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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
Ferry. The companies of Captain Pope, who was a veteran of the Mexican war, and Captain Desha, were formed into a battalion of rifle-sharpshooters under Captain Pope, who was made major. The other companies constituted a battalion under Major Blanton Duncan, of Louisville, who had been active in assisting to raise those from that city. They were assigned to the brigade of General Bartow, of Georgia, who was killed at the battle of Bull Run. Pope's and Duncan's battalions are reported in theDuncan's battalions are reported in the return of the army of the Shenandoah, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's division, June 30, 1861. A number of other companies were tendered, but owing to the lack of arms the Confederate government was compelled to decline for the time any more recruits. It was therefore deemed best to establish a camp to which volunteers from Kentucky could be sent for organization and drill until such time as arms and equipment could be furnished. In deference to the neutrality then in operation a location was se
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 20: (search)
to eliminate all partisan feeling, and the matter should not be deferred until those competent from possession of the necessary information for a correct execution of the work shall have passed away. From these imperfect papers have been taken the following extracts, showing approximately the organizations, with the names of their commanders and the dates of commissions, now for the first time published: First Regiment Kentucky infantry: Thomas H. Taylor, Colonel, October 14, 1861—Blanton Duncan, Lieutenant-Colonel, October 14, 1861—Thomas H. Taylor, Lieutenant-Colonel, July 3, 1861—Wm. Preston Johnston, Lieutenant-Colonel, October 14, 1861—Edward Crossland, Lieutenant-Colonel, April 19, 1861—Benjamin Anderson, Major. Second Regiment Kentucky infantry: James M. Hawes, Colonel, July 17, 1861—Roger W. Hanson, Colonel, 1861—Robert A. Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel, July 17, 1861—James W. Hewitt, Major, July 17, 1861—James W. Moss, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel—Phi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
now, for if there ever was a noble and gallant fellow, true to his friends and true to his convictions of duty, it was W. H. C. Whiting. Very respectfully, Blanton Duncan. Louisville, Ky., July 6, 1880. hospital, Govr's Island, March 2, 1865. Colonel Blanton Duncan: My dear Duncan: I am very glad to hear from you on my beColonel Blanton Duncan: My dear Duncan: I am very glad to hear from you on my bed of suffering. I see the papers have put you in possession of something of what has been going on. That I am here, and that Wilmington and Fisher are gone, is due wholly and solely to the incompetency, the imbecility and the pusillanimity of Braxton Bragg, who was sent to spy upon and supersede me about two weeks before the attaDuncan: I am very glad to hear from you on my bed of suffering. I see the papers have put you in possession of something of what has been going on. That I am here, and that Wilmington and Fisher are gone, is due wholly and solely to the incompetency, the imbecility and the pusillanimity of Braxton Bragg, who was sent to spy upon and supersede me about two weeks before the attack. He could have taken every one of the enemy, but he was afraid. After the fleet stopped its infernal stream of fire to let the assaulting column come on, we fought them six hours, from traverse to traverse and from parapet to parapet, 6,000 of them. All that time Bragg was within two and a half miles, with 6,000 of Lee's b
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
. Daves, Major, Graham, 116, 138. Davie, W. R., Jr., 109. Davis, Jefferson, President, on the fall of Fort Fisher, 167; reverenced in the South, 334; persecution of, 337. Davis, Colonel, J. Lucius, 242 Davis, Captain J. T., killed, 12. DeArmond, Hon. D A., 300. Denson, Captain C. B., 129. Dew, Thomas R., 352. Dick, Major, Charles, 349. Dismemberment of Virginia by the U. S., 39. Dixon, Lieutenant G. F, Heroic death of, 218. Dualey, Lieutenant, killed, 7. Duncan, Colonel, Blanton, 173. Eager, Rev. G. B., Prayer of, 183. Earle's Battery, 238. Eason, J. M. and T. D,, 67. Elliott, General Stephen, Jr., 233. Ellis, Governor John W., 138 Emilio's History of the 54th Mass., 77, 85, 239. Ewell's Corps, General R. E., 17, 127. Fairly, Major J. S., 140. Faith, Hope and Charity symbolized, 255. Falkner, Captain, Jefferson, 220. Falkner, Major, Address of, 219. Farrar, Judge F. R, Johnny Reb, 261, 302. Federal ruthlessness, 21. Fiske
