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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 7: (search)
what decisions are to be made. That then you make up your mind fully as to the proper course to pursue, and pursue it, without fear, and take the consequences. I would not advise you to any course that I would not pursue myself, under like circumstances, nor do I believe that I advise against your own inclinations. I will keep you advised officially or otherwise of all that affects you. I think it will be well for you to send me a statement of your reasons for removing Herron, Abell, and Monroe. It may not be called for, but twice the question has been asked why you removed them. This letter marks what to me was a new development in Grant's character. He was becoming accustomed to the wiles that he found he must fight, and at this period displayed a greater degree of adroitness than I often noticed in him, before or afterward. The skill with which he points out to Sheridan how to avoid a premature conflict with the Executive; the nice point he makes that though the Attorney-
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
Cain (wounded), W. D. Sumner (wounded), Privates J. L. Penley, J. J. Faught. Company B—Capt. J. D. Nott, Privates Bartlett Anderson (wounded), H. C. McMillan. Company C— Capt. A. L. Gaines (killed), Private Frank Allen. Company H-Private William West. Company I—Capt. A. P. Love (wounded), First Sergt. S. J. Skinner. Company E—Capt. J. R. Northcott, Sergt. R. J. Moore (wounded), Corp. James M. Tedder (wounded). Company K-Capt. B. R. Hart, Lieut. R. L. Myrick (wounded), Privates Aaron Coffey, Monroe Brown. Company D—Capt. E. H. Armistead, Capt. R. J. Hill (wounded), Adjt. E. F. Travis (wounded), Sergt.-Maj. Nott, Quartermaster-Sergt. C. I. Michailoffsky. （788) Gardner's brigade, Bragg's army, June 30th. （839) Mentioned in report of Gen. Joseph Wheeler; skirmish near Farmington, May 10. （1853) Mentioned in report of Col. Jos. Wheeler, operations May 28th and 29th. Vol. XVI, Part 2—（764) Gardner's brigade with Gen. Leonidas Polk, August 18 and 20, 1862. Vol. XVII, P
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Degrading influence of slavery—Reply of Judge Critcher to Mr. Hoar. (search)
of Richard Henry Lee, the mover of the Declaration of Independence, and the Cicero of the American Revolution. There lived Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Charles Lee, at one time Washington's Attorney-General; and Arthur Lee, the accomplished negotiator of the treaty of commerce and alliance between the Colonies and France in 1777. Returning, as said before, you come first to the birth-place of Washington; another hour's drive will bring you to the birth-place of Monroe; another hour's drive to the birth-place of Madison, and if the gentleman supposes that the present generation is unworthy of their illustrious ancestors, he has but to stand on the same estate to see the massive chimneys of the baronial mansion that witnessed the birth of Robert E. Lee. These are some of the eminent men from the parish of his residence, and he yielded the floor, that the gentleman might match them, if he could, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis. (search)
ho had served in it as one of the mounted men of Georgia, settled in Kentucky. Pending the war, in 1782 (the very year that George Rogers Clarke captured Kaskaskia), Thomas Lincoln, of Rockingham county, Virginia, removed to the same State. Jefferson Davis, the son of the first named settler, was born on June 3, 1808, and on February 12, 1809, was born the son of the other—Abraham Lincoln. Samuel Davis moved to Mississippi. His son became a cadet at West Point under appointment from President Monroe, and soon, commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States army, appeared in the service fighting the Indians on the frontier in the Blackhawk war. In early manhood Abraham Lincoln removed to Illinois, and, now, becoming a captain of volunteers, he and Jefferson Davis were under the same flag engaged in the same warfare. John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell had once engaged passage for America, and George Washington was about to become a midshipman in the British navy. Had not circum
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of the statue of General Ambrose Powell Hill at Richmond, Virginia, May 30, 1892. (search)
est Point Military Academy. General Heth was senior major-general under Lieutenant-General Hill when the latter was killed. Other Home veteran organizations. The veterans of Louisa Camp, under the lead of Commander William Overton, came next, and preceded the members of the old First Virginia regiment, who numbered about fifty men. The latter, who were under the command of Colonel F. H. Langley, wore straw hats with black bands, which contained the name of their organization. The Fort Monroe band came next in the procession, and preceded Pickett-Buchanan Camp, No. 3, of Norfolk, which was headed by Commander Walter F. Irvine. The veterans of this organization numbered about seventy-five, and were beautifully uniformed in the regulation suit of gray. Stonewall Camp, No. 4, of Portsmouth, paraded about twenty-five men, who were headed by Commander R. C. Marshall. R. E. Lee Camp, No. 2, of Alexandria, numbered about twenty-five men, with William A. Smoot as commander. Captain W
