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By way of illustration, William Henry Timrod may be regarded as potentially a greater poet than his better-known son. Yet he was one of -the occasional poets of the old regime. John Laurens composed a sonnet as +the occasional poets of the old régime. John Laurens composed a sonnet as he lay dying of wounds and fever incurred in defence of his country; and Stuart, in a later struggle, wrote verses while engaged in riding around McClellan's army. These and many others like them never seriously @@ -5112,7 +5079,7 @@ LEE He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a -Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Caesar without +Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Cæsar without his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was as obedient to authority as a true king. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Dixie Book of Days - -Author: Matthew Page Andrews - -Release Date: November 24, 2012 [EBook #41474] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DIXIE BOOK OF DAYS *** - - - - -Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive.) - - - - - - - - - -The Dixie Book of Days - - - - -[Illustration: FOUNDING THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA AT -JAMES TOWNE, VIRGINIA, 1607] - - - - - The Dixie Book of Days - - MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS - - PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON - J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. - 1912 - - - - - COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY - - PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY - AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS - PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. - - - - -Preface - - -In the preparation of this volume of quotations illustrative of the -history and literature of the South, the editor wishes to acknowledge the -kindness of publishers in granting permission to make selections. He -desires especially to express his appreciation of the courtesy of the -following firms: D. Appleton & Co.; Bobbs-Merrill Co.; The Century Co.; -Doubleday, Page & Co.; Harper & Brothers; Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; B. F. -Johnson Publishing Co.; P. J. Kenedy & Sons; J. B. Lippincott Co.; -Longmans, Green & Co.; Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Co.; The Macmillan Co.; -Martin & Hoyt Co.; The Neale Publishing Co.; G. P. Putnam's Sons; Charles -Scribner's Sons; Southern Historical Publication Society; Alfred M. -Slocomb Co.; Small, Maynard & Co.; Stewart & Kidd Co.; F. A. Stokes Co.; -State Company; Stone & Barringer Co.; and the Whitehall Publishing Co. - - M. P. A. - -Baltimore, Md., April 30, 1912. - - - - -Introduction - - -This volume of brief selections from a wide range of Southern expression -in prose and verse leads into fields of American history and literature -which, perhaps, are not well known to the general public. The reader is -not offered stacks of straw to thresh over; on the contrary, it has been -the aim of the compiler, in a most congenial and delightful task, to -afford others easy access to grain that he has already garnered. Generally -speaking, the genius of literary production in the Old South did not -aspire to an outlet in the field of professional endeavor. There were, -however, many gifted writers who regarded production in prose and verse as -a pleasant recreation rather than an end, or as an accomplishment common -to cultured minds, to be called forth as occasion offered, or when some -emotion prompted expression. - -By way of illustration, William Henry Timrod may be regarded as -potentially a greater poet than his better-known son. Yet he was one of -the occasional poets of the old régime. John Laurens composed a sonnet as -he lay dying of wounds and fever incurred in defence of his country; and -Stuart, in a later struggle, wrote verses while engaged in riding around -McClellan's army. These and many others like them never seriously -considered revising or publishing their work. They sang from time to time -because to them "singing itself is so sweet." This peculiar diffidence is -a relic of the past; and at the present time, one need but review the list -of leading American novelists to find that a remarkably large proportion -have come from the South and write on Southern themes. - -Thus, while the very nature of the South lends itself to sentiment and -romance, her history is yet to be written. This little volume attempts, -therefore, with particular care, to treat of historical events as their -anniversaries bring them to mind. Comparatively few are the enduring works -of Southern historians; and yet from the beginning of colonization the -South has thrilled with the record of daring achievement. In the work of -her soldiers and statesmen, the South led in shaping the Republic out of -rebellion, revolution, and jarring elements. During and after the struggle -with the mother country, Jefferson, Henry, Clark, and Virginia gave to the -Nation the great States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and -Wisconsin. It was Jefferson who secured to the Republic peaceful -possession of the vast original tract of Louisiana; and it was he, with -Lewis and Clark, who made good the claim to the Oregon territory. -Furthermore, the mighty empire of Texas and the far Southwest was brought -in under the initiative of the South and the leadership of Polk and Tyler. - -So did the South mightily assist in making a common government great and -strong; but she was likewise building up a power which later overwhelmed -her. In truth, she forged the fetters that for forty years chafed her -people under an increasingly oppressive legislation; since it was a son of -Carolina who first brought forward a tariff for protection, not for -Carolina, but for New England and the Nation; and it was Clay of Kentucky -who fostered the system until it involved the thirteen agricultural States -of the South in an indirect taxation more burdensome than any direct -impost ever proposed by Great Britain for the thirteen Colonies. In vain -the South protested. Opposing majorities grew against her. And when a -solidly sectional party became the dominant power, the Lower South -attempted to exercise the hitherto generally conceded right of -withdrawal, a right which had been particularly emphasized in New England -when that section felt its interests to be in peril. The Upper South -opposed coercion; and both prepared for the fight that followed. Such is -the principle for which the South contended. She failed not in valor or in -honor, but fell through exhaustion; yet glory stood beside her grief, and -she endowed the Nation with the stainless names of Lee and Jackson. - -With the failure of the South to establish her independence, there fell -also, as an incident of the struggle, that which most made her a separate -section, politically, economically, and socially--the tutelage, in the -most beneficent form of servitude ever known, of a child-race. That race -was largely thrust upon her; and yet she raised its people from cannibal -savages to civilized beings, whose devotion and faithfulness became the -marvel of invading armies. Rather than interpret such a record to her -shame, as some would have us do, let it be proclaimed as an everlasting -tribute to the lofty character of Anglo-Saxon Christianity. - -The South, after fifty years, is more intimately a part of the Union than -ever before. Her interests are national and her destiny great. In the -youthful Bagley she was the first to give her blood in the war with -Spain, therewith cementing the tie that now, without fetters, binds in a -steadily growing amity and understanding. To-day, a true Southerner has an -abiding love and loyalty for the section that has seen tears and grief, as -well as sunshine and flowers, beyond the measure of any country of modern -times; but he is also doubly true to, and proud of, the mighty progress of -a reunited Republic. Surely it is due to the South and due to the Nation -that the story of the South be told. And the highest aim of the compiler -of these selections is that he may contribute something to promote that -steadily expanding knowledge of historical truth which alone can fully -allay the spirit of sectional strife, and from which alone we may look for -perfect amity and understanding to ensue. - - MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS - - - - -January - - -TO TIME, THE OLD TRAVELER - - They slander thee, Old Traveler, - Who say that thy delight - Is to scatter ruin, far and wide, - In thy wantonness of might: - For not a leaf that falleth - Before thy restless wings, - But in thy flight, thou changest it - To a thousand brighter things. - - * * * * - - 'Tis true thy progress layeth - Full many a loved one low, - And for the brave and beautiful - Thou hast caused our tears to flow; - But always near the couch of death - Nor thou, nor we can stay; - _And the breath of thy departing wings - Dries all our tears away_! - WILLIAM HENRY TIMROD - - -January First - - Some thunder on the heights of song, their race - Godlike in power, while others at their feet - Are breathing measures scarce less strong and sweet - Than those that peal from out that loftiest place; - Meantime, just midway on the mount, his face - Fairer than April heavens, when storms retreat, - And on their edges rain and sunshine meet, - Pipes the soft lyrist lays of tender grace, - But where the slopes of bright Parnassus sweep - Near to the common ground, a various throng - Chant lowlier measures--yet each tuneful strain - (The silvery minor of earth's perfect song) - Blends with that music of the topmost steep, - O'er whose vast realm the master minstrels reign! - PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE - - O'er those who lost and those who won, - Death holds no parley which was right-- - JEHOVAH judges Arlington. - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Paul Hamilton Hayne born, 1830_ - -_James Ryder Randall, Laureate of the War between the States, born, 1839_ - - - - -January Second - - ... In a word, - Mars and Minerva both in him concurred - For arts, for arms, whose pen and sword alike, - As Cato's did, may admiration strike - Into his foes; while they confess withal - It was their guilt styled him a criminal.... - _From Epitaph by "His Man"_ - -In this epitaph we have what is in all probability the single poem in any -true sense--the single product of sustained poetic art--that was written -in America for a hundred and fifty years after the settlement of -Jamestown. - - WILLIAM P. TRENT - -_Nathaniel Bacon, "The First American Rebel," born, 1647_ - - -January Third - - The only calendar - That marks my seasons, - Is that sweet face of hers, - Her moods and reasons, - Wherein no record is - Of winter seasons. - MADISON CAWEIN - -_Alfred Mordecai born, 1804_ - - -January Fourth - -The strange and curious race madness of the American Republic will be a -study for centuries to come. That madness took a child-race out of a warm -cradle, threw it into the ocean of politics--the stormiest and most -treacherous we have known--and bade it swim for its own and the life of -the nation! - - MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY - -_The Social Equality Bill passed in Louisiana, 1869_ - - -January Fifth - - What the cloud doeth - The Lord knoweth, - The cloud knoweth not - What the artist doeth, - The Lord knoweth; - Knoweth the artist not? - SIDNEY LANIER - - -January Sixth - -Few have equaled the old time negro at repartee, and a true Southerner -heartily relished a clever rejoinder to his good natured raillery. The -rejoinder was frequently overwhelming, always respectful, and generally -worth an immediate acknowledgment in cash or old clothes. - -"Is that you, Peter?" called an old Confederate to his former body-servant -on the road. - -Peter grinned broadly as he doffed his hat. "Yas, suh, dis yer me." - -"Well, well!" laughed the other. "I see that all the old fools are not -dead yet." - -"Dat's so, Mars' Tom." Peter pulled his grizzly forelock appreciatively. -"I's monsus glad to see dat you's in such good health, suh." - - -January Seventh - -A WELL-KNOWN TYPE OF SOUTHERN MATRON BEFORE THE WAR - -Full well she knew the seriousness of life. Over and over the cares and -responsibilities of her station as the mother of so many children, the -mistress of so many servants and the hostess of so many guests, had -utterly overwhelmed her. * * * * * Into how many negro cabins had she not -gone, when the night was far spent and the lamp of life flickered low in -the breast of the dying slave! How often she ministered to him with her -own hands! * * * * Nay, had she not knelt by his lowly bed and poured out -her heart to God as his soul winged its flight, and closed his glazed and -staring eyes as the day was dawning? Yet the morning meal found her at her -accustomed seat, tranquil and helpful, and no one but her husband the -wiser for her night's ministrations. - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - -_Fort Marion, Florida, seized by order of the Governor of Florida, 1861_ - - -January Eighth - -Jackson's line, extending about half a mile from the river to the swamp, -was defended by a water-filled ditch and by a parapet of varying height -and thickness. The idea that it was built of cotton bales is an absurd -fiction that brings back the inspiring picture in Peter Parley's old -history of our childhood days.... - - PIERCE BUTLER - -"What stopped you?" General Pakenham asked of a regiment of Scotch -Highlanders. To which their colonel replied: "Bullets, mon! bullets! Auld -Julius Caesar himself wouldn't have charged those devils." - -_The "Hunting Shirt Men" of the South versus Wellington's Peninsular -veterans in the Battle of New Orleans, 1815; General Pakenham, -brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington killed_ - -_James Longstreet born, 1821_ - - -January Ninth - - Consider the lark! How he rises on wing, - And mounts to the sky through ethereal air! - He sings as he soars; 'tis his nature to sing, - To warble his notes though no listener be near. - I seek not for fortune, I sigh not for fame, - I follow my Muse into forest or street; - In sorrow, in gladness, I sing all the same, - I sing because singing itself is so sweet. - - [These lines, typifying so much of the poetical expression of the old - South, were written by former Surgeon H. M. Clarkson, C. S. A., who, - on January 9, 1861, as a corporal of artillery, fired a single shot - from Fort Moultrie to challenge the _Star of the West_ in its attempt - to reinforce Fort Sumter. On the same occasion two other shots were - fired by the State cadets stationed on Morris Island, driving the - transport from the harbor. It is not improbable, therefore, that, as - the challenger of the hostile steamer, the writer of these verses - fired the first shot of the war between the States. Corporal Clarkson - was in charge of gun No. 13.--EDITOR] - -_The United States transport "Star of the West" attempts to reinforce Fort -Sumter, 1861_ - -_General John B. Gordon dies, 1904_ - -_Mississippi secedes, 1861_ - - -January Tenth - -SECESSION: A SOUTHERN VIEW, 1861 - -A State, finding herself in the condition in which Mississippi has judged -she is--in which her safety requires that she should provide for the -maintenance of her rights out of the Union--surrenders all the benefits -(and they are known to be many), deprives herself of the advantages (and -they are known to be great), severs all the ties of affection (and they -are close and enduring), which have bound her to the Union; and thus -divesting herself of every benefit--taking upon herself every burden--she -claims to be exempt from any power to execute the laws of the United -States within her limits. - - JEFFERSON DAVIS - (_Farewell Address in United States Senate_) - -SECESSION: FROM THE NORTHERN STANDPOINT, 1814 - -Whenever it shall appear that these causes are radical and permanent, a -separation by equitable arrangement will be preferable to an alliance by -constraint, among nominal friends, but real enemies, inflamed by mutual -hatred and jealousy, and inviting, by intestine divisions, contempt and -aggression from abroad.--_Journal of the Hartford Convention_ - -_Florida secedes, 1861_ - -_The "Bonnie Blue Flag" first sung in public at Jackson Mississippi, 1861_ - - - - -January Eleventh - -The States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee were engaged in practical -movements for the gradual emancipation of their slaves. This movement -continued until it was arrested by the aggressions of the Abolitionists. - - GEORGE LUNT - (Massachusetts) - -And if the secrets of all hearts could have been revealed, our enemies -would have been astounded to see how many thousands and tens of thousands -in the Southern States felt the crushing burden and the awful -responsibility of the institution which we were supposed to be defending -with the melodramatic fury of pirate kings. We were born to this social -order, we had to do our duty in it according to our lights, and this duty -was made indefinitely more difficult by the interference of those who, as -we thought, could not understand the conditions of the problem, and who -did not have to bear the expense of the experiments they proposed. - - BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE - -_Thomas Jefferson Randolph's resolutions on the abolition of slavery -introduced for extended debate in the Virginia Assembly, 1832_ - -_Alabama secedes, 1861_ - - -January Twelfth - - We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, - Fighting for our liberty, with treasure, blood, and toil. - And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far: - Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star! - HARRY MCCARTHY - - -January Thirteenth - -FIFTY YEARS AFTER--THE VIEW OF A FEDERAL OFFICER OF '61-'65 - -In case of direct and insoluble issue between Sovereign State and -Sovereign Nation, every man was not only free to decide, but had to decide -the question of ultimate allegiance for himself; and whichever way he -decided he was right. - - CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - (Massachusetts) - - -January Fourteenth - -LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE - -Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work. - - CYRUS W. FIELD - (_At a banquet in New York_) - - After a little while - The cross will glisten and the thistles wave - Above my grave; - And planets smile. - Sweet Lord, then pillowed on thy gentle breast, - I fain would rest, - After a little while. - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Matthew Fontaine Maury born, 1806_ - -_James Ryder Randall dies, 1908_ - - -January Fifteenth - -A Northerner, who had purchased an estate in Virginia, noticed that smoke -always emanated from the chimney of a cabin near his woods where an old -negro lived. One day, on meeting the old colored man, he asked: "Where do -you get your wood, Uncle?" - -The latter eyed him with an expression of great reproach and replied: "My -pa was coachman at the Gret House, and he pa, and he pa; 'whar I git my -wood?' That ain't no question for one gen'l'man to ax an'er!" - -_Fort Fisher, North Carolina, captured, 1865_ - - -January Sixteenth - - When wintry days are dark and drear - And all the forest ways grow still, - When gray snow-laden clouds appear - Along the bleak horizon hill, - When cattle all are snugly penned - And sheep go huddling close together, - When steady streams of smoke ascend - From farm-house chimneys--in such weather - Give me old Carolina's own, - A great log house, a great hearthstone, - A cheering pipe of cob or briar - And a red, leaping light'ood fire. - JOHN HENRY BONER - (_The Light'ood Fire_) - -_Forcible resistance to British Stamp Act under Colonel Hugh Waddell, of -Wilmington, N. C., 1766_ - - -January Seventeenth - -VALLEY FORGE EXCEEDED - -Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and -poisoned was the blood of many of Lee's men from insufficient and unsound -food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at -the beginning of the war would often cause blood-poison, gangrene, and -death. Yet the spirits of these brave men seemed to rise as their -condition grew more desperate.... It was a harrowing but not uncommon -sight to see those hungry men gather the wasted corn from under the feet -of half-fed horses, and wash and parch and eat it to satisfy in some -measure their craving for food. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Tarleton routed at the battle of the Cowpens, S. C., 1781_ - - -January Eighteenth - -While the Confederate soldiers were in the trenches, the ingenuity of the -Southern women was taxed to the utmost to supply their household needs. -Medicine had been declared contraband of war by the Federal Government, -and salt works were made a special object for attack. Remedies were -improvised from herbs of all kinds; the dirt floor of the meat house was -boiled for the salt it contained; soap was made from china-berries and -lye; candles out of resin or waxed rope wound around a corncob; thorns -were used for pins; shoes were fashioned out of canvas, and supplied with -wooden soles; buttons were made from persimmon seed; tumblers out of glass -bottles; tea out of berry leaves; and coffee was made from sweet potatoes -and dandelion seed. - - [Condensed from accounts of war times--Ed.] - - -January Nineteenth - -ENGLISH TRIBUTES TO AMERICAN GENIUS - -LEE--One of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all the generals who -have spoken the English tongue. - - COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -POE--How can so strange and fine a genius and so sad a life be expressed -and compressed in one line? - - LORD TENNYSON - (_From letter in Poe Memorial Vol., 1877_) - -_Robert Edward Lee born, 1807_ - -_Edgar Allan Poe born, 1809_ - -_Georgia secedes, 1861_ - - -January Twentieth - - No truth is lost for which the true are weeping, - Nor dead for which they died. - FRANCIS O. TICKNOR - - -January Twenty-First - -The following lines are remarkable in that they represent a boy's estimate -of Stonewall Jackson before the war between the States. They were written -by William Fitzhugh Lee when a cadet under Jackson at the Virginia -Military Institute:-- - - Like some rough brute that roams the forest wild, - So rude, uncouth, so purely Nature's child, - Is "Hickory," and yet methinks I see - The stamp of genius on his brow; and he, - With his mild glance and keen, but quiet eye, - Can draw forth from the secret recess where they lie - Those thoughts and feelings of the human heart - Most virtuous, good, and free from guilty art. - There's something in his very mode of life - So accurate, steady, void of care and strife, - That fills my heart with love for him who bears - His honors meekly and who wears - The laurels of a hero! This is a fact, - So here's a heart and hand for "Jack!" - -_Stonewall Jackson born, 1824_ - - -January Twenty-Second - -Wherein, then, lay his strength, and what was the secret of his influence -over all this land? I answer in one word--character. And what is meant by -character? Courage? Yes; courage of his opinions, and physical courage as -well; for he had a Briton's faith in pluck. Pride of race? In a limited -sense, yes. Honesty? The question is almost an insult. Love of truth? Yes, -undying love of it. - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - ("_The Old Virginia Gentleman_") - - -January Twenty-Third - - I reckon hit's well we wuz all set free, - I s'pose dat's de way folks wuz meant ter be, - But I kain't see w'y dey's no manners lef' - Jes' kase dey happens ter own deyse'f. - I dunno rightly how ol' I is, - Hit mought be eighty, I reckon 'tis, - Yit I nuver gone now'ers, I tells you true, - But I tucken my manners an' breedin', too. - ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON - - -January Twenty-Fourth - - Dem sassy young niggers, dey plum' disgrace - De res' uv de' 'spectable cullud race. - Dey got dey books, dey kin read an' write, - But dey dunno 'nough fer to be perlite. - I kain't see how dey gwine git erlong, - Hit seem lak sump'n have done gone wrong. - I gits wo' out wid'em, dat's de fac', - But I orter mek 'lowance fer how dey ac', - 'Kase de times an' de doin's is changed a lot, - An' dey ain' had de raisin' dat I done got. - Dar's nuffin lef' me but lookin' on - Twel me an' de ol'-time ways is gone. - ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON - - -January Twenty-Fifth - - Ah, only from his golden throne, - Upon his golden lute, - He touched the magic note; then Poe was known, - And so was quelled dispute. - Open thy portal, Fame! Let soar - That sombre bird, whose song is heard forevermore. - DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS - (_Referring to first publication of - Poe's Raven, 1845_) - -_George E. Pickett born, 1825_ - - -January Twenty-Sixth - -THREE VIEWS OF SECESSION CONNECTED WITH LOUISIANA; 1803-1811-1861 - -Resolved, that the annexation of Louisiana to the Union transcends the -Constitutional power of the Government of the United States. It formed a -New Confederacy to which the States united by the former compact are not -bound to adhere. - - MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE - (_Upon Purchase of Louisiana Territory, 1803_) - -_Louisiana secedes from the Union, 1861_ - -_Virginia readmitted to the Union, 1870_ - - -January Twenty-Seventh - -If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a -dissolution of this Union, that it will free the States from their moral -obligations, and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of -some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, -violently if they must. - - JOSIAH QUINCY - (_Representative from Massachusetts in Congress, opposing statehood - for Louisiana Territory, 1811_) - -_Richard Taylor born, 1826_ - - -January Twenty-Eighth - -The rights of Louisiana as a sovereign State are those of Virginia; no -more, no less. Let those who deny her right to resume delegated powers -successfully refute the claim of Virginia to the same right, in spite of -her expressed reservation made and notified to her sister States when she -consented to enter the Union.... For two-thirds of a century this right -has been known by many of the States to be, at all times, within their -power. - - JUDAH P. BENJAMIN - (_Farewell Address in the United States Senate_) - - -January Twenty-Ninth - -It was Lee who suggested the capture of Stony Point, and it was a band of -North Carolinians who formed Wayne's head of column in the assault upon -that fortress. Three hundred Virginians followed Lee in his successful -dash against Paulus Hook on the Jersey coast, August, 1779. - - HENRY A. WHITE - -_Henry Lee ("Light Horse Harry") born, 1756_ - - -January Thirtieth - -UNCLE REMUS AT THE TELEPHONE - -"Yer 'tis, Miss Sally," said Uncle Remus after listening a moment. - -"Dey's a mighty zooin' gwine on in dar, en I dunner whe'er Mars John -tryin' ter scramble out, er whe'er he des tryin' fer ter make hisself -comfertuble in dar." - -"What did he say, Remus?" - -"He up en low'd dat one un us wus a vilyun but dey wuz such a buzzin' -gwine on in dar dat I couldn't 'zactly ketch the rights un it." - - JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS - - -January Thirty-first - - I wish I was in the land of cotton, - Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom; - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - Her scenes shall fade from my memory never; - For Dixie's land hurrah forever! - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - - Chorus: - - I wish