hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Augusta (Georgia, United States) or search for Augusta (Georgia, United States) in all documents.
Your search returned 6 results in 4 document sections:
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
Georgia's flag.
[from the Augusta, Ga., Herald, February, 1901.]
Replaced stars and Stripes before Sumter was fired on.
A flag which forms a part of the decoration of the office of R. E. Allen will be an object of interest to every visitor and every citizen of Augusta.
The flag is a plain white one, with a red star in Augusta.
The flag is a plain white one, with a red star in the center, emblematic of Georgia, which, at the time the banner was first unfurled to the breezes, was an independent State, having by act of legislature broken the bonds uniting her to the United States government, and not having at that time become an integral part of the Confederate States of America.
The flag is no other th gn and independent State.
On the 21st the official hand and seal of Governor Joe Brown war fixed to the proclamation, and on the 22nd the Chief Executive reached Augusta.
There was a hurrying to and fro of the military officers of the city and a gathering of the forces.
Waynesboro was also communicated with, and up from Burke
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of army life with General Lee . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), North Carolina and Virginia . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Hypodermic Syringe. (search)
The Hypodermic Syringe.
First used in the Confederate States army.
The Chattanooga News of February 10, 1904, says: The subject of the first use of the hypodermic syringe was discussed at the last meeting of the army surgeons in New Orleans last spring, said Dr. R. D. Jackson,
and one surgeon stated that the first time it was used he thought was in the Army of the Tennessee.
While in the Tennessee Army I wrote to a friend in Augusta, J. P. K. Walker, to try to get me a hypodermic syringe and send it to me. I never had seen one, but thought from what I had heard about it that it would be very useful in relieving the wounded soldiers of pain.
My friend was fortunate enough to secure one from a physician and sent it to me while I was on duty at the hospital at Ringgold, Ga. I exhibited it to my friends—the surgeons there, eighteen in number—none of them had ever seen one before.
At that time I was treating a severe case of dysentery, the patient being a chaplain from