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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A sketch of the life of General Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate States. (search)
ns, and of this officer, General Gorgas says: He succeeded with a very little money in buying a good supply and in running the ordnance department into debt for nearly half a million sterling—the very best proof of his fitness for his place and of a financial ability which supplemented the narrowness of Mr. Memminger's purse. General Gorgas had an admirable Staff of Officers, among them such men as. Major Smith Stansbury, Colonel G. W. Rains, Colonel LeRoy Broun, Colonel J. W. Mallett, T. A. Rhett, Snowden Andrews, Wright, White, Burton, De Lagnel, General St. John, Colonels Morton and Ellicott, Colonels B. G. Baldwin, William Alan, J. Wilcox Browne, E. B. Smith, Cuyler, Colston and others no less distinguished during the war than they have been in after life. These officers were in constant personal contact with their Chief, and all of them give testimony as to his great ability as an officer—his devotion to duty and his tact and kind consideration for them, and all of his subord
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 34 (search)
ightened they were. The animal he rode was so beautiful that I could not repress my admiration, a dark bay mare I think, glossy as satin, and graceful as a young antelope. Seeing my eyes fixed upon her, he informed us she had belonged to Colonel Rhett, of South Carolina, whom they had captured a few days before. I don't believe you, I said, though it is handsome enough to have belonged even to Colonel Rhett. You South Carolina women are the very devil to whip, he remarked, not so irrColonel Rhett. You South Carolina women are the very devil to whip, he remarked, not so irrelevantly as it seemed. You ain't scared a bit. Scornful silence met this observation, but he meandered on, his comrades doing the indoor work the while, which, I presume, they pooled afterwards. You hadn't ought to kept them two Rebs here so long, (alluding to our cavalry friends who had so luckily departed). We came after them. And after watches, I could not help adding, but he smiled serenely. Oh, well! We must make the thing pay somehow. Poor fellow! how little he dreamed