hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for James Dixon or search for James Dixon in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Highly Characteristic. In the New York Herald's account of the honors paid by the New England residents of New York to the remains of the Yankee General Sedgwick when they arrived in the city, published by us a day or two since, we find the following short paragraph: "The coffin was enshrouded with a silk flag, and on the lid was a beautiful wreath of holly leaves and flowers, with this inscription: 'To the memory of General Sedgwick, of Connecticut, from Mrs. James Dixon, of Hartford, Connecticut.' On the breast of the deceased was a beautiful bouquet, which was attached to Mrs. Lincoln's card." Had it been the card of anybody else no doubt it would have been attached to the bouquet. As it was, however, the card of Mrs. Lincoln, Yankee loyalty could not permit it to be represented as a mere appendage to a bunch of flowers. This circumstance, however, is not that to which we would invite attention. The Yankee love of notoriety is a passion which pervades all classes of Yan