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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), President Davis in reply to General Sherman. (search)
was within the constitutional power of Congress to grant the authority. It was a measure of public defence against schemes and plots of enemies which could not be reached under the process of law. On two occasions was that extraordinary remedy resorted to, and each was by authority of Congress. But even when the writ was suspended, no head of any cabinet department kept a little bell, the tinkle of which consigned to prison men like Teackle Wallis, George William Brown, John Merryman, Charles Howard, Judge Carmichael dragged off the bench, and which became as fearful to the people as the letters-de cachet of the tyrants of Paris. Martial law followed the army of the United States, and provost marshals were often the judges that passed upon the person and property of ladies, children and old men, and the venerable Chief Justice Taney was not spared the humiliation of seeing even the Supreme Court of the United States brought to understand that the civil had become subordinate to the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chancellorsville. (search)
ysburg, in which latter engagement he was with Howard. He was thrice breveted for gallantry. After braggarts, who would not fight. Particularly Howard and Sedgwick were his scapegoats, and for somery. At 9:30 A. M., he had notified Slocum and Howard to look out and prepare for a flank attack, an the right except one early in the morning. Howard, commanding on the right, misled by Hooker's o made several distinct attempts to impress on Howard the danger of an attack, but the latter took h was this: The left and centre lay as before. Howard held the right, the key of the position, with cing south, and Steinwehr massed at Dowdall's. Howard's best brigade was gone, and there was not a mmade a desperate resistance. It was here that Howard had asked leave to place his line, but had bee Sickles, while his main body had extinguished Howard. Nothing now lay between Jackson and the heade to his assistance. The other half fell upon Howard on equally invalid grounds. So soon as Sedg[1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of Fredericksburg.—From the morning of the 20th of April to the 6th of May, 1863. (search)
picket line at Hazel Run, where there was a desultory firing kept up from both sides. Sedgwick seemed to hesitate, and advanced with great caution and circumspection. Whether it was from observing the innumerable bivouac fires Barksdale had kindled on Lee's Hill to signalize his arrival and magnify his numbers—whether it was the confused and startling stories borne to him from Chancellorsville by Hooker's wires concerning the fiery charges of Stonewall Jackson— Slocum's routed column, and Howard's flying Dutchmen—or whether it was the stench of Lee's slaughter pens at Marye's Hill that annoyed his nostrils and weakened his stomach, the Rebels could only reckon—leaving the Yankees to guess. About midnight I went to Barksdale's bivuoac, on Lee's Hill, to learn the result of his consultation with General Early. I found him wrapped in his war-blanket, lying at the foot of a tree. Are you asleep, General? No, sir; who could sleep with a million of armed Yankees all around him? he