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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Charles Jones Colcock. (search)
nd and was full of plans and projects of both private and public character. In those days there was only one daily steamboat connection between Charleston and Savannah, and great inconvenience was felt in the intervening tide-water section, for want of more direct transportation facilities. At an entertainment given to a numbelection was made known, with its attendant excitement. The sentiment of resistance was largely developed at these festivities, where the eloquence of Bartow, of Savannah, and (Alfred) Huger, of Charleston, electrified the great assemblages. After the death of his second wife from pneumonia a new phase of Colonel Colcock's lifemoney, which prevented factors from freely furnishing capital to meet these new conditions, sea island planting was largely deferred. He moved his family to Savannah, Ga., and engaged in the life-insurance business, for which he was well qualified. He finally made his home in Hampton county, and planted short staple cotton wit
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fragments of war history relating to the coast defence of South Carolina, 1861-‘65, and the hasty preparations for the Battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864. (search)
neral W. J. Hardee, with headquarters at Savannah, Georgia; Major-General Samuel Jones, second in cldier was on the coast between Charleston and Savannah after that date, except Company E, 11th S. C.ame to military authorities at Charleston and Savannah and to Major John Jenkins, at Pocataligo. (2)road to Grahamville is at right angles to the Savannah road, and Honey Hill is distant about two milarched from the landing, and occupied the old Savannah dirt road, near Bolan's Church, as shown on tts, 2 O'Clock A. M., November 30, 1864, at Savannah, Ga. I make these extracts from General Smits from North and South Carolina, intended for Savannah, would arrive. In this interview I showed yol reports that the movement of troops through Savannah to South Carolina was settled upon between Gethe department headquarters at Charleston and Savannah by Lientenant Fraser, assistant adjutant-geneCoosawhatchie, but the main body took the old Savannah stage road, and occupied the ground for more [6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
nd when the roads hardened, while auxiliary armies threatened it from over the mountains and up the Valley. Other forces and fleets were in readiness to move on Savannah and Charleston, while all the energy of the powerful North reinforced its armies in Missouri and Arkansas to aid in the descent on Mississippi. The Confederacy surrendered, Roanoke and Newberne were captured, New Orleans was lost. An army had started for the heart of Mississippi, Vicksburg was attacked, Charleston and Savannah were threatened. The great army of the Potomac forced its way in sight of the spires of Richmond. When the year ended, three invading armies had been routed by step, town by town, in fact, there was not sufficient to make a respectable farm land between Chattanooga, Tenn., or, I might say, from Nashville, Tenn., to Savannah, Ga., where Wheeler's Cavalry did not have a fight of some kind. From then to the last days in North Carolina, it was day by day, and every day, losing a man here
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
opened, the audacity and adroitness which checked the advance of a whole brigade for several hours with one (2) gun and a few dismounted cavalry, and the soldierly ability with which artillery and infantry were so handled, as to inflict a loss of 750 men, while losing only 50, all deserve the highest praise; on their side good generalship, on ours the reverse. On the day of Honey Hill the disastrous Battle of Franklin was fought; then quickly followed the burning of Atlanta, the fall of Savannah, the burning of Columbia, Averysboro, Bentonville and the surrenders at Goldsboro and Appomattox! The Confederate armies! how memory goes back to their wonderful achievements! Their high soldierly qualities! Their whole career, marked by a virile spirit; a decisive energy; a brave persistence; a patient endurance, which reflect the high military qualities of the men of the same race, kin beyond sea, who won victory for Wolfe at Quebec! Made Ingliss hold Lucknow against fearful odds! a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Memorial. (search)
wded to hear him. They never tired of his preaching, and no stranger who might occupy his pulpit, however great his reputation, could draw the extraordinary congregations of the pastor. In positions of honor. Dr. Hoge had often been appointed to positions of honor and responsibility by the Southern General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. In 1875 he was unanimously elected to the moderator's chair in the assembly, which met in St. Louis. In 1876, when the assembly convened in Savannah, Ga., he advocated and carried by overwhelming majorities two measurers, greatly opposed at that time by some of the most distinguished members. These were the establishment of fraternal relations—not organic union—with the Northern Presbyterian Church, and the sending of commissioners to represent the Southern Church in alliance of the reformed churches of the world. In 1877 he was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which met in Edinburgh. His paternal ancestor fleeing from per