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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 20: visit of Calhoun, 1845. (search)
a little, he passed from one lady to another, saying to each a few words without a trace of gallantry; yet, though he was gray and much emaciated, the fire within made him seem hardly to have reached middle age. He devoted a little more time than to others to the wife of the orator of the evening, and his manner was so paternal and full of indulgent sympathy that I found myself telling him what a grief it was to contemplate my first separation from my mother. He spoke of a daughter named Cornelia, near my age, who loved him better than any one else, and told some little anecdotes of her, and of his brilliant Anna, who married Mr. Clemsen. Thus began a friendship which lasted through his life, and was attested by long letters on governmental subjects, written as though to an intellectual equal. It was one of the sources of his power over the youth of the country that he assumed nothing except a universal, honest, co-intelligence between him and the world, and his conversation wi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
A Joan D'Arc.--A marauding band of rebels in Kentucky, on their way to Mount Sterling, stopped at the house of a Mr. Oldom, and, he being absent at the time, plundered him of all his horses, and among them a valuable one belonging to his daughter Cornelia. She resisted the outrage as long as she could, but finding all her efforts in vain, she sprang upon another horse and started post haste toward the town to give the alarm. Her first animal gave out, when she seized another, and meeting the messenger from Middleton, she sent him as fast as his horse could carry him to convey the necessary warning to Mount Sterling, where he arrived most opportunely. Miss Oldom then retraced her way toward home, taking with her a double-barrelled shot-gun. She found a pair of saddle-bags on the road, belonging to a rebel officer, which contained a pair of revolvers, and soon she came up with the advancing marauders, and ordered them to halt. Perceiving that one of the thieves rode her horse, she
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.25 (search)
the forming of an orator, and yet he lacks two things — imagination and fire. With those two qualities which he lacks, how he would have swayed that audience, how he would have straightened himself, and with the power of eye and voice, and the right word, he would have lifted everyone to a pitch of enthusiasm such as is almost unknown in England. June 22nd, Thursday. My dear old friend Sir William Mackinnon, Bart., died this morning at 9.45, after a long illness contracted on his yacht Cornelia, as the result of a cold, and deep depression of spirits created by a sense that his labours, great expenditure, and exercise of influence over his friends on behalf of British East Africa, were not appreciated as they deserved by Lord Rosebery and his colleagues in the Government. A lack of appreciation is indeed a mild term for the callous indifference shown by the Rosebery Government. Sir William had for years (since 1878) been feeling his way towards this great achievement. By dint
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Index of names of women whose services are recorded in this book. (search)
76. Gardiner, Miss M., 301. Gibbons, Mrs. A. H., 406. Gibson, Mrs. E. O., 396, 399, 408. Gibson, Mrs. Peter, 410. Gillis, Miss Agnes, 405. Gilson, Miss Helen L., 45, 47, 52, 55, 133-148, 232, 301, 316. Gove, Miss Emily, 406. Gray, Mrs. Caroline E., 407. Grier, Mrs. Maria C., 88. Griffin, Mrs. William Preston, 301, 316. Guest, Mrs., 405. Hagar, Mrs. C. C., 408. Haines, Mrs. Hannah A., 408. Hall, Miss Maria M. C., 157, 247, 290, 401. Halbert, Mrs. M. E., 409. Hancock, Miss Cornelia, 284-286. Harmon, Miss Amelia, 86, 87. Harris, Mrs. John, 46, 47, 53, 149-160, 367. Hart, Miss E. A., 409. Hartshorne, Miss Isabella M., 408. Harvey, Mrs. Cordelia A. P., 47, 164, 260-268. Harwood, Miss C. A., 408. Hazard, Mrs., 408. Heyle, Mrs., 411. Hickox, Mrs. J. E., 408. Hicks, Mrs., 409. Hoadley, Mrs. George, 53. Hodge, Mrs., 89. Hoge, Mrs., 48, 53, 178. Holden, Mrs. F. A., 409. Holmes, Mrs. Amelia, L., 411. Holstein, Mrs. William H., 251-259. Hooper, Mrs. Lucy
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
