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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pensioning of the Confederate soldier by the United States. (search)
resolutions were adopted: Headquarters Pickett-Buchanan Camp, C. V., Norfolk, Va., January 24, 1899., Commander and Comrades. Your committee appointed on the 19th instant to consider the subject to which the following resolutions relate, respectfully report as follows: Pickett-Buchanan Camp, No. 3 of the Grand Camp, Confederate Veterans, Department of Virginia, has read with pleasure the speech made by the President of the United States at the Atlanta Peace Jubilee, on the 14th of December, 1898, on which occasion the President, addressing Confederate veterans, used the following language: Every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor, and while when these graves were made we differed widely about the future of this government, the differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms, and the time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling, under the Providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we sho
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
I am sorry, Doctor, that I cannot, through you, help Dr. Lewis more than this letter will. His effort is a laudable one. If it does nothing more it will afford much indisputable evidence that the humane exchange of medical officers was first suggested and practiced by General Jackson, and if it had been carried out in good faith, as it should have been, would have been fruitful of much good to suffering humanity. General Stephen D. Lee writes from Agricultural College, Miss., December 14, 1898: I will forward to General Clement A. Evans, at Atlanta, the evidence you sent me of the humane policy of General Jackson in dealing liberally and humanely with surgeons, hospitals and wounded in war. I think the action of General Jackson will be a crowning honor to the treatment of prisoners, for which we have been so unjustly assailed. General Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, Ga., writes, October 20, 1898: You have touched here a very important subject. Our claim that w