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North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
isting the establishment of slavery. Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia had often protested against it. Vieet were organizing for descent on the coast of North Carolina. Still another powerful army and fleet were behad been beaten off. The victorious Federals in North Carolina had been withdrawn to be engulfed in the vortexgston and Bentonville, in the vain hope to save North Carolina, and repel the army which had struck at the lifers. The Albemarle was built in a cornfield in North Carolina, out of timber, some of which was standing whening with Shiloh, April 6th, 1862, and ending in North Carolina in 1865. Well do I remember the teachings ofht of some kind. From then to the last days in North Carolina, it was day by day, and every day, losing a manroic action. From Shiloh to the last days in North Carolina, such scenes as I have here depicted occurred oroline Hannon. Arkansas—Miss Mamie Holt. North Carolina—Miss Eliza Arrington. Tennessee—Miss Mattie <
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
s all over the world resounded with the work of building new navies with deflective armor, high power guns, improved projectiles and improved machinery. But when we trace effect to cause, it was not the battle between the Virginia and the Monitor that begat modern navies; that was but a link in the chain of causation; it was the Virginia that begat the Monitor. The Navy Department at Washington only listened to and adopted the plans of Ericsson for the Monitor when repeated reports from Norfolk showed that the Virginia, with her deflective armor, was under way, and that in all probability nothing could meet her but another ship with deflective armor. One experiment begat another; one success was met with another. So it is, my countrymen, that in the genius of Confederate naval officers is found the germ of the naval armaments that now attract the wonder of the world. The Virginia was not the only marvel wrought by Confederate constructors. There were the Louisiana, the Missi
Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
joiced at the fame of the Greensboro youth, Alabama's Pelham of the seas, who, rivaling and recalling the daring of that Alabamian who sank the Housatonic in Charleston harbor, sank the Merrimac in Santiago harbor, and then rose in sight of the world. We have watched regiments of our own sons, and wafted prayers with them, as theyunted. Lieutenant George E. Dixon, of the 21st Alabama Infantry, begged to be allowed to take out the Fish to attack the iron-clad Housatonic that lay off Charleston harbor. Beauregard consented, but only on condition that the boat should not go under water. The conditions were accepted; the Housatonic was destroyed, but Dixon and all his brave crew went down to rise no more. When wrecks in Charleston harbor were being destroyed, after the close of the civil war, near the Housatonic lay the Fish. In it were the skeletons of Dixon and his six companions, every man at his post. In that other field of naval warfare the destruction of an enemy's comm
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 1.11
cket, for every man to rush in and capture his man, so that when the picket fired they all came with a yell and a dash. This little boy, with no arms but an old Austrian rifle, and riding a little gray pony, dashed down a lane leading due south, toward where my own command was on picket. The Federal officer, thinking he had a sad yards. Finally the little fellow leaped off his pony and over the fence. The Colonel dashed up and demanded his surrender, but the little fellow, with his old Austrian rifle resting on a rail and with his finger on the trigger said: I guess I've got you! I guess I've got you! Whereupon he made the Colonel drop his pistol and his sword and move off a few yards. He then pulled down the fence and crossed it, putting on the Colonel's sword and pistol, strapping his Austrian rifle on his back and proceeded to march his prisoner to headquarters. Looking back through thirty-three years, in the light of all I have seen and read, I do not believe that any
Knoxville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
spring. They were displayed by this matchless infantry, when it starved in the trenches at Vicksburg; or besieged Cumberland Gap, climbed on the hills at Chickamauga or stormed the breastworks at Franklin; or assaulted the fortifications about Knoxville; or held the lines around Petersburg and Richmond; or stood immovably at Spotsylvania; or repelled the invaders a: Fredericksburg; or drove them to the music of the rebel yell, from the field at Chancellorsville, or charged the heights of Gettys far South as Tupelo, and from there we were transferred to Chattanooga, Tenn. Thence we led the way for Bragg through Kentucky; we fought with him at Perryville; we fought over practically all the ground leading back through Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, and at many points, until we got to Murfreesboro. There we located at Stewart's Creek, and there is not a foot of land between Stewart's Creek and the outposts of the enemy around Nashville that was not traversed by this cavalry hundreds of t
Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
gned it, was shot down in the angry strife between the sections, like the sturdy oak, between the lines, by bullets sped at other marks, in the bloody angle at Spotsylvania. It is just as absurd to say that the war was fought over the justice or morality of slavery, as it would be to declare that the conflict with the mother cot's charge at Gettysburg, nor Cleburne's at Franklin, outshone in vain but glorious valor, the lustre of the assault at Marye's Heights, and his mad charges at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. He had grander courage yet-he did not mock us at Appomattox. Had these men the power to control the peace, the Southern soldier had been spar stormed the breastworks at Franklin; or assaulted the fortifications about Knoxville; or held the lines around Petersburg and Richmond; or stood immovably at Spotsylvania; or repelled the invaders a: Fredericksburg; or drove them to the music of the rebel yell, from the field at Chancellorsville, or charged the heights of Gettys
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
outh could gather to oppose it. Early in the spring, the clouds burst Donelson was stormed, Nashville and Columbus were evacuated, Sydney Johnston was driven from Kentucky, and Tennessee Island Nowith two pieces of artillery from Wiggin's battery, while Wheeler was on a raid in the rear of Nashville, and stationed us upon the banks of the Cumberland, where the snow was not less than a foot defourteen years of age, was the principal actor. In front of Luverne, between Murfreesboro and Nashville, a part of the 1st Alabama Cavalry, which was Clanton's old regiment, was on picket duty on th, and there is not a foot of land between Stewart's Creek and the outposts of the enemy around Nashville that was not traversed by this cavalry hundreds of times. When Rosecrans commenced his advancufficient to make a respectable farm land between Chattanooga, Tenn., or, I might say, from Nashville, Tenn., to Savannah, Ga., where Wheeler's Cavalry did not have a fight of some kind. From then to
Capitol (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
he accommodation of 2,000 persons. But the assemblage that had gathered at noon stretched from the northern wing of the capitol to the northernmost edge of the hill. The bright colors of the women's gowns, the crimson sashes and immaculate whitesuch moments, tears glistened in sad eyes or the rebel yell resounded. On the temporary platform, erected between the capitol and the monument, were stationed the members of the Ladies' Memorial Association, members of the Legislature, Governor Jose only sin was we made him leader, was borne in triumph by the love of his people, from his home by the sea to his old Capitol, while the world looked on, and learned that the people for whom he suffered had neither forgotten nor deserted him, in the foot of Washington's monument, but the President sits his horse under the spires of St. Paul. The fences around the capitol have been removed. Thousands of lovely women crowd the grounds. The signal for the great review is the firing of the h
Selma (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
s, and won victory at Kingston and Bentonville, in the vain hope to save North Carolina, and repel the army which had struck at the life of Richmond from its rear. Here he struggled to the last at Blakely and Mobile, and vainly gave his blood at Selma. One of Lee's last dispatches to Richmond gives the sad picture of the suffering of the troops everywhere: Yesterday, the most inclement day of the winter, the troops had to be maintained in line of battle; having been in the same conditard and two aft, perhaps the only vessel that ever made a successful fire in four directions at once, ran through the whole fleet of Farragut and Davis and reached Vicksburg in safety. The Tennessee was built on the banks of the Alabama river at Selma, and who is there that does not know of her brave fight against Farragut's whole fleet after it had passed the fortifications at the mouth of Mobile Bay? If it had been possible for courage and genius to win with the resources at command, the
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
onal ascendancy. Thus the institution, regardless of its morality or justice, after a while became the plaything of fanatics and the foot ball of politics. It is significant, as showing the estimate of the institution in the North as a moral question, when disconnected from political ends, that for over a quarter of a century after the acquisition of Louisiana, the mere discussion of abolition caused outbreaks against those who agitated it, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Connecticut. A Northern historian says: The riots, of which the foregoing were specimens, were too numerous and widespread to be even glanced at separately. The same writer, himself an early abolitionist, speaking of the responsibility for the existence of the institution, declares: It were absurd to claim for any colony or section a moral superiority in this regard over any other. No purpose of emancipation was announced until the war had long been flagrant, and then the matter was handled as a
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