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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), The Desecration of the Stars and Stripes. (search)
The Desecration of the Stars and Stripes. Port Deposit, Md., Feb. 20, 1862. Messrs. Editors: Lest the necessary brevity of your special despatch per telegraph last evening should not give a proper understanding of the outrage perpetrated here on the flag of our country by the two secessionists, McClure and Henderson, from Baltimore, I beg to submit the following statement: These two gentlemen, Douglas McClure and Edward Henderson, Esqs., after abusing the hospitalities of our town, took the liberty, yesterday evening, about five o'clock, to cut down the American flag which was suspended across the street on lines attached to the residences of Capt. John W. Taylor and Mrs. E. T. Rinehart. When the halyards were cut, the flag fell in the mud, where it was noticed by a few of our citizens, who raised it from its place of disgrace, and flung it again to its native breeze. As soon as it was known among the people how the flag got there, search was made for the two bloods, wh
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
st Maryland regiment who participated in the engagement, giving their account of the same, and that of Lieut. Atwell, commanding the battery. Other reports will doubtless be made by officers having a more perfect knowledge of the affair and a more exact statement of the losses, but are not at this time available. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, N. P. Banks, Major-General Commanding. Lieutenant Thompson's account. Hagerstown, May 29, 1862. Messrs. Editors of the Baltimore American: According to promise I give you a brief account of the battle of Friday, the twenty-third day of May. Having been relieved from picket duty on the morning of the battle, I was lounging about in my tent, between two and three o'clock P. M., when a negro man came riding into camp much excited, stating that the rebels had taken the town--Front Royal. Our camp was about a mile and a quarter from the town. I went out to see the negro and commenced making fu
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 200 (search)
ncan and his company, Lieuts. Campbell and Cheeck, Capt. Carter and his company, all of the Fifth Kentucky, behaved well and managed their troops with skill, and proved themselves gallant men. My loss was thirty killed, fifty wounded, and seventy-five taken prisoners. About two hundred horses were killed or disabled in this action. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. W. Johnson, Brigadier-General. Major Winfrey's report. Louisville, Ky., September 8, 1862. Messrs. Editors: Not having an opportunity of reporting to General Johnson, in writing, the part the regiment I had the honor to command took in the battle at Gallatin, Tenn., between the forces of Col. Morgan and Gen. Johnson, before his official report, I desire, through your columns, to make a plain statement of the fight and the conduct of each regiment, so far as necessary to explain that of my regiment. On the morning of the twenty-first of August, we ascertained that Colonel Morgan, with his br
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Trophies of the field of Antietam. (search)
Trophies of the field of Antietam. Messrs. Editors: During a visit to the headquarters of the army of the Potomac at Sharpsburgh, a few days after the great battle of Antietam, in company with several gentlemen from Philadelphia, I was favored with a personal interview with Gen. McClellan, during which our attention, while in his tent, was drawn to a large number of colors taken from the rebels in the battles of South-Mountain, Antietam, and Shepherdstown Bluffs. As they possessed great interest to our party, Gen. McClellan very kindly gave us a great deal of information in regard to them, and by his permission I made the list and descriptions of them herewith appended. As will be seen by a reference to the General's official report of the battles, this list comprises less than .one half of the colors captured, the whole number being thirty-nine. The list embraces all, however, which at the time of our visit had been received at the headquarters, and though only partial, may,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Chancellorsville. (search)
ng; one hundred and forty-nine (149) enlisted men killed, five hundred and sixty-seven (567) wounded, and one hundred and twenty-one (121) missing; making an aggregate of nine hundred and nine (909.) Respectfully, James H. Lane, Brigadier-General. Captain R. H. Finney, Acting Adjutant-General. How Stonewall Jackson met his death. An interesting and authentic statement from General James H. Lane. [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]Richmond, Va., January 1, 1873. Messrs. Editors,--I hope you will allow me through the columns of your popular paper to give to the public some of the circumstances connected with the death-wound of General Jackson, particularly as a recent publication has declared that a night attack was not contemplated at that time. When General Jackson moved so unexpectedly and so successfully upon the enemy's flank at Chancellorsville, his front line was composed of Rodes' division, and his second of A. P. Hill's, with the exception of McGowa
