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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
ly than their less fortunate comrades on the Cumberland, Congress, Minnesota and other ships in the Roads, and are therefore no more entitled to prize money. Those on the Merrimac by no means regarded the Monitor as a lion in her path. Having served on the Merrimac from the time work was first begun upon her until the night of her destruction, in justice to all concerned, and that honor may be done to whom honor is due, I simply desire the facts to be known. H. B. Littlepage. Washington, Feb. 21. The following letter from Captain W. H. Parker to the Norfolk Landmark, is also an interesting and unanswerable statement of the question: Letter from Captain Parker. Norfolk, Va., December 11, 1882. To the Editor of the Landmark The claim of the crew of the U. S. S. Monitor for prize money for the destruction of the Confederate vessel Virginia (Merrimac) has naturally called forth many letters from those engaged in the naval operations in Hampton Roads from March 8, 1862, to M
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Merrimac and Monitor. (search)
ly than their less fortunate comrades on the Cumberland, Congress, Minnesota and other ships in the Roads, and are therefore no more entitled to prize money. Those on the Merrimac by no means regarded the Monitor as a lion in her path. Having served on the Merrimac from the time work was first begun upon her until the night of her destruction, in justice to all concerned, and that honor may be done to whom honor is due, I simply desire the facts to be known. H. B. Littlepage. Washington, Feb. 21. The following letter from Captain W. H. Parker to the Norfolk Landmark, is also an interesting and unanswerable statement of the question: Letter from Captain Parker. Norfolk, Va., December 11, 1882. To the Editor of the Landmark The claim of the crew of the U. S. S. Monitor for prize money for the destruction of the Confederate vessel Virginia (Merrimac) has naturally called forth many letters from those engaged in the naval operations in Hampton Roads from March 8, 1862, to M
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Rev. J. G. Law. (search)
fighting, was compelled to surrender to an overwhelming force, and General Buckner, with his entire command are prisoners; and Nashville is about to fall into the hands of the enemy. My own native State is invaded by the vandal hordes of Lincoln, and from this time forth I am a soldier in the field, until the last footprint of the foe is removed from our fair land. I give up my profession, and lay my life on the altar of my country, with resignation to the will of the most high God. February 21st.—Rode out this morning to see my mother and bid her good-bye. She said to me, My son, I am glad to see that you know your duty. I do not return to the field for glory or renown, but from a stern sense of duty in this hour of my country's peril. I consider it to be the solemn duty of every son of the South to go into the ranks and fight until our independence is achieved. February 22nd.—On board steamer DeSoto. Left Memphis at 5 o'clock this evening, to rejoin the old One Hundred a