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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Shall Cromwell have a statue? (search)
ps from the roster of a single regiment men of the ability, the disinterestedness, the capacity and the character of Lee, Thomas, Johnston, and Hood. It is a record which inspires confidence as well as pride. And now of the two men—Thomas and Lee. Though born in Virginia, General Thomas was not of a peculiarly Virginian descent. By ancestry, he was, on the father's side, Welsh; French, on that of the mother. He was not of the old Virginia stock. Born in the southeastern portion of the Sta no cavaliers in the Thomas family, and not the remotest trace of the Pocahontas blood. When the war broke out, in 1861, Thomas had been twenty-one years a commissioned officer; and during those years he seems to have lived almost everywhere, exceptr sympathy or moral indifference seek to confound the two? Charles Stuart and Cromwell could not both have been right If Thomas was right, Lee was wrong. To this I would reply, that we, who take another view, neither confound, nor seek to confou
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
Lieutenant-Colonel, First Florida Cavalry. Charles A. Fuller. 759. Born Massachusetts. Appointed Massachusetts. 10. Colonel, August 14, 1861. Commanding First Louisiana Regiment of Artillery. James F. Cooper. 766. Born New York. Appointed Pennsylvania. 17. Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh Georgia Infantry. Thomas O. Barnwell. 772. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 23. No trace. (There were several Barnwells in Confederate States Army, but no trace of Thomas O.) Goode Bryan. 774. Born Georgia. Appointed Georgia. 25. Brigadier-General, August 31, 1863. Commanding Brigade Mc-Laws' Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. 1835. William H. Griffin. 812. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 27. Colonel, commanding Twenty-first Texas Infantry. Peter C. Gaillard. 814. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 29. Colonel, commanding Twenty-seventh South Carolina Infantry. James M.