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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Refused to burn it. [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, April 27, 1902.] (search)
Refused to burn it. [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, April 27, 1902.] Colonel William E. Peters Disobeyed orders at Chambersburg, Pa. Brave but tender officer. A Confederate declined to make war on helpless women and Children—Was arrested but subsequently released. Colonel William E. Peters, on the 19th of June, will retire from the chair of Latin in the University of Virginia, after forty-six years of continuous service, leaving a record of which his friends and all former students, as well as the admirers of that great school, are very proud. This official severance results from his resignation tendered three years ago. His successor, Professor Thomas Fitzhugh, will take up the work of the school of Latin with the beginning of the ensuing session. The career of the retiring Professor is one of distinguished honor. He was born in Bedford county, August 18, 1829, and was educated at Emory and Henry College and at the University of Virginia. In 1852 he was electe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.31 (search)
Cold Harbor salient. [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, April 27, 1902.] The story told from the other side. Through the kindness of a friend I am in possession of copies of your paper of dates of February 16th [see Vol. XXIX, Southern Historical Society Papers, page 285] and March 9th, in which correspondents very graphically describe what to us is the other side of that fierce struggle for the so-called bloody salient at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864. Having been a participant in that short but sanguinary encounter, I must say I was highly interested in the perusal. In encounters of that kind it is a source of satisfaction to know who were our opponents, or commonly speaking, we run up against. In that little affair we had no time to ask questions, for our stay was short in that neighborhood. Hence, I am glad even at this late day to learn who it was who put up so strong an objection to our occupying that salient, and it may be equally interesting to those survivors who