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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Mecklenburg (N. C.) Historical Society. (search)
ina took the lead of all the States in passing resolutions of Independence. And when the Congress of all the States met in Philadelphia, it was a Virginian, Richard Henry Lee, who first moved that the States should be free and independent States. It was a Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the National Declaration of Independnder the storm of shot and shell! An English officer, who had been on Longstreet's staff, witnessed the battle of Sadowa, and gave it as his opinion that 70,000 of Lee's ragged, barefoot veterans could have swept the 200,000 victors off the field. I have compared, so far as I could, the losses sustained in the great battles of th by that test, European fighting has been child's play in comparison with Confederate. I am ashamed for strangers to see my barefoot, ragged boys in camp, said General Lee to an English visitor, but I would be glad for all the world to see them on the field of battle. This tribute from the great commander is alone sufficient to e
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Seacoast defences of South Carolina and Georgia. (search)
e concluding paragraphs that I shall here reproduce them. General Lee received an order about the middle of March (1862), assigning hig of security and confidence. We perceive in this campaign of General Lee in Georgia and South Carolina results achieved by a single geniuculable force. General Long, as he says, was on the staff of General Lee during the time in question, but was not in the Department of So of South Carolina and Georgia after October, 1862. That what General Lee did was in character with the ability of that distinguished man,erton, as I have always understood, had materially departed from General Lee's plan of defensive works for the department. Be that so or not centre of the defensive system of that department as planned by General Lee, who established his headquarters there. Geographically Coosawhns and details, including a creative military administration. General Lee's own reputation, which rests solidly upon his own resplendent d
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Strength of General Lee's army in the Seven days battles around Richmond. (search)
Strength of General Lee's army in the Seven days battles around Richmond. [For obvious reasons, our Confederate generals did not publish during the war detailed statements of the strength of their armies. The Federal authorities and Federal writers have almost invariably exaggerated our strength, our own people have been in profound ignorance of our real numbers, and there has been among some of our most distinguished leaders honest differences of opinion as to our strength at different periods. The following discussion, as to General Lee's numbers during the seven days battles, has excited great attention, not only on account of the interest in the questions involved, but also because of the standing of the distinguished soldiers who were parties to it. We have been several times urged, by those whose opinions are entitled to weight, to give the discussion a place in our Papers, in order that it may be preserved. We do so without note or comment, leaving our readers to d