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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of General Earl Van Dorn. (search)
ical Society: Dear General: I take advantage of a few hours' detention here to say, in reply to your inquiry of the 12th instant, that, while my memory is not fresh as to all the details of General Van Dorn's operations between Columbia and Nashville, Tenn., in 1863, or as to the precise composition of his command at that time, yet I remember that it contained the brigades of Forrest, Jackson, Armstrong, Whitfield and Cosby, numbering, perhaps, seven thousand effectives—cavalry and artillery; aafter (perhaps in March) took up his headquarters at Spring Hill, protecting the left of General Bragg's army and operating against the Federal line of communication so effectively as to confine the enemy closely to their fortified positions at Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Triune and other points. Vexed at Van Dorn's frequent attacks and constantly increasing proximity to their line, the enemy repeatedly moved out in force from their strongholds, but could never be coaxed far enough from th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Mrs. Henrietta H. Morgan. [from the Louisville, Ky., courier Journal, September 9, 1891.] (search)
r life her chief pleasure was found in contemplating the portraits of her sons and General Hill and war relics in her possession, of which she had a large number. Mrs. Morgan's husband, Calvin C. Morgan, was a brother of Samuel D. Morgan, of Nashville, one of the first merchants of that city. When driven further South by the Federal occupancy of Nashville, Samuel devoted a great deal of time and money to the aid of Tennessee and Kentucky soldiers in the hospitals. Calvin was a highly cultiNashville, Samuel devoted a great deal of time and money to the aid of Tennessee and Kentucky soldiers in the hospitals. Calvin was a highly cultivated and educated man and well known throughout Kentucky. Mrs. Morgan herself was universally beloved. She was widely known and esteemed, and thoroughly unselfish, with a disposition that endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her death causes widespread regret. Mrs. Duke has gone to Lexington, and General Duke will follow to-day. The funeral will take place from the family residence in Lexington to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, the interment being in the cemetery where G
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. [from the Enquirer-sun, Columbus, Georgia, October 4, 1891.] A graphic narrative by a participant, now a merchant of Columbus, Georgia. Nashville, Tenn., September 30, 1891. In passing through Virginia en route to New York recently, I met a gentleman, now a minister of the Episcopal church, who during the late war was a captain of artillery in the Confederate army. As we were in a Pullman palace car, dashing along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, the contrast between such a mode of travel and surroundings, with the former weary and hungry marches through many of the same places which we observed during the journey, was very impressive. Talk, talk, talk was freely interchanged, and many, many a battle scene recalled, with fresh memories of the elation inspired by the victories won upon the one hand and the sadness often felt at the loss of some noble comrade whose life blood had gone forth for the cause we were defending u
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
mption of command. The impending wreck of things rallied of its own accord upon the disinherited knight. The hopes of which his downfall had been the pedestal, were now themselves a ruin. Out of the lime-pit of their destruction, out of their crash and chaos, rose from the rejected stone the straightness of the Doric column. At this time it was plainly Sherman's plan to march through the Carolinas to the rear of Lee. When the western army went to pieces in hopeless wreck, in front of Nashville, the one hope of the Confederacy was the defeat of Sherman, by all the forces which could be assembled in the Carolinas, united to those of Lee; whenever the latter could most effectually withdraw from the lines at Petersburg. Everything depended upon the success of this movement, and the subsequent union of the same forces against Grant. The task had sufficient elements of difficulty as originally presented. Just at this time a new one was introduced. On the 14th of January Schofield
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
Tennessee, C. S. Ram, Capture of, 72. Texas Brigade, Memorial Stone to in the Wilderness, 122. Torpedoes, The first Confederate, 81. Truth of History, The Correspondence between Drs. Dabney and Jones, 376. Underwriter, Capture of the Federal gunboat, 93. United Confederate Veterans, Address of General John B. Gordon to, 175. Vandever, Dr. J. L., 187. Valentine's Statue of Jackson, E. V., 300. Van Dorn, Recollections of General; his operations between Columbia and Nashville, Tenn., 198. Virginia or Merrimac, The, her real projector, 3; Engagements with the Federal fleet, 5, 246; Thanksgiving services on, 248. Virginia Colonist, Religious observances of, 127; tolerance of, 128; social customs of; 131 race elements of, 131; vindicated from the charge of being descended from criminals, 132; gentle lineage of—use of coat armor by, 134; enterprise of, 137; regard of and provision for education, 137; early physicians and lawyers among them, 140, 148; libraries o