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death before Dishonor! (search)
Blanton Duncan, Esq., a member of the Kentucky Legislature, is enrolling a regiment of 1,800 men for service in the cause of the Confederate States. It is stated that Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, is in one of the Northern companies at Annapolis. It is reported that Gen. Lee has given orders for the abandonment of Harper's Ferry.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The Kentucky troops. --The Lynchburg Republican says of the Kentucky troops which arrived in that city Thursday morning, that the average height of the members is five feet nine and a half inches, while no man in the regiment weighs less than one hundred and fifty pounds. They are under the command of Col. Blanton Duncan, and the following officers: Adjutant D. J. Symmes; Surgeon, Dr. Alex. Forsythe; and Captains Jo. Desha, of Harrison county; Ed. Crossland, of Hickman county; John D. Pope, of Louisville; M. Laparelle, of Louisville, and — Harney, of Louisville. They are all dressed in the blue Kentucky hunting shirt, and a finer body of men the world has never produced. On Thursday night they left Lynchburg for Harper's Ferry.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shipments of provisions. (search)
will march with pick and shovel on the Rail- splitters. In fact, the war spirit is thoroughly infused into every man, woman and child in this county, and only a little Yankee blood-letting will abate the epidemic. The Kentucky Regiment, Col. Duncan, 800 strong, and a detachment of the Alabama Regiment, Col. Battle, with 200 men, passed through here to-day. The remainder of their men will be down to-morrow. Col. Duncan treated our citizens, who had assembled in large numbers to greet hiugh here to-day. The remainder of their men will be down to-morrow. Col. Duncan treated our citizens, who had assembled in large numbers to greet him, with a speech.--He regretted the position of his State, which had but six thousand stand of arms, but was instructed, if Virginia would furnish the guns, to say that old Kentucky would furnish the men; and those under his control, though occupying a central position at one time, were now determined to give these Black Republicans --. Ruth.
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
and Tennessee, which superficial observers called a growth of Unionism, because a pretended abandonment of coercion policy had allayed excitement. Then came the Proclamation, and four States rise in their might, united as one man for resistance. Let patience have her perfect work. Kentucky has no love for her renegade son. Virginia and Kentucky will yet stand side by side in resisting the matricides, Scott and Lincoln. If Virginia is disposed to complain of Kentucky, let her remember Blanton Duncan and his band of Spartans. When they have poured out their blood in defence of the mother State, we'll send a hundred men to take the place of each of them. We have no arms now, but we intend to have them. Reason bids us stand until we are "parati animisque opibus." Let us unite our people, and if the war is forced upon us, if we come in at the eleventh hour, we ask to be allowed the first place in the post of danger. Armed neutrality is but another phase of revolution. If resist
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
Badges for soldiers. --We have received the following communication from Colonel Blanton Duncan, of the Kentucky Regiment, stationed near Harper's Ferry: "I would suggest that, to avoid any difficulty about recognizing friends from enemies, Southern troops should all wear blue cockades upon their hats or caps. I intend to have all of my men thus designated, and as it is typical of our cause, it will be very appropriate. In a hand-to-hand encounter we could easily distinguish those who did wear them."
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Matrimonial, --A member of the New Orleans Zouaves, a splendid specimen of the Southern soldier, and a gentleman, we learn of considerable property in that city, conducted to the altar of Hymen, on Wednesday evening last, a young lady of Richmond. We happened in at the ceremony, which was performed by Or Duncan, of the Methodist Church, of this city, in the elegant and spacious parlors of the St. Charles Hotel, and could only learn that the name of the happy Zouave was Angus, and that of the bride Pocahontas. The happy pair started at six o'clock A. M., on Thursday, for Yorktown.
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