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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, II. (search)
justify his treatment of Warren. Sherman must bolster up Shiloh. Beauregard must diminish Sidney Johnston. Badeau must belittle Meade, and also the losses in the Wilderness. These are mere instances. The heroes and their biographers all write alike, inevitably moved and biassed by the throb of proximity. Such books are not history. They make inspiring material, when read in each other's light. They are personal reminiscences. History never begins until reminiscence is ended. Even Mr. Ropes, in his championing of Buell the soldier, omits Buell the man. Now Buell, sulking over his wrongs, declined, when invited, to come back and take a command again. He found his dignity more important to him than the Union. Grant, meeting singular injustice after winning Donelson, has such words as these to say : If my course is not satisfactory, remove me at once. I do not wish to impede in any way the success of our arms. Good authority rates Buell a more military soldier than Grant, an
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, Bibliography. (search)
, but much that is valuable. VIII. Historical essays. By Henry Adams. The four last essays. (New York, 1891: Charles Scribner's Sons.) There is no better summary of pertinent political issues. IX. Mr. Fish and the Alabama claims. By J. C. B. Davis. （Boston and New York, 1893: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) Another excellent and absorbing summary. X. the story of the Civil War. By John Codman Ropes. (New York, 1894-98: G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Unfinished. The reader may always trust Mr. Ropes' information, but not always his judgment. XI. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. Volumes III. and IV. By James Ford Rhodes. (New York, 1895-99: Harper Brothers.) Unfinished. This work is steadily taking the features of a classic. No writer of any period of our history combines so many gifts,--interest, weight, thoroughness, serenity. XII. the history of the last Quarter-Century in the United States (1870-95). Volume I. By Elisha Benjamin Andrews. (New
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 10: Cedar Mountain (search)
s still representing to his government that Lee had 200,000 men. If he really believed this, it is not strange that he kept closely within his intrenchments; but Mr. Ropes, the most careful historian of the war, asserts that neither McClellan nor Halleck believed this preposterous story. McClellan told it, and stuck to it, trying to scare the administration into giving him unlimited reenforcements: but his real belief, Mr. Ropes thinks, is apparent in his offer to undertake the new campaign with only 20,000 reenforcements, raising his force to only 110,000. Mr. Ropes says that Halleck saw and appreciated McClellan's insincerity, but, wishing to have the armMr. Ropes says that Halleck saw and appreciated McClellan's insincerity, but, wishing to have the army brought back, he affected to believe in the 200,000 men, and easily confounded McClellan's arguments by pointing out what such a force might do under such generals as Lee and Jackson. Halleck had visited McClellan on the James soon after his arrival in Washington, and the matter was argued, pro and con, in correspondence after
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 11: second Manassas (search)
ssas Junction, 24 miles in Pope's rear, and only 26 miles from Alexandria. Lee, with Longstreet and about 30,000 men, would hold the line of the Rappahannock, and occupy Pope's attention, while Jackson was making his forced march. Lee's army, then, of 55,000, would be split in half, and Pope's army of about 80,000 would be about midway between the two halves. Any military student would pronounce such a situation absolutely ruinous to the divided army. In his History of the civil War, Mr. Ropes writes of Lee's strategy: — The disparity between Pope's force and that of Jackson is so enormous that it is impossible not to be amazed at the audacity of the confederate general, in thus risking an encounter in which the very existence of Jackson's command would be imperilled, and to ask what was the object which Gen. Lee considered as warranting such an extremely dangerous manoeuvre. The answer is not an easy one. . . . We shall. . . . only remark here that this move of Gen. Lee's
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
mac from Edward's Ferry to Seneca Mills. Lieutenant Ropes soon gave evidence of a fitness for milit down the Valley of the Shenandoah. Here Lieutenant Ropes received his initiation into active militbandoned fortifications of the enemy; and Lieutenant Ropes, temporarily in command of Company K, hadgaged with the enemy there. Of Fair Oaks Lieutenant Ropes writes— Our regiment was opposed td men were killed or wounded. Half the men in Ropes's company were hit, and two of his sergeants wted men in killed, wounded, and missing. Lieutenant Ropes was struck twice, once by a spent ball, aer officer, suddenly cried out to me that Lieutenant Ropes was killed. I ran over to him, and grasp raging, officers and men alike wept over Lieutenant Ropes. His remains were sent to Boston, andly cherished, and we will always point to Lieutenant Ropes as an heroic man, worthy of a life-long e One more testimony may be added. Lieutenant Ropes was physically so strong that no exposure[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.50 (search)
er, a classic and scientific scholar, a writer of the first order, a man of almost prophetic insight, and an adept in all physical equipment or martial exercises. Long before the event, he wrote an editorial for me in an Augusta paper, predicting the downfall of Louis Napoleon, and reciting analytically the causes of that memorable overthrow. He showed, with mastery and seership, that this monarch was, when advancing to Italian victory, also marching to Sedan, and Parisian revolution, as Mr. Ropes demonstrates, long after the event, that the First Napoleon, when progressing towards Austerlitz, was none the less moving fatally to Waterloo and St. Helena. Colonel Schaffer did not, as some of us thought, get the reward in proportion that he deserved, but I cannot recall that he ever murmured. He was by birth a Pole, and by adoption a Georgian. He taught a school at Athens, Georgia, and died in pedagogic harness, in the golden prime of manhood. Peace be with him and with his spirit,
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
9, and Mr. Fales has remained Rector until the present time. The first Methodist preaching in Waltham of which we find a record, was at the house An excellent engraving of this house is given on the title-page of Stevens's Memorials of Methodism. of Abraham Bemis, by Bishop Asbury, Saturday, July 19, 1794. In 1798 a meeting-house, simply a boarded enclosure, with a platform for the preacher and rough board seats, was put up in the north part of Weston. In 1834 they had preaching at Mr. Ropes's school-room on Church Street, and in 1836 they began to occupy the Masonic Hall on Main Street. In the spring of 1837 a site was procured and a contract made for building a church on Church Street, when the opportunity was offered to purchase the meeting-house of the Second Religious Society (Rev. Bernard Whitman's) on the Common. Dr. Theodore Kittredge and Rev. George Pickering met the Committee of the Unitarian Society at the house of Dr. Hobbs, Agent of the Boston Manufacturing Compa