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Chambliss (search for this): chapter 1.11
avalry charged them in the rear. King then caused his men to mount, without bits in their horses' mouths, and charged the enemy and drove them back. Happy am I at the recollection of having been associated in those days with such men as the gallant McEldery, who fell, with many others, at Varnell Station, near Dalton, in as gallant a charge as was ever made in war. There was Knox Miller, Charley Pollard, Tim Jones, Tom Hannon, David T. Blakey, Warren Reese, Barron, Crommelin, Anderson, Chambliss, Moore, John Clisby, George Allen, Clay Reynolds, Powell, King, Bob Snodgrass, Ed. Ledyard, Pete Mastin, John Leigh, Jim Judkins, and hundreds of others whom I remember with pleasure who risked their lives on many bloody fields, and showed to the world what only a Confederate cavalryman could do; and there are hundreds of our comrades whose life blood has made sacred the soil of the South by reason of their having sacrificed their lives in defence of the cause which they believed to be ju
Fitz John Porter (search for this): chapter 1.11
fight upon the water, but the task was superhuman. We were not fighting Spaniards then, but men of our own blood, the odds against us were too great. In the United States Home Squadron and Potomac Flotilla, alone, there were ninety-nine ships. The Federal vessels in our western rivers were almost without number. The Confederate fighting ships, one after another, were destroyed, many of them as they were nearing completion. So successfully were we building ships at New Orleans that Admiral Porter in his naval history expresses the opinion that if Farragut had been three months later we should have driven the Federal fleets North, raised the blockade and secured from European governments recognition of the independence of the Confederacy. In another branch of naval warfare the genius of Confederate naval officers was similarly conspicuous. They developed the use of the torpedo to an extent never before dreamed of More than forty United States vessels were badly injured or tota
John C. Maynard (search for this): chapter 1.11
nged; that the distance between combatants must be greater than heretofore, and that we would have battles taking place where the distance between contending forces is a thousand yards or more. What would you think of a body of cavalry to-day, going out armed only with muzzle-loading shot guns and pistols and sabres, to contend against cavalry armed with Krag-Jorgensen or Mauser carbines? It must not be forgotten that in 1861 the Federal cavalry were armed with the Burnside carbine and Maynard carbine, and the Colt's repeating rifle, either of which was capable of killing a man more than a mile distant; and yet the majority of the Confederate cavalry, in the beginning, were armed only with muzzle-loading shot guns, only a very few of them having pistols and sabres in addition. Yet, with these crude weapons the Confederate cavalry did not hesitate to face the superbly equipped Federal cavalry. Knowing that they stood no chance whatever at long range they adopted at once the tact
A. A. Wiley (search for this): chapter 1.11
O. Ticknor: The knightliest of the knightly race, Who, since the days of old, Have kept the lamp of chivalry Alight in hearts of gold. Monument presented. Miss Gorman sang Bonnie Blue Flag to the accompaniment of the band, and then Colonel A. A. Wiley, representing Mayor J. H. Clisby, presented to Governor Johnston, in behalf of the Ladies' Memorial Association, the Confederate monument. Colonel Wiley spoke briefly and with characteristic eloquence. Governor Johnston had delegated hColonel Wiley spoke briefly and with characteristic eloquence. Governor Johnston had delegated his private secretary, Chappell Cory, to respond. Mr. Cory said: Mrs. Bibb and Ladies of the Memorial Association, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen. Through your devoted labor and patriotism this memorial has been reared upon the grounds of the State, and with this last act of consecration your work is complete. It remains now for the State to accept it at your hands, and to guard the sacred trust through the passing years, an inspiration and a blessing to the people in their generations a
Semmes (search for this): chapter 1.11
6th, 1865. To sum up the history of the Confederate Navy it is an almost unbroken record of energy and devotion and genius making a brave struggle, and often almost on the point of succeeding against odds that were absolutely overwhelming. We build monuments to heroes, prompted by the noblest impulses of the human heart, and that future generations may imitate their example. In performing our sacred duties to-day let Alabamians rejoice that, as Alabama in the civil war gave Dixon and Semmes and thousands of other brave men to the Confederacy, so now in our war with Spain she has given Richmond Pearson Hobson to the Navy and Joseph Wheeler to the Army of the United States. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Herbert escorted Miss Janie Watts to the sailor statue, which she gracefully unveiled while reciting the following anonymous lines which are inscribed on the pedestal: The seaman of Confederate fame Startled the wondering world, For braver fight was never fought, And fai
