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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
y. Saving that it was already severed, this was true. If, however, instead of deviation, there had been execution, whether or not it would have made the difference between the disaster which was sustained by Pemberton at Baker's Creek, and the victory at Clinton, it would certainly have made the difference between an army captured in Vicksburg and an unconquered one outside of it. The investment of Vicksburg was completed of the 19th, and its surrender was then but a matter of time. Mr. A. H. Stephens states, that on the 23d of June, he was informed, at the War Department, that the surrender of Vicksburg was inevitable. If the beseiged could not escape the beseigers at the beginning of the seige, still less at the end; if the force within did not possess the power to unite with the force without before the seige began, how much less could it expect to effect such junction after forty days and forty nights of exhaustion were added to it. If the stronger force within the citadel coul
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan, December, 1891. (search)
the profound logician and great constitutional lawyer, Ben. Hill, of Georgia; the able, eloquent, and benevolent Alexander H. Stephens, also of Georgia; the voluble but able Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi; the polished William Porcher Miles, of Souistinction to contribute their contingent to its brilliant intellectual life during that sanguinary period. Benjamin, Stephens, Yancey and Hill. I have never known a man socially more fascinating than Judah P. Benjamin. He was in his attainmengars. Indeed, even while Richmond was in a state of siege he was never without them. That great and good man, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, in consequence of his feeble health, mingled little in the social life of Richmond. He went out onlof such little delicacies under his arm as he could procure, and when thus seen the remark was always made: There goes Mr. Stephens to a hospital. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, was also very quiet in his tastes, but mingled a good deal in the soc
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
rson Davis, 406. Schools, Free in Virginia, 138. Secession of Southern States, Order of the, 412. Sherwood. Grace, Trial of for witchcraft, 131. Slavery in the South, 393; Elements of in Virginia. 135. Smith, J. C., of the Stuart Horse Artillery, 181. Soldiers' Homes in the South, 336. Sorrel's Brigade, 270. Southern Historical Society, Its history, 335. South, The New, 395. Staunton River Bridge, Wilson's defeat at, 51, 201. Stedman, Hon. Charles M., 113. Stephens. Alex. H., 384. Stonewall Brigade, How named, 83, 153, 164. Stuart Horse Artillery, 281. Sutphin, Dr., 53. Tennessee, C. S. Ram, Capture of, 72. Texas Brigade, Memorial Stone to in the Wilderness, 122. Torpedoes, The first Confederate, 81. Truth of History, The Correspondence between Drs. Dabney and Jones, 376. Underwriter, Capture of the Federal gunboat, 93. United Confederate Veterans, Address of General John B. Gordon to, 175. Vandever, Dr. J. L., 187. Valent