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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The bloody angle. (search)
ht of eleven great States, with their millions of women and children in their quiet homes, as well as the safety of an army that stood as a wall of brass, in the defence of the God-given right of local self-government. Such was the sense of my responsibility on the night of the 11th of May, 1864. I dared not close my eyes to sleep, but, standing there upon the border of my country, amid the gloom of that dark, misty night, could hear the drums of possibly a hundred regiments thundering Yankee Doodle, mingled with the notes of apparently more than double that number of trombones to drown the noise of the moving columns of the enemy concentrating in front of the Bloody Angle. Third. I was within a few paces of General Johnson when we were captured; was with him during the entire time of our imprisonment; was exchanged at the same time, and returned with him to Richmond. I, therefore, had abundant opportunity to talk with General Johnson, which we did often, over the disaster of