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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
lled in William McLaughlin (afterwards the commander of a battalion of light artillery in the Confederate army and now a circuit judge) as his assistant in teaching our class. Public meetings were held, and old Dr. George Junkin, of Washington College, with his squeaking voice, frequently addressed those meetings and managed to make his shrill shouts of Union, Union, heard above the cackling of the obstreperous students of the various institutions of learning in town. I remember young Harmer Gilmer, of Richmond, one of our law class, disconcerting one of the Union speakers very much by suddenly crying out, as the man reached one of his best periods, Come to my arms, you greasy fritter. I suppose Harmer caught the expression in some of the meetings of the sovereigns in Old Market Hall. The war cloud was now gathering thick and fast in the far South, and its distant mutterings grew ominous as the Virginia Convention assembled. We law students went to our homes, and, as the Court
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Interesting case. (search)
Interesting case. --The Court of Conciliation upon the last day of its session decided a principle of great importance. The case was that of Hunt against Sloat, in which the issue was, whether a check of the Confederate States Government given by a tenant to his landlord five days before the fall of Richmond, as payment for rent, and received as such, though it was never cashed by the Treasury — whether such a payment was valid. The law on both sides was fully discussed by J. H. Gilmer and Harmer Gilmer, Jr., for the defendant, and R. T. Daniel for the plaintiff. The Court decided that the payment was not good. The counsel for the defendant took an appeal to General Terry, who has stayed the execution of the judgment, and now has the important question under consideration.