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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last days of the army of Northern Virginia. (search)
ays of the army of Northern Virginia. An address delivered by Hon. Thomas G. Jones, Governor of Alabama, before the Virginia division of the Association of the army of Northern Virginia at the Annual meeting, Richmond, Va., October 12th, 1893. The President, Hon. George L. Christian, having called the meeting to order, in glowing terms, introduced the orator. Governor Jones, after appropriately acknowledging the kind introduction of the chairman, said: Posterity will admit, as Greeley does in his American Conflict, that the Confederacy had no alternative to staying its arm at Sumter but its own dissolution. The smoke in Charleston harbor had hardly cleared away before there arose in sight of the world the heroic figure of the Army of Northern Virginia. Many have questioned its cause, but none have ever doubted it. Washington and Richmond are about 120 miles apart; and in assault or defence of these cities each section put forth its mightiest effort. The first army