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A. W. Bosworth (search for this): chapter 3
e R. E. Lee Monumental Association of New Orleans had its origin in that grand outburst of tributary grief at the death of Lee, which, while it covered his tomb with the votive offerings of the good and wise of all civilized nations, prostrated the people of the Southern States of this Union in peculiar and unutterable woe. The Association was organized November 16th, 1870, with the following officers and directors: Wm. M. Perkins,President. G. T. Beauregard,First Vice-President. A. W. Bosworth,Second Vice-President. Wm. S. Pike.Treasurer. Thos. J. Beck,Recording Secretary. James Strawbridge,Corresponding Secretary. Directors. Hugh McCloskey, A. M. Fortier, Chas. E. Fenner, Wm. B. Schmidt, Wm. H. Dameron, W. N. Mercer, M. O. H. Norton, Henry Renshaw, Edward Barnett, George Jonas, Abram Thomas, Lloyd R. Coleman, Ed. A. Palfrey, Arch. Mitchell, R. S. Morse, Samuel Boyd, S. H. Kennedy, Newton Richards, Jas. Jackson, E. A. Tyler, Ed. Bi
W. M. Owen (search for this): chapter 3
nization was then effected, constituting the following officers and directors: Charles E. Fenner, President; G. T. Beauregard, first Vice-President; M. Musson, second Vice-President; S. H. Kennedy, Treasurer; W. I. Hodgson, Recording Secretary; W. M. Owen, Corresponding Secretary. Directors: W. B. Schmidt, Geo. Jonas, Lloyd R. Coleman, R. S. Morse, E. A. Tyler, Jas. Buckner, Thos. A. Adams, Saml. Choppin, S. H. Snowden, W. T. Vaudry, Henry Renshaw, E. A. Palfrey, Saml. Boyd, Arch. Mitchell, W., the officers and directors of the association consisted of the following: Charles E. Fenner,President. G. T. Beauregard,First Vice-President. M. Musson,Second Vice-President. S. H. Kennedy,Treasurer. W. I. Hodgson,Recording Secretary. W. M. Owen,Corresponding Secretary. Directors. W. B. Schmidt, Alfred Moulton, James Jackson, Samuel Boyd, J. C. Morris, J. J. Mellon, Ad. Meyer, W. T. Vaudry, A. H. May, W. J. Behan, J. L. Harris, E. A. Burke, I. L. Lyons, C. H.
Mary Washington (search for this): chapter 3
and the father of our hero, Light Horse Harry Lee, the Rupert of the Revolution, the friend of Washington, elected by Congress to deliver the eulogy of that illustrious man at his death, and who confear, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Born in the same county with Washington, and thus bound to his memory by the ties of hereditary friendship, fate seems to have determie from every source. It gave him to wife Mary Randolph Custis, daughter of the adopted son of Washington, the nearest representative of his house, and a woman whose exalted virtues were derived by lineal inheritance from the wife of Washington. This marriage transferred his residence to beautiful Arlington, the repository of the Washington relics, where he lived surrounded by objects so freighteBorland. The statue having been completed, the board selected the anniversary of the birth of Washington, the 22d of February, 1884, as an appropriate occasion for the ceremonies of unveiling. Gre
W. T. Vaudry (search for this): chapter 3
; S. H. Kennedy, Treasurer; W. I. Hodgson, Recording Secretary; W. M. Owen, Corresponding Secretary. Directors: W. B. Schmidt, Geo. Jonas, Lloyd R. Coleman, R. S. Morse, E. A. Tyler, Jas. Buckner, Thos. A. Adams, Saml. Choppin, S. H. Snowden, W. T. Vaudry, Henry Renshaw, E. A. Palfrey, Saml. Boyd, Arch. Mitchell, W. C. Black, B. A. Pope, Jas. I. Day, I. L. Lyons, J. J. Mellon, E. D. Willett. The times were scarcely more propitious than they had been before, but when the directors stood faceVice-President. S. H. Kennedy,Treasurer. W. I. Hodgson,Recording Secretary. W. M. Owen,Corresponding Secretary. Directors. W. B. Schmidt, Alfred Moulton, James Jackson, Samuel Boyd, J. C. Morris, J. J. Mellon, Ad. Meyer, W. T. Vaudry, A. H. May, W. J. Behan, J. L. Harris, E. A. Burke, I. L. Lyons, C. H. Allen, R. M. Walmsley, Lloyd R. Coleman, Cartwright Eustis, Ed. A. Palfrey, Arch. Mitchell, James McConnell, E. Borland. The statue having been complete
Cato (search for this): chapter 3
f us may be descended from monkeys, but how are you to account for Marse Robert? Such was their sublime confidence in him that they regarded criticism of him as blasphemous, and were so blind even to his errors that they were like the disciple of Cato, who, when the philosopher died by his own hand, declared that he would rather believe suicide to be right than that Cato could do anything wrong. Let nothing I have said be construed as disparaging the valor of the Union troops, the skill of tCato could do anything wrong. Let nothing I have said be construed as disparaging the valor of the Union troops, the skill of their leaders or the splendor of their achievements. On the contrary, the tribute I have paid to the genius of Lee and the heroism of his soldiers, only emblazons their triumph and lends to it a glory which, otherwise, it would not possess. And equally is it the surest foundation of Lee's fame that his victories were won from foemen worthy of his steel. Away with such comparisons! Returning from our voyage over historic seas, in quest of the golden fleece of noble deeds and heroic lives, we
William Rawle (search for this): chapter 3
