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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). Search the whole document.
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Berryville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging.
San Francisco, December 19, 1899. Mr. John R. Russell, Berryville, Va.:
I was sorry I could not be with you at the unveiling of the monument to our men at Front Royal, and I dissent from some historical statements in Major Richards' address.
I do not agree with him that our men were hung in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sheridan.
They were not hung in obedience to the orders of a superior, but from revenge.
A man who acts from revenge simply obeys his own impulses.
Major Richards says the orders were a dead letter after I retaliated, which implies that they had not been before.
I see no evidence to support such a conclusion.
In his letter in The Times, Major Richards says that Sheridan's dispatches about hanging our men were visionary; i. e., he never hung any. If so, the order had always been a dead letter.
No one ever heard of his hangings until his dispatches were published a few years ago. Sheridan was th
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Moscow, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Kabletown (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Front Royal (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging.
San Francisco, December 19, 1899. Mr. John R. Russell, Berryville, Va.:
I was sorry I could not be with you at the unveiling of the monument to our men at Front Royal, and I dissent from some historical statements in Major Richards' address.
I do not agree with him that our men were hung in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sheridan.
They were not hung in obedience to the orders of a superior, but from revenge.
A man who acts from revenge simply obeys his own impulses.
Major Richards says the orders were a dead letter after I retaliated, which implies that they had not been before.
I see no evidence to support such a conclusion.
In his letter in The Times, Major Richards says that Sheridan's dispatches about hanging our men were visionary; i. e., he never hung any. If so, the order had always been a dead letter.
No one ever heard of his hangings until his dispatches were published a few years ago. Sheridan was th
Millwood (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Rockingham (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Loudoun (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.38
Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging.
San Francisco, December 19, 1899. Mr. John R. Russell, Berryville, Va.:
I was sorry I could not be with you at the unveiling of the monument to our men at Front Royal, and I dissent from some historical statements in Major Richards' address.
I do not agree with him that our men were hung in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sheridan.
They were not hung in obedience to the orders of a superior, but from revenge.
A man who acts from revenge simply obeys his own impulses.
Major Richards says the orders were a dead letter after I retaliated, which implies that they had not been before.
I see no evidence to support such a conclusion.
In his letter in The Times, Major Richards says that Sheridan's dispatches about hanging our men were visionary; i. e., he never hung any. If so, the order had always been a dead letter.
No one ever heard of his hangings until his dispatches were published a few years ago. Sheridan was th