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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
e North Carolina bonds. The Governor in reply suspended the order for the present. He wrote to Watson & Meares, New York: I would be glad to have your aid in the purchase of arms in and near New Yort them as soon as possible. Can you get me fuses for the shells? In a letter of the 16th, to Watson & Meares, New York, the Governor said: One of the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, New York, sion caps, price and quality subject to Colonel Meare's approval. July 23, the Governor wrote Watson & Meares: Your favor of the 20th received, advising me of the purchase of 280 muskets from Schuy21. They can furnish 200 more Enfields in thirty days. You can contract for these. On the 25th, Watson & Meares were sent a check for $9,093 to pay for 150,243 pounds of soft English lead, and the Gorevolvers, 7 1/2-inch barrel, which were shipped on the steamer North Carolina. A letter from Watson & Meares, March 18th, said they could get 600 more rifles from Schuyler, Hartley & Graham; that
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
e North Carolina bonds. The Governor in reply suspended the order for the present. He wrote to Watson & Meares, New York: I would be glad to have your aid in the purchase of arms in and near New Yort them as soon as possible. Can you get me fuses for the shells? In a letter of the 16th, to Watson & Meares, New York, the Governor said: One of the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, New York, sion caps, price and quality subject to Colonel Meare's approval. July 23, the Governor wrote Watson & Meares: Your favor of the 20th received, advising me of the purchase of 280 muskets from Schuy21. They can furnish 200 more Enfields in thirty days. You can contract for these. On the 25th, Watson & Meares were sent a check for $9,093 to pay for 150,243 pounds of soft English lead, and the Gorevolvers, 7 1/2-inch barrel, which were shipped on the steamer North Carolina. A letter from Watson & Meares, March 18th, said they could get 600 more rifles from Schuyler, Hartley & Graham; that
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
ttle else save the bare facts, thinking my time would be limited, but there is much more that could be written which I feel sure would interest you, and in the beginning I wish to state that most of the data in this paper was given me by Mrs. Margaret L. Watson, President of the Dick Downing Chapter, of Beaumont. Mrs. Watson received it direct from two Confederate veterans who participated in the battle, so the authenticity of the facts cannot be doubted. The most remarkable, and so far as Mrs. Watson received it direct from two Confederate veterans who participated in the battle, so the authenticity of the facts cannot be doubted. The most remarkable, and so far as the writer is informed, unrecorded battle of the war between the States was fought at Sabine Pass, Texas, on September 8, 1863. Those who took part in the battle called themselves the Davis Guards. The company was organized at Camp Kyle, near Harrisburg, Texas, with Captain F. H. Odlum in command. They were mustered into service at Galveston by Brigadier-General Paul O. Hebert, in August, 1861. They took the name of the Davis Guards in honor of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confedera