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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 32: press, literature and art. (search)
few rarely sent back a record. Exceptions there were, however, who pressed Mr. Simms hard for his position on the topmost peak; and most of these adventurous climbers were of the softer sex. John Esten Cooke had written a very clever novel of the olden society, called Virginia Comedians. It had promised a brilliant future, when his style and method should both ripen; a promise that had not, so far, been kept by two or three succeeding ventures launched on these doubtful waters. Hon. Jere Clemens, of Alabama, had commenced a series of strong, if somewhat convulsive, stories of western character. Mustang gray and Bernard Lile, scenting strongly of camp-fire and pine-top, yet had many advantages over the majority of successful novels, then engineered by northern publishers. Marion Harland, as her nom de plume went, was, however, the most popular of southern writers. Her stories of Virginia home-life had little pretension to the higher flights of romance; but they were pure, gr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, March (search)
March 13. A Union meeting was held at Huntsville, Alabama, at which resolutions were passed deprecating the action of the South, and calling upon the Governor of the State to convene the Legislature, that it might call a convention to provide some mode for the restoration of peace and the rights and liberties of the people. Speeches were made by Jere Clemens and D. C. Humphreys in support of the resolutions. General Butler, learning that the Fifth and Ninth Virginia cavalry, with a large force of armed citizens, were in the vicinity of King and Queen Court-House, immediately despatched an expedition from Yorktown under command of General Wistar, with which General Kilpatrick and a portion of his command essayed to cooperate. This rebel force was ascertained to be one thousand two hundred strong, and the same that ambushed and killed Colonel Dahlgren. General Kilpatrick left Gloucester Point on Tuesday night, March eighth, in charge of the cavalry, and was ordered to sc
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Lowndes Yancey, [from the Moutgomery, Ala., daily Advertiser, April 15, 1893.] (search)
arked the prevalent belief among the Southern people, that secession would not be followed by war, and that Mr. Yancey shared such belief. But for the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, the probability is there would never have been a war, and but for the war, the Southern people would have sickened of secession, undone all the secession work, and returned to the Union, as the prodigal returned to his father's house. As to the firing on Fort Sumter, ex-United States Senator Jere Clemens stated in a public letter, that he was in the office of the Secretary of War, in Montgomery, two days before fire was opened on Fort Sumter, when Mr. Gilchrist, of Lowndes county, Alabama, a very hot-headed secessionist, came into the office and censured General L. P. Walker, the Secretary of War, for not having precipitated a war, declaring the people were already beginning to repent of secession, and would be back in the Union at the end of a year, unless the breach was made wider b
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
From the Southern Capital. Montgomery, Ala.,March 13.--The Congress will, it is believed, take a recess during this week. Speaker Cobb has sent to the different States of the Confederation copies of the permanent Constitution. The Alabama Convention received it to-day, and will, it is expected, ratify it to-morrow. [second Dispatch.] The Tariff act is published. It goes into operation on the 1st of May. Compared with the United States tariff, most of the 30 per cent. duties are reduced to 25 per cent., a greater portion to 24 per cent., and the 19 per cent. duties are reduced to 15. There is a large 10 per cent. schedule, and a very small free list. The Alabama Convention ratified the permanent Constitution by a vote of 87 to 5.-- Gen. Jamison, a leading co-operationist, took a bold position in favor of the ratification. Jere Clemens is appointed Major General of the Alabama army.
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
. Moore, of Alabama, has appointed Commissioners to proceed to the Southern States for the purpose of "conferring with them upon the condition of the country and the policy of the South in the present emergency." The Commissioners, as far as appointed, are A. F. Hopkins and F. M. Gilmer, Jr. to Virginia; J. W. Garnett to North Carolina; L. P. Walker to Tennessee; John A. Elmore to South Carolina; Stephen E. Hale to Kentucky, John A. Winston to Arkansas, and E. W. Pettus to Mississippi. Hon. Jere Clemens, of Ala., has written a letter in favor of a Convention of Southern States to state their demands to the North. He opposes separate State action. A letter from Friars' Point, Mississippi, says that the Vigilance Committee have hanged three carpenters for inciting the slaves to rebellion. Other Northerners were shipped. The steamer Marion returned twelve passengers to New York Saturday, by order of the Charleston authorities.--The Governor of Mississippi has appointed Commissioners
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Hon. Jere Clemens. (search)
Hon. Jere Clemens. --The numerous admirers of this gifted Alabamian will learn with feelings of deepest regret that he has forsaken the Confederate cause, and given in his allegiance to the Lincoln Government. He was in Huntsville at the time of its capture by the Yankees, and made no effort to escape. Only a few weeks after their arrival he became very intimate with the commanding General, and now goes about the streets representing the Southern cause in its worst light, and endeavorinFederal cause. So far he has only found four of the citizens of Huntsville who were so destitute of principle and honor as to link their destiny with the destroyers of our homes and our peace. This comes from a source entitled to the highest credit. We copy the foregoing from the Atlanta Commonwealth, of the 20th inst. When we consider those long accession proclivities of Mr. Clemens, and his apparently earnest labors in behalf of the Confederacy, the statement seems almost incredible.
