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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
you have had comfortable weather; most delightful for travelling we have had, but cold. Perhaps here on the frozen loins of the North, the weather, herald of icy winters, has appeared sooner than with us, nearer the sun as we are. Remember me to my friends. I rejoice with you in the Harvard celebration of to-day, and shall drink a glass of wine to you and old Harvard and Judge Story at my dinner, the bell for which will soon strike. Yours, C. S. To George S. Hillard. Montreal, Sept. 12, 1836. my dear Hillard,—Once again in this French place I send you greeting. I shall carry this letter into Vermont with me, where I shall commit it to the care of the hundred-handed giant who keeps up the intercourse between the different and most distant parts of the country, and wafts a sigh from Indus to the Pole. I have just received yours of Aug. 30, and am sorry that sickness has grappled hold of you. I trust to see you restored on my return. I sympathize with——in his affliction<
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. Joel R. Abney Joel R. Abney, of Greenwood county, S. C., was born in that portion of Edgefield county now called Saluda, September 12, 1836. His parents were Joel and Martha (Coleman) Abney. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Abney, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, as was also his maternal grandfather, John Coleman. Mr. Abney was reared in Edgefield county on a farm, and farming has been the chief business of his life. During the excitement incident to the bombardment of Fort Sumter he volunteered in Edgefield county and went to Charleston as a member of Company E, Seventh South Carolina regiment. The fort surrendered, however, before his company reached Charleston. Young Abney was then in very poor health and had been for some time. Because of this, after the brief stay at Charleston, he was given an honorable discharge. Though his health continued fee