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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
t Thereon. Interesting communications regarding it. Richmond, Va., November 13, 1895. To the Editor of the Dispatch . Some monat distance from that historic place, and immediately across the James river, to witness a sad and awful but more splendid illumination. Theon the south side of the James, several miles in the direction of Manchester. Just before daylight on Monday morning we got in sight of burniwing statement: My regiment crossed the river from Richmond to Manchester about 8 A. M., as well as I can remember, after the span of Mayo's bridge over the canal was fired. I remained in Manchester some time after crossing, but just how long I cannot now remember. However, I do Washington, May 22, 1879. John Howard, Esq., Attorney at Law, Richmond, Va.. sir,—Referring to your inquiry of the 21st instant, I have les from the corporation line, on the Osborne turnpike, near the James river; that the Federal commander stated on the occasion to Mr. Mayo t
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
ity of Fredericksburg, Va., for the purpose of seizing or destroying wherever found all property being used in barter for unauthorized articles of trade between the rebels and Northern cities, and to break up the contraband trade carried on between Fredericksburg and Richmond. Under these instructions, Colonel Roberts captured and destroyed a large quantity of tobacco, including some 400 cases of that article, which were brought in and turned over to the quartermaster's department at Fort Monroe, Va. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. This communication is important, as showing that there never was, in point of fact, any necessity for the destruction of the Richmond tobacco, and it fully accords with the statement of Mr. James A. Scott, an excellent man and well-known tobacconist, above mentioned, which in effect was that no interference was made by the Federal Government at or after the capture of Richmond with the tobacco undestroye
Milton, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
st, it was his destiny some ten years after, at no great distance from that historic place, and immediately across the James river, to witness a sad and awful but more splendid illumination. The description is equally graphic and touching of his silent midnight retreat from the Confederate lines, without the knowledge of the Federal commander, in direct front, and the forlorn approach, amid deafening explosions of wrecked war vessels, to the sublime spectacle of burning Richmond, that, like Milton's ascending sun, Flamed in the forehead of the morning sky. Here is the letter: Wilmington, N. C., October 25, 1878. To John Howard, Esq.. my dear sir,—I received your letter of the 23d instant this morning. For several months prior to the retirement of General Lee's army from the defences around Petersburg, that portion of the command to which I was immediately attached, under General G. W. C. Lee, was stationed at Chaffin's Bluff, in front of and only a few hundred yards
St. Paul's church (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.14
chmond early on the morning of the 3d of April, and saw the fire from a distance that lent sublimity to the view, without the terrors of the scene. As is well known, he was before the war a prominent citizen of Richmond, and since the war has resided in Wilmington, N. C. During the war a more gallant and, for a civilian, a more justly distinguished Confederate officer was scarcely known. If a pleasing reminiscence of his life in Richmond may be recalled, the marriage last evening at St. Paul's church of his highly-esteemed son, John Wilder Atkinson, Jr., to one of Richmond's jewels, reminds me of the brilliant occasion of his own marriage, forty years ago, to the lovely and charming Miss E. A. Mayo, sister of Mr. Peter H. Mayo, and daughter of Mr. Robert A. Mayo, deceased, at which I remember that my lamented friend, Marmaduke Johnson, and myself, then young barristers, were groomsmen, and the fashion and beauty, from far and near, were assembled, amid flowers and sparkling jets d'
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
n. Mr. Clopton was at one time a member of the City Council, and, we think, was present at the meeting of the Council when the surrender was arranged for. As an interesting reminiscence of the surrender, we publish the following from a mass of legal documents bearing on the subject: Affidavit of James A. Scott, as given in the Majority Opinion of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, in the Case of Vial, Executor, and Graeme's Executor vs. the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia. State of Virginia—City of Richmond, to-wit: This day personally appeared before the undersigned, a notary public in and for the city aforesaid, James A. Scott, and deposed as follows: That for many years prior to the late war he was engaged in the tobacco business in the city of Richmond; that during and at the close of the war he was interested in the ownership and control of a large amount of leaf tobacco, and that he had for a long while been a member of the City Council of Richmond; that when it
