hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,286 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 0 Browse Search
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) 272 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) or search for South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 55 results in 11 document sections:

1 2
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
had put an end to the cause of liberty in South Carolina—to the same people, who at Hanging Rock, Cn department. The advance of Gates into South Carolina roused into action all the latent energiesates, with the army sent for the relief of South Carolina, was defeated. Flushed with victory, buDaniel. The security of his conquest in South Carolina thus threatened by the sudden incursions oith Gates' army reorganized, advanced into South Carolina for its recovery. But while Cornwallis lly, the tramp brigade. It saw service in South Carolina. It fought in Virginia, Maryland, North C At the head of this regiment fell one of South Carolina's noblest citizens. I have spoken of Ca that battle; but it shows, also, that for South Carolina troops the Second Manassas was the severes occasion I have shown that in this battle South Carolina lost more than 25 per cent. of all her tr luxury. Since that article has appeared, South Carolina has had in the great national educational [6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
mp Hagood, Summerville, S. C. Captain J. G. Pressley, Kingstree Postoffice, South Carolina: Dear Sir,—I write to inform you that it will be well for each of your msition would give the enemy so great an advantage, not only on the coast of South Carolina, but on the coast of the whole Confederacy, that no one thought it would evourned before the end of the week. The Government had called on the State of South Carolina for additional troops. The Governor and Council had extended the callTo-day the battalion was ordered to the front to protect Goodlet's regiment South Carolina volunteers, which was detailed as a working party to cut down the woods easded men came up, and, with the assistance of Sergeant Izler, took me to the South Carolina hospital in Petersburg. As we were leaving the field we met Lieutenant Shuor was sent to the hospital, where erysipelas supervened on his wounds, and South Carolina lost another of her brave sons, and the Twenty fifth South Carolina volunte
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pegram battalion Association. (search)
Crenshaw Battery, of Richmond, Virginia; Letcher Battery, of Richmond, Virginia; Fredericksburg Battery, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Pee Dee Battery, of South Carolina—commanded by Colonel Wm. Johnston Pegram until he fell mortally wounded at Five Forks, April 1st, 1865: Address of Rev. H. Melville Jackson, D. D.: relig the Fredericksburg batteries, with their noble men and officers—and last, but not least, the Pee Dee Battery from our gallant and plucky little sister State, South Carolina. We will never forget any of you, and this register enshrines your noble dead. But the shadows of the coming evening warn me that I must not linger. I ca gave the last drop of his canteen to a wounded or dying opponent. The household before the war, and after the war! both sides! a gifted divine and poet of South Carolina, in his elegant essay God in history, has sweetly sung. I give you his words: Fair faces beaming round tile household hearth, Young, joyous tones in melody
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers, at the Reunion at Williston, Barnwell county, S. C, 14th July, 1882. (search)
and yet who were the first to hasten into our ranks. Take the instance of our own State. The census of 1860 shows that there were but 26,701 slaveholders in South Carolina, and yet she gave 44,000 volunteers during the first eighteen months of the war. Supposing, then, that every slaveholder went into the service, we would have r people felt that the one was involved in the other. We fought for State's rights and State's sovereignty as a political principle. We fought for the State of South Carolina, with a loyal love that no personal sovereign has ever aroused. But more, you and I, my comrades, whether owning slaves or not, could not but foresee, wiy of votes, obtained possession of the government in 1860. We of this generation had no part in the establishment of slavery in this country—as early as 1741 South Carolina unsuccessfully endeavored to check the importation of slaves with which the mother country was crowding the province; but we were born to the question: what w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
, by no means partial, inclines me to the belief that there are not two hundred in life. With the exception of Thomas H. Watts, of Alabama, Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina, M. L. Bonham and A. G. Magrah, of South Carolina, Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, and perhaps Richard Hawes, of Kentucky, all the war-governors of Confederate States are dead. We have not sufficient data to speak with certainty in regard to the senators and representatives in Confederate the generations of men. The Constitution of the Confederate States was signed by forty-nine delegates. All who affixed their signatures to that memorable document are dead except C. G. Memminger, W. Porcher Miles and William W. Boyce, of South Carolina, Augustus R. Wright, of Georgia, David P. Lewis and Jabez L. M. Curry, of Alabama, W. P. Harris, Alexander M. Clayton and J. A. P. Campbell, of Mississippi, Alexander de Clouet, of Louisiana, and Thomas N. Waul and John H. Reagan, of Texas.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
