item: #1 of 17 id: 10692 author: Cooke, John Esten title: A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee date: None words: 175397 flesch: 60 summary: One such incident took place on the 7th, when General Gregg attacked with about six thousand horse, but was met, defeated, and captured by General Fitz Lee, to the great satisfaction of General Lee, who said to his son, General W.H.F. Lee: Keep your command together and in good spirits, general--don't let them think of surrender--I will get you out of this. I.--The Funeral of General Lee II.--Tributes to General Lee A LIFE OF GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE. keywords: advance; adversary; armies; army; artillery; attack; battle; campaign; cavalry; chancellorsville; character; city; column; commander; confederate; corps; country; day; e. lee; enemy; federal; fire; fitz lee; force; fredericksburg; general fitz; general jackson; general johnston; general lee; general mcclellan; general robert; general scott; general sedgwick; good; grant; great; ground; hill; hooker; house; left; life; line; march; meade; men; military; moment; movement; new; north; northern; officer; order; people; place; point; position; rear; result; retreat; richmond; right; river; road; soldier; south; states; struggle; stuart; time; troops; united; virginia; war; washington cache: 10692.txt plain text: 10692.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 15006 author: Potts, Eugenia Dunlap title: Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War date: None words: 13504 flesch: 72 summary: When war with England was declared in order to protect our commerce, again the _New England States wanted to secede_. Fitting environment, we add, for the gorgeous residences, notably in Georgia and South Carolina, built by the nobility and gentry of the republic, and inherited by the descendants of the old colonial aristocracy. keywords: carolina; congress; constitution; cotton; country; england; georgia; government; house; new; north; people; president; question; right; secession; slavery; slaves; south; states; time; union; united; virginia; war; years cache: 15006.txt plain text: 15006.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 17955 author: Abrams, Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) title: The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution date: None words: 70528 flesch: 77 summary: Mrs. Wentworth remained standing where her husband had left her, until the vast crowd had dispersed, and nothing could be seen of the train but a thin wreath of smoke emerging from the tree-tops in the distance. The weeks passed slowly to Mrs. Wentworth from the departure of her husband; but her consciousness that he was performing his duty to his country, and the letters he wrote from Virginia, cheered her spirits, and, in a measure, made her forget his absence. keywords: alfred; child; children; day; desire; doctor; elder; ella; elsy; friend; god; good; hand; harry; heart; home; humphries; husband; know; leave; life; little; man; mind; money; mother; mrs; negro; new; orleans; people; room; soldier; swartz; thought; time; wentworth; wife; woman cache: 17955.txt plain text: 17955.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 19831 author: Davis, Jefferson title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 date: None words: 295664 flesch: 51 summary: The Southern officers of the navy who were in command of United States vessels abroad, under an idea more creditable to their sentiment than to their knowledge of the nature of our constitutional Union, brought the vessels they commanded into the ports of the North, and, having delivered them to the authorities of the United States Government, generally tendered their resignations, and repaired to the States from which they had been commissioned in the navy, to serve where they held their allegiance to be due. To his Excellency James Buchanan, _President United States_. keywords: act; action; answer; arms; authority; battle; beauregard; carolina; case; chapter; citizens; colonel; command; commissioners; compact; condition; confederate; confederation; congress; constitution; convention; country; davis; day; declaration; defense; duty; enemy; fact; federal; field; footnote; force; form; fort; general; good; governor; having; history; house; independence; johnston; kentucky; law; laws; left; letter; man; members; military; mississippi; missouri; new; north; northern; number; officers; order; party; peace; people; period; position; power; present; president; principles; property; public; purpose; question; representatives; right; secession; secretary; section; senator; service; slaveholding states; south; southern; sovereignty; states army; states congress; states government; states secretary; states senate; states troops; subject; sumter; territory; time; union; united states; virginia; war; washington; years cache: 19831.txt plain text: 19831.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 20928 author: Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, Sir title: Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 date: None words: 72340 flesch: 71 summary: [10] General Longstreet remembered both Sargent and the Judge perfectly, and he was much amused by my experiences with these worthies. He introduced me to General Chilton, the Adjutant-General of the army, to Colonel Cole, the Quartermaster-General, to Major Taylor, Captain Venables, and other officers of General Lee's Staff; and he suggested, as the headquarters were so busy and crowded, that he and I should ride to Winchester at once, and afterwards ask for hospitality from the less busy Staff of General Longstreet. keywords: a.m.; army; captain; cavalry; colonel; confederate; corps; country; day; days; division; enemy; evening; fire; fort; general; general johnston; general lee; good; guns; horses; house; jackson; johnston; judge; left; longstreet; major; man; manner; men; miles; military; morning; new; night; officers; p.m.; people; place; polk; regiment; river; road; sargent; soldiers; south; staff; state; texas; time; town; troops; war; water; way; yankee; years cache: 20928.txt plain text: 20928.