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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
t flank at Gettysburg, by Colonel William Brooke-Rawle; The siege of Morris Island, by General W. W. H. Davis; The Union cavalry at Gettysburg, by Major-General D. McM. Gregg; The Union men of Maryland, by Hon. W. H. Purnell, Ll. D.; The war's carnival of Fraud, by Colonel Henry S. Olcott; Union view of exchange of prisoners, by General R. S. Northcott; War as a popular Educator, by John A. Wright. On the whole, it is a book worthy of a place in our libraries, and we hope that our friend Dr. George W. Bagby, the agent for Virginia, will meet with great success in selling it. There are criticisms on some of the articles which we reserve for future review; but we must now express our regret that the compilers of the volume have put in General Wilson's miserable slander of President Davis, which, when first published, displayed gross ignorance, which has grown into sometliing worse when persisted in after its complete refutation, both in the Times and in our Papers.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad. These courtesies, cheerfully granted, enabled us to travel in comfort over these splendid lines, and we were favored in not encountering on this long journey a single a single accident, and in having no detention or failure of connection that seriously interfered with our programme. W. W. Corcoran, Esq., Vice-President of our Society for the District of Columbia, has recently done a very graceful and warmly appreciated act in purchasing from Dr. George W. Bagby, and presenting to the Society, a very valuable collection of war annals—embracing many thousand extracts from Confederate newspapers and other publications, containing heroic, patriotic, pathetic and humorous anecdotes, personal sketches, accounts of battles and sieges—incidents of the prison, the camp, the march, the bivouac, and the hospital—extracts from striking editorials—prices of commodities at different periods of the war—anecdotes of Southern women—and a general miscell
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad. These courtesies, cheerfully granted, enabled us to travel in comfort over these splendid lines, and we were favored in not encountering on this long journey a single a single accident, and in having no detention or failure of connection that seriously interfered with our programme. W. W. Corcoran, Esq., Vice-President of our Society for the District of Columbia, has recently done a very graceful and warmly appreciated act in purchasing from Dr. George W. Bagby, and presenting to the Society, a very valuable collection of war annals—embracing many thousand extracts from Confederate newspapers and other publications, containing heroic, patriotic, pathetic and humorous anecdotes, personal sketches, accounts of battles and sieges—incidents of the prison, the camp, the march, the bivouac, and the hospital—extracts from striking editorials—prices of commodities at different periods of the war—anecdotes of Southern women—and a general miscell
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
renewals continue to be very much in order, and in fact very much desired. $3,00 is a small matter to each individual, but the aggregate of the subscriptions due us make an amount which we need just now, and we beg our friends who are in arrears to remit at once. And you will make your own remittance all the more welcome if you will send another subscription along with your own. Mr. Corcoran's valuable and highly appreciated gift of the Ana, of the war, collected and arranged by Dr. Geo. W. Bagby, has been completed by the turning over to us of the last two volumes. We again express our warmest acknowledgements of this renewed expression of Mr. Corcoran's interest in our work—an interest to which he has again and again given practical expression. our endowment Fund project grows upon us, the more we think of it, both as to its necessity and the practicability of its accomplishment. An endowment fund of at least $100,000, and a fire proof building are both absolutely essent
The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Robberies. --The police yesterday arrested Mike, slave of John Greanor; Boston, slave of Mrs. Marin Hunt; and Richard, slave of Henry Atkinson, charged with stealing one barrel of crushed sugar from Robert Lacy.--Mary, the property of Harman Woodward, was also arrested for stealing three pounds of sugar and a small lot of eggs and lard from George A. Gathright.--Another negro, named Sam, the property of George W. Bagby, was arrested for stealing a lot of pork from H. Ammons.--All of these parties were lodged in the lower Station-House.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
se that Cook obtained a warrant for Jones's arrest. Several witnesses were examined for the defendant, their testimony going to prove that he had been empowered by Knoxville to dispose of the negro man, Jim, and invest the proceeds in the purchase of two negro boys. The good character of the accused was also attested to; after which, the Mayor continued the case for further consideration. Lucy, slave of Robert Collins, charged with receiving two hundred dollars in Confederate States notes, stolen from George W. Bagby, she well knowing it was stolen, was discharged. The case against James, slave of William Lowman, charged with having a lot of clothing supposed to have been stolen, was continued. Thomas Starke was charged with drunkenness and assaulting and beating Sally Starke, his wife. The testimony failed to establish the guilt of the accused and he was thereupon discharged. A negro, named Ned, slave of Drewry Marrows, was committed to jail as a runaway.
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Hustings Court, yesterday. --In this court, yesterday, Christian Burging, F. W. Hagerman and Henry Beckman, charged with selling liquor without a license, were each fined sixty dollars, with costs. Richard, a slave, for associating and cohabiting with Delia Mack, a white woman, and trespassing on the premises of Caroline Mack, was ordered thirty-nine lashes yesterday, thirty- nine lashes next Saturday, and thirty-nine lashes next Wednesday--an aggregate of one hundred and seventeen in all. William S. Austin, charged with the theft of two hundred dollars in Confederate money from Dr. George W. Bagby, was acquitted, and the money returned, Austin not claiming it. Moses Harris, a slave, for breaking and entering the house of Dr. Charles D. Foote and stealing therefrom one valuable trunk and clothing, was ordered thirty-nine lashes yesterday and thirty- nine lashes next Saturday. Court adjourned until this morning at 11 o'clock.