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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee. (search)
. J. Caldwell, of Greenwood, S. C., says: I wish to call attention to the story of General Grant's refusal to accept the surrender of General Lee's sword at Appomattox, a story without a particle of foundation in fact and utterly unreasonable, yet widely circulated by Northern speakers and writers, and credited by a good many people in the South. The account of the ceremonies attending the return of the flag of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, in the Veteran of December, 1899, reports Governor Sayers as saying: And finally Appomattox came and General Lee surrendered; the great, heroic, magnanimous Grant refuses to take his sword. Colonel Charles Marshall, who was, I believe, the only officer accompanying General Lee on the occasion, has disclaimed that anything of the kind occurred. Dr. J. William Jones, in Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E. Lee, at page 303, reports General Lee as making a similar statement during a conversation with a company of friends, as follows:
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], Heenan again after the "Champion of England." (search)
Heenan again after the "Champion of England." --The Benicia Boy has authorized the editor of the Clipper to state that he would fight Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, for from $1,000 to $10,000; and that he would give the latter $1,000 to fight in this country. Hurst was anxious to punch the Benicia Boy directly after his interview with Sayers. As champion of the English ring he is obliged to fight all comers, but not compelled to leave England. There is a rumor among Heenan's friends that if Hurst will not come here, Heenan will go there, and again contest for the championship.
The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], What is a Newspaper? (search)
A Personal Difficulty, between two white men residing in this city, was settled on Saturday last, by a "resort to arms," on Vauxhall Island, adjoining Mayo's bridge. The contest was after the pattern of that indulged in by Heenan and Sayers, and had nearly the same result, both parties receiving "severe punishment. " As to whether the conqueror was crowned with victorious laurels, or received a "pecuniary recompense" for his exertion, we are not informed.
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Belt given up. (search)
The Belt given up. --From Bell's Life we learn that Sayers has given up the Champion's Belt, though not without reluctance, and that it has been handed over to the Staley bridge Infant. Some $600 remain to be paid on the new belts, and Bell's Life appeals to the friends of Sayers and Heenan to raise it at once, otherwise they must remain with the maker. The Belt given up. --From Bell's Life we learn that Sayers has given up the Champion's Belt, though not without reluctance, and that it has been handed over to the Staley bridge Infant. Some $600 remain to be paid on the new belts, and Bell's Life appeals to the friends of Sayers and Heenan to raise it at once, otherwise they must remain with the maker.
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Prize fight. --The interest that was everywhere excited in regard to the sports of the ring by the "international mill" between Sayers and Heenan, died out almost as suddenly as it sprang into existence, and of late we have heard nothing of those refined pugiliarie expressions which were then as familiar as household words. Nevertheless, we are to day enabled to convey to the world the gratifying intelligence that the ring has still some devoted disciples, and that although "science" has slumbered, it is not dead! The important intelligence has been communicated to no that a regular built, out and out prize fight, with all its attendant ceremonies, took place yesterday morning, near this city. The principals in this grand and animating contest are natives of the Old World: one representing Ireland and the other England. With a select party of friends, they proceeded down the river, at an early hour, to the spot designated for the heroic combat, and there, in defiance of the ug
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heenan's Champion belt sold at auction. (search)
Heenan's Champion belt sold at auction. --It may be remembered that some weeks after the great fight in England two belts were presented to the combatants — Sayers receiving one at the hands of the editor of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, and Heenan one at the hands of the editor of Bell's Life. As the belts were not paid for at the time of presentation, Heenan went home without his trophy, refusing to accept it on that account. On the 20th ult., the one presented to Heenan was put up at auction in London, and sold to Ben Caunt for fifty-one guineas. The original value of the belt was one hundred guineas, and its weight between fifty and sixty ounces.
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Expensive Fun. (search)
A Novel duel. --In New Orleans, a few days ago, a challenge was sent and accepted by one gentleman to another. The seconds of the parties had a conference, and decided that, in view of the demand at this time for the preservation of every Southerner's life to expel the invading Yankees from our soil, deadly weapons should be ignored, and that the combatants should settle their difficulty a la Heenan and Sayers. The fight is to come off in a few days.
The Daily Dispatch: may 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our position. (search)
o us from Norwich that L. Moss Phillips has full authority to treat with Heenan, and to sign articies for any amount up to £500 a side. It is rumored that Sayars has issued a cartel calling on Heenan to once more try conclusions with him; but as Sayers is under a bond never to fight agin, and as his trustees are determined to prevent his doing so, we are Inclined to believe this is mere gossip. At any rate, it is certain that if Sayers gave up his present profitable speculation and signed artiSayers gave up his present profitable speculation and signed articles, the matter would not go further, as his friends would take steps to prevent it. We know not whether Heenan's brother has come over on the same business, but if he has, Mac has clearly his work cut out, seeing that if one brother should be unsuccessful, the other would doubtless spring up to avenge his fate. In addition to his pugilistic practice, the Benicis Boy has, we hear, undertaken an engagement with a troupe of equestrians during the Exhibition."
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
ith any confidence to forecast their destination. All that is now proved is that the North is exercising the more powerful attraction — an attraction, be it remembered, exerted only through military rule. The King-Heenan fight. The London papers, in speaking of the prize fight between Heenan and King, say: King is three-quarters of an inch taller than Heenan, the latter being six feet one and a half inches. Heenan declares that he received more severe treatment at the hands of Sayers than he did from King. His appearance after the fight is thus do scribed: His face was considerably disfigured, and there was a cut on the right side of the upper lip about half an inch in length, which required a stitch.--There were no bruises about the body of any consequence, but there were a few scratches on the chest. The action of the heart was very feeble, and the pulse scarcely perceptible. On the evening of the fight he had a fainting fit. The pulse was weak, very compressi
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Picture of the ring after a fight. (search)
trode into the ring an overmatch for all could scarcely close his fingers round the glass of water which was to keep him from fainting. Yet there must be a soul of goodness even in things evil, for the first really conscious thought that flitted through his mind was a wish to make friends with his late antagonist, and, as he said it, he lunged heavily through the crowd of his admirers to a little knot of curious lookers on, amid whom what seemed the corpse of the redoubtable Heenan now lay. Sayers was with him, and kept with him but better advice was needed than any pugilist ought to be called upon to give; for Heenan, though not nearly so much punished as when he fought at Farnborough, was evidently much more injured. He was pulseless at the wrist, and even over the heart the palpitation was fluttering, faint, and low. Yet he had not fainted. It was the insensibility of exhaustion, the sheer want of vitality, though almost till he collapsed so suddenly he was supposed to be the win
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