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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
eliciting cheers from the people. Officers and men felt the thrill which comes to the young soldier's heart from the pomp and circumstance of war and the approving smiles of woman. The troops were very enthusiastic when told they were going to defend the soil of their native State. As the railroad from Petersburg to Weldon was closed to us our only route was via Danville, Greensboro, and Raleigh. Leaving Richmond by the Richmond and Danville railroad, Kirkland's Brigade reached Wilmington, N. C., after a long and fatiguing ride on the cars in extremely cold weather, and Kirkland marched at once with the two regiments which arrived first, viz., the Seventeenth, under Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sharpe, and Forty-second, under Colonel Brown, for Sugar Loaf, a point a few miles above Fort Fisher. Our horses and wagons had not come, so all of the mounted officers were on foot (as the Irishman would say). On the march at night we heard a loud explosion and saw a great light towards
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Evacuation of Richmond, April 3, 1865, and the disastrous Conflagration incident Thereon. (search)
n the morning of the 3d of April, and saw the fire from a distance that lent sublimity to the view, without the terrors of the scene. As is well known, he was before the war a prominent citizen of Richmond, and since the war has resided in Wilmington, N. C. During the war a more gallant and, for a civilian, a more justly distinguished Confederate officer was scarcely known. If a pleasing reminiscence of his life in Richmond may be recalled, the marriage last evening at St. Paul's church of ht front, and the forlorn approach, amid deafening explosions of wrecked war vessels, to the sublime spectacle of burning Richmond, that, like Milton's ascending sun, Flamed in the forehead of the morning sky. Here is the letter: Wilmington, N. C., October 25, 1878. To John Howard, Esq.. my dear sir,—I received your letter of the 23d instant this morning. For several months prior to the retirement of General Lee's army from the defences around Petersburg, that portion of the co