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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
safety of the army, or the dignity of the United States, and after conviction of the owner by courthe damage, and shall, besides, pay to the United States, in money or in property, to be levied by ing to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and will furnish sufficient security for Some of the military authorities of the United States seem to suppose that their end will be betal and chief-of-staff of the armies of the United States, wrote Sherman as follows: * * * Shouldcontempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and treated as a wote, and afterwards Attorney-General of the United States under Mr. Buchanan, one of the most distin Higher Law, and the Law Department of the United States approved it. Now this is what a Northe of E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War of the United States. And (7) That the sufferings of prisonea new edition of his school history of the United States, which is a great improvement on the first[3 more...]
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ll over the North and Middle States. The damned niggers, as a general thing, preferred to stay at home, particularly after they found out that we wanted only the able-bodied men, and to tell the truth, the youngest and best-looking women. Sometimes we took them off by way of repaying influential secessionists. But a part of these we soon managed to lose, sometimes in crossing rivers, sometimes in other ways. I shall write you again from Wilmington, Goldsboro, or some other place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived, and I must close hurriedly. Love to grandmother and Aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself and the children. Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, &c. P. S.—I will send this by the first flag of truce, to be mailed, unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Lottie I am saving a pearl bracelet and earrings for her. But Lambert got the necklace and breastpin of
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
ng to the fact that Myers had said this stolen jewelry, &c., would be scattered all over the North and Middle States. Sherman's statement of the organization of his army on this march shows there were several regiments in it from New York and Pennsylvania, besides one from Maryland and one from New Jersey (all four Middle States). But we think this, like other reasons assigned by Colonel Stone, are without merit. But, as we have said, notwithstanding all these things which seemingly discredan touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch a bell again and order the arrest of a citizen of New York. Can the Queen of England in her dominions do as much? The late Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, at one time President of the Supreme Court of that State, and afterwards Attorney-General of the United States under Mr. Buchanan, one of the most distinguished lawyers and writers of his day, thus writes of Mr. Seward and his little bell:
Chatham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.9
med of. Can the soldiers of the Federal armies read this record and say the same? Yes, our comrades, let them call us rebels, if they will; we are proud of the title, and with good reason. More than a hundred years ago, when, as Pitt said, even the chimney-sweeps in London streets talked boastingly of their subjects in America,Rebel was the uniform title of those despised subjects (and as our own eloquent Keiley once said): This sneer was the substitute for argument, which Camden and Chatham met in the Lords, and Burke and Barre in the Commons, as their eloquent voices were raised for justice to the Americans of the last century. Disperse Rebels was the opening gun at Lexington. Rebels was the sneer of General Gage addressed to the brave lads of Boston Commons. It was the title by which Dunmore attempted to stigmatize the Burgesses of Virginia, and Sir Henry Clinton passionately denounced the patriotic women of New York. At the base of every statue which gratitude has erect
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
Report of the history Committee Of the grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia, at Petersburg, Va., October 25, 1901. By Hon. Geo. L. Christian, Chairman. A contrast between the way the War was conducted by the Federals and the way it was conducted by the Confederates, drawn almost entirely from Federal sources. To the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia: Before entering upon the discussion of the subject selected for consideration in this report, your committee begs leave to tender its thanks to the camp, and to the public, for the many expressions it has received of their appreciation of its last two reports. These expressions have come from every section of the country, and they are not only most gratifying, showing, as they do, the importance of the work of this camp in establishing the justice of the Confederate cause, but that this work is also causing the truth concerning that cause to be taught to our children, which was not the case until these
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
en, S. C., but a single one—a New Jersey regiment—was from the Middle States. All the rest were from the West. A letter (he says) from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would never contain such a phrase, referring to the fact that Myers had said this stolen jewelry, &c., would be scattered all over the North and Middle States. Sherman's statement of the organization of his army on this march shows there were several regiments in it from New York and Pennsylvania, besides one from Maryland and one from New Jersey (all four Middle States). But we think this, like other reasons assigned by Colonel Stone, are without merit. But, as we have said, notwithstanding all these things which seemingly discredit the reasons assigned by Colonel Stone for the non-genuineness of this letter, we should not have used the letter in this report, had not the substantial statements in it been confirmed, as we shall now see. The Myers' letter was first published on October 29, 1883. On the 31
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
er to the military commanders in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkanre all the testimony in our possession, from the people of Georgia and South Carolina, who had the misfortune to live along te in his telegram to Grant, I can make this march and make Georgia howl, Boynton, page 129), it would show that he had certai horses and mules. I estimate the damage done to the State of Georgia at one hundred million dollars, at least twenty millianta everybody had license to throw off restraint and make Georgia drain the bitter cup. The Federal who wants to learn what Secession Convention. We found these on our trip through Georgia. T. J. M. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Thomas J.ands of this committee. General Sherman set out to make Georgia howl, and preferred, as he said, to march through that Stamous deeds of General Edward A. Wild, both in Virginia and Georgia, and that of Colonel John McNeil in Missouri, some of whic
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
of Brigadier-General R. H. Milroy. H. Kellog, Captain Commanding Post. Could the most brutal savagery of any age exceed the unreasoning cruelty of this order. (See 1 So. His. Society Papers, p. 231.) General Sherman's conduct. But we must go on. In the earlier part of the war, General William T. Sherman knew and recognized the rules adopted by his government for the conduct of its armies in the field; and so, on September 29, 1861, he wrote to General Robert Anderson, at Louisville, Ky., saying, among other things: I am sorry to report, that in spite of my orders and entreaties, our troops are committing depredations that will ruin our cause. Horses and wagons have been seized, cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens taken by our men, some of whom wander for miles around. I am doing, and have done, all in my power to stop this, but the men are badly disciplined and give little heed to my orders or those of their own regimental officers. (See Sherman's Raid, by Boynto
Dalton, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
nta as to enable him to see for forty miles around, the day Sherman marched out, he would have been appalled at the destruction. Hundreds of houses had been burned, every rod of fence destroyed, nearly every fruit tree cut down, and the face of the country so changed that one born in that section could scarcely recognize it. The vindictiveness of war would have trampled the very earth out of sight had such a thing been possible. Again he says: At the very beginning of the campaign at Dalton, the Federal soldiery had received encouragement to become vandals. * * * * When Sherman cut loose from Atlanta everybody had license to throw off restraint and make Georgia drain the bitter cup. The Federal who wants to learn what it was to license an army to become vandals should mount a horse at Atlanta and follow Sherman's route for fifty miles. He can hear stories from the lips of women that would make him ashamed of the flag that waved over him as he went into battle. When the army h
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.9
man himself tell what was done by him and his men on this famous, or rather infamous, march. He says of it in his official report: We consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah; also the sweet potatoes, hogs, sheep, and poultry, and carried off more than ten thousand horses and mules. I estimate the damage done to the State of Georgia at one hundred million dollars, at least twenty million of which enured to our benefton, &c., which it offered to pledge its honor should only be used for their prisoners in our hands-refused to exchange sick and wounded, and neglected from August to December, 1864, to accede to our Agent's proposition to send transportation to Savannah and receive without any equivalent from ten to fifteen thousand Federal prisoners, although the offer was accompanied with the statement of our Agent of Exchange (Judge Ould), showing the monthly mortality at Andersonville, and that we were utte
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