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
onded with the terms squadron and battery. The regiments of infantry, instead of comprising three battalions, were formed, in reality, of but a single one; but each had a colonel, a lieutenant-colonel, and a major, the division of the regiments among the frontier stations and along the coast rendering this large number of superior officers necessary. Their effective total of one thousand to twelve hundred men was seldom attained, recruiting being always difficult. A wise ordinance of President Monroe requiring that every reduction of the army should bear equally upon all organized regiments, those only could be discharged whose strength was found to be diminished by more than one-half, in order to preserve complete cadres ready to receive recruits in case of necessity. Unfortunately, however, while the observance of this rule was being enforced, the authorities, in the exercise of an imprudent economy, neglected to fill the vacancies of officers in the regiments thus reduced; so th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
f in search of the enemy. For a conquered, rebellious or hostile city, whichever it may be called, New Orleans was at first treated with lenity; no war contribution was imposed upon it. The Federal troops, received on their landing with hisses and shouts by an immense crowd, displayed the greatest moderation; private property was everywhere respected; moreover, the municipal government which the city possessed before being captured was recognized and accepted by the victors. The mayor, Mr. Monroe, who had made no secret of his profound devotion to the Confederate cause, continued to be the official representative of the city, as he was when he organized its defence in concert with Lovell. Mr. Lincoln had recommended to his generals to simply restore the supreme authority of the Union and the Federal laws, without meddling with the internal affairs of cities and counties otherwise than to enforce respect for those laws. It was hoped at first that this programme, at once so wise an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., An eighteenth century enterprise. (search)
ved a continual menace, sometimes impaling boats and causing wrecks. Mr. Sullivan believed in the use of printers' ink; for having made the successful passage to Concord and returned to Chelmsford, he immediately wrote an account of his doings to the Boston Advertiser, which published the same, and in whose editorial notice may be found a brief description of the boat and engine, which worked under all the disadvantages of novelty. In 1824 Mr. Sullivan received an appointment from President Monroe on the Board of Internal Improvement, and went south to examine a route for a canal across the Alleghanies. With his departure, no further effort seems to have been made to utilize the power of steam; but the new manager, Caleb Eddy, seems to have made the most of existing conditions. He added to the Rules and Regulations a prohibition of the use of the Signal-horn upon the Sabbath while near any house of worship, and his administration was careful and thrifty. In 1831 the last deb
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
osed to have been autobiographical. Many believed her to have been the original of the Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins. Dr. John Brooks, one of Medford's most distinguished citizens, delivered an oration before the Society of the Cincinnati in 1787; a Eulogy on George Washington, 1800; Discourse Before the Humane Society, 1795; and a remarkable Farewell to the Militia of the Commonwealth in 1823, all of which are in print. Of his inaugural address, when governor of Massachusetts, President Monroe said, I am willing to take the principles of that speech as the basis of my administration. Among other early writers we find Timothy Bigelow, lawyer, many of whose orations from 1767 to 1790 have been preserved, and a Journal of a Tour to the Falls of Niagara, reprinted. Samuel Hall was editor of the Essex Gazette, New England Chronicle, Salem Gazette, and Massachusetts Gazette, 1768-1807. Edward Brooks was a contributor to the North American Review. A unique pamphlet was wr
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
to Portugal, 1796-'97; Minister to Prussia during the Administration of his father, 1797-1803; Senator, 1803-'8; Minister to Russia under Madison, 1809-'13; Commissioner to Ghent, 1813-'14; Minister to England, 1815- '17; Secretary of State under Monroe, 1812-'24; President, 1825-'29; and member of Congress from 1831 to 1847, the date of his death. Thus, in a period of fifty-three years, he intervals between the laying down of one office and the assumption of another amount, when added togetherri was admitted in 1821, and continued there until 1851, a period of thirty years. He never held any other office. John C. Calhoun entered the House of Representatives in 1811; served there until 1817, when he became Secretary of War under Mr. Monroe. In 1821 he was elected Vice-President, and re-elected in 1828. In 1831 he resigned the station of Vice-President to become a U. S. Senator from South Carolina. The reason for this extraordinary step was that he might champion the cause of n
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