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 22584 author: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper) title: Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death date: None words: 146363 flesch: 69 summary: The presence of a large congregation of army men from the various camps had given an impetus to gaiety it would not otherwise have known; but this was all. Indubitably the war proved that there were great men, on both the sides to it; and, to-day, the little men on either--May profit by their example. keywords: advance; armies; arms; army; battle; blockade; blood; boat; brilliant; broken; camp; campaign; capital; cause; cavalry; chapter; city; colonel; command; confederate; congress; cotton; country; course; cut; davis; day; days; dead; death; deep; department; doubt; effect; end; enemy; eyes; face; federal; feeling; field; fight; fire; flag; force; general; good; government; grant; great; half; hands; heart; heavy; history; home; hope; hour; house; jackson; johnston; lee; left; life; line; little; loss; man; manassas; march; means; men; moment; money; montgomery; navy; new; news; north; northern; numbers; officers; ones; orleans; people; place; point; position; potomac; power; president; public; real; result; retreat; richmond; river; service; sir; small; society; soldiers; south; state; success; supplies; time; town; troops; victory; virginia; war; washington; water; way; west; wild; women; work; years cache: 22584.txt plain text: 22584.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 22960 author: Gilmore, James R. (James Roberts) title: Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time date: None words: 77113 flesch: 82 summary: We made up a big fire, and hung mine up to dry, and de ole man and woman and me sot up all night and talked ober what you and de oder gemmen said. Tank you, massa, tank you bery much, but de ole man will spec' me, and I orter gwo. keywords: 'em; bery; black; colonel; come; cunnel; d----d; darky; dat; day; de lord; dey; face; feet; fire; friend; fur; good; hab; half; hand; har; hard; host; house; jim; know; lady; little; lord; madam; man; massa; master; men; moye; negro; negroes; new; niggers; night; north; ole; plantation; reckon; room; run; sam; sar; scip; sir; slave; south; tell; ter; thar; thet; think; time; turpentine; wal; war; way; white; wid; woman; work; yas cache: 22960.txt plain text: 22960.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 25994 author: Hayden, Horace Edwin title: A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65 date: None words: 4588 flesch: 57 summary: I heard occasionally that the enemy did use explosive balls, and others prepared so as to leave a copper ring in the wound, but it was always spoken of as an atrocity beneath knighthood and abhorrent to civilization. The use in warfare of explosive balls, so sensitive as to ignite and burst on striking a substance as soft and yielding as animal flesh (of men or horses), I consider barbarous and no more to be tolerated by civilized nations than the universally reprobated practice of using poisoned missiles, or of poisoning food or drink to be left in the way of an enemy. keywords: balls; explosive; general; musket; ordnance; states; united; war cache: 25994.txt plain text: 25994.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 27811 author: Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) title: Macaria date: None words: 90744 flesch: 80 summary: Irene Huntingdon stood on the marble steps of her palatial home, and talked with the maiden aunt who governed her father's household. Be sure I shall live and die Irene Huntingdon. keywords: arms; arnold; aubrey; child; clifton; cold; cousin; day; days; death; doctor; door; electra; eric; eyes; face; father; fingers; friend; god; good; grey; hair; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; hugh; huntingdon; irene; left; life; like; lips; little; look; love; man; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; room; russell; sir; thought; time; want; watch; way; words; work; years; young cache: 27811.txt plain text: 27811.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 31087 author: Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp) title: A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital date: None words: 331249 flesch: 71 summary: 30 CHAPTER III. Troops pour into Richmond.--Beginning of hostilities.-- Gen. Lee made a full general.--Major-Gen. Polk.--A battle expected at Manassas. 89 CHAPTER IX. Gen. Lee ordered South.--Gen. keywords: act; ago; april; armies; arms; army; assistant; august; battle; beauregard; benjamin; bill; bragg; bureau; bushel; campbell; carolina; cause; cavalry; charleston; city; clerks; col; command; commissary; confederate; congress; conscription; cotton; country; day; day gen; day mr; days; december; defense; department; dispatch; doubt; early; enemy; fall; family; fear; february; federal; field; fighting; flour; following; force; gen; general; georgia; good; government; grant; great; guns; half; hands; hope; house; information; january; johnston; judge; july; june; leave; lee; left; letter; like; lincoln; lines; little; long; loss; major; man; march; men; miles; military; mississippi; money; month; morning; near; new; news; night; north; northern; november; number; october; office; officers; order; p.m.; papers; passports; peace; people; petersburg; position; pound; president; prisoners; purpose; railroad; report; richmond; river; rumor; secretary; seddon; send; september; service; sherman; soldiers; south; southern; states; stores; supplies; tennessee; time; troops; united; vicksburg; victory; virginia; war; washington; way; west; wilmington; winder; work; yesterday; york cache: 31087.txt plain text: 31087.