I was in Dixie; - Away, away; - In Dixie's land I'll take my stand, - And live and die in Dixie. - Away, away, - Away down South in Dixie. - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - MARIE LOUISE EVE - (_Version of "Dixie"_) - - - - -February - - -TAMPA ROBINS - - The robin laughed in the orange-tree: - "Ho, windy North, a fig for thee: - While breasts are red and wings are bold - And green trees wave us globes of gold, - Time's scythe shall reap but bliss for me-- - Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.... - - "I'll south with the sun, and keep my clime; - My wing is king of the summer-time; - My breast to the sun his torch shall hold; - And I'll call down through the green and gold - _Time, take thy scythe, reap bliss for me, - Bestir thee under the orange-tree_." - SIDNEY LANIER - - -February First - -The Emperor of France made him Commander of the Legion of Honor; The -Emperor of Russia, Knight of the Order of St. Ann; the King of Denmark, -Knight of the Dannebrog; the King of Portugal, Knight of the Tower and -Sword; the King of Belgium, Knight of the Order of St. Leopold; -simultaneously with Tennyson, he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of -Cambridge, England; he received honorary membership from a score of the -world's leading societies of science and scholarship; the Pope conferred -upon him a noteworthy testimonial; the Emperor of Mexico gave him a -decoration; and Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Holland, Sardinia, Bremen, and -France struck medals in his honor as the greatest scientist of the New -World, and the peer of any in the Old. - -The government of his own country, says Professor Francis H. Smith, has -"carefully omitted his name in official records of the departments he -created"; nor is it even given a place among the many inscribed in the -mighty mosaic of our National Library. - -_Matthew Fontaine Maury dies at Lexington, Va., 1873_ - -_Texas secedes, 1861_ - - -February Second - -MAURY'S LAST WISH - - "Home--bear me home, at last," he said, - "And lay me where my dead are lying, - But not while skies are overspread, - And mournful wintry winds are sighing. - - "When the sky, the air, the grass, - Sweet Nature all, is glad and tender, - Then bear me through 'The Goshen Pass' - Amid its flush of May-day splendor." - MARGARET J. PRESTON - - -February Third - - Snow! Snow! Snow! - Do thy worst, Winter, but know, but know - That, when the Spring cometh, a blossom shall blow - From the heart of the Poet that sleeps below, - And his name to the ends of the earth shall go, - In spite of the snow! - JOHN B. TABB - -(_In welcoming "The Forthcoming Volume" of the poems of his fellow -soldier, fellow patriot, and fellow artist_, - - SIDNEY LANIER) - -_Sidney Lanier born, 1842_ - -_Albert Sidney Johnston born, 1803_ - - -February Fourth - -What a beneficent provision of the Creator it was, to roll our little -planet but one side at a time next the sun, that while one half of the -world fretted and stormed and sinned, the other half might repent and -sleep. - -WILLIAM ALEXANDER CARRUTHERS - - -February Fifth - -MAURY - - The stars had secrets for him; seas - Revealed the depths their waves were screening; - The winds gave up their mysteries; - The tidal flows confessed their meaning. - - Of ocean paths, the tangled clew - He taught the nations to unravel; - And showed the track where safely through - The lightning-footed thought might travel. - MARGARET J. PRESTON - - -February Sixth - -GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - - Patriot, soldier, statesman, - Prince of the race of men; - Cypress and rue for his passing, - Laurel for sword and pen. - - Dust for the hand that wrought; - But for the lessons taught - Life without end. - IDA SLOCOMB MATTHEWS - -_John B. Gordon born, 1832_ - -_John Pegram killed near Hatcher's Run, 1865_ - - -February Seventh - -And there's Joe--my bully Joe--wouldn't I walk ten miles of a rainy night -to see them hazel eyes, and feel the grip of his soldier hand? Didn't my -rooster always clap his wings and crow whenever he passed our quarters? -"Instinct told him that he was the true prince," and it would make anybody -brave to be nigh him. - - MAJOR CHARLES H. SMITH - (_Bill Arp_) - -_Joseph E. Johnston born, 1807_ - - -February Eighth - - Hath not the morning dawned with added light? - And shall not the evening call another star - Out of the infinite regions of the night, - To mark this day in Heaven? At last, we are - A nation among nations; and the world - Shall soon behold in many a distant port - Another flag unfurled! - HENRY TIMROD - (_Ethnogenesis_) - -_Southern Confederacy begins to assume definite form in a league of seven -Southern States, 1861_ - - -February Ninth - -The great change wrought by the States in resuming their sovereignty, and -in forming the Confederate States Government, was attended by no anarchy, -no rebellion, no suspension of authority, no social disorders, no lawless -disturbances. Sovereignty was not, for one moment, in suspension. -Conservatism marked every proceeding and public act. The object was to do -what was necessary and no more; and to do that with the utmost temperance -and prudence. - - J. L. M. CURRY - -_William H. Harrison born, 1773_ - - -February Tenth - -You say we shall submit to your construction. We shall do it, if you can -make us; but not otherwise, or in any other manner. That is settled. You -may call it secession, or you may call it revolution; but there is a big -fact standing before you, ready to oppose you. That fact is freemen with -arms in their hands. The cry of the Union will not disperse them; we have -passed that point. They demand equal rights; you had better heed the -demand. - - ROBERT TOOMBS - (_Farewell Address in the United States Senate_) - - -February Eleventh - -Equality does not exist between blacks and whites. The one race is -inferior in many respects, physically and mentally, to the other. This -should be received as a fixed invincible fact in all dealings with the -subject. - - ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS - (_Vice-President of the Confederacy_) - -I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between -the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two -races living together on terms of social and political equality. - - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - (_President of the United States_) - -_Alexander H. Stephens born in Georgia, 1812_ - - -February Twelfth - -Those who would shiver into fragments the Union of these States, tear to -tatters its now venerated constitution, and even burn the last copy of the -Bible, rather than slavery should continue a single hour, together with -all their more halting sympathizers, have received, and are receiving -their just execration; and the name and opinion and influence of Mr. Clay -are fully and, as I trust, effectually and enduringly arrayed against -them. - - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - (_Eulogy on Clay, 1852_) - -The abolitionists were always the fiercest opponents of colonization. The -practical improvement of the negro, in his native country, did not suit -them so well as the impracticable idea of equalizing black men with white -in a strange land. - - GEORGE LUNT - (Massachusetts) - -_Abraham Lincoln born in Kentucky, 1809_ - -_Gradual emancipation of slaves discussed at Maysville, Ky., 1849_ - - -February Thirteenth - -SAINT VALENTINE'S EVE - - Thou wouldst be loved? then let thy heart - From its present pathway part not; - Being everything which now thou art, - Be nothing which thou art not. - So with the world thy gentle ways, - Thy grace, thy more than beauty, - Shall be an endless theme of praise, - And love a simple duty. - EDGAR ALLAN POE - -_Florida admitted to the Union, 1845_ - - -February Fourteenth - - A Northern Tribute to the College of Jefferson, - Monroe, Tyler, and Marshall - -As a matter of comparison we have lately read that from William and Mary -College, Virginia, thirty-two out of thirty-five professors and -instructors abandoned the college work and joined the army in the field. -Harvard College sent one professor from its large corps of professors and -instructors. - - GENERAL CHARLES A. WHITTIER - (Massachusetts) - -_The charter of William and Mary College granted, 1693_ - - -February Fifteenth - -DETERMINING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE NEW BOARDER - -"I will illustrate by an incident," said Mrs. Paynter. - -"As I say, this young man spends his entire time in his room, where he is, -I believe, engaged in writing a book." - -"Oh, me! Then he's penniless, depend upon it!" - - HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON - (_Queed_) - -_Cyrus Hall McCormick born, 1809_ - - -February Sixteenth - -A chicken that had done duty at a previous repast was set before the Rev. -Scervant Jones, the first Baptist preacher of Williamsburg, Virginia, at -the tavern of a Mr. Howl. Upon which the Reverend gentleman pronounced the -following blessing: - - "Good Lord of love - Look down from above, - And bless the 'Owl - Who ate this fowl - And left these bones - For Scervant Jones." - -_Fort Donelson surrenders, 1862_ - - -February Seventeenth - -A NORTHERN VIEW - -* * * It was the most monstrous barbarity of the barbarous march. There is -no reason to think that General Sherman knew anything of the purpose to -burn the city, which had been freely talked about among the soldiers -through the afternoon. But there is reason to think that he knew well -enough who did it, that he never rebuked it, and made no effort to punish -it. - - WHITELAW REID - (_Ohio_) - -_Sherman burns Columbia, 1865_ - - -February Eighteenth - -We have changed the constituent parts, but not the system of our -government. The Constitution formed by our fathers is that of the -Confederate States, in their exposition of it; and, in the judicial -construction it has received, we have a light which reveals its true -meaning. - - JEFFERSON DAVIS - (_Inaugural Address_) - -_Jefferson Davis inaugurated, 1861_ - -_Federal forces enter Charleston, S. C., 1865_ - - -February Nineteenth - - Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free - Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! - Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, - Ye spread and span like the catholic man who has mightily won - God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain - And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain. - SIDNEY LANIER - - -February Twentieth - -After the passage of the Anti-Ku Klux Statute by the State of Tennessee, -several instances occurred of parties being arrested in Ku Klux disguises; -but in every case they proved to be either negroes or "radical" Brownlow -Republicans. This occurred so often that the statute was allowed by the -party in power to become a dead letter before its repeal. It bore too hard -on the "loyal" men when enforced. - - J. C. LESTER and D. L. WILSON - -As the young German patriots of 1812 organized their struggle for liberty -under the noses of the garrisons of Napoleon, so these daring men, girt by -thousands of bayonets, discussed and adopted under the cover of darkness -the ritual of "The Invisible Empire." - - THOMAS DIXON, JR. - -_Governor Brownlow of Tennessee calls out the militia to suppress the Ku -Klux Klan, 1869_ - -_Federal troops defeated at Olustee, Fla., 1864_ - - -February Twenty-First - -The Ku Klux Klan was a great Law and Order League of mounted night -cavalrymen called into action by the intolerable conditions of a reign of -terror.... It was the old answer of organized manhood to organized crime -masquerading under the forms of government.... Women and children had eyes -and saw not, ears and heard not. Over four hundred thousand disguises for -men and horses were made by the women of the South, and not one secret -ever passed their lips! - - THOMAS DIXON, JR. - -The View of a "Reconstructionist" - -The Ku Klux Order was a daring conception for a conquered people. Only a -race of warlike instincts and regal pride could have conceived or executed -it. Men, women, and children must have, and be worthy of, implicit mutual -trust. They must be trusted with the secrets of life and death without -reserve and without fear. - - JUDGE ALBION W. TOURGEE - (Ohio) - - -February Twenty-Second - -First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, -he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life; -pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and -commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him, as were the -effects of that example lasting. - - HENRY LEE - (_Father of Robert E. Lee_) - -_George Washington born, 1732_ - - -February Twenty-Third - -Won in the Name of Virginia; Governor Patrick Henry to Colonel George -Rogers Clark: - -"You are to retain the Command of the troops now at the several posts in -the county of Illinois and on the Wabash, which fall within the limits of -the County now erected and called Illinois County.... You are also to take -the Command of five other Companies, raised under the act of Assembly -which I send herewith, and which if completed, as I hope they will be -speedily, will have orders to join you without loss of time, and are -likewise to be under your command.... The honor and interest of the State -are deeply concerned in this." - -_George Rogers Clark appears before Vincennes, 1779_ - -_Battle of Buena Vista; Col. Jefferson Davis wounded, 1847_ - -_Mississippi readmitted to the Union, 1870_ - - -February Twenty-Fourth - -The importance of this brilliant exploit was destined to be far greater -than even Clark foresaw, for when the treaty of peace was being negotiated -at Paris in 1782, our allies, France and Spain, were both more than -willing to sacrifice our interests in order to keep us out of the -Mississippi Valley, and the western boundary of the United States would -undoubtedly have been fixed at the Alleghanies instead of the Mississippi, -but for the fact that this western region was actually occupied by -Virginians. - - S. C. MITCHELL - -The vast Northwest had been thus won by a heroic band of volunteers, led -by one of the most dauntless warriors that ever risked life for country. - - THOMAS E. WATSON - -_George Rogers Clark stipulates to Governor Hamilton the terms of -surrender of the Northwestern territory, 1779_ - - -February Twenty-Fifth - -From Inscription on tablet in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, South -Carolina. - - "As a Statesman - he bequeathed to his country the sentiment, - 'Millions for defence - not a cent for tribute.'" - -_Charles Cotesworth Pinckney born, 1746_ - - -February Twenty-Sixth - -IN THE PETERSBURG TRENCHES - -Winter poured down its snows and its sleets upon Lee's shelterless men in -the trenches. Some of them burrowed into the earth. Most of them shivered -over the feeble fires, kept burning along the lines. Scanty and thin were -the garments of these heroes. Most of them were clad in mere rags. Gaunt -famine oppressed them every hour. One quarter of a pound of bacon and a -little meal was the daily portion assigned to each man by the rules of the -War Department. But even this allowance failed when the railroads broke -down and left the bacon and the flour piled up beside the tracks in -Georgia and the Carolinas. One sixth of this daily ration was the -allotment for a considerable time, and very often the supply of bacon -failed entirely.... - - HENRY A. WHITE - - -February Twenty-Seventh - - We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, - We leave the swamp and cypress-tree, - Our spurs are in our coursers' sides, - And ready for the strife are we. - The Tory camp is now in sight, - And there he cowers within his den; - He hears our shouts, he dreads the fight, - He fears, and flies from Marion's men. - WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS - -_Francis Marion dies, 1795_ - -_Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, N. C., 1776_ - - -February Twenty-Eighth - -The war began, the war went on--this politicians' conspiracy, this -slaveholders' rebellion, as it was variously called by those who sought -its source, now in the disappointed ambition of the Southern leaders, now -in the desperate determination of a slaveholding oligarchy to perpetuate -their power, and to secure forever their proprietorship in their "human -chattels." On this theory the mass of the Southern people were but puppets -in the hands of political wirepullers, or blind followers of hectoring -"patricians." To those who know the Southern people nothing can be more -absurd; to those who know their personal independence, to those who know -the deep interest which they have always taken in politics, the keen -intelligence with which they have always followed the questions of the -day. - - BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE - - -February Twenty-Ninth - -THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING - - Fair were our nation's visions, and as grand - As ever floated out of fancy-land; - Children were we in simple faith, - But god-like children, whom nor death, - Nor threat of danger drove from honor's path-- - In the land where we were dreaming! - - * * * * * - - A figure came among us as we slept-- - At first he knelt, then slowly rose and wept; - Then gathering up a thousand spears, - He swept across the fields of Mars, - Then bowed farewell, and walked behind the stars, - From the land where we were dreaming! - - * * * * * - - As wakes the soldier when the alarum calls-- - As wakes the mother when her infant falls-- - As starts the traveler when around - His sleepy couch the fire-bells sound-- - So woke our nation with a single bound-- - In the land where we were dreaming! - DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS - - - - -March - - - I hear the bluebird's quaint soliloquy,-- - A hesitating note upon the breeze, - Blown faintly from the tops of distant trees, - As though he were not sure that Spring is nigh, - But fed his hopes with bursts of melody. - I would I had a spirit-harp to seize - The bolder tenor of his rhapsodies - When apple-blossoms swing against the sky. - On every dark or blust'ring wintry day - That airy harp the bluebird's lilt should play; - And as I held my sighs and paused to hear, - The wand'ring message, with its full-fed cheer - And ripe contentment, to my life should bring - The essence and fruition of the Spring. - DANSKE DANDRIDGE - - -March First - - In the deep heart of every forest tree - The blood is all aglee, - And there's a look about the leafless bowers - As if they dreamed of flowers. - HENRY TIMROD - - -March Second - -At a garden party in Washington not long ago a Justice of the Supreme -Court said in response to some question I put: "It would take the pen of a -Zola to describe reconstruction in Louisiana. It is so dark a chapter in -our national history. I do not like to think of it. A Zola might base a -great novel on that life and death struggle between politicians and races -in the land of cotton and sugar plantations, the swamps and bayous of the -mighty Mississippi, where the Carpet-Bag Government had a standing army, -of blacks, chiefly, and a navy of warships going up and down waterways." - - MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY - -_Reconstruction Act put into effect in Louisiana, 1866_ - -_Texas declares itself independent, 1836_ - - -March Third - -Women, the most refined, the noblest and best cultured in the land, left -their homes, took up their residences adjacent to hospitals and became -Florence Nightingales, daughters of the Red Cross, for all who needed care -or comfort. It is reproachfully said by alien writers that the Southern -women are more "unreconstructed rebels" than the men. It is certainly true -that they did as much as the men in winning the battles, and they are now -foremost in building monuments and preserving the records of immortal -deeds. - - J. L. M. CURRY - -_First general convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at -Nashville, 1895_ - - -March Fourth - -Stephens' bodily infirmity did not sour his temper. On the contrary, it -developed his capacity for human sympathy and strengthened his desire to -help others to reach the happiness he seemed unable to secure for himself. -After prosperity came to him, his works of philanthropy were constant and -countless. He was lavish of hospitality and gave to all who asked such -pity and sympathy as only a tried and travailing spirit could feel. - - LOUIS PENDLETON - -_Alexander H. Stephens dies, 1883_ - - -March Fifth - - From childhood I have nursed a faith - In bluebirds' songs and winds of Spring; - They tell me after frost and death - There comes a time of blossoming; - And after snow and cutting sleet, - The cold, stern mood of Nature yields - To tender warmth, when bare pink feet - Of children press her greening fields. - JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON - - -March Sixth - -It is the spirit of the Alamo that moved above the Texas soldiers as they -charged like demigods through a thousand battlefields, and it is the -spirit of the Alamo that whispers from their graves held in every State of -the Union, ennobling their dust, their soil, that was crimson with their -blood. - - HENRY W. GRADY - -_Fall of the Alamo, 1836_ - - -March Seventh - -The opening of the University of Virginia was an event of prime importance -for the higher education in the whole country, and really marks a new era. -In the South this university completely dominated the situation down to -the war and for some time afterwards, being the model for most that was -best in the colleges everywhere, setting the standards to which they -aspired, and being the source of constant stimulus and inspiration. - - CHARLES F. SMITH - (_University of Wisconsin_) - -_University of Virginia opened, 1825_ - - -March Eighth - -BROOKE'S "VIRGINIA," THE FIRST OF IRONCLADS; 10 GUNS VERSUS 268 - -... The _Virginia_, that iron diadem of the South, whose thunders in -Hampton Roads consumed the _Cumberland_, overcame the _Congress_, put to -flight the Federal Navy, and achieved a victory, the novelty and grandeur -of which convulsed the maritime nations of the world. - - CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR. - -Confederate Tribute to the Commander and Men of the _Cumberland_: "No ship -was ever better handled, or more bravely fought." - - VIRGINIUS NEWTON, C. S. N. - -On Boarding the _Congress_: - -Confusion, death, and pitiable suffering reigned supreme; and the horrors -of war quenched the passion and enmity of months. - - VIRGINIUS NEWTON, C. S. N. - -Confederate Tribute to the Commanders of the _Minnesota_, _St. Lawrence_, -and _Roanoke_, which vessels ran aground in flight from the terrible -_Virginia_: - -I take occasion to say that their character as officers of skill, -experience, and bravery was well established at the time, and suffered no -diminution then or thereafter. - - VIRGINIUS NEWTON, C. S. N. - -_Battle between the "Virginia" ("Merrimac") and Federal men-of-war, 1862_ - - - - -March Ninth - -BROOKE - -The men who manned the _Monitor_ made a grand fight, and her commander -upheld the best traditions of the American navy; but history must bear -witness to the fact that, if not overmatched or defeated, she at least -withdrew to shallow water, where the _Virginia_ could not follow her; and -later, under the guns of Ft. Monroe, she declined the subsequent battle -challenges of the refitted _Virginia_. - -All honor to Capt. Worden and the _Virginia-inspired_ invention of the -Swede; but "America's glory for Americans." Let all Americans honor the -name of JOHN MERCER BROOKE, the inventor and designer of the first armored -war vessel of the world.