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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
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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 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
ies on a topic of legal interest, thinks Mackenzie's course entirely justifiable. I have never thanked you for the Valdepeñas. A Spanish wine. I shared it with Prescott, who seemed very glad to get it. Believe me ever, dear Davis, Very sincerely yours, Charles Sumner. P. S. If you care to mention Judge Story's opinion to Mackenzie, I can have no objections; but, considering his position, it is more proper to regard it as confidential. To Dr. Francis Lieber. Epiphany, Jan. 6, 1848. dear Lieber,—I write you on my birthday; but I am of the ancient Thracian faith, and rather ask your tears than smiles. I thank you for my share of the good things in your letter to Hillard. Mary was pleased with it; and that is enough, if there were no other reason, to make me pleased. She, poor girl, had a bleeding from the lungs two days ago, and is now confined to the house. Why this should have fallen upon her is inexplicable. She enjoys life; I do not. Why was not I chose
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
y imagine, appreciates your noble position. I regret very much that Mr. Adams and Mr. King did not stand with you. Sumner defended Palfrey's vote in two articles contributed to the Courier. Dec. 23, 1847, Honor to John Gorham Palfrey. Jan. 6, 1848, Mr. Palfrey and Mr. Winthrop. They were signed with a *, but they were known to be Sumner's at the time, with no purpose on his part to conceal the authorship. They were respectful and temperate in tone, and altogether free from any persona6, 18, 21, 1848. See also his letter in the Boston Whig, Nov. 20, 1847. S. C. Phillips, under the signature of A Massachusetts Whig, contributed a series of articles to the Whig, taking the same view as Adams and Sumner. Dec. 29, 30, 31, 1847; Jan. 6, 8, 13, 1848. in his journal, the Whig, he reviewed Winthrop's course concerning the war, pronouncing his vote for the war bill, and other votes, as the sanction of a national falsehood, as a sacrifice of the old pledges of Massachusetts, and as
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)
ice was done. After the close of the war he improved his education and began teaching, which occupation he followed for several years. In 1865 he was elected tax collector and served as such until 1868. In 1888 he was elected clerk of the court and successively re-elected in 1892 and 1896. Lewis S. Jervey, a well-known cotton broker of Charleston, demonstrated patriotic devotion to his State and the Confederacy in his youth, as a cadet of the South Carolina military academy. Born January 6, 1848, he was but thirteen years of age at the beginning of the titanic conflict for the establishment of a new republic. In January, 1864, he entered the Arsenal academy at Columbia, and later, being transferred to the Citadel academy, he went into active service in November, under Maj. J. B. White, as a private in Company A, Citadel cadets. with this command he was under fire at Tulifinny river while on duty between Charleston and Savannah, and subsequent to the evacuation of the city he