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fugee to his home. The quiet of thriving villages, when the old man on his crutch and the brave and war-worn veteran with his armless sleeve, shall tell of bloody battles and scenes of privation to smiling children around him. The quiet of prosperous cities, whose wharves shall whiten with an opulent commerce, whose shops shall hum with a busy industry, and whose spires point to that haven of rest which is far away. Then from a thousand happy hearts and happy homes shall arise thanksgiving and praise to the God of battles as of grace, while tears of gratitude will embalm the memories and bedew the graves of the brave men whose blood has been shed as a libation to liberty. A. D. Dickinson, Chairman, A. J. Marshall, Andrew Hunter, Senate Committee, B. H. Shackleford, Chairman, R. W. Hunter, F. B. Deane, A. C. Cummings, R. H. Baker, House Committee. Adopted by Senate, March 5, 1864. Shelton C. Davis, C. S. Adopted by House of Delegates, March 9, 1864. Wm. F. Gordon, C. H. D.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
n that great occasion, that no such offer in any form was made. The Nashville American newspaper, of the 26th of June, 1897, published a communication from Mr. R. H. Baker, of Watertown, Tenn., under the head lines, Judge Reagan in Error, in which he took issue with me on that question, thereby necessarily assuming that President Lincoln had made such an offer. The day on which Mr. Baker's article was published I sent a note to the American, stating that on my return home I would send to that paper a statement of the authorities on which I made the denial that any such offer had been made. Pursuant to that promise, on the 7th day of July, 1897, I se. Lincoln did, it is difficult to understand just why Judge Reagan should be so inconsistent. Let us see as to this. My letter of July 7th was a reply to Mr. R. H. Baker, who questioned the truthfulness of my denial that such an offer was made. It is also true that a considerable portion of the people of the Southern States h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
proche, he fell at the zenith of his glory, September, 1863. Though General G. J. Wright was as brave and gallant as man could be, yet they all were older; we expected much of them. It was not the same feeling we had for Pierce Young. As Colonel Baker, of the 1st North Carolina Cavalry, told him at Middletown, Maryland, September 12, 1862, where, after a hard day's fight, incensed at some slighting remark that Baker had made of a charge of The Cobb Legion, he defied him to mortal combat thBaker had made of a charge of The Cobb Legion, he defied him to mortal combat then and there, on horseback or on foot, with sabre or pistol, or any way he would fight. Why, Pierce, you are nothing but a boy, you forget yourself; I came here to fight Yankees, not as good a soldier as you. Unmindful of the emphatic berating of his junior officer, conscious of his own courage, demonstrated in many a fierce encounter, instead of arresting him for disrespect, he laughed at the boyishness displayed even before his own regiment, who, with the older men of Young's Regiment, alwa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Drewry's Bluff. (search)
ders) on or about the 14th May, ‘64. Finding that General Pickett was very ill from fever, I ordered Genl. Whiting, then at Wilmington, to come at once to Petersburg to assume command, while I moved to Drury's Bluff, where General Hoke temporarily commanded. General W. arrived at about noon on the 13th, & after about one hour's conference with him & leaving with him some written general instructions, I started for Drury's Bluff accompanied by 3 regiments of Colquitt's brigade & part of Col. Baker's Regiment of Cavalry. When we arrived at Swift Creek I was informed by one of my aids just returning from Richmond that he had met some of Butler's Federal troops on their way to attack Drury's Bluff. I therefore diverged to Chesterfield C. H., where we arrived about 12 h. P. M., & found it occupied by a small force of Federals which we drove out of the place. We reached D's Bluff about 3 h. A. M., in a terrible rainstorm, passing between Butler's left & the river. I at once sent fo
rget to mention that Jones's brigade, especially the 6th and 7th regiments Va cavalry, rendered most efficient service in engagements with the enemy near Fairfield, Pa, and on the Cavetown road, near Hagerstown; and it is with regret that I am not possessed of fuller information. On the 22d Gen. Lee began to fall back from Bunker's Hill, a point twelve miles above Winchester, to the east of the mountains. Robertson came back with Longstreet, who was in the advance, through Chester Gap, and Baker brought up Ewell's rear, which was the last of the infantry corps. On reaching the east side of the mountains, whilst Jones was left to do picket duty on the Lower Shenandoah, the brigades of W. H. F. Lee, Fitz Lee, and Jenkins endeavored by forced marches from Leesburg, through Millwood, to reach Manassas Gap in advance of the enemy, but failed to do so, and crossed at Chester Gap with Hill's corps. I have thus hastily recapitulated the operations of the cavalry during this ever memor
from town they arrested and carried off Mills Pruden, a quiet, inoffensive, good man, charging him with shooting at them. They tried him and condemned him to death, but he was pardoned and released through the influence of some negroes belonging to a neighbor who happened to be with them. But they robbed him of all his provisions and his horse, leaving a large family to suffer. This negro party was said to have been led in their depredations by Tom Campbell, formerly a slave to Judge R. H. Baker. The negro cavalry have now been ordered to Yorktown, and a part of the 5th Pennsylvania cavalry are at Bernard's Mill. There are five cavalry regiments near Portsmouth--11th Penn, 5th Penn, 5th N. Y, 1st N. Y, (Dodge's,) and 20th N. Y. Gen Smith, recently sent to Butler, takes command of this force, and his headquarters are at the farm of Col S. M. Wilson. From the Trans-Mississippi Department. The Mobile Tribune publishes some items of news from the Trans- Mississippi
g, &c.--Baker P. Leigh, 43; John Tyler, 31; Cyrus A. Branch, 13. Twenty-second District.--James B. Sener, 10; W. D. Quesenberry, 6. City of Norfolk.--General Wm. Mahone, 15; Dr. J. J. Simpkins, 1. House of Delegates. James City--Jas. W. Curtis, 23; W. R. Willis, 30; R. H. Armistead, 5; R. C. Apperson, 13. Norfolk County.--C. W. Murdaugh, 14; Wm. H. Stewart, 7; A. S. Watts, 12. Prince William.--C. W. C. Dunnington, 5; Colonel E. W. Berkeley, 3. City of Norfolk.--R. H. Baker, Jr., 19 Jefferson County.--Wm. Burnett, 39; W. H. Maseau, 10; J. J. Locke, 15; J. S. Melvin, 17; W. A. McDonald, 14; John Henderson, 1. Marion County.--J. S. Haymond, 8;--Arnett, 1. Alexandria--Morton Marye, 29; B. H. Berry, 33; D. L. Smoot, 2. The following is a statement of the polls at Chaffin's Bluff: Senate. Sixteenth District.--Cyrus A. Branch, 15; Baker P. Lee, 27. City of Richmond.--T. P. August, 5. House of Delegates. Charles City, New Kent