. Minutes . atMontgomery, ])ut was at home organizing a division of Missis-sippi State iMilitia. lie desired no civil position and wishedfor no honoi-s except tlu; post of danger at the fonMiiost salientol a fortress upon which the fiercest hostilities would l)efocussed. Ivegardless of its |)erils. as he was unambitious of itshonors, he accepted the civic leadershii) in the high empriseto which his people, in the si)irit of their forefathers, hadpledged their lives, their fortunes and theii* sacrnlederac\. This. WASH JNtJTONH H KA DQIIA KTEllSMain, near Minetetiith 150 Seventeenth Reunio
. Minutes . atMontgomery, ])ut was at home organizing a division of Missis-sippi State iMilitia. lie desired no civil position and wishedfor no honoi-s except tlu; post of danger at the fonMiiost salientol a fortress upon which the fiercest hostilities would l)efocussed. Ivegardless of its |)erils. as he was unambitious of itshonors, he accepted the civic leadershii) in the high empriseto which his people, in the si)irit of their forefathers, hadpledged their lives, their fortunes and theii* sacrnlederac\. This. WASH JNtJTONH H KA DQIIA KTEllSMain, near Minetetiith 150 Seventeenth Reunion, Riehmond, May jO-Ju)ie 3, 1907. naval demonstration was foiled by tlie iuniiediate capture ofFort SiiDiter by th(^ Confederates; and on the instant inomentof that event tlie call was made for To.()()() men to be armed,eciuipped and rushed on to Riehmoiul over the body of Vir-ginia. The frowning-front of giim-visaged war portended theimmediate capture of Kichmond at tlie i)oi]its of three-scorethousand bayonets, l^ut this intended quick overthrow of the(Onfederacy whicji came finally after four years fighting onthe same line was now averted by the Confederate Governmentby the rapid assembling of an ardent Southern Army underable and experienced officers to meet the invasi(m. Then camethe clash of American soldiers on the field of ]\raiuissas, thegleam of bayonets, the roar of caimoiis, the vollied crash ofrifles, the outcries of fighting infantry and cavalry with allother liorrid circumstances of dreadful ba
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