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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan, December, 1891. (search)
Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan, December, 1891. by Edward M. Alfriend. For many months after the beginning of the war between the States Richmond was an extremely gay, bright, and happy city. Except that its streets were filled with handsomely-attired officers and that troops constantly passed through it, there was nothing to indicate the horrors or sorrows of war, or the fearful deprivations that subsequently befell it. As the war progressed its miseries tightened their bloody grasp upon the city, happiness was nearly destroyed, and the hearts of the people were made to bleed. During the time of McClellan's investment of Richmond, and the seven days fighting between Lee's army and his own, every cannon that was fired could be heard in every home in Richmond, and as every home had its son or sons at the front in Lee's army, it can be easily understood how great was the anguish of every mother's heart in the Confederate capital. These mothers h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jefferson Davis. (search)
Jefferson Davis. President of the late Confederate States. by J. Scheibert, Major in the Prussian army. [The following article chiefly condensed from the noble oration of Hon. John W. Daniel before the General Assembly of Virginia, January 25, 1890, was sent to the editor by the chivalric Major Scheibert, in extracted pages from the Annual Register of the German Army and Navy, December 1891, in which other articles contributed by him and herein referred to, also appeared. The tone of the article and some of its definite expressions would indicate that the character of Mr. Davis and the cause and exemplification of the South in the recent war between the States is justly estimated in Germany. The editor is indebted to his friend, Mr. Samuel H. Pulliam, of this city, for the translation.] He swayed States, and led the soldiers of the Union—and he stood accused of treason in a court of justice. He saw victory sweep illustrious battle-fields—and he became a captive.