--Ed. - -_Battle between the "Virginia" and the "Monitor," 1862_ - - -March Tenth - -AN AFTERTHOUGHT - -"Say, Judge, ain't you the same man that told us before the war that we -could whip the Yankees with pop-guns?" - -"Yes," replied the stump-orator, with great presence of mind, "and we -could, but, confound 'em, they wouldn't fight us that way." - - -March Eleventh - -TWO VIEWS OF VIRGINIA - -(The latter is taken from a witty parody on the original poem. Presented -to a Virginia girl, it was indignantly tossed into the wastebasket. Later, -however, she copied it and sent it around for the amusement of many--_in -the family_!) - - I. The days are never quite so long - As in Virginia; - Nor quite so filled with happy song - As in Virginia; - And when my time has come to die - Just take me back and let me lie - Close where the James goes rolling by, - Down in Virginia. - - II. Nowhere such storms obscure the sun - As in Virginia; - Nowhere so slow the railroads run, - As in Virginia; - And when my time has come to go - Just take me there, because, you know, - I'll longer live, I'll die so slow, - Down in Virginia. - - -March Twelfth - -A HUMOROUS VIEW OF "THE HUB" - -For the native Bostonian there are three paths to glory. If his name be -Quincy or Adams, nothing more is expected of him. His blue blood carries -him through life with glory, and straight to heaven when he dies. Failing -in the happy accident of birth, the candidate for Beacon Hill honors must -write a book. This is easy. The man who can breathe Boston air and not -write a book is either a fool or a phenomenon. One course remains to him -should he miss fame in these lines. He must be a reformer. - - SHERWOOD BONNER - (_In Letters to Dixie_) - - -March Thirteenth - -FIRST ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE NEW WORLD - -Your gracious acceptance of the first fruits of my travels ... hath -actuated both Will and Power to the finishing of this Peece: ... We had -hoped, ere many years had turned about, to have presented you with a rich -and wel-peopled Kingdom; from whence now, with my selfe, I onely bring -this Composure, ... bred in the New-World, of the rudeness whereof it -cannot but participate; especially having Warres and Tumults to bring it -to light in stead of the Muses.... - - Your Majesties most humble Servant - GEORGE SANDYS - - From Dedication of Ovids's _Metamorphoses_, "English by George Sandys" - at Henrico College, Virginia, 1621-1625. "Imprinted at London, 1626." - -_George Sandys born at Bishopsthorpe, England, 1577_ - - -March Fourteenth - - Content to miss the prize of fame, - If he some true heart's praise can claim, - He lives in his own world of rhyme, - The great world's ways forsaking; - Cares not Parnassian heights to climb, - But valley bypaths taking, - Where even the daises in the sod, - Like stars, show him the living God. - CHARLES W. HUBNER - (_The Minor Poet_) - -_Thomas Hart Benton born, 1782_ - - -March Fifteenth - -Abhorrence of debt, public and private; dislike of banks, and love of hard -money--love of justice and love of country, were ruling passions with -Jackson; and of these he gave constant evidence in all the situations of -his life. - - THOMAS HART BENTON - -_Andrew Jackson born, 1767_ - -_Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1871_ - -_Through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court, Secretary Seward -promises the Confederate Commissioners that Fort Sumter would be speedily -evacuated, 1861_ - - -March Sixteenth - -The great mind of Madison was one of the first to entertain distinctly the -noble conception of two kinds of government, operating at one and the same -time, upon the same individuals, harmonious with each other, but each -supreme in its own sphere. Such is the fundamental conception of our -partly Federal, partly National Government, which appears throughout the -Virginia plan, as well as in the Constitution which grew out of it. - - JOHN FISKE - (Massachusetts) - -_James Madison born, 1751_ - - -March Seventeenth - -"THE GALLANT PELHAM"--ROBERT E. LEE - - Just as the Spring came laughing through the strife, - With all its gorgeous cheer; - In the bright April of historic life, - Fell the great cannoneer.... - - We gazed and gazed upon that beauteous face, - While round the lips and eyes, - Couched in their marble slumber, flashed the grace - Of a divine surprise. - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Lieutenant-Colonel John Pelham killed at Kelly's Ford, Va., 1863_ - -_Roger Brooke Taney born, 1777_ - - -March Eighteenth - -John C. Calhoun, an honest man, the noblest work of God. - - ANDREW JACKSON - -He had the basis, the indispensable basis, of all high character, and that -was unspotted integrity--unimpeached honor and character. If he had -aspirations, they were high and honorable and noble. There was nothing -grovelling or low, or meanly selfish that came near the head or the heart -of Mr. Calhoun. - - DANIEL WEBSTER - (Massachusetts) - -_John Caldwell Calhoun born, 1782_ - - -March Nineteenth - - Into the woods my Master went, - Clean forspent, forspent. - Into the woods my Master came, - Forspent with love and shame. - But the olives they were not blind to Him, - The little gray leaves were kind to Him: - The thorn-tree had a mind to Him - When into the woods He came. - SIDNEY LANIER - (_A Ballad of Trees and the Master_) - - -March Twentieth - - Out of the woods my Master went, - And He was well content. - Out of the woods my Master came, - Content with death and shame. - When Death and Shame would woo Him last, - From under the trees they drew Him last: - 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last, - When out of the woods He came. - SIDNEY LANIER - (_A Ballad of Trees and the Master_) - - -March Twenty-First - -Those who dominated were intelligent, masterful, patriotic, loving home, -kindred, state and country, dispensing a prodigal hospitality, limited -only by the respectability and behavior of guests. Among girls, -refinement, culture, modesty, purity and a becoming behavior were the -characteristic traits; among boys, courtesy, courage, chivalry, respect to -age, devotion to the weaker sex, scorning meanness, regarding dishonor and -cowardice as ineffaceable stains. - - J. L. M. CURRY - (_The Old South_) - -_General Joseph E. Johnston dies, 1891_ - - -March Twenty-Second - -Father Tabb's discernment was clear and touched by the purest fragrance of -the muses. To Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats he was devoted. Poe he -regarded as without a peer in modern literature, and was his -uncompromising, inflexible champion. - - HENRY E. SHEPHERD - -_John Banister Tabb born, 1845_ - - -March Twenty-Third - - Come, Texas! send forth your brave Rangers, - The heroes of battles untold-- - Accustomed to trials and dangers, - Come stand by your rights as of old; - The deeds of your chivalrous daring - Are writ on the Alamo's wall, - A record which ruin is sparing-- - Come forth to your country's loud call! - V. E. W. VERNON - -_Texas ratifies the Confederate Constitution, 1861_ - - -March Twenty-Fourth - -Adams, Giddings, and other Congressmen issued a public address, in March, -1843, declaring that the annexation of Texas would be "so injurious to the -interests of the Northern States as not only inevitably to result in a -dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it." - - HENRY A. WHITE - - -March Twenty-Fifth - -Nor had Calvert planted English institutions in Maryland simply as he -found them. He went back to a better time for freedom of action, and -looked forward to a better time for freedom of thought. While as yet there -was no spot in Christendom where religious belief was free, and when even -the Commons of England had openly declared against toleration, he founded -a community wherein no man was to be molested for his faith. - - WILLIAM HAND BROWNE - -_Landing of the Maryland colonists, St. Clement's Island, 1634_ - - -March Twenty-Sixth - - Dear God! what segment of the earth - Can match the region of our birth! - Though ice-beleaguered, rill on rill, - Though scorched to deserts, hill on hill-- - It is our native country still. - Our native country, what a sound - To make heart, brain, and blood rebound! - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - - -March Twenty-Seventh - -Jamestown and St. Mary's are both within the segment of a circle of -comparatively small radius whose center is at the mouth of the Chesapeake. -In this strategic region, the Jamestown experiment succeeded, after -Raleigh's head had fallen on the block; the Revolution was fired by the -eloquence of Patrick Henry, and was consummated at Yorktown; the War of -1812 was settled by the victories of North Point and McHenry; the crisis -of the Civil War occurred; and seven Presidents of the United States were -born. - - ALLEN S. WILL - -_Calvert's Colony lands at St. Mary's, 1634_ - - -March Twenty-Eighth - - Nor less resplendent is the light - Of him, old South Carolina's star, - Whose fiery soul was made by God - To blaze amid the storms of war.... - ORION T. DOZIER - -_Wade Hampton born, 1818_ - - -March Twenty-Ninth - -A great event of this [Tyler's] administration was the Ashburton Treaty. -This settled our northeast boundary for 200 miles and warded off the long -impending war with England. In most histories the whole credit for this -treaty is given to Daniel Webster. Of course this great man should not be -robbed of any of his well-earned laurels; but the President is entitled to -a share of the honor. Webster himself said: "It proceeded from step to -step under the President's own immediate eye and correction." Moreover, it -may be added that at one stage in the proceedings Lord Ashburton was about -to give up and return to England; but President Tyler by his courtesy and -suavity, conciliated him and induced him to go on with the negotiation. - - J. LESSLIE HALL - -_John Tyler born, 1790_ - - -March Thirtieth - -In discussing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Senator Hale warned Senator Toombs -that the North would fight. The Georgian answered: "I believe nobody ever -doubted that any portion of the United States would fight on a proper -occasion.... There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections -to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both -sections of the Union have illustrated their courage on too many -battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities -shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that -they may never come in contact with each other in a fratricidal war should -be the ardent wish and earnest desire of every true man and honest -patriot." - - PLEASANT A. STOVALL - -_Texas readmitted to the Union, 1870_ - - -March Thirty-First - -CALHOUN'S NATIONALISM - -At the peace of 1815 the Government was $120,000,000 in debt; its revenues -were small; its credit not great, and the effort to raise money by direct -taxation brought it in conflict with the States.... Mr. Calhoun came -forward and devised a tariff, which not only gave large revenues to the -Government, but gave great protection to manufacturers. Mr. Calhoun -received unmeasured abuse for his pains from the North, where the -interests were then navigation, and Daniel Webster was the great apostle -of free trade.... Under Mr. Calhoun's tariff the New England manufacturers -prospered rapidly.... Success stimulated cupidity, and the "black tariff" -of 1828 marked the growth of abuse.... It was then that Mr. Calhoun again -stepped forth. He stated that the South had cheerfully paid the enormous -burden of duties on imports when Northern manufactures were young and the -Government weak; the manufacturers had become rich, and the Government -strong--so strong that State rights were being merged into its -overshadowing power; he therefore demanded a recognition of State rights, -and an amelioration of those burdens that the South had so long borne. - - THOMAS PRENTICE KETTELL - (New York) - -_John C. Calhoun dies, 1850_ - - - - -April - - - The birds that sing in the leafy Spring, - With the light of love on each glancing wing, - Have lessons to last you the whole year through; - For what is "Coo! coo! te weet tu whu!" - But, properly rendered, "The wit to woo!" - A wit that brings worship and wisdom too! - Coo! coo! te weet tu whu-- - The wit to woo--te weet tu whu! - - The verb "to love," in the tongue of the dove, - Heard noon and night in the cedar grove, - Is very soon taught where the heart is true: - For the wit to woo, and the wisdom too, - Lie in the one sweet syllable, "Coo!" - But echo me well, and you learn to woo-- - Coo! coo! te weet tu whu-- - The wit to woo--te weet tu whu! - WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS - - -April First - - Hidden no longer - In moss-covered ledges, - Starring the wayside, - Under the hedges, - Violet, Pimpernel, - Flashing with dew, - Daisy and Asphodel - Blossom anew. - - Down in the bosky dells - Everywhere, - Faintly their fairy bells - Chime in the air. - Thanks to the sunshine! - Thanks to the showers! - They come again, bloom again, - Beautiful flowers! - THEOPHILUS HUNTER HILL - (_Author of the first book published under - copyright of the Confederate Government_) - -_Battle of Five Forks, Virginia, 1865_ - - -April Second - -At the critical moment A. P. Hill was always strongest. No wonder that -both Lee and Jackson, when in the delirium of their last moments on earth, -stood again to battle, and saw the fiery form of A. P. Hill leading his -columns on. - - HENRY KYD DOUGLAS - -_A. P. Hill killed in front of Petersburg, 1865_ - -_Albert Pike dies, 1891_ - - -April Third - -THE SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA - - French blood stained with glory the Lilies, - While centuries marched to their grave; - And over bold Scot and gay Irish - The Thistle and Shamrock yet wave: - Ours, ours be the noble Magnolia, - That only on Southern soil grows, - The Symbol of life everlasting:-- - Dear to us as to England the Rose. - ALBERT PIKE - ("_Born in Boston; but an adopted and - devoted son of Dixie_") - - -April Fourth - - We are His witnesses; out of the dim - Dark region of Death we have risen with Him. - Back from our sepulchre rolleth the stone, - And Spring, the bright Angel, sits smiling thereon. - JOHN B. TABB - ("_Easter Flowers_") - - -April Fifth - - We are His witnesses. See, where He lay - The snow that late bound us is folded away; - And April, fair Magdalen, weeping anon, - Stands flooded with light of the new-risen Sun! - JOHN B. TABB - ("_Easter Flowers_") - - -April Sixth - -His character was lofty and pure, his presence and demeanor dignified and -courteous, with the simplicity of a child; and he at once inspired the -respect and gained the confidence of cultivated gentlemen and rugged -frontiersmen. - - GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR - -_Albert Sidney Johnston killed at Shiloh, 1862_ - - -April Seventh - -History tears down statues and monuments to attributes and deeds, unless -those attributes have been devoted to some noble end, and those deeds done -in a righteous cause. - - COL. CHARLES MARSHALL - - -April Eighth - -"GLORY STANDS BESIDE OUR GRIEF" - - Because they fought in perfect faith, believing - The cause they fought for was the just, the true; - And had small hope of glittering gain receiving, - While following, with standard high in view, - Where led their single-hearted, dauntless chief: - Therefore doth Glory stand beside our grief! - VICTORIA ELIZABETH GITTINGS - -_Louisiana admitted to the Union, 1812_ - -_Telegram from Secretary Seward confirming promise (March 15) as to -Sumter, 1861_ - - -April Ninth - - An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, - Not Homer's, could alone for me - Hymn forth the great Confederate South, - Virginia first, then Lee. - - Oh, realm of tears! But let her bear - This blazon to the end of time: - No nation rose so white and fair, - None fell so pure of crime. - P. S. WORSLEY - (England) - -[From lines written on the fly-leaf of a translation of the Iliad, -presented to General Lee by the Oxford scholar in 1866] - -_Surrender of Lee at Appomattox, 1865_ - - -April Tenth - - Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary; - Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; - Furl it, fold it, it is best; - For there's not a man to wave it, - And there's not a sword to save it, - And there's not one left to lave it - In the blood which heroes gave it; - And its foes now scorn and brave it; - Furl it, hide it, let it rest! - - Furl that Banner! True, 'tis gory, - Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, - And 'twill live in song and story, - Though its folds are in the dust: - For its fame on brightest pages, - Penned by poets and by sages, - Shall go sounding down the ages,-- - Furl its folds though now we must. - ABRAHAM J. RYAN - (_The Conquered Banner_) - -_Lee issues farewell address to his army, 1865_ - -_Leonidas Polk born, 1806_ - - -April Eleventh - -Man is so constituted--the immutable laws of our being are such--that to -stifle the sentiment and extinguish the hallowed memories of a people is -to destroy their manhood. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -We had, I was satisfied, sacred principles to maintain and rights to -defend for which we were in duty bound to do our best, even if we perished -in the endeavor. - - GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE - -We must forevermore consecrate in our hearts our old battle flag of the -Southern Cross--not now as a political symbol, but as the consecrated -emblem of an heroic epoch. The people that forgets its heroic dead is -already dying at the heart, and we believe we shall be truer and better -citizens of the United States if we are true to our past. - - RANDOLPH H. MCKIM - - -April Twelfth - -From this time a clear-cut issue was formulated and presented to the -States and the people. The "firing upon the flag of the nation" was made -the immediate pretext for aggressive measures against the Lower South. _As -so heralded_, it served to inflame the hearts of thousands who, it seems, -had not noticed or who had forgotten, as it is forgotten to-day, that this -was not the first firing upon the Stars and Stripes. The flag had been -fired upon from the coast of South Carolina as early as January 9, 1861, -for the same reason as that which provoked attack upon it on April 12. - -[From introduction to "The Battle of Baltimore," _The Sun_, April 9, -1911.] - -_Fort Sumter fired on by Beauregard, 1861_ - -_North Carolina instructs her delegates to the Continental Congress to -declare for independence, 1776_ - -_Henry Clay born, 1777_ - - -April Thirteenth - -The history of the world presents no parallel to the manner in which he -wrote himself upon his own age, and subsequent ages, with his pen. He was -no teacher like Plato; he was not a professional litterateur like -Voltaire; he was not a mere maker of books like Carlyle; and yet he put -his stamp indelibly upon the minds and hearts of English-speaking people -during his own day and for all time to come. - - THOMAS E. WATSON - -_Thomas Jefferson born, 1743_ - - -April Fourteenth - -The fact is, the boys around here want watching, or they'll take -something. A few days ago I heard they surrounded two of our best citizens -because they were named Fort and Sumter. Most of them are so hot that they -fairly siz when you pour water on them, and that's the way they make up -their military companies here now--when a man applies to join the -volunteers they sprinkle him, and if he sizzes they take him, and if he -don't they don't! - - MAJOR CHARLES H. SMITH - (_Bill Arp_) - - -April Fifteenth - -There was but one exception to the general grief too remarkable to be -passed over in silence. Among the extreme Radicals in Congress, Mr. -Lincoln's determined clemency and liberality towards the Southern people -had made an impression so unfavorable that, though they were shocked at -his murder, they did not, among themselves, conceal gratification that he -was no longer in their way. - - NICHOLAY AND HAY - (_Life of Lincoln_) - -FORESHADOWING RECONSTRUCTION - -The Union League of America was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, during the -war by friends of Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical leader of Congress. Its -prime object was the confiscation of the property of the South. The chief -obstacle to this program was Abraham Lincoln. Hence the first work of the -League was to form a conspiracy against Lincoln and prevent his -renomination for a second term. - - E. W. R. EWING - -_Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865_ - -_Federal Government issues a call for 75,000 volunteers, 1861_ - - -April Sixteenth - -I have only to say that the militia will not be furnished to the powers at -Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object -is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for -such an object--an object, in my judgment, not within the purview of the -constitution or the act of 1795--will not be complied with. You have -chosen to inaugurate civil war, and having done so, we will meet it in a -spirit as determined as the administration has exhibited towards the -South. - - GOVERNOR LETCHER - (_Virginia_) - - -April Seventeenth - -The scene [in the Virginia State Convention] is described as both solemn -and affecting. One delegate, while speaking against the ordinance, broke -down in incoherent sobs; another, who voted for it, wept like a child. The -sentiment of the people had run ahead of their leaders. - - S. C. MITCHELL - -It may be safely asserted that but for the adoption by the Federal -Government of the policy of coercion towards the Cotton States, Virginia -would not have seceded.... She simply in the hour of danger and sacrifice -held faithful to the principles which she had ofttimes declared and which -have ever found sturdy defenders in every part of the Republic. - - BEVERLEY B. MUNFORD - -_Virginia secedes, 1861_ - - -April Eighteenth - -Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but 50,000 if -necessary for the defense of our rights or those of our Southern brothers. - - GOVERNOR HARRIS - (Tennessee) - -I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked -purpose of subduing her sister States. - - GOVERNOR MAGOFFIN - (Kentucky) - - -April Nineteenth - - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, - Maryland! - My mother State! to thee I kneel, - Maryland! - For life and death, for woe and weal, - Thy peerless chivalry reveal, - And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, - Maryland! My Maryland! - - Thou wilt not cower in the dust, - Maryland! - Thy beaming sword shall never rust, - Maryland! - Remember Carroll's sacred trust, - Remember Howard's warlike thrust,-- - And all thy slumberers with the just, - Maryland! My Maryland! - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Citizens of Baltimore, objecting to coercion of the seceded States, -oppose the passing of the Sixth Massachusetts, their action resulting in -the first bloodshed of the War, 1861_ - - -April Twentieth - -The tempting prize offered Lee in the shape of supreme command of the Army -of the Union did not swerve him from his integrity for an instant. It was -currently reported at the time that Gen. Winfield Scott implored him, "For -God's sake, don't resign!" Every argument that power, luxury, limitless -resources, and the untrammeled control of the situation could devise was -brought to bear upon him. - - HENRY E. SHEPHERD - -_Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army, 1861_ - - -April Twenty-First - -From the date of its settlement, Maryland became the Land of -Sanctuary--the only spot in the known world where the persecuted of all -lands were at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of their -own hearts. Freedom of conscience was offered by Lord Baltimore to the -oppressed of the Old World, thus carrying into effect the original motive -of Sir George Calvert's colonization scheme when seeking a charter from -King Charles I. - - HESTER DORSEY RICHARDSON - -_Passage of the "Act Concerning Religion" by the Maryland Assembly, 1649, -endorsing the principles of religious toleration promulgated by Cecilius -Calvert in 1634_ - -_Independence of Texas established at San Jacinto, 1836_ - - -April Twenty-Second - - The dusk of the South is tender - As the touch of a soft, soft hand; - It comes between splendor and splendor, - The sweetest of service to render, - And gathers the cares of the land. - - Above it the soft sky blushes - And pales like an April rose; - Within it the South wind hushes, - And the Jessamine's heart outgushes, - And earth like an emerald glows. - JOHN P. SJOLANDER - -_Capture of Plymouth, N. C., by Gen. R. D. Hoke, 1864_ - - -April Twenty-Third - - In seeds of laurel in the earth - The blossom of your fame is blown; - And somewhere, waiting for its birth, - The shaft is in the stone! - HENRY TIMROD - -_Randall writes "My Maryland" at Pointe Coupee, La., 1861_ - -_Father Ryan dies, 1886_ - - -April Twenty-Fourth - -Apropos of this last, let me confess, Mr. President--before the praise of -New England has died on my lips--that I believe the best product of her -present life is the procession of 17,000 Vermont Democrats that for -twenty-two years, undiminished by death, unrecruited by birth or -conversion, have marched over their rugged hills, cast their Democratic -ballots, and gone back home to pray for their unregenerate neighbors, and -awoke to read the record of 26,000 Republican majority! May the God of the -helpless and heroic help them! - - HENRY W. GRADY - -_Henry W. Grady born, 1851_ - - -April Twenty-Fifth - - Her lot may be hard, her skies may darken; - To Dixie's voice we'll ever hearken; - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - The coward may shirk, the wretch go whining, - But we'll be true till the sun stops shining, - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - - Chorus: - - I wish I was in Dixie; - Away, away; - In Dixie's land I'll take my stand, - And live and die in Dixie. - Away, away, - Away down South in Dixie. - MARIE LOUISE EVE - - -April Twenty-Sixth - -Homes without the means of support were no longer homes. With barns and -mills and implements for tilling the soil all gone, with cattle, sheep, -and every animal that furnished food to the helpless inmates carried off, -they were dismal abodes of hunger, of hopelessness, and of almost -measureless woe. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Joseph E. Johnston surrenders at Greensboro, N. C., 1865_ - - -April Twenty-Seventh - - The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, - As lightly and as free; - Ten thousand stars were in the sky, - Ten thousand in the sea; - For every wave, with dimpled face, - That leaped into the air, - Had caught a star in its embrace - And held it trembling there. - AMELIA B. WELBY - - -April Twenty-Eighth - -Too much roseate nonsense has been indulged about life on the plantation -or in the city in the ante-bellum days. Neither the planter nor the factor -nor the lawyer led a life of idle ease and pleasure; they were workers, -whose energy built up the State; they lived often rather in rude profusion -than in luxury. - - PIERCE BUTLER - -_James Monroe born, 1758_ - - -April Twenty-Ninth - -Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - - THOMAS JEFFERSON - - -April Thirtieth - -To Jefferson's initiative and farsightedness we owe it that we secured -without bloodshed, for a trifling sum of money, a territory which doubled -our republic, assured its expansion to the Gulf of Mexico and to the -Pacific, and thus lifted us, by a stroke of genius, into a world power of -the first class. - - THOMAS E. WATSON - -_Jefferson acquires the Louisiana territory from France, 1803_ - -_Washington inaugurated first President of the United States, 1789_ - - - - -May - - -AT ARLINGTON - - The dead had rest; the Dove of Peace - Brooded o'er both with equal wings; - To both had come that great surcease. - The last omnipotent release - From all the world's delirious stings. - To bugle deaf and signal-gun, - They slept, like heroes of old Greece, - Beneath the glebe at Arlington. - - And in the Spring's benignant reign, - The sweet May woke her harp of pines; - Teaching her choir a thrilling strain - Of jubilee to land and main. - She danced in emerald down the lines; - Denying largesse bright to none, - She saw no difference in the signs - That told who slept at Arlington. - - She gave her grasses and her showers - To all alike who dreamed in dust; - Her song-birds wove their dainty bowers - Amid the jasmine buds and flowers, - And piped with an impartial trust-- - Waifs of the air and liberal sun, - Their guileless glees were kind and just - To friend and foe at Arlington. - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - - -May First - - The linnet, the lark, and oriel - Were chanting the loves they chant so well; - It was blue all above, below all green, - With the radiant glow of noon between. - JOSEPH SALYARDS - (_Idothea_; Idyl III) - - -May Second - -A strange fatality attended us! Jackson killed in the zenith of his -successful career; Longstreet wounded when in the act of striking a blow -that would have rivalled Jackson's at Chancellorsville in its results; and -in each case the fire was from our own men! A blunder! Call it so; the old -deacon would say that God willed it thus. - - COL. WALTER H. TAYLOR - -_Stonewall Jackson wounded at Chancellorsville, 1863_ - -_Emma Sanson directs Forrest in pursuit of Streight, 1863_ - - -May Third - -Chancellorsville, where 130,000 men were defeated by 60,000, is up to a -certain point as much the tactical masterpiece of the nineteenth century -as was Leuthen of the eighteenth. - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -General Pender, you must hold your ground, you must hold your ground. - - JACKSON'S Last Command - - -May Fourth - -The productions of nature soon became my playmates. I felt that an -intimacy with them not consisting of friendship merely, but bordering on -frenzy, must accompany my steps through life. - - JOHN JAMES AUDUBON - -_John James Audubon born, 1780_ - - -May Fifth - - Lord of Hosts, that beholds us in battle, defending - The homes of our sires 'gainst the hosts of the foe, - Send us help on the wings of thy angels descending, - And shield from his terrors and baffle his blow. - Warm the faith of our sons, till they flame as the iron, - Red glowing from the fire-forge, kindled by zeal; - Make them forward to grapple the hordes that environ, - In the storm-rush of battle, through forests of steel! - From the Charleston _Mercury_ - -_Battle of the Wilderness; Lee, with 60,000 men, attacks Grant with -140,000, 1864_ - - -May Sixth - -It depends on the State itself, to retain or abolish the principle of -representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a -member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the -principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that -the people have, in all cases, a right to determine how they will be -governed. - - (Rawle's text-book on the Constitution, taught at West Point before - the War between the States) - -JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, AMERICAN DISRAELI - -Who is the man, save this one, of whom it can be said that he held -conspicuous leadership at the bar of two countries? - - SIR HENRY JAMES - (England) - -_Tennessee and Arkansas secede, 1861_ - -_Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, dies, 1884_ - - -May Seventh - -The slaves who ran away from their masters were set to work at once by -General Butler and made to keep at it, much to their annoyance. One of -these, having been put to it rather strong, said: "Golly, Massa Butler, -dis nigger nebber had to work so hard befo'; dis chile gwine secede once -moah." - - Ohio _Statesman_, 1861 - - -May Eighth - -Having completed our repairs on May 8th, and while returning to our old -anchorage, we heard heavy firing, and, going down the harbor, found the -_Monitor_, with the iron-clads _Galena_, _Naugatuck_, and a number of -heavy ships, shelling our batteries at Sewell's Point. We stood directly -for the _Monitor_, but as we approached they all ceased firing and -retreated below the forts. - - COL. JOHN TAYLOR WOOD - -_The "Virginia" again challenges the "Monitor" to battle, 1862_ - -_Battle of Palo Alto, 1846_ - - -May Ninth - -MOTHERS' DAY - - Because I feel that, in the Heavens above - The angels, whispering to one another, - Can find, among their burning terms of love, - None so devotional as that of "Mother." - EDGAR ALLAN POE - - -May Tenth - -Fearless and strong, self-dependent and ambitious, he had within him the -making of a Napoleon, and yet his name is without spot or blemish. - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - - ... Ask the world-- - The world has heard his story-- - If all its annals can unfold - A prouder tale of glory? - If ever merely human life - Hath taught diviner moral-- - If ever round a worthier brow - Was twined a purer laurel? - MARGARET J. PRESTON - -_Stonewall Jackson dies, 1863_ - - -May Eleventh - - The Spanish legend tells us of the Cid, - That after death he rode erect, sedately - Along his lines, even as in life he did, - In presence yet more stately. - - And thus our Stuart at this moment seems - To ride out of our dark and troubled story - Into the region of romance and dreams, - A realm of light and glory. - JOHN R. THOMPSON - -_J. E. B. Stuart mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, 1864_ - - -May Twelfth - -General Lee, you shall not lead my men in a charge! - - GORDON - -General Lee to the rear!