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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 9 (search)
een a failure, which, in commenting on, in his Army of the Potomac, Swinton says, that when the records of the War Department shall be carefully examined they will develop discoveries of the most startling nature. In speaking of public sentiment just prior to the battle of Winchester, Grant in his Memoirs says: I had reason to believe that the administration was a little afraid to have a decisive battle fought at that time, for fear it might go against us and have a bad effect on the November elections. The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Treason was talked as boldly in Chicago as ever it had been at Charleston. It was a question of whether the government would then have had the power to make arrests and punish those who thus talked treason. But this decisive victory was the most effective campaign argument made in the canvas. In addition to what Grant says, there was an
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 24 (search)
Son of the South. Life and services of Commodore Maury. [from the Boston Journal.] Proposed monument to his Memory—The immense Benefits to the country that Originated in his fertile Brain—Sketch written by his daughter. [A movement was inaugurated by prominent gentlemen in this city and of this State, in November last, to secure the means, by subscription and by the aid of Congress, for the erection of a monument to the memory of Commodore Maury. It is to be hoped that this grateful object will be pressed to a speedy consummation.—Ed.] Some persons have proposed that a sum of money be set apart by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to the memory of the great American hydrographer and meteorologist, M. F. Maury, in grateful acknowledgment of his services to the marine, commercial, agricultural and other interests of our great country. The monument should be erected in the city of Washington in the year 1892, and thus not o<