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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
courtesy which the Confederate General and his people had received on all occasions, in connection with the removal. While Sherman was resting his army at Atlanta, Hood, who was joined by Hardee, near Jonesboroa, and was otherwise re-enforced, flanked Sherman's right, crossed the Chattahoochee, and made a formidable raid upon his communications. It was at about this time that Jefferson Davis hastened from Richmond to Georgia to view the situation, and in a speech at Macon, on the 23d of September, he talked to them with the air of a Dictator, as he tried to, be, using the personal pronoun as freely as an autocrat. He was much disturbed by the condition of affairs in that region, and the evident distrust of himself by the people; and, while admitting that great disasters had befallen the cause of the Conspirators that he met them as friends drawn together in adversity, he endeavored to feed their hopes upon the husks of promises of great disasters that were to befall Sherman. H
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
zealously in many ways for their spiritual good. At length, feeling the comparative inefficiency of separate societies, laboring apart, he suggested, August 22. soon after he began his labors in the army, the combination of all the Young Men's Christian Associations of the land, in the formation of a society similar in its organization to that of the Sanitary Commission. The suggestion was acted upon, and at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association, held in New York, on the 23d of September, a committee was appointed, with Mr. Colyer as its Chairman, to conduct the correspondence and make arrangements for holding a National Convention of such associations. So the work was begun; and on the first of October, Mr. Colyer wrote an earnest letter, setting forth the necessity for immediate associated effort. A convention was called. It assembled in the city of New York, on the 14th of November, 1861 when the United States Sanitary Commission was organized with the ever activ