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1827 AD (search for this): chapter 4
remarkable and clever man, he is extremely egotistical and vain, and much disappointed at having to subside from his former grandeur. The town of Houston is named after him. In appearance he is a tall, handsome old man, much given to chewing tobacco, and blowing his nose with his fingers. He is reported to have died in August, 1863. I was also introduced to another character, Captain Chubb, who told me he was a Yankee by birth, and served as coxswain to the United States ship Java in 1827. He was afterwards imprisoned at Boston on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade; but he escaped. At the beginning of this war he was captured by the Yankees, when he was in command of the Confederate States steamer Royal Yacht, and taken to New York in chains, where he was condemned to be hung as a pirate; but he was eventually exchanged. I was afterwards told that the slave-trading escapade of which he was accused consisted in his having hired a colored crew at Boston, and then c
1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
r Alexandria will or will not fall. 4th may, 1863 (Monday). General Scurry's servant John had the night there was a thunderstorm. 5th may, 1863 (Tuesday). We breakfasted at Huntsville at 5ry, bereft of its male inhabitants. 9th may, 1863 (Saturday). Started again by stage for Munrot in the command of the Flo-rida. 13th may, 1863 (Wednesday). There was a row on board last nen from the Northwestern States. 17th may, 1863 (Sunday). We started again at 4.30 A. M., ane first time since I was in Texas. 20th may, 1863 (Wednesday). At 3 A. M. we were awoke by a g Called Fair oaks by the Yankees. 23d may, 1863 (Saturday). General Johnston, Major Eustis, ommanded by General Braxton Bragg. 26th may, 1863 (Tuesday). When I took Colonel Ewell's pass you subdue such a nation as this! 30th may, 1863 (Saturday). It rained hard all last night, bold Jack's was beyond description. 31st may, 1863 (Sunday). The Bishop of Georgia preached to-[21 more...]
May, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
May, 1863. 1st may, 1863 (Friday). I called on General Scurry, and found him suffering from severe ophthalmia. When I presented General Magruder's letter, he insisted that I should come and live with him so long as I remained here. He also telegraphed to Galveston for a steamer to take me there and back. We dined at 4 P. M.: the party consisted of Colonel and Judge Terrill (a clever and agreeable man), Colonel Pyron, Captain Wharton, quartermaster-general, Major Watkins (a handsome fellow, and hero of the Sabine Pass affair), and Colonel Cook, commanding the artillery at Galveston (late of the U. S. navy, who enjoys the reputation of being a zealous Methodist preacher and a daring officer). The latter told me he could hardly understand how I could be an Englishman, as I pronounced my h's all right. General Scurry himself is very amusing, and is an admirable mimic. His numerous anecdotes of the war were very interesting. In peace times he is a lawyer. He was a volunte
1832 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ilroad for Galveston. General Scurry insisted upon sending his servant to wait upon me, in order that I might become acquainted with an aristocratic negro. John was a very smart fellow, and at first sight nearly as white as myself. In the cars I was introduced to General Samuel Houston, the founder of Texan independence. He told me he was born in Virginia seventy years ago, that he was United States senator at thirty, and governor of Tennessee at thirty-six. He emigrated into Texas in 1832; headed the revolt of Texas, and defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto in 1836. He then became President of the Republic of Texas, which he annexed to the United States in 1845. As Governor of the State in 1860, he had opposed the secession movement, and was deposed. Though evidently a remarkable and clever man, he is extremely egotistical and vain, and much disappointed at having to subside from his former grandeur. The town of Houston is named after him. In appearance he is a tall, hands
January 1st (search for this): chapter 4
; its streets are long, straight, and shaded with trees; but the city was now desolate, blockaded, and under military law. Most of the houses were empty, and bore many marks of the illdirected fire of the Federal ships during the night of the 1st of January last. The whole of Galveston Bay is very shallow, except a narrow channel of about a hundred yards immediately in front of the now deserted wharves. The entrance to this channel is at the northeastern extremity of the island, and is defe The wreck of the Confederate cotton-steamer Neptune (destroyed in her attack on the Harriet Lane), was close off one of the wharves. That of the Westfield (blown up by the Yankee Commodore), was off Pelican Island. In the night of the 1st January, General Magruder suddenly entered Galveston, placed his field-pieces along the line of wharves, and unexpectedly opened fire in the dark upon the Yankee war vessels at a range of about one hundred yards; but so heavy (though badly directed)
1824 AD (search for this): chapter 4
e occasion. He told me that McClellan might probably have destroyed the Southern army with the greatest ease during the first winter, and without running much risk to himself, as the Southerners were so much over-elated by their easy triumph at Manassas, and their army had dwindled away. I was introduced to Governor Moore, of Louisiana, to the Lieutenant-governor Hyams, and also to the exiled Governor of Missouri, Reynolds. Governor Moore told me he had been on the Red River since 1824, from which date until 1840 it had been very unhealthy. He thinks that Dickens must have intended Shrieveport by Eden. I believe this is a mistake of Governor Moore. I have always understood Cairo was Eden. Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, told me he found himself in the unfortunate condition of a potentate exiled from his dominions; but he showed me an address which he had issued to his Missourians, promising to be with them at the head of an army to deliver them from their oppressor
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