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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) or search for Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The lost sword of Gen. Richard B. Garnett , who fell at Gettysburg , (from the Baltimore sun , of November 4 , and December 3 , 1905 .) (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The honor roll of the University of Virginia , from the times-dispatch, December 3 , 1905 . (search)
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry , Confederate States Army. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
Returned Confederate States' flags.
[special to the times-dispatch, October 28, 1905.]
Intensely interesting exercises that closed the Eighteenth Annual reunion of the Grand camp of the Confederate Veterans of Virginia.
Address of Hon. John Lamb.
The custody of unidentified flags to be the Confederate Memorial literary Society, Richmond, Va.
Petersburg, Va., October 27, 1905.—The crowning event of the Eighteenth Annual Reunion of the Grand Camp, Confederate Veterans of Virginia, was the closing scene to-night—the ceremony of receiving from the Commonwealth the captured Virginia flags that by Act of Congress had been returned to the State by the United States Government.
The ceremony was purely sentimental and figurative, but it was glorious.
It was the act of turning over to the keeping of the men who fought under them, the battle flags of Virginia's brave companies, battalions and regiments.
The committee appointed by the camp at the morning session to go to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.37 (search)
Field of blood was the Crater.
From the times-dispatch, Nov. 12, 1905.
Address delivered at reunion of Mahone's men in Petersburg.
[Whilst during the reunion of Confederate veterans at Petersburg, Virginia, in October 1905, the memorable battle of the Crater was not as had been proposed fought over again with the reality which only participants therein might render, still the convocation was in many ways important in results for the common weal.
Not only as so eloquently presented by the gallant Captain John Lamb, in previous pages, but in published testimonials, of valiant Federals: Mr. J. D. Lynch of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a member of battery D, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, whose regiment was in the front line of the battle, in a letter to Governor Montague, regretting his inability to be present at the reunion, gave the following interesting incident:
He says that he and his colonel pulled two Confederates from under the debris and gave them their breakfast.