Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for H. V. Johnson or search for H. V. Johnson in all documents.

Your search returned 9 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], Death of John M. Daniel. (search)
owing full, of fire and eloquence, often highly rhetorical, always vigorous and well sustained. No man ever possessed, in a superior degree, the faculty of fierce and overwhelming denunciation, or the power of turning into ridicule such persons or things as it suited his pleasure to treat in that manner. At the same time, it possessed one quality which is always the mark of genius, and which mere talent can never attain. He made everything interesting that he wrote about, a faculty which Johnson attributes to Goldsmith in those famous words, "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit." Mr. Daniel, we should have mentioned, served on the staff of Governor Floyd in his Western campaign, and afterwards as volunteer aid to General A. P. Hill at the battle of Gaines's mill, on which last occasion he was wounded. The object of the Yankees in waging the kind of war they are now engaged in carrying on against us, could not be mistaken, even though the New York Herald had not taken pains to
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
. L. Orr, Senator. W. W. Boyee, M. C. Georgia. H. V. Johnson, Senator. B. B. Hill, Senator. M. H. Blandford, M.Peace Commissioners had returned from Fortress Monroe, Senator Johnson, of Georgia, visited Mr. Jefferson Davis, and held a c following is the substance, as reported subsequently by Mr. Johnson: Senator Johnson.--Well, Mr. Davis, your peace missSenator Johnson.--Well, Mr. Davis, your peace mission has failed. Davis.--Yes; I knew it would. And I hope now the reconstructionists will fight Lincoln instead of fighting me. Johnson.--But Mr. Lincoln, it seems, was not opposed to making peace with the States. He only refused to recogne Confederate Government. Davis.--H'm, h'm, h'm. Johnson.--I see, Mr. Davis, that you have withdrawn all the troopsd Mr. Stephens, and they must now protect themselves. Johnson.--Very well, Mr. President; if you can do without the peop you. Whereupon exeunt, by different doors, Davis and Johnson. More about peace. When Mr. Stephens came back fr