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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
ives in due proportion. The world will never know how much it cost the South; how stupendous was the price that North Carolina paid to defend the Constitutional rights of the States. Was there no sorrow in contemplating the destruction of the fabric reared by the efforts of Southern statesmanship and cemented with the blood of her children? Who, to-day, would have had this old Commonwealth trample upon her traditions—even from the earliest colonial days, of the freest of the free, in Bancroft's words—and tamely submit to military usurpation from Washington to send her sons into the field, against every dictate of conscience and settled conviction of the sovereign rights of the States; to send her sons, I say, against their brethren of Virginia and South Carolina—bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh, not only in the claims of blood, but in history and sentiment? Never have the annals of history known a line of statesmen like those who guided the fortunes of this count<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official report of the history Committee of the Grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia. (search)
thirteen Colonies threw off their allegiance to Great Britain, they became independent States, independent of her and of each other. * * * The recognition was of the States separately, each by name, in the treaty of peace which terminated the war of the Revolution. And that this separate recognition was deliberate and intentional, with the distinct object of recognizing the States as separate sovereignties, and not as one nation, will sufficiently appear by reference to the sixth volume of Bancroft's History of the United States. The Articles of Confederation between the States declared, that each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence. And the Constitution of the United States, which immediately followed, was first adopted by the States in convention, each State acting for itself, in its sovereign and independent capacity, through a convention of its people. And it was by this ratification that the Constitution was established, to use its own words, between the St
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
irginia were epitomized in those soul-stirring words uttered by Patrick Henry, almost within the sound of our voice, when, from the hallowed precincts of old St. John's on yonder hill, he exclaimed in impassioned and inspired eloquence, Give me liberty or give me death. Virginia may be justly called the Cradle of Liberty and Patrick Henry its apotheosis. It was in Virginia that was first heard the tocsin call that aroused and united the Colonies—The cause of Boston is the cause of all. Bancroft, the historian, truthfully says, Virginia rang the alarm bell for the continent. Recognizing the gravity of the situation Virginia was the first to suggest the Convention of all the Colonies that met in Philadelphia in September, 1774. It was on the 5th of this month that delegates from twelve of the thirteen Colonies assembled, and Peyton Randolph, a Virginian, was called upon to preside over its deliberations. It is not my purpose to recapitulate the stirring events of the period th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
f you, and all with whom he associated can bear testimony to his high sense of honor and unblemished life of modest worth. In the year, 1846 he began the completion of his education as a naval officer at the naval school at Annapolis, this school not having been established when he received his appointment. Of this school and of his cruise on the Brandywine he writes: After my voyage around the world I was granted a leave of absence of three months, but little of it did I get. Mr. Bancroft, the Secretary of the Navy, had just established the naval school at Annapolis; this was a pet scheme of his and he caught up all midshipmen he could lay his hands on and corralled them at the school; so a lot of the Brandywine midshipmen met again sooner than had been anticipated. Fort Severn had been turned over to the navy for the school. It had been unoccupied for a long time and was in charge of an old artillery sergeant. We had to shake ourselves down into quarters as best we cou
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Israel Putnam and Prospect Hill. (search)
ose to take his post near the Neck, and dispute the passage of the victors and face the consequences. Who would have done it if he had not? And it all goes to show that his was the supreme command at Bunker Hill, as it was on Prospect Hill. Bancroft, who was a warm friend and partisan of Prescott, admits that the General ‘assumed’ it on the retreat, saying that, ‘acting on his own responsibility, he now for the first time during the day assumed the supreme direction. Without orders from a him ‘traitor’ and whatever else of the kind, does not even mention him or Prospect Hill after his long account of the engagement! The reason for all these slights or all this belittling or obscuration is obvious. The ‘supreme direction’ which Bancroft allows Putnam in the retreat, and which he certainly exercised then and on Prospect Hill, and the recognition and reinforcements which he received from headquarters while he was there, are so strong an argument that he was chief before, t
