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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
kindred enterprises, to develop commercial needs sufficient to absorb the full amount of the existing currency. During the last year of the Civil War it became evident that General Grant would, if he chose, be a candidate for the Presidency in 1838, with the chances altogether in favor of his election; but it was quite uncertain whether he was to be the Republican or the Democratic candidate. His last vote at a national election had been for Buchanan. His report read in Congress in December, 1865, on the state of the South, his accompanying of President Johnson on the latter's political tour in 1866, and his acceptance of the portfolio of the war department upon Mr. Stanton's removal were interpreted as showing leanings towards the party with which he had acted before the war. But his later misunderstandings with President Johnson, growing out of the manner of his leaving the war department in January, 1868, led to a bitter antagonism between them; and henceforth the general was
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
l line, which had a development of about four miles, enveloping Winchester from the north and east. Early's left rested on a series of detached and fortified hills to the northwest of the town. It is due to state that there was a great disparity in the numbers engaged —Early's force consisting of eight thousand five hundred muskets and three thousand sabres, The authority for this statement of the Confederate force, is a letter written by General Early from Havana, and published in December, 1865. In this letter that officer says: At the battle of Winchester, or Opequan, as it is called by General Grant, my effective strength was about eight thousand five hundred muskets, three battalions of artillery, and less than three thousand cavalry. The Confederate cavalry of the Valley, consisting of two divisions under under Fitz Lee and Lomax, was at this time in a miserable condition, materially and morally. Our horses, says a letter from a Confederate officer of this force, had
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
ment. In 1863 Governor Lubbock declined the proffered renomination, and entered the military service, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was commissioned colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of President Davis in 1864, and after the evacuation of Richmond, accompanied the President and was with him at the time of his capture. Colonel Lubbock was carried as a prisoner to Fortress Monroe and afterward to Fort Delaware, where he was kept in solitary confinement for seven months. In December, 1865, he returned to Texas, and with characteristic energy, at once began the organization of the commercial house of F. R. Lubbock & Son. In 1867 he removed to Galveston and there served three terms as city treasurer. Subsequently he was for four terms, beginning in 1878, elected State treasurer. Of late years, having reached an advanced age, he has withdrawn himself from public affairs. Pendleton Murrah Pendleton Murrah, governor of Texas, 1863 to 1865, was a native of South Caroli
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)
hool at home until 1876. Then being appointed by Governor Hampton trial justice at Florence, he filled that position during a stirring political period. He was also mayor of the city for three terms. In 1882 he was elected to represent Darlington county in the State legislature for two years. During this time he was admitted to the bar, and has practiced law at Florence since. In 1888 he became president of the bank of Florence and served as such for several years. He was married in December, 1865, to Miss Antoinette T. Chandler, of Winnsboro, S. C., and they have four sons: Harry A., lawyer and editor of the Daily Times and Messenger at Florence; Robert Lee, assistant cashier of the bank of Florence; Peter A., a farmer of Florence county, and Mason C., now in the junior class of the South Carolina college. In evidence of his interest in Confederate comradeship he has attached himself to the camp of Confederate Veterans and has been lieutenant-commander of Pee Dee camp, No. 390,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some great constitutional questions. (search)
were provided by the Constitution itself, to be sufficient for the establishment of it. At the conclusion of his most exhaustive historical and constitutional argument, the author asserts that the whole case against Davis, Lee et als, is based on a perversion of the principles of our polity— based, to use his own language—solely on falsehood, fraud and violence; and he contends that it is only on ground, composed of these detestable ingredients that their gibbet can be erected. In December, 1865, Charles O'Connor characterized the work as an admirably prepared and overwhelmingly conclusive brief for Davis's defence, and, some time afterward, he employed the author in the case; the Philadelphia Ledger stated that a most important argument had been received by the President from London, in which are set forth the reasons why Davis cannot be convicted in any court; and many leading papers of that day noticed the work as one of extraordinary research and ability, specially designed
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee as an educator. (search)
anguages, which included astronomy, engineering and English philology. Before his death instruction in Law was added to the curriculum of his college. His zeal for education and his College. The writer of this represented Rockbridge and Nelson in the Virginia State Senate in the years 1865, 1866 and 1867. In the former county was situated the college of which General Lee was president. His desire to subserve its interests caused him to seek my acquaintance. In the early part of December, 1865, I took my seat in the Senate, and soon after was informed that General Lee was in Richmond, and desired to see me with regard to getting some legislative assistance for Washington College. Having served under him as a soldier, and having for him that intense admiration which all of his soldiers had, I needed no stimulus to call promptly on him. He desired me to aid in procuring the passage of a law by the Legislature by which the interest, or a portion of it, on the debt of the State
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
appointed Hon. Mr. Reagan, the Postmaster-General, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Clark Acting Treasurer An interesting account of the winding — up of the Treasury Department is published in Southern Historical Society Papers (vol. IX, p. 542, et seq, by Ex-Acting Treasurer C. S. A., and Confidential Clerk Executive Office, C. S. A.) Mr. Clark's record as a Confederate is unique in some particulars. As he was on duty watching papers of the Confederate Government until December, 1865, he never gave his parole. His commission as Acting Treasurer of the Confederacy bore the last official signature of the President of the Confederate States. The commission is now on deposit at the Confederate Museum here. All the gold and silver bonds and contents of the Treasury were turned over to the Acting Treasurer, without bond being required of him. President Davis honored Mr. Clark with two personal visits to his home at Clarksville, and on one occasion declared his high ad
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The cruise of the Shenandoah. (search)
selected to take dispatches from the Confederate commissioners in England and France, and Captain Bulloch, in charge of equipping cruisers, to the Richmond government. These dispatches were taken through the blockade and delivered, and he was sent back to the commissioners with return dispatches. In October, 1864, he was ordered as executive officer of the C. S. S. Shenandoah, and after her unique cruise surrendered to the British Government in Liverpool, Eng., in November, 1865. In December, 1865, he went to Buenos Ayres, and remained in the Argentine Confederation until 1867, when he returned to his home in Virginia. In 1868 he was appointed captain of one of the Bay Line steamers between Baltimore and Norfolk and Portsmouth. He served in that capacity until 1890, when he resigned to become superintendent of the floating equipment of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. After this fleet was sold, in 1901, he assisted, in 1902, in organizing the Virginia Bank and Trust
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
fy the criminal law of the State as to change the mode of punishment for minor felonies, or those sentenced for short terms of imprisonment, even the most active measures that can be adopted will scarcely relieve the pressing necessities of the prison during the approaching summer. "Of the 389 convicts remaining on the 1st day of October last, 198 were sentenced for terms of five years and upwards, and for the last three years nearly 37 1/2 per cent. of the number received were sentenced for the like terms. These long sentences produce an accumulation of convicts in the prison, which, in the course of five or six years, would alone amount to the number now in the prison. But the rate of increase during the last three years has been at the rate of 43 per annum, while that of the last fifteen months has been at the rate of 72 per annum — so that under the present system, it may be safely estimated that in December, 1865, there will be no less than 550 convicts in this prison."
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
An official statement of the result of blockade-running at the port of Wilmington from January, 1863, to December, 1865, appears in the Manchester Guardian. The total ventures made by English capitalists and speculators, counting the values of ships and cargoes, amounted to more than sixty six millions of dollars.
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