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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 60 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
dvancing column threw it into confusion, and the entire brigade rushed to the rear completely routed. The loss of life was terrible; the brigade commander, General Strong and Colonel Chatfield, of the Sixth Connecticut, were mortally wounded; Colonel Shaw, of the Fifty-fourth Masachusetts, was killed outright, besides large numbers of other officers killed and wounded. In the meantime the Confederate fire was incessant and destructive, and a general repulse seemed so imminent that General Seymes were buried by the Confederates in front of Wagner the following morning. If this is a correct estimate, it will be seen that the Federals lost twice as many men as there were troops in the Confederate garrison. Among their killed were Colonel R. G. Shaw of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, Colonel H. S. Putnam and Lieutenant-Colonel Greene, of the Seventh New Hampshire. Brigadier-General G. C. Strong and Colonel J. L. Chatfield, of the Sixth Connecticut, were mortally wounded; BrigadierGene-
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of the monument to the Richmond Howitzers (search)
te reason, when it was planted on the side of the Bank of the United States, should have been estopped to denounce their own canonized authority. Wanted the slave law nullified. Fourteen Northern States passed laws to practically nullify the fugitive slave law, but in doing so they not only violated the compromise and the compact of the Constitution, but the law as their own courts expounded it. The highest courts of these States (including that of Massachusetts, speaking through Chief-Justice Shaw), whenever the occasion arose to pass upon this law, uniformly supported it. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin did give a hasty opinion against it, but quickly retracted it. The lawless legislation was not South, but North, as tried by the exclusive jurisprudence of the latter. Never were people more completely covered by all the planopy of law—even the law of vindictive Commonwealths—than the people of the South. It was in this state of the law of the land, as expounded by the highes
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Major mortally wounded, 182. Randolph, The freed slaves of John, persecuted in Ohio, 276. Randolph, Norman V., 316, 323, 356. Richmond a city of Monuments, 352 Richmond Howitzers, Unveiling of the monument to; ceremonies of, 259. Rion, Capt. W. H., Death of, 181, 182. Robinson, Leigh, Noble oration of, 259. Rockwell, Joseph B., 83. Rogers, Hon. R. L., 57. Salisbury, Lord, 343. Saunders, Ll. D., Life and Services of Col. W. L., 212. Seymour, Gen., Truman, 179. Shaw, Capt. R. G., Death of, 181. Sheppard, W. L., 261, 294, 361. Sherman, Terms offered Johnston by, 205. Shiloh, Battle of, 326. Simkins, Col. J. C., Death of, 172, 182. Slaughter's Mountain, Battle of, 378. Slaughter, Peyton, 308. Slavery forced on Va., 267; Efforts for emancipation, 273. Smith, Hugh R., 79. Smith, W. C., 81. Soldiers' Home, Richmond, Va., Its origin, history, benefactors, and roll of inmates, 315. Sophocles, His Tragedy of Antigone, 375. Sorrell, Gen. G.