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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Shall Cromwell have a statue? (search)
honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to posterity as the beau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. More tersely, Thomas stands for character personified; Washington himself not more so. And now having said this, let us come again to the choice of Hercules—the parting of those terrible ways of 1861. Like Scott and Lee, Thomas was a Virginian; but, again, there are Virginians and Virginians. Thomas was not a Lee. When, in 1855, the second United States cavalry was organized, Jefferson Davis being Secretary of War, Captain Thomas, as he then was and in his thirty-ninth year, was appointed its junior major. Between that time and April, 1861, fifty-one officers are said to have borne commissions in that regiment, thirty-one of whom were from the South; and of those thirty-one, no less than twenty-four entered the Confederate service, twelve of whom, among them Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and John B. Hood, became general officers. The name of the Virginian, George
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
scription (‘62); (2d) chief of torpedo service (‘64). 1828. Hugh W. Mercer. 510. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 3. Brigadier-General, October 29, 1861. (1st) Commanding at Savannah, Ga.; (2d) commanding brigade in W. H. T. Walker's Division, Army of Tennessee. Joseph L. Locke. 515. Born Maine. Appointed Maine. 8. No trace of his having been in the Confederate army. Died in Savannah, Ga., September, 1863. (Cullum says he was in Confederate States Army.) Jefferson Davis. 530. Born in Kentucky. Appointed Mississippi. 23. President of the Confederate States. Thomas F. Drayton. 535. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 28. Brigadier-General, September 25, 1861. Commanding Coast District of South Carolina; then brigade in Trans-Mississippi Department. 1829. Robert E. Lee. 542. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 2. General June 14, 1861. Commanding Army of Northern Virginia; made general-in-chief of the Confede
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Treatment and exchange of prisoners. (search)
denied, and its falsity fully shown by both Mr. Davis and Senator Hill, of Georgia; and the reportrue reason why Mr. Lincoln did not reply to Mr. Davis' letter of July 6th, 1861, hereinbefore quotnsurrection. These several proclamations of Mr. Davis created considerable uneasiness among the Feill remember that after the proclamation of Jeff. Davis, of December 23d, 1862, I urgently advised ed previously to the date of the message of Jeff. Davis (the 12th instant), with what success I sha Confederate Congress had refused to sustain Mr. Davis, in his suggested retaliatory measures abouthave heretofore stated the stand proposed by Mr. Davis, and recommended by him to the Confederate Che New York Sun, commenting on the letter of Mr. Davis to Mr. James Lyons, written in reference to the Confederate authorities, and especially Mr. Davis, ought not to be held responsible for the teuthority General Miles put the shackles upon Mr. Davis, when he was in prison at Fortress Monroe, a[13 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
nd silver jingled in every pocket. The State was a vast arsenal. In every direction one could see inexhaustible supplies of ammunition, improved foreign muskets, rifles and artillery, clothing, provisions and medicine. Stacks of guns and packs of cannon were rusting from disuse. Texas was able to furnish the whole Confederate army with a brand-new equipment. Only the blockade east of the Mississippi stood in the way. General Shelby knew these conditions, and he believed that President Davis, who had not then been captured, would make his way to Texas, with many of his ablest generals, and in a month or two probably 100,000 soldiers would succeed in following him. Shelby applied to Kirby Smith to make an aggressive fight. The commander listened, assented and did nothing. Then the daring Missourian held a conference with several other generals and it was agreed to make a determined stand for the Confederacy, under the leadership of General Simon Bolivar Buckner, a sol
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee, Davis and Lincoln. (search)
Lee, Davis and Lincoln. Tributes to them by Charles Francis Adams and Henry Watterson. Lee's statue in Washington urged—magnanimity of Lincoln. He could not have offered to pay for the slav He was not for an age, but for all time, Colonel Henry Watterson incidentally said: Jefferson Davis, than whom there never lived, in this or any other land, a noblier gentleman, and a knightlier soldier; Jefferson Davis, who, whatever may be thought of his opinions and actions, said always what he meant and meant always what he said; Jefferson Davis declared that next after the surrenderJefferson Davis declared that next after the surrender at Appomattox, the murder of Abraham Lincoln made the darkest day in the calendar for the South and the people of the South. Why? Because Mr. Davis had come to a knowledge of the magnanimity of Mr.Mr. Davis had come to a knowledge of the magnanimity of Mr. Lincoln's heart and the generosity of his intentions. If Lincoln had lived there would have been no era of reconstruction, with its repressive agencies and oppressive legislation. If Lincoln had
