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April 9th (search for this): chapter 9.88
, seems to show that the honor really belonged to Johnson's Battery of Richmond: * * * * * * The last artillery shot was not fired by a battery stationed in the yard of Mr. Peers, but by a Richmond battery known as Johnson's battery, and once commanded by the late Major Marmaduke Johnson, of this city. On the occasion referred to this battery was commanded by our popular sheriff, Captain John W. Wright. While waiting for orders to advance with my artillery on the morning of the 9th of April, Lieutenant James Grattan, also of this city, and who was at that time acting as adjutant to my battalion, returned from the front, and, with his eyes full of tears, said: Major, the army cannot advance; can't you open the way with your artillery. We had not been able to haul enough ammunition from the lines near Petersburg for one hour's active firing, and for six days neither man nor horse had received a single ration from the quartermaster, yet, if anything was to be attempted, here s
June 14th, 1881 AD (search for this): chapter 9.88
version of the burning of Columbia has been fully refuted by articles we had previously published [see vol. VII, pp. 156, 185 and 249, and vol. VIII, p. 202], we purpose, at an early day, to take up the question again and to show not only that General Sherman, in his several accounts, palpably contradicts himself, but that he is guilty of an unmistakable falsification of history. But meantime we will give him the benefit of the following characteristic letter: Washington, D. C., June 14, 1881. Capt. T. H. Lee: My Dear Friend,--I have your ardent and enthusiastic letter of June 13, and am glad you were pleased at my speech at the meeting last week of the Society of the Army of the Potomac at Hartford, Conn. I believe we have conquered the rebellion, and made possible the grand developments our country is already experiencing; and I believe we ought to write its history, and not allow those who surrendered to write their old worn-out theories and impose them on strangers as
31st (search for this): chapter 9.88
e reputation who says: Sherman's recent attempts to relieve himself of the odium of the burning of Columbia, furnish the best evidence of returning virtue I have seen in the man. What Confederate battery fired the last gun at Appomattox C. H.? A correspondent having given this honor to the battery then commanded by the gallant Major Jas. D. Cumming, of North Carolina, he wrote at once the following manly disclaimer: New York, April 5th, 1881. Editor Review:--In your issue of 31st ult. I note a communication signed Confederate, which unjustly claims for my old battery the distinguished honor of firing the last shot in the army of Northern Virginia. Your correspondent is mistaken. This honor has never been claimed by myself or any member of the battery as far as I know, and I think it an act of justice to correct any such impression. While the old battery was more than once named in general orders and frequently complimented by Generals Beauregard, Hoke, Pettigrew an
September (search for this): chapter 9.88
nto something like a bureau for the falsification of history : Jefferson Davis, by his ponderous special pleading in favor of secession in his recently published volumes, has challenged anew the spirit of criticism upon the Southern political leaders which was set at rest for a time by the general disposition to cultivate good fellowship with our erring sisters whom we loved too well to suffer them to depart in peace. Among the rejoinders to Davis's work one appears in the Atlantic for September and one in the North American Review. In the latter, the writer, Rossiter Johnson, refers to the fact that in the case of every insurrection against slavery — like Nat Turner's and John Brown's — the insurgents suffered the extreme penalty of the law, while in all others, like Shay's rebellion, Fries's, and the whiskey war, they were either pardoned outright or only very mildly punished. He also says sarcastically: The atrocities of Andersonville were explained into nothingness long
April 5th, 1881 AD (search for this): chapter 9.88
ently received from another gentleman of world-wide reputation who says: Sherman's recent attempts to relieve himself of the odium of the burning of Columbia, furnish the best evidence of returning virtue I have seen in the man. What Confederate battery fired the last gun at Appomattox C. H.? A correspondent having given this honor to the battery then commanded by the gallant Major Jas. D. Cumming, of North Carolina, he wrote at once the following manly disclaimer: New York, April 5th, 1881. Editor Review:--In your issue of 31st ult. I note a communication signed Confederate, which unjustly claims for my old battery the distinguished honor of firing the last shot in the army of Northern Virginia. Your correspondent is mistaken. This honor has never been claimed by myself or any member of the battery as far as I know, and I think it an act of justice to correct any such impression. While the old battery was more than once named in general orders and frequently compl
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