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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Closing scenes of the war about Richmond. (search)
Closing scenes of the war about Richmond. Retreat of Custis Lee's Division and the battle of sailor's Creek. By Captain McHENRY Howard, of Baltimore, Assistant Inspector General, C. S. A., General Custis Lee's Division. Between 10 and 11 o'clock Saturday night, April 1, 1865, just as I was falling asleep on the lines in front of Chaffin's Bluff, on the north side of the James river; a faint red glare illuminated the tent, followed by a low muttering like distant thunder. The night was very dark and cloudy, the atmosphere damp and heavy, and at another time I might have found it hard to determine whether the sound was the distant roll of musketry or the rumbling of an approaching storm, but under the circumstance there was no difficulty in attributing it to the right cause. Flash after flash shone through the canvas, and the muttering presently became almost continuous, although very little louder. There was something particularly awful in these half-suppressed, but d
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
ice of the cause that was lost. And when the final blow was struck on the fateful field of Appomattox, what was the action of this State and her people toward the South? Her legislature voted $200,000 for the relief of the Southern widows and orphans, and the noble women of Baltimore sent $200,000 more to swell the fund. And more, far more than even this munificent gift, Maryland opened wide her doors and bade her suffering brethren of the South come in and share her plenty. As Captain McHenry Howard, another gallant Maryland Confederate soldier, so beautifully expressed it in his oration on our Monument day: She became a veritable Land of the Sanctuary to the impoverished, broken and wounded Confederate. And thousands seeking escape from the horrors of the reconstruction period found Baltimore verily a city of refuge. And having offered them a haven, the Maryland people gave them of their best. Within her borders to-day, in every sphere of life, you find represented the nativ