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 34827 author: Semmes, Raphael title: Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States date: None words: 331422 flesch: 68 summary: What renders these transactions the more remarkable, in the light of recent events, and in the face of the denunciations which have been hurled against the _Alabama_ by the Federal Government, because of her foreign origin, is, that most of these cruisers were, in fact, _American_ ships, not only built and equipped in the United States, but officered and manned by citizens of the Northern States, who had gone southward in quest of plunder! The odium which has justly fallen upon the Hartford Convention, has not been because of its doctrines, for these were as sound, as we have seen, as the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98 and '99, but because it was a secret conclave, gotten together, _in a time of war_, when the country was hard pressed by a foreign enemy; the war having, in fact, been undertaken for the benefit of the very shipping States which were threatening to dissolve the Union on account of it. keywords: admiral; afterward; alabama; american; away; bark; bay; board; boats; british; calm; cape; captain; capture; cargo; case; chapter; city; coal; coast; colors; command; commerce; confederate; congress; constitution; consul; country; course; crew; current; day; days; deck; direction; distance; east; end; enemy; england; english; fact; federal; fine; fire; flag; fleet; following; french; gale; general; good; government; governor; great; gun; guns; half; hand; harbor; having; head; history; honor; hope; hour; house; island; late; latitude; laws; lay; left; letter; lieutenant; like; look; making; man; master; miles; military; moment; morning; nations; nature; naval; navy; new; night; north; northern; number; officers; order; papers; passing; past; people; place; point; port; power; present; president; prisoners; prize; property; purpose; question; reader; river; run; running; sail; sailors; sea; seas; secretary; service; set; ship; shore; south; southern; states; states ship; steamer; sumter; sun; time; town; trade; united; united states; vessel; war; water; way; weather; west; wind; work; world; yankee; years; york; young cache: 34827.txt plain text: 34827.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 36969 author: Underwood, J. L. (John Levi) title: The Women of the Confederacy date: None words: 106023 flesch: 73 summary: But this much I want to say of them--they were war women of the most daring and devoted type. Women whose husbands were at home, who never had been in the army, young girls and old women came in droves--all railroad cars and steamboats were filled with corn women. keywords: army; battle; brave; captain; care; carolina; cause; children; city; confederate; country; daughters; davis; day; days; dead; eyes; face; family; father; fire; food; general; georgia; girl; god; good; government; great; hands; head; heart; history; home; hospital; house; husband; john; ladies; lady; lee; left; letter; life; little; love; man; miss; monument; morning; mother; mrs; negro; negroes; new; night; north; northern; officers; pages; party; people; place; poor; president; richmond; sherman; sick; slavery; soldiers; southern; states; tell; thought; time; union; united; virginia; war; way; white; wife; women; work; world; wounded; years; young cache: 36969.txt plain text: 36969.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 38418 author: Longstreet, James title: From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America date: None words: 236892 flesch: 65 summary: Information of Federal Force and Positions brought by the Scout Harrison--General Lee declines to credit it--General Longstreet suggests a Change of Direction in Conformance with the Revelation--General Meade had succeeded Hooker in Command Five Days before Battle--Positions on the Eve of the First Day-- Confederate Cavalry not in sight--The Eyes of the Army sadly needed--A Description of the Famous Battle-field-- Generals Ewell and A. P. Hill engage the Federals--Death of General John F. Reynolds--The Fight on Seminary Ridge--General Hancock in Federal Command on the Field--Concerning the Absent Cavalry and Information given by the Scout--Conditions at the Close of the First Day's Fight 346 CHAPTER XXVII. The Author reverts to the Perils and Opportunities in the West--Proposes to the Secretary of War to reinforce against Rosecrans from the Army of Northern Virginia--Makes Plan known to General Lee--The Move finally effected--Difficulties of Transportation--A Roundabout Route--General Longstreet narrowly escapes capture when seeking Bragg's Head-quarters--General Bragg assigns Longstreet to Command of the Left--Instructions for the Battle of Chickamauga--The Armies in Position--Federals in Command of Generals Rosecrans, Crittenden, McCook, and George H. Thomas 433 CHAPTER XXXI. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. keywords: 1st; advance; anderson; army; army corps; artillery; attack; batteries; battery; battle; bridge; brig.-gen; brigade; burnside; campaign; capt; cavalry; col; colonel; column; command; commander; commanding; confederate; corps; crossing; day; division; early; east; enemy; ewell; federal; field; fire; force; fort; fredericksburg; gap; general bragg; general d.; general franklin; general george; general gibbon; general halleck; general hill; general j.; general jackson; general jenkins; general johnston; general joseph; general lee; general longstreet; general martin; general mcclellan; general ord; general pendleton; general sheridan; general smith; general stuart; general taylor; general thomas; general william; gettysburg; grant; ground; guard; guns; head; hood; hooker; house; infantry; james; left; letter; lieut.