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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
greatest of all great captains that English-speaking people have brought forth. (See Life of Benton, page 38 ) Is it a matter of surprise, then, that the same hand should have recently written: I am extremely proud of the fact that one of my uncles was an admiral in the Confederate navy, and that another fired the last gun fired aboard the Alabama. I think (he says) the time has now come when we can, all of us, be proud of the valor shown on both sides in the civil war. If President Roosevelt really believed that his uncles were ever rebels and traitors, would he be extremely proud of that fact? Would he be proud to be the nephew of Benedict Arnold? No; and no man at the North who knows anything of the foundation of this government believes for a moment that any Confederate soldier was a rebel or traitor, or that the war on our part was a Rebellion. Even Goldwin Smith, the harshest and most unjust historian to the South, who has ever written about the war (as demonstrat
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of the history Committee (search)
greatest of all great captains that English-speaking people have brought forth. (See Life of Benton, page 38 ) Is it a matter of surprise, then, that the same hand should have recently written: I am extremely proud of the fact that one of my uncles was an admiral in the Confederate navy, and that another fired the last gun fired aboard the Alabama. I think (he says) the time has now come when we can, all of us, be proud of the valor shown on both sides in the civil war. If President Roosevelt really believed that his uncles were ever rebels and traitors, would he be extremely proud of that fact? Would he be proud to be the nephew of Benedict Arnold? No; and no man at the North who knows anything of the foundation of this government believes for a moment that any Confederate soldier was a rebel or traitor, or that the war on our part was a Rebellion. Even Goldwin Smith, the harshest and most unjust historian to the South, who has ever written about the war (as demonstrat