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Princeton, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
One of the distinguished gentlemen from whom my information is derived has agreed to verify my statement over his own signature for the purpose of laying it before you. To obtain that statement in writing from him, and to give it an historic form by thus laying it before you, has principally determined the form of this address. The two gentlemen to whom I allude are Colonel Thomas Ludwell Alexander, recently deceased, and Hon. Charles Anderson, exGov-ernor of Ohio, now living near Princeton, Kentucky. A few weeks ago, sitting in the office of General John Echols, in Louisville, Governor Anderson came in. General Echols held in hand the closing portions of the address by John W. Daniel at the unveiling of the Lee monument at Lexington, Virginia. While General Echols was reading and commenting upon portions of this splendid address, Governor Anderson interrupted him with the remark that no Confederate soldier or officer could entertain a higher or more reverent regard for the ch
Lexington (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
Lee and Scott. Paper read at the Re-union of Morgan's Men at Lexington, Ky., by Col. Thomas W. Bullitt. Fellow Soldiers,—In performing the duty assigned to me by your committee, it may perhaps be expected that I should direct attention to something directly or remotely connected with Morgan's command, but about these matters I prefer to talk to you in the camp rather than to write about them. I feel the more strongly justified in what I am about to state by a belief that in any meeting t leader of the Southern armies. Letter from Joshua F. Bullitt. Louisville, Ky., July 23rd, 1883. Thomas W. Bullitt, Louisville, Ky.: I have read what you propose to say at the meeting of Morgan's command, about to take place in Lexington, Ky., concerning the statements of Colonel Thomas L. Alexander, as to the interview between General Scott and the then Colonel Robert E. Lee. Colonel Alexander was one of my most intimate friends, and as reliable a man as I ever knew. In 1862—the
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
nd felt, not as I did, be it remembered), under most extraordinary, wonderful (?) provocations toward the contrary at San Antonio, and equally extraordinary and unprecedented seductions and temptations at Washington, your report is perfect. Now, my construction of our constitutional duty in that stupendous emergency is not at all in question. Nevertheless, my dissent, toto coelo, from that of General Lee (for I was and am only an old-fashioned disciple of Washington's Farewell Address and Jackson's Proclamation) does seem to me to affect the value of my testimony in his behalf. Don't you think so? I sometimes fear that others may suspect my encomiums of General Lee as the outflow of merely personal friendship and its admirations, or else of that zeal, or affected zeal, of an exaggerated advocacy, which is so fashionable in America, and which seems to be a tendency in all forms of hero worship. But I assure you neither is true. For I have or had several personal friends on each
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
near Princeton, Kentucky. A few weeks ago, sitting in the office of General John Echols, in Louisville, Governor Anderson came in. General Echols held in hand the closing portions of the address byelates to the great leader of the Southern armies. Letter from Joshua F. Bullitt. Louisville, Ky., July 23rd, 1883. Thomas W. Bullitt, Louisville, Ky.: I have read what you propose to sLouisville, Ky.: I have read what you propose to say at the meeting of Morgan's command, about to take place in Lexington, Ky., concerning the statements of Colonel Thomas L. Alexander, as to the interview between General Scott and the then Colonel etter from Governor Anderson. Nuttawa, Ky., July 20, 1883. Thomas W. Bullitt, Esq., Louisville, Ky.: my Dear Sir,—I have carefully read your notes of my gush about General Lee's place in hvery sincerely, your friend, Charles Anderson. Letter from General John Echols. Louisville, Ky., July 1st, 1883. Thomas W. Bullitt: my Dear Sir,—You request me to repeat what I said t
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
eneral Scott—If the same language should best express the same idea, why should I not? But what do you mean? Governor Anderson—I will swear, that when in 1854 I asked you about the qualifications of Major Robert E. Lee for Superintendent of West Point you used identically the same words that you have now used—viz., that of his grade, Lee was the first soldier in Christendom. Well, said General Scott, I believed it then as I do now, and think it very likely that I did use the same languagedent Davis upon the subject, and urged him by every consideration which I could think of to comply with the President's wishes as to the recommendation. General Custis Lee was recognized as one of the most distinguished graduates sent out from West Point, and a man of high attainments, great ability, and with a character very much resembling that of his distinguished father. But I could make no impression upon the General, and the only answer which I could get from him, and which he reiterated<
