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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 |
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for October 3rd, 1890 AD or search for October 3rd, 1890 AD in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
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