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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Preface. (search)
xceptional manner for an adequate treatment of this subject. His life since the war has been consecrated to religious and benevolent work in the South, and to preservation in literature of the memories of the great conflict for Southern independence. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, who entered the Confederate service as an officer of artillery, from South Carolina, rose to great prominence in that army at the time of the battle of Sharpsburg; then being sent to the Mississippi river, defeated Gen. W. T. Sherman at Chickasaw bayou; was afterward in command of the department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and from Atlanta to Bentonville commanded Hood's corps of the army of Tennessee, with the rank of lieutenant-general. Since the close of the war he has devoted himself to the vital interests of his beloved South, along the line of technical education, and for several years has been president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college. He is thoroughly in sympathy with the Con
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
concurred in by the committee of which Adams, Sherman, Livingston and Franklin, all Northern men, wmade most aggressively by Northern leaders. （Sherman's Recollections, vol. 2, pp. 199-203.) The Stl and the investments of Southern capital. Mr. Sherman, who was decidedly the most intellectual st Pemberton. Of the first Federal attempt General Sherman says, We failed in one great purpose of oVery soon thereafter the prisoners taken from Sherman by the Confederate army under General Johnsto and rescued a large part of that State. General Sherman had captured Meridian, in Mississippi, buarmistice—Grant's hammering must not cease. Sherman must push on. The press must give daily notichmond but had paused to institute his siege. Sherman had passed Kenesaw mountain, and was on the nful assaults. Through the first three months Sherman crept after Johnston with a caution which evieath of Mr. Lincoln the agreement between Generals Sherman and Johnston would have been ratified and[16 more...]<
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
out 33,000 men at Bentonville on March 19th. Sherman thereupon concentrated against him his entirein his front, on the west of Atlanta, said to Sherman, General, Hood will attack me here, and when Sherman expressed his doubt, Howard responded that he had known Hood at West Point and that he was orary rank of general. He endeavored to take Sherman's army at disadvantage in crossing Peach Treelecting at Savannah forces to operate against Sherman's advance. The troops he required were no lo he co-operated with Forrest in making futile Sherman's advance to Meridian. June 23, 1864, he wasfleet, at Johnsonville,—a feat of arms, wrote Sherman, which I must confess excited my admiration. shed for activity and skill. Every effort of Sherman's great army to turn the Confederate flank wa co-operated with Hood in the advance against Sherman's communications, and after Hood had entered ndomitable energy, operating on all sides of Sherman's columns, he was enabled to keep the governm[25 more...]