wonderful spectacle. One man (colored) rode three hundred miles on horseback to be at the meeting! After taking some refreshment, we left New Lyme about 4 o'clock for Painesville, passing through Austinburg, and taking supper at the house of Cornelia and Betsey Cowles's brother, where we had a hearty welcome. The girls arrived with Douglass soon after we did, who remained under their roof until the next morning, when he rode over to Painesville. The girls Aug. 21. are very fine singers, especially Cornelia, and we sang together a number of songs before we left. Dr. Peck . . . was my companion—Mr. Jackson, a colored citizen of P., carrying us in his two-horse vehicle to the house of Deacon Horace Ensign at Madison, where we arrived between 10 and 11 o'clock at night. The deacon had invited us at New Lyme to spend the night at his house, but had retired with his family to rest, supposing we had concluded to stop in Austinburg. He, and his son and daughter, soon made their appe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1846. (search)
he began his commercial career in the counting-house of the late Samuel Austin, Jr., and there remained till 1849, when he sailed for Calcutta. His business there being transacted, he crossed to Bombay, and thence took the overland route, returning home through Europe in 1850. He continued in the East India trade at Boston till 1857, and afterwards engaged in the grain commission business at New York, from which he retired some time before the outbreak of the war. He married, in 1857, Cornelia, the eldest daughter of the late General Wadsworth, of Geneseo, and was residing with his father-in-law when the cannon at Charleston called them both to the field. Ritchie left a wife and two young sons behind him when he entered the service. It was some weeks before he obtained a position as Volunteer Aid on General Blenker's staff, and was engaged in active duty. Just before the battle of Bull Run, he was transferred to the staff of General Miles, whose warm commendation he received
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
II. 235. Twitchell, J. H., Captain, I. 144, 147;. Tyler, R. O., Maj.-Gen., I. 91; II. 326. U. Underwood, A. B., Brig.-Gen., II 85, 199, 269, 299. Upham, J. B., Dr., I. 113. V. Van Lew, E. A., Miss, I. 209. Vaughan, Champion, Major, L 159. Vincent, B. B., II. 62. Vincent, Sarah A., II. 62. Vincent, strong, Brig.-Gen., Memoir, II. 62-76. Vinson, C. M., II. 163. Vinton, J., II. 207. Vischer, Peter, I. 312 W. Wadsworth, A., II. 159. Wadsworth, Cornelia, I. 111. Wadsworth, Craig, Capt., I. 17. Wadsworth, James, I. 1, 2;. Wadsworth, J. S., Brig.-Gen., Memoir, I. 1-20. Also, I. 111. Wadsworth, Joseph, I. 1. Wadsworth, William, I. 2, 3;. Walcott Family, I. 3. Walcott, Samuel B., I. 20. Walcott, W. H., Capt., II. 407, 408;. Walker, James, Rev. Dr., L 254, 359, 417, 424. Walker, Wise, & Co., II. 13. Ward, Brig.-Gen., I. 17. Ward, N., Dr., I. 67, 69;. Ware, Helen, I. 221. Ware, John, Dr., I. 221. War
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
s, Where martyed heroes rest, He wins the most who honor saves, Success is not the test. That is why, then, Mr. President, that I wish to see the statue of Lee by the side of that of Washington in Statuary Hall—because there are no two great characters in history so much alike as Washington and Lee, and because I want the world to know that Virginia gives these two noblest and best-beloved of all her sons equal honor and equal reverence, and points to them with greater pride than that of Cornelia when she pointed to the Gracchi and called them her jewels, and dares the world to match them. I want to see them together where Virginia can say to all her sister States: These are the two I furnish, produce their equals if you can! In a notable speech on Robert E. Lee, which he says was inspired by the action of the Virginia Legislature in declaring the purpose to present his statue to be placed in Statuary Hall, Judge Emory Speer, a distinguished and eloquent Georgian, says: De
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. (search)
ho embody all of feminine virtue and blessing. He is also vice-president of the John B. Gordon Monument Association. Nor is the zeal of Mrs. Park to be less regarded. She is continuously re-elected the Regent for the State of Georgia of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, whose inestimable treasures are preserved in what was the White House of the Confederacy in this city, the whilom residence of President Jefferson Davis. Mrs. Park is the daughter of the late Dr. George R. and Cornelia (Paine) Hendree, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. Hendree, who died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Park, January 6th, 1906, in the 84th year of her age, was the daughter of the late Edward Courtenay and Caroline Matilda (Brinton) Paine. The father a distinguished lawyer, born in Baltimore, Md., having moved to the South, impressed himself by his abilities in a long life, and was revered as the Nestor of the Georgia bar. Mrs. Hendree was the mother of three daughters and an o
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tour of Mr. Lincoln. (search)
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