--_His Soldiers._ - -I do wish somebody would tell me where my place is on the field of battle! -Wherever I go to look after the fight, I am told, "This is no place for -you; you must go away." - - ROBERT E. LEE - -_Lee, with 50,000 men, repulses Grant with 100,000, at Spottsylvania Court -House; Lee "ordered" to the rear, 1864_ - - -May Thirteenth - - Good is the Saxon speech! clear, short, and strong, - Its clean-cut words, fit both for prayer and song; - Good is this tongue for all the needs of life; - Good for sweet words with friend, or child, or wife. - - * * * * * - - 'Tis good for laws; for vows of youth and maid; - Good for the preacher; or shrewd folk in trade; - Good for sea-calls when loud the rush of spray; - Good for war-cries where men meet hilt to hilt, - And man's best blood like new-trod wine is spilt,-- - Good for all times, and good for what thou wilt! - JAMES BARRON HOPE - -_Landing at Jamestown, 1607_ - -_Texas troops, C. S. A., defeat Federals in last battle of the War, at -Palmito Ranch, 1865, the victors learning from their prisoners that the -Confederacy had fallen (Chas. Wm. Ramsdell)_ - - -May Fourteenth - -[This exploration] was undertaken at the instance of President Jefferson, -and together with the voyage which Captain Gray of Boston had made to the -Columbia, in 1792, gave the United States a claim to all the territory -covered by the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. - - PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE - -_Lewis and Clark start from St. Louis on northwestern expedition, 1804_ - - -May Fifteenth - -Throughout the events that led up to the Revolution, it seemed ordained -that Massachusetts was to suffer and Virginia to sympathize. Until the -outbreak of actual hostilities scarcely anything of moment occurred on the -soil of Virginia to incite her sons to champion the cause of freedom. -Indeed, from the beginning of the controversy between the colonies and the -mother country, the British Ministry seemed to have avoided any special -cause of irritation to the people of the Old Dominion. The part, -therefore, which Virginia took in the events of those days must be -attributed to her devotion to the principles of liberty, to her interest -in the common cause of the colonies, and particularly to her sympathy with -Massachusetts in the suffering which that province was called upon to -endure. If we lose sight of these motives as the springs of Virginia's -conduct in that struggle, we shall be unable to appreciate either the -nobility of her spirit or the wisdom and energy which marked her -initiative. - - S. C. MITCHELL - -_Virginia opposes Boston Port Bill, 1774_ - - -May Sixteenth - -I refuse to make any acknowledgments for what I have done. My blood will -be as seed sown in good ground, which will produce a hundred fold. - - JAMES PUGH - -(_Before execution under Gov. Tryon, North Carolina, 1771_) - -_Battle of Alamance Creek, 1771_ - - -May Seventeenth - -He came into military and political life like some blazing meteor, with -exceeding brilliance and splendor speeding across the horizon of history. -His activities in politics and war covered only a brief span of seventeen -years, 1848 to 1865, and in so short a period but few men ever received -more, maintained their parts better, were the recipients of greater -honors, or bore themselves with nobler dignity, greater skill or more -superb courage either in victory or defeat. - - BENNETT H. YOUNG - -_John C. Breckinridge dies, 1875_ - - -May Eighteenth - - Hushed is the roll of the rebel drum, - The sabres are sheathed and the cannon are dumb; - And Fate, with pitiless hand, has furled - The flag that once challenged the gaze of the world. - JOHN R. THOMPSON - (_From "Lee to the Rear"_) - - -May Nineteenth - - But the fame of the Wilderness fight abides, - And down into history grandly rides - Calm and unmoved as in battle he sat, - The gray-bearded man in the black slouch hat. - JOHN R. THOMPSON - (_From "Lee to the Rear"_) - - -May Twentieth - -You can get no troops from North Carolina. - - GOV. ELLIS - (_Reply to Washington administration, April 15, 1861_) - -_North Carolina secedes from the Union, 1861_ - - -May Twenty-First - - The Dixie girls wear homespun cotton, - But their winning smiles I've not forgotten; - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - They've won my heart and naught surpasses - My love for the bright-eyed Dixie lasses; - Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. - - Chorus: - - I'll give my life for Dixie; - Away, away; - In Dixie's land I'll take my stand, - And live and die for Dixie. - Away, away, - Away down South in Dixie. - MARIE LOUISE EVE - - -May Twenty-Second - - How brilliant is the morning star; - The evening star how tender; - The light of both is in her eyes,-- - Their softness and their splendor; - But for the lash that shades their sight, - They were too dazzling for the light, - And when she shuts them all is night,-- - The daughter of Mendoza. - MIRABEAU B. LAMAR - - -May Twenty-Third - - Great Chieftain of our choice, - Albeit that people's voice - No comfort speaks in thy lone granite keep; - Through those harsh iron bars - There come back from the stars - Low echoes of the prayers they nightly weep. - WILLIAM MUNFORD - -_Jefferson Davis puts in irons at Fort Monroe, 1865_ - - -May Twenty-Fourth - -Yet to all Americans it must be a regrettable chapter in our history when -it is remembered that this man was no common felon, but a prisoner of -state, a distinguished Indian fighter, a Mexican veteran, a man who had -held a seat in Congress, who had been Secretary of War of the United -States, and who for four years had stood at the head of the Confederate -States. - - MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY - (_Davis in chains_) - - -May Twenty-Fifth - -A rich and well-stored mind is the only true philosopher's stone, -extracting pure gold from all the base material around. It can create its -own beauty, wealth, power, happiness. It has no dreary solitudes. The past -ages are its possession, and the long line of the illustrious dead are all -its friends. - - GEORGE DAVIS - - -May Twenty-Sixth - - Cease firing! There are here no foes to fight! - Grim war is o'er and smiling peace now reigns; - Cease useless strife--no matter who was right-- - True magnanimity from hate abstains. - Cease firing! - MAJOR WILLIAM MEADE PEGRAM - -_The last Confederate army, under General Kirby Smith, surrenders at Baton -Rouge, 1865_ - - -May Twenty-Seventh - - Representing nothing on God's earth now, - And naught in the water below it, - As a pledge of a nation that's dead and gone, - Keep it, dear Captain, and show it. - Show it to those who will lend an ear - To the tale this paper can tell - Of liberty born, of the patriot's dream, - Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. - - Too poor to possess the precious ores, - And too much of a stranger to borrow, - We issued to-day our promise to pay, - And hoped to repay on the morrow. - MAJOR S. A. JONAS - (_From "Lines on the back of a - Confederate note"_) - - -May Twenty-Eighth - -Old time negroes intuitively knew who "belonged" to them and who did not. -The following incident is told of Senator Sumner's visit to friends at -Gallatin, Tennessee, some years before the war; the colloquy is between -the Senator and "Old Virginia Jeff:" - -"Jeff, I hear you call all the white folks down here 'Marse'--'Marse -Henry,' 'Marse John' or what not, isn't that true?" - -"Yas, sah." - -"And you always call me 'Mister Sumner.' Now, Jeff, here's a quarter. -During the rest of my visit you call me Marse Charles, you hear?" - - MAJOR JOHN C. WRENSHALL - -_P. G. T. Beauregard born, 1818_ - - -May Twenty-Ninth - -If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable -privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not -basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long -engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the -glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat -it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all -that is left us! - - PATRICK HENRY - -_Patrick Henry born, 1736_ - - -May Thirtieth - -Those who oppose slavery in Kansas do not base their opposition upon any -philanthropic principles, or any sympathy for the African race. For, in -their so-called Constitution, framed at Topeka, they deem that entire race -so inferior and degraded as to exclude them all forever from Kansas, -whether they be bond or free. - - ROBERT J. WALKER - -_Kansas given territorial rights by Congress, 1854_ - - -May Thirty-First - -SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE - - ... All down the hills of Habersham, - All through the valleys of Hall, - The rushes cried _Abide, abide_, - The wilful waterweeds held me thrall, - The laving laurel turned my tide, - The ferns and the fondling grass said _Stay_. - The dewberry dipped for to work delay, - And the little reeds sighed _Abide, abide_, - _Here in the hills of Habersham_, - _Here in the valleys of Hall_. - SIDNEY LANIER - -_British Government declared suspended in North Carolina (Mecklenburg) -1775_ - - - - -June - - -THE SLEEPER - - At midnight, in the month of June, - I stand beneath the mystic moon. - An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, - Exhales from out her golden rim, - And, softly dripping, drop by drop, - Upon the quiet mountain top, - Steals drowsily and musically - Into the universal valley. - The rosemary nods upon the grave; - The lily lolls upon the wave; - Wrapping the fog above its breast, - The ruin moulders into rest; - Looking like Lethe, see! the lake - A conscious slumber seems to take, - And would not, for the world, awake. - EDGAR ALLAN POE - - -June First - - ... The year, - And all the gentle daughters in her train, - March in our ranks, and in our service wield - Long spears of golden grain! - A yellow blossom as her fairy shield, - June flings her azure banner to the wind, - While in the order of their birth - Her sisters pass, and many an ample field - Grows white beneath their steps, till now, behold, - Its endless sheets unfold - The snow of Southern summers! - HENRY TIMROD - (_Ethnogenesis_) - -_Kentucky admitted to the Union, 1792_ - -_Tennessee admitted to the Union, 1796_ - -_John H. Morgan born, 1825_ - - -June Second - -In regard to African Slavery, which has played so important a part in our -political history, Randolph was an Emancipationist, as distinguished from -an Abolitionist. This distinction was a very broad one; as broad as that -between Algernon Sidney and Jack Cade; or between Charlemagne and Peter -the Hermit--in fact, it was the difference between Reason and Fanaticism. -On this subject Randolph and Clay concurred; both were Emancipationists, -and both denounced the Abolitionists; as did also Webster, and all the -best, wisest, and purest men of that day. - - JUDGE DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS - -_John Randolph born, 1773_ - - -June Third - -Other leaders have had their triumphs. Conquerors have won crowns, and -honors have been piled on the victors of earth's great battles, but never, -sir, came man to more loving people. - - HENRY W. GRADY - -_Jefferson Davis born in Kentucky, 1808_ - - -June Fourth - -In the hallowed stillness of your bridal eve, ere the guests have all -assembled, lift up to yours the pale face, love's perfect image, and you -shall see that vision to which God our Father vouchsafes no equal this -side the jasper throne--you shall see the ineffable eyes of innocence -entrusting to you, unworthy, oh! so unworthy, her destiny through time and -eternity. Inhale the perfume of her breath and hair, that puts the violets -of the wood to shame; press your first kiss (for now she is all your own), -your first kiss upon the trembling petals of her lips, and you shall hear, -with ears you knew not that you had, the silver chiming of your wedding -bells far, far up in heaven. - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - - -June Fifth - -THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH - -Instead of superficial adornments and supine action, the intellectual -sympathies and interests of these women were large, and they undertook -with wise and just guidance, the management of households and farms and -servants, leaving the men free for war and civil government. These noble -and resolute women were the mothers of the Gracchi, of the men who built -up the greatness of the Union and accomplished the unexampled achievements -of the Confederacy. - - J. L. M. CURRY - - -June Sixth - - To the brave all homage render, - Weep ye skies of June! - With a radiance pure and tender, - Shine, oh saddened moon! - Dead upon the field of glory, - Hero fit for song and story, - Lies our bold dragoon. - JOHN R. THOMPSON - -_Turner Ashby killed in Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862_ - -_Patrick Henry dies, 1799_ - - -June Seventh - - Peace to the dead! though peace is not - In the regal dome or the pauper cot; - Peace to the dead! there's peace, we trust, - With the pale dreamers in the dust. - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Monument created, 1910, to the memory of Confederate officers who -perished from starvation and exposure at Johnson's Island_ - - -June Eighth - - Aurora faints in the fulgent fire - Of the Monarch of Morning's bright embrace - And the summer day climbs higher and higher - Up the cerulean space; - The pearl-tints fade from the radiant grain, - And the sportive breeze of the ocean dies, - And soon in the noontide's soundless rain - The fields seem graced by a million eyes; - Each grain with a glance from its lidded fold - As bright as a gnome's in his mine of gold, - While the slumb'rous glamour of beam and heat - Glides over and under the windless wheat. - PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE - -_Stonewall Jackson turns upon Fremont at Cross Keys, 1862_ - - -June Ninth - - He sleeps--what need to question now - If he were wrong or right? - He knows ere this whose cause was just - In God the Father's sight. - He wields no warlike weapons now, - Returns no foeman's thrust,-- - Who but a coward would revile - An honest soldier's dust? - - Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll, - Adown thy rocky glen, - Above thee lies the grave of one - Of Stonewall Jackson's men. - MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND - -_Stonewall Jackson meets Shields at Port Republic, 1862_ - - -June Tenth - -The indomitable courage, the patient endurance of privations, the supreme -devotion of the Southern soldiers, will stand on the pages of history, as -engraven on a monument more enduring than brass. - - MAJ. JAS. F. HUNTINGTON, U. S. A. - -_United Confederate Veterans organized at New Orleans, 1889_ - -_Battle of Bethel, Va., the first regular engagement of the War between -the States, 1861_ - - -June Eleventh - -We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win; we -believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluble; but we equally -believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred convictions -that were the opposite of ours, and we respected them, as every man with a -heart must respect those who gave all for their belief. - - JUSTICE O. W. HOLMES - (Massachusetts) - - -June Twelfth - -The band preceding the coffin smote on their ears with poignant loud -lamenting, then carried its sorrow to die moaning on the night. As the -shadowy cortege filed by--men bearing lanterns on either side the -hearse--a horse, riderless, with boots empty in the stirrups, following--a -few soldiers carrying arms reversed--a single carriage with mourners--the -effect was infinitely sad. So common the spectacle during the Battle -Summer, it did not occur to them to even wonder which of our martyrs was -thus journeying to his last home. - - MRS. BURTON HARRISON - - -June Thirteenth - - A little bird there was once, with golden wings; - In the stars she would build her nest; - And so, with a twig in her beak, at eventide - When Hesperus sank to rest, - Away to the starry deep she flew;--for said she, - "In the Pleiades shall my nesting be!" - Ah, little bird! There are heights far, far too high - For the reach of those tiny wings! - Down here by this thicket of haw let us rest, you and I, - And list what the brooklet sings! - ALLEN KERR BOND - - -June Fourteenth - - A flash from the edge of a hostile trench, - A puff of smoke, a roar - Whose echo shall roll from the Kenesaw Hills - To the farthermost Christian shore, - Proclaims to the world that the warrior priest - Will battle for right no more. - HENRY LYNDEN FLASH - -_Gen. Leonidas Polk, the Warrior Bishop, killed at Kenesaw Mountain, 1864_ - - - - -June Fifteenth - - O, Art, high gift of Heaven! how oft defamed - When seeming praised! To most a craft that fits, - By dead, prescriptive Rule, the scattered bits - Of gathered knowledge; even so misnamed - By some who would invoke thee. - WASHINGTON ALLSTON - - -June Sixteenth - - W'en banjer git ter talkin' - You better hol' yo' tongue, - Hit mek you think youse gre't an' gran' - An' rich an' strong an' young, - An' ev'rything whar scrumpshus - Right at yo' feet is flung. - - Oh, my soul gits up an' humps hisse'f - An' goes outside an' walks, - W'en a picker gits ter pickin' - An' de - banjer - talks! - ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON - -_Winchester captured by Confederates, 1863_ - - -June Seventeenth - -GENEROUS TRIBUTE OF A BRAVE FOE AND DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN SOLDIER AND -CITIZEN - -Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia never sustained defeat. Finally -succumbing to exhaustion, to the end they were not overthrown in fight. - - CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - (Massachusetts) - - -June Eighteenth - - Now, Ham, de only nigger whut wuz runnin' on der packet, - Got lonesome in de barber-shop, an' c'u'dn't stan' de racket; - An' so, fur to amuse hese'f, he steamed some wood an' bent it, - An' soon he had a banjo made--de fust dat wuz invented. - - De 'possum had as fine a tail as dis dat I's a-singin'; - De ha'r's so long an' thick an' strong,--des fit fur banjo-stringin'; - Dat nigger shaved 'em off as short as washday-dinner graces; - An' sorted ob' em by de size, f'om little E's to basses. - IRWIN RUSSELL - (_Origin of the Banjo on - Board the Ark_) - - -June Nineteenth - -By Captain Winslow's account, the _Kearsarge_ was struck twenty-eight -times; but his ship being armored, my shot and shell fell harmless into -the sea. The _Alabama_ was not mortally wounded until after the -_Kearsarge_ had been firing at her _an hour and ten minutes_. In the -meantime, in spite of the armor of the _Kearsarge_, I lodged a rifled -percussion shell near her stern post--_where there were no chains_--which -failed to explode because of the defect of the cap. On so slight an -incident--the defect of a percussion-cap--did the battle hinge. - - RAPHAEL SEMMES - -_The "Alabama" sunk by the "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, 1864_ - - -June Twentieth - -Jamestown and St. Mary's are both within the segment of a circle of -comparatively small radius whose centre is at the mouth of the Chesapeake. -In this strategic region, the key of America, Raleigh chose the base from -which he would colonize the new empire; here the Jamestown experiment -succeeded, after Raleigh's head had fallen on the block; the Revolution -was fired by the eloquence of Patrick Henry, and was consummated at -Yorktown; the War of 1812 was settled by the victories of North Point and -Fort McHenry; the crisis of the Civil War occurred; and seven Presidents -of the United States were born. - - ALLEN S. WILL - -_The first Lord Baltimore obtains from the Crown a grant of the territory -lying between the Potomac and the 40th parallel, 1632_ - -_Secession of West Virginia from Virginia sustained by the Federal -Government, 1863_ - -_"Virginia, who had given to all the States in common five great -commonwealths of the northwest and the county of Kentucky, was now bereft -of half of what remained to her"_ - - -June Twenty-First - -What care I if Cyrus McCormick was born in Rockbridge County? These -new-fangled "contraptions" are to the old system what the little, dirty, -black steam-tug is to the three-decker, with its cloud of snowy canvas -towering to the skies--the grandest and most beautiful sight in the world. -I wouldn't give Uncle Isham's picked man, "long Billy Carter," leading the -field, with one good drink of whisky in him--I wouldn't give one swing of -his cradle and one "ketch" of his straw for all the mowers and reapers in -creation. - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - -_Cyrus Hall McCormick of Virginia patents his reaping machine, 1831_ - - -June Twenty-Second - - If I could dwell - Where Israfel - Hath dwelt, and he where I, - He might not sing so wildly well - A mortal melody, - While a bolder note than this might swell - From my lyre within the sky. - EDGAR ALLAN POE - -_Arkansas readmitted to the Union, 1868_ - - -June Twenty-Third - -THE BROOK - - It is the mountain to the sea - That makes a messenger of me: - And, lest I loiter on the way - And lose what I am sent to say, - He sets his reverie to song - And bids me sing it all day long. - JOHN B. TABB - - -June Twenty-Fourth - -AN AMUSING COMMENTARY ON THE MAKING OF SOME HISTORIES - -I have here a small volume entitled, "John Randolph, by Henry Adams." It -is one of a series called "American Statesmen," and emanates from the thin -air of Boston. The series is edited by Mr. J. T. Morse, Jr. By what law of -selection he has been governed in allotting to particular authors the -preparation of respective biographies it is impossible to divine. It is -quite clear, however, that he has not followed any rule of qualification -or congeniality hitherto recognized by men or angels. For example, a -foreigner, Dr. Von Holtz, who, in an emphatically European and un-American -treatise on the Federal Constitution, had already denounced Calhoun as a -kind of Lucifer, is appointed his biographer; Henry Clay, the father of -Protection (as it is called), is assigned to Carl Schurz, who, I -understand, is an ardent advocate of Free Trade; while John Randolph is -turned over to the tender mercies of a descendant of the first -Vice-President, and the grandson of John Quincy Adams! - -Had this unique law of selection prevailed hitherto, we might have had a -biography of Luther by Leo the Tenth; a life of St. Thomas Aquinas by -Thomas Payne; while Pontius Pilate, or more likely the devil himself, -would have been selected to chronicle the divine career of Jesus Christ. - - DANIEL B. LUCAS - -_John Randolph dies, 1833_ - - -June Twenty-Fifth - - But far away another line is stretching dark and long, - Another flag is floating free where armed legions throng; - Another war-cry's on the air, as wakes the martial drum, - And onward still, in serried ranks, the Southern soldiers come. - GEORGE HERBERT SASS - -_Beginning of Seven Days' Battle around Richmond, 1862_ - - -June Twenty-Sixth - -A PROPHECY, 1869 - -The close of the Civil War found the conquering States so nearly equally -divided between the Radical and Conservative parties, that if the South -should be restored to her relative might in the Union, the balance would -be thrown at once in favor of the Conservatives. The problem therefore -assumed a mathematical form, and demanded that the South should not -reinforce the Conservatives of the North. This could be prevented only in -two ways, _viz._; either by keeping the South out of the Union entirely or -by placing the political power there in the hands of a minority. To adopt -one or the other of these expedients was a party necessity. This is the -whole key to Reconstruction; and fifty years hence no man living will be -found to deny it. - - JUDGE J. FAIRFAX MCLAUGHLIN - (_In the "Southern Metropolis," June 26, 1869_) - - -June Twenty-Seventh - -The duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less -obligatory in the country of our enemy than in our own. - - ROBERT E. LEE - -_Lee issues his famous Chambersburg order, 1863_ - -_"Winnie" Davis born, 1864_ - - -June Twenty-Eighth - -COL. WILLIAM MOULTRIE; SERGEANT JASPER; "PALMETTO DAY" - -The battle holds a conspicuous place in the history of the Revolution. It -was our first clear victory over the British, and won over one of -England's most distinguished naval officers. - - JOHN J. DARGAN - -_Defence of Fort Sullivan, (Moultrie,) 1776_ - -_North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana -readmitted to the Union, 1868_ - - -June Twenty-Ninth - - His trumpet-tones re-echoed like - Evangels to the free, - Where Chimborazo views the world - Mosaic'd in the sea; - And his proud form shall stand erect - In that triumphal car - Which bears to the Valhalla gates - Heroic Bolivar! - JAMES RYDER RANDALL - -_Henry Clay dies, 1852_ - - -June Thirtieth - - Yes, there's a charm about the name of Mary - Which haunts me like some old enchanter's spell, - Or rather like the voice of some sweet fairy, - Singing low love-songs in a lonely dell. - It hath a music that can never weary, - A strain that seems of love and grief to tell, - The echoes of an anthem from the shrine - Of peace, and bliss, and rest, and love divine. - WILLIAM WOODSON HENDREE - -_Robert E. Lee marries Mary Page Custis, great-granddaughter of Martha -Washington, 1831_ - - - - -July - - -A SUMMER SHOWER - - Meanwhile, unreluctant, - Earth like Danae lies; - Listen! is it fancy, - That beneath us sighs, - As that warm lap receives the largesse of the skies? - - Jove, it is, descendeth - In those crystal rills; - And this world-wide tremor - Is a pulse that thrills - To a god's life infused through veins of velvet hills. - - Wait, thou jealous sunshine, - Break not on their bliss; - Earth will blush in roses - Many a day for this, - And bend a brighter brow beneath thy burning kiss. - HENRY TIMROD - - -July First - -A SOUTHERN SOLDIER'S TRIBUTE - -To the Union commander, General George Gordon Meade, history will accord -the honor of having handled his army at Gettysburg with unquestioned -ability. The record and the results of the battle entitle him to a high -place among Union leaders. To him and to his able subordinates and heroic -men is due the credit of having successfully met and repelled the Army of -Northern Virginia in the meridian of its hope and confidence and power. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_First day at Gettysburg, 1863_ - - -July Second - -General Lee distinctly ordered Longstreet to attack early the morning of -the second day, and if he had done so, two of the largest corps of Meade's -army would not have been in the fight; but Longstreet delayed the attack -until four o'clock in the afternoon, and thus lost his opportunity of -occupying Little Round Top, the key to the position, which he might have -done in the morning without firing a shot or losing a man. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Second day at Gettysburg, 1863_ - - -July Third - -General Lee ordered Longstreet to attack at daybreak on the morning of the -third day.... He did not attack until two or three o'clock in the -afternoon, the artillery opening at one.... Nothing that occurred at -Gettysburg, nor anything that has been written since of that battle, has -lessened the conviction that, had Lee's orders been promptly and cordially -executed, Meade's centre on the third day would have been penetrated and -the Union Army overwhelmingly defeated. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Third day at Gettysburg, 1863_ - -_Joel Chandler Harris dies, 1908_ - - -July Fourth - -General Lee, according to the testimony of Colonel Walter H. Taylor, -Colonel C. S. Venable, and General A. L. Long, who were present when the -order was given, ordered Longstreet to make the attack on the last day, -with the three divisions of his corps, and two divisions of A. P. Hill's -corps, and that instead of doing so he sent fourteen thousand men to -assail Meade's army in his strong position, and heavily intrenched. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Lee awaits the attack of Meade at Gettysburg throughout the fourth day, -1863_ - -_Vicksburg surrenders, 1863_ - -_Thomas Jefferson dies, 1826_ - - -July Fifth - - Opinion, let me alone: I am not thine. - Prim creed, with categoric point, forbear - To feature me my Lord by rule and line. - Thou canst not measure Mistress Nature's hair, - Not one sweet inch: nay, if thy sight is sharp, - Wouldst count the strings upon an angel's harp? - Forbear, forbear. - SIDNEY LANIER - - -July Sixth - - A golden pallor of voluptuous light - Filled the warm Southern night; - The moon, clear orbed, above the sylvan scene - Moved like a stately queen, - So rife with conscious beauty all the while, - What could she do but smile - At her perfect loveliness below, - Glassed in the tranquil flow - Of crystal fountains - And unruffled streams? - PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE - -_Paul Hamilton Hayne dies, 1886_ - -_John Marshall dies, 1835_ - - -July Seventh - - Do orioles from verdant Chesapeake, - And crested cardinal, - With linnets from the Severn, come to seek, - Obedient to thy call, - If they can give thee one new music-thought, - Who ev'ry note from ev'ry land hast caught? - E. G. LEE - (_The Mocking Bird_) - - -July Eighth - - Sweet bird! that from yon dancing spray - Dost warble forth thy varied lay, - From early morn to close of day - Melodious changes singing, - Sure thine must be the magic art - That bids my drowsy fancy start, - While from the furrows of my heart, - Hope's fairy flowers are springing. - CHARLES WILLIAM HUBNER - (_The Mocking Bird_) - - -July Ninth - -And to defenders and besiegers it is alike unjust to say, even though it -has been said by the highest authority, that Port Hudson surrendered only -because Vicksburg had fallen. The simple truth is that Port Hudson -surrendered because its hour had come. The garrison was literally -starving. With less than 3000 famished men in line, powerful mines beneath -the salients, and a last assault about to be delivered at 10 places, what -else was left to do? - - LIEUT.-COL. RICHARD B. IRWIN, U. S. V. - -_Fall of Port Hudson, 1863_ - -_Defeat of Lew Wallace by Early at the Monocacy, Maryland, 1864_ - -_Alexander Doniphan, "the Xenophon of America," born 1808_ - - -July Tenth - -MAMMY'S FIRST EXPERIENCE AT THE 'PHONE - - We heard Mammy say "Hello--H'llo! - (What meks you rattle de handle so?) - Is dat _you_, Miss?--wants Main twenty-free! - (I ain't gwine to have you foolin' wid me!) - I say, Main twenty----what's ailin' you? - '_Bizzy!_' I guess I'se bizzy, too! - You gim-me dat number twenty-free, - I'se bizzier 'n you ever dared ter be!" - MARY JOHNSON BLACKBURN - - -July Eleventh - -The Old World had its Xantippe; but----the facts have not been fully -established in the New! - - "Under This Marble Tomb Lies The Body - Of The HON. JOHN CUSTIS, Esq., - Of The City Of Williamsburg, - And Parish of Bruton, - Formerly Of Hungar's Parish, On The - Eastern Shore - Of Virginia, And County Of Northampton, - Age 71 Years, And Yet Lived But Seven, - Which Was The Space Of Time He Kept - A Bachelor's Home At Arlington, - On The Eastern Shore Of Virginia." - - "This Inscription put on His Tomb was by His Own Positive Orders." - - -July Twelfth - -Jackson's genius for war, Lee's resistless magnetism, were not vouchsafed -to Hill; but in those characteristics in which he excelled: invincible -tenacity, absolute unconsciousness of fear, a courage never to submit or -yield, no one has risen above him, not even in the annals of the Army of -Northern Virginia. He was the very "Ironsides" of the South--Cromwell in -some of his essential characteristics coming again in the person and -genius of D. H. Hill. - - HENRY E. SHEPHERD - -_D. H. Hill born, 1821_ - - -July Thirteenth - - Though the Grey were outnumbered, he counted no odd, - But fought like a demon and struck like a god, - Disclaiming defeat on the blood-curdled sod, - As he pledged to the South that he loved. - VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE - -_N. B. Forrest born, 1821_ - - -July Fourteenth - - Pleasant and wonderfully fair, - Like one that knows her own domain, - Magnolia-flowers in her hair, - And orange-blossoms rare, - Let her not knock in vain! - Lift up your equal heads to her, - Of all your courts contain, co-heir, - For lo! she claims her own again! - DANIEL B. LUCAS - (_The South Shall Claim Her Own Again_) - - -July Fifteenth - -FACT OR FICTION? - -For four years the Northern States fought to keep their Southern sisters -in the Federal family; then having soundly thrashed these sisters in order -to keep them at home, they suddenly shut the door and kicked them down the -steps! The "erring sisters" are now fully restored to the family circle; -but they had a longer and more painful struggle in the effort to get back -than in the attempt to get away. More briefly, for four years the Federal -government, led by Lincoln, maintained that all of the Southern States -were in the Union and could not get out; and then for five years, under -the rule of the Radicals, it argued that some of these States were out of -the Union and could not get in! - - MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS - -_Reconstruction ended and the Union restored by the readmission of -Georgia, 1870_ - - -July Sixteenth - -I shall yet live to see it an English nation. - - SIR WALTER RALEIGH - -_Raleigh's first colony arrives at Roanoke Island, 1584_ - - -July Seventeenth - -KIN - -A visitor in the Old Chapel Graveyard, in Clarke County, Virginia, asked -the aged negro sexton if he knew the whereabouts of a certain grave, -adding that the deceased was her relative. - -"Ole Mis' Anne? Why ob cose I knows whar my ole mistis is! She your -gran'ma! Jus' to think now, if you hadn't spoke we never would have knowed -we was related!" - - -July Eighteenth - -Uncle Remus was quite a fogy in his idea of negro education. One day a -number of negro children, on their way home from school, were impudent to -the old man, and he was giving them an untempered piece of his mind, when -a gentleman apologized for them by saying: "Oh well, they are school -children. You know how they are." - -"Dat's what make I say what I duz," said Uncle Remus. "Dey better be at -home pickin' up chips. What a nigger gwineter learn outen books? I kin -take a bar'l stave and fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan -all de school houses betwixt dis en de New Nited States en Midgigin. Don't -talk, honey! wid one bar'l stave I kin fairly lif de vail er ignunce." - - (Quoted by) HENRY STILES BRADLEY - - -July Nineteenth - -What was my offense? My husband was absent--an exile. He had never been a -politician or in any way engaged in the struggle now going on, his age -preventing. The house was built by my father, a Revolutionary soldier, who -served the whole seven years for your independence.... Was it for this -that you turned me, my young daughter and little son out upon the world -without a shelter? Or was it because my husband was the grandson of the -Revolutionary patriot and "rebel," Richard Henry Lee, and the near kinsman -of the noblest of Christian warriors, the greatest of generals, Robert E. -Lee?... _Your_ name will stand on history's page as the Hunter of weak -women and innocent children; the Hunter to destroy defenseless villages -and refined and beautiful homes--to torture afresh the agonized hearts of -widows; the Hunter of Africa's poor sons and daughters, to lure them on to -ruin and death of soul and body; the Hunter with the relentless heart of a -wild beast, the face of a fiend and the form of a man. - - HENRIETTA B. LEE - - [Extract from letter to General Hunter, often referred to as the best - example of excoriating rebuke in American literature. Mrs. Lee's home - was burned July 19, 1864] - - -July Twentieth - - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat - The soldier's last tattoo; - No more on life's parade shall meet - The brave and fallen few. - On Fame's eternal camping-ground - Their silent tents are spread, - And Glory guards, with solemn round, - The bivouac of the dead. - THEODORE O'HARA - - [It is remarkable that the memorial inscriptions of Federal cemeteries - are taken from stanzas written by a "rebel" soldier-poet. Grand Army - Posts have also made use of "anonymous" lines by Major Wm. M. Pegram, - C. S. A., (quoted May 26th), when decorating Confederate graves. Both - uses are unconscious but eloquent tributes to the genius of Southern - expression.--Editor] - -_Burial in Frankfort of Kentuckians killed in the Mexican War, 1847_ - - -July Twenty-First - - We thought they slept!--the sons who kept - The names of noble sires, - And slumbered while the darkness crept - Around their vigil fires! - But, aye, the "Golden Horseshoe" knights - Their Old Dominion keep, - Whose foes have found enchanted ground, - But not a knight asleep. - FRANCIS O. TICKNOR - -_First Battle of Manassas, 1861_ - - -July Twenty-Second - - In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine - My tireless arm doth play, - Where the rocks never saw the sun's decline, - Or the dawn of the glorious day. - - * * * * * - - I blow the bellows, I forge the steel, - In all the shops of trade; - I hammer the ore and turn the wheel - Where my arms of strength are made; - I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint, - I carry, I spin, I weave, - And all my doings I put in print - On every Saturday eve. - GEORGE W. CUTTER - (_The Song of Steam_) - - -July Twenty-Third - - ... The rush, the tumult, and the fear - Of this our modern age - Have only widened out the poet's sphere, - Have given him a broader stage - On which to act his part. - The spiritual world of godlike aspirations, - The kingdom of the sympathetic heart, - The fair domain of high imaginations, - Lie open to the poet as of old. - Wrong still is wrong, and right is right, - - * * * * * - - And to declare that poetry must go, - Is to do God a wrong. - WILLIAM P. TRENT - (_The Age and the Poet_) - - -July Twenty-Fourth - -Ante-bellum Master: "Julius, you rascal, if this happens again we'll have -to part." - -"La, Marse Phil, whar you gwine?" - - -July Twenty-Fifth - - The nights are full of love; - The stars and moon take up the golden tale - Of the sunk sun, and passionate and pale, - Mixing their fires above, - Grow eloquent thereof. - MADISON CAWEIN - - -July Twenty-Sixth - -THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAMMY PHYLLIS - -"Hush, Mary Van," commanded Willis; "you can't crow, you've got to -cackle." - -"I haven't neether; I can crow just as good as you. Can't I, Mammy -Phyllis?" - -"Well," solemnly answered Phyllis, "it soun' mo' ladylike ter hear er hen -cackle dan ter crow, but dem wimmen fokes whut wants ter heah dersefs crow -is got de right ter do it," shaking her head in resignation but -disapproval, "but I allus notice dat de roosters keeps mo' comp'ny wid -hens whut cackles dan dem whut crows. G'long now an' cackle like er nice -lit'le hen." - - SARAH JOHNSON COCKE - - -July Twenty-Seventh - - 'Tis night! calm, lovely, silent, cloudless night! - Unnumbered stars on Heaven's blue ocean-stream, - Ships of Eternity! shed silver light, - Pure as an infant's or an angel's dream; - And still exhaustless, glorious, ever-bright, - Such as Creation's dawn beheld them beam, - In changeless orbits hold their ceaseless race - For endless ages over boundless space! - RICHARD HENRY WILDE - - -July Twenty-Eighth - -When he first set down he 'peared to keer mighty little 'bout playin', and -wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-leedled a little on the trible, and -twoodle-oodle-oodled some on the base--just foolin' and boxin' the thing's -jaws for bein' in his way. And I says to a man settin' next to me, s'I -"what sort of fool play'n is that?... He thinks he's a doing of it; but he -ain't got no idee, no plan of nuthin'. If he'd play me up a tune of some -kind or other, I'd----" - -But my neighbor says, "Heish!" very impatient.... - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - (_How Rubenstein Played_) - - -July Twenty-Ninth - -... He fetcht up his right wing, he fetcht up his left wing, he fetcht up -his centre, he fetcht up his reserves. He fired by file, he fired by -platoons, by company, by regiments and by brigades. He opened his cannon, -siege guns down thar, Napoleons here, twelve-pounders yonder, big guns, -little guns, middle-size guns, round shot, shell, shrapnel, grape, -canister, mortars, mines and magazines, every livin' battery and bomb -a'goin' at the same time. The house trembled, the lights danced, the walls -shuk, the floor came up, the ceilin' come down, the sky spilt, the ground -rockt--heavens and earth, creation, sweet potatoes, Moses, nine-pences, -glory, ten-penny nails, my Mary Ann, hallelujah, Samson in a 'simmon tree, -Jeroosal'm, Tump Tompson in a tumbler-cart, roodle--oodle--oodle--oodle-- -ruddle--uddle--uddle--uddle--raddle--addle--addle--addle--addle--riddle-- -iddle--iddle--iddle--reetle--eetle--eetle--eetle--eetle--p-r-r-r-r-r-land! -per lang! per lang! p-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-lang! Bang!... When I come to.... - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - (_How Rubenstein Played_) - - -July Thirtieth - -Let me also recall the fact that on July 30, 1619, eighteen months before -the Pilgrims set foot on American soil, the vine of liberty had so deeply -taken root in the colony of Virginia that there was assembled in the -church at Jamestown a free representative body (the first on American -soil)--the House of Burgesses--to deliberate for the welfare of the -people. - - RANDOLPH H. MCKIM - -_First Legislative Assembly in America meets at Jamestown, 1619_ - -_Battle of the Crater, near Petersburg, 1864_ - - -July Thirty-First - -It was probably the most remarkable evidence on record of the -resourcefulness of the Anglo-Saxon race, and its ability and determination -to dominate. Driven to desperation by conditions that threatened to -destroy their civilization, the citizens of the South, through this -organization, turned upon their enemies, overwhelmed them, and became -again masters of their own soil ... and its proper use must be commended -by all good men everywhere, for by it was preserved the purest Anglo-Saxon -civilization of this nation. - - CAREY A. FOLK - (_The Ku Klux Klan_) - - - - -August - - -SUMMER - - A trembling haze hangs over all the fields-- - The panting cattle in the river stand - Seeking the coolness which its wave scarce yields. - It seems a Sabbath thro' the drowsy land: - So hush'd is all beneath the Summer's spell, - I pause and listen for some faint church bell. - - The leaves are motionless--the song-bird's mute-- - The very air seems somnolent and sick: - The spreading branches with o'er-ripened fruit - Show in the sunshine all their clusters thick, - While now and then a mellow apple falls - With a dull sound within the orchard's walls. - - The sky has but one solitary cloud, - Like a dark island in a sea of light; - The parching furrows 'twixt the corn-rows plough'd - Seem fairly dancing in my dazzled sight, - While over yonder road a dusty haze - Grows reddish purple in the sultry blaze. - JAMES BARRON HOPE - - -August First - -The Southampton Insurrection, which occurred in August, 1831, was one of -those untoward incidents which so often marked the history of slavery. -Under the leadership of one Nat Turner, a negro preacher of some -education, who felt that he had been called of God to deliver his race -from bondage, the negroes attacked the whites at night, and before the -assault could be suppressed, fifty-seven whites, principally women and -children, had been killed. This deplorable event assumed an even more -portentous aspect when it was realized that the leader was a slave to whom -the privilege of education had been accorded, and that one of his -lieutenants was a free negro. In addition, there existed a wide-spread -belief among the whites that influences and instigations from without the -State were responsible for the insurrection. - - BEVERLY B. MUNFORD - - -August Second - -But in addition to the Southampton Massacre, and the failure of the -Legislature to enact any effective legislation, the contemporary rise of -the Abolitionists in the North came as an even more powerful factor to -embarrass the efforts of the Virginia emancipators. Unlike the -anti-slavery men of former years, this new school not only attacked the -institution of slavery, but the morality of the slaveholders and their -sympathizers. In their fierce arraignment, not only were the humane and -considerate linked in infamy with the cruel and intolerant, but the whole -population of the slave-holding States, their civilization and their -morals were the object of unrelenting and incessant assaults. - - BEVERLY B. MUNFORD - - -August Third - -Resolved, "That secession from the United States Government is the duty of -every Abolitionist, since no one can take office or deposit his vote under -the Constitution without violating his anti-slavery principles, and -rendering himself an abettor of the slave-holder in his sin." - - From Resolutions of the American Anti-Slavery Society - - -August Forth - -His last campaign alone, even ending as it did in defeat, would have -sufficed to fix him forever as a star of the first magnitude in the -constellation of great captains. Though he succumbed at last to the -"policy of attrition," pursued by his patient and able antagonist, it was -not until Grant had lost in the campaign over 124,000 men, better armed -and equipped--two men for every one that Lee had had in his army from the -beginning of the campaign. - - THOMAS NELSON PAGE - -_Lee elected President of Washington College, 1865_ - - -August Fifth - -By the recognized universal public law of all the earth, war dissolves all -political compacts. Our forefathers gave as one of their grounds for -asserting their independence that the King of Great Britain had "abdicated -government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war upon -us." The people and the Government of the Northern States of the late -Union have acted in the same manner toward Missouri, and have dissolved, -by war, the connection heretofore existing between her and them. - - GOV. C. F. JACKSON - -_Governor Jackson declares Missouri out of the Union, 1861_ - - -August Sixth - -Very soon after, the Essex was seen approaching under full steam. Stevens, -as humane as he was true and brave, finding that he could not bring a -single gun to bear upon the coming foe, sent all his people over the bows -ashore, remaining alone to set fire to his vessel; this he did so -effectually that he had to jump from the stern into the river and save -himself by swimming; and with colors flying, the gallant _Arkansas_, whose -decks had never been pressed by the foot of an enemy, was blown into the -air. - - CAPTAIN ISAAC N. BROWN - -_The "Arkansas" destroyed, 1862_ - -_Judah P. Benjamin born, 1811_ - - -August Seventh - - Oh, de cabin at de quarter in de old plantation days, - Wid de garden patch behin' it an' de gode-vine by de do', - An' de do'-yard sot wid roses, whar de chillun runs and plays, - An' de streak o' sunshine, yaller lak, er-slantin' on de flo'! - - But ole Mars' wuz killed at Shiloh, an' young Mars' at Wilderness; - Ole Mis' is in de graveyard, wid young Mis' by her side, - An' all er we-all's fambly is scattered eas' an' wes', - An' de gode-vine by de cabin do' an' de roses all has died! - MARY EVELYN MOORE DAVIS - - -August Eighth - - Here Carolina comes, her brave cheeks warm - And wet with tears, to take in charge this dust, - And brings her daughters to receive in form - Virginia's sacred trust. - JAMES BARRON HOPE - -_Monument erected to Anne Carter Lee, Warren County, N. C., said to be the -first monument erected by Southern women, 1866_ - - -August Ninth - - "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, - "Except now and then a stray picket - Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, - By a rifleman hid in the thicket. - 'Tis nothing--a private or two, now and then, - Will not count in the news of the battle; - Not an officer lost--only one of the men, - Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." - _From "All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night"_ - - [This poem has been claimed by a Mississippian. It has also been - claimed on behalf of a New York writer; but it now seems probable that - the verses were originally written in camp by Thaddeus Oliver, of - Georgia, in August, 1861.--Editor] - -_Francis Scott Key born, 1780_ - - -August Tenth - -To defend your birthright and mine, which is more precious than domestic -ease, or property, or life, I exchange, with proud satisfaction, a term of -six years in the Senate of the United States for the musket of a soldier. - - JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE - -_General Lyon killed and his army defeated by General Ben. McCulloch at -Wilson Creek, Mo., 1861_ - - -August Eleventh - - Against the night, a champion bright, - The glow-worm, lifts a spear of light; - And, undismayed, the slenderest shade - Against the noonday bares a blade. - JOHN B. TABB - (_Heroes_) - - -August Twelfth - -I will say that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about -in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; -that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of -negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor inter-marry with white -people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical -difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever -forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political -equality. And, inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain -together, there must be the position of superior and inferior; and I, as -much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position -assigned to the white race. - - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - -_The Mississippi Constitutional Convention meets in Jackson, 1890, -principally for the purpose of restricting suffrage_ - - -August Thirteenth - -Virginia, mother of States and statesmen, as she used to be called, has -contributed many men of worth to the multitude that America can number. -All her sons have loved her well, while many have reflected great honor on -her. But of them all, none has known how to draw her portrait like that -one who years ago, under the mild voice and quiet exterior of State -Librarian and occasional contributor to the Periodical Press, hid the soul -of a man of letters and an artist. - - THOMAS NELSON PAGE - -_George W. Bagby born, 1828_ - - -August Fourteenth - - Look, out of line one tall corn-captain stands - Advanced beyond the foremost of his bands, - And waves his blades upon the very edge - And hottest thicket of the battling hedge. - Thou lustrous stalk, that ne'er may walk nor talk, - Still shalt thou type the poet-soul sublime - That leads the vanward of his timid time - And sings up cowards with commanding rhyme. - SIDNEY LANIER - (_Corn_) - - -August Fifteenth - - In the hush of the valley of silence - I dream all the songs that I sing; - And the music floats down the dim Valley - Till each finds a word for a wing, - That to hearts, like the Dove of the Deluge, - A message of Peace they may bring. - ABRAM J. RYAN - -_Abram J. Ryan born, 1839_ - - -August Sixteenth - - Freighted with fruits, aflush with flowers,-- - Oblations to offended powers,-- - What fairy-like flotillas gleam - At night on Brahma's sacred stream. - - * * * * * - - Around each consecrated bark - That sailed into the outer dark - What lambent light those lanterns gave! - What opalescent mazes played - Reduplicated on the wave, - While, to and fro, like censers swayed, - They made it luminous to glass - Their fleeting splendors ere they pass! - THEOPHILUS HUNTER HILL - (_A Ganges Dream_) - -_Battle of Camden, S. C., 1780_ - - -August Seventeenth - -My judgments were never appealed from, and if they had been, they would -have stuck like wax, as I gave my decisions on the principles of common -justice and honesty between man and man, and relied not on law learning; -for I have never read a page in a law book in my life. - - DAVID CROCKETT - -_David Crockett born, 1786_ - - -August Eighteenth - - Like a mist of the sea at morn it comes, - Gliding among the fisher-homes-- - The vision of a woman fair; - And every eye beholds her there - Above the topmost dune, - With fluttering robe and streaming hair, - Seaward gazing in dumb despair, - Like one who begs of the waves a boon. - BENJAMIN SLEDD - (_The Wraith of Roanoke_) - -_Virginia Dare, the first child born in America of English parentage, -1587_ - - -August Nineteenth - - ... Hast thou perchance repented, Saracen Sun? - Wilt warm the world with peace and love-desire? - Or wilt thou, ere this very day be done, - Blaze Saladin still, with unforgiving fire? - SIDNEY LANIER - (_A Sunrise Song_) - - -August Twentieth - -"Well," says Uncle Remus, "de 'oman make 'umble 'pology ter de boy, but -howsomever he can't keep from rubbin' hisse'f in de naberhood er de coat -tails, whar she spank 'im. I bin livin' 'round here a mighty long time, -but I ain't never see no polergy what wuz poultice er plaster nuff to -swage er swellin' or kore a bruise. Now you jes keep dat in min' en git -sorry fo' you hurt anybody." - - JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS - - -August Twenty-First - -The radicals and negroes had, in the summer of 1867, refused to -"co-operate" with the representative white citizens in restoring political -and social order. The election of delegates to the constitutional -convention was held in October, 1867. About 94,000 negroes voted. The -radical majority included five foreign born, twenty-five negroes, -twenty-eight Northerners, and fourteen Virginians. Never before in the -history of the State had negroes sat in a law-making body. The former -political leaders were absent. The State had been revolutionized. - - JOHN PRESTON MCCONNELL - (_Reconstruction in Virginia_) - - -August Twenty-Second - - The moon has climbed her starry dome, - That taper gleams no more: - Delicious visions wait me home, - Delicious dreams of yore. - Old waves of thought voluptuous swell, - And rainbows spread amid the spell - Arcades of love and light. - Oh! what were slumber's drowsy kiss, - To golden visions such as this, - Through all the wakeful night? - JOSEPH SALYARDS - (_Idothea; Idyll III_) - - -August Twenty-Third - -EVOLUTION - - Out of the dark a shadow, - Then, a spark; - Out of the cloud a silence, - Then, a lark; - Out of the heart a rapture, - Then, a pain; - Out of the dead, cold ashes, - Life again. - JOHN B. TABB - - -August Twenty-Fourth - -I have led the young men of the South in battle; I have seen many of them -fall under my standard. I shall devote my life now to training young men -to do their duty in life. - - ROBERT E. LEE - -_General Lee accepts the Presidency of Washington College, 1865_ - - -August Twenty-Fifth - -BALM - - After the sun, the shade, - Beatitude of shadow, - Dim aisles for memory made,-- - And Thought; - After the sun, the shade. - - After the heat, the dew, - The tender touch of twilight; - The unfolding of the few - Calm Stars; - After the heat, the dew. - VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD - - -August Twenty-Sixth - -I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of -our enemies--from an army whose business it has been to seek the -adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not -defense. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same -system.... It is my purpose to do so, and that speedily.... Meanwhile, I -desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to -find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong -positions and holding them--of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. -Let us discard such ideas.... Let us study the probable line of our -opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. - - GEN. JOHN POPE, U. S. A. - (_Before Campaign in Virginia_) - - -August Twenty-Seventh - -Although a youth of only twenty-six years, he achieved, by his consummate -tact and extraordinary abilities, what the powerful influence of Franklin -failed to effect. - - ELKANAH WATSON - (New York) - -I knew him well, and he had not a fault that I could discover, unless it -were an intrepidity bordering on rashness. - - GEORGE WASHINGTON - -_John Laurens dies, 1782_ - - -August Twenty-Eighth - -STONEWALL JACKSON'S MEN HELP THEMSELVES TO POPE'S SUPPLIES, 1862 - -Weak and haggard from their diet of green corn and apples, one can well -imagine with what surprise their eyes opened upon the contents of the -sutler's stores, containing an amount and variety of property such as they -had never conceived. Then came a storming charge of men rushing in a -tumultuous mob over each other's heads, under each other's feet, anywhere, -everywhere to satisfy a craving stronger than a yearning for fame. There -were no laggards in that charge.... Men ragged and famished clutched -tenaciously at whatever came in their way, and whether of clothing or -food, of luxury or necessity. A long yellow-haired, bare-footed son of the -South claimed as prizes a tooth-brush, a box of candles, a barrel of -coffee. From piles of new clothing the Southerners arrayed themselves in -the blue uniforms of the Federals. The naked were clad, the barefooted -were shod, and the sick provided with luxuries to which they had long been -strangers. - - GEORGE H. GORDON, U. S. A. - - -August Twenty-Ninth - -Doctor McGuire, fresh from the ghastly spectacle of the silent -battle-field said: "General, this day has been won by nothing but stark -and stern fighting." - -"No," replied Jackson very quietly, "it has been won by nothing but the -blessing and protection of Providence." - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - - -August Thirtieth - -In the rapidity with which the opportunity was seized, in the combination -of the three arms, and in the vigor of the blow, Manassas is in no way -inferior to Austerlitz or Salamanca. That the result was less decisive was -due to the greater difficulties of the battle-field, to the stubborn -resistance of the enemy, to the obstacles in the way of rapid and -connected movement, and to the inexperience of the troops. - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -_Second Battle of Manassas, 1862_ - - -August Thirty-First - - My deep wound burns, my pale lips quake in death, - I feel my fainting heart resign its strife, - And reaching now the limit of my life. - Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath, - Yet many a dream hath charmed my youthful eye; - And must life's visions all depart? - Oh, surely no! for all that fired my heart - To rapture here shall live with me on high; - And that fair form that won my earliest vow, - That my young spirit prized all else above, - And now adored as Freedom, now as Love, - Stands in seraphic guise before me now; - And as my failing senses fade away - It beckons me on high, to realms of endless day. - - [Sonnet composed by John Laurens as he lay dying of wounds and fever - incurred in a campaign against the British in South Carolina.--Editor] - - - - -September - - -AUTUMN SONG - - My Life is but a leaf upon the tree-- - A growth upon the stem that feedeth all. - A touch of frost--and suddenly I fall, - To follow where my sister-blossoms be. - - The selfsame sun, the shadow, and the rain - That brought the budding verdure to the bough, - Shall strip the fading foliage as now, - And leave the limb in nakedness again. - - My life is but a leaf upon the tree; - The winds of birth and death upon it blow; - But whence it came and whither it shall go, - Is mystery of mysteries to me. - JOHN B. TABB - - -September First - - Around me blight, where all before was bloom! - And so much lost! alas! and nothing won; - Save this--that I can lean on wreck and tomb, - And weep--and weeping pray--Thy will be done. - ABRAM J. RYAN - (_The Prayer of the South_) - -_General Hood evacuates Atlanta, 1864_ - - -September Second - -Sixty thousand of us witnessed the destruction of Atlanta, while our post -band and that of the Thirty-third Massachusetts played martial airs and -operatic selections. - - CAPT. DANIEL OAKEY, U. S. A. - -_Sherman enters Atlanta, 1864_ - - -September Third - -On this point, however, all parties in the South were agreed, and the vast -majority of the people of the North--before the war. The Abolitionist -proper was considered not so much a friend of the negro as the enemy of -society. As the war went on, and the Abolitionist saw the "glory of the -Lord" revealed in a way he had never hoped for, he saw at the same time, -or rather ought to have seen, that the order he had lived to destroy could -not have been a system of hellish wrong and fiendish cruelty; else the -prophetic vision of the liberators would have been fulfilled, and the -horrors of San Domingo would have polluted this fair land. For the negro -race does not deserve undivided praise for its conduct during the war. Let -some small part of the credit be given to the masters, not all to the -finer qualities of their "brothers in black." The school in which the -training was given is closed, and who wishes to open it? Its methods were -old-fashioned and were sadly behind the times, but the old schoolmasters -turned out scholars who, in certain branches of moral philosophy, were not -inferior to the graduates of the new university. - - BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE - (_On Slavery_) - - -September Fourth - -TOAST OF MORGAN'S MEN - - Unclaimed by the land that bore us, - Lost in the land we find, - The brave have gone before us, - Cowards are left behind! - Then stand to your glasses, steady, - Here's health to those we prize, - Here's a toast to the dead already, - And here's to the next who dies. - -_General John H. Morgan killed, 1864_ - - -September Fifth - -If slavery were an unutterably evil institution, with no alleviating -features, how are we to account for the fact that when the Confederate -soldiers were at the front fighting, as they thought, for their -independence, the negroes on the plantations took care of the women and -children and old people, and nothing like an act of violence was ever -known among them?... Is it not perfectly evident that there was a great -rebellion, but that the rebels were the Northerners and that those who -defended the Constitution as it was were the Southerners; but they -defended State rights and slavery, which were distinctly intrenched within -the Constitution? - - CHARLES E. STOWE - (_A Northern view in the light of fifty years of history_) - - -September Sixth - -In regard to Barbara Frietchie a word may be said: An old woman by that -now immortal name did live in Frederick in those days, but she was 84 -years of age and bed-ridden. She never saw General Jackson, and he never -saw her. I was with him every minute of the time he was in Frederick, and -nothing like the scene so graphically described by the poet ever happened. - - HENRY KYD DOUGLAS - -_Jackson enters Frederick, Md., 1862_ - - -September Seventh - -OF JAMES RUMSEY, INVENTOR OF THE FIRST STEAMBOAT - -I have seen the model of Mr. Rumsey's boat, constructed to work against -the stream, examined the powers upon which it acts, been the eye witness -to an actual experiment in running water of some rapidity, and give it as -my opinion (although I had little faith before) that he has discovered the -art of working boats by mechanism and small manual assistance against -rapid currents; that the discovery is of vast importance; may be of the -greatest usefulness in our inland navigation, and if it succeeds (of which -I have no doubt) that the value of it is greatly enhanced by the -simplicity of the works; which, when seen and explained, may be executed -by the most common mechanic. - -Given under my hand at the Town of Bath, County of Berkeley, in the State -of Virginia, this 7th day of September, 1784. - - GEORGE WASHINGTON - -_Sidney Lanier dies, 1881_ - - -September Eighth - - Ere Time's horizon-line was set, - Somewhere in space our spirits met, - Then o'er the starry parapet - Came wandering here. - And now, that thou art gone again - Beyond the verge, I haste amain - (Lost echo of a loftier strain) - To greet thee there. - JOHN B. TABB - (_Ave: Sidney Lanier_) - -_Battle of Eutaw Springs, S. C., 1781_ - - -September Ninth - -Their conduct indeed was exemplary. They had been warned that pillage and -depredations would be severely dealt with, and all requisitions, even -fence-rails, were paid for on the spot. - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -_Lee and Jackson in occupation of Frederick, Md., 1862_ - - -September Tenth - - My life is like the autumn leaf - That trembles in the moon's pale ray; - Its hold is frail, its date is brief, - Restless, and soon to pass away! - Yet ere that leaf shall fall and fade, - The parent tree will mourn its shade, - The winds bewail the leafless tree; - But none shall breathe a sigh for me! - RICHARD HENRY WILDE - -_Richard Henry Wilde dies, 1847_ - -_Joseph Wheeler born, 1836_ - - -September Eleventh - -Long and close association with the white race had its civilizing effect -upon the negroes, and it was not long before the two races became warmly -attached, both alike manifesting a keen interest in the other's welfare. -Thus as economic interests had fixed the system in the laws of the people, -the domestication of the race fixed it in their hearts. The abolitionist -was right in his position on the ethics of slavery, but more than -benighted in his conception of its condition in the South. - - DUNBAR ROWLAND - - -September Twelfth - -In conclusion, the Battle of North Point saved Baltimore from a -pre-determined fate; it encouraged the rest of the country; it, with -Plattsburg, caused the English Ministry to suggest that the Duke of -Wellington should take command in America, and it influenced the terms of -the treaty of Ghent in favor of the United States. - - FREDERICK M. COLSTON - -_Battle of North Point, Md., 1814_ - - -September Thirteenth - -LEE'S ORDER OF INVASION, 1862 - -That he did not reap the full fruits of this wonderful generalship was due -to one of those strange events which, so insignificant in itself, yet is -fateful to decide the issues of nations.... - -It will be seen that Lee had no doubt whatever of the success of his -undertaking. Both he and Jackson knew Harper's Ferry and the surrounding -country, and his plan, so simple and yet so complete, was laid out with a -precision as absolute as if formed on the ground instead of on the march -in a new country. It was this order showing the dispersion of his army -over twenty-odd miles of country, with a river flowing between its widely -scattered parts, that by a strange fate fell in McClellan's hands. - - THOMAS NELSON PAGE - - -September Fourteenth - - On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, - Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, - What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, - As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? - Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, - In full glory reflected now shines on the stream; - 'Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! - FRANCIS SCOTT KEY - -No more sacred spot in New Orleans, a city famous for its historic -memories, can be pointed out than Liberty Place, where these martyrs fell; -and no more memorable day can be found in the calendar of Louisiana's -history than Sept. 14, 1874. - - HENRY EDWARD CHAMBERS - (_Referring to the rout of General Longstreet and the Carpet-bagger - police by citizens, eleven of whom were killed_) - -_Francis Scott Key writes the "Star Spangled Banner," 1814_ - -_Battle of Boonsboro, 1862_ - -_Rule of the Carpet-bagger shaken, New Orleans, 1874_ - - -September Fifteenth - -General Jackson, after a brief dispatch to General Lee announcing the -capitulation, rode up to Bolivar and down into Harper's Ferry. The -curiosity of the Union Army to see him was so great that the soldiers -lined the sides of the road. Many of them uncovered as he passed, and he -invariably returned the salute. One man had an echo of response all about -him when he said aloud: "Boys, he's not much for looks, but if we'd had -him we wouldn't have been caught in this trap." - - HENRY KYD DOUGLAS - -_Capture of Harper's Ferry by Jackson, 1862_ - - -September Sixteenth - -Mr. Lincoln, sir, have you any late news from Mr. Harper's Ferry? I heard -that Stone W. Jackson kept the parole for a few days, and that about -fourteen thousand crossed over in twenty-four hours. He is a smart -ferryman, sure. Do your folks know how to make it pay? It is a bad -crossing, but I suppose it is a heap safer than Ball's Bluff or -Shepherdstown. - - BILL ARP (Charles H. Smith) - (_Humorous "Letter to Lincoln"_) - - -September Seventeenth - -The moon, rising above the mountains, revealed the long lines of men and -guns, stretching far across hill and valley, waiting for the dawn to shoot -each other down, and between the armies their dead lay in such numbers as -civilised war has seldom seen. So fearful had been the carnage, and -comprised within such narrow limits, that a Federal patrol, it is related, -passing into the corn-field, where the fighting had been fiercest, -believed that they had surprised a whole Confederate brigade. There, in -the shadow of the woods, lay the skirmishers, their muskets beside them; -and there, in regular ranks, lay the line of battle, sleeping, as it -seemed, the profound sleep of utter exhaustion. But the first man that was -touched was cold and lifeless, and the next, and the next; it was the -bivouac of the dead. - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -_Battle of Antietam, 1862_ - - -September Eighteenth - - He's in the saddle now. Fall in, - Steady the whole brigade! - Hill's at the ford, cut off; we'll win - His way out, ball and blade. - What matter if our shoes are worn? - What matter if our feet are torn? - Quick step! We're with him before morn-- - That's Stonewall Jackson's way. - JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER - - [From lines written within the sound of Jackson's guns at Antietam, - 1862. Although then a correspondent of the New York _Tribune_, Dr. - Palmer was a Southerner by birth and residence.--Editor] - -_Lee awaits McClellan's attack at Sharpsburg, 1862_ - - -September Nineteenth - -As a deputation from New England was one day leaving the White House, a -delegate turned round and said: "Mr. President, I should much like to know -what you reckon to be the number the rebels have in arms against us?" - -Without a moment's hesitation Mr. Lincoln replied: "Sir, I have the best -possible reason for knowing the number to be one million of men, for -whenever one of our generals engages a rebel army he reports that he has -encountered a force twice his strength. I know we have half a million -soldiers, so I am bound to believe that the rebels have twice that -number." - - LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. - -_Lee repulses attempted advance across the Potomac after Antietam, 1862_ - -_First day at Chickamauga, 1863_ - - -September Twentieth - -Judged by percentage in killed and wounded, Chickamauga nearly doubled the -sanguinary records of Marengo and Austerlitz; was two and a half times -heavier than that sustained by the Duke of Marlborough at Malplaquet; more -than double that suffered by the army under Henry of Navarre in the -terrific slaughter at Coutras; nearly three times as heavy as the -percentage of loss at Solferino and Magenta; five times greater than that -of Napoleon at Wagram, and about ten times as heavy as that of Marshall -Saxe at Bloody Raucoux.... Or, if we take the average percentage of loss -in a number of the world's great battles--Waterloo, Wagram, Valmy, -Magenta, Solferino, Zurich, and Lodi--we shall find by comparison that -Chickamauga's record of blood surpassed them nearly three for one. - - GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON - -_Second day at Chickamauga, 1863_ - - -September Twenty-First - -THE OLD TIME NEGRO - -God bless the forlorn and ragged remnants of a race now passing away. God -bless the old black hand that rocked our infant cradles, smoothed the -pillow of our infant sleep, and fanned the fever from our cheeks. God -bless the old tongue that immortalized the nursery rhyme, the old eyes -that guided our truant feet, and the old heart that laughed at our -childish freaks. - - PETER FRANCISCO SMITH - - -September Twenty-Second - -If I could preserve the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; -if I could preserve the Union by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. -What I do about the colored race, I do because I think it helps to save -the Union. - - ABRAHAM LINCOLN - -_President Lincoln issues an emancipation proclamation to take effect -January 1, 1863, unless the Confederate States should return to the Union -by that date_ - - -September Twenty-Third - -THE MOCKING-BIRD - - The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong. - No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone! - The poets sing but strains of Shakespeare's song; - The birds, but notes of thine imperial own! - HENRY JEROME STOCKARD - - -September Twenty-Fourth - -No other man did half so much either to develop the Constitution by -expounding it, or to secure for the judiciary its rightful place in the -Government as the living voice of the Constitution.... The admiration and -respect which he and his colleagues won for the court remain its bulwark: -the traditions which were formed under him and them have continued in -general to guide the action and elevate the sentiments of their -successors. - - JAMES BRYCE - (England) - -_John Marshall born, 1755_ - -_Zachary Taylor born, 1784_ - - -September Twenty-Fifth - - We are gathered here a feeble few - Of those who wore the gray-- - The larger and the better part - Have mingled with the clay: - Yet not so lost, but now and then - Through dimming mist we see - The deadly calm of Stonewall's face, - The lion-front of Lee. - HENRY LYNDEN FLASH - -_Memoirs of the Blue and Gray read at Los Angeles, 1897_ - - -September Twenty-Sixth - - Summer is dead, ay me! Sweet summer's dead! - The sunset clouds have built his funeral pyre, - Through which, e'en now, runs subterranean fire: - While from the East, as from a garden-bed, - Mist-vined, the Dusk lifts her broad moon--like some - Great golden melon--saying, "Fall has come." - MADISON CAWEIN - - -September Twenty-Seventh - -All America will soon treasure alike both Federal and Confederate -exploits, in the greatest of wars, as a priceless national heritage. Then -Semmes and the _Alabama_ will shine beside John Paul Jones and the -_Bonhomme Richard_, Decatur and the _Philadelphia_, Lawrence and the -_Chesapeake_, and be ever lauded with the victories of _Old Ironsides_, -the intrepid deed of Farragut sailing over the mines in the channel of -Mobile Bay, that of Dewey entering Manila Harbor, and of Hobson bringing -the _Merrimac_ under the fire of the forts at Santiago. - - JOHN C. REED - -_Raphael Semmes born, 1809_ - - -September Twenty-Eighth - -The _Alabama_ had been built in perfect good faith by the Lairds. When she -was contracted for no question had been raised as to the right of a -neutral to build and sell to a belligerent such a ship. The reader has -seen that the Federal Secretary of the Navy himself had endeavored not -only to build an _Alabama_, but ironclads in England. - - RAPHAEL SEMMES - -_John Laurens born, 1754_ - - -September Twenty-Ninth - - When summer flowers are dying, - August past, - When Autumn's breath is sighing - On the blast; - When the red leaves flutter down - To the sod, - Then the year kneels for its crown-- - Goldenrod! - VIRGINIA LUCAS - - -September Thirtieth - - Thistles send their missives white - To the sky; - Robins southward wing their flight, - (Sad goodbye!) - But where Summer, yellow-gowned, - Last has trod, - Thorn-torn fragments strew the ground-- - Goldenrod! - VIRGINIA LUCAS - - - - -October - - - Thy glory flames in every blade and leaf - To blind the eyes of grief; - Thy vineyards and thine orchards bend with fruit - That sorrow may be mute; - - A hectic splendor lights thy days to sleep, - Ere the gray dusk may creep - Sober and sad along thy dusty ways, - Like a lone nun, who prays; - - High and faint-heard thy passing migrant calls; - Thy lazy lizard sprawls - On his gray stone, and many slow winds creep - About thy hedge, asleep; - - The Sun swings farther toward his love, the South, - To kiss her glowing mouth; - And Death, who steals among thy purpling bowers, - Is deeply hid in flowers. - JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL - - -October First - - Come on thy swaying feet, - Wild Spirit of the Fall! - With wind-blown skirts, loose hair of russet brown - Crowned with bright berries of the bitter sweet. - Trip a light measure with the hurrying leaf, - Straining thy few late roses to thy breast: - With laughter overgay, sweet eyes drooped down, - That none may guess thy grief: - Dare not to pause for rest - Lest the slow tears should gather to their fall. - DANSKE DANDRIDGE - - -October Second - -In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of -this fundamental maxim--that all power was originally lodged in, and -consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, -and buckle it on as our armour. - - GEORGE MASON - - -October Third - - What a brave splendour - Is in the October air! How rich and clear-- - How life-full, and all joyous! We must render - Love to the Spring-time, with its sproutings tender, - As to a child quite dear-- - But autumn is a noon, prolonged, of glory-- - A manhood not yet hoary. - PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE - - -October Fourth - - At morn--at noon--at twilight dim-- - Maria! thou hast heard my hymn! - In joy and woe--in good and ill-- - Mother of God, be with me still! - When the Hours flew brightly by, - And not a cloud obscured the sky, - My soul, lest it should truant be, - Thy grace did guide to thine and thee! - Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast - Darkly my Present and my Past, - Let my future radiant shine - With sweet hopes of thee and thine! - EDGAR ALLAN POE - - -October Fifth - - Tormented sorely by the chastening rod, - I muttered to myself: "There is no God!" - But faithful friend, I found your soul so true, - That God revealed Himself in giving you. - WALTER MALONE - - -October Sixth - - Who said "false as dreams"? Not one who saw - Into the wild and wondrous world they sway; - No thinker who hath read their mystic law; - No Poet who hath weaved them in his lay. - HENRY TIMROD - -_Henry Timrod dies, 1867_ - -_Nathaniel Bacon dies, 1676_ - - -October Seventh - - And the fever called "Living" - Is conquered at last. - EDGAR ALLAN POE - -_Edgar Allan Poe dies, 1849_ - -_Battle of King's Mountain, N. C., 1780_ - - -October Eighth - -EDGAR ALLAN POE - -It is no small achievement to have sung a few imperishable songs of -bereaved love and illusive beauty. It is no small achievement to have -produced individual and unexcelled strains of harmony which have since so -rung in the ears of brother poets that echoes of them may be detected even -in the work of such original and accomplished versemen as Rossetti and -Swinburne. It is no small achievement to have pursued one's ideal until -one's dying day, conscious the while that, great as one's impediments have -been from without, one's chief obstacle has been one's own self. - - WILLIAM P. TRENT - -All who possess the divine element of pity will unite in feeling that his -sufferings were his expiation. - - LETITIA H. WRENSHALL - - -October Ninth - -BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN: THE FIRST REBEL YELL - -And they came, these mountaineers of the South. Congress has not ordered -them; it is a rally of volunteers.... They neither hesitate nor parley; -they hitch their horses to the trees; like a girdle of steel they clasp -the mountain; and up they go, at the enemy--rifles blazing as they -advance, and the Southern yell ringing through the woods. - - THOMAS E. WATSON - -It was the joyful annunciation of that turn of the tide of success which -terminated the Revolutionary War with the seal of our independence. - - THOMAS JEFFERSON - - -October Tenth - -Soldiers! You are about to engage in an enterprise which, to insure -success, imperatively demands at your hands coolness, decision, and -bravery; implicit obedience to orders without a question or cavil; and the -strictest order and sobriety on the march and in bivouac. The destination -and extent of this expedition had better be kept to myself than known to -you. Suffice it to say, that with the hearty cooperation of officers and -men I have not a doubt of its success,--a success which will reflect -credit in the highest degree upon your arms. - - MAJ.