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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis. (search)
erates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught they amount to no more than dead men. At this particular time, to release all rebel prisoners North, would insure Sherman's defeat and would compromise our own safety here. Alexander H. Stephens declared that the effort to fix odium on President Davis constituted one of the boldest and baldest attempted outrages upon the truth of history which has ever been essayed. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, formerly Assistant Secretary of War, nobly vindicated President Davis while he lived, declared him altogether acquitted of the charge, and said of him dead, A majestic soul has passed. When General Lee congratulated his army on the victories of Richmond, he said to them: Your humanity to the wounded and the prisoners was the fit and crowning glory of your valor. And could that army now march by, they would lift those laurels from their bayonets and throw them u
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee's Birthday: eminent men of the United States send sentiments for the day—ministers, soldiers, statesmen and scholars each bring an offering. (search)
him as the best ideal type of an American citizen, gentleman, and soldier. John H. Reagan. Washington, D. C. Cardinal Gibbons. General Lee was a hero of whom the whole nation is proud. James Card. Gibbons. Wilmington, N. C. Charles A. Dana, Editor New York sun. Robert E. Lee was a man of ideal personal character. He was always a gentleman, always sincere, always true, always considerate of others. His moral elevation was especially manifest in the readiness and calmnel resources were prompt, broad, comprehensive, admirable. In his dignity there was no affectation, in his self-respect no petty egotism, in his judgment no unjust depreciation of others. He was great in the noblest qualities of human nature. C. A. Dana. New York. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. I would not give my dead Ossory for any living son in England, was the proud cry of a bereaved English mother. We would not give our dead Lee for any living soldier, is the proud response of every
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prisoners of the civil war. (search)
iberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught they amount to no more than dead men. At this particular time to release all rebel prisoners North would insure Sherman's defeat and would compromise our own safety here. Alexander H. Stephens declared that the effort to fix odium on President Davis constituted one of the boldest and baldest attempted outrages upon the truth of history which has ever been essayed. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, formerly Assistant Secretary of War, nobly vindicated President Davis while he lived, declared him altogether acquitted of the charge, and said of him dead: A majestic soul has passed. When General Lee congratulated his army on the victories of Richmond, he said to them: Your humanity to the wounded and the prisoners was the fit and crowning glory of your valor. And could that army now march by, they would lift those laurels from their bayonets and throw them u
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
d, S. C., 34; Scant resources of, 98, 240, 336; Disparity of its armies, 99, 155, 325, 326, 329; Patriotism and sacrifices of the women of, 104; humanity of to Federal prisoners, 119; Cabinet of the, 156; Generals of the, 156; Surviving generals of the, 419; Merits of the cause of the, 216. Crawford, Colonel, William, 31. Crater, The, 402. Cromwell, O., engaged passage for America, 126. Cuba, Expedition against, 49. Dabney, Prof. R. H., On the Treatment of Prisoners. 378. Dana, Hon. C. A., 350. Daniel, Hon J. W., Oration on Life, Services and Character of Jefferson Davis, 113; mentioned, 351; Address of at the Meeting to Erect Monument to Gen. R. E. Lee, 191. Davis, Jefferson, 62, 106; Daniel's Oration on, 113; a lover of the Union, 151; On Treatment of Prisoners, 381; his estimate of the Life and Character of Gen. R. E. Lee, 362. Davis, Gen Jeff. C., 73. Distinguished Guests at the Dedication of the Lee Monument, 292. Dudley, Bishop Thos U., 355. Dutcher,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Meade's temper. (search)
General Meade's temper. Its peculiarities made him an enigma. What Dana wrote about It—a note from Mr. Lincoln—General Halleck and the Testy Commander—Took his own course. The late Federal General Meade's peculiarities of temper, to draw it mildly, were such as to make him something of an enigma, even to his closest aies in the army. It is generally understood that at one period personal dislike of General Meade was almost universal among the officers of higher rank. Hon. Charles A. Dana, who as Assistant-Secretary of War was with the army during the early days at Petersburg, in one of his reports to Secretary Stanton, made the following vior curses. The latter, however, I have never heard him indulge in very violently, but he is said to apply them often without occasion and without reason. * * * C. A. Dana. Toward the end there is a discernible modification of the better feeling against Meade; nevertheless, it is certain that he never became a popular command<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Joseph Jones, M. D., Ll.D. (search)
