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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Relief of Confederates by National appropriation. (search)
Relief of Confederates by National appropriation. Hon. P. J. Otey's bill. R. E. Lee Camp, C. V., protests against the consideration of the bill by Congress. [So sweeping were the pecuniary losses of the Confederates, that to ask partial reparation for them, would be pardonable. No one can question the excellence of ed with us. No want will be unsupplied, and his closing years will be soothed with the loving ministrations of both sexes. The provision is happily systematic. R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, may righteously voice the sentiment of the nobly beneficent fraternity which it initiated. Instituted in April, 1883, its admincreasing ratio of organization. Grateful result is the speedy sequence. Provision for the needy vetaran is the concomitant of every established Camp.—Ed.] R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, in meeting held January 24, 1896, expressed its disapprobation of the bill offered by Major P. J. Otey, looking to Federal aid
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Longstreet-Gettysburg controversy [from the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, February 16, 1896.] (search)
eral Stuart, the Chief of Cavalry, violated General Lee's order in the Gettysburg campaign. Fortun At that time Hooker was waiting quietly on General Lee; all of his movements had been subordinate Lee's. He had moved in a circle pari passu with Lee from the Rappahannock to the Potomac so as to cc? Marched day and night. On June 22d General Lee had written Stuart, One column of Ewell's aongstreet. 4. Colonel Marshall says that General Lee, at Chambersburg, not having heard from Sturthward. This is equivalent to saying that General Lee had lost his head, for no rational being coia there would have been nothing to prevent General Lee from marching direct to Baltimore and Washis statement is contradicted by the record. General Lee attached no such importance to his communicisions, started down the Gettysburg 'pike. General Lee was then west of the mountain with Longstrehe fight came off prematurely, and that neither Lee nor Longstreet intended that it should have beg[39 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The South's Museum. (search)
ions of that period by dedicating this structure as a depository of Confederate relics, setting apart a room for each of the States whose sons followed the star of Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, or Smith, and assigning it to the care of a regent, herself the worthy descendant of some patriot who wore the gray or gave aid and comfort tilure of the Confederacy was a great misfortune to humanity, and will be the source of unnumbered woes to liberty. Washington might have failed; Kosciusko and Robert E. Lee did fail; but I believe history will award a higher place to them, unsuccessful, than to Suwarrow and to Grant, victorious. This great and noble cause, the prere the conspicuous colors in this room; over the main window of which the State name appeared in evergreen. Among its interesting contents was a bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee, executed by the late Frederick Volck; presented by the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States of Maryland. The bust was undertaken about t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Joseph Jones, M. D., Ll.D. (search)
92, 318, 323, 330, 342, 348, 379 Donaldsonville Artillery at Fredericksburg, 198. Drewry's Bluff, Assault of, 67. Durham, Captain Cicero A., death of, 68. Early, General J. A., 297, 344. Elliott, Captain, Chas. G., 174, 198. Equipment, 1861, A Soldier's, 300. Evans, General C. A., Address of, 1. Exall, Wm., Death of, 125. F Co. 21st Va. Infantry, 125. Falling Waters, Battle of, 46. Federal Depredations in 1865, 266. Federal Relief to Confederates, Protest of R. E. Lee Camp, C. V., against the Otey Bill, Federal Vessels Captured: Whistling Wind, Alfred H. Partridge. Mary Alvina, Bark Tacony, M. A. Shindler, Isaac Webb, Micawber, 277; Byzantium, Goodspeed, Marengo, Florence, Elizabeth Ann, Rufus Choate, Raffle, 278; Shatemuc, Archer, Caleb Cushing, 279. First and Last Days of the War, Reminiscences of, 294. Five Forks, Battle of, 58, 78. Fleming, Col. John A., Killed, 73. Flowers, Colonel Robert L., 273. Fort Fisher, Bombardment of, 166
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