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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 4 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Benjamin Hill or search for Benjamin Hill in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.59 (search)
Yancey and Hill. [from the Richmond Dispatch, March 17, 1891.] An account of their difficulty in the Confederate Senate. To the Editor of the Dispatch In the Dispatch of Sunday, March 15th, there is a clipping from the Atlanta Constitution, giving an account of a stormy scene which occurred in the Confederate States Senate between Ben. Hill and William L. Yancey, and the writer says so far as I know neither one ever saw in print any reference to the episode which came so near ending in the immediate death of Yancey. Now, I have in a scrap-book a clipping from the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald, date not given, but which was published about 1874 or 1876, which says: Among the many events of personal interest that occurred in the South during the late war but few are of more dramatic character or aroused a deeper interest among our people than the unfortunate personal difficulty which took place in the Confederate States Senate at Richmond, during its secret session, b
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan, December, 1891. (search)
ful hosts. Conspicuous figures in the social life of Richmond during the war were the accomplished and learned Judah P. Benjamin: the silver-tonged orator, William L. Yancey, of Alabama; the profound logician and great constitutional lawyer, Ben. Hill, of Georgia; the able, eloquent, and benevolent Alexander H. Stephens, also of Georgia; the voluble but able Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi; the polished William Porcher Miles, of South Carolina; ex-President John Tyler, of Virginia; the presen viewed by the North as a fire-eater of the most violent type, but to those who saw him socially he was the gentlest of men, the most considerate, courteous, well-bred of gentlemen—was the embodiment of the highest type of southern chivalry. Ben. Hill, of Georgia, was very fond of society, and went out a great deal. His nature was pre-eminently companionable, kindly and tender. In his social life he was kind, unpretentious, most fascinating intellectually, fond of a good joke, and possesse