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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 82 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 62 6 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 32 32 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 19 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia 8 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 8 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 8 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 8 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Shall Cromwell have a statue? (search)
urn of the estate and mansion of Arlington to the family of the deceased Confederate Commander-in-chief. In view of the use which had then already been made of Arlington as a military cemetery, this proposal, involving, as it necessarily did, a removal of the dead, naturally led to warm debate. The proposition was one not to be government. Thereafter, to remain in the United States army would be treason to Virginia. So, three days after Virginia passed its ordinance, he, being then at Arlington, resigned his commission, at the same time writing to his sister, the wife of a Union officer, We are now in a state of war which will yield to nothing. The who mounted on his charger, and with the insignia of his Confederate rank, will from its pedestal in the nation's capital gaze across the Potomac at his old home at Arlington, even as that of Cromwell dominates the yard of Westminster upon which his skull once looked down. When that time comes, Lee's monument will be educational —it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee, Davis and Lincoln. (search)
hicago [see ante, pp. 1-33], I called to mind the fact that a statue of Oliver Cromwell now stood in the yard of Parliament House, in London, close to that historic hall of Westminster from the roof of which his severed head had once looked down, and asked, Why should it not also be so with Lee? Why should not his effigy, erect on his charger and wearing the insignia of his Confederate rank, gaze from his pedestal across the Potomac at the Virginia shore, and his once dearly loved home at Arlington? My suggestion was met with an answer to which I would now make reply. It was objected that such a memorial was to be provided for from the national treasury, and that Lee, educated at West Point, holding for years the commission of the United States, had borne arms against the nation. The rest I will not here repeat The thing was pronounced impossible. Now let me here explain myself. I never supposed that Robert E. Lee's statue in Washington would be provided for by an appropriat
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
Index Adams, Chas Francis, 1, 102,121, 126; John Q.,25 Albemarle, The Confederate Ram, 205. Alexander, W. A., 164. Anderson, Fort. 205. Andersonville, 78. Appomattox, 28, 103. Arlington, Va., 3. Austin, Captain C. W. 96. Averell, General W. W., 281. Baltimore, Johnson's ride around, 215. Barry, Major, John, 114. Bartlett, Hon. C. L., 355. Barton, Captain R., 117. Beall, J. Gates, execution of, 262. Blackford, Captain C. M., 279. Black Horse Troop, Reminiscences of, 142. Blaine, J. G. 78. Bombshell, Captured the, 211. Boonsboro Md., 145. Breathed, Major, James, Sketch of, 346. Brown. John Young, 188; Colonel Ridgeley, killed, 215. Buck. Captain S. D., 104, 371. Buckingham Yancey Guard, 154. Buckner, General S. B., 117. Butler, General B. F., 95; at New Orleans, La., 188; infamous order of, 194; Hon. W. E., 860. Cameron, Hon. W, E., 360. Cedar Creek, Battle of, 184; losses at, 109, 371. Chambersburg, Pa., 266. Chest