Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19., chapter 1.23, Closing incidents., page 183

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Debating clubs.

Prisoners North and South .

Another account of the fight.

The Richmond home guard of 1861 .

Magruder's Peninsula campaign in 1862 .

The artillery defenders of Fort Gregg .

The old Texas brigade, [from the Richmond times, September 22 , 1891 .]

The Confederate Veterans.

First burial of General Hill 's remains.

Capture of generals Crook and Kelly of the Federal army.

Recollections of General Earl Van Dorn .

The First North Carolina Volunteers and the battle of Bethel .

Echoes from Hampton Roads .

Return of a Confederate flag to its original owner.

Mrs. Henrietta H. Morgan . [from the Louisville, Ky. , courier Journal, September 9 , 1891 .]

Generals Lee and long.

Colonel Theodore O'Hara .

A plan to escape

General W. S. Walker at Chapultepec .

A Confederate survivor who led a Federal charge.

General Thomas J. Jackson .

The Valley after Kernstown .

On the eve of Chancellorsville .

Oil-Cloth coat in which Jackson received his mortal wound.

General R. E. Lee 's war-horses.

The Southern Historical Society .

The Southern States and their veteran soldiers.

General Joseph E. Johnston .

One who was out with old Stonewall .

Social life in Richmond during the war. [from the Cosmopolitan , December , 1891 .

The Nineteenth of January .

Jefferson Davis .

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[183] when I saw his dead body brought from the field in the ambulance, I know that no one except his nearest of kin could have felt a sharper pang of grief than I did, and none had warmer tears course down their cheeks than myself.

General Hill was firm, without austerity; genial, without familiarity, and brave, without ostentation. The gentleman and soldier were so completely blended in him that he never had to deviate from one to act the other. He was both all the time.

D. F. C.

Richmond, VA. 1891.

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