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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., May 21st, 1886. (search)
iversity of Virginia. He was then nineteen years old, reserved almost to shyness, grave, yet gracious in his manner, in which there were little of primness and much of the charm of an old-fashioned politeness. Well do I remember the eager discussions we boys then held touching the great events which Fate seemed hurrying on. Pegram, naturally shy and silent, said but little, but when the storm burst, like Macduff, his voice was in his sword. He was one of the first to leave college on Lincoln's proclamation calling for 75,000 troops, and reported at once for duty with his old company (the famous Company F), which had been ordered to Acquia Creek. With this company he remained but a short time. Sent as drill-master to exercise the artillerymen of Lindsay Walker in the infantry tactics, he was elected lieutenant of the Purcell battery. It was as commander of this battery that he was destined in great measure to achieve his hard-won fame—a battery which was with him from the f
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First Maryland campaign. (search)
ich was, that Lee's object was to draw off the Federal army from Washington, and then suddenly cross to the Virginia side of the Potomac and attack that city. Halleck was therefore constantly warning McClellan against such a movement. Halleck says on the 9th: We must be very cautious about stripping too much the forts on the Washington side. It may be the enemy's object to draw off the mass of our forces, and then attempt to attack from the Virginia side of the Potomac. On the 12th President Lincoln telegraphs: I have advices that Jackson is crossing the Potomac at Williamsport, and probably the whole Rebel army will be drawn from Maryland. On the 13th Halleck says: Until you know more certainly the enemy's forces south of the Potomac you are wrong in thus uncovering the capital. I am of the opinion that the enemy will send a small column towards Pennsylvania and draw your forces in that direction, then suddenly move on Washington with the forces south of the Potomac, and those
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Died for their State. (search)
reign power to hold possession of a fortress dominating the harbor of her chief Atlantic seaport; and the Federal Government having sent a powerful expedition with reinforcements for Fort Sumter, the Confederate Government at last proceeded to reduce it. The reduction, however, was a bloodless affair; while the captured garrison received all the honors of war, and were at once sent North, with every attention to their comfort, and without even their parole being taken. But forthwith President Lincoln at Washington issued his call for militia to coerce the seceding States; the cry rang all over the North that the flag had been fired upon; and amidst the tempest of passion which that cry everywhere raised the Northern militia responded with alacrity, the South was invaded, and a war of subjugation, destined to be the most gigantic which the world has ever seen, was begun by the Federal Government against the seceding States, in complete and amazing disregard of the foundation princi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of J. C. C. Black, at the unveiling of the Hill statue, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1886. (search)
s. His clarion voice rang out louder than the din of battle, like the bugle blast of a Highland Chief resounding over hill and mountain and glen, summoning his clans to the defence of home and liberty, and thrilled every heart and nerved every arm It was the form and voice of Hill. Not only is he entitled to the honor we confer upon him by the events of this day, and higher honor, if higher there could be, as a Georgian, but as a son of the South. The great West boasts that it gave Lincoln to the country and the world. New England exults with peculiar pride in the name and history of Webster, and one of her most distinguished sons, upon the recent occasion of the completion of the Washington monument, in an oration worthy of his subject, did not hesitate to say: I am myself a New Englander by birth. A son of Massachusetts, bound by the strongest ties of affection and of blood to honor and venerate the earlier and the later worthies of the old Puritan Commonwealth, jealous o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
dment and fall of Fort Sumter; but the infantry were not engaged in that first battle of the war. On April 15th, two days after the battle of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln issued his proclamation for seventy-five thousand militia for three months, which Governor Letcher answered on the 17th by a proclamation ordering all armedost in the presence of twenty five hundred or three thousand troops. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. 11, pp. 3-4. Prompt as Governor Letcher was to reply to Lincoln's demand for Virginia troops to be marched against her sister Southern States, the people and the militia of the State had been in advance of him. It happened in was arrested, tried, and cashiered by a court-martial, of which General Garfield was president. He was, however, immediately appointed Brigadier-General by President Lincoln. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. XVI, page 273-8. Now let us turn to the other: When the army was passing through Pennsylvania, the ladies frequently cam
