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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison reminiscences. (search)
passion of patriotism, they watched the fortunes of the beloved Confederacy with an interest as keen, and an anxiety as intense, as was ever felt by their mothers and sisters in the Southland. Imagination itself almost fails to depict the avidity and joy with which they availed themselves of this opportunity to mingle with, and to serve our wounded and to give vent to their long suppressed feelings and sympathy. It was my great pleasure personally to know some of these. There were Mrs. Mary A. Butler, widow of Dr. Bracken Butler, of Smithfield, Virginia; and her sister, Miss Anna Benton, daughters of Col. Benton, formerly of Suffolk, but who many years before the war, removed to New York. There were also Miss Kate Henop and Miss Caroline Granbury, both formerly well known in Norfolk; Mrs. Algernon Sullivan, Winchester, Va., the wife of the distinguished lawyer of New York, and Mrs. Susan Lees, of Kentucky, who after the war adopted the children of the gallant cavalryman, Col. Tho
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
purpose of receiving and selling the cotton and buying supplies, and distributing them amongst the prisoners at various prisons. Eight hundred and thirty bales of cotton sent to New York, after being properly prepared for market, sold at public auction February 8th, 1865, at an average price of 82 cents per pound, netted $331,789.66, which sum was used for the purpose of buying supplies for our prisoners in Northern prisons. On August 8, 1865, General U. S. Grant sent a telegram to General Butler as follows: On the subject of exchange, however, I differ with General Hitchcock. It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to release them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. To commence a system of exchange now which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those already caught they amount to no more than so many dead men. At this particular time, to release all rebel p
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
71. Berkeley, Colonel, Norbourne, 371. Berkeley, Major, Wm, 371. Beverley, Capture of, 308. Bidgood, Sergeant Major J. V., 253. Blair, General Francis P., 213. Blair, Hon., Montgomery, burning of his house, an accident, 213. Bledsoe, Dr. A. 72. Botts, Major, Lawson, 266. Brent, Captain, Preston, 241. Brock H. C., wounded, 179. Bouldin, Captain E. E., 76. Bouldin, Powhatan 76. Buchanan Admiral Franklin, 32. Bull Run Bout, 172, 292. Burt. Colonel, killed, 365. Butler, Mrs. Mary A. (H. A.), 36. Cabell, Wm. Preston. 353. Campbell, Major S. H., Engineer Corps, 6. Canal, James River and Kanawha, primitive travel on, 354. Carnochan, Dr. J. M. 40. Carrington, Colonel H. A., 333. Carter, Captain, 15. Cedar Creek, Great Battle of 194. Chambersburg, Burning of, 65, 76. Chancellorsville, General Lee's Strategy at, 1; Reports as to by Confederate Officers, 8,35, 55, 206. Chaplains of Army of Northern Virginia, 313. Cheat Mountain Attack on,