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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
her. S. Teakle Wallis. And when they tell us, as they do, those wiser, better brethren of ours—and tell to the world to make it history—that this our civilization is half barbarism, we may be pardoned if we answer: Behold its product and its representative! Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. Here is Robert Lee. Show us his fellow. Our great leader was not only a great soldier, but more—a selfless man and stainless gentleman. On the 21st April, 1861, the Richmond Howitzers were mustered into the service of the State, in obedience to an ordinance of the Convention adopted 17th April. The commissioned officers were: Captain, George W. Randolph; First Lieutenant, John C. Shields; Second Lieutenant, John Thompson Brown; Third Lieutenant, Thomas P. Mayo. History Richmond Howitzer Battalion, Pamphlet No. 4, page 33; extracts from an old Order Book, First company. The command increased so rapidly in numbers that it was soon sufficient t<