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), President Davis in reply to General Sherman. (search)
n to your measures, which, if any newspaper in the United States had dared to publish against Mr. Lincoln's recommendations, its editor would have been promptly imprisoned. By any comparison that can be made between your administration and that of President Lincoln, history will award to you far more respect for the essential features of personal liberty, for deference paid to State authority,the United States, were measures adopted by the respective Congresses, and not acts of either Mr. Lincoln or myself. They were both measures of public defence, intended to equalize the burden of mil people. Yet the Senators that called for this historical statement will hardly hold that President Lincoln was seeking a dictatorship because he enforced the draft. This historical statement migpathizing with the rebels in the South, and he thinks it was by his advice that the President (Lincoln) sent General E. V. Sumner to relieve Johnston of his command before the conspiracy was consumm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The secession of Virginia. (search)
ly contradicts the fact. Governor Letcher, up to the issuing of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand troops to coercovernment to coerce a Sovereign State, and promptly responded to Mr. Lincoln's call for Virginia's quota of the seventy-five thousand troops e purview of the Constitution or the laws. You have, said he to Mr. Lincoln, chosen to inaugurate civil war. But the most remarkable statreason of the secession of Virginia was that she considered that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation had inaugurated civil war, and she had simply to ongress which assembled at Washington, sent her commissioners to Mr. Lincoln after his inaugural, and on bended knee begged for peace and Uniar to the authorities at Washington. Two days, therefore, after Mr. Lincoln's call for her quota of troops to subjugate the seceded States Voted freely their honest convictions. The simple truth is, that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation caused the immediate secession of Virginia, and s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correspondence between Governor Vance, of North Carolina, and President Jefferson Davis. (search)
m or hear what they had to say. A second time I sent a military officer with a communication addressed by myself to President Lincoln. The letter was received by General Scott, who did not permit the officer to see Mr. Lincoln, but who promised thaMr. Lincoln, but who promised that an answer would be sent. No answer has ever been received. The third time, a few months ago, a gentleman was sent whose position, character, and reputation were such as to insure his reception, if the enemy were not determined to receive no prop let alone. But suppose it were practicable to obtain a conference through commissioners, with the Government of President Lincoln, is it at this moment that we are to consider it desirable, or even at all practical? Have we not just been apprisjugation or extermination. But if it were otherwise, how are we to treat with the House of Representatives? It is with Lincoln alone that we could confer, and his own partisans at the North avow unequivocally that his purpose, as his message and p
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Maryland Confederate monument at Gettysburg. (search)
nion soldier of repute, has even now embalmed the memory of Stonewall Jackson in immortal verse: And oft when white-haired grandsires tell Of bloody struggles past and gone; The children at their knees will hear How Jackson led his columns on. The monument dedicated. The monument was dedicated on Friday, November the 19th, and we clip from the Baltimore Sun of the next day the following account: Twenty-three years after the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg by President Lincoln, the first monument, marking the position of a Confederate command on the battlefield of Gettysburg, was dedicated yesterday, a beautiful day for any ceremony. It was erected by the surviving members of the Second Maryland regiment and their friends, and the dedicatory ceremonies were witnessed by two thousand people, including the members of the Second regiment, the Maryland Line, the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, the Murray Association, the Ladies' Confeder
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Beast Butler outlawed. (search)
upon their receipts, such of said property as may be required for the use of the United States army; to collect together all the other personal property and bring the same to New Orleans, and cause it to be sold at public auction to the highest bidders, an order which, if executed, condemns to punishment by starvation at least a quarter of a million of human beings, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, and of which the execution, although forbidden to military officers by the orders of President Lincoln, is in accordance with the confiscation law of our enemies, which he has directed to be enforced through the agency of civil officials. And, finally, the African slaves have not only been excited to insurrection by every license and encouragement, but numbers of them have actually been armed for a servile war, a war, in its nature, far exceeding in horrors the most merciless atrocities of the savages. And, whereas, the officers under the command of the said Butler, have been, in m
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