constitutional liberty. And yet had
Fort Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
n which kept them safely in the rear. It is a fact that few, very few, indeed, of Ewell's and Pickett's men escaped from those that stood in battle line doing their duty on the evening of April 6, 1865, at the bloody ridge of Sailor's Creek; the men left there as a forlorn hope to do the fighting, with few exceptions, were captured or killed; and I assert without fear of contradiction that there were more fighting men at the close of the war in Point Lookout Prison alone, not to mention Fort Delaware, Hart's Island, Johnson's Island, Newport's News, and other questionable places of amusement, than there were in Lee's whole army at the surrender. I think the remarks necessary in justice to the Confederate soldiers who suffered and starved in the fearful prison-pens of the North, but did not surrender at Appomattox. Battle of five Forks. To begin, on April 1, 1865, the battle of Five Forks was fought. Our thin lines were pushed back and broken by a force perhaps ten times as
Hanover County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
e States Army. General James H. Lane, in acknowledging to the editor the receipt of advanced sheets of this volume, writes as follows of a gallant and noble young officer of the First North Carolina Infantry (the roster of the officers of which is given ante, pp. 51-55): Captain Johnston was not, as published, one of my adjutants, but one of my adjutants-general—the first of my own selection. When my regiment was cut off from the brigade under General Branch, near Slash Church, in Hanover county, by the Federal divisions of Porter and Sedgwick, and Johnston's company was subsequently cut off from the regiment, after a most gallant fight, Johnston swam the river near by to encourage his men to cross, but when none of them would venture to follow him he would not desert them, but swam back, rejoined them, was captured with them, and was marched drenching wet to West Point, or rather to the White House, and was subsequently sent to Johnson's Island. He was the son of Rev. Mr. Joh
Paris, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
. What, said one of them, what will history say of our surrender? That is not the question, Lee replied. The question is whether it is right, and if it is right, I take all the responsibility. There spoke the Christian hero! self-poised and self-sustained. As prosperity had never obscured neither could adversity dim his clear perceptions of right nor cause him for one moment to falter in the line of duty. You all remember that when the tidings of the French Emperor's surrender reached Paris, Magenta and Solferino were forgotten, and his lovely wife compelled in the darkness of midnight to abandon her home and fly for her life under the escort of a foreign prince; but when the people heard that Lee had laid down his sword in the midst of its own overwhelming grief the great heart of the South beat with tenfold sympathy and love for its fallen chief. Sedan was the grave of the Third Napoleon; Appomattox was for the paroled prisoner Lee the beginning of a new life, illustrated
Tar River (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
tomac at Petersburg; and also to do the enemy as much harm as possible en route. His army was to move on the 10th of April, in three columns of 25,000 each, with his cavalry under Kilpatrick, aiming directly for Weldon until it had crossed the Tar river, the general point of concentration being Warrenton, N. C. But his whole plan was suddenly changed by the news of the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, which reached him at Goldsboro on the 6th of April. Inferring that Lee would succeed in mak reached Arpsboro and halted. There the general informed us he had reliable information that Johnston had surrendered, and he had determined to send in a flag of truce to Raleigh, tendering his surrender. On the next day, having recrossed the Tar river and countermarched several miles, we started the flag, the officer in charge bearing the following letter: headquarters Second military district, N. C., Nash county, N. C., April 19, 1865. Major-General W. T. Sherman, Commanding U S. Forces,
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
he wounded General and the men who were firing on him. As to the toast, he could say, in the words of Carlyle, who was not a parson, that a man's religion is his chief part and turns all the rest. The Doctor said that in point of service he was the oldest man in the regiment, and that counting by seniority he was entitled to ride five yards in front of Colonel Jones. Referring to the governor's fifty-year prophecy, he said that at the end of that time Norfolk would be a Liverpool, Lynchburg an Edinboroa, Richmond a Paris, and Farmville a London. The Doctor concluded by comparing Lee's memory to the brightly-shining morning star. After this Judge F. R. Farrar (Johnnie Reb.) and others spoke. At Barton Heights. The Lee-birthday ball, which took place at Barton Heights at night, was one of the most brilliant social events that has ever enlivened the pretty little suburban town. The dance took place in the Wigwam, which was handsomely decorated for the occasion, and
Farmville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
on him. As to the toast, he could say, in the words of Carlyle, who was not a parson, that a man's religion is his chief part and turns all the rest. The Doctor said that in point of service he was the oldest man in the regiment, and that counting by seniority he was entitled to ride five yards in front of Colonel Jones. Referring to the governor's fifty-year prophecy, he said that at the end of that time Norfolk would be a Liverpool, Lynchburg an Edinboroa, Richmond a Paris, and Farmville a London. The Doctor concluded by comparing Lee's memory to the brightly-shining morning star. After this Judge F. R. Farrar (Johnnie Reb.) and others spoke. At Barton Heights. The Lee-birthday ball, which took place at Barton Heights at night, was one of the most brilliant social events that has ever enlivened the pretty little suburban town. The dance took place in the Wigwam, which was handsomely decorated for the occasion, and nearly fifty couples were present. Music was
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
estiny has not spared the rod. For my own part, I felt at the close of the war that there was nothing left here in old Virginia for John, so I concluded to take Horace Greely's advice, Go West. I did so. I went out to St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago, but everywhere I went I felt so terribly lonesome. I had gotten out of my latitude, and I just broke out in that old strain, Oh carry me back to old Virginia, where the ragged boys were that I loved; and sink or swim, live or die, I am going tere everywhere. They were the scars of war, but they did not disfigure her. Virginians and other Southern people have no need to be ashamed of the part they took in the war. The northern people came here, bought Libby Prison, and carried it to Chicago to make money out of it. Why not dig up some field where Southern chivalry had been victorious and carry that away, too. Northern men say that they come from the North, but a Virginian does not say he comes from the South, but from Old Virginia,
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
promise to come back and redeem his chief, they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honor of a gentleman. Point Lookout. Address before Pickett Camp Confederate Veterans, October 10, 1890. by past Commander Charles T. Loehr. [Richmond (Va.) times, October 11, 1890.] George E. Pickett Camp Confederate Veterans held a meeting which was largely attended last night. Past Commander Charles T. Loehr read an interesting and valuable paper on Point Lookout, for which the Camp retur91—its first recurrence after such action—reverently and generally observed throughout the State. The States of Georgia, Maryland and New York also rendered affectionate tribute to the memory to the immortal Chief of the Armies of the South. In Richmond the weather was perfect. Not a cloud obscured the sky from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. About 2 o'clock P. M. the various bodies of military began to assemble. A little later and the waving of flags, tap of drum,
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