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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
he United States dissolved, and the Federal authority therein null and void. Before adjourning to meet on January 29th, in Lyceum hall, New Orleans, John Perkins, Jr., of the committee on Confederation, had reported an ordinance for the appointment of a delegation to a convention to form a Southern Confederacy, to be held at Montgomery, February 4, 1861. This ordinance was carried unanimously, with the following delegation: Perkins of Madison; Declouet of St. Martin; Sparrow of Carroll; Marshall of De Soto. This was the signal for the unfurling of a beautiful Pelican flag above the president's stand, amid intense enthusiasm. After this, Rev. D. Linfield offered in English a fervent prayer for a blessing on the work of the convention. Father Darius Hubert, the good Samaritan of the armies of the Confederacy, followed with a prayer in French. Thus the two languages of the native population were heard pleading for that convention which had answered sectionalism with secession.
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
ble as a summary of the situation. At that time, two months after Taylor's triumphant campaign, Shreveport was still a city of the Confederacy and the war capital of the (Confederate) State of Louisiana. The enemy was operating with a force of full 50,000 effective men. With the utmost powers of concentration not 25,000 men could be brought to meet their movements. Shreveport was made the point of concentration. With its fortifications covering the depot, arsenals and shops at Jefferson, Marshall and above, it was a strategic point of vital importance. All the infantry, not with Taylor, opposed to Banks, was directed to Shreveport. General Price, with his cavalry command, was instructed to delay the march of Steele's column while the concentration was effected. While Kirby Smith was making ready for the vaunted expedition, so formidable in numbers, so thoroughly equipped in material, so confident of success, Banks himself was beginning to be dubious of seeing Steele's 12,000 m
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter VI (search)
rymen. On March 15th Captain Dickison reported subsequent operations in his field as follows: On the evening of the 10th inst., I received information from Marion county, through Col. Samuel Owens, that the enemy was advancing by way of Marshall's bridge and had advanced 12 miles in the interior, burning the bridge. I immediately ordered out my command and in two hours was in rapid march in that direction. While near Silver Springs a courier reached me with a dispatch, stating that tur days and nights with but little forage or provisions. My men were resolved, and showed a determination to pursue the enemy to the very gates of the city. The negroes, twenty-four in number, with the wagons and mules captured, belonged to Mrs. Marshall, of Marion county. The raiding party on reaching her plantation destroyed 200 hogsheads of sugar. Some of our militia met them, and in an engagement two of our men were killed. Had information reached me earlier they would have been overta
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
lantation, Mo 41 i, 733 MacKEYey, Thomas J.: Pilot Knob, Mo 41 i, 708 McLaws, Lafayette: Knoxville Campaign 31 i, 493 McLoughlin, William: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 i, 644 McMahon, Edward: Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Va. 29 i, 947 McParlin, Thomas A.: Hospitals, Richmond Campaign 42 i, 190 McPherson, James B.: Chattahoochee River, Ga. 38 v, 57, 58 Shiloh, Tenn. 10 i, 183 McQuade, James: Chancellorsville, Va. 25 i, 517 Marshall, Humphrey: Carter's Raid 20 i, 97, 100 Middle Creek, Ky 7, 51 Meade, George G.: Mine Run Campaign 29 i, 19 Meister, C.: New Madrid, Mo., and Island no.10 8, 146 Merrill, Lewis: Fourche Bayou, Ark. 22 i, 493 Meysenberg, Theodore A.: Northern Virginia Campaign 12 i, 177-179 Michie, Peter S.: Dutch Gap Canal 42 i, 670 Minden, H. Von: Devil's Lake, Wis 48 II, 1139 Mitchell, Robert B.: Wheeler and Roddey's Raid 30 II, 674
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
spitals, May 4-June 12, 1864 94, 5, 7 McPherson, James B.: Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 45, 3 Canton, Miss., Oct. 14-20, 1863 71, 15 Dallas Line, Ga., May 25-June 5, 1864 43, 5, 6, 9; 48, 3, 4; 90, 6 Fort Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 12-16, 1862 11, 2, 5 Fort Henry, Tenn., Feb. 6, 1862 11, 1, 2, 4 Resaca, Ga., May 8-13, 1864 63, 4 Mallory, C. A.: Antietam, Md., Sept. 16-17, 1862 28, 1 Margedant, William: Gauley Bridge, W. Va., 1861 9, 3 Marshall, Elisha G.: Hanover Court-House, Va., May 23-24, 1862 21, 5 Martindale, John H.: Hanover Court-House, Va., May 27, 1862 21, 2 Marvin, H. H.: Chancellorsville Campaign, Va., April 27-May 6, 1863 39, 3 Mason, F.: Big Black Bridge, Miss., May 17, 1863, 37, 7 Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 20-July 4, 1863 36, 1 Matz, Otto H.: Corinth, Miss., April 29-June 10, 1862 13, 6 Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 20-July 4, 1863 36, 1, 2 Maxson, Frank O. Gettysbur
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
