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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.42 (search)
it was in mid-winter, which caused him great suffering. Captain John C. Booth was placed in command of the arsenal, and was also an old Ud adding an armory of construction was a gigantic undertaking. Captain Booth worked incessantly, never considering that every day his bodilymoted to the rank of major during his illness. On the death of Major Booth, Captain Charles P. Bolles assumed command, until LieutenantColoas Stevens, an old United States army sergeant, was appointed by Major Booth as ordnance sergeant and commissary and quartermaster-sergeant ors who were at this post at various times during the war: Major John C. Booth, Captain Charles P. Bolles (Captain Bolles had been employedE. P. Dangerfield was made military storekeeper and paymaster by Major Booth from long experience at the arsenal and armory at Harper's Ferryilliam J. Woodward, who was placed in the ordnance department by Major Booth and General J. Gorgas, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at Richmond,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Shall Cromwell have a statue? (search)
once fearless and generous. We all remember how by the grim mockery of fate—as if to test to the uttermost American capacity for self-government—Abraham Lincoln was snatched away at the moment of crisis from the helm of State, and Andrew Johnson substituted for him. I think it no doubtful anticipation of historical judgment to say that a more unfortunate selection could not well have chanced. In no single respect, it is safe to say, was Andrew Johnson adapted for the peculiar duties which Booth's pistol imposed upon him. One of Johnson's most unhappy, most ill-considered convictions was that our Civil War was a conventional old time rebellion—that rebellion was treason—that treason was a crime: and that a crime was something for which punishment should in due course of law be meted out. He, therefore, wanted, or thought he wanted, to have the scenes of England's Convention Parliament and the Restoration of 1660 re-enacted here, as a fitting sequel of our great conflict. Most for
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
e. Killed June 5, 1864, at Mt. Crawford, Va. Thomas S. Rhett. 1382. Born South Carolina. Appointed at Large. 14. Colonel, 1861. Commanding Richmond defences; Inspector of Ordnance, Ordnance Bureau. Charles H. Tyler. 1391. Born Virginia. Appointed at Large. 23. Colonel. Commanding brigade, Shelby's Division, Price's Army, Trans-Mississippi Department. （Cullum confounds C. H. Tyler with Brigadier-General R. C. Tyler, killed near West Point, Ga., April 16, 1865.) John C. Booth. 1392. Born Georgia. Appointed Alabama. 24. Captain Artillery (Confederate States Army), February, 1861. Commanding arsenal at Baton Rouge, La. Thomas K. Jackson. 1393. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 25. Major, November 1o, 1861. Chief Commissary-General, A. S. Johnston's staff, Western Department, 1861-‘62. William N. R. Beall. 1398. Born Kentucky. Appointed Arkansas. 30. Brigadier-General, April 11, 1862. Commanding brigade, Army of Wes
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
exander, E. P., 70. Allston, B., 65. Anderson, G. B., 63; J. R. 38; R. H., 51; Robert H., 72; S. S., 48. Archer, John, 42; R. H., 35. Bagby, A. P.. 64. Baker L. S., 63. Barnwell T. O., 37. Barton, S. M., 59. Beall L. J., 45; W. N. R., 58. Beauregard, P. G. T., 45. Beckham, R. F., 74. Bee B. E., 54. Beltzhoover, D. L., 56. Berry T. J. 71. Bingharm, ., 62. Blair, W. B., 45. Blake, E. D., 56. Blanchard, A. G., 44. Bledsoe. A. T., 44. Boggs, W. R., 65. Booth, J. C., 57. Borland, H., 75. Bowen, A.,60; J. S., 65. Bradford, A. J., 42; E., 39. Bragg. B.. 39. Brewer, R. H., 73. Brown, J. A., 55. Bryan, G., 37. Buckner. S. B., 53. Buford. A.. 49. Burtwell. J. R. B., 45. Butler E. G. W., 41. Cabell, W. L. 62. Calhoun, W. R., 61. Campbell, C. C.. 76R. B., 48. Chambliss, J. R., 60; N. L., 75. Chase, W. H., 40. Childs, F. L., 68. Chilton, R. H., 40. Church, J. R., 69. Clark, M. L., 44. Cocke P. St. George, 35. Cole.
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern and Southern Affairs. (search)
d citizens who took up arms for that special occasion, marched from Lewisburg to give them battle. As the rise in the waters prevented the infantry of the enemy from getting over to Meadow Bluff, the Yankee cavalry considered "discretion the better part of valor," and retired before Col. Reynolds had an opportunity of paying his respects to them.--They were pursued for some distance by the Green brier cavalry, under command of Capt. B. F. Eakle. The North Carolina Arsenal. Captain John C. Booth, Superintendent of the North Carolina Arsenal and Foundry, situated at Fayetteville, writes to the Baton Rouge Gazette as follows: My foundry will cover about three or four acres. My laboratory is shaping itself into a chej d'auvre, and I have the best chief in the world. I am getting out timber for one hundred field batteries and five hundred heavy gun carriages; the latter, however, will be made principally of iron. My rifle factory has just begun to work, and we ship to-mo
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Dead. (search)
Dead. --Major John C. Booth, commandant of the arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C. died on Saturday last. Deceased was born at Macon, Ga., June 4th, 1827, was a graduate of West Point.