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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.4 (search)
Rich mountain in 1861. [from the Richmond Dispatch of November 17 and December 3, 1899.] An account of that memorable campaign and how General Garnett was killed. History of the occurrences Of May 10th, 11th, and 12th—Taliaferro Succeeds to command after the fall of Garnett—Incidents of the report by Dr. Henry M. Price, Company K, 44th Virginia Volunteers, with corrections and additional particulars by C. T. Allen, formerly of Lunenburg county, Va. by Dr. Henry M. Price. At the request of many old comrades, and through your courtesy, I will try to give your readers a true history of the occurrences of the 10th, 11th, and 12th of May, 1861, culminating in the tragic death of General Garnett, and the loss of West Virginia to the State and the Confederacy. No campaign has been more misunderstood, nor more misrepresented, both North and South than this. On the evening of the 10th of July, 1861, the Forty-fourth Virginia Volunteers, commanded by Colonel William C. Scott,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
morituri salutamus—Caesar, we who are about to die, salute thee—but, with heroic confidence, foretold that they would have an avenger. The prophecy was fulfilled. Those who committed the great crime have not escaped the Nemesis, who adjusts the unbalanced scale of human wrongs. Called the Furies from the abyss, And round Orestes bade them howl and hiss. Jno. S. Mosby. San Francisco, October 31, 1899. Major Richards Cites authorities for his conclusions. Richmond, Va., December 3, 1899. Editor of The Times. Sir,—In my address at the unveiling of the monument erected at Front Royal to the memory of Mosby's men who were executed after they surrendered, I stated two conclusions drawn from the official records of the war which seem to have attracted particular attention and elicited some discussion. The interest thus evidenced encourages me to give the facts supporting those conclusions. The Front Royal tragedy occurred on September 23d, 1864. At that time we (lid<