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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
ovost-Marshal General, are, I believe, all dead. Quartermaster-General Alexander R. Lawton, now verging upon seventy, represents the United States at the Austrian court. Rufus R. Rhodes, Commissioner of Patents, is thought to be no longer among the living. Turning to the Navy Department, we find upon the death-roll the names of Secretary Stephen R. Mallory, of Commodore F. Forrest, Chief of the Bureau of Orders, of Admirals Franklin Buchanan and Raphael Semmes, of Commodores Tattnall, Maury, Whittle, Hollins, Ingraham, and of many other prominent officers. Postmaster-General John H. Reagan lives, and is a member of the National Legislature. Of the commissioners who represented the Confederacy abroad, James M. Mason and William L. Yancey, accredited to Great Britain, John Slidell, accredited to France, P. A. Rost, accredited to Spain, John T. Pickett, accredited to Mexico, Bishop Lynch, accredited to the States of the Church, and John Forsyth, Martin J. Crawford, A. B. Rom
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), My comrades of the army of Northern Virginia, (search)
naval officers who prepared and fought her in that memorable naval conflict of the 8th and 9th of March, 1862, may well claim, as they certainly deserve, the eminent distinction of having been the first to discover and employ armored ships of war in battle, certainly ships of this style. They startled naval constructors and officers in the civilized world by the rapidity, audacity and novelty of their original methods, and will be known through all ages for their wonderful achievements. Maury, Buchanan, Brooke, Jones, and their assistants, are the central figures, around whom revolve to the present day the changes from the old to the new in naval warfare. And Ericsson of the North is the originator of another type. Together, they form a group of which any country may well felicitate itself. It would require a volume to recite in detail the wonderfully ingenious inventions of Confederate officers in different waters and regions of the South to meet and overcome difficulties a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Old South. (search)
the South where fame was won outside of politics. Thus Audubon, of Louisiana, was the first, as he is the most distinguished, of American ornithologists. Washington Allston, of South Carolina, ranks among the foremost of American painters. M. F. Maury, of Virginia, has done more for navigation than any one of this century, and he received more medals, diplomas and honors as a man of science from European nations than any other American. John Gill, of Newberne, North Carolina, is the true iw a few, and a few only, of our naval heroes, but these were all grand men. Among them were Semmes, the Chevalier Bayard of the ocean; J. J. Waddell (of an illustrious North Carolina lineage), almost the peer of Semmes as a successful cruiser; M. F. Maury, the greatest benefactor to the merchant and naval marine the world has ever known; the brave W. F. Lynch, the Christian scholar and explorer; the gallant Pegram, Hunter, Alexander and a few others. I was proud before the civil war of the fam
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
rion Rifles, 134. Mark, Col., 71, 72, 73, 76. Markoe, Jr., Capt. F., 92, 103 Markoe, John, 127. Marlborough, Duke of, 112, 341. Marshall, Capt. A. W., 416. Marshall, Col. Chas., 264, 296. Marshall, Col., J. Foster, 130. Martin, 104. Martin, Capt., 11. Martin, Col., 300, 310. Martin, Gen. J. G., 268 Martin, Lt. 398. Mason, Major, 352. Mason, Hon. James M., 273 Maryland, Society of; C S. Army and Navy of, 423; in the Mexican War, 436. Massena, Marshal, 341. Maury, Com. M. F., 273, 286, 428, 439 May, Col., Chas., 425 Mazyck, Capt., 186 Meacham, Capt., 22. Meade, Gen , 30. Means, Sergeant-Maj. B. W., 17. Means, Capt. E. J., 15. Means, Col. and Gov. J. H., 22, 23. Means, Col., Ro. Stark, 22, 24 Mecklenburg Dec. of Independence, 4, 429. Mellichamp, Rev. Mr., 130, 139. Memminger, C. G., 273, 275 Memminger, Lt. C. G., 92. Menott, Gen. J. C., 376. Mercer, Gen. H. W., 137. Merrimac and Monitor, Speech of Duke of Somerset on, 218, 288.