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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), All quiet along the <rs>Potomac</rs> to-night--proof that it was written by Thaddeus Oliver, of Twiggs county, Georgia. (search)
ted solicitations, by your father in his own handwriting, are my reasons for not having addressed you this letter long before now. I knew Thaddeus Oliver well, perhaps more intimately than any member of the Second Georgia regiment, outside his own company. We first met in the convention, of which we both were members, that convened in Milledgeville, in 1860, to send delegates to the the National Democratic convention, then soon to assemble in Charleston. On the 9th of April, 1861, the Burke sharpshooters, in which I was a private, was ordered to Tybee island. About the same time the Buena Vista guards, of which your lamented father was a member, with other companies, was sent to a point below Savannah, for the purpose of organizing the Second Georgia regiment, afterwards so ably commanded by that noble patriot and brave, heroic soldier, Paul J. Semmes. At the organization, Captain Butt, of your father's company, than whom a more high-toned, generous gentleman or gallant off