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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes on Ewell's division in the campaign of 1862. (search)
m there in great haste on Shield's approach, and was placed under arrest for misbehavior in the face of the enemy charges for cowardice being at the same time preferred against Major Hawkins of his regiment for ordering his men to lay down their arms and surrender to a very inferior force of Yankee cavalry, an order they refused to obey, and under command of their company officers (who prompted and supported their refusal) easily drove back the Yankees. Colonel Harry T. Hays and Lieutenant-Colonel De Choiseul of the Seventh Louisiana were both wounded here, the latter mortally. Major D. B. Penn now took command of the regiment. While at Somerset (Liberty Mills) near Gordonsville, on our way to the valley, Dr. F. W. Hancock, Division Medical Director, was seized with rheumatism, and having partially recovered from it, and attempted to join us near Front Royal, his horse was shot under him by a bushwhacker or straggling Yankee, and fell, severely injuring his leg, so that although h
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
hey displayed more coolness and energy than is usual among veterans of the old service. General Longstreet also mentions the conduct of Captain Marye of the 17th regiment Virginia Volunteers, as especially gallant on one occasion in advance of the ford. The regiments of Early's brigade were commanded by Colonel Harry Hays and Lieutenant-Colonels Williams and Hairston, who handled their commands in action with satisfactory coolness and skill, supported by their field-officers, Lieutenant-Colonel de Choiseul and Major Penn of the 7th Louisiana, and Major Patton of the 7th Virginia Volunteers. The skill, the conduct, and the soldierly qualities of the Washington Artillery engaged were all that could be desired. The officers and men attached to the seven pieces already specified won for their battalion a distinction which, I feel assured, will never be tarnished, and which will ever serve to urge them and their corps to high endeavor. Lieutenant Squires worthily commanded the piec
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 26: three months in Europe. (search)
he passed with little delay. I did not, he says, at first comprehend, that the number on my trunk, standing out fair before me in honest, unequivocal Arabic figures, could possibly mean anything but fifty-two; but a friend cautioned me in season that those figures spelled cinquante-deux, or phonetically sank-on-du to the officer, and I made my first attempt at mouthing French accordingly, and succeeded in making myself intelligible. About daylight on Sunday morning, he reached the Hotel Choiseul, Rue St. Honore, where he found shelter, but not bed. After breakfast, however, he sallied forth and saw his first sight in Paris, high mass at the Church of the Madeleine; which he thought a gorgeous, but inexplicable dumb show. Eight days were all that the indefatigable man could afford to a stay in the gay capital; but he improved the time. The obelisk of Luxor, brought from the banks of the Nile, and covered with mysterious inscriptions, that had braved the winds and rains of four t
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
ontgomery Guards; Sarsfield Guards; Louisiana Legion, General Palfrey, represented by first and second companies of Louisiana Foot Rifles. The occasion was made an outlet for enthusiasm. The convention left the Lyceum hall to fraternize with the troops. Its members, preceded by its president, Hon. Alexander Mouton, walking arm in arm with Lieutenant-Governor Hyams, marched into the square and formed in line to the left of the commands. Meanwhile Mayor Monroe and Colonels Labuzan and De Choiseul had ascended to the top of the city hall. Once there, they took their stand at the foot of the flag-staff. At the first stroke of eleven o'clock, given from the belfry of the First Presbyterian church near by, a report was heard. It was the first gun of the salutation, followed by twenty others. With the last gun the Pelican flag ascended, eagerly to be unfurled to the Southern breeze. Major Walton invited three cheers, which the troops gave in ringing measure—bravuras answered by th
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
iment reappeared. Been! Old Jack told us to stop the rush—we stopped it! Apropos Taylor said of this: The Seventh would have stopped a herd of elephants. The Seventh, Taylor reported, lost 156 killed and wounded—about half of its effective force. In the two days of Cross Keys and Port Republic the brigade lost 34 killed and 264 wounded. In the Sixth, Capt. Isaac A. Smith was killed, and Lieutenants Farrar and Martin wounded; in the Seventh, Lieut. J. H. Dedlake was killed, Lieutenant-Colonel De Choiseul mortally wounded, and Col. H. T. Hays, Captain Green and Lieutenants Brooks, Driver and Pendergast wounded; in the Eighth, Lieut. A. G. Moore was killed and Lieutenants Montgomery, Randolph and Wren wounded; in the Ninth Lieutenant Meizell killed; and in Wheat's battalion Lieutenants Cockroft, Coyle, McCarthy, Putnam and Ripley wounded. Captain Surget, adjutant-general, was greatly distinguished, and Lieutenants Hamilton and Kilmartin did valuable service. Taylor's brigade re