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
less than a proposal by General Joe Wheeler to recapture President Jefferson Davis, rush him rapidly through Texas, and place him on Mexicane camp at Durham that General Wheeler wanted volunteers to escort Mr. Davis to Mexico. War-worn as were these old veterans, he could have set, but its head is alive and shall not die. We will take President Davis across the Mississippi river and carry on guerrilla warfare; make rll posted as to movements, etc., and from them we learned that President Davis had left Washington nearly two days before and gone in a southned to go south of Washington and scout around and try to find President Davis. But we got no trace of him. Once we thought we were on hieneral Braxton Bragg. We inquired of him, but he knew nothing of Mr. Davis. We went on past him on the river road to a bridge. We could sethe Yanks in Bragg's camp. Then they abandoned the pursuit of Mr. Davis and headed for Texas. This reminiscence of Mr. Sadler gives us
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
he first road, in the rear of the line, and held in reserve. Wood, Davis and Sheridan followed next, the latter holding the extreme right. xtended toward the right. We opened fresh batteries, and all, save Davis and Sheridan, were fighting. The terrific fury of the firing at thly. I learned that after the withdrawal of Wood from the center, Davis and Sheridan were necessarily called upon to fill the gap. Davis moDavis moved rapidly to the left, but after getting his position he could not alone breast the storm. The enemy began to perceive he could not pierceve by the flank on the double quick to the left. He found Wood and Davis falling to pieces rapidly. His own men were falling thick—shot dowe the charge nobly, but before they can reach the foe a brigade of Davis is in enfiladed, and the men, able to escape only to the right, ove, fighting the while. This was the story I gathered from some of Davis' retreating men, but I could find none of Sheridan's. The rebels cu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
dy been passed upon him there is no appeal. He is already so deep down in the pit of everlasting doom that he couldn't get the most powerful ear trumpet conceivable to scientists and hear the echoes of old Gabriel's trumpet, or fly 1,000,000 kites and get a message to St. Peter, who stands guard at heaven's gate. In our statute books many holidays are decreed. It was an egregious oversight that one on the occasion of the death of Ben Butler was not foreordained. The Beast is dead. The cymbals should beat and the tin horn should get in its work. Butler was outlawed by Mr. Davis in a proclamation. It will always be a stain upon the Federal authorities that Butler was not promptly court-martialed and hanged; yet, strange to say, great and influential newspapers gloated over this horrible Order No. 28, and chuckled over the fact that rebel ladies of New Orleans did not dare to show their faces on the streets after it was issued. We view him and them with horror and scorn.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
would not have been established, and there would have been avoided that distressing calamity; and the effort which grew out of it to blacken the character of President Davis; and the persecution of Major Henry Wirz, and his cruel execution by hanging. Justice has never been done that noble heroism which resisted and spurned the b war, and the rations furnished prisoners of war shall be the same in quantity and quality as those furnished to enlisted men in the army of the Confederacy. President Davis states in his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government that this law of Congress was embodied in the orders issued from the War Department and from the hea Medical and Surgical Journal of the Confederate States. War Record Journal, New York and Lexington, Ky., 1893-6, Vol. II, page 124. Confederate Military History, Vol. III, (Virginia), p. 246. Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis. 1418 Fourteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., March 20, 1902.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
y, as did a young lady to a friend of mine a few weeks ago in Philadelphia, when asked some question about the Civil war, she replied after some hesitation: About what war. Oh, yes, I remember now, she said, you mean the war in which they hung Jeff. Davis on a sour apple tree? I was only 15 years old when I visited the camps of Beauregard's army at Manassas. It was my first sight of such a scene. I was with my brother-in-law, Catlett Fitzhugh, and rode horseback about the camps, witnessing t army in full retreat. The day is lost. Save Washington and the remnants of this army. The routed troops will not reform. General Scott to McDowell: Under the circumstances it seems best to return to the line of the Potomac. President Davis to General Cooper, Manassas, July 21: Night has closed upon a hard fought field. Our forces have won a glorious victory. Colonel Kerigan, at Alexandria, to Cameron, July 22: There are about 7,000 men here without officers; n
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