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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard 's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The death of Willie Abell . (search)
The death of Willie Abell. A Poem by Rev. Dr. J. C. Hiden.
[The following appeared in the Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle of October the 9th, 1864, and is well worthy of preservation, as handing down the name of a hero, who, though a beardless boy, was as true to country and to duty as any plumed knight who figures in the world's history.]
We heard a day or two since an incident related which we think should be published, as not only illustrating a fine trait of character in our young t body may surrender, The ‘mortal coil’ may fail, But his dauntless, untamed spirit Has never learned to quail; His voice is raised; he utters One piercing, eager cry, ‘Oh!
Colonel, save the squadron!’ Then lays him down to die. Time-honored Old Dominion! What heroes hast thou borne! Thy mother's eye is weeping, Thy lovely bosom torn; But still thy grand ‘Sic Semper’ Defiantly shall wave; Thy sons will bear it proudly To freedom or—the grave.
J. C. H. Charlottesville, Octob
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
Editorial Paragraphs.
General Fitzhugh Lee's Second tour in behalf of the Southern Historical Society.
On the 19th of February last the Secretary left Richmond at 8 A. M., joined General Fitzhugh Lee at Charlottesville, and started on a tour from which we returned on the 19th of March.
Travelling by the Chesapeake and Ohio, Virginia Midland, Norfolk and Western, and East Tennessee and Georgia railways, through the charming regions of Piedmont Virginia, the Valley of Virginia, Southwest Virginia, and East Tennessee, we reached
Knoxville
at 3:30 A. M., but even at that hour found Colonel Moses White and Professor W. G. McAdoo at the depot to give us a cordial welcome and comfortable quarters.
The day was most pleasantly spent receiving calls from prominent citizens, driving around the city, inspecting the beautiful model farm of Mr. Dickerson, viewing the ground over which Longstreet's brave men made their fruitless charge, and visiting other points of interest in thi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Shenandoah Valley in 1864 , by George E. Pond —Campaigns of the civil war, XI . (search)