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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Richmond home guard of 1861 . (search)
The Richmond home guard of 1861.
[Copy.] Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, August 15, 1891. Colonel Joseph dare, War Department, War Records Office, Washington, D. C.:
Colonel: Your letter to the postmaster at Richmond, dated the 1st instant, with his reply of the 12th, and a note from Mr. Brock, Secretary of the Southern Historical Society, enclosed to me at my residence in Washington and forwarded thence, has reached me at this place, where I am spending a short season of recreation.
I take pleasure in giving the information you request touching the Home Guard of Richmond, though I must do so entirely from memory, as I have no papers here; indeed, those that I had, relating to this matter, have been lost or stolen.
The Home Guard was an organization intended for local defence at Richmond, and was commanded by myself under a commission from the State of Virginia.
At the beginning of the war I was President of the James River and Kanawha Company—an office which I had
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Return of a Confederate flag to its original owner. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel Theodore O'Hara . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Thomas J. Jackson . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.51 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston . (search)
General Joseph E. Johnston.
An Address delivered before the Association of ex-confederate soldiers and sailors of Washington, D. C., by Leigh Robinson, May 12th, 1891.
Death makes the brave my friends, was the great word of the great Crusader; and though the outward empire of the chivalry he led has crumbled to dust, and their swords are rust, the intrinsic nobleness thereof survives the first crusade and the last.
Wherever nobleness has a house, there shall this gospel also be preached.
Nor can it be said to be strictly bounded by the noble.
The emulation of brave lives, and the preservation of their images, is the wise instinct of mankind.
The path to immortality is fortitude.
In every noble arena this is the crucial test.
The corner-stone of every fortress of man's power and man's honor is man's fortitude.
Our inmost shrines are altars to this tutelary god.
Deep in the heart is the sense of that ineradicable royalty which makes the crown of thorns more than the cr