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
to his fellow-citizens of the Southern States, and especially to those of his dear native State of Virginia. Accompanying this memoir was an official letter addressed to the President of the Uniteds his purpose to go to Washington, and that he should there await the action of his native State of Virginia, saying that his action would be governed solely by hers. If Virginia should stand by theeplied, General Scott, I will conclude what I came to say. I am awaiting the action of the State of Virginia. If Virginia stands by the old flag and the Union, I shall stand by them with my sword aned upon General Scott in his office at Washington a short time before the secession of the State of Virginia. I believe he was not able to fix the precise day; if he did, it has escaped me. When he ed States, and that he received from Colonel Lee the reply, that his first duty was to the State of Virginia. If Virginia remained by the Union, he should stand with her. If Virginia should secede,
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
fellow-citizens of the Southern States, and especially to those of his dear native State of Virginia. Accompanying this memoir was an official letter addressed to the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, dated a day or two before the election, and admonishing him of the certainty of Lincoln's success, of the equal certainty of the secession of the Southern States, and the almost equal certainty of their swift seizure of the following forts, in this order, viz.: Fortress Monroe, Fort Moultrie and Fort Pickens. General Scott, therefore, as an official duty, advised the President whence such reinforcements could be drawn from Northern forts as would make a coup de main impossible and a capture by sieges very improbable. These papers General Scott enclosed to Governor Anderson, and, in a private note, requested Governor Anderson to exhibit the paper to General Twiggs and Colonel Lee especially, and to such other officers of the army as he might deem advisable
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 69
horities in Texas for some time and until his escape by flight into and through Mexico. He took up his residence in Ohio, was elected Lieutenant Governor, and becamege. He then proceeded to say that in the march from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico there was not an encampment nor a battle-field which had not been previously sethe army in the year 18—. He was with General Scott on the march to the city of Mexico, and took much pleasure in his declining years in relating the incidents of that campaign. He told me that a day or two after the occupation of the city of Mexico the officers of the United States army gave to General Scott a grand banquet. offered by General Scott to the then Captain Lee, at the banquet in the city of Mexico, of which I believe you have given an exactly correct statement. Joshua F. Bul office of engineer, whose faded laurels he had gathered and worn in and out of Mexico a score of years before? I find no such record nor the least probability of th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 69
anying this memoir was an official letter addressed to the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, dated a day or two before the election, and to you. Permit me to speak first. I am authorized by the President of the United States to say to you that, if you remain by the old flag and the Union, you will be placed in supreme command of the armies of the United States, subject only to a nominal command in myself; which command, you know, at my age must be nominal only.t he had said to Colonel Lee that he was authorized by the President of the United States to tender to him the supreme command of the armies of the United States, anUnited States, and that he received from Colonel Lee the reply, that his first duty was to the State of Virginia. If Virginia remained by the Union, he should stand with her. If Vir, sometimes uttered in the highest places—uttered even in the Senate of the United States—that the Southern leaders were actuated by a false and unholy ambition.
San Antonio (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 69
largely contributed to that nomination. In the fall of 1860 General Scott, the commander of the army of the United States, was at Washington city. Colonel Lee, in command of his regiment, was stationed in Texas—Governor Anderson living at San Antonio, Texas. General Twiggs was in command of the military department of Texas. On November 20th, 1860, Governor Anderson had made a speech at a secession meeting at the Alamo, opposing secession, and announcing his own purpose of adherence to the Uy pencil-marks on the margins. But in the essential matter of General Lee's singular persistence in his duty (as he thought and felt, not as I did, be it remembered), under most extraordinary, wonderful (?) provocations toward the contrary at San Antonio, and equally extraordinary and unprecedented seductions and temptations at Washington, your report is perfect. Now, my construction of our constitutional duty in that stupendous emergency is not at all in question. Nevertheless, my dissent,
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