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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The last tragedy of the war. [from the New Orleans, La. , Picayune January 18 , 1903
The last tragedy of the war. [from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, January 18, 1903.]
Execution of Tom Martin at Cincinnati, by the order of General Hooker. By Captain James Dinkins.
During General Hood's campaign into middle Tennessee, in November, 1864, a young cavalryman by the name of Thomas Martin, whose home was in Kentucky, decided to steal away and pay his family a visit.
The army passed within fifty miles of his home, and he doubtless thought he would be able to visit his parents and get back before being missed.
Soon after his arrival at home, however, the Federals made him a prisoner and charged him with being a guerrilla.
He was sent to Cincinnati and confined in a cell.
Not long afterwards he was brought before a court-martial and convicted of having been a guerrilla and sentenced to be shot.
Tom Martin was a mere boy, and was illiterate, unable to read or write, but he protested his innocence and insisted that he was a regular Confederate soldier.
At
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
War times in Natchez.
[from the New Orleans (La.) Picayune, January 18, 1903.] By Mrs. G. Griffing Wilcox.
Grand, exclusive, heroic Natchez, with her terraced hills and fragrant gardens, colonial mansions and prehistoric memories, was gorgeous in gala day attire.
The Stars and Stripes floated from the domes and windows of all public buildings, and were stretched over the street crossings.
General Tuttle, mounted on his milk-white steed, and escorted by his staff, paraded the principal thoroughfares.
Handsomely-uniformed soldiers, arrayed in the paraphernalia and insignia of office, were moving hither and thither, reminding one of a vast assemblage of strange bright birds driven hence by terrific storms on foreign shores, but alas!
the storm was in our own beautiful and loved Southland, and we were compelled, perforce, to look upon and admire the brillant plumage of these strange, bright birds, who brought not the rich tidings of all glorious things, but sad disaster,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
The battle of Chickamauga.
[from the New Orleans (La.) Picayune, November 9, 1902.]
An Eyewitness' thrilling story of the great conflict, as seen from the Federal side.
The following article was written by a newspaper correspondent present on the Federal side at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863.
It appeared September 28, 1863, in the Cincinnati Commercial, and is now reprinted as an interesting contemporary historical document, shedding light on the progress of the battle, and proving conclusively that the Army of Tennessee won a great victory on that bloody field.
What the result might have been, had the Confederates pressed their advantage, no one can say.—Editor Picayune.
Morning broke cold and dim. A rank fog obscured the camp fires and transformed the flitting figures around them into gnomes.
The rattling of wagons, the vehement rumbling of caissons, and the low, monotonous word of command were heard in all directions.
A heavy white frost—the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
Lest we forget-ben Butler.
[from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, February 1, 1903.]
The Scathing Denunciation of his course in war and peace, delivered in Congress by John young Brown. By Captain James Dinkins.
Those who have respect for the maxim, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, will have very little to say for Ben Butler.
He was in all truth the most ferocious, cruel and vulgar beast that ever figured in human form in this country.
But, living or dead, the truth of history must be written of him, and it is not worth our while to soil the mantle of Charity by spreading it over his beastly record.
John Young Brown, of Kentucky, told the plain truth of him when he described him in Congress some years ago as brutal in war, pusillanimous in peace, and infamous in politics.
His character was as vile as his features were hideous and repulsive.
He was unable to understand an honest man's thoughts, or a gentleman's feelings, and he therefore gloried in his villainy and boasted of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
The Confederate ram Albemarle.
[from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, December 28, 1902, January 4, 1903.]
Built to clear the Roanoke, Neuse and Pamlico rivers, she accomplished her mission Brilliantly. By Captain James Dinkins.
Early in 1863 the Federals had complete possession of all the bays and sounds and rivers along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts.
Pamlico Sound afforded a fine rendezvous for vessels of all kinds, while the towns along the Roanoke, Neuse and Pamlico rivers were garrisoned by Federal troops.
From these garrisoned towns foraging parties scoured the country and destroyed or carried away every movable thing, including beast and fowl.
The people in that section, being robbed of everything they possessed, appealed to the authorities at Richmond for aid and relief.
On March 14, 1863, General D. H. Hill sent a brigade of infantry and a battery of smoothbore guns, under General J. J. Pettigrew, in response to the call of the people, with instructio
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
The battle of Perryville.
[from the New Orleans (La.) Picayune, October 19, 1902.]
There was no action in the Civil war where the Confederate soldier displayed more desperate Courage— Bragg's men fought against overwhelming odds. By Colonel Luke W. Finley, Confederate States Army.
Can it be of any service to man to recount anything that was done at Perryville?
Was the heroic in any way exemplified there?
Is the heroic—consecration to duty—of any worth?
Soldiers living have seen Forrest, the very impersonation of courage, exhibit the heroic on many fields.
This does not mean that this is the highest type of manhood.
The act of Forrest wherein he confessed, late in life, that he had been building on the sand and witnessed before men his accountability to his Maker was the highest type.
The soldier who stands for duty, for law, for his State, is a high type.
Forrest, at Memphis, in the midst of the mob, outraged by the murderer's savage wrongs, when he stood for law, wa<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)