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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), George W. Cable in the Century Magazine. (search)
wing review from the trenchant pen of Stonewall Jackson's old Adjutant-General will be keenly enjoyed and heartily endorsed by our Southern people generally:] Mr. McKay justly reminds Mr. Cable that it is not true all we of the South went to war in 1861 without justly knowing what we did it for, for which we thank Mr. McKay. WeMr. McKay. We wish to add, that if Mr. Cable chooses thus to condemn himself, we beg to be excused from sharing his confession. We are very sure that, unlike him, we did know what we were about. In a later number of the Century Magazine he replies to Mr. McKay, and his reply makes matters infinitely worse. He thinks the reserved rights of thMr. McKay, and his reply makes matters infinitely worse. He thinks the reserved rights of the States were a quibble, and even if for argument's sake, we concede that there was a right of protecting them, in the last resort, by secession, the main question, because the moral one, lies behind, for what the pretended right was exercised? Mr. Cable thinks it was really for slavery, which he now thinks, like all the rest of m
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An incident of Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign-capture of a flag by Maryland Confederates. (search)
Front Royal, a spirited combat between Confederates and Federals, which was witnessed by Miss Nannie A. McKay, and of which that young lady (now Mrs. John R. Rust), until recently possessed an interessociation, having the following printed description attached: This flag was presented to Miss Nannie A. McKay, May 23, 1862, by a soldier of the First Maryland regiment, C. S. A., who had captured itriginally a fine piece of work, though now much tattered. Immediately after the conflict in Mr. McKay's yard on the evening of May 23d, 1862, an incident occurred which is worth relating. A field officer of a Pennsylvania regiment was found by Mrs. McKay, secreted in her cellar. She captured the gallant Yankee, and finding him in a state of trepidation, took from him his ivory-mounted pistoln offered her money, if she would allow him to escape. Captain John R. Rust, the husband of Miss McKay, was a gallant soldier and officer in Ashby's cavalry, a relative of that splendid leader and