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
Ayer, John F.42, 77, 80, 85, 93 Ayers, George W.12, 23 Ayers, John22, 23 Ayers, Sally D.23 Ayers, Sally (Page)22, 23 Ayers, William22, 23 Bacon, Mrs. E. A. Lathrop8, 9, 10, 25 Bacon, Mrs. E. A. Lathrop, Poems of9 Bacon, Rev. Henry6, 8 Bacon, Rev. Henry, Memoir of9 Bacon, Henry, Jr.9, 10 Bailey, Ernest W.74 Bailey, Joshua22 Bailey, Mrs. Joshua22 Bailey House, The, Perkins Street44 Baird, Historian10 Baldwin, Loammi52, 53, 54, 55, 57 Ballou, Hosea, President Tufts College26 Bancroft, Historian92, 97 Barberry Lane42 Barrell, Joseph53 Barrett, Samuel, Jr., Schoolmaster, 172065 Bartlett's Address, 181360 Bateman,—62 Bates, Gov. John L., Address by77, 78, 86, 87, 92, 93 Bay State Colony, The14 Bedford, Mass.52 Belknap, Hon. Austin100, 101 Belknap, John100 Belknap, Robert W.101 Belknap, Ruth (Fay）100 Bell, Dr. Luther V.2 Berlin, Germany11 Bernon, Gabriel12 Billerica, Mass.52, 54 Billerica Bridge54 Billerica Mills55 Binney, Captain Martin22, 23 Binney, Sa
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, chapter 3 (search)
n, Henry W., accountant, h. Summer. Allison, William, ship master, h. Beacon. Andrews, Samuel G., printer, h. Summer. Arnold, Leonard, sash and blind maker, h. Cambridge. Atwill, John B., grocer, h. Elm. Ball, Ebenezer W., b. merchant, h. Elm. Bartlett, Thomas, nail manufacturer, h. Cambridge. Bacon, Clark, b. gold beater, h. Broadway. Bartlett, Dr. Joseph E., h. corner of Broadway and Mt. Vernon. Bailey, Joshua S., baker, h. corner of Perkins and Mt. Pleasant. Bancroft, George, b. attorney, h. Summer. Bailey, Albert, b. reporter, Transcript, h. Church. Barber, Relief R., female supervisor, McLean Asylum. Beddoe, Thomas, painter, h. Walnut. Benton, George A., plane manufacturer, h. Joy. Bennett, Clark, brickmaker, h. Prospect. Beck, G. W., teacher Catholic school, Prospect Hill. Bell, Dr. Luther V., McLean Asylum. Benson, Henry H., McLean Asylum. Benson, Amori, Jr., McLean Asylum. Beers, Charles R., b. car maker, h. Myrtle.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
, the Old Men of Menotomy captured a convoy of eighteen soldiers with supplies, on its way to join the British at Lexington. The command of the party of exempts is variously attributed to David Lamson, a private soldier from Cambridge during the French War (see Paige, 405, note), Lamson is named as an Indian, first from Medford, 1767, &c.—Wyman's Charlestown, 539. and to Phillips Payson, A. M., pastor of a church in Chelsea [H. U. 1754, D. D. &c.], both of whom were probably present. Bancroft says two wagons sent out to the troops with supplies were waylaid and captured by Payson, the minister of Chelsea. Major Sylvester Osborn, then 16 years old (he was the youngest member of his company), was one of the guard detached from a Danvers militia company, which marched in advance of their regiment to Menotomy, and had charge of two baggage-wagons, loaded with provisions and ammunition, which were taken with eleven British soldiers on their way to meet Lord Percy. One man was kill
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., V. Town of Arlington. (search)
ho live here, that their lines have fallen in a pleasant place. I go too far when I suggest that you are without a history. West Cambridge was a part of that historic Cambridge which was so early famous in our country, the seat of learning and the home of patriotism. The honor of Cambridge is yours. After allusions to the times of the Revolution, Mr. Sumner continued: Many years ago, when I first read the account of this period by one of the early biographers of Washington, Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester, the father of our distinguished historian, I was struck by the statement that in case of attack and defeat, the Welsh Mountains in Cambridge and the rear of the lines in Roxbury were appointed as places of rendezvous. The Welsh Mountains' are the hills which skirt your peaceful valley. Since then I have never looked upon those hills, even at a distance—I have never thought of them—without feeling that they are monumental. They testify to that perfect prudence which m
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., Index of names. (search)
, 238 Appleton, 23-5, 28, 31, 33,164 Arnold, 100 Ash, 190, 271, 281 Atkins, 223 Augustus, 190, 302 Austin, 118, 190, 252 Averill, 190, 266 Avery, 131, 140,170, 190, 198, 224, 298 Ayres, 190 Babbit, 190 Babcock, 190, 243 Backer, 33, 191 Backus, 176 Bacon, 172, 177, 191,292, 342, 343 Bailey, 130, 157, 158,161, 165, 172, 185, 340, 348 Bainbridge, 135 Baker, 53, 332 Balch, 191 Baldwin, 53, 191, 266 Ball, 112, 191, 193 Ballou, 349 Bancroft, 63, 162 Banks, 161 Banvard, 172, 176 Barber, 122, 142, 191 Barjonah, 68 Barker, 191, 330 Barnard, 82, 191, 239, 240 Barnes, 140 Barnett, 349 Barney, 342 Barr, 191 Barrett, 131,191, 205 Barry, 191, 193 Bartlett, 170, 178, 274 Barton, 129 Batchelder and Batcheller, 58, 154 Bates, 223 Batherick, 19, 63 Bathrick, 11, 12, 37,191-92, 197, 252, 262, 290 Battle, 70, 79 Batts, 192, 206,269 Bayley, 192, 276 Beals, 192, 208 Beard, 9
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