388; Regents, &c., of Solid South, Virginia, 372; North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 373; Maryland, 374; Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, 375; Mississippi, Arkansas, 376; Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, 377. Confederate Soldier, Camp experience of, 318; Privations of, 308. Confederate Navy, Exploits of Lieutenant C. W. Read; Cruise of the Clarence-Tacony Archer, 274; Alabama, Florida, 276; Atlanta, 277. Crater, Battle of the, 71. Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., cited, 328. Dana, C. A., 248. Darby-Town, Origin of name, 151. Davis, Colonel, James Taylor, killed, 74. Davis, President, his home in Richmond, 354. Derry, Professor J. F., 1. Dinwiddie Courthouse, Engagement at, 75. Dismal Swamp, Success at, 65. Dispatch, Richmond, Va., cited, 79, 175, 205, 229, 253, 259, 274, 283, 290, 292, 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, G
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An important Dispatch. (search)
e at Rossville, five miles southeast of Chattanooga, General Rosencranz was in the city, sending out ammunition and provisions, and preparing to bring the army into Chattanooga, which was the objective of the campaign, and to hold it. Hon. Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, then at Rosencranz's headquarters in the city, under the same date as this dispatch of General Forrest—namely, September 21st—thus telegraphed Secretary Stanton: Chattanooga, September 21st. Rosencranz h, unless prevented by the enemy, who have been fighting him this afternoon, * * * There is no time to wait for reinforcements, and Rosencranz is determined not to abandon Chattanooga and Bridgeport without another effort. * * * (Signed.) C. A. Dana. What Bragg would have met. Since General Bragg is so severely criticised for not pushing on it is interesting to inquire what he would have met had he followed General Forrest's advice. Rossville Gap, in Missionary Ridge, is a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Treatment and exchange of prisoners. (search)
on both sides during the war. That we have shown that the Federal Government, with Edwin M. Stanton, H. W. Halleck and U S. Grant as its representatives, is solely responsible, we think cannot be denied, and that history will so attest. Mr. Charles A. Dana, the Federal Assistant Secretary of War, in an editorial in the New York Sun, commenting on the letter of Mr. Davis to Mr. James Lyons, written in reference to the strictures of Mr. Blaine, referred to in the early part of this report, sai to fight our battles. If we commence a system of exchanges which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught they are no more than dead men. * * * This evidence [says Dana] must be taken as conclusive. It proves that it was not the Confederate authorities who insisted on keeping our prisoners in distress, want and disease, but the commander of our own armies. * * * Moreover [says he] there is no evidence whatever,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
Confederacy Last forlorn hope of, in TransMississippi Department, 117. Confederate-dead in the North, 230; Defeat, causes of, 368; Surgeons, humanity of, 230; gold in 1865, 119. Colston, General R. E., 111. Constitution. The Federal, 8; Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jay on the, 9, 10. Cold Harbor Salient, final struggle at, 276. Cole, Major C. H., Desperate exploit of, 259. Cooke, Captain J. W., 208. Cromwellhave a Statue, Shall, 1. Crutchfield, Colonel S., 114. Dana, C. A., 99. Davis, President, Jefferson, to Lincoln, 92; manacled, 100; tribute to, 121,832. Dinkins, Captain, James, 185, 205. Dix, General J. A., 88. Dixon, Captain G. E., 168. Dorsey, Frank, 288; Colonel Gus W., 286. Doughoregan Manor, 220. Drayton, General T. F., 140. Du Bois, A., 279. Dunant, M. Henri, 229. DuPont, Admiral S. F. 139. Early General J. A., 105; meagre force of, in Valley, 109; his movement on Washington, 216, 250. 257, 267; at Lynchburg, 307, 372; his India
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
ere in the Confederate ranks during the war. Of those we do not believe one-half are alive this day. Of the 300,000 of the Confederate soldiers yet alive no man can say what proportion are wholly or in part disabled by wounds or disease. General J. A. Early, in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume II, page 20, says This estimate is very nearly correct, and there was no better authority in the South than General Early. The American Cyclopedia (D. Appleton & Co., 1875), of which Charles A. Dana, late Assistant Secretary of War, was editor, in Volume V, page 232, says: The Adjutant-General of the Confederate army, General S. Cooper, in a statement made since the close of hostilities, estimates the entire available Confederate forces capable of active service in the field at 600,000. Of this number not more than 400,000 were enrolled at any one time, and the Confederate States never had in the field at once more than 200,000 men. The letter of General Cooper relating to t
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