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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 45 7 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] 26 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 24 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 13 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 4 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 28 (search)
mattox, which I did, and surrendered to the officer in command, General Gibbon. I had with me on the 9th only one staff officer, Captain Theo. S. Garnett. My ordnance officer, Captain Webb, a gallant young soldier from Alabama, being in charge of the ordnance train, had passed the courthouse on the evening of the 8th; Captain Coaghenson of North Carolina, my Inspector-General, had been dangerously wounded on the 5th near me, and while gallantly doing his duty, and my Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant Holcombe, of Virginia, reported that he had been disabled by a collision with a trooper in a charge at Dr. Boisseau's near Petersburg, which occurred on the 4th of April. My couriers were all killed or wounded, save Private Forbes of the Fourth regiment, who remained by my side to the end. My Acting Adjutant-General, Captain Garnett, than whom no commander ever had a more faithful or gallant lieutenant, was always by my side, and was among the last to leave when the command was ordered from t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Escape of prisoners from Johnson's Island. (search)
e Canadian shore early the following morning. Here they appropriated the horses of a farmer and made their way to Toronto, and later to Montreal. At the latter place they were photographed in a group, and a copy of this picture, presented to him by his relative, Captain T. Herbert Davis, is now in the possession of Lieutenant Charles G. Bosher, of the Richmond Howitzers, a member of the firm of Messrs. R. H. Bosher's Sons. At Montreal the fugitives were duly supplied with money by Hon. James P. Holcombe, Confederate States Commissioner. They made their way to Nassau, from whence they ran the blockade, coming into the port of Wilmington, North Carolina. Their suffering from the cold in crossing the lake was great, and several of them narrowly escaped the loss of their hands and feet from frost bite. Captain Davis was a native of Richmond, Virginia, and was the son of William H. Davis, long a successful coal-dealer who lost his life in the capitol disaster—the falling through of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
., Louis. 38. Gregg, Fort, Real Defenders of, 71. Hale, Jr., Capt. E. J.. 410. Hamlin. Lt., Death of, 20. Hammond, Capt., Wm.. 342. Hampton, Gen., Wade, commends the purchase of the Townsend Library, 384. Harris, Joel Chandler, on The Women of the South, 277. Hayes, Mrs., Margaret, 297. Helena, Ark., Dedication of Monument to Confederate Dead at, 260. Henderson, Gen. R. J., Death of, 94. Hinton. Capt. Drury A., 8. Hoge, D. D., Rev. Moses D., Remarks of, 146. Holcombe, Lt., 387 Hunter, Gen., David, Vandalism of, 394. Indians as Soldiers, 18. Jackson, Miss., Dedication of Monument to the Confederate Dead at, 293; oration of Hon. E. C. Walthall, 298; description of the monument, 315; history of the Confederate Memorial Association of, 315. Jericho Ford, Battle of, 71, 75. Johnson's Island, Escape of Prisoners from, 428. Johnston, General Bradley T., Address of, at Fredericksburg, Va., 398 Johnston, Capt. George B., 52; tribute to, 124, 410