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chapter 1.1
Confederate surgeons.
The race problem in the
South
—Was the
Fifteenth
Amendment a mistake?
A word with the critics.
A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on
Morris Island, S. C.
, under Confederate fire from
September
7th
to
October
21st
,
1864
.
Memoir of
Gen.
C.
R.
Wheat
, commander of the
Louisiana
Tiger Battalion
The last words of
Major
Wheat
.
The siege and evacuation of
Savannah, Georgia
, in
December
,
1864
.
Annual Reunion of the
Association
of the
Army of Northern Virginia
.
Life, services and character of
Jefferson
Davis
.
The
Twelfth Georgia Infantry
.
The Monument to
General
Robert
E.
Lee
.
Incidents of the parade.
chapter 1.14
Testimonials from visiting soldiers.
Robert
Edward
Lee
.
Letters of
R.
E.
Lee
.
At Lee
's tomb.
Lee
's Birthday: eminent men of the
United States
send sentiments for the day—ministers, soldiers, statesmen and scholars each bring an offering.
Lee
as an educator.
chapter 1.21
Robert
E.
Lee
.
Itinerary of the
Fourth Virginia cavalry
.
March
27th
-
April
9th
,
1865
.
Prisoners of the civil war.
Andersonville prison
.
chapter 1.26
The unveiling. [
Richmond Dispatch
,
June
10
,
1890
.]
Valuable war relic.
Casualties in the old
First
at
Gettysburg
:
two
out of every
three
men who were carried into the charge shot down.
Williamsburg
.
Lee
's Lieutenants.
Development of the free soil idea in the
United States
.
Index.
section:
Times have changed.
The politician's voice.
The Southern whites.
Three
of a pesky kind.
A prolific people.
Let us prove ourselves worthy.
The right of suffrage a curse.
Modify the famous
Fifteenth
.
The crime of the age.
It means white slavery.
The negro as a Destroyer.
The South will hold the key.
The dread fetich.
A Gloomy prophecy.
The white man must prevail.
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Life, services and character of
Jefferson
Davis
.
The
Twelfth Georgia Infantry
.
chapter 1.14
[23] reason together upon the fruits, not only of our hardships and privations in the field, but also upon the fruits of the sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of lives of our comrades. They gave up their lives that the freedom which was bequeathed to us by the fathers of the republic might be transmitted by us through our children to remote generations. As we reason together, let us unite our voices with the voices that come from these tombs, and let us see what the harvest shall be from the blood and treasure that was poured during the war. The first fruits of spring came in the shape of a restored Union and freedom for the slave. His shackles fell off and he came forth a free man. He then became invested with all the rights of a white man, including the right to vote. Nature reserves herself for autumn to yield the greatest abundance, when she fills to overflowing the granaries and storehouses. It is not of the spring crop or first fruits of this seed sowing that I wish to speak to you of. The past is secure. It is concerning the future or autumnal crop that I wish to address you.
Richmond, VA. 1889.
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