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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
ur poverty and the destruction of our means of supplies plead our cause of not being able to offer better accommodation to them. We, the soldiers of the Confederacy, fared no better; but the Federal Government—it can only offer expediency as an excuse. Fairfax monument. Dedication of the monument at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia, erected to the dead heroes from that county who fell in the Confederate States Army. [The following account has been compiled from the Fairfax Herald of October 3, 1890, and other newspapers, kindly furnished by Mrs. S. C. Vedder, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Memorial Association of Fairfax county.] A little more than two years ago a little notice was inserted in the Fairfax Herald, signed Ex-Confederate, requesting the citizens of Fairfax Courthouse and vicinity to meet in the Courthouse on a day designated, for the purpose of taking steps to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers of Fairfax who died or were killed during the la
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 26 (search)
General Polk's Death. General Joseph E. Johnston describes how he was killed. [Baltimore sun, October 3, 1890.] An article in the Indianapolis Journal recently purported to narrate the true account of the death of the Confederate Lieutenant-General Polk, Bishop of Louisiana. Concerning its statement Mr. Winfield Peters writes to the Sun that having in the year 1879 visited the field of operations along Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., and having located, after much effort, the spot where General Polk fell, and informed myself as to the circumstances of his death, and having subsequently conferred with General Joseph E. Johnston and Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, who were present on the field and near General Polk when he fell, he was able not only to correct the inaccuracies of the Journal, but to set at rest any future dispute as to a remarkable historical occurrence of the late war. I determined to ask General Joseph E. Johnston to write his account of it, and now have the pleasure to