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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States Colored Troops. (search)
trict of West Tennessee till September, 1865. Discontinued September 20, 1865. 70th United States Colored Regiment Infantry. Organized at Natchez, Miss., April 23 to October 1, 1864. Attached to District of Natchez, Miss., District of Vicksburg, Miss., Depts. of the Tennessee and Mississippi, till March, 1867. Service. Post and garrison duty at Natchez, Miss., till April, 1865, and at Rodney and other points in the Dept. of Mississippi till March, 1866. Mustered out March 7, 1866. 71st United States Colored Regiment Infantry. Organized at Black River Bridge and Natchez, Miss., and Alexandria, La., March 3 to August 13, 1864. Attached to District of Natchez, Miss., District of Vicksburg, Miss. Service. Post and. garrison duty at Natchez, Miss., till November, 1864. Expedition from Natchez to Buck's Ferry and skirmishes September 19-22. Consolidated with 70th Regiment United States Colored Troops November 8, 1864. 72nd United States Colored
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
ious reference to a distinction in color, which the framers of the constitution took such pains to avoid. The joint resolution — with the clause, that, whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or abridged in any State, on account of race or color, all persons therein of such race or color shall be excluded from the basis of representation --had passed the House by a large majority, and was favorably entertained by the Senate, when Mr. Sumner, on the 6th and 7th of February, and on the 7th and 9th of March, 1866, in speeches characterized by cogent reasoning and historical illustration, unfolded the iniquity of the compromise, and emphatically denounced this effort to admit the idea of inequality and disfranchisement on account of color, into the constitution. After generations have passed, surrounded by the light of Christian truth, and in the very blaze of human freedom, said he, it is proposed to admit into the constitution the twin idea of inequality in rights, and thus
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
r summons. With my earnest sympathy for yourself and kindest regards to your children, in which Mrs. Lee and my daughters unite, I am most truly yours, R. E. Lee. The friendship between General Lee and the venerable Bishop Meade, of Virginia (whose efficient labors in the cause of evangelical piety were widely known and appreciated even outside of his own communion), was touchingly beautiful, and the following letter will be read with peculiar interest: Lexington, Virginia, March 7, 1866. Rt. Rev. John Johns, Bishop of Virginia, Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, Virginia: Rt. Rev. and Dear Sir: I am very glad to learn, from your note of the 27th ult., that you have consented to write a memoir of our good and beloved Bishop Meade. Of all the men I have ever known, I consider him the purest; and a history of his character and life will prove a benefit to mankind. No one can portray that character, or illustrate that life better than yourself; and I rejoice that
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
he thirteenth Constitutional amendment, and Sumner replied that it had already been ratified by a quorum of States. New York Evening Post, September 29, Works, vol. IX. pp. 489-492. From this time they were often at issue with Sumner on measures of reconstruction. Godwin's Life of Bryant, vol. II. pp. 238-242. The Evening Post, March 1, 1866, contains a rather cynical notice of Sumner's speech of February 5 and 6, 1866. While retaining its Republican connection, it regarded (November 6, 7, and 8, 1867) the reconstruction measures of Congress, except the fourteenth amendment, as needless, violent, unstatesmanlike, and fanatical. The New York Times, in successive leaders, took positive ground against negro suffrage as any part of the reconstruction. March 2; June 3, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29. The Cincinnati Commercial printed eleven years later letters found in Andrew Johnson's office at Greenville, Tenn., after his death, which approved his policy of reconstruction at the o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
Feb. 24, 1863. Dike, Edward Goodwin. Born in Massachusetts. Second Lieutenant. 38th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 12, 1862. First Lieutenant, Regimental Adjutant, Mar. 4, 1863. Captain, Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Dec. 24, 1864. Mustered out, Sept. 29, 1865. Dimon, Charles Augustus Ropes. See General Officers. Doan, George P. Born in the West Indies. Appointed from Massachusetts. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 27, 1862. Mustered out, Mar. 7, 1866. Dodd, Albert. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, 17th U. S. Infantry, May 14, 1861. Captain, 3d Battalion Riflemen, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., May 19, 1861. Mustered out of volunteer service, Aug. 3, 1861. Brevet Major, U. S. Army, June 27, 1862. Killed at the battle of Gaines's Mill, Va , June 27, 1862. Dodge, Francis Safford. Born at Danvers, Mass., Sept. 11, 1842. Private and Corporal, 23d Mass. Infantry, Oct. 9, 1861, to Dec. 19, 1862. First Lieutenant, 2d U. S.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Captain Don P. Halsey, C. S. A. (search)
ch we took part with gallantry, and was commended in all the reports as well as I can remember. He was promoted to a majority, and assigned to a division as adjutant-general, I think, in 1864 or ‘65, and of course I did not see him again. After the war he took up the burden of life, as did most Confederate soldiers, under far more disadvantageous circumstances than would have surrounded him had the result of the war been different, and began the practice of law in Lynchburg On the 7th of March, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Ann Warwick Daniel, the daughter of Judge William Daniel, Jr., and the granddaughter of John M. Warwick, Esq., from whose house the wedding took place, and his home-life, as husband and father, was of the happiest and most exemplary character. For a while he was in partnership with Judge Daniel and his son, now Senator John W. Daniel, under the firm name of Daniel, Halsey and Daniel. Later on he decided to move to Richmond, where he reside