-GEN. J. E. B. STUART - -_J. E. B. Stuart, with 1,800 men, begins his second circle around the -Union Army, riding through Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1862_ - - -October Eleventh - -His firmness and perseverance yielded to nothing but impossibilities. A -rigid disciplinarian, yet tender as a father to those committed to his -charge; honest, disinterested, liberal, with a sound understanding and a -scrupulous fidelity to truth. - - THOMAS JEFFERSON - -_Meriwether Lewis dies, 1809_ - - -October Twelfth - -LEE - -He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without -cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without -vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a -Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Cæsar without -his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his -selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was as obedient to -authority as a true king. He was as gentle as a woman in life, pure and -modest as a virgin in thought, watchful as a Roman vestal in duty, -submissive to law as Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles. - - BENJAMIN H. HILL - -_Robert E. Lee dies, 1870_ - -_Chief Justice Roger B. Taney dies, 1864_ - - -October Thirteenth - -TANEY - -It was the conviction of his life that the Government under which we live -was of limited powers, and that its constitution had been framed for war -as well as peace. Though he died, therefore, he could not surrender that -conviction at the call of the trumpet. He had plighted his troth to the -liberty of the citizen and the supremacy of the laws, and no man could put -them asunder. - - SEVERN TEACKLE WALLIS - - -October Fourteenth - -LEE - -He sent to the suffering private in the hospitals the delicacies -contributed for his personal use from the meagre stores of those who were -anxious about his health. If a handful of real coffee came to him, it went -in the same direction, while he cheerfully drank from his tin cup the -wretched substitute made from parched corn or beans. - - GEN. JOHN B. GORDON - - -October Fifteenth - -THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN - - Let the autumn hoarfrost gather, - Let the snows of winter drift, - For there blooms a fruit of valor that - The world may not forget. - Fold your faded gray coat closer, for - It was your country's gift, - And it brings her holiest message-- - There is glory in it yet. - VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE - - -October Sixteenth - -This button here upon my cuff is valueless, whether for use or for -ornament, but you shall not tear it from me and spit in my face besides; -no, not if it cost me my life. And if your time be passed in the attempt -to so take it, then my time and my every thought shall be spent in -preventing such outrage. Let alone, the Virginian would gladly have made -an end of slavery, but, strange hap, malevolence and meddling bound it up -with every interest that was dear to his heart. - - GEORGE W. BAGBY - (_Slavery_) - -_John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1859_ - - -October Seventeenth - -JOHN BROWN'S RAID - -Of course a transaction so flagitious with its attendant circumstances ... -could but produce the profoundest impression upon the people of the South. -Here was open and armed "aggression"; whether clearly understood and -encouraged beforehand, certainly exulted in afterwards, by persons of a -very different standing from that of the chief actor in this bloody -incursion into a peaceful State. - - GEORGE LUNT - (Massachusetts) - -"Saint John the Just" was the verdict of the Concord philosophers -concerning John Brown. "The new Saint ... will make the gallows glorious -like the Cross" was the sentiment of Emerson that drew applause from a -vast assemblage in Boston. - - HENRY A. WHITE - - -October Eighteenth - -I address you on this occasion with a profound admiration for the great -consideration which caused you to honor me by your votes with a seat in -the Senate of Georgy. For two momentus and inspirin' weeks the Legislature -has been in solemn session, one of whom I am proud to be which. For -several days we were engaged as scouts, making a sorter reconysance to see -whether Georgy were a State or a Injin territory, whether we were in the -old Un-ion or out of it, whether me and my folks and you and your folks -were somebody or no body, and lastly, but by no means leastly, whether our -poor innocent children, born durin' the war, were all illegal and had to -be born over agin or not. This last pint are much unsettled, but our women -are advised to be calm and serene. - - "BILL ARP" - (_To His Constituents_) - - -October Nineteenth - - Float out, oh flag, from Freedom's burnished lance. - Float out, oh flag, in Red and White and Blue! - The Union's colors and the hues of France - Commingled on the view! - JAMES BARRON HOPE - -_Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 1781_ - -_Burning of the "Peggy Stewart" at Annapolis, 1774_ - - -October Twentieth - -Her right to it rested upon as firm a basis as the right of any other -Commonwealth to her own domain, and if there was any question of the -Virginia title by charter, she could assert her right by conquest. The -region had been wrested from the British by a Virginian commanding -Virginian troops; the people had taken "the oath of allegiance to the -Commonwealth of Virginia"; and her title to the entire territory was thus -indisputable.... - -These rights she now abandoned; and her action was the result of an -enlarged patriotism and devotion to the cause of union. - - JOHN ESTEN COOKE - -_Virginia cedes to the general government the territory north of the Ohio, -1783_ - - -October Twenty-First - -When social relations were resumed between the North and South--they -followed slowly the resumption of business relations--what we should call -the color-blindness of the other side often manifested itself in a -delicate reticence on the part of our Northern friends; and as the war had -by no means constituted their lives as it had constituted ours for four -long years, the success in avoiding the disagreeable topic would have been -considerable, if it had not been for awkward allusions on the part of the -Southerners, who, having been shut out for all that time from the study of -literature and art and other elegant and uncompromising subjects, could -hardly keep from speaking of this and that incident of the war. Whereupon -a discreet, or rather an embarrassed silence, as if a pardoned convict had -playfully referred to the arson or burglary, not to say worse, that had -been the cause of his seclusion. - - BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE - - -October Twenty-Second - - Oh, the rolling, rolling prairies, and the grasses waving, waving - Like green billows 'neath the gulf breeze in the perfumed purple gloam! - Oh, my heart is heavy, heavy, and my eyes are craving, craving - For the fertile plains and forests of my far-off Texas home. - JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS - (_Longing for Texas_) - -_Samuel Houston inaugurated President of Texas, 1836_ - - -October Twenty-Third - -BEARING THE NEWS FROM YORKTOWN TO PHILADELPHIA - -All the night of the 22d he rode up the peninsula, not a sound disturbing -the silence of the darkness except the beat of his horse's hoofs. Every -three or four hours he would ride up to a lonely homestead, still and -quiet and dark in the first slumbers of the night, and thunder on the door -with his sword: "Cornwallis is taken: a fresh horse for the Congress!" -Like an electric shock the house would flash with an instant light and -echo with the pattering feet of women, and before a dozen greetings could -be exchanged, and but a word given of the fate of the loved ones at York, -Tilghman would vanish in the gloom, leaving a trail of glory and joy -behind him. - - BRADLEY T. JOHNSON - -_Col. Tench Tilghman's ride, 1781_ - - -October Twenty-Fourth - -IMMORTALITY - - Battles nor songs can from Oblivion save, - But Fame upon a white deed loves to build; - From out that cup of water Sidney gave, - Not one drop has been spilled. - LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE - - -October Twenty-Fifth - -Supposing a disintegration of the Union, notwithstanding all efforts to -prevent it, to be forced upon us by the obstinacy and impracticability of -parties on each side--the case would still be far from hopeless. The -Border States, in that event, would form, in self-defence, a Confederacy -of their own, which would serve as a centre of reinforcement for the -reconstruction of the Union. - - JOHN P. KENNEDY - (_In "The Border States--their Power and Duty in the Present - Disordered Condition of the Country"_) - -_John P. Kennedy born, 1795_ - - -October Twenty-Sixth - - Give us back the ties of Yorktown! - Perish all the modern hates! - Let us stand together, brothers, - In defiance of the Fates; - For the safety of the Union - Is the safety of the States! - JAMES BARRON HOPE - (_Centennial Ode_) - - -October Twenty-Seventh - -The attempt made to establish a separate and independent confederation has -failed, but the consciousness of having done your duty faithfully and to -the end will in some measure repay for the hardships you have undergone. -In bidding you farewell, rest assured that you carry with you my best -wishes for your future welfare and happiness.... I now cheerfully and -gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to the officers and men of my -command, whose zeal, fidelity, and unflinching bravery have been the great -source of my past success in arms. I have never on the field of battle -sent you where I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good -soldiers, you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, -and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will -be magnanimous. - - N. B. FORREST - (_Farewell Address to His Soldiers_) - - -October Twenty-Eighth - -Whether in the thickest of the battle, where hundreds or thousands were -rushing at each other in deadly combat, or on the lonely highway where he -came face to face with a single adversary, or in the reconnoissance by day -or night, when alone or attended by a single member of his staff he would -ride into the enemy's lines and even into their camps, he was with pistol -or sabre ever ready to assert his physical prowess. It is known that he -placed _hors de combat_ thirty Federal officers or soldiers fighting -hand-to-hand. - - JOHN A. WYETH - - -October Twenty-Ninth - - Swing, rustless blade, in the dauntless hand; - Ride, soul of a god, through the deathless band, - Through the low green mounds, or the breadth of the land, - Wherever your legions dwell! - VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE - -_Gen. N. B. Forrest dies, 1877_ - - -October Thirtieth - -It will be difficult in all history to find a more varied career than his, -a man who, from the greatest poverty, without any learning, and by sheer -force of character alone became the great fighting leader of fighting men, -a man in whom an extraordinary military instinct and sound common-sense -supplied to a very large extent his unfortunate want of military -education. His military career teaches us that the genius which makes men -great soldiers is not art of war. - - VISCOUNT WOLSELEY - (England) - - -October Thirty-First - -Rising from the position of a private soldier to wear the wreath and stars -of a lieutenant-general, and that without education or influence to help -him, wounded four times and having twenty-nine horses shot under him, -capturing 31,000 prisoners, and cannon, flags, and stores of all kinds -beyond computation, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a born genius for war, and -his career is one of the most brilliant and romantic to be found in the -pages of history. - - REV. J. WILLIAM JONES - - - - -November - - -FALL - - Sad-hearted Spirit of the solitudes, - Who comest through the ruin-wedded woods! - Gray-gowned in fog, gold-girdled with the gloom - Of tawny sunsets; burdened with perfume - Of rain-wet uplands, chilly with the mist; - And all the beauty of the fire-kissed - Cold forests crimsoning thy indolent way, - Odorous of death and drowsy with decay. - I think of thee as seated 'mid the showers - Of languid leaves that cover up the flowers-- - The little flower-sisterhoods, whom June - Once gave wild sweetness to, as to a tune - A singer gives her soul's wild melody-- - Watching the squirrel store his granary. - Or, 'mid old orchards, I have pictured thee: - Thy hair's profusion blown about thy back; - One lovely shoulder bathed with gypsy black; - Upon thy palm one nestling cheek, and sweet - The rosy russets tumbled at thy feet. - Was it a voice lamenting for the flowers? - Or heart-sick bird that sang of happier hours? - A cricket dirging days that soon must die? - Or did the ghost of Summer wander by? - MADISON CAWEIN - - -November First - -The white people owe a high duty to the negro. It was necessary to the -safety of the State to base suffrage on the capacity to exercise it -wisely. This results in excluding a great number of negroes from the -ballot, but their right to life, liberty, property, and justice must be -even more carefully safeguarded than ever. It is true that a superior race -cannot submit to the rule of a weaker race without injury; it is also true -in the long years of God that the strong cannot oppress the weak without -destruction. - - CHARLES B. AYCOCK - -_The New Constitution of Mississippi adopted, 1890_ - - -November Second - -It becomes the duty of all States, and especially of those whose -constitutions recognize the existence of domestic slavery, to look with -watchfulness to the attempts which have been recently made to disturb the -rights secured to them by the Constitution of the United States. - - JAMES KNOX POLK - -_James Knox Polk born, 1795_ - - -November Third - -FROM THE LAST-KNOWN DECLARATION OF THE NATURAL RIGHTS OF MAN! VIRGINIA, -1687 - -Man in marriage is said to repair his maimed side, and to regain his own -rib. And the woman is then and thereby reduced to her first place.... From -a rib to a helper was a happy change. - - COL. JOHN PAGE - (_In "A Deed of Gift"_) - - -November Fourth - -NOVEMBER - - 'Neath naked boughs, and sitting in the sun, - With idle hands, because her work is done, - I mark how smiles the lovely, fading year, - Crowned with chrysanthemums and berries bright, - And in her eyes the shimmer of a tear. - DANSKE DANDRIDGE - - -November Fifth - -It came to pass that I was one of the few who witnessed the last -descending glory of this attempted Republic, projected by men who -considered that the only true and natural foundation of society was "the -wants and fears of individuals," but which was decided adversely to -_their_ interpretation of that natural law, by the God of battles. - - CORNELIUS E. HUNT - (_Of "The Shenandoah"_) - - [Learning Aug. 2, 1865, in the course of her cruising in the Pacific, - that the Confederate government no longer existed, and knowing that - they had been rated as "pirates" by Federal officials, the captain and - crew determined to surrender their flag and commission in a foreign - port, setting out forthwith for Liverpool, England.--Editor] - - -November Sixth - -The First Lieutenant stood ... gazing at the flag under which he had so -long done battle, and then turned away with tears coursing down his -bronzed cheeks. - -He was not alone in this exhibition of weakness, if such it was, for more -than one eye, unaccustomed to weep, turned aside to conceal the unwonted -drops, as at a silent signal, the quartermaster hauled down the Stars and -Bars, thereby surrendering the Shenandoah to the British authorities. - - CORNELIUS E. HUNT - (_Of "The Shenandoah"_) - -_The "Shenandoah" furls the last Confederate battle flag, 1865_ - - -November Seventh - - A very shy fellow was dusky Sam, - As slow of speech as the typical clam. - He couldn't make love to his Angeline - Though his love grew like the Great Gourd Vine; - So he brought the telephone to his aid - To assist in wooing the chosen maid: - "Miss Angeline? Dat you?" called he. - "Yas.--Dis Angeline--Dis me--" - "I--des wanter say--dat I does--love you-- - Miss Angeline--does you love me, too--?" - "Why--yas--Of course I loves my beau-- - Say what's de reason you wants to know?" - "Miss--hold de wire--Will you marry me? True--?" - "Yas. Course I will----Say. Who is you?" - MARTHA YOUNG - - -November Eighth - -History will record the events attending this capture as a most -extraordinary lapse in the career of a civilized nation--an instance where -statesmen and _Jurisconsults_ betrayed their country to administer to the -passions of a mob. Edward Everett ... wrote for the newspapers, -vindicating on principles of public law, the act of Captain Wilkes. - - JAMES M. MASON - -_The English Royal Mail steamer "Trent" held up by the Federal war-ship -"San Jacinto" and the Confederate commissioners, Mason and Slidell, -arrested, 1861_ - - -November Ninth - -I also propose that these surgeons shall act as commissaries, with power -to receive and distribute such contributions of money, food, clothing, and -medicines as may be forwarded for the relief of prisoners. I further -propose that these surgeons be selected by their own Governments, and they -shall have full liberty at any and all times, through the agents of -exchange, to make reports, not only of their own acts, but of any matters -relating to the welfare of prisoners. - - ROBERT OULD - (_Agent of Exchange_) - - This letter was ignored by the Federal Government, as were others of - similar import, although receipt was acknowledged by the Agent of - Exchange. - - _R. R. Stevenson's Account_ - -I need not state how much suffering would have been prevented if this -offer had been met in the spirit in which it was dictated. In addition, -the world would have had truthful accounts of the treatment of prisoners -on both sides, by officers of character, and thus much of that -misrepresentation which has flooded the country would never have been -poured forth.... The acceptance of the proposition made by me, on behalf -of the Confederate Government, would not only have furnished to the sick, -medicines and physicians, but to the well an abundance of food and -clothing from the ample stores of the United States. - - R. R. STEVENSON - -_A. P. Hill born, 1825_ - - -November Tenth - -The verdict has been found, said they, and no appeal will be permitted. -"Besides," said many, "why stir up these old matters? Let them be; they -will be forgotten within a generation." But there are some yet living, in -both the South and the North, who prefer truth to falsehood, even though -the attainment of the former costs some trouble. - - R. R. STEVENSON - -_Major Henry Wirz, Commandant of Andersonville prison, hanged, 1865_ - -_Robert Young Hayne born, 1791_ - - -November Eleventh - -"The report of Mr. Stanton, as Secretary of War, on the 19th of July, -1866, exhibits the fact that of the Federal prisoners in Confederate hands -during the war, 22,576 died; while of the Confederate prisoners in Federal -hands 26,436 died." - - [Since Dr. Stevenson wrote the above (1876), the figures on either - side have been added to, but the proportion remains about the same. - _If nothing more_, these figures of comparative mortality should be - borne in mind in exoneration of Henry Wirz, and of those of greater - responsibility who were accused with him, but who were neither - executed nor even brought to trial. A number of gallant Federal - officers, once prisoners at Andersonville, have in later years come - forward to testify in book and monograph as to the true character of - Major Wirz.--Editor] - - -November Twelfth - -When it was ascertained that exchanges could not be made, either on the -basis of the cartel, or officer for officer and man for man, I was -instructed by the Confederate authorities to offer the United States -Government their sick and wounded, _without requiring any equivalents_. -Accordingly, in the summer of 1864, I did offer to deliver from ten to -fifteen thousand of the sick and wounded at the mouth of the Savannah -River, without requiring any equivalents, assuring, at the same time, the -Agent of the United States, General Mulford, that if the number for which -he might send transportation could not readily be made up from sick and -wounded, I would supply the difference with well men. Although this offer -was made in the summer of 1864, transportation was not sent to the -Savannah River until about the middle or last of November. - - R. R. STEVENSON - - -November Thirteenth - -In the summer of 1864, in consequence of certain information communicated -to me by the Surgeon-general of the Confederate States as to the -deficiency of medicines, I offered to make purchases of medicines from the -United States authorities, to be used exclusively for the relief of -Federal prisoners. I offered to pay gold, cotton, or tobacco for them, and -even two or three prices, if required. At the same time I gave assurances -that the medicines would be used exclusively in the treatment of Federal -prisoners; and moreover agreed, on behalf of the Confederate States, if it -was insisted on, that such medicines might be brought into the Confederate -lines by the United States surgeons, and dispensed by them. - - R. R. STEVENSON - -_Texas declares her independence of Mexico, 1835_ - - -November Fourteenth - -Were I to enter the Hall, at this remote period, and meet my associates -who signed the instrument of our independence, I should know them all, -from Hancock down to Stephen Hopkins. - - CHARLES CARROLL - (_Of Carrollton, at 90 years of age_) - -_Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the -Declaration of Independence, dies, 1832_ - - -November Fifteenth - -In other words, a veteran of our civil strife, General Sherman advocated -in an enemy's country the sixteenth century practices of Tilly, described -by Schiller, and the later devastation of the Palatinate policy of Louis -XIV, commemorated by Goethe. In the twenty-first century, perhaps, -partisan feeling as regards the Civil War performances having by that time -ceased to exist, American investigators, no longer regardful of a victor's -self-complacency, may treat the episodes of our struggle with the same -even-handed and out-spoken impartiality with which Englishmen now treat -the revenges of the Restoration, or Frenchmen the dragonnades of the Grand -Monarque. But when that time comes, the page relating to what occurred in -1864 in the Valley of the Shenandoah, in Georgia, and in the Carolinas,--a -page which Mr. Rhodes somewhat lightly passes over--will probably be -rewritten in characters of far more decided import. - - CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - (Massachusetts) - -_Sherman begins his march from Atlanta to the sea, 1864_ - - -November Sixteenth - -HENRY WIRZ, THE UNFORTUNATE SWISS-AMERICAN COMMANDANT AT ANDERSONVILLE - -On the evening before the day of the execution of Major Wirz a man visited -me, on the part of a Cabinet officer, to inform me that Major Wirz would -be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in the cruelties at -Andersonville.... - -When I visited Major Wirz the next morning he told me that the same -proposal had been made to him. - - F. E. BOYLE - (_Priest in attendance upon Major Wirz_) - -Some parties came to the confessor of Wirz, Rev. Father Boyle, and also to -me, one of them informing me that a high Cabinet officer wished to assure -Wirz, that if he would implicate Jefferson Davis with the atrocities -committed at Andersonville, his sentence would be commuted. He, the -messenger, or whoever he was, requested me to inform Wirz of this. - - LEWIS SCHADE - (_German-American Attorney to Major Wirz_) - - -November Seventeenth - - Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality, - Of Fate and fervid fantasies the prey, - Till the remorseless demon of dismay - O'erwhelmed thee--lo! thy doleful destiny - Is chanted in the requiem of the sea - And shadowed in the crumbling ruins gray - That beetle o'er the tarn. Here all the day - The Raven broods on solitude and thee: - Here gloats the moon at midnight, while the Bells - Tremble, but speak not lest thy Ulalume - Should startle from her slumbers, or Lenore - Hearken the love-forbidden tone that tells - The shrouded legend of thine early doom - And blast the bliss of heaven forevermore. - JOHN B. TABB - -_First American Monument erected to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe -dedicated in Baltimore, 1875_ - - -November Eighteenth - -POE--He is the nightingale of our Southern poets--singing at night, -singing on nocturnal themes, but with all the passionate tenderness and -infinite pathos of his own angel Israfel, "whose heart-strings are a -lute." - - OLIVER HUCKEL - (Pennsylvania) - - -November Nineteenth - -The election of 1873 was the culmination of the evil effects of -reconstruction. The rule of the alien and the negro was complete, with the -latter holding the lion's share of the offices. The lieutenant-governor, -secretary of state, superintendent of education, and commissioner of -immigration and agriculture, all were negroes; both houses of the -legislature had negro presiding officers; in the senate ten negroes held -seats; of the seventy-seven Republicans in the house, fifty-five were -negroes and fifteen were carpet-baggers; the majority of the county -offices were filled by negroes, 90 per cent. of whom could neither read -nor write. - - DUNBAR ROWLAND - (_Mississippi in "Reconstruction"_) - - -November Twentieth - - Fleet on the tempest blown, - Far from the mountain dell, - Rose in their cloudy cone, - Elfin and Spell; - Woo'd by the spirit tone, - Trembling and chill, - Wandered a maiden lone, - On the bleak hill: - Mau-in-waun-du-me-nung, - Trembling and chill. - JOSEPH SALYARDS - - -November Twenty-First - - Low in the moory dale, - Green mossy waters flow, - Under the drowsy gale, - Moaning and slow; - There in her snowy veil, - Bleeding and bound, - Lay the sweet damsel pale, - On the cold ground, - Mau-in-waun-du-me-nung, - On the cold ground. - JOSEPH SALYARDS - - -November Twenty-Second - -The history of that period, of the reconstruction period of the South, has -never been fully told. It is only beginning to be written. - - THOMAS NELSON PAGE - -_Convention in Louisiana disfranchising ex-Confederates, 1867_ - - -November Twenty-Third - -But talkin' the way I see it, a big feller and a little feller, SO-CALLED, -got into a fite, and they fout and fout a long time, and everybody all -round kep' hollerin' hands off, but kep' helpin' the big feller, until -finally the little feller caved in and hollered enuff. He made a bully -fite, I tell you, Selah. Well, what did the big feller do? Take him by the -hand and help him up and brush the dirt off his clothes? Nary time! No, -sur! But he kicked him arter he was down, and throwed mud on him, and drug -him about and rubbed sand in his eyes, and now he's gwine about hunting up -his poor little property. Wants to confiscate is, SO-CALLED. Blame my -jacket if it ain't enuff to make your head swim. - - BILL ARP - (_To Artemus Ward_) - - -November Twenty-Fourth - -PROTEST AGAINST THE TARIFF, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1832 - -The majority in Congress, in imposing protecting duties, which are utterly -destructive of the interests of South Carolina, not only impose no -burthens, but actually confer enriching bounties upon their constituents, -proportioned to the burthens they impose upon us. Under these -circumstances, the principle of representative responsibility is perverted -into a principle of representative despotism. It is this very