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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
horse, I ordered Colonel [C. M.] Avery, in command of my left regiment, to move to meet the force above referred to, when he quickly replied, My God, General, do you intend rushing your men into such a place unsupported when the troops on the right are falling back? Seeing that it was useless to sacrifice my brave men, I ordered my brigade back. Letter in same, p. 206. The testimony of scores of others to the same facts is on record. In the Gettysburg cavalry fight, of which W. Brooke-Rawle says, for minutes which seemed like hours, amid the clashing of sabers, the rattle of small-arms, the frenzied imprecations, the demands to surrender, the undaunted replies, and the appeals for mercy, the Confederate column stood its ground, North Carolina had also worthy representation in the enthusiastic charge of its First cavalry regiment under Colonel Baker, and in the meritorious services of the other regiments from that State. In the second place, it is a rule of war, to which the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
a quality of revolutions not to go by old times or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. There is no room for enlargement, expansion or extension of this view of Mr. Lincoln on the right of revolution in any form it may take. Mr. Rawle, an eminent jurist of Pennsylvania, who had been United States District Attorney under President Washington and had been offered by him the Attorney-Generalship of the United States, and who was a firm supporter of the administration of the eldned by a number of the leading men of that day, and amongst them Nathan Dane, founder of the professorship of law in the Cambridge University, and who was author of the ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Territory in 1787. He, like Rawle, understood what was meant by the powers of the Constitution. He lived in their day and with them, and we may regard his utterances as an authoritative construction of the instrument. On the 9th of November, 1860, Horace Greeley wrote: The te
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of honorable R. T. Bennett, late Colonel 13th North Carolina Infantry, C. S. A. (search)
and reasoning, in politics, saw the impending danger and gave the alarm. Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, advised secession on the part of the South as early as 1820. There was no doubt then about the right of a State to secede from the Union. Rawle, the Pennsylvanian, in his book on the Constitution, says: The secession of a State from the Union depends on the will of the people of such State. The States then may wholly withdraw from the Union, but while they continue they must retain the character of representative republics. Tucker, of Virginia, is as explicit as Rawle on this point. President Jefferson Davis wrote me, July 1st, 1886: Rawle on the Constitution, was the text-book at West Point, but when the class of which I was a member entered the graduating year, Kent's Commentaries were introduced as the text-book on the Constitution and international law. Though not so decided on the point of State sovereignty, he was very far in advance of the consolidationists o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
nd Federal Forces, disparity between, 95. Confederate Generals who died in poverty, 65; senior, now living, 388. Confederate Heroism, 54, 63. Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 387. Confederate Morals, 81, 107, 367. Confederate Prisoners; hardships of; placed under Confederate fire, 127. Confederate States, Medical officers of, 165. Confederate Supplies, Want of, 90. Constitution, The, Atlanta, Ga., cited, 122. Constitution of the U. S. nullified, 27. Kent and Rawle on the, 83. Cox, Mrs., Lucy Ann, a Confederate heroine, 54. Courier, Bristol, Va., cited, 127. Crawford, Hon W. H., 83. Crouch, Nicholas M., 377. Cullingworth, Col., Wm. H., 349. Daniel, Hon. John W. His able tribute to Gen. Jubal A. Early, 288. Delaware, Fort, Prisoners at, 144. De Renne, Mrs., Mary. Her admirable collection of Confederate Memorials, 389. Dispatch, The, Richmond, Va., cited, 20, 24, 48, 69, 281, 336. Dixon, 21st Alabama Infantry, Lieut. His heroic se
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
merican historian, however devoted to the Union he may be, to dispute the rectitude of Lee's motives, as it will be to belittle his military abilities. In this connection it may be mentioned that the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, while thinking the time not yet ripe for the presentation of the statue, said, in commenting upon the fact, brought out by Mr. Charles Francis Adams in a footnote to his Charleston address, that the constitutional right of secession was taught in the textbook (Rawle's View of the Constitution), in use at West Point while Lee was a student there: The question immediately arises whether the United States government had any just grievance against Robert E. Lee, when in 1861 he put into practice the principles of constitutional law taught him as an officer in the United States army. The Indianapolis Journal, an ultra-Republican paper, said: It is clearly the right of Virginia to select the statue of Gen. Lee to represent that State in that
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
ut they thus unmask their artillery, which compels the Southerners to beat a still more speedy retreat. The ground so stubbornly disputed is abandoned by both parties. In the official reports of Generals Pleasonton, Gregg, and Custer it is stated that the Union cavalry remained masters of the field of the engagement, while General Stuart claims in his report that they were driven from it. A detailed account of this brilliant engagement is given by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Brooke-Rawle in The Right Flank at Gettysburg. That writer, who was present, asserts that the Confederates were driven back beyond the Rummel farm-buildings, which in the beginning of the fight had been in their possession, and that the position was held by the Unionists until the end.—Ed. The Unionists have lost 736 men, of whom 112 are killed, 289 wounded, and 335 taken prisoners: Custer's brigade has suffered the most. They have, however, accomplished their object and frustrated the plan of their adv
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Bastards of New York. (search)
arring he had to cool the ardor of our braves. He made them an eloquent speech of fifteen minutes, which had the desired effect, and then suiting the action to the word, himself aimed the shot which told upon the Monticello. The shell which the steamer tired yesterday evening fell near the battery without exploding-- the fuse having re fused, and thus thwarted the devilish designs of its operators. I saw yesterday the two fine-looking companies from New Orleans — the Light Guards, Captains Rawle and Girardi, of the First Regiment Louisina volunteers. They were uniformed in the Zouave style. After forming, they gave three cheers to the ladies of Portsmouth, some of whom were on the balcony of the Ocean House, and then marched into the cars to be conveyed to Manlove's, a farm about three miles distant, near the railroad, where they will pass the night. I saw Col Blanchard, Vincent, and Commander Harrison, at the Pinner's Point battery, which I visited yesterday evening. Co
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