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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on Morris Island, S. C., under Confederate fire from September 7th to October 21st, 1864. (search)
ve. Zzz=1st Lt. J. D. Band, 59th inft., Landers county. 2d Lt. Wm. H. Allen, 49th inft., Guntersville. 2d Lt. A. C. Foster, 4th bat. cav., Florence. Zzz=2d Lt. James Leonan, 7th C. S. A., Tuskegee. Zzz=2d Lt. W. T. Bass, 15th inft. Missouri. Capt. Peter Ake, 3d Mo. cav., Ironton. Zzz=Capt. M. J. Bradford, 10th inft., Raleigh. Zzz=Capt. J. G. Kelly, St. Louis. Zzz=Capt. S. Lowe, bat., Independence. 1st Lt. A. M. Bedford, 8th inft., Dent C. H. Aid-de-camp P. G. Benton, 8th inft., Cassville. 1st Lt. Wm. Haliburton, bat., Savannah, Ga. Zzz=1st Lt. Geo. C. Brand, 2d cav., Boonsville. Kentucky. Maj. J. B. McCreary, 7th cav., Richmond. Capt. C. L. Mina, Shells, Waco, Tex. Zzz=Capt. A. A. Morris, Morgan, Burkeville. Zzz=Capt. R. D. Logan, 6th cav., Danville. Zzz=Capt. M. D. Logan, 3d cav., Lancaster. Zzz=Capt. John B. Austin, 2d cav., Charlotte, Tenn. Zzz=Capt. S. M. Hamock, 10th cav., Morganfield. 1st Lt. J. A. Fox, 7th c
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Development of the free soil idea in the United States. (search)
h line of the State of Missouri, was declared by act of Congress at the same time to be free territory, and that slavery should be forever excluded. It was at that time occupied only by Indians and a few trappers. The Missouri State line on the west ran due north and south, crossing the river at Kansas City, at the mouth of the Kaw river. The territory comprising the six counties in the northwest part of the State was then an Indian reservation, and contains its most fertile soil. Senators Benton and Linn succeeded in securing an extension of this State line to the river, and this extension included these fine lands, the bill being approved by President Jackson on the 7th day of June, 1836. This extension of slave territory was so quietly done, notwithstanding the anti-slavery agitation of the times, and the great debate pending in Congress on the right of petition, led by John Quincy Adams, that it hardly attracted attention, and was the first encroachment upon the terms of th