tory of which she was actually in possession. She might have held back and made endless trouble, just as, at the beginning of the Revolution she might have refused to make common cause with Massachusetts; but in both instances her leading statesmen showed a far-sighted wisdom, and a breadth of patriotism for which no words of praise can be too strong. In the making of the government under which we live, says the same writer, these five names—Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson and Marshall—stand before all others. Four out of the five, as it is hardly necessary to remind the reader, were Virginians. But why accumulate testimony? The warmest of partisans could not desire, could not select himself, stronger terms of admiration and gratitude than have been bestowed by those at whose hands this flagrant wrong was suffered, upon the State which was first dismembered, and then—the torn and bleeding fragment that remained—stripped of every vestige of rights, every shadow of fr
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
ople of North Carolina, rushed into the tremendous conflict of the Civil War in thoughtless pride, or mad determination to preserve a single species of property, knows nothing of the true spirit that filled the hearts of the best of the land. The Union had been the beloved object of Southern patriotism. Alamance and Mecklenburg sounded to arms for the revolutionary struggle, Patrick Henry's eloquence fired the torch of liberty, Washington led her hosts, Madison drafted the Constitution, Marshall interpreted the laws—Southern men all. King's Mountain and Guilford were the precursors of the inevitable close of the drama of the revolution at Yorktown. For seventy years and more Southern genius dominated the country and led it, step by step, to the pinnacle of fame. Jefferson and Jackson were the great executives of the first half of the century. The second War of Independence, in 1812, was maintained chiefly by Southern valor. Scott and Taylor, as well as Lee and Davis, in the Mex
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
s kindness that throughout a terrible civil war, in which hostile armies traversed a country filled with slaves, they never once rose anywhere in insurrection against their masters. Whether those who, by force of circumstances, maintained it were not as noble as those who, by force of circumstances, opposed it, we may well leave to the calm judgment of posterity, and to the Providence which placed the institution in our midst, with the names of Washington and Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, Marshall and Calhoun, Clay and Crittenden, Davis and Lee, Maury and Manly, and Stonewall Jackson and Stephen Elliott. But what of the great principles for which we fought? Have we abandoned them? The great substantial, animating principle for which the South struggled was the right of a State to control its own domestic affairs—the right to order its own altars and firesides without outside interference—the right of local sovereignty for which brave people struggle everywhere, and without whic
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate cavalry. (search)
ires the heart of patriotism, and the charge at Balaklava brightens the lamp of chivalry, the deeds at Kelly's Ford, Brandy Station, Haw's Shop, Trevillian's and a hundred other places shall write them: The knightliest of the knightly race, Who, since the days of old, Have kept the lamp of chivalry Alight in hearts of gold. While the historians of the North and South have been recording the battles that were fought in the War between the States, and Daniel, and McCabe, and Robinson, and Marshall, and Evans have drawn word-paintings of Gettysburg, the Crater, the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, until every veteran's son knows the part that was played by the infantry and artillery arms of the service, little has been recorded of the deeds performed by those who were both the eyes and ears of our army, who prepared the way for attack, prevented those dangerous flank movements, oftentimes fatal, and saved many a retreat from becoming a rout. Posterity will do justice to the memory of the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The honor roll of the University of Virginia, from the times-dispatch, December 3, 1905. (search)
ett, F. E., Surg., Va., Richmond, Va., 1863. Luckett, L. M., Va., Gaines' Mill, Va., 1862. Lyles, W. B., Capt., S. C., Seven Pines, Va., 1862. MacLeod, F. H., Fla., 1863. Magruder, J. B., Col., Va., Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Magruder, J. W., Lt., Va., Meadow Bridge, Va., 1864. Magruder, J. H., Capt., Va., 1863. Major, E. P., Lt., Va., Seven Pines, Va., 1862. Manning, R. I., Capt., S. C., Fulton, S. C., 1861. Markham, R. A., Ala. Marsh, D., Lt., Ala., Atlanta, Ga. Marshall, T., Lt., Col., Fisher's Hill, Va., 1864. Martin, G., Va., Albemarle Co., Va., 1865. Martin, T., Capt., Va., Malvern Hill, Va., 1862. Massie, J. L., Capt., Va., Fisher's Hill, Va., 1864. Massie, R. T., Va. Mastin, G. B., Ala., Seven Pines, Va. Maupin, J. R., Va., Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Maury, J. H., Lt., D. C., Vicksburg, Miss., 1863. Meade, W. Z., Lt., Va., Resaca, Ga., 1864. Meade, H. E., Va., Petersburg, Va., 1862. Meems, A. R., Surg., Va., Mt. Jackson, Va.
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