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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Valley after Kernstown. (search)
nd ask him whether there are any objections to his cavalry being ordered to the vicinity of Staunton, if it is not already there. Very truly yours, T. J. Jackson. A call for artillery. Please have the following telegraphed to General R. E. Lee: Brown's Gap, June 11, 1862.—Send four pieces of artillery with every thousand infantry. T. J. Jackson, Major General. Major: Please forward the above by telegraph. I hope to get you a colonelcy. Yours truly, T. J. Jackson. eral W. H. C. Whiting, Mechum's River Depot: Halt your advance at such point as you may desire until you get your division together. T. J. Jackson, Major-General. A telegram to General Lee. near Mount Meridian, June 15, 1862. General R. E. Lee, Richmond: The reinforcements are ordered, as authorized by your telegram of yesterday. T. J. Jackson, Major-General. Please have good encampments selected for the troops, where there is plenty of wood and water, and, if practicabl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), On the eve of Chancellorsville. (search)
On the eve of Chancellorsville. Announcing to General Lee that the enemy had made a stand. The following from General Jackson to General Lee, written on the eve of Chancellorsville, are copied from the originals, which are on exhibition in the State Library: near 3 P. M., May 2, 1863. General,—The enemy has made a stand at Chancellor's, which is about two miles from Chancellorsville. I hope as soon as practicable to attack. I trust that an ever kind Providence will bless us with great success. Respectfully, T. J Jackson, Lieutenant-General. General R. E. Lee. The leading division is up and the next two appear to be well closed. T. J. J [From the Richmond Times, July 23, 1891.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Oil-Cloth coat in which Jackson received his mortal wound. (search)
s driven from Charlottesville, by Sheridan's cavalry, in March 1865. The coat remained at Carysbrook until in December, 1867, when my father forwarded it to General R. E. Lee, at Lexington, Va., narrating the circumstances of his having gotten possession of it, and requesting him to make a proper disposition of so precious a relic subject are entitled to consideration. Mrs. Lee joins me in kindest regards to yourself and family, and I am very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. E. Lee. J. R. Bryan, Esq. Lexington Va., 18th January, 1868. My dear Sir: I informed you in December last that before making any disposition of the overcoat of G a relic familiar to my eyes and painfully interesting to the hearts of all our people may receive your approbation, I am, with great respect, very truly yours, R. E. Lee. Mr. J. R. Bryan. It has been stated that this coat was obtained by some devoted Scotch admirers of General Jackson, and has been seen by American travelers
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses. (search)
General R. E. Lee's war-horses. In Vol. XVIII, pp. 388-391, Southern Historical Society Papers, some account is given of the horses Traveler and Lucy Long used by General Robert E. Lee during the late war. Since that publication, additional interesting information of these and other horses used by General Lee has been furnishGeneral Robert E. Lee during the late war. Since that publication, additional interesting information of these and other horses used by General Lee has been furnished by a member of his family, as follows: Soon after General Lee went to Richmond, in the Spring of 1861, some gentlemen of that city presented him with a handsome bay stallion, who was given the name of Richmond by General Lee. After the death of General Robert S. Garnett, who fell at Carrick's Ford, West Virginia, July 14, was taken by some stragglers and sold to a Virginian surgeon, who took her home with him. After the close of the war, she was found in Eastern Virginia by Captain Robert E. Lee, who repaid what had been paid for her and took her to his father at Lexington, where were also Traveller and Ajax. When The Roan through blindness becam
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
ack of the accomplished knight which we follow in the war with Mexico—that ardent nurse of heroes—where our second lieutenant has grown to be captain of the engineers on the staff of Winfield Scott. When Vera Cruz yielded to bombardment, Captains Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, of the General's staff, were appointed to arrange the terms of its surrender. Worthier ambassadors of victory could not have been chosen. The army then moved along the great national road, made by the old Spanessential to infallibly impart. Under any military conditions, one might ask, is it wholly reasonable to exact, as a matter of strict military right, that a general, on taking command of an army, shall at once, without more words, become a Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson at the highest pinnacle of their earthly achievement? One might conclude, from the inclination expressed by some, to inaugurate the triumphs of Lee and Jackson at the portal of the Georgia campaign, that such inauguratio
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan, December, 1891. (search)
nd officers were constantly brought into the homes of the people of Richmond to be taken care of, and every home had in it a sick or wounded Confederate soldier. From the association thus brought about many a love affair occurred and many a marriage resulted. I know of several wives and mothers in the South who lost their hearts and won their soldier husbands in this way, so this phase of life during the war near Richmond was prolific of romance. General Lee kissed the girls. General Robert E. Lee would often leave the front, come into Richmond, and attend these starvation parties, and on such occasions he was not only the cynosure of all eyes, but the young ladies all crowded around him, and he kissed every one of them. This was esteemed his privilege, and he seemed to enjoy the exercise of it. On such occasions he was thoroughly urbane, but always the dignified patrician soldier in his bearing. Private theatricals were also a form of amusements during the war. I saw sev
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Nineteenth of January. (search)
. The anniversary of the birth of General Robert Edward Lee, was again observed throughout Virgior, up Main to Eighth, up Franklin (passing General Lee's residence) to Seventh, and thence to the one will give a brighter effulgence than Robert Edward Lee. Leading the heroes of the South in the Winfield Scott, a close observer, had said: Colonel Lee is the best soldier I ever saw in the fieldarmy of all. His mind was fully made up to give Lee two men for one until his noble little army, noGeneral Joseph E. Johnston, now gone to be with Lee, pulled the cord which unveiled the statue and ses made the air resonant with the name of Robert E. Lee. And then as they passed his old home, winniversary of the birth of the beloved General Robert E. Lee. After the battle of knives and for Atlanta, Georgia. The birthday of General Robert E. Lee is a legal holiday in Georgia. Year bmortal, ever-living, never—dying name of Robert Edward Lee. The banquet. After the public d[15 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jefferson Davis. (search)
ve been recorded the deeds of the former leaders of the so-called army of the Rebellion, and short sketches of their lives given. We refer to the biographies of R. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, Mosby, Forrest, etc. We believe that the President, prominent in position and revered by all the above-named generals in acking the institution of slavery; I have no legal right, and certainly no inclination to do it, etc., etc. Again, January 10, 1861, Jefferson Davis, like General R. E. Lee, earnestly strove for the reconciliation of the States, and those were not the words of an ambitious, self-seeker; but of a troubled patriotic heart, when he had gathered about him were of the first rank, and the knights who sat at their round table have won for themselves imperishable renown. We recall the names of R. E. Lee, A. S. Johnston, Joe Johnston, Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, the two Hills, Longstreet, Gordon and the dashing cavalryman Stuart, the two Lees, Ashby, Morgan.
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