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Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Dr. McKim's description of the personnel of the Confederate army. The preservation of the photograph is due to the care of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C., in which these men were officers. To the left stands M. Master, and in front of him are Lieutenant Wilkie, R. Choper, and Lieutenant Lloyd. Facing them isr men in the foreground of the photograph are H. H. Williams, Jr., S. B. Woodberry, H. I. Greer, and Sergeant R. W. Greer of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C. marching upon their homes, and it was their duty to hurl them back at any cost! Such were the private soldiers of the Confederacy as I knew them. Not fonfederate army may be here noted. Look at Lee's veterans as Amusements in a Confederate camp—1864 This Camp of Confederate pickets on Stono Inlet near Charleston, S. C., was photographed by George S. Cook, the same artist who risked his life taking photographs of Fort Sumter. It illustrates the soldiers' methods of entertai
Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
earance. The tents and Camp equipage were nothing like so smart, so spick and span—very far from it, indeed! Our engineer corps were far inferior, lacking in proper tools and equipment. The sappers and miners of the Federal army on Cemetery Hill, at Gettysburg, did rapid and effective work during the night following the first day's battle, as they had previously done at Chancellorsville—work which our men could not begin to match. When we had to throw up breastworks in the field, as at Hagerstown, after Gettysburg, it had usually to be done with our bayonets. Spades and axes were luxuries at such times. Bands of music were rare, and generally of inferior quality; but the men made up for it as far as they could by a gay insouciance, and by singing in Camp and on the march. I have seen the men of the First Maryland Infantry trudging wearily through mud and rain, sadly bedraggled by a long march, strike up with great gusto their favorite song, Gay and Happy. So let the wide worl
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
in the mechanical arts, therefore unable to supply properly its armies with munitions and clothing, prevail against a great, rich, manufacturing section like the North, whose foreign and domestic trade had never been so prosperous as during the great war it was waging from 1861 to 1865? Remember, also, that by May, 1862, the armies of the Union were in permanent occupancy of western and middle Tennessee, of nearly the whole of Louisiana, of parts of Florida, of the coast of North and South Carolina and of southeastern, northern, and western Virginia. Now, the population thus excluded from the support of the Confederacy amounted to not less than 1,200,000. It follows that, for the last three years of the war, the unequal contest was sustained by about 3,800,000 Southern whites with their slaves against the vast power of the Northern States. And yet none of these considerations furnishes the true explanation of the failure of the Confederate armies to establish the Confederacy. I
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
regiments were but poorly armed even in our best brigades. For instance the Third Brigade in Ewell's corps, one of the best-equipped brigades in the army, entered the Gettysburg campaign with 1,941 men present for The only known photograph of Texas boys in the army of Northern Virginia This group of the sturdy pioneers from Texas, heroes of many a wild charge over the battlefields of Virginia, has adopted as winter-quarters insignia the words Wigfall Mess, evidently in honor of General WTexas, heroes of many a wild charge over the battlefields of Virginia, has adopted as winter-quarters insignia the words Wigfall Mess, evidently in honor of General Wigfall, who came to Virginia in command of the Texas contingent. The general was fond of relating an experience to illustrate the independence and individuality of his boys. In company with Major-General Whiting he was walking near the railroad station at Manassas, and, according to wont, had been cracking up his Lone Star command, when they came upon a homespun-clad soldier comfortably seated with his back against some baled hay, his musket leaned against the same, and contentedly smoking a
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
unded. The company fought to the bitter end; Captain Campbell (page 111) was killed at Sailor's Creek, only three days before Appomattox. Lieutenant Samuel hardy Captain P. F. Rowlett Captain Richard Irby Lieutenant A. D. Crenshaw Lieutenant J. E. Irvin Color-sergeant E. G. Sydnor General Hooker has testified that for steadiness and efficiency Lee's army was unsurpassed in ancient or modern times. We have not been able to rival it. And General Charles A. Whittier of Massachusetts has said, The Army of Northern Virginia will deservedly rank as the best army which has existed on this continent, suffering privations unknown to its opponent. Nor is it credible that such valor and such devotion were inspired by the desire to hold their fellow men in slavery? Is there any example of such a phenomenon in all the long records of history? Consider, too, another fact for which the historians must assign a sufficient motive. On the bronze tablets in the rotunda of t
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