Southern genius. How war developed it in an industrial and military way. [An address delivered by General M. C. Butler, United States Senator from South Carolina, before the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia at its annual meeting held October 18th, 1888, in the Hall of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Virginia.] The meeting was called to order at 8:15 o'clock P. M. by the President of the Association, General William B. Taliaferro, who in graceful terms introduced the orator of the evening.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
rganizations, of which fifty were batteries. The Confederate regulars were also represented by six organizations. These were divided among the States as follows: Union—Illinois, 36; Indiana, 42; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 18; Michigan, 8; Minnesota, 2; Missouri, 3; Ohio, 56; Pennsylvania, 7; Wisconsin, 9; Tennessee, 2; United States regulars, 9. Confederate—Alabama, 43; Arkansas, 17; Florida, 7; Georgia, 35; Kentucky, 7; Louisiana, 13; Mississippi, 21; Missouri, 2; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 18; Tennessee, 68; Texas, 18; Virginia, 7; Confederate regulars, 6. The Directors of the Gettysburg Association include the Governors of the contributing Northern States and the officers of those Grand Army Posts and other like military societies which have taken part in the work. The Chickamauga Association would be a much more comprehensive organization. The incorporators would probably include two or three veterans, who were distinguished on the field, from each of the States
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
stitutional, and yet these Governors refused to execute it. On the 7th of January, 1861, more than two weeks after South Carolina had passed her ordinance of secession, Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, in a speech in the Senate, said: The Supreme Court hast the Constitution, and who were followed in their course by the people they represented. After all this and after South Carolina had seceded, the other States of the South were so anxious to continue the Union under the Constitution and to stand ited States. The harbor of Charleston belonged to the Confederate States, or rather to the independent government of South Carolina. Being then the property of another government, there was no authority vesting with or in the government at Washingt; Arkansas, 17; Florida, 7; Georgia, 35; Kentucky, 7; Louisiana, 13; Mississippi, 21; Missouri, 2; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 18; Tennessee, 68; Texas, 18; Virginia, 7; Confederate regulars, 6. The Directors of the Gettysburg Association i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hagood's brigade: its services in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864. (search)
t properly supported. G. T. Beauregard, General. Headquarters Department North Carolina and South Carolina, 5th July, 1864. Thus failed a brilliant design which might have given a different complington, D. C. This last gentleman, on December 27th, 1888, formally presented it to the State of South Carolina. The announcement of the gift elicited from the Picayune, in its issue of January 6, 1ommittee in conjunction with Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, and Hon. Robert Barnwell, of South Carolina and a member of the judiciary committee, of which Hon. B. H. Hill was chairman. He was alsoional Constitution declares that We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, etc., invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain, etc. In this respect bs informed by Mr. Semmes that he did not know the seal was in existence and was glad to learn that it had been presented to the State of South Carolina, the first State which seceded from the Union.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Old South. (search)
all and Taney; of the Pinckneys of Maryland and South Carolina (for they were of the same stock); of Andrew Jamerican ornithologists. Washington Allston, of South Carolina, ranks among the foremost of American painters.the vast grain fields of the West. Stevens, of South Carolina, was the first to use iron as a protection agaioremost men of science. Dr. J. Marion Sims, of South Carolina, had more reputation abroad than any other Amer, Legare, Hayne, Ryan, Timrod, the Elliotts, of South Carolina, Tichnor, Lanier, Thornwell, Archibald Alexandell were alike opposed. Christopher Gadsden, of South Carolina, in a speech delivered in Charleston in 1766, aedom. It was a Southerner—Charles Pinckney, of South Carolina—whose draft of the Constitution was mainly adopcob Jones, of same State; the two Shubricks, of South Carolina; Jesse D. Elliott, of Maryland; Blakely, of Nor Virginia. His chief of ordnance was Huger, of South Carolina. The most brilliant exploit of that war was
1 2