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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 16: Beauregard's letter. (search)
o be, a candidate for any civic office in the gift of the people or the Executive. The acme of my ambition is, after having cast my mite in the defence of our sacred cause, and assisted to the best of my ability in securing our rights and independence as a nation, to retire into private life (my means then permitting), never again to leave my home, unless to fight anew the battles of my country. Respectfully, your most obedient servant, (Signed) G. T. Beauregard. A true copy, S. W. Ferguson, Aide-de-Camp. Prior to the date of the above letter, in which General Beauregard entreats his friends not to trouble themselves about refuting the slanders and calumnies aimed at him (in consequence of the publication of the synopsis of his report of the battle of Manassas), his relations with the Confederate officials, except Colonel Northrop, the Commissary-General, had been those of unstudied friendship. Military Operations of General Beauregard, page 157. t Colonel Alfred T.
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 60: Honorable mention. (search)
then only, was the emblem of truce displayed. Joseph Wheeler, the young Murat of the cavalry, General Lawton and his no less distinguished brother-in-law, E. Porter Alexander, the skilful engineer and accomplished artillery officer, for gallantry promoted to be Brigadier-General and Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's Corps; and Hardee, the scientific dauntless soldier; Walker, David R. Jones, Young, Denning, Colquitt, and a shining list I have not space to name. Mississippi gave her Ferguson, Barksdale, Martin, the two Adams, Featherston, Posey, and Fizer, who led an army on the ramparts of Knoxville but left his arm there, and a host of gallant men. Alabama sent us Deas, Law, Gracie, and James Longstreet, dubbed by Lee upon the field of Sharpsburg his old war horse, a stubborn fighter, who held the centre there with a scant force and a single battery of artillery; the gallant Twenty-seventh regiment of North Carolina troops, under Colonel Cooke, stood as support, without