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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Origin of the late war. (search)
heir people. The abolition party, which denounced the constitution as a covenant with death and an agreement with hell, was fast growing in power and influence in the free States, and threatened to become the most powerful political organization within their borders. Massachusetts had adopted resolutions by her legislature, with the assent of her governor — if his message represented his opinions — resolutions which were denounced at the time as being of a disunion character. Her senator, Bates, presented them in silence, and Colonel King, of Alabama, regretted that a proposition should come from Massachusetts to dissolve the Union. (See Lunt's Origin of the War, 128-9). All hope of acquiring any additional political strength by the South to defend their rights was gone. The free States had announced their determination to exclude slavery from the territories of the United States, and they had the strength to do it, if they believed, as they affected to do, that the constitution
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
r, accurate and vigorous, and the maps are in every respect admirable. The book is gotten up in the best style of D. Van Nostrand, New York, and should have a place in the library of every military student. The battle of Gettysburg. By Samuel P. Bates. Philadelphia: Davis & Co., 1875. We are indebted to the publishers for a copy of this book, which has received the highest enconiums of Northern Military critics, and may be accepted as a standard work on the Federal side. Colonel John commanders during the war should have so egregiously overestimated our numbers; but it is entirely inexcusable that a historian at this day (with easy access to the official reports of the Confederate generals) should commit the same blunders. Mr. Bates puts Hill's corps at Fredericksburg at 30,000 men, Stuart's cavalry at Brandy Station at 12,000, the force which environed Milroy at Winchester at 60,000, and General Lee's entire force at Gettysburg at 107,000 men. Now the truth is that these
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Review of Bates' battle of Gettysburg. (search)
Review of Bates' battle of Gettysburg. [In a brief notice of Bates' history of the battle ofBates' history of the battle of Gettysburg, we intimated a purpose of returning to the subject again. The following letter from C discolor the facts of history. The book of Dr. Bates, recently published, possesses merit as a clst be supposed to be substantially correct. Dr. Bates assumes, in the face of General Meade's stat00 infantry to his army. Add the cavalry at Dr. Bates' estimate of 12,000, and we have nearly 100,and Meade. General Hooker says, according to Dr. Bates: With regard to the enemy's force, I had rel and is certainly erroneous. The attempt of Dr. Bates to reconcile the estimate of Hooker and Mead under these circumstances was, according to Dr. Bates, able to thinks the Confederate commander lo artillery and cavalry is liberal. 3. But Dr. Bates has in his own book the refutation of his est and Ewell have both been published (though Dr. Bates seems unaware of it, as well as of the publi[5 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of a narrative received of Colonel John B. Baldwin, of Staunton, touching the Origin of the war. (search)
spoke freely and at large, urging forbearance and the evacuation of the forts, &c. Lincoln made the objection that all the goods would be imported through the ports of Charleston, &c., and the sources of revenue dried up. I remember, says Mr. Stuart, that he used this homely expression: If I do that, what will become of my revenue? I might as well shut up house-keeping at once! But his declarations were distinctly pacific, and he expressly disclaimed all purpose of war. Mr. Seward and Mr. Bates, Attorney General, also gave Mr. Stuart the same assurances of peace. The next day the commissioners returned to Richmond, and the very train on which they traveled carried Lincoln's proclamation, calling for the seventy-five thousand men to wage a war of coercion. This proclamation, says Mr. Stuart, was carefully withheld from us, although it was in print; and we knew nothing of it until Monday morning, when it appeared in the Richmond papers. When I saw it at breakfast, I thought it m