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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
died at Memphis, October 29, 1877. By European authority he is pronounced the most magnificent cavalry officer that America has produced. Lieutenant-General John Brown Gordon Lieutenant-General John Brown Gordon was born in Upson county, Georgia, July 6, 1832, of Scotch ancestry, his grandfather being one of seven brothers who immigrated from Scotland previous to the Revolutionary war, in which they all took part in behalf of the colonies. The grandfather made his home in Wilkes county, North Carolina, whence Rev. Zachariah H. Gordon, father of General Gordon, removed to Georgia. Young Gordon was graduated in 1852 at the Georgia State university, and a few months later was admitted to the practice of law. Early in 1861 he enlisted with the volunteer Confederate soldiery and was elected captain of his company, rising by promotion to major and then to lieutenantcolonel of the Sixth Alabama infantry, in December, 1861. His regiment was called to Virginia to participate in the s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
of the death of the venerable Mrs. Law, known all over the South as one of the mothers of the Confederacy. She was also truly a mother in Israel, in the highest Christian sense. Her life had been closely connected with that of many leading actors in the late great Civil War, in which she, too, took, in her quiet way, an influential part. She passed away, June 28th, at Idlewild, one of the suburbs of Memphis, nearly eighty-nine years of age. She was born on the River Yadkin, in Wilkes County, N. C., August 27th, 1805, and at the time of her death was doubtless the oldest person in Shelby County. Her mother's maiden name was Charity King. Her father, Chapman Gordon, served in the Revolutionary War, under Generals Marion and Sumter. She came of a long-lived race of people. Her mother lived to be ninety-three years of age, and her brother, Rev. Hezekiah Herndon Gordon, who was the father of Gen. John B. Gordon, now Senator from Georgia, lived to the age of ninety-two years.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
and other worthless characters, led by two desperate men, Wade and Simmons, completely terrorized a large portion of Wilkes county by their frequent raids. In order to fully understand the situation, the condition of the country at that time mus its headquarters in the Brushy Mountains, and the other, led by Wade, had its headquarters near the Yadkin river, in Wilkes county. The bands at times operated together, but it is principally with Wade's band that this article is to deal. The houe child climbed on the fence, and the men began to shoot at it, and finally killed it. Emboldened by their success in Wilkes county, they made a raid into Caldwell county on the 7th of May. Major Harvey Bingham, with about a half a dozen young men f. W. C. Green, of Alexander county, who had been a lieutenant in the Confederate army, received news from a friend in Wilkes county that Wade had planned to move into Alexander county and make a raid on his father, Rev. J. B. Green, and to kill him
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Georgia Items. (search)
old Stars and Stripes--under the authority of the Harbor Master. --The immense crowd which had gathered in front of our office, noticing the fact, went immediately under the Bluff and ordered the flags down. The order was promptly obeyed. There seems to have been some misunderstanding as to the orders for the raising of the United States flag, the masters of the vessels declaring they intended no insult to the Confederate States. Almost simultaneously with the exhilarating news from Charleston of the reduction of Fort Sumter, came the announcement that Alexander R. Lawton had been appointed to a Brigadier-Generalcy in the Confederate Army. A new volunteer company has been formed in Wilkes county, Rev. Mr. Green, Baptist clergyman, captain. This is the third company in that county, two of them commanded by ministers. A couple of wealthy men in Wilkes county pledge themselves to give $6,000 to the first man from that county who mounts Fort Pickens in time of war.
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Clarksville, Mecklenburg co., May 21, 1861. (search)
gone to take command of the Confederate forces at Harper's Ferry. Mrs. A. Lincoln returned to Washington from her "shopping" expedition, on Wednesday. Wm. A. Lenoir, of Caldwell county, N. C., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on the 15th inst. Theodore Heyl, a retired and wealthy merchant in Philadelphia, committed suicide on Tuesday. A bearer of dispatches from England to Lord Lyons, at Washington, arrived at New York on Tuesday, in the Edinburg. An alleged spy named Beecher was arrested in Washington on Tuesday. Ex-President Buchanan is reported to be confined to his room by illness. J. W. Pipes, of Wilkes county, N. C., was bitten by a large rattlesnake on the 4th inst. Arrests of persons, and petty outrages upon property, are numerous in Washington. The story that A. Lincoln made an excursion into Virginia the other day is untrue. A guard of 300 Zouaves is stationed near the Alexandria Ferry, on the Maryland side.
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
Some alarm has been created in New York city by the appearance of rabid dogs. Wm. Barringer was shot and killed in an affray at Louisville, last week, by G. Wurt. R. W. Lyles has assumed the editorial control of the Danville Register. J. W. Pipes, of Wilkes county, N. C., was bitten by a large rattlesnake on the 4th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
Cotton Subscriptions to the Confederate States loan. The Nashville American has been shown a letter from a gentleman of Columbus, Miss., to his relatives in Nashville, in which he says "cotton is being everywhere eagerly subscribed to the Confederate States Loan, by almost every planter in that portion of Mississippi, in amounts from twenty-five to four hundred bales." In Wilkes and Warren counties, in this State, where Vice-President Stephens has addressed the people, some six thousand bales have been subscribed, and from every section of the State we hear most gratifying accounts of the spirit and liberality of the planters in coming forward with their crops in support of the Confederacy. In Bibb county Col. Leonidas Jordan alone subscribed one thousand bales. We hear of similar patriotic action on the part of the planters in all the Cotton States. The citizens of Marengo county, Alabama, met at the county site recently, and subscribed 3,500 bales of cotton for the
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], River Defences. (search)
A blacksmith in Wilkes county, N. C., has commenced the manufacture of ladies' sewing needles, and will soon he able to supply any required quantity. The New York papers of the latest date announce the death of Capt. Philip F. Voorhees, U. S. N., Rev. C. Hance, merchant, and ex-Senator Robert Y. Grant.