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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
lled to the article in the last volume (Xxxii) of this serial reprinted under the caption of Confederate States' Battle Flags as to the effective agency in their return by the War Department to their proper custody. There can be no question as to the potent effect of this action toward re-cementing, in common tie of pride and affection, the sections of our re-united country. The patriotic zeal of the veteran, Captain John Lamb, waxes in its felicitous results. He writes of date February 6, 1906, that the joint resolution, introduced by him authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain unidentified battle flags, had been reported on favorably and unanimously by the Committee on Military Affairs, the custody being changed (at my suggestion) to The Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Virginia, in which our noble women of the South have provided proper cases for their display and safe keeping, and in whose historic building are also preserved the treasures of th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.37 (search)
side, and Fort Mahone on the Confederate side, on account of the fierce and almost constant fire they gave and received were appropriately named respectively Forts Hell and Damnation. While some of these famous forts have almost disappeared under the hand of time and the march of improvement, most of them are still well preserved and in good condition. In the vicinity of the proposed park are many other points of notable interest. At a meeting of the common council of Petersburg, Feb. 6th 1906, Mr. Quicke offered resolutions appropriating the sum of $1.000 to the fund to be raised by the Mahone Monument Association for the erection of a monument in memory of General William Mahone, and granting permission to erect the monument in Central Park. The preamble to these resolutions sets forth in eloquent terms the record of General Mahone as a soldier and the deeds of his heroic men, especially in 1864-65 in the glorious defense of Petersburg, and at the battle of the Crater, the