hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 39 results in 5 document sections:

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 32 (search)
r place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived and I must close hurriedly. Love to grandmother and Aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself and the children. Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, etc. P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce, to be mailed, unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a pearl bracelet and ear-rings for her. But Lambert got the necklacee first flag of truce, to be mailed, unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a pearl bracelet and ear-rings for her. But Lambert got the necklace and breast-pin of the same set. I am trying to trade him out of them. These were taken from the Misses Jamison, daughters of the President of the South Carolina Secession Convention. We found those on our trip through Georgia. T. J. M. This letter was addressed to Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 11 (search)
of March, in default of telegraphic communication, an express locomotive was dispatched to bear instructions to Lieutenant-Colonel Myers, then camped at Eagle Lake, to hasten with the regiment to Houston, where he arrived on the evening of the next rtation and a brigade train, in all thirty-two wagons. The Colonel had resumed the command of the regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel Myers was detached to assemble and bring up the sick and furloughed men. At the first camp, those men whose homes werement was acknowledged by the promotion of its Colonel to the rank of Brigadier-General; in consequence of which, Lieutenant-Colonel Myers, who had not yet rejoined, became Colonel, Major Menard, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain Owens, of company E, Maompany E. and Burts, of Company B, were wounded; the former mortally, and the latter severely. At Polk's plantation Colonel Myers rejoined the regiment with the men whom he had been detached to bring from Texas, and resumed command. Meanwhile,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Sherman's method of making war. (search)
Sherman's Bummers, near Camden, South Carolina, could afterwards have found its way to the streets of Columbia. It so happens, also, that no officer named Thomas J. Myers—the name purporting to be signed to the document you have reprinted— belonged to General Sherman's army. The records show that, throughout the war, there wasey regiment—was from the Middle States. All the rest were from the West—never called the North, in the local idiom of Western people. A letter from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would never contain such a phrase. To crown all, Thomas J. Myers resigned from the military service on the 18th of February, 1865—eight daThomas J. Myers resigned from the military service on the 18th of February, 1865—eight days before the date of the pretended letter—while his regiment was in Northern Alabama. I should not have taken pains to look up and analyze these facts if I did not think it matter for profound regret that a periodical, presumably published in the interest of historical truth, should give currency to this document. No po
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
of this evidence is to be found in the following letter from a lieutenant, Thomas J. Myers, published in Vol. 12, Southern Historical Society Papers, page 113, with . Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, &c. P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce, t on our trip through Georgia. T. J. M. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass. This letter was published in the Southern Historical tates. All the rest were from the West. A letter (he says) from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would never contain such a phrase, referring to the fact that Myers had said this stolen jewelry, &c., would be scattered all over the North and Middle States. Sherman's statement of the organization of his army on this mave received a letter from the husband of the lady who had the original of this Myers' letter, setting forth the time, place and all the circumstances under which it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of the history Committee (search)
of this evidence is to be found in the following letter from a lieutenant, Thomas J. Myers, published in Vol. 12, Southern Historical Society Papers, page 113, with . Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, &c. P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce, t on our trip through Georgia. T. J. M. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass. This letter was published in the Southern Historical tates. All the rest were from the West. A letter (he says) from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would never contain such a phrase, referring to the fact that Myers had said this stolen jewelry, &c., would be scattered all over the North and Middle States. Sherman's statement of the organization of his army on this mave received a letter from the husband of the lady who had the original of this Myers' letter, setting forth the time, place and all the circumstances under which it