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From North Alabama. (search)
was, probably, that General L. Pope Walker and family were his guests when Huntsville was taken. * * * * * * Nearly all of the citizens of Huntsville remained true to themselves and their country. The outrages committed on the strong Secessionists had intensified their disunionism and their hatred of the mongrel crew who assail their rights and seek their subjugation — and the hitherto lukewarm were wrought up to a pitch of indignation that only awaits opportunity to rival the most zealous and uncompromising. Some who were 'half and' half — almost, if not quite, Union men — have suffered as much as the most intense disunionist, and, through much tribulation have reached the conclusion that in disunion alone, permanent and irrevocable, is there any hope of Southern freedom. A few — half a dozen to a dozen, at most — have demonstrated beyond all question their disloyalty and treason to the South. The most prominent of them are Hone.(?) Jere Clemens and George W
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
t, of Harrison county, a late member of the Virginia Legislature, has also been arrested. The steamer Rhode Island arrived at Boston on the 23d from New Orleans, with forty passengers, including the officers of the Confederate navy, captured at New Orleans. In Washington, on the night of the 22d, the Provost guard made a descent upon Hall's gambling-house, making several arrests and capturing all the sporting apparatus. It is stated in the Northern papers that John Bell and Jere Clemens contemplated visit to Washington, "to make arrangements for reestablishing peace in the Southwest." A fire occurred in Alexandria, Missouri, on the 18th instant, which destroyed the Delta City Hotel and eight houses, stores and warehouses. "Governor" Edward Stanly, accompanied by a Massachusetts parson, sailed from New York for Beaufort, N. C., on the 28d. In the latest New York stock reports, Tennessee 8's are quoted at 58½ a 59; Virginia 6's 57 a 58½ North Carolina 6's 72
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], An important suggestion. (search)
An idea of the falsity of McClellan's dispatches to his Government may be gathered from the fact that he telegraphed to Washington, after the fight at Hanover Court House, that the Federais took950 prisoners, "and more coming in" Mcilletian is getting to be 28 had as his brother officers, Gen. Mitchell has arrived at Nashville, and reports that Jere Clemens and Judge McLean are among the prominent Unionists at Huntsville. Mitchell may be lying, nevertheless. The New York Herald, of the 30th nit, reports that the Confederate army had fallen been from Corinth, and guns — it knows not where. A steamer, with 300 sick and wounded Yankees, arrived at New York from Pamunkey river on the 28th of May. Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island, has been elected Senator from that State for six years.
The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Hamilton, head; Samuel Harlin, neck and Jew, severe; Welboth Morriss, hand; Henry W Manson, arm and hand; James Patton, neck, slight; James E Stration, hip, severe; Robt R Taylor, side and leg, severe; Robert Wormack, side, slight; John Reeves, slight; Henry Blair, slight; Thos J Holloway, slight. Company I--Killed: P M Etherly, A McClain, D J Vangnan. Wounded: W E Curd, in shoulder, slight; Lt J W Vivreti, in leg; 1st Sergt W H Vivreti, hand; Sergt J R Young, leg, missing; Sergt J W Clemens, head; Privates W C Baird, leg; E Bryant, hand; J T Curd, bowels; R T Davis, leg; I W Eatherley, hand; A D Hall, side; J T Darris, arm; C H Robertson, shoulder; J A Sullivan; B S Sullivan, leg; J B Scoby, arm; W B Sullivan, side; J W Tillford, head; J L Walpote, foot; A V Wlikerson, shoulder, severe; J W Walkerson in arm; F D Bass, slight; J F Jetton neck and shoulder, severe. Company K, Capt A D Norris, commanding — Wounded: Lt M V Baird, in hip, slight; Corp'l J H Cartwright, thigh;
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