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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Contributions to the history of the Confederate Ordnance Department. (search)
Lieutenant-Colonel, like the chief ordnance officers of armies in the field, while at the lesser establishments the officers had rank according to the gravity of the duties devolving on them. The Superintendent of Armories, Lieutenant-Colonel Burton, and the Superintendent of Laboratories, Lieutenant Colonel Mallet, had also the grade of the higher officers on duty in the field. The labors and responsibilities of my department closed practically at Charlotte, North Carolina, on the 26th of April, when the President left that place with an escort for the trans-Mississippi. My last stated official duty, that I can recall, was to examine a cadet in the Confederate service for promotion to commissioned officer. On the afternoon of the 25th of April I received due formal notice from the Adjutant-General's office that General Lawton, Quarter master General, General Gilmer, Chief Engineer, and I were constituted a Board of Examiners on Cadet——. We met a little before sundown, in the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Organization. (search)
Lieutenant-Colonel, like the chief ordnance officers of armies in the field, while at the lesser establishments the officers had rank according to the gravity of the duties devolving on them. The Superintendent of Armories, Lieutenant-Colonel Burton, and the Superintendent of Laboratories, Lieutenant Colonel Mallet, had also the grade of the higher officers on duty in the field. The labors and responsibilities of my department closed practically at Charlotte, North Carolina, on the 26th of April, when the President left that place with an escort for the trans-Mississippi. My last stated official duty, that I can recall, was to examine a cadet in the Confederate service for promotion to commissioned officer. On the afternoon of the 25th of April I received due formal notice from the Adjutant-General's office that General Lawton, Quarter master General, General Gilmer, Chief Engineer, and I were constituted a Board of Examiners on Cadet——. We met a little before sundown, in the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last letters and telegrams of the Confederacy—Correspondence of General John C. Breckinridge. (search)
e indebted to Hon. C. R. Breckinridge for copying and verifying from the originals the following letters and telegrams which were among the last in the official correspondence of his distinguished father, the last Secretary of War of the Confederacy:] Greensboroa, April 25th. Hon. J. C. Breckinridge,—The officers named shall be sent. J. E. Johnston, General This paper is endorsed as follows in my father's handwriting: Mill. Papers, April, 1865. They did not come. Greensboroa, Apl. 26, 7 A. M. General J. C. Breckinridge, Secretary War,—I am going to meet General Sherman at the same place. J. E. Johnston, General Greensboroa, April 24th. Hon. Jno. C. Breckinridge, Sec. War,—I telegraphed you yesterday that Gen'l Sherman informed me he expected his messenger to return from Washington to-day. Please answer. J. E. Johnston, General Greensboroa, Apl. 24th. Hon. J. C. Breckinridge,—Gen'l Johnston directs me to remain in this office to ascertain if you can dec