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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.2 (search)
It was obedience even unto death. From the Richmond, Va., Times, October 29, 1899. Grave in Hollywood recalls a story of devotion to duty. Came South to fight with us. James H. Beers, of Connecticut, who fell at Chancellorsville—Ran the gauntlet when he left Home—Services for the Confederacy. Within the last few days there has been placed over a low mound in my family lot in Hollywood, a simple granite marker bearing this inscription: James H. Beers, of Connectcut, who fell at Chancellorsville fighting for Virginia and the South, May 3, 1863. The erection of this modest stone not only marks the discharge of an obligation, richly merited and long deferred, but it also epitomizes a life not unworthy of record and of remembrance. In the brief recital which follows, we shall endeavor to keep in mind that—while the peace of death has, years agone, passed upon the chief actor in this strange story and probably also upon most of his relatives living wh<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
Captain Thomas Jefferson Page. [from the Richmond, Va., Times, October 29, 1899.] How this intrepid officer Defied superior numbers. Two against the Stonewall. The Niagara and the Sacramento feared to give her Battle—Captain Craven, U. S. N., Court-Martialed for Cowardice. Died in Rome, Italy, October 26, 1899, Captain Thomas Jefferson Page, in the 92d year of his age. Captain, or as he was more familiarly known, Commodore Page, was born at Shelley, Gloucester county, and his boyhood was spent there. In 1827 he was appointed a cadet at the United States Naval Academy by President John Quincy Adams, in recognition of the services of his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Governor John Page and Thomas Nelson, Governor, of Yorktown, he being the son of Mann Page and Betsy Nelson. The United States Naval Academy was then a receiving ship stationed in the harbor of New York, and young Page was graduated with the honors of a class of forty-five members. He was then