A. M. Gordon (search for this): chapter 1.11
ate dead. They will tell of the splendid generalship of the chieftans of the South. How the names of her Lees, her Johnstons, of Davis, of Stonewall Jackson, of Gordon and a host of other great captains, by the blaze of battle were photographed on the fore-front leaf of fame. How Jeb Stuart and Forrest and Alabama's own gallantby pillage of another's home, or degrade his wife and mother by insulting the wives and mothers of other men. His chivalry taught him to protect the defenceless. Gordon expressed this feeling when he said to the frightened women of the invaded town of York, who feared insult if his ragged troops were permitted to disperse througha mistake in them, soon found means to weed out the inefficient. He did better in his day by the election of officers, than in this day when they are appointed. Gordon and Rodes are examples of the men whom he selected to lead. He was a cleanly man, despite his rags. Most of them had sooner parted with a pair of shoes, than
Jefferson Falkner (search for this): chapter 1.11
now that the very first cavalry attached to what was afterwards known as the Army of the Tennessee, were from Alabama. These consisted of two companies, one commanded by Captain Bowie, of Talladega, and one commanded by my father, then Captain Jefferson Falkner. These companies were really ordered out to be sent to Ben McCullough in Missouri, but at the request of General Polk the orders were countermanded by the War Department, and we were stopped in transit at Corinth, Miss., and a few daysbted for this and every other monument which has been erected, and for much of the history that has been written. While our best men were slain in that struggle, we saved our jewels, consisting of our women and our children and our honor. Major Falkner led the way to the cavalryman's statue for Miss Laura Elmore, who, revealing the sculptured form, repeated the inscription that is carved under it. The lines are from the pen of Francis O. Ticknor: The knightliest of the knightly race, Who,
Caroline Hannon (search for this): chapter 1.11
tion with the torn and tattered battle-flag of the 60th Alabama. The thirteen pretty sponsors who represented the various States, clustered around Miss Robinson, their fair hands resting on the battered flagstaff. Attired in gowns of immaculate white, with grey uniform caps and bright, crimson sashes, the bevy of pretty girls presented an unusually attractive spectacle. The sponsors, all Montgomery young women, were: South Carolina—Miss Jean Craik. Mississippi—Miss Maggie Crommelin. Florida—Miss Joscelyn Fisher Ockenden. Alabama—Miss Rebecca Pollard. Georgia—Miss Katie Burch. Louisiana—Miss Sarah H. Jones. Texas—Miss Mattie Thorington. Virginia—Miss Caroline Hannon. Arkansas—Miss Mamie Holt. North Carolina—Miss Eliza Arrington. Tennessee—Miss Mattie Gilmer Bibb. Missouri—Miss Alabama Brown. Kentucky—Miss Martha E. Bibb. Rev. Dr. Eager invoked Divine blessings for the concourse, taps were blown on a clarionet an
Mattie Gilmer Bibb (search for this): chapter 1.11
ston, in behalf of the Ladies' Memorial Association, the Confederate monument. Colonel Wiley spoke briefly and with characteristic eloquence. Governor Johnston had delegated his private secretary, Chappell Cory, to respond. Mr. Cory said: Mrs. Bibb and Ladies of the Memorial Association, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen. Through your devoted labor and patriotism this memorial has been reared upon the grounds of the State, and with this last act of consecration your work is complete. It Florida—Miss Joscelyn Fisher Ockenden. Alabama—Miss Rebecca Pollard. Georgia—Miss Katie Burch. Louisiana—Miss Sarah H. Jones. Texas—Miss Mattie Thorington. Virginia—Miss Caroline Hannon. Arkansas—Miss Mamie Holt. North Carolina—Miss Eliza Arrington. Tennessee—Miss Mattie Gilmer Bibb. Missouri—Miss Alabama Brown. Kentucky—Miss Martha E. Bibb. Rev. Dr. Eager invoked Divine blessings for the concourse, taps were blown on a clarionet and th
Kelley (search for this): chapter 1.11
ry fails to record an instance where the flank of our Army of the Tennessee were ever turned by reason of the cavalry giving away. Do you recall the battle of New Hope Church? I had the honor on that occasion, to carry the news to our gallant Kelley, and to the immortal Pat Cleburne, that Hooker's corps was then in the woods, advancing on the line then held by Wheeler's cavalry dismounted, with no entrenchments and breastworks whatever. On that occasion the fight was made principally by Cle history, before or since, has produced a braver or nobler set of men than those who constituted the Confederate cavalry. There is, first of all, our own glorious Wheeler, Bedford Forrest, J. E. B. Stuart, Hampton, our own gallant and chivalrous Kelley, our own W. W. Allen, Fitzhugh Lee, Martin, Humes, VanDorn, Robinson, Chalmers, Hagan, Adams, Armstrong, Ashby, Brewer, Williams, John H. Morgan, Basil Duke, Iverson, Brewer, Wade, Clanton, John T. Morgan, Roddy, Buford, Wailes, Prather, our own
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