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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
ter miraculously there were no casualties Excepting Assistant-Surgeon S. W. Crawford, United States Army, afterwards Major-General, who hada note from a distinguished officer of the Federal army, Major-General S. W. Crawford, telling me that he was coming to us to see for himself,eople might take the shape of immediate and permanent relief. General Crawford, let me remind you, was an assistant surgeon in the United Stad was the only man wounded on either side in that engagement. General Crawford came at once to Charleston, while the city was still quaking iunsel and sympathise with them. Among these was one who, like General Crawford, had distinguished himself in Fort Sumter, but that while servhe earthquake as he had stood in Sumter's crumbling walls—that General Crawford sought out, and there in a stable, in which Mr. Jobnson and hieelings will do it more justice than any words of mine. But General Crawford was not the only Federal officer who hurried to Charleston in
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
ent which was about to encircle our small force, and after having picked up and sent from the field all of the wounded he had ambulances for, Colonel Miles fell back in good order, meeting on his return General Beall, who had gone out to his support in case he should be hard pressed. Without further exchange of shots our troops all retired within their intrenchments. On that day Colonel Miles reported a loss of eighty-nine in killed, wounded, and missing. Captain J. B. Turner and Lieutenant Crawford, of St. Tammany, and Lieutenant J. B. Wilson, of New Orleans, were killed. Lieutenant Pearson and four men of Abbay's battery were killed. The gallantry of Major Coleman received deserved praise, as did also the skill and tried courage of Colonel Miles, and the fight was looked upon with extreme satisfaction by all the troops in garrison. General Grover's approach. On the next day Colonel Wingfield's cavalry commenced skirmishing with the advance of Banks's army, which had bee
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers. (search)
This is history, and it is well treated in biographical notices and on philosophic principles as history, free from mere political bias, by the writer of the work under consideration. Tyler had approved the choice of Adams in preference to Jackson, by the House of Representatives, but perceiving in the very first message of Adams an almost total disregard of the federative principle, he took steps in the Senate with the opposition to Adams, which was composed of the followers of Jackson, Crawford, and Calhoun. He made, during the debate on Clay's tariff resolutions in 183-32, a three days speech, of much force, against a tariff for protection, yet he advocated a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection. He voted against the tariff of 1832, and sympathized deeply with the sufferings of South Carolina, but did not approve either the expediency or the principle of nullification; condemning also, in even severer terms, the principles enunciated in the celebrated proclamation o