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Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 29XXX. Battle Of Drewry's Bluff, by Major A. H. Drewry XXXI. Battle Of Cold Harbor, by Major W. W. Goldsborough. XXXII. The David, the original C. S. Torpedo Boat XXXIII. Number Of North Carolina Troops in C. S. Army, by D.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 38One of my duties was the charge of the reserve ordnance train of the army, which Vira hen encamped near Chester Sta tion (now Centralia) on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, and I took up my quarters and mess there with three fine young sergeants whom I found there, and all of whom had been dis abled or wounded and assigned to that duty.This was the custom of the army, where a man abl...

Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 36 Immediately after the surrender of the relics of the Southern armies that had fought the war of secession to the end and had laid down their arms upon guarantees given by General Grant, who commanded all the United States armies and was universally recognized as the savior of the Union, the leading politicians in the North, infuriated and enraged against the Southern people, sought some...

Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, 1896, Vol. 24First at Bethel, last at Appomattox.' Such is the laconic ih scription on the new monument to the Confederate dead which was recently unveiled in Raleigh. There is an especial appropriateness in the erection of this monument by the pe0pie of North Carolina in their organic capacity, for these men died at the command of their State, and it was exceedingly proper that she should thus ...

From this book emerges a very positive statement about the way in which history ought to be studied and written.