-col; lieutenant; line; little; longstreet; maj; major; manassas; march; mclaws; men; miles; morning; mountain; near; new; night general; north; o'clock; officers; open; orders; pickett; plan; point; pope; position; potomac; president; quarters; rear; regiments; report; retreat; richmond; right; river; road; second; service; south; strong; tennessee; thought; time; time general; troops; union; virginia; war; way; west; william; work cache: 38418.txt plain text: 38418.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 42315 author: Davis, Jefferson title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 date: None words: 320262 flesch: 52 summary: Soon after, General Johnston took position on the north side of the Chickahominy; accompanied by General Lee, I rode out to his headquarters in the field, in order that by conversation with him we might better understand his plans and expectations. [41] When General Lee came back, he told me that General Johnston proposed, on the next Thursday, to move against the enemy as follows: General. keywords: act; action; advance; april; arms; army; artillery; attack; attempt; authority; batteries; battle; brigade; captain; carolina; cavalry; citizens; city; civil; colonel; command; commander; commanding; condition; confederate; congress; constitution; corps; country; court; day; defense; division; duty; early; effect; enemy; field; fire; flank; fleet; footnote; force; fort; general; general a.; general hill; general j.; general jackson; general johnston; general lee; general mcclellan; general stuart; general taylor; governor; grant; guns; hill; hood; house; infantry; law; laws; left; letter; lincoln; line; long; longstreet; loss; major; march; miles; military; mississippi; morning; movement; near; new; north; northern; number; officers; order; people; persons; place; point; position; power; president; prisoners; proclamation; property; purpose; railroad; rear; report; retreat; richmond; right; river; road; secretary; service; shall; sherman; south; states army; states congress; states constitution; states forces; states government; strength; supplies; surrender; tennessee; time; troops; union; united states; vessels; virginia; war; washington; wounded cache: 42315.txt plain text: 42315.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 43329 author: Alfriend, Frank H. (Frank Heath) title: The Life of Jefferson Davis date: None words: 195434 flesch: 47 summary: Before the writer is a Richmond newspaper, of date during the war, in which the leading editorial begins with the assertion that The chivalry and humanity of Mr. Jefferson Davis will inevitably ruin this Confederacy, and the editor continues to reproach Mr. Davis for culpable leniency. In a publication, presenting an elaborate indictment against Mr. Davis, as the main instrument of the downfall of the Confederacy, written since the war, is found the following admission: As is known, he (President Davis) was at Manasses the evening of the 21st July, 1861. keywords: action; administration; american; armies; arms; army; authorities; battle; bragg; campaign; cause; character; command; condition; conduct; confederate; confidence; congress; constitution; convention; country; course; davis; day; defense; democratic; enemy; field; force; general; general johnston; general lee; government; grant; great; history; hope; jefferson davis; johnston; lee; lincoln; majority; means; military; mississippi; months; new; north; northern; officers; operations; party; people; period; point; policy; position; power; present; president davis; prisoners; property; public; purpose; question; results; richmond; right; senate; senator; situation; slavery; south; southern; states; struggle; subject; success; territory; time; troops; union; united; united states; virginia; war; years cache: 43329.txt plain text: 43329.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 51211 author: Eggleston, George Cary title: A Rebel's Recollections date: None words: 53723 flesch: 65 summary: It resulted from this system that many men on three or five days' leave lost nearly the whole of it in delays, going and returning. It was his opinion, however, that there were men in both armies who would come to be known as greater cavalry men than Stuart, for the reason that Stuart used his men strictly as cavalry, while others would make dragoons of them. keywords: army; camp; captain; case; cavalry; character; colonel; country; course; day; duty; end; fact; field; general; good; government; house; kind; lee; left; life; man; matter; men; military; new; officers; people; place; richmond; right; soldiers; sort; south; state; stuart; system; things; thought; time; troops; virginia; war; way; women; work; young cache: 51211.txt plain text: 51211.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 57212 author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd) title: Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865) date: None words: 48703 flesch: 68 summary: As a result of the controversy that ensued, General Jackson was required by the Secretary of War to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester. So I returned to the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was enthusiastically received by the officers and members of my regiment; and especially by General Polk and his staff, upon which I found my dear friends Colonel Harry Yeatman, Colonel William B. Richmond and Colonel William D. Gale. keywords: army; battle; bishop; captain; church; city; colonel; command; confederate; day; diocese; enemy; following; friend; general; georgia; good; house; john; left; lieutenant; major; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; nashville; night; officers; order; personal; place; polk; quintard; regiment; rev; service; sewanee; soldiers; south; southern; sunday; tennessee; time; university; virginia; war; way; work; wounded cache: 57212.txt plain text: 57212.txt