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
n the morning of the 3d of April, and saw the fire from a distance that lent sublimity to the view, without the terrors of the scene. As is well known, he was before the war a prominent citizen of Richmond, and since the war has resided in Wilmington, N. C. During the war a more gallant and, for a civilian, a more justly distinguished Confederate officer was scarcely known. If a pleasing reminiscence of his life in Richmond may be recalled, the marriage last evening at St. Paul's church of ht front, and the forlorn approach, amid deafening explosions of wrecked war vessels, to the sublime spectacle of burning Richmond, that, like Milton's ascending sun, Flamed in the forehead of the morning sky. Here is the letter: Wilmington, N. C., October 25, 1878. To John Howard, Esq.. my dear sir,—I received your letter of the 23d instant this morning. For several months prior to the retirement of General Lee's army from the defences around Petersburg, that portion of the co
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
retirement of General Lee's army from the defences around Petersburg, that portion of the command to which I was immediately attached, under General G. W. C. Lee, was stationed at Chaffin's Bluff, in front of and only a few hundred yards from Fort Harrison. I commanded at the time two of the Virginia battalions of artillery, being then lieutenant-colonel of artillery. On Sunday night, April 2d, 1865, under orders from General G. W. C. Lee, I drew in my first picket guard and sentinels as quieorable retreat. Our movement had been so quietly effected that I am sure the enemy had no idea of what was going on, and certainly made no demonstration of pursuing; and I was afterwards informed by some of the Yankee officers stationed at Fort Harrison that the withdrawal of my troops was not discovered by General Weitzel until reported at or about daylight Monday morning, April 3d. Our tents were all, by Custis Lee's order, left standing, and our guns were not removed from the embrasures
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
gal cause of the insured losses, again appears, and I am reminded of a quotation I made in my argument in the Graeme insurance case in the Supreme Court of the United States, from Virgil's vivid description of the entrance of the Greeks into burning Troy, as the Federal troops into Richmond, and the extension of the fire by the sam, in sheeted flakes of flame, Rolled on the conflagration to the stars. The last letter, to which I have above referred, was from the War Department of the United States, in response to inquiries made by me in a personal interview with the Adjutant-General: war Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, May 22, 1879.to your inquiry of the 21st instant, I have respectfully to inform you that no record can be found in this office of any orders issued by the Government of the United States directing commanders in the field to seize tobacco belonging to adherents of the Confederacy. It appears, however, of record that on the 4th of March, 1865,
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
erents of the Confederacy. It appears, however, of record that on the 4th of March, 1865, General Grant directed Colonel S. H. Roberts, commanding a brigade of the Twenty-fourth army corps, to proceed with his brigade to the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Va., for the purpose of seizing or destroying wherever found all property being used in barter for unauthorized articles of trade between the rebels and Northern cities, and to break up the contraband trade carried on between Fredericksburg anFredericksburg and Richmond. Under these instructions, Colonel Roberts captured and destroyed a large quantity of tobacco, including some 400 cases of that article, which were brought in and turned over to the quartermaster's department at Fort Monroe, Va. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. This communication is important, as showing that there never was, in point of fact, any necessity for the destruction of the Richmond tobacco, and it fully accords with the
Gloucester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
in the rear, in respect to the feelings of the citizens, and to avoid conflict; and that he promptly addressed his whole command to the arrest and extinguishment of the fire, which was thereby effected, and the whole city saved from immediate peril of destruction. Too much credit and gratitude cannot be accorded in honor of such wise, considerate, and noble conduct. The following letter was from Colonel W. T. Robins, a gallant and meritorious officer of the Confederate cavalry, then of Gloucester, but now a citizen of Richmond: Gloucester Courthouse, February 20, 1878. My dear sir,—Your favor of the 11th of February reached me in due course of mail. In reply to your inquiry as to the burning of Richmond in 1865, on the day of the evacuation, I can only give you the following statement: My regiment crossed the river from Richmond to Manchester about 8 A. M., as well as I can remember, after the span of Mayo's bridge over the canal was fired. I remained in Manchester some
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