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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
Colonel William Todd Robins.
From the Times-dispatch, June 9, 1906.
A Confederate hero.
December 1, 1906. Editor of the Times-Dispatch:
Sir:—You will find accompanying this note a brief sketch of the life and services of Colonel William Todd Robins, which the Magruder Camp of Confederate Veterans requested me to enclose you for publication in the Confederate column.
Very truly yours, Maryus Jones.
William Todd Robins.
The ranks of the veterans of the great war between the States are thinning with fearful rapidity.
The Confederate veterans have illustrated, no less in the peaceful avocations of life than on the battlefield, that heroism which astonished the world.
When the end came and all hope seemed crushed, they returned to their desolated homes, and by patient industry built up the waste places.
They had no government to pension them.
The same men who, amid screaming shells and hissing bullets, had carried the banner of constitutional freedom to so ma
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
Brave defence of the Cockade City.
Fight at Rives' Farm, in Prince Edward County, with the sufferings in the Northern prison of those who fell into the hands of the enemy. address by John F. Ulenn.
Mr. John F. Glenn delivered the following address before R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, on the 9th of June, 1906, and subsequently before A. P. Hill Camp, Petersburg, Va., on the defence of Petersburg in 1864, and is full of interest.
It is now printed from a revised copy furnished by the author.
In essaying to give an account of some personal recollections of the affair of the 9th of June, 1864, between the small force of militia and second-class reserves, under Colonel Fletcher H. Arthur, and an overwhelming force of cavalry and artillery under the Federal General August V. Kautz, at the Rives Farm, in Prince George county, and some reminiscences of prison life, it is foreign to my purpose to give anything more than a skeleton outline of conditions existing and leading up