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could repeat all the rules; but if you asked him to explain why, when he added up a column of figures, he set down the right and carried the left-hand figure, he could give the rule, but no reason for it. And I am not sure that, as a general thing, the teacher could have explained it to him. The log-cabin schools were not public schools in the sense in which that term is used to-day — for the teacher was supported by the fees charged every pupil. I was next sent to school in Adams County, Miss., to what was called, and is still known as, Jefferson College. I was then about ten years of age. The principal was a man of great learning, qualified to teach pupils more advanced than those he received. There was an adjacent department (over which a Scotchman presided) to teach the smaller children, and his methods were those of the earlier times — to prescribe the lesson and whip any boy who did not know it. The path along which I travelled to the school-house passed by the
ments in the shape of shells. We of course had to leave here for a time, and, as there are more raids expected, I have concluded to remove a little way into the pine woods until I see whether I can harvest my crop or not. The town was destroyed by a negro regiment officered by white men. They left a book, which I found, and in which the following entry was made, and which I presume is a list of the regimental officers. The writing is in a large, coarse hand, and in pencil. Stewart W. Woods, June eleventh, 1863, Company I, Fifty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers; Penn Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; Stewart W. Woods was born September twenty-first, 1824. Hidlers, Hidlersburgh, Adams County, Pennsylvana, Fifty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers, Fifty-fourth regiment Massachusetts volunteers of Colonel Shaw. Captain G. Pope; First Lieutenant Higginson; Second Lieutenant Tucker. Should these Yankee negro brigades ever fall into our hands the above record may be useful.
Doc. 79-invasion of Pennsylvania. Proclamation of Governor Curtin. in the name and by the authority of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, Andrew Curtin, Governor of said Commonwealth. A Proclamation. Pennsylvanians: The enemy is advancing in force into Pennsylvania. He has a strong column within twenty-three miles of Harrisburgh, and other columns are moving by Fulton and Adams counties, and it can no longer be doubted that a formidable invasion of our State is in actual.progress. The calls already made for volunteer militia in the exigency have not been met as fully as the crisis requires. I therefore now issue this my proclamation, calling for sixty thousand men to come promptly forward to defend the State. They will be mustered into the service of the State for a period of ninety days, but will be required to serve only so much of the period of muster as the safety of our people and honor of our State may require. They will rendezvous at points to be designa
Regiments from Mississippi.--A correspondent of the Louisville Courier, writing from Memphis, June 26, says:--Mississippi has now nineteen regiments in the Confederate army, and has twelve more organized and drilling, ready to obey the first summons to march. The Adams Troop from Natchez, the most splendidly equipped body of cavalry ever seen in this country, passed on to Virginia by the way of our city a few days ago. It is a corps formed among the gentlemen of Natchez and Adams counties, and drilled by General Quitman when he was in the prime of his military ardor. It was kept up in its full efficiency till the present revolution, when it resolved to take part in the conflict, and since then it has been under the instruction of an experienced French cavalry officer. There was not an ordinary horse in the troop of one hundred, and their splendid chargers seemed as thoroughly drilled as the men. The outfit of each member cost over $1,000, and there was not a private in the ranks w
any representations of the buyer that he believed them to be worth less than they were, and I could find nothing else in the record on which a decision could be made against the buyer. During the week I examined all the papers in the case and prepared a motion for another rehearing. On the following Monday morning I went before the court and with my best bow asked leave to file a motion for a rehearing in the case of the American Emigrant Aid Society, Plaintiff in Error, against the County of Adams. The chief justice looked at me with a little surprise. Are you aware, Mr. Butler, said he, that there has been one motion for a rehearing heard and denied, and that this was the unanimous opinion of the court? Mr. Chief justice, I replied, I should not have prepared myself as I ought to have done in the case if I had not learned those facts. I find no fault with the opinion of the court in denying a rehearing, but the whole matter has proceeded upon a very vital mistake. How
Wit worth preserving.--The committee appointed to collect metal for cannon for Gen. Beauregard's army, applied to a planter of Adams County, Miss., for his bell. Not having such an article, he mentioned it to his wife, when she very patriotically offered her brass kettle. The little ones rather demurred to the sacrifice, and one of them, with a sweet-tooth, said: La, pa, what will we do for preserves? My daughter, said the wag of a father, our whole duty now is to preserve our country. The kettle was sent.--Richmond Examiner.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jenkins, William Dunbar 1849- (search)
Jenkins, William Dunbar 1849- Civil engineer; born in Adams county, Miss., Sept. 19, 1849; was educated at military schools in France and Belgium; studied civil engineering in Lexington, Va., in 1869-71; and has since done much work in bridge-building. He was in charge of the construction of the Randolph bridge over the Missouri River, at Kansas, Mo., and was employed on the Mississippi levees. He has been chief engineer of railroads in the South and Southwest, and was also chief engineer of the Aransas Pass harbor and jetty works in Texas. In 1898-99 he was major of the Volunteer Engineer Corps, and chief engineer officer of the 1st Division of the 2d Army Corps. In 1887 he became a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.7 (search)
Mary, who never changed her name, and her early orphaned child and namesake, Mrs. Anderson, to-day recalls the delight of her life at the Poplars. It was with this sister, Polly, that the 5-year-old Jefferson first went to school, at a loghouse half a mile away. Two years later, when not 7 years old (in 1815) he was sent on a ride through virgin forests of nearly 900 miles, to attend the St. Thomas Academy at Washington County, Ky. In three years more he was at Jefferson College, Adams County, Miss., and in 1821, when but 13 years old, was sent to Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky. He was an earnest and intelligent pupil, but gave little promise of the brilliance, acumen and erudition that illustrated his later career. After their father's death, his brother, Joseph Davis, became the real head of the family, and it was he who gave special attention to the rearing of the youngest boy, and who directed his education. And by that time, Joseph Emory Davis had become a power in
Wit worth Preserving. --The committee appointed to collect metal for cannon for Gen. Beauregard's army, applied to a planter of Adams county, Miss. a few days since for his bell. Not having such an article, he mentioned it to his wife, when she very patriotically offered her brass kettle. The little ones rather demurred to the sacrifice, and one of them with a sweet tooth said "La, pa, what will we do for preserved" "My daughter." said the wag of a father, "our whole duty now is to preserve our country." The kettle was sent.