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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pegram battalion Association. (search)
eon had occurred on Grecian soil, and had been preserved in classic in place of sacred literature? Who does not know that it would have passed into history as one of the world's exemplars of heroism, and occupied a place beside Thermopylae of ancient and Balaklava of modern times? But, alas, being recorded in sacred history, its fate has been to degenerate into a joke, and the name of that gallant border chieftain can scarce be mentioned without exciting a smile. In the hill country of Benjamin, where the mountainous region falls away to the valley of the Jordan, there is a deep gorge or fissure, caused by some convulsion of nature, called the Valley of Michmash. Over against each other, across this yawning and precipitous chasm, stand opposing cliffs. On yonder side of the chasm an army of the Philistines, numbering many thousands, has pitched its tents; on this side a little band of Hebrews, numbering about six hundred, occupy a strongly entrenched and fortified camp. It se
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
ath the grateful shadows of Southern live-oaks and magnolias; but the vice-president of the Confederacy four years ago terminated his active and useful career. Of those who held the portfolio of State, Robert Toombs, R. M. T. Hunter, and Judah P. Benjamin, all are dead. Of the four attorney-generals, only two, ex-Governor Thomas H. Watts, and the Honorable George Davis, survive. Mr. Memminger, of the Treasury Department, still lives. Hon. Charles G. Memminger died March 7, 1888, in Charleston, S. C. The other secretary, the gifted George A. Trenholm, has, for years, been sleeping that sleep which knows no waking. Of the five Secretaries of War, Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James A. Seddon, and John C. Breckinridge, not one is alive. The accomplished Adjutant-General, Samuel Cooper, A. C. Myers, Quartermaster-General, L. B. Northrup, Commissary-General, General I. M. St. John, Chief of the Bureau of Subsistence, General Josiah Gorgas, Chi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ck Soldiers Re-union, 109. Beard, Lt. J. A., 21. Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 23, 26, 31, 93, 97, 154, 178, 265, 274. 297, 318, 397, 408. Beauregard Light Infantry, 134. Beatty. Capt., 22. Bee, Gen., 94. Bell, Col., 73, 74, 313. Bell, Col. J. H., 313. Bellinger, Lt., John. 92. Bellinger, Dr., Martin, 123, 126. Belmont, Battle of, 69; forces engaged in and losses at, 80, 351. Beltzhoover, Capt., 70. Beltzhoover, Col., 74. Benbow, Capt., 128. Benham, Gen. H W., 150. Benjamin, Hon. J. P., 273. Bennett, Rev. W. W., 195, 205. Benning, Gen. H. L., 385, 404; his Notes on Battle of Sharpsburg, 393. Bermuda Hundred, 398. Berryville, Va., train captured at, 264. Bester, Sergeant P. D., 91. Betts, Capt , 14. Beverley, W. Va., 83. Bible, Chieftains of the, 197. Bidgood, Col. Joseph V., 196. Big Sewell Mountain, 90. Billingsley, Capt., Jo, 381. Black, Lt. A. W., 20. Black, Col., Charles, 366. Black, Col., John Logan, 26, 224; Charge at Gettysburg, 224.