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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
North Carolina had furnished one President of the United States, James K. Polk; one Vice President, William R. King; two Presidents of the United States Senate, Willie P. Mangum and William R. King; William R. King; seven Cabinet officers, John H. Eaton, (War), John Branch (Navy), John Y. Mason (Navy and Attorney General), William A. Graham (Navy), James C. Dobbin (Navy), Jacob Thompson (Interior), and Aaron V. Brown (P. M. G.) She had had two foreign ministers of the first rank, William R. King and John Y. Mason; (both to France), and three of the second rank, Daniel M. Barringer, John H. Eaton and Romulusangum of North Carolina; A. O. P. Nicholson of Tennessee; Thomas H. Benton of Missouri, and William R. King of Alabama. Benton served for thirty years in succession; King served twenty-nine years inKing served twenty-nine years in all, and these two records are still among the first in point of service. The University had furnished forty-one members of the House of Representatives, and included in the number James K. Polk as
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Wounded at Williamsburg, Va. (search)
th Carolina; discharged from the residence of John De Neufville. W. M. Grier, Company F, 6th Regiment, South Carolina; discharged. John Daisy, Company I, 8th Regiment, Alabama; died May 14, 1862. O. H. Moore, Company C, 10th Regiment, Alabama; discharged. T. J. Parr, Company I, 10th Regiment, Alabama; died October 7, 1862. P. Dargan, Company I, 8th Regiment, Alabama; died May 24, 1862. D. Safford, Company G, 14th Alabama Regiment Infantry; discharged from the residence of Mrs. King. W. P. Everette, Company H, 9th Regiment, Alabama; died May 17, 1862. W. F. Armistrong, Company B, 14th Regiment, Alabama Infantry; died May 15, 1862. S. McCarley, Company I, 6th Regiment, Alabama Infantry; died May 25, 1862. H. J. Summerline, Company B, 14th Regiment, Alabama Infantry; died May 18, 1862. T. H. Moore, Company C, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry; died May 18, 1862. D. H. Woolley, Company C, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry; died August 14, 1862. G. M. Bla
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.51 (search)
500 picked men, under Dahlgren, who had gone to the upper James, and being unable to cross, as was his first design, on account of continuous rains, was now seeking a junction with Kilpatrick, with a view of making a combined attack on Richmond at daylight next morning. The purpose of this paper is not to expand on the gallant Dahlgren and the tragic ending of his life next day — they are matters dilated upon at great length by both historians mentioned, when the causes that forced him into King and Queen county in such defenceless condition and that accomplished the failure of this dastardly enterprise, have been entirely ignored. But for Hampton and his little band of, shall I say, braves, Kilpatrick and Dahlgren would have combined their forces that night, and at dawn would have taken and burned the city, released the prisoners, and if all their designs were accomplished would have murdered the President and his cabinet. This was of easy accomplishment, because there were no tro