tie, binding -the majority of Congress to execute the will of their constituents, which -makes them our inexorable oppressors. They dare not open their hearts to -the sentiments of human justice, or to the feelings of human sympathy. -They are tyrants by the very necessity of their position, however elevated -may be their principles in their individual capacities. - - GEORGE MCDUFFIE - (_Address to the People of the United States_) - -_Ordinance of Nullification passed by South Carolina, 1832_ - -_Battle of the Clouds, Lookout Mountain, 1863_ - - -November Twenty-Fifth - -PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR OF 1812, NEW ENGLAND - -The call of the Secretary of War for the militia of the States met blunt -refusal from the Governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and -Connecticut. The Assembly of the latter State sustained its Executive in a -formal address which denounced the war and declared Connecticut to be a -free, sovereign, and independent State, and that the United States was not -a national but a confederated republic. President Madison was held up as -an invader of the State's authority over her militia. - - HENRY A. WHITE - -_Battle of Missionary Ridge, 1863_ - - -November Twenty-Sixth - -THE HOMESPUN DRESS - - Oh, yes! I am a Southern girl, - And glory in the name, - And boast it with far greater pride - Than glittering wealth or fame. - I envy not the Northern girls - Their robes of beauty rare, - Though diamonds grace their snowy necks - And pearls bedeck their hair. - - Hurrah, hurrah! - For the sunny South so dear. - Three cheers for the homespun dress - The Southern ladies wear. - - -November Twenty-Seventh - - But know, 'twas mine the secret power - That waked thee at the midnight hour - In bleak November's reign: - 'Twas I the spell around thee cast, - When thou didst hear the hollow blast - In murmurs tell of pleasures past, - That ne'er would come again. - WASHINGTON ALLSTON - - -November Twenty-Eighth - - The cruel fire that singed her robe died out in rainbow flashes, - And bright her silvery sandals shone above the hissing ashes! - -_Organization of Legislature in Carolina Hall after the election of -General Hampton as Governor of South Carolina, 1876_ - - -November Twenty-Ninth - -My fellow-people, let me, in conclusion, congratulate you on having a -Governor once more as is a Governor. Oh, there is life in the old land -yet, and by and by we'll transport them black Republicans into the African -desert, and put 'em to teaching Hottentots the right of suffrage. Winter -Davis could then find a field of labor sufficient for the miserable -remnant of his declining years. He is the winter of our discontent, and we -want to get rid of him. - - BILL ARP - (_On Hampton's Election_) - - -November Thirtieth - - Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone - In deathless song shall tell, - When many a vanquished age hath flown, - The story how ye fell; - Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, - Nor Time's remorseless doom, - Shall dim one ray of glory's light - That gilds your deathless tomb. - THEODORE O'HARA - (_From "The Bivouac of the Dead"_) - -_General Patrick R. Cleburne killed at Franklin, Tenn., 1864_ - - - - -December - - -ICICLES AT THE SOUTH - - The rain on the trees has ceased to freeze; - ('Twas molded with quaint device) - The bent boughs lean, like cimeters keen, - In scabbards of shining ice. - - 'Neath frozen cloaks the pines and oaks - Are stooping like Druids old,-- - And the cedars stand--an arctic band-- - Held in the clutch of cold. - - Through the outer gloom the japonicas bloom, - With the lustre of rubies bright-- - Like blossoms blown from a tropic zone,-- - A marvellous land of light! - WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE - - -December First - -THE FIRST SNOW-FALL - - The Fir-tree felt it with a thrill - And murmur of content; - The last dead Leaf its cable slipt - And from its moorings went; - - The selfsame silent messenger, - To one that shibboleth - Of Life imparting, and to one, - The countersign of Death. - JOHN B. TABB - - -December Second - -The avengers whose lives he had attempted, whose wives and children he had -devoted to the hideous brutality of insurgent Africans, spared him all -indignities, even moral torture. - - PERCY GREG - (England) - -_John Brown hanged, 1859_ - - -December Third - -The Black and Tan Convention met December 3, 1867, in our venerable and -historic capital to frame a new constitution for the Old Dominion. In this -body were members from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maine, Vermont, -Connecticut, Maryland, District of Columbia, Ireland, Scotland, Nova -Scotia, Canada, England; scalawags, or turn-coats, by Southerners most -hated of all; twenty-four negroes; and in the total of 105, thirty-five -white Virginians, from counties of excess white population, who might be -considered representative of the State's culture and intelligence. - - MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY - -_James Rumsey (1787) makes successful trial trip of the steamboat designed -after the model of 1784, then witnessed by George Washington and others_ - - -December Fourth - -A BIT OF RECONSTRUCTION ORATORY - -"Mistah President, de real flatform, suh. I'll sw'ar tuh high Heaven. Yas, -I'll sw'ar higher dan dat. I'll go down an' de uth shall crumble intuh -dus' befor' dee shall amalgamise my rights. 'Bout dis question uh -cyarpet-bags. Ef you cyarpet-baggers does go back on us, woes be unto you! -You better take yo cyarpet-bags and quit, and de quicker you git up and -git de better. I do not abdicate de supperstition tuh dese strange friens, -lately so-called citizens uh Ferginny. Ef dee don' gimme my rights, I'll -suffer dis country tuh be lak Sarah. I'll suffer desterlation fus!"... - -"I'se here tuh qualify my constituents. I'll sing tuh Rome an' tuh Englan' -an' tuh de uttermos' parts uh de uth." ("You must address yourself to the -chair," said that functionary, ready to faint.) "All right, suh, I'll not -'sire tuh maintain de House any longer." - - HON. LEWIS LINDSAY - (_From Stenographic Report_) - - -December Fifth - -Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one -cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, -in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a -Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said that if there had -been no God mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. - - GEORGE WASHINGTON - - -December Sixth - -CLEMENCY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS - -Honorable Jefferson Davis: My father, Harrison Self, is sentenced to hang -at four o'clock this evening on a charge of bridge-burning. As he remains -my earthly all, and all my hopes of happiness centre on him, I implore you -to pardon him. - - ELIZABETH SELF - (_Telegram which secured pardon for her father_) - -_Jefferson Davis dies, 1889_ - -_The county of Kentucky formed from Virginia, 1776_ - -_Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, "Hero of the Koszta Rescue," born, 1802_ - - -December Seventh - -For years after the war, the Republican politicians in the South told the -negroes that if the Democrats were elected, they would be put back into -slavery. Consequently, after the first election of Cleveland, many of them -began to make their arrangements to readapt themselves to the old regime. -One old Virginia "aunty" living in Howard County, Maryland, announced that -she was ready to return to Richmond; but declared most positively: "Deed, -my ole Missus has got to send me my railroad ticket fust." - - -December Eighth - - Our one sweet singer breaks no more - The silence sad and long, - The land is hushed from shore to shore - It brooks no feebler song. - CARL MCKINLEY - -_Henry Timrod born, 1829_ - -_Joel Chandler Harris born, 1848_ - - -December Ninth - -JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS - -It would be difficult to estimate the good done by a man like Harris, who -brings a sense of relaxation and a thrill of pleasure to countless readers -round the world. Such a man becomes a public benefactor. To-day men are -better citizens, life's tasks are easier, the roads are lighter, and -heaven is nearer to earth because of the cheerful, hopeful, mirthful -stories of Uncle Remus. - - HENRY STILES BRADLEY - -_Lord Dunmore defeated by Colonel Woodford at Battle of Great Bridge, -Virginia, 1775_ - - -December Tenth - - Mt. Vernon, 31 Jan. 1786 - -Sir:--If you have no cause to change your opinion respecting your -mechanical boat, and reasons unknown to me do not exist to delay the -exhibition of it, I would advise you to give it to the public as soon as -it can be prepared conveniently.... Should a mechanical genius hit upon -your plan, or something similar to it, I need not add that it would place -you in an awkward situation and perhaps disconcert all your prospects -concerning this useful discovery.... - - GEORGE WASHINGTON - (_Letter to James Rumsey_) - -_Mississippi admitted to the Union, 1817_ - - -December Eleventh - -Mr. Rumsey's steamboat, with more than half her loading (which was upwards -of three ton) and a number of people on board, made a progress of four -miles in one hour against the current of Potomac River, by the force of -steam, without any external application whatsoever. - - (_Virginian Gazette and Winchester Advertiser, Jan. 11, 1788_) - -_Second trip of Rumsey's steamboat at Shepherdstown, Va., in boat designed -after model of 1784_ - - -December Twelfth - -I have taken the greatest pains to perfect another kind of boat, _upon the -principles I mentioned to you at Richmond_, in November last, and have the -pleasure to inform you that I have brought it to a great perfection ... -and I have quite convinced myself that boats of passage may be made to go -against the current of the _Mississippi_ or _Ohio_ rivers, or in the _Gulf -Stream_ (from the _Leeward_ to the _Windward_-Islands) from sixty to one -hundred miles per day. I know this will appear strange and improbable to -many persons, yet I am very certain it may be performed, besides, it is -simple (when understood) and is also strictly philosophical. - - JAMES RUMSEY - (_In letter to George Washington after construction of steamboat model - seen in action by the latter in 1784_) - - -December Thirteenth - -On part of the field the Union dead lay three deep. So fearful was the -slaughter that our men at certain points on the line cried out to the -advancing Federal forces, "Go back; we don't want to kill you all!" Still -they pressed forward in the face of despair, and they fell in the -unshrinking station where they fought. In six months Lee had effaced Pope, -checked McClellan, and crushed Burnside--June 25 to December 13, 1862. - - HENRY E. SHEPHERD - -_Burnside repulsed at Fredericksburg, 1862_ - - -December Fourteenth - -Washington stands alone and unapproachable, like a snow-peak rising above -its fellows into the clear air of morning, with a dignity, constancy and -purity which have made him the ideal type of civic virtue to succeeding -generations. - - JAMES BRYCE - (England) - -_George Washington dies, 1799_ - - -December Fifteenth - -Of late I have opened a pawnbroker's shop for my hard-pressed brethren in -feathers, lending at a fearful rate of interest; for every borrowing -Lazarus will have to pay me back in due time by monthly instalments of -singing. I shall have mine own again with usury. But were a man never so -usurious, would he not lend a winter seed for a summer song? Would he -refuse to invest his stale crumbs in an orchestra of divine instruments -and a choir of heavenly voices? - - JAMES LANE ALLEN - - -December Sixteenth - - I fill this cup to one made up - Of loveliness alone, - A woman, of her gentle sex - The seeming paragon; - To whom the better elements - And kindly stars have given - A form so fair, that, like the air, - 'Tis less of earth than heaven. - EDWARD C. PINKNEY - ("_A Health_") - - -December Seventeenth - - Her every tone is music's own, - Like those of morning birds, - And something more than melody - Dwells ever in her words; - The coinage of her heart are they, - And from her lips each flows - As one may see the burdened bee - Forth issue from the rose. - EDWARD C. PINKNEY - ("_A Health_") - - -December Eighteenth - - ... Nay, more! in death's despite - The crippled skeleton "learned to write." - "Dear mother," at first, of course; and then - "Dear Captain," inquiring about the men. - Captain's answer: "Of eighty-and-five, - Giffen and I are left alive." - FRANCIS O. TICKNOR - ("_Little Giffen_") - -_Francis O. Ticknor dies, 1874_ - - -December Nineteenth - - Word of gloom from the war, one day; - Johnston pressed at the front, they say. - Little Giffen was up and away; - A tear--his first--as he bade good-bye, - Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. - "I'll write, if spared!" There was news of the fight; - But none of Giffen.--He did not write. - FRANCIS O. TICKNOR - -_Crittenden's compromise opposed by dominant party in Congress, 1860_ - -Some of the manufacturing states think that a fight would be awful. -Without a little bloodletting this Union will not, in my estimation, be -worth a rush. - - Z. CHANDLER - (_Senator from Michigan_) - - -December Twentieth - -The Convention of 1787 was composed of members, a majority of whom were -elected to reject the Federal Constitution; and it was only after the -clause declaring that "the power granted under the Constitution being -derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them -whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury and oppression, and -that every power not granted thereby remains with them at their will," was -inserted in the ordinance of ratification, that six or more of the -majority opposed to the measure consented to vote for it. Even with this -accession of strength the Constitution was carried only by a vote of 89 to -79. - - (_From Editorial Article in Charleston "Courier," 1861_) - -_South Carolina secedes, 1860_ - - -December Twenty-First - -RESOLVED.... As the powers of legislation, granted in the Constitution of -the United States to Congress, do not embrace a case of the admission of a -foreign State or Territory, by legislation, into the Union, such an act of -admission would have no binding force whatever on the people of -Massachusetts. - - (_Resolutions of Massachusetts Legislature, 1845. Nullification?_) - -_President Tyler urges annexation of Texas, 1844_ - - -December Twenty-Second - - Bowing her head to the dust of the earth, - Smitten and stricken is she; - Light after light gone out from her hearth, - Son after son from her knee. - Bowing her head to the dust at her feet, - Weeping her beautiful slain; - Silence! keep silence for aye in the street-- - See! they are coming again! - ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS - -_Sherman enters Savannah, 1864_ - -_Reconstruction Act put in effect in Georgia, 1869_ - - -December Twenty-Third - -The glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command; -it will continue to animate remote ages. - - (_President of Congress, to General Washington_) - -_Washington resigns his commission as Commander-in-Chief, Annapolis, 1783_ - - -December Twenty-Fourth - -CHRISTMAS EVE - - The moon is in a tranquil mood; - The silent skies are bland: - Only the spirits of the good - Go musing up the land: - The sea is wrapped in mist and rest; - It is the night that God hath blest. - DANSKE DANDRIDGE - - -December Twenty-Fifth - - To the cradle-bough of a naked tree, - Benumbed with ice and snow, - A Christmas dream brought suddenly - A birth of mistletoe. - - The shepherd stars from their fleecy cloud - Strode out on the night to see; - The Herod north-wind blustered loud - To rend it from the tree. - - But the old year took it for a sign, - And blessed it in his heart: - "With prophecy of peace divine, - Let now my soul depart." - JOHN B. TABB - (_Mistletoe_) - - -December Twenty-Sixth - - Now praise to God that ere his grace - Was scorned and he reviled - He looked into his mother's face, - A little helpless child. - And praise to God that ere men strove - Above his tomb in war - One loved him with a mother's love, - Nor knew a creed therefor. - JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL - (_A Christmas Hymn_) - - -December Twenty-Seventh - - Hear the sledges with the bells-- - Silver bells! - What a world of merriment their melody foretells! - How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, - In the icy air of night! - While the stars, that oversprinkle - All the heavens, seem to twinkle - With a crystalline delight; - Keeping time, time, time, - In a sort of Runic rhyme, - To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells - From the bells, bells, bells, bells, - Bells, bells, bells-- - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. - EDGAR ALLAN POE - - -December Twenty-Eighth - - In the future some historian shall come forth both strong and wise, - With a love of the Republic, and the truth, before his eyes. - He will show the subtle causes of the war between the States, - He will go back in his studies far beyond our modern dates, - He will trace our hostile ideas as the miner does the lodes, - He will show the different habits born of different social codes, - He will show the Union riven, and the picture will deplore, - He will show it re-united and made stronger than before. - JAMES BARRON HOPE - - -December Twenty-Ninth - - Slow and patient, fair and truthful must the coming teacher be - To show how the knife was sharpened that was ground to prune the tree. - He will hold the Scales of Justice, he will measure praise and blame, - And the South will stand the verdict, and will stand it without shame. - JAMES BARRON HOPE - -_Texas admitted to the Union, 1845_ - - -December Thirtieth - - I changed my name when I got free - To "Mister" like the res', - But now dat I am going Home, - I likes de ol' name bes'. - - Sweet voices callin' "Uncle Rome" - Seem ringin' in my ears; - An' swearin' sorter sociable,-- - Ol' Master's voice I hears. - - * * * * - - He's passed Heaven's River now, an' soon - He'll call across its foam: - "You, Rome, you damn ol' nigger, - Loose your boat an' come on Home!" - HOWARD WEEDEN - - -December Thirty-First - - 'Tis midnight's holy hour--and silence now - Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er - The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds, - The bells' deep notes are swelling. 'Tis the knell - Of the departed year. No funeral train - Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood, - With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest - Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is stirred, - As by a mourner's sigh; and on yon cloud, - That floats so still and placidly through heaven, - The spirits of the seasons seem to stand-- - Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form, - And Winter, with his aged locks--and breathe - In mournful cadences, that come abroad - Like the far wind harp's wild and touching wail, - A melancholy dirge o'er the dead Year, - Gone from the earth forever. - GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE - -_Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862_ - - - - -Index - - - PAGE - - _Alabama_, the, fight with the _Kearsarge_. June 19 140 - - Alamance Creek, Battle of. May 16 118 - - Alamo, the. Mch. 6 65 - - Antietam, Battle of. Sept. 17 212 - - _Arkansas_, the, destroyed. Aug. 6 180 - - Ashby, Gen. Turner. June 6 131 - - Assembly, first legislative in America. July 30 172 - - Atlanta, evacuation of. Sept. 1, 2 200 - - Audubon, John James. May 4 109 - - - Bacon, Nathaniel, epitaph. Jan. 2 15 - - Bagby, George W. Aug. 13 185 - - Baltimore, in first bloodshed of the War. April 19 97 - - Benjamin, Judah P. May 6 111 - - _Bonnie Blue Flag_, the. Jan. 10, 12 21, 23 - - Boston, A Southern view. Mch. 12 69 - - Breckinridge, John C. May 17; Aug. 10 118, 183 - - Brooke, John Mercer, constructor of the first ironclad. Mch. 9 67 - - Brown, John, execution. Dec. 2 268 - Raid at Harper's Ferry. Oct. 16, 17 230, 231 - - - Calhoun, John C. Mch. 18 74 - Nationalism of. Mch. 31 81 - - Carroll, Charles of Carrollton. Nov. 14 255 - - Charleston "Courier" on Secession. Dec. 20 280 - - Chickamauga, Battle of. Sept. 20 215 - - Clark, George Rogers. Feb. 23, 24 53, 54 - - Clark and Lewis, Northwestern expedition. May 14 116 - - Clay, Henry. June 29 148 - - Coercion, opposed by border States. Apr. 16, 17, 18; - May 20 94, 95, 96, 119 - - Confederacy, fall of. Apr. 8, 9, 10, 11 87, 88, 89, 90 - Surrender of last army. May 26 122 - - Cornwallis, surrender of. Oct. 19 233 - - Crittenden, compromise of. Dec. 19 279 - - Crockett, Col. David. Aug. 17 188 - - Custis, Hon. John, epitaph. July 11 158 - - - Davis, Jefferson. June 3; Dec. 6 129, 271 - Imprisonment. May 23, 24 121 - - Democrats, negro view of. Dec. 7 272 - - Dixie, new version. Jan. 31; April 25; May 21 36, 102, 120 - - - Easter, selections for. April 4, 5 86 - - Emancipation. Jan. 11; Feb. 12; Aug. 1, 2, 3; - Sept. 3 22, 45, 176, 177, 178, 201 - Lincoln on. Sept. 22 216 - Southern view of. Feb. 28; June 2; Oct. 16 58, 129, 230 - - - Forrest, N. B. July 13 159 - Address to soldiers. Oct. 27 239 - Tributes to. Oct. 21, 26, 29, 30, 31 235, 238, 240, 241 - - Fort Sullivan, defence of. June 28 147 - - Fort Sumter, attempts to reinforce. Jan. 9 20 - Capture of. April 14 92 - Firing upon. April 12 91 - - Frederick, Md., occupied by Confederates. Sept. 9 206 - - Fredericksburg, Battle of. Dec. 13 276 - - Frietchie, Barbara, in reference to "Stonewall" Jackson. Sept. 6 204 - - - Gettysburg, Battle of. July 1, 2, 3, 4 150, 151, 152, 153 - - Gordon, Gen. Geo. H., remarks on Jackson's soldiers. Aug. 28 195 - - Gordon, Gen. John B. Feb. 6 41 - - Grady, Henry W. April 24 101 - - - Hampton, Gen. Wade. Mch. 28 79 - - Harris, Joel Chandler. Dec. 9 273 - - Hayne, Paul Hamilton. Jan. 1 14 - - Henry, Patrick. May 29 125 - - Hill, Gen. A. P. April 2 85 - - Hill, Gen. D. H. July 12 159 - - Houston, Samuel, inaugurated president of Texas. Oct. 22 236 - - - Insurrection, the Southampton. Aug. 1, 2, 3 176, 177, 178 - - - Jackson, Gov. C. F., declaration of secession. Aug. 5 179 - - Jackson, Andrew. Mch. 15 71 - - Jackson, "Stonewall." Jan. 21 30 - Bill Arp's view of. Sept. 16 211 - Capture of Harper's Ferry. Sept. 15 211 - Death. May 10 113 - Wounded. May 2 108 - - Jamestown, first legislative assembly met. July 30 172 - Reference to. June 20 141 - Settled. May 13 115 - - Jefferson, Thomas. April 13 92 - On Louisiana Purchase. April 30 105 - - Johnston, General Albert Sidney. April 6 86 - - Johnston, General Jos. E. Feb. 7 41 - - - Kansas, formed as territory. May 30 125 - - Kennedy, John P. Oct. 25 238 - - King's Mountain, Battle of. Oct. 9 226 - - Ku Klux Klan. Feb. 20, 21, July 31 50, 51, 173 - - - Lanier, Sidney. Feb. 3 39 - Tabb's tribute to. Sept. 8 206 - - Laurens, John. Aug. 27 194 - - Lee, Anne Carter, monument to. Aug. 8 182 - - Lee, Henrietta, letter to Gen. Hunter. July 19 164 - - Lee, Henry. Jan. 29 34 - - Lee, Robert E. Jan. 19 29 - Accepts presidency of Washington College. Aug. 24 192 - Elected president of Washington College. Aug. 4 178 - First Northern invasion. Sept. 13 209 - Hill's tribute to. Oct. 12 228 - Issues Chambersburg order. June 27 147 - Marries. June 30 148 - Resigns commission in United States Army. April 20 98 - Sent to the rear. May 12 114 - Surrender at Appomattox. April 9 88 - The unselfish leader. Oct. 14 229 - - Lent, selections for. Mch. 19, 20 74, 75 - - Lewis, Meriwether. Oct. 11 227 - - Lincoln, Abraham, death of. April 15 93 - On abolition. Feb. 12 45 - On negro suffrage. Feb. 11; Aug. 12 44, 184 - - Literature, first of the New World. Mch. 13 70 - - Louisiana Territory, acquired from France. Apr. 30 105 - - - Manassas, first Battle of. July 21 166 - - Marshall, Chief Justice. Sept. 24 217 - - Meade, Gen. Geo. Gordon, Southern tribute to. July 1 150 - - - Negro, status of. Sept. 11 208 - - New Orleans, Liberty Place Anniversary. Sept. 14 210 - - North Point, Battle of. Sept. 12 208 - - Nullification, Northern view of. Nov. 25; Dec. 21 263, 281 - Southern view of. Nov. 24 262 - - - O'Hara, Theodore. July 20 165 - - Old South, life in the. Sept. 11, 21 208, 216 - - Oliver, Thaddeus. Aug. 9 182 - - - _Peggy Stewart_, burning of the. Oct. 19 233 - - Poe, Edgar Allan. Oct. 7, 8 224, 225 - First monument erected to. Nov. 17 258 - - Pope, Gen. John, Address to the Army of Potomac. Aug. 26 193 - - Polk, James Knox. Nov. 2 244 - - Port Hudson, fall of. July 9 156 - - Prisoners, mortality of. Nov. 11 252 - Of war, exchange of. Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13 250, 251, 253, 254 - - - Raleigh, Sir Walter. July 16 162 - - Reconstruction. Jan. 4; Mch. 2; Aug. 21; Oct. 21; - Nov. 19, 22; Dec. 3, 4 16, 62, 190, 235, 259, 261, 269, 270 - Bill Arp's view of. Oct. 18; Nov. 23, 29 232, 261, 265 - End of. July 15 161 - Foreshadowed. April 15 93 - Negro oratory on. Dec. 4 270 - A prophecy of 1869. June 26 146 - - Religious Freedom in Maryland. Mch. 25, 27; Apr. 21 77, 78, 99 - - Rumsey, James, letter to, from Geo. Washington. Sept. 7 205 - - Rumsey, trial of the steamboat. Dec. 10, 11, 12 274, 275 - - Ryan, Abram J. Aug. 15 186 - - - Sandys, George, first author of the New World. Mch. 13 70 - - Secession. Jan. 9, 11; Apr. 17; Aug. 5 20, 22, 95, 179 - From the Northern standpoint. Jan. 13, 26, 27; - Mch. 24; May 6, 11 23, 33, 77, 111 - From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; - Feb. 5, 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30 21, 34, 40, 42, 43, 45, 48, 80 - South Carolina. Dec. 20 280 - - Semmes, Admiral Raphael. Sept. 27, 28 219 - - Seven Days' Battle, beginning of. June 25 145 - - Sharpsburg, Attack at. Sept. 18 213 - - _Shenandoah_, surrenders last Confederate flag. Nov. 5, 6 246, 247 - - Slavery. Jan. 4; Feb. 9, 28; Aug. 1, 2, 3; - Sept. 3, 21 16, 42, 58, 176, 177, 178, 201, 216 - Bagby's view of. Oct. 16 230 - Northern view of. Jan. 13, 26, 27; Mch. 24; - May 6; Sept. 5 23, 33, 77, 111, 203 - From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; - Feb. 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30 21, 34, 42, 43, 48, 80 - - _Star Spangled Banner_ Anniversary. Sept. 14 210 - - Stephens, Alex. H. Mch. 4 64 - - Stuart, Gen. J. E. B. May 11 114 - Address to soldiers. Oct. 10 227 - - Suffrage, Negro. Nov. 1 244 - Negro restriction of. Aug. 12 184 - - - Tabb, John Banister. Mch. 22 76 - - Tariff, South Carolina's protest. Nov. 24 262 - - Taney, Chief Justice. Oct. 13 229 - - Texas. Mch. 23 76 - - Ticknor, Francis O. Dec. 18 278 - - Tilghman, Col. Tench, ride of. Oct. 23 237 - - Timrod, Henry. Oct. 6 224 - Tribute to. Dec. 8 272 - - _Trent_, The, affair of. Nov. 8 249 - - Tyler, John. Mch. 29 79 - - - Union, the, restored. July 15 161 - - - Veteran, United Confederate, Northern tribute to. June 10 134 - - Virginia, conquering of Northwestern territory. Feb. 23, 24 53, 54 - Opposition to Boston Port Bill. May 15 117 - Cession of Northwestern territory. Oct. 20 234 - Secession from, of West Virginia. June 20 141 - Two views of. Mch. 11 68 - University of. Mch. 7 65 - - _Virginia_, the, challenges _Monitor_. May 8 112 - First iron-clad. Mch. 8, 9 66, 67 - - Washington, Geo. Feb. 22; Dec. 14 52, 276 - Resigns commission. Dec. 23 282 - - War Times. Jan. 17, 18; April 26 27, 28, 103 - Northern view of. Feb. 17, 26 48, 56 - - West Virginia, secession from Virginia sustained by - Federal Government. June 20 141 - - Wilde, Richard Henry. Sept. 10 207 - - Wilderness, Battle of. May 5 110 - - William and Mary College, Northern tribute to. Feb. 14 46 - - Wirz, Henry, execution of. Nov. 10 251 - - Women, the Southern. 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