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
Since we do not know how to make war, said Choiseul, we must make peace. Choiseul had succeeded ections. We have these three years, answered Choiseul, been sacrificing our interests in America tosburg, for the pacification of the Continent, Choiseul offered to negotiate separately with England. with chap. XVII.} 1761. April. America. Choiseul was, like Pitt, a statesman of consummate abio France an alliance offensive and defensive, Choiseul, consulting the well-being of his exhausted c very day of his answer to the proposition of Choiseul, could make the conquest of the island of Beof Pitt were apparent from the beginning; and Choiseul, deluding himself no more with belief in peacway; and Stanley, in his first interview with Choiseul, avowed the purpose of England to support itsse of Austria more powerful. I wonder, said Choiseul to Stanley, that your great chap. XVII.} 176gs, to Portugal, Savoy, Holland, and Denmark, Choiseul covenanted with Spain that Portugal should be[8 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
speaker's chair for a sinecure, and, remaining in the ministry, still agreed to do his best in the House; while Bedford became Lord Privy Seal. Peace was an immediate object of the king; and as the letters of Bristol, the English minister at Madrid, promised friendly relations with Spain, the king chap. XVIII.} 1761. directed, that, through Fuentes, the Spanish ambassador at London, the French court should be invited to renew its last propositions. It is only with a second Pitt, said Choiseul, that I should dare to treat on such offers. War is the only part to be chosen. Firmness and patience will not build ships for us; but they will give us a triumph over our enemies. As the weeks rolled on, and the Spanish treasure ships arrived, Spain used bolder language, and before the year was over, a rupture with that power was unavoidable. Yet peace was still sought with perseverance; for it was the abiding purpose of the young sovereign to assert and maintain the royal authority
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
of humanity were already safe. The character of the war was changed. The alliance of France and Spain had been made under the influence chap. XIX.} 1762. of Choiseul, a pupil of the new ideas, the enemy of the Jesuits, and the patron of philosophy; and the federation of the weaker maritime states presented itself to the world resting-place among the clouds, gazes calmly around for his prey, their eye glanced over every ocean in search of the treasureships of Spain. Great monarchies, Choiseul had said Choiseul's Despatch of 5 April, 1762. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI. 466 in April, spite of redoubled misfortunes, chap. XIX.} Choiseul's Despatch of 5 April, 1762. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI. 466 in April, spite of redoubled misfortunes, chap. XIX.} 1762. should have confidence in the solidity of their existence. If I were the master, we would stand against England as Spain did against the Moors; and if this course were truly adopted, England would be reduced and destroyed within thirty years. But the exhausted condition of France compelled her to seek peace; in February
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
not dazzled by victory, and repressing the thirst for conquest; a rare instance of moderation, of which history must gratefully preserve the record. The terms proposed to the French were severe, and even humiliating. But what can we do? said Choiseul, who in his despair had for a time resigned the foreign department to the Duke de Praslin. The English are furiously imperious; they are drunk with success; and, unfortunately, we are not in a condition to abase their pride. France yielded toigher and wiser instinct, England happily persisted. We have caught them at last, From oral communications to me by the late Albert Gallatin, confirmed by papers in my possession, relating to periods a little earlier and a litt'e later. said Choiseul to those around him on the definitive surrender of New France; and at once giving up Louisiana to Spain, his eager hopes anticipated the speedy struggle of America for separate existence. So soon as the sagacious and experienced Vergennes, the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
p. VII.} 1774. July. public wish, he began by dismissing the ministers of the late king, and then felt the need of a guide. Marie Antoinette would have recalled Choiseul, the supporter of an intimate friendship between France and Austria, the passionate adversary of England, the prophet and the favorer of American independence. But filial respect restrained the king, for Choiseul had been his father's enemy. He turned to his aunts for advice; and their choice fell on the Count de Maurepas from their regard to his experience, general good character, and independence of the parties at court. Not descended from the old nobility, Maurepas belonged to a fn. His own diplomatic career began in 1740, and had been marked by moderation, vigilance, and success. He had neither the adventurous daring, nor the levity of Choiseul; but he had equal acquaintance with courts, equal sensitiveness to the dignity of France, and greater self-control. He was distinguished among ministers as inde
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