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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
er and more competent pen than ours. We may say now, however, that from casually dipping into it, the book seems to us to be an able, well written, and interesting presentation of the Federal side of that important campaign. history of Augusta county, Va. By J. Lewis Peyton, Staunton, Va.: Samuel M. Yost & Son. We are under obligations to the author for a copy of this valuable contribution to history, for it must be remembered that Augusta county, originally extended from the western sloAugusta county, originally extended from the western slope of the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi river, and embraced a large part of that empire which Virginia generously gave to the general government. With industrious research Mr. Peyton has gathered the material which his facile pen has woven into an interesting and valuable narrative, which we cordially commend to all lovers of historic truth. Mrs. Derenne, of Savannah, Ga., has placed us under highest obligations for sending us beautiful copies of the rare and very valuable Wormsloe Quartos
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
er and more competent pen than ours. We may say now, however, that from casually dipping into it, the book seems to us to be an able, well written, and interesting presentation of the Federal side of that important campaign. history of Augusta county, Va. By J. Lewis Peyton, Staunton, Va.: Samuel M. Yost & Son. We are under obligations to the author for a copy of this valuable contribution to history, for it must be remembered that Augusta county, originally extended from the western sloAugusta county, originally extended from the western slope of the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi river, and embraced a large part of that empire which Virginia generously gave to the general government. With industrious research Mr. Peyton has gathered the material which his facile pen has woven into an interesting and valuable narrative, which we cordially commend to all lovers of historic truth. Mrs. Derenne, of Savannah, Ga., has placed us under highest obligations for sending us beautiful copies of the rare and very valuable Wormsloe Quartos
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of Valentine's Recumbent figure of Lee at Lexington, Va., June 28th, 1883. (search)
showing their instinctive refinement, where the corn waved its tassels, and the wheat bowed to the wind, by their rude log huts in the wilderness, there also the vine clambered, and the rose and lily bloomed. In 1749, near Greeneville, in Augusta county—and Augusta county was then an empire stretching from the Blue Ridge mountains to the Mississippi river—in 1749, Robert Alexander, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, who was a Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, established there The Augusta AcAugusta county was then an empire stretching from the Blue Ridge mountains to the Mississippi river—in 1749, Robert Alexander, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, who was a Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, established there The Augusta Academy—the first classical school in the Valley of Virginia. Under his successor, Rev. John Brown, the academy was first moved to Old Providence, and again to New Providence church, and just before the Revolution, for a third time, to Mount Pleasant, near Fairfield, in the new county of Rockbridge. In 1776, as the revolutionary fires were kindling, there came to its head as principal William Graham, of worthy memory, who had been a class-mate and special friend of Harry Lee at Princeton Coll