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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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boat was approaching the shore where the enemy waited to seize her, Mrs. Eversol ran to the levee, and by her exclamations and gesticulations warned those on board of the danger, and enabled them to escape. The handsome testimonial to her merit was richly deserved, but a richer one is assured to her in the memories of her countrymen and countrywomen. Captain Sousley subsequently received from Mrs. Eversol the following modest and appropriate note: Commerce, Mo., February 5th. J. J. Mitchell, President Alton Packet Company: dear Sir: Permit me, through you, to tender to the members of your Company my thanks for the unmerited token of respect which they were pleased to convey to me through the hands of Capt. Sousley, and received by me to-day. In reply to their earnest solicitations to visit St. Louis and Alton, allow me to say that I would be most happy to do so when the weather and travelling are pleasant; although I would again assure them that in any part I might hav
ars' bounty; and on the strength of these considerations, invited everybody to walk three paces in front. Nobody did it. An ugly pause ensued, worse than a dead silence between the ticking of a conversation. The Colonel thought he might not have been heard or understood, and repeated his catalogue of persuasions. At this point one of the sides of the square opened, and in marched a company of about forty stalwart Irishmen, whom their Captain, in a loud and exultant tone, announced as the Mitchell guards, we volunteer, Colonel, in a body. The Colonel was delighted. He proposed three cheers for the Mitchell Guards, and the crowd indulged not inordinately in the pulmonary exercise. The requisite number did not seem to be forthcoming, however, and the Colonel made another little speech, winding up with an invitation to the black drummer and fifer to perambulate the quadrangle and play Dixie, which they did, but they came as they went — solitary and alone; not the ghost of a volunteer
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Terry's Brigade, formerly John M. Jones's. (search)
n, Private W. Matherson, A. H. Massey, R. M. Massey, R. E. McKay, John Player, B. E. Perkins, Henry Smith, D. H. Smith, John Thompson, John Turnbull, Allen Watson, L. A. Watson, L. H. Watts, A. G. Withers, J. A. Shannon, W. R. Thompson, D. B. Scott. Co. I. Capt. J. F. Bradford, Sergeant T. T. Hodge, Corporal J. R. Watts, S. L. Shaw, J. L. F. Brunson, Private S. Z. Bateman, C. B. Bell, Private J. W. Hodge, W. W. Hodge, H. D. Mauers, B. D. Mitchel, J. J. Mitchell, J. A. Mills, L. C. Mills, Private A. Boykin, W. C. Branham, H. W. Bradley, B. W. Brogdon, T. M. Brogdon, W. T. Brogdon, A. W. Brown, E. M. Brunson, Jas. Brunson, J. D. Chenning, E. M. Cooper, T. J. Dinkins, W. J. Dinkins, H. V. Du Bose, J. T. Hoyle, Private C. H. Numan, A. D. Richardson, J. S. Richardson, P. E. Ridgeway, W. A. Sparm, H. A. Strange, J. F. Strange, A. L. Shaw, E. J. Shaw, R. C. Wacton, R. H. Welsh, A. L. Williams, J. W. Young, A. H. D. Chan