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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. by Col. Edward McCrady, Jr. It is no disparagement of the rest of the troops of the State, in the late war, to say that the Sixth, Twelfth and Seventeenth Regiments, which were raised mostly from the districts of York, Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield and Kershaw, that constituted the old Camden district at the time of the Revolution, were pre-eminent for their gallantry and soldierly qualities and esprit de corps; nor is this to be wondered at when we recollect that the people of this section, from which these regiments were formed, are perhaps the most homogeneous of the State—a people possessing in a marked degree all those qualities which go to make brave men and good soldiers. This old town of Winnsboro has been twice the headquarters of an invading army, once burned, and twice ravaged by an enemy. In each instance th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The lost cause. (search)
n apprehension of danger seriously threatening momentous interests, and a natural desire to avert it; that they were aroused by a conviction of the necessity of action to avert calamity and obtain security to valuable rights; that their fathers of 1776 asserted independence of interference with their local interests and took up arms to sustain their course, and that the people of the South were more seriously threatened, and had far greater interests imperiled, and saw a government made for common defence and general welfare about to be wrested from the purpose of its institution and employed as an instrument of their oppression and destruction; and thus situated, and thus believing, they imitated the example of the patriots of 1776, and sought, in peace and quiet, to assume the management of their own matters; that they declared their withdrawal from a Union that threatened the safety of their rights and institutions; that they formed a confederate government, taking the Constitution
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers, at the Reunion at Williston, Barnwell county, S. C, 14th July, 1882. (search)
ter grounds in the address to the people of the other Southern States, in which was so ably and well shown that the issue was the same as that in the Revolution of 1776, and like that turned upon the one great principle, self-government, and self-taxation, the criterion of self-government. This latter address went on to show th the United States had become a consolidated government, and the people of the Southern States were compelled to meet the very despotism their fathers threw off in 1776. If, then, my comrades, our cause was just, as just as that of our forefathers in 1776, and one for which we might well indeed have endured hardship and risked 1776, and one for which we might well indeed have endured hardship and risked our lives and shed our blood, need we be ashamed of the fight we made for it? It is said that when the war commenced we vaunted that a single Southern soldier could whip three Yankees. Well, it was a very foolish boast, if made; as foolish as that of General Grant, about which I shall speak, and one which you, my comrades, wil
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
1. Burrows, S. L., 175. Butler, Gen. B. F., 190. Butler, Major, 76. Butler, U. S. Senato M. C., Address Southern Genius. 281, 416. Butler, Lt. W E., 59. Butler, Capt. Y. N., 152, 168. Byrne's Battery, 58, 59, 61. Byron, Lord, 432. Cabell, Col., Geo. C., 223. Cabell, Prof. J. L, 58. Cairo, 81. Caldwell's History of Gregg's Brigade, cited, 21, 22. Calder, James, 175. Calhoun, John C., 254, 282; monument to, 396. Callahan, Lt., 174. Camden District, S. C., Heroes of, 1776-1861, 3, 5, 7; Battle of, 10, 12. Campbell, 9. Campbell, Col. A. W., 314. Campbell, James, 396. Campbell, Hon. John A., 318. Campbell, Hon. J. A. P., 232, 275. Campbell, Gen., Wm., 12. Campbell, Lt. W. F., 59. Cambridge University, 13. Cameron, Simon. 57, 83. Camps—Cobb, 181; Connor, 151; Gadberry, 152; Lee, 47; Pettigrew, 152. Canby, Gen. E. R. S., 216. Cannon made by the C. S. A., 258. Canton, Miss., Decoration of graves at, 232. Caps, Percussion, made by C. S. A.,