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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Glowing tribute to General R. E. Lee . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official report of the history Committee of the Grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.31 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Confederate airship. (search)
A Confederate airship.
The Artis Avis which was to destroy Grant's Army.
A few days ago a person who had been reading an account of an experimental trip of Count Zeppelin's airship remarked that in a few more years people will travel in the air instead of on the solid earth.
Iron and steel rails will lose their value, b was introduced as Professor Blank.
The old soldiers crowded around and took their seats on the ground and he unfolded his scheme for demoralizing and driving away Grant's army.
He had just invented an airship.
In shape it was something like a bird, and for that reason he had called it Artis Avis, or, The Bird of Art, which was up with the iron horse without pulling on the rope.
The Professor concluded his remarks by saying he needed a little more money to make birds enough to destroy Grant's army, and asked the old soldiers to contribute one dollar each to the cause.
Many of them did, and the Professor moved on and disappeared.
No doubt many of t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Mrs. Jefferson Davis . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Crenshaw Battery , Pegram 's Battalion , Confederate States Artillery . (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], State's-rights Ticket. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Church Burnt. (search)