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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
mies of the State which gave him birth, the section in which he had so long lived, and the people from whom he had received so much kindness. And while deeply regretting that any son of the South should have brought himself to draw his sword against the land of his birth, yet it is a source of a certain sort of pride that the North was compelled to bestow her highest naval honors on this Southron, while she owed so much of her success in the field to Winfield Scott, George H. Thomas, Canby, Blair, Sykes, Ord, Getty, Anderson, Alexander, Nelson, and other Southern officers, and the 400,000 Southern born men (chiefly from Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia and Tennessee), not counting the negroes, who served in her ranks. How different the result might have been if all these had been true to their section and the principles of their fathers! General Longstreet's paper in the Philadelphia times of March 13th in reply to Generals A. L. Long and Fitz. Lee will excite atten
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hardee and the Military operations around Atlanta. (search)
ng south to and along the McDonough road. General Blair's letter, quoted by General Hood at page 1d the McDonough road, for that was occupied by Blair's corps, and across Entrenchment creek at Cobbfinally adopted involved a shorter detour, General Blair, in the letter quoted by General Hood, at s we have seen, and as is further shown by General Blair's letter, quoted by General Hood at page 1on the extension of his line northward, as General Blair points out, prevented the full force of th the letter which General Hood quotes from General Blair, who commanded the left corps of McPhersonon of the railroad, and filled up the gap from Blair's rear left to the head of Dodge's column, nowother commands. The Seventeenth corps, as General Blair's letter shows, though turned and taken ines at others. During the day, however, as General Blair's letter and Federal maps of the battlefiend the two divisions of the Seventeenth corps (Blair) around by his right rear, to get below Jonesb[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A reminiscence of Sharpsburg. (search)
enth Mississippi, had been killed the night before, in a heavy skirmish on this same ground. The Lieutenant-Colonel, Butler, and the Major (name forgotten) both mortally wounded and left on the field. Colonel Stone, of the Second Mississippi, now governor of Mississippi; upper lip shot away, unable to talk, and yet only going to the rear under the positive orders of Colonel Law, Lieutenant-Colonel (name forgotten) left arm shattered, yet insisting on staying, until ordered to the rear. Major Blair shot in the throat, with a buckshot against the windpipe, unable to talk, yet wanted to remain, but ordered to the rear. These 700 were formed into two regiments, one of which was deployed as skirmishers, behind a breastwork of rails made the morning before, along the Hagerstown pike; the other was held in reserve about one hundred yards in rear. After the Federals had shelled the woods furiously, they moved up in force, slowly and timidly, on the little handful of men holding them, sup