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
olved in this struggle. Yes, and of this nationality you would deprive us, for, instead of being, as we now are, a nation of freemen, holding slaves as our property,you would make us a nation of white men, with free negroes for our equals. Messrs. Editors, if you had sought in the political body of the Confederacy for some spot at which to aim and strike one blow which should at once deprive it of life, you could not have found one more vital, or have struck with more deadly certainty, than yf or two millions of free negroes in your midst. That is more than one half of the present slave population of the Confederate States. How long would slavery last under this strain? Is not your proposition Abolitionism in disguise? No, Messrs. Editors, we could not live in a country inhabited by such a class. Either they or we must be forced to leave. Which would it be, and where and how would they go? Abraham Lincoln emancipates all he can steal. You would take and emancipate one hal
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 1: religious elements in the army. (search)
g the people during these early days of the war. Some of these extracts illustrate several of my chapters, but I give them as they are. Rev. Dr. Joseph Walker thus writes from Richmond to the Religious Herald, under date of May 2, 1861: Messrs. Editors: I have never understood the compatableness of Christianity with war as I see it in the present struggle for Southern independence. Never have I seen or read of greater promptness on the part of Christians, of all denominations, to shoulemed too military for a clergyman. Go back, sir, said he, this is no place for you; take off that sash, retire to the grove and besiege a Throne of Grace! Rev. R. W. Cole writes to The Religious Herald: Caroline County, September 17. Messrs. Editors: It was my privilege to spend some three or four days with the soldiers embracing Colonel Cary's regiment, a short time since, at Marlborough Point. The season was truly gloomy—being rainy—but it seemed not to detract from the energy and
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
sbyterian Church, and one of those public men who never hesitates to show his colors—to speak out for Christ. Messrs. Editors: The following letter from John Randolph Tucker, Esq., Attorney-General of Virginia, will be of service to the causeof a grand mass-meeting held in Richmond in the same interest will show the general coopera-tion of our people. Messrs. Editors: Will you be kind enough to transfer to your columns, from the Richmond Whig, the enclosed account of the meeting hwho did so noble a work in printing and circulating tracts, gives the following statement concerning his work: Messrs. Editors: I hope that a few facts about colportage among the soldiers will not be unacceptable to your readers. Though I havng the soldiers. Many of them begged me to hold a protracted meeting there. Richmond, Virginia, December 19. Messrs. Editors: It was my privilege to attend a meeting for soldiers on last Sabbath, in one of the hospitals in Staunton, at which
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 6: hospital work. (search)
apers may fail to do good in the army. But is not this true of our work in the pastorate? Is it not true of the expenditure of ammunition in a battle? Ordinarily, a man's weight in lead is expended for every one that is killed. I have not told the half that I designed when I began, but thinking only short pieces appropriate for the Herald, in its present limited dimensions, I close. Yours truly, Geo. B. Taylor. Staunton, February 24, 1863. Huguenot Springs hospital, June 8th. Messrs. Editors: On the third Sabbath in May we commenced a series of meetings at this hospital, which continued till the first Sabbath of June. The Lord's blessing rested upon the meeting, from twenty-five to thirty making a public profession of faith in Christ. Fifteen have been baptized, and others are awaiting the Ordinance. . . G. W. Hyde, Chaplain of the Post. Last week, while in Lynchburg, I had the pleasure of seeing from fifteen to twenty soldiers present themselves for prayer and
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 7: work of the chaplains and missionaries. (search)
e by Dr. Taylor, and I desire to testify especially that the officers of the army generally were disposed to extend to the faithful chaplain every courtesy, and to give him every facility for the prosecution of his work. Certainly, I received nothing but kindness from the officers with whom I came in contact. As showing my appreciation at the time of the office of chaplain, and the men fitted for it, I append a card which I published in the Religious Herald. The men we want. Messrs. Editors: As my name has been mentioned as one of the committee of correspondence to facilitate the introduction of chaplains into the various regiments of our corps, perhaps I ought to say a word with reference to the matter. In private letters to brethren I have said, Send us the names of good men; and I here repeat, we want none others—our object being not merely to fill up the regiments with nominal chaplains, but to fill the vacancies with efficient, working men. We want effective Gospel p
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