udo C. Gardiner. How could an agricultural people, unskilled in the mechanical arts, therefore unable to supply properly its armies with munitions and clothing, prevail against a great, rich, manufacturing section like the North, whose foreign and domestic trade had never been so prosperous as during the great war it was waging from 1861 to 1865? Remember, also, that by May, 1862, the armies of the Union were in permanent occupancy of western and middle Tennessee, of nearly the whole of Louisiana, of parts of Florida, of the coast of North and South Carolina and of southeastern, northern, and western Virginia. Now, the population thus excluded from the support of the Confederacy amounted to not less than 1,200,000. It follows that, for the last three years of the war, the unequal contest was sustained by about 3,800,000 Southern whites with their slaves against the vast power of the Northern States. And yet none of these considerations furnishes the true explanation of the failu
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
o food, and both the former soon disappeared, while the supply of the latter became only intermittent. Bands, however, still played their part now and then in the Virginia men's fighting. David Homer Bates records that when Early descended on Washington a scout reported to General Hardin at Fort Stevens: The enemy are preparing to make a grand assault on this Fort to-night. They are tearing down fences and are moving to the right, their bands playing. Can't you hurry up the Sixth Corps? ManFort Stevens: The enemy are preparing to make a grand assault on this Fort to-night. They are tearing down fences and are moving to the right, their bands playing. Can't you hurry up the Sixth Corps? Many of the regiments raised among men of wealth and culture in the larger cities of the Confederacy were splendidly equipped at the outset of the war. Captain Alexander Duncan of the Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, is authority for the statement that the regiment spent $26,000 on its initial outfit. He also adds that at the close of the war the uniforms of this company would have brought about twenty-five cents. upon them to furnish their quota of troops to coerce the seceded States back into the
Stono Inlet (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
found fully discussed by Professer J. W. Mallet, late Superintendent of the Ordnance Laboratories of the Confederate States, and Captain O. E. Hunt, U. S. A., in a chapter on the Organization and Operation of the Ordnance Department of the Confederate Army in the volume on Forts and Artillery. Another feature of the conditions prevailing in the Confederate army may be here noted. Look at Lee's veterans as Amusements in a Confederate camp—1864 This Camp of Confederate pickets on Stono Inlet near Charleston, S. C., was photographed by George S. Cook, the same artist who risked his life taking photographs of Fort Sumter. It illustrates the soldiers' methods of entertaining themselves when time lay heavy on their hands. Among the amusements in camp, card-playing was of course included. Seven-up and Vingt-et-un were popular. And the pipe was Johnnie Reb's frequent solace. His tobacco, at any rate, was the real thing—genuine, no make-believe, like his coffee. Often one migh
Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
s Basil L. Gildersleeve, who has left his professor's chair at the University of Virginia to serve in the field. He still lives (1911), wearing the laurel of distinction as the greatest Grecian in the English-speaking world. At the siege of Fort Donelson, in 1862, one of the heroic captains who yields up his life in the trenches is the Reverend Dabney C. Harrison, who raised a company in his own Virginia parish, and entered the army at its head. In the Southwest a lieutenant-general falls ins Basil L. Gildersleeve, who has left his professor's chair at the University of Virginia to serve in the field. He still lives (1911), wearing the laurel of distinction as the greatest Grecian in the English-speaking world. At the siege of Fort Donelson, in 1862, one of the heroic captains who yields up his life in the trenches is the Reverend Dabney C. Harrison, who raised a company in his own Virginia parish and entered the army at its head. In the Southwest a lieutenant-general falls in
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ircumstance that Richmond contained in the Tredegar Works almost the only means of supplying the South with cannon. Augusta, Georgia, where the great powder factory of the Confederacy was located, was another most important point. Military strategists have debated why Sherman did not turn aside in his march to the sea in order to destroy this factory. Augusta was prepared to make a stout defense, and the Confederacy was already crumbling at this time. The Union armies were fast closing abouagration that totally demolished the Tredegar Works. Colonel John W. Clarke, of 1103 Greene Street, an old inhabitant of Augusta, who made an excellent record in the Confederate army, tells of a story current in that city that the sparing of AugustaAugusta was a matter of sentiment. Sherman recalled his former connection with the local Military Academy for boys, and that here dwelt some of his former sweethearts and valued friends. Ruins of the Tredegar iron works in Richmond, April, 1865—the
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