deral government as resulting from the compact to which the States were parties. These resolutions formed thereafter the corner stone of the great States Rights party, which repeatedly swept the country, and which elected Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson to the Presidency. Even the Supreme Court of the United States had declared that the Constitution was a compact to which the States were parties. The first purely juridical work on the Constitution was published in 1825 by William Rawle, an eminent jurist of Philadelphia, who, writing as a jurist and not as a politician, did not hesitate to declare that the Union was an association of Republics; that the Constitution was a compact between the States; that it depends on the State itself whether it continues a member of the Union; that the States may withdraw from the Union, and that the secession of a State from the Union depends on the will of the people. At a later period, De Tocqueville, who, in his great work on D
Burnside (search for this): chapter 3
nopposed and leisurely concentration of his forces in a position chosen by himself where, with at least fifty thousand men, fresh and elated with victory, he would have met the onslaught of McClellan. The result of the engagement actually delivered, as well as of past contests, leaves little doubt that an overwhelming victory would have been achieved, the consequences of which no man can now divine. Not until October, 1862, did the Federal army recross the Potomac. A new commander, General Burnside, now leapt into the saddle. His career in that capacity was speedily ended by the crushing defeat at Fredericksburg, where, with one hundred thousand men, he had the temerity to assault Lee in strong position with seventy-five thousand. This was the easiest victory of the war, inflicting terrific loss upon the attacking force, while that of Lee was insignificant. The next act of this tremendous drama opens with the spring of 1863, when Lee, with fifty-seven thousand men, confronted
George E. Pickett (search for this): chapter 3
ence of Round Top; the disjointed character of the assault when made, in which the advantage gained by our right wing was lost because the delay of the left wing in advancing, left the former without necessary support; the like miscarriage and failure of the general assault ordered for the following morning, in which the advance of our left wing was paralyzed because not responded to by the simultaneous movement of the right; and the final tremendous blunder, by which the immortal charge of Pickett's and Heth's divisions, launched across half a mile of open plain swept by an overwhelming fire of artillery, against fortified heights occupied by vastly superior numbers, and culminating in their actual capture and the planting of standards upon the guns of the enemy, was robbed of its results by the lack of support-these errors blasted the fair hopes of a victory which might have changed the result of the war. I leave to history the task of adjudging the blame for these errors. I co
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 3
stored Union. For a like act there yet rests the stigma of disfranchisement upon a single man out of millions, the chivalric chieftain of the lost cause. [To Mr. Davis. Venerable man! while the smirking littlenesses of official life deny you the bauble of an unsought amnesty, that providence which, in the end, surely guides ae who desire to go deeper may consult those great storehouses of facts and principles, the works of Calhoun, Bledsoe, Stephens, Sage, and our immortal leader, Jefferson Davis. It is not for me dogmatically to proclaim that we were right and that the supporters of the Union were wrong. I shall have accomplished a duty, and shallby the multitude eager to do honor to the memory of Lee. Amongst the many distinguished persons in attendance were the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, his daughters, and Misses Mary and Mildred Lee, daughters of the great soldier and patriot, in whose honor the monument was erected. The associations of the
Stonewall Jackson (search for this): chapter 3
which elected Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson to the Presidency. Even the Supreme Court ks and Fremont were operating in the Valley. Jackson, with a force never exceeding sixteen thousanional troops already received, and by calling Jackson to him, Lee would have a force of eighty thouhis plans of assault, Lee determined to order Jackson to his support, and with the bulk of his armyhed for the purpose. He, therefore, detached Jackson with five divisions to sweep this obstacle frhus fortuitously apprised of the departure of Jackson and of the slight force left to oppose him, we latter, confident of annihilating it before Jackson could come to its rescue. The situation was ile the extraordinary forced marches to which Jackson was driven, had strewed his route with exhauso had succeeded to the command of the wounded Jackson), again touched elbows, swept Hooker's army oderacy. If Lee was the Jove of the war, Stonewall Jackson was his thunderbolt. For the execution [10 more...]
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