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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Passing of the monitor Scorpion. (search)
amilton, Bermuda, August 4, 1903: The foundering of the old monitor Scorpion off George's Shoal recently while being towed from Bermuda to St. John, N. B., where she was to be broken up as old metal, marks, perhaps, the passing of the last relic of the navy of the Confederate States of America. The Scorpion and her sister monitor, the Wivern, were constructed by Laird Bros., of Liverpool, under the supervision of Captain James D. Bullock, of the Confederate navy, an uncle of President Roosevelt. Owing to the protest of Mr. Adams, then minister to England, acting under orders from Secretary Seward, the British government seized the two vessels and refused to allow them to be turned over to the Confederacy. It has always been asserted by Southern and naval officers that the failure of the Confederate government to secure these two monitors, which were then the most formidable war vessel afloat, went far to change the result of the war between the States. There are today l
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
is revered by all the nation, made Brigadier Generals of two of the Confederacy's most gallant leaders, Fighting Joe Wheeler, and our own Fitzhugh Lee, and President Roosevelt was proud to serve under the first of these at Santiago, when he saved the American army from an inglorious retreat, and none of these events was accompanieuld have tremendous weight in procuring a decision favorable to placing the Lee memorial in the Capitol hall of Statuary. To like effect are the words of President Roosevelt, uttered on the 9th of last April, the anniversary of Lee's surrender, at the Charleston Exposition, where he said: We are now a united people; the wounds ldimmed them have passed away forever. All of us, North and South, can glory alike in the valor of the men who wore the blue, And the men who wore the gray. Mr. Roosevelt has also written such high praise of Lee, as a soldier, that none of his own followers can say more. In his life of Thos. H. Benton, in the American Statesm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
L., 163; Gen. L. E., 156. Powell, Lt. Hugh P., killed. 26. Pratt, Captain, Julian, 15. Purcell, Colonel John B., 177. Rains, Gen. G. J., 330. Rank in U. S. and C. S. Armies, 369. Red Strings, skulks, 26. Richardson Col. Charles, 286; Lt. Charles H., wounded, 18. Richards, Sergeant G. W., 372. Richmond, closing scenes of War about, 129; evacuation of, 130; local troops of, 137, 303; retreat from, 129. Ringgold Gap, Battle of, 156. Robertson, Major James E., 141. Roosevelt's tribute to Lee, 87. Ryan, Father A. J., 208. Sailor's Creek, Battle of 142. Scharf, Lieutenant, J. Thos., 333. Scorpion, C. S. Monitor 71. Scully, Colonel John W., 128. School Books, 361. Secession, Right of 87, 88. Selph, Captain, Colin McRae, 70. Sharpsburg, Battle of, 32, 36, 279; troops engaged, 32. Sheridan, General P. H., 61. Shiloh, Battle of 298; troops engaged in, 808, 804; causes of Confederate failure, 316; losses in, 312, 314. Simpson Colonel B. L