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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
es of the regular army. In the Confederate army every Confederate State and Kentucky and Missouri were represented. The Union army had one hundred and ninety-five separate organizations on the field, of which thirty-six were batteries. The Confederate army had two hundred and seventy-four organizations, of which fifty were batteries. The Confederate regulars were also represented by six organizations. These were divided among the States as follows: Union—Illinois, 36; Indiana, 42; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 18; Michigan, 8; Minnesota, 2; Missouri, 3; Ohio, 56; Pennsylvania, 7; Wisconsin, 9; Tennessee, 2; United States regulars, 9. Confederate—Alabama, 43; Arkansas, 17; Florida, 7; Georgia, 35; Kentucky, 7; Louisiana, 13; Mississippi, 21; Missouri, 2; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 18; Tennessee, 68; Texas, 18; Virginia, 7; Confederate regulars, 6. The Directors of the Gettysburg Association include the Governors of the contributing Northern States and the officers of tho
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
es of the regular army. In the Confederate army every Confederate State and Kentucky and Missouri were represented. The Union army had one hundred and ninety-five separate organizations on the field, of which thirty-six were batteries. The Confederate army had two hundred and seventy-four organizations, of which fifty were batteries. The Confederate regulars were also represented by six organizations. These were divided among the States as follows: Union—Illinois, 36; Indiana, 42; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 18; Michigan, 8; Minnesota, 2; Missouri, 3; Ohio, 56; Pennsylvania, 7; Wisconsin, 9; Tennessee, 2; United States regulars, 9. Confederate—Alabama, 43; Arkansas, 17; Florida, 7; Georgia, 35; Kentucky, 7; Louisiana, 13; Mississippi, 21; Missouri, 2; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 18; Tennessee, 68; Texas, 18; Virginia, 7; Confederate regulars, 6. The Directors of the Gettysburg Association include the Governors of the contributing Northern States and the officers of tho
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Second Virginia regiment of cavalry, C. S. A. a tribute to its discipline and efficiency, and defiant Resolutions passed by it February 28th, 1865. (search)
ession-which document gives also the Provisional Constitution and Ordinance for the People of the United States, devised by Brown. The crime for which Brown was tried, convicted, and executed may be briefly summarized-passing over the troubles in Kansas and on the Missouri borders (in which Brown played no inconsiderable or law-abiding part) growing out of the agitation of the slavery question. In August, 1859, he began his operations to take possession of Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, with thabolition of slavery, outside of personal interests, it is proper to state that Hon. Eli Thayer, in letters to the Boston Herald and New York Sun, shows conclusively that Brown committed with his own hands six deliberate murders. Thayer says: In Kansas he (Brown) dragged from their beds at midnight three men and two boys and hacked them in pieces with two-edged cleavers in such a way that the massacre was reported to be the work of Indians. He says further that Brown traveled under false names
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
ession-which document gives also the Provisional Constitution and Ordinance for the People of the United States, devised by Brown. The crime for which Brown was tried, convicted, and executed may be briefly summarized-passing over the troubles in Kansas and on the Missouri borders (in which Brown played no inconsiderable or law-abiding part) growing out of the agitation of the slavery question. In August, 1859, he began his operations to take possession of Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, with thabolition of slavery, outside of personal interests, it is proper to state that Hon. Eli Thayer, in letters to the Boston Herald and New York Sun, shows conclusively that Brown committed with his own hands six deliberate murders. Thayer says: In Kansas he (Brown) dragged from their beds at midnight three men and two boys and hacked them in pieces with two-edged cleavers in such a way that the massacre was reported to be the work of Indians. He says further that Brown traveled under false names
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Two cavalry Chieftains. [New Orleans Picayune, August 12th, 1888.] (search)
mmanded the United States army had closed his mortal career and had passed over the dark river to the silent encampment whither so many of his late companions in arms and so many of those against whom he had fought had preceded him, old soldiers all over the country, without regard to the flag under which they had served, eulogized the distinguished general and recalled incidents of his splendid career, of which they happened to have knowledge. Among these was a recital by Senator Plumb, of Kansas, himself a gallant soldier, who related an account of an interview he had once had with General Sheridan in regard to his celebrated cavalry raid on Richmond on the 11th of May, 1864. Colonel Plumb's story has been printed before, but it is worth repeating: I always think of Sheridan in connection with a conversation I had with him. General, I said, you were in the West before you came East. What was your opinion of the Army of the Potomac? You remember it was characterized about tha