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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4.21 (search)
lying in Baltimore. I could see the firing from Federal Hill. The so-called freedom of the ignorant and helpless negroes will prove a misguided and mock philanthrophy. They will never be so well cared for, nor so happy, as in a state of slavery to humane masters. Gold closed in Wall street yesterday at 229. There is much speculation in it, and apparently little confidence in greenbacks. The latter is rapidly depreciating, and bids fair to become as valueless as Confederate money. November 2d and 3d Am not at all well, and take some pills. Gold closed at 246 last night. There seems to be a financial panic. November 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Have been quite sick with dysentery, caused, no doubt, by improper food. Knowles put me on what he calls low diet, but what is really starvation fare. Have received a kind letter from brave Captain Hugh E. Malone, of the Eighth Georgia, now wounded in both legs and a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. He is a near neighbor t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
paper in reply to portions of Captain C. W. Read's Recollections of the Confederate Navy. From Carlton McCarthy, Richmond, Virginia--Paper No. 3 on Detailed Minutiae of soldier life. Our annual meeting comes off on Thursday evening, November the 2d, and we cordially invite the attendanee of our members from every section. The Virginia Division of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia will have its Reunion on the night of the 2d of November, and the two meetings will attract2d of November, and the two meetings will attract a number of old Confederates, with whom it will be pleasant to mingle. Premiums for subscribers to magazines, newspapers and other periodicals have been very much run into the ground, and are not generally worth consideration. But we have the following offer to make, which will be of real value both to us and those who may accept it: To any one sending us a club of three new subscribers, with the money ($9), we will send the beautiful lithograph of General Lee on Traveller, which is sold
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual meeting of the Southern Historical Society. (search)
Annual meeting of the Southern Historical Society. On Thursday evening, November 2d, the Society assembled in the hall of the House of Delegates, in the State Capitol at Richmond, in its annual meeting. In the absence of the President, General Jubal A. Early (who wrote that only the most imperative business engagements could have detained him from the meeting), the Vice-President, Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, presided. The meeting was opened with an appropriate and fervent prayer, by Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D., after which the annual report of the Executive Committee was read by the chairman, General Dabney H. Maury, as follows: Fourth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Southern Historical Society, for the year ending October 31st, 1876. In presenting our fourth annual report, the Committee feel constrained to congratulate the Society on the gratifying progress